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Summary: In a virtual replay of 9/11, criminals
set off bombs in
, killing and injuring people. The
government assumes the perpetrators to be Islamic terrorists, managing
to find the ID cards of people who were otherwise blown to bits. A formerly unknown and secret organization
claims responsibility via a web site. Immediately,
leaders and media begin telling people what to think of this, and who
may have done it. A prominent
Israeli calls for world war. Officials
shout that restrictions on public freedom are necessary to stop the scourge
of terror. On an emotional
high, the head of state rolls out draconian "control orders" (that
were already waiting in the wings) that trim liberties, grant privacy-invasive
powers to police, broaden the definition of terrorism and give the gov't
carte blanche to make anyone they want "disappear" without
due process. Just like
's PATRIOT Act or Hitler's Enabling Act, the proposed measures
violate human rights and would have been considered illegal just a short time
before. The public, not suspecting that what
"aimed at terrorists" could be aimed at anyone, applauds this further
step toward becoming a police state. Almost
immediately, the police arrest hundreds of suspects in various countries and
generally add to the atmosphere of public fear. The media joins in this by speculating about more attacks. Frightened people start picking on the
nearest Muslims. In the
, they put armed soldiers in subways and right-wing pundits warn of attacks
on US soil any day. British
Muslims get blamed for the attacks, the media quickly disseminates the "profile" of
a homegrown terrorist and instills additional fear of all Muslims, even
their own citizens. Attempted
repeat bombings occur on 7/21, which, since they failed, convey the idea
to the public that these were amateurs who can be stopped. The
next logical step might be an event that instills in all citizens the
fear of each other. The
already distributes free cigarette packs to Iraqis, which, on the side,
"inform on your neighbors."
G8 leaders condemn 'barbaric' attacks
responsible have no respect for human life." A
clever way of misleading by telling the truth?
Financial Times: British forces withdrawal
from Iraq expected
British daily Financial Times disclosed on Tuesday that the British
defense office has prepared a plan to withdraw a great part of its
forces from
." Is this an incredible
coincidence or could it be that someone didn't want them to withdraw? If
they were readying to pull out of
, well, isn't that what Muslims want? Why
would they plant bombs in
Netanyahu Changed Plans Due to Warning
police told the Israeli Embassy in
minutes before Thursday's explosions that they had received warnings
of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said… Just before the
blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer at the Israeli Embassy
to say they had received warnings of possible attacks" Yet according to other news, the
British people and law enforcement got no such warning.
Israeli Minister Denies Scotland Yard Warning
Mossad Chief Confirms Netanyahu's Warning of London Bombing
Mossad behind destroying London Israeli
embassy in 1994
British daily 'The Independent' on Thursday unveiled important
information on spying attempts made by the Israeli Mossad and
operations targeting the destruction of Israeli embassies abroad… the
paper added that the person who is accused of being behind the bombing
of the Israeli embassy in London in 1994, Rida Maghribi, was an agent
recruited by the Mossad and was assigned by Israeli foreign intelligence
for that purpose."
Former Mossad Head Calls for World
War After 7/7 Attacks
will be supreme tests of leadership in this unique situation
and people will have to trust the wisdom and good judgment of
those chosen to govern them. The executives must be empowered
to act resolutely and to take every measure necessary to protect
the citizens of their country and to carry the combat into whatever
territory the perpetrators and their temporal and spiritual leaders
are inhabiting." He's pleading with people simply
to give their lives and unquestioning souls over to people like
Bush and Sharon, so that there will be resistance to the destruction
of the people they choose. "…international law must be rewritten
in such a way as to permit civilization to defend itself." He wants unrestricted powers given to governments
to take away all privacy and private property and to wage
"pre-emptive war" wherever it wants. "Private
enterprise will have to supplement the national effort in many walks of life." Here,
he's cutting the corporations in on the unlimited power. "the
democratic way of life will be hard-pressed to produce solutions that will
enable the executive branch to perform its duties…" Basically,
he's saying that a dictatorship will keep you safe.
Zionists finally strike London
"Even the
IRA never managed to execute such a complex terrorist attack on British
soil. Not to mention the fact that MI5 later admitted that it was
members of the intelligence services that planned and executed the
majority of terrorist attacks on British soil that were blamed on the
IRA at the time… In typical 'false flag terror
attack' style, the mainstream media claimed that a group calling itself
the 'Al-Qaeda Organization in Europe' had accepted responsibility for
the attacks; an organization that no one has heard of before!"
Britain paid price for US, Israeli
policies: Iranian cleric
"'Iran has linked the rise of Al-Qaeda to US policy in the
1980s, when the CIA and Saudi Arabia pumped billions of dollars into
hardline Islamist groups battling the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
and went on to back the Taliban militia -- which Iran opposed.'"
It's Up to the Anti-War Movement to Restrain the Thirst
for More Revenge
"Will the mood more resemble post 9/11
in the wake of the
carnage? … The Blair government
will doubtless seek to use this morning's atrocity to escalate its alarming
attacks on civil liberties."
When the cops are the crooks
long are we going to permit this vicious tomfoolery to continue? Every time there's an embarrassing
incident, a charge of official malfeasance, or some nasty revelation
to cover up, the powers that be stage a terrorist incident - randomly throw away the lives of
an arbitrary number of innocents - and then blame some fantasy enemy
as an excuse to further ratchet up the corrupt oppression of ordinary
Londoners Suspicious Of Station Closures
Before Blasts
Officials: Timing Devices Discovered
in London
only claim of responsibility came today on an Islamist Web site, posted
by a previously-unknown group. The site claimed the attacks
were carried out because of the presence of British troops in
, but there was no
way to determine the authenticity of the claim or the group… High on
the list of suspects in today's attack is the same man who has been terrorizing
- Abu Musab al Zarqawi." A not-so-subtle hypnotic
suggestion from officials that Zarqawi (who did not claim responsibility
and whose very existence is unproven) carried out this crime.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Does London
I am surprised it took this long: Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi—the stuff of legend and ambiguous news reports
based on third-hand information and wild supposition—is responsible
for the London attacks last week. 'Investigators in London are
probing whether Iraqi explosives—possibly provided by Al-Qaeda's
top agent in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—were used in last week's
terror bombings,' reports Yahoo News. 'Al-Zarqawi is a potential source since
there's an unlimited amount of explosives and munitions in
that he controls,' yet another unspecified
official told Time magazine. 'It's just a matter of getting
it out of
and to the right people.' … It
should be noted there is absolutely no evidence al-Zarqawi had anything
to do with any of the above incidents…"
Secret Syrian Rendezvous: Another Bush Lie
"Now they tell us: '
intelligence has no evidence that terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi visited
in recent months to plan bombings in
, and experts don't believe the widely publicized meeting ever happened,
according to
officials,' reports Knight Ridder. [...] "Three
officials who said that the reports of Zarqawi's travels were apparently
bogus spoke on condition of anonymity because intelligence matters are
classified and because discussing the mistaken report could embarrass
the White House and trigger retaliation against them." [...]
"It is not so much that "some officials are still quick to embrace
dubious intelligence," but rather that they purposely create "flimsy
and bogus intelligence" (lies) as a matter of course." [...] "In
fact, there is no proof al-Zarqawi is doing anything-expect possibly pushing
up a tombstone somewhere in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern
Zarqawi and the Scarlett Pimpernel
"Bill Montgomery's 'Form over Substance' goes
beyond expressing skepticism about the shadowy stories coming out of
about top aides of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi being arrested. He suggests that the stories are a combination black psy-ops
operation to influence public opinion, and scripted
entertainment value. I would only add that it is now often forgotten
that the major politicians running
are the same people who lied to the
public about Saddam's WMD and about Baath links to terrorism, etc."
Fire and Bomb Resistant IDs in London
The Boston Herald tells us the 'terrorists' (possible
patsies) in London 'were all carrying personal documents' because 'they
wanted their identities to be known…' …if this was
indeed the case the 'terrorists'
(patsies) would have sent a statement to the newspapers, put a message
on the internet, done something to leave a mark. Nope… a normal
person would have big problems with this scenario, mostly because any documents…would be incinerated or blown to smithereens. But
miraculously, like Mohammed Atta's passport found in the smoldering
rubble of the WTC (and in nearly pristine condition), the "personal
documents" of the native-born Pakistani heritage suicide bombers
were found in the wreckage."
London Patsies: A Replay Of The Pristine
9/11 Passport
Eyewitness accounts
debunk official story of bomb in bag, suggest it was placed on underside
or tracks:
"The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's where the bomb
was'. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath
the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't
remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag"
One witness said the floor of the train he was standing on
was "blown out" and other witnesses spoke of a huge hole being torn out of the floor.
"The middle of
the train was blown out and there were people on the track. ... the floor of the train he was on was
blown out, it was just gone," he said."
The London Bombings: Terror
No proof bombers Muslims - Bakri
UK-based Syrian-born preacher said there was no evidence four young
Muslim men filmed at a station prior to the attacks were responsible
for the bombs."
How the Government Staged the London
Bombings in Ten Easy Steps
Explosive used in bombs 'was of military origin'
Does Anyone Really Believe This Horseshit? - British authorities
finger patsies within days of bombings, country drinks it up… Déjà
A Historical Look At Israeli False
Flag Operations
of the bombers who brought carnage to
taught disabled children, it has emerged."
Officials Face Big Task in Bombings
"There is real passion now
in the police to make arrests quickly before further attacks can
be carried out… A group calling itself 'The
Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe' said in an Internet
statement that it staged the blasts in retaliation for
's involvement in
. Police said they couldn't confirm the authenticity
of the statement… In the end, authorities will have
to identify "'whatever failings exist, if any, in the intelligence
system that allowed this attack to take place, because it is an intelligence
failure…'" So,
it was a "failure of intelligence." Must
be those pesky freedoms we all enjoy, getting in the way again."
More on London bombs
prefer the hybrid model for all these attacks, by which I mean the involvement of real Islamic terrorists guided
by an intelligence agency. The intelligence agency funds much of
the operation, chooses the targets and the time, and provides technical
assistance. The Islamic terrorists provide most of the manpower. In
some cases the terrorists are completely fooled into participating… The attack will almost
certainly allow the imposition of fascistic ID cards on the British
population, a goal that was dead prior to the attacks due to the
complete rejection of the idea by the British public…. The
Israelis got caught in a big mess attempting to claim that they were not given prior warning
by British officials, when they clearly were given such warning, and Netanyahu changed his plans because of the warning… Some are trying to argue that the
sophistication of the attack means that the West now has to throw all
caution to the winds and engage in a full fledged war against Islam."
"This is what you wanted, you asked for
this so play the game Tony."
ID cards 'wouldn't
stop attacks' (
"in future civil liberties may have to be curtailed. Consideration would need to be
given to checks on people boarding tube trains, ID cards and data exchange…"
National ID Cards (
a security technologist… It won't work. It won't make us more
secure. In fact, everything I've learned about
security over the last 20 years tells me that once it is put in place,
a national ID card program will actually make us less secure… the main problem with any ID system is
that it requires the existence of a database. In this case it would
have to be an immense database of private and sensitive information
on every American…"
Govt admits it's considering ID cards (
Academics 'bullied' over ID cards
Nobody has nothing to hide
cards will deprive the innocent of one of their most basic rights"
The London Explosions, the Rogue Network, Bush and Iran
YARD KNEW IN ADVANCE... That
the British Government knew in advance that blasts would occur is not
open to rational doubt… My thesis is that
the London deaths were designed to deliver an ultimatum in favor of early
war with Iran."
Blair's blowback
demand that we abandon rational thought, contextual analysis and critical
appraisal of why this happened and what we can do to limit the chances
that it will happen again, should not. To explain is not to excuse;
to criticise is not to capitulate."
Blair under pressure after think-tank
link London attacks to Iraq war
Downing Street rejects Howard call
for inquiry into the bombings
doesn't want the bombings investigated. Wonder
Blair rejects calls for probe into
Downing Street
said the prime minister believed
an inquiry now into the outrage which killed at least 49 people would
be a 'ludicrous diversion.'" Meaning that he wants to be the one to
interpret it for people and use it to his greatest advantage. The truth might not be so aligned with
his aim of restricting freedoms and increasing control. "He is expected to tell his counterparts governments must ensure operators keep data on telephone and internet
exchanges for up to a year. He
also indicated on Sunday that he would consider
granting further 'control
orders' if he thought they were necessary."
UK urging e-mail data retention
Secretary Charles Clarke says firms across
should be ordered to retain phone and e-mail records to help track down
terrorists… '"We should guarantee the full traceability of the movements of
terrorists'" Or
anyone, for that matter? "…proposing
that records of all private telephone calls, text messages and e-mails
be retained by telecommunications firms so they can be passed on to the
police and security services if necessary."
Control Orders
Government has decided to replace the Part 4 powers with a new system
of Control Orders. Control Orders would be applied
to any suspected terrorist, whether a
national nor a non-UK national, whatever
the nature of the terrorist activity (international or domestic). The
control orders will enable the authorities to impose conditions ranging
from prohibitions on access to specific items
or services, and restrictions on association with named individuals,
to the imposition of restritions on movement or curfews." This is executive broadening of the definition
of "terrorist" and removal of due process, as has already
been done in the
Europe condemns UK's terror control
long-delayed report said the
UK has not been immune 'to a tendency increasingly discernible
across Europe to consider human rights as excessively restricting the
effective administration of justice and the protection of the public
interest'… To
limit the application of human rights or to deny them was 'to
effect ourselves of what terrorists wish to achieve'. Some control
orders constituted criminal punishment without trial."
UK: Proposed "control orders" would violate human
prevention of terrorism bill makes a mockery of human rights and the
rule of law…"
Control order flaws exposed
Tough measures favoured after London bombs -poll
"An overwhelming majority
of Britons would support tough new measures to reduce the threat
of attacks after last week's deadly
bomb blasts, a poll by The Times newspaper showed on Tuesday. Some 86 percent of those questioned said they supported giving the police new powers
to arrest people they suspect of planning attacks and 88 percent
said they were in favour of tighter controls on who comes into the country... Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday
he may speed up the implementation of new anti-terror laws in the wake
of the
Vanishing bombers and the mystery
'safe house'
"There is support for deporting foreign Muslims
who encourage extremism while 70 per cent favour police powers to
hold terrorist suspects for up to 90 days without charge."
Key terror law talks set to start
government is in talks with opposition parties to win support for new terror laws in the wake of the
Britain moves closer to tough anti-terror
law in wake of London bombings
government was ready to consider
even tighter legislation if the security services deem such a move
Blair Vows to Hunt Down Bombers and give police
more powers
"The government is prepared to introduce new emergency
anti-terrorism powers if the police and the security services
felt these were needed, he said."
PM meets police and intelligence
"Tony Blair is to hold talks with police and intelligence
chiefs to establish what further powers they need in the wake
of the
bombing atrocity… Mr
Clarke told MPs he wanted to apply more widely the home secretary's powers
to exclude an individual from the
if their presence is deemed 'not conducive to the public interest'. 'I
intend to draw up a list of unacceptable behaviours which would fall
into this - for example preaching, running websites or writing articles
which are intended to foment or provoke terrorism.'" There
you have it,
's Homeland Security chief will personally determine the list of which
behaviors are in the public interest.
US Right turns on Blair for being
'soft on terror'
"The American Right, for four years a fount of rapturous
praise for Tony Blair, is showing signs of falling out of love with
over what it sees as its soft and ineffective record on terrorism."
French government to tighten anti-terrorist
France terror alert level at red
after London blasts
"Downing Street has rejected a call by Michael
Howard yesterday for a full inquiry into possible security failures
before the
bombings." No
surprise – the
president rejected the same call for investigation into the events of
U.S. Seeks to Firm Up Terrorist Sanctions
US House votes to renew sweeping
'Patriot Act' supervision laws
House passed the USA Patriot and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization
Act of 2005 by a vote of 257-171… President Bush yesterday invoked the
terrorist attacks in
as a compelling reason for Congress to renew the
Patriot Act…"
Israel's Sharon muzzles ministers
on London blasts
"Netanyahu told Sky television in a separate
interview that pressure should be applied by Western nations on Iran
and Saudi Arabia, countries he accused of supporting terrorist
groups… Some ordinary Israelis voiced hope the
bombings would cause the British and other Europeans, whom they regard
as biased in favor of the Palestinians, to have more sympathy for Israelis
killed or wounded in Palestinian attacks."
'London, Tel Aviv blasts connected'
newspaper: Explosive material used by British terrorist who blew himself
up on Tel Aviv beachfront in 2003 very likely the same as that used
by terrorists who staged
attacks last week, Mossad tells Brits… Moreover, the Mossad office in London received
advance notice about the attacks, but only six minutes before the
first blast, the paper reports. As a result, it was impossible to take
any action to prevent the blasts."
Terror cell 'capable of further attacks'
We'll take fight to the enemy, says
Italian police arrest 142 in security
police rounded up 142 suspects, more than half of them illegal immigrants,
in a massive two-day security sweep across the northern Lombardy region
in the wake of the
bombings… Reform
Minister Roberto Calderoli welcomed the arrests, saying recent events
had 'demonstrated the need to intervene immediately to prevent
and stifle any attempt at a terrorist attack on our territory.'"
Pakistan detains 200 in post-London
crackdown on Islamic militants
has been under pressure to act since it emerged that three suicide bombers
involved in the July 7
attacks were Britons of Pakistani origin who had recently visited the
South Asian country."
London-Bound Flight Diverted to Boston
"…three Pakistani passengers were reported acting suspiciously…"
Forty Afghans deported on Franco-British
British police arrest nine men in
bomb probe
Two more fugitive London bombers
reported captured
Anti-terror team targets imam (
Surveillance of radical imams to
be increased (
The devaluation of a society
the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last century, Western powers have followed policies that
resulted in the social and cultural devaluation of the Arab and, by
association, the Muslim
Middle East
Italy police launch nationwide security
controls at
's borders and an extension of the period a suspect can be detained for
identification from 12 to 24 hours, among other measures."
British police raid 5 homes
police raided five houses in northern
Tuesday in connection with last week's bombings in
Muslim leaders warn of mounting Islamophobia after attacks
on mosques
Munim sat amid the charred walls and smoky stench of his mosque yesterday
and reflected on levels of religious and racial intolerance that are
even worse than when he made
his home, 40 years ago." Read the rest of the articles for a rundown of the hate crimes
perpetrated against Asians in the wake of 7/7.
Islamophobia blamed for attack
Muslim man has been beaten to death outside a corner shop by a gang
of youths who shouted anti-Islamic abuse at him… [Police]
say it was not connected to a backlash against Muslims following the
bombings, which has seen mosques firebombed and Muslims attacked in the
Fear in the city
Two-thirds of Muslims consider leaving
have recorded more than 1,200 suspected Islamophobic incidents across
the country ranging from verbal abuse to one murder in the past three
weeks. The poll suggests the headline figure is a large underestimate."
Special Branch to track Muslims across
intelligence units are being planned across
to monitor Muslims so the authorities can collect "community by
community" knowledge of where extremism is building up." Why wouldn't
Britons be Islamophobic when their gov't sets such an example? "The source stressed that
the squads would be open about their work." Apparently, a very visible example.
Islamic cleric gets life in prison
"Saying his words steered young men into terrorist training camps
… Judge Leonie M. Brinkema sentenced an American Islamic scholar to
life in prison Wednesday… Al-Timimi's
conviction for soliciting treason and other charges marked the first post-9/11
trial in which the government won a terrorism verdict for actions tied to words
designed to aid the enemy, rather than actual deeds such as providing money,
equipment or engaging in combat... Al-Timimi's
attorneys… characterized the scholar, who recently received a doctorate
for work related to cancer research, as a gentle man of peace who had never
been convicted of a crime or owned a weapon." Now, entirely
non-violent people who are contributing members of society can be imprisoned
for life because of beliefs. This
is a hair away from Orwell's concept of "thoughtcrime."
Britain bars over 200 foreign scientists
amid terror fears
London mayor says West fueled Islamic
cited Western policy in the
Middle East
and early American backing for Osama bin Laden. 'A
lot of young people see the double standards… I
think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 1980s
... the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin
Laden, taught him how to kill, to make bombs, and set him off to
kill the Russians to drive them out of Afghanistan.'"
U.S. Terror Attack - 'Ninety Days at Most'
expert Juval Aviv spoke with FOX Fan Central about what Americans can
do to protect themselves in case of a terror attack."
New York police to warn public on
suicide bombers
the public to identify suicide bombers is part of a broader plan…" Reminiscent
of former Attorney
General John Ashcroft's Operation TIPS.
Pressure on U.S. to Use More Surveillance
Hillary Clinton called for
New York City
subway officials to install more cameras, even though officials said
some 5,000 cameras are already in use across all modes of city travel."
7/21 "Bombers" Caught on Camera
note that in the intensely crowded
rush hour, the alleged bombers are alone in each photograph. And, stranger yet, though
bristles with government video surveillance, there was no video of the
alleged bombers nor of the explosions.
No Video of the 3 Bombers Inside
the London Subway Cars before they blew up?
present, the
underground has an analogue video network and video transmission at 180
stations. Confirmed by new reports, there are close to two thousand video cameras which monitor
's Underground and mainline rail stations… EVERY London bus and Underground train car has multiple Video Cameras!
The Police claim the bus videos malfunctioned,
but made no similar claim about the video cameras in the Underground
train cars. The Muslim men are claimed to have ridden from
to King's Cross where they split up to take separate trains. I've also
read it takes about 25 minutes to ride from
station to where the bombs were detonated. Therefore,
there MUST be some 25 minutes continuous video of first four men…"
Has anything said by the London police
been true?
After the aftershock
"The realisation that Britons are ready to
bomb their fellow citizens is a challenge to the whole of society… If they had been a foreign cell, like
that responsible for the
bombing, we could have comforted ourselves… But there can be no
such comfort if these killers were British citizens. We could shut out
every last asylum seeker, expel every illegal immigrant, and it would
make us no safer. This attack came from within." Do you see where this is leading? Bringing the war, and the troops, to the "homeland."
Suicide bomber profile: The Teenager
UK bombs meant as carbon-copy, may
be same group
"Whoever was behind Thursday's attacks, they
managed to manufacture four explosive devices and smuggle them on
to the
transport network despite the highest levels of security and public watchfulness
for years." So how'd they do it. This
should tell you that "authority" was behind this or that
all this security is nonsense and useless against stopping terrorists. So,
why in the world pass the laws and take away freedoms? "If the same group was involved,
the obvious question is why the first wave of attacks was so professional
and deadly and the second apparently so amateur."
Police hunt would-be suicide bombers
after London's lucky escape
More Explosions in London: Psy-ops
in Progress
the question, who benefits? …if the government wanted to get
those anti-terror measures through which were proposed after the 7/7
bombing, then this status of high alert is the perfect climate to get
them rammed through without dissent. Sky
News reported that members of parliament could be recalled tonight
in a special session for the express purpose of passing that legislation… This immediately stalls questions about the
first bombing. This further promulgates the fearmongering and creates a pliable public
that is willing to accept draconian anti-terror laws. On
the very day that the Patriot Act is due to be renewed, Bush can use
the alert level to grease the skids and bully Congress into re-authorizing
the bill."
Al-Qaeda group claims responsibility
for London bombing
"But the authenticity of the statement
was not verified yet."
onlookers said they saw up to 10 plain-clothed officers chasing an
Asian-looking man before opening fire." The
victim was completely innocent, but didn't this send a message
to the public from police?
Police Shoot Suspected Suicide Bomber
"Witnesses said police chased him, he tripped, and police then
shot him. 'They
pushed him onto the floor and unloaded five shots into him. He's
dead,' witness Mark Whitby told the British Broadcasting Corp. 'He
looked like a cornered fox. He looked petrified.'" Again,
this man was not a criminal.
Says Man Killed by Police Had No Tie to Bombings
is very frightening. People will be afraid to walk the streets, or
go on the tube, or carry anything in their hands.'"
Brazilian did not wear bulky jacket (as initial reports claimed)
Shooting to kill saves lives..one
tragedy will not change that (oxymoron of the day)
I was Commissioner of the Met it was my sad duty to end many, many
years of police tradition and bring in what's been called a shoot-to-kill
policy against suspected suicide bombers. Of
course, in reality it is a "shoot-to-kill-to-protect" policy,
to save innocent lives… There
is only one sure way to stop a suicide bomber determined to fulfil
his mission: Destroy his brain instantly, utterly." Did the commissioner learn this from years of shooting suicide
bombers in the subways of
New York
? But, Mr. Commissioner,
there has never been one. "…the
vast majority of these people are driven by the most perverted, evil
version of Muslim extremism."
British boy wrongly
labelled as London bomber
British Cops trained in Israel
Met Police Special Operations Unit 'Shoot to Kill'"
Met chief warns more could be shot
The Myth of the Suicide Bomber
"After reading The Logic
of Suicide Terrorism--It's the Occupation, Not the Fundamentalism by
Robert Pape, the main idea that we come away with is that suicide
bombers are real, very real indeed. Though we were promised a revelation
of the logic, these questions remain: …"
The "Magic Bomb" Theory
overwhelming 85 per cent of people blame the
invasion for the
Bomb Scare Empties NYC's Penn Station
New York apologises after Britons
seized in security scare
New York
's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has apologised to a group of British tourists
after armed police swarmed on to an open-top sightseeing bus, handcuffed them
and forced them to kneel on Broadway."
New Yorkers witness third bomb scares
in two days
"Big Brother" Takes Over Europe
"'Big Brother is Watching You?' has become
the mantra of today's Europe in the wake of the terrorist attacks
This war on terrorism is bogus (from 2003)
Trend: Slaughter in
continues unabated, rife with bombings, kidnappings, killings, attacks
on journalists and chaos that could result in civil war. Bush administration "stays the course" anyway
as more and more people point out the official lies. Suffering
of the Iraqi people increases under the occupation. The Iraqi forces the
are training use brutal torture, with
knowledge. Evidence of torture
and abuse of Iraqis by US personnel continues. Evidence
of mass destruction of Iraqi homes by US continues. Administration continues to ignore anti-war
protests at home. Bush described
as devoid of compassion. Tensions
and killings in
rise sharply. War profits
continue to roll in from both battlegrounds. The
continues to face military recruiting shortfalls at home, and now ammunition
shortfalls in
. Despite this, both Democrats and Republicans
plan to have an increased military (we wonder how). Because the government redefined death, the true death toll
of American troops in
may be over 7000. Despite
all this, the ramp-up to physical confrontation with
continues. In American Conservative magazine appeared the leaked plan of VP Cheney
to use nuclear weapons in Iran should "another 9/11" occur
at home, regardless of who perpetrates it, revealing escalating madness
on the part of US leaders. As
more Americans realize the truth, President Bush's popularity drops
to a new all-time low in the polls and he resorts to more speeches to
bolster war support, citing the development of the Iraqi constitution – a
process that appears to be badly bogged down in conflict, yet is almost
certain to incorporate Islamic law.
Bush's Orgy of
has morphed into an assembly-line for extremists churning out enough
fanatics for 1,000 London-type bombings. This is Bush's work; and Blair's… American
newspapers are all breathlessly circulating their theory of "suicide
bombers" in headlines across the nation. Why not? It fits nicely
with the racist ideology the underscores Bush's war on terror.
knows that their support would disappear in a flash if they failed to
conjure up the requisite racial stereotypes that feed the public rage.
And, no one is better at demonizing and fear-mongering than the Bush
's children are dwindling and dying twice as fast under the coalition's
benevolent care than under the despotism of Saddam Hussein…"
U.S. forces behind deadly children
bomb: Iraqi experts
experts are saying that the recent car bomb that killed some 18 children
was not the work of the anti-occupation fighters but of the
occupation troops."
Who Murdered 32 Iraqi Children? (Truth Comes Out)
evil crime was perpetrated by occupation forces with the objective
of murdering Iraqi children and blaming the national Resistance so
as to lessen its base of support (sounds like
tactics all over again -
Unending Health Disaster for Iraqi
Weekend of slaughter propels Iraq
towards all-out civil war
Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi
torture camps
torture chambers, the brutal interrogation of prisoners, murders by
paramilitaries with links to powerful ministries... Hanging by the arms in cuffs, scorching of the body with something
like an iron and knee-capping are claimed to be increasingly prevalent
in the new
… These are not isolated cases. For what
is extraordinary is the sense of impunity with which the torture, intimidation
and murder is taking place… What
is extraordinary is that despite the increasingly widespread evidence of torture,
governments have remained silent."
West turns blind eye as police put
Saddam's torturers back to work
"IRAQI security
forces, set up by American and British troops, torture detainees by
pulling out their fingernails, burning them with hot irons or giving
them electric shocks, Iraqi officials say. Cases
have also been recorded of bound prisoners being beaten to death by
police… The abuse has not gone unnoticed
by the coalition, but little has been done to address it. A US State
Department report in February stated that Iraqi authorities had been
accused of
"arbitrary deprivation of life, torture, impunity, poor prison conditions
- particularly in pre-trial detention facilities - and arbitrary arrest and
detention." A Human Rights Watch report also noted that "unlawful
arrest, long-term incommunicado detention, torture and other ill-treatment
of detainees (including children) by Iraqi authorities have become routine
and commonplace"."
US military dogs bite Abu Ghraib
detainees: witnesses
Transcript Suggests CIA Involved
in Abuse
Baghdad hospital doctors on strike
against soldiers
say the country's new security forces are too aggressive, randomly
rounding up suspects and abusing them during detentions."
Thousands of Karabila residents return to devastation
of residents are gradually returning to the town of
, 325 km west of the capital,
, after fleeing a heavy US-led attack two weeks ago but for many there
is little to go back to... The
town, which is home to 60,000 people, showed signs of extensive devastation…"
Oil Facility Damages Have Cost Iraq
had been 300 acts of sabotage against Iraqi oil installations."
"My Brother Went Over There Gung Ho; Now He's Just
Bitter" - The Horrors Done in Our Name
US corporal admits guilt in killing
Iraqi officer
Iraq's top Shia cleric warns of 'genocidal
Last Throes of the Lying Charlatans?
"Cheney, has boasted he stands by his statement
's insurgents are in 'their last throes', because it
all depends on what the meaning of 'throes' is… In
March to May there were 168 American soldiers killed and 534 wounded
… Let's think back to 1967, to the
quagmire in
. The
embassy in
held a New Year's party to welcome 1968. The invitation read 'Come
see the light at the end of the tunnel'."
Former Reagan Official: This is War
Waged by Liars and Morons
The lies behind the lies
and Lies: The True Story of the Iraq War, by Dilip Hiro, 564pp
Why the Memo Matters
'Downing Street Memos' story of last month, which expose the lies
of Bush and Blair, appears to have been effectively submerged by the London
Mom, Who Lost Son In Iraq, Talks About 'Disgusting' White
House Private Meeting With Bush
"Cindy Sheehan … what she encountered
was an arrogant man with eyes lacking the slightest bit of compassion,
a President totally 'detached from humanity' and a man
who didn't even bother to remember her son's name when
they were first introduced."
Afghans hurl stones at U.S. troops, try to break down gate
at base in Bagram
"More than 800 people have died in a surge
of rebel attacks and government offensives since March, and
and Afghan officials have warned that the violence is a threat to parliamentary
elections scheduled for Sept. 18… 'We
have supported the Americans for years. We should be treated with dignity," said
Shah Aghar, 35. "They are
arresting our people without the permission of the government. They are
breaking into our houses and offending the people. We are very angry.'"
They Celebrated 1,100 miles of Pipeline, while we mourned
our Dead
May 25th 2005, with hardly a smidgeon of news coverage,
officials celebrated the completion of the first section of a 1,100-mile
U.S.-backed pipeline bringing
Caspian Sea
oil to Western markets. British Petroleum (B.P.) Chief Executive John
Brown, whose company leads the venture that built the pipeline, was in
attendance and ecstatic with dollar signs dancing in his head (and in
his bank account)."
Halliburton announces 284 percent increase in war profits
the scandals that
plague KBR's military contracts, the Pentagon awarded $70 million in
"award" fees to the company, along with four ratings of
"excellent" and two ratings of "very good" for the troop
logistics work under the Army's LOGCAP contract. The
Pentagon has provided preferential treatment to
Halliburton on a number of occasions, including the concealment from the public
of critical reports by military auditors. Audits conducted
by the Pentagon's Defense Contract Audit Agency determined that KBR had $1
billion in "questioned" expenses…"
US air strike 'killed 17 Afghans'
air strike by US forces in eastern
last week killed 17 civilians including women and children, a provincial
governor has said."
Basilisks in Our Midst: Kings of Serpents
"What democracy exists in
when the installed president is a former employee of our CIA, held in
place by props supported by the master puppet in
Iraq envoy accuses US of killing
's ambassador to the UN has demanded an inquiry into what he said was
"cold-blooded murder" of his young unarmed relative by US marines."
Egypt plea for seized ambassador
Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said … he understood the 'fury' of
the Iraqi people, but stressed that Mr Sherif 'is working for
the benefit of the Iraqi and the Egyptian people'."
Insurgents attack 2 diplomats in
Russia says embassy cars were shot at in Iraq
The Rumsfeld Solution;
"liberating Iraq, one journalist at a time"
week, Yasser Salihee, a reporter for Knight Ridder news agency, was
assassinated in a perfectly executed gangland-style hit a few miles
outside of
. He was struck by a single bullet to the head by an American sniper."
Gunmen attack top diplomat of Pakistan
in Baghdad
Bahrain's top diplomat shot in Baghdad, mortar attack kills
Chickenhawk Headquarters
Learn a bit about the players who so vociferously
promote war, yet avoided going
to battle themselves. Bush,
Cheney, Libby, Rove, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz.
Generation Chickenhawk
interviews, more than a dozen
[Republican] conventiongoers explained why it is important that they
stay on campus while other, less fortunate people their age wage a
bloody war in
. They strongly support the war, they told me, but
they also want to enjoy college life and pursue interesting careers. Being
a College Republican allows them to do both. It is warfare by other, much safer
supreme guts and righteousness, President Bush went into
Gov. Pataki told the Republican National Convention last August… Almost one year later, Pataki's son Teddy is, with supreme guts and righteousness, seeking a
three-year law school deferment from the Marines… The governor… himself
received a medical deferment during the Vietnam War… If the
cause in
is even half as important as the governor has led us to believe, then
surely his son is more needed in Fallujah than in some
lecture hall."
Ship young Pataki straight to Iraq
governor, who proudly announced last week that his son has been commissioned
as a second lieutenant in the Marines, also noted that Teddy Pataki
hopes to defer his military service for three years…"
Do It For Uncle Sam
the fourth month in a row, the army has fallen well short of its recruitment
targets. The result is that they're turning to some pretty unconventional
methods to persuade young Americans to do it for Uncle Sam."
US Military Hits Ammunition Shortages
supplies of small sized ammunition is lagging behind demand and the
United States
is now relying on foreign producers, including from
, to help meet its needs."
Dems aim to increase army size
"Both the House and the Senate have called for an increase in troop
levels in their 2006 defense authorization bill and it is likely
that troop levels will be increased when the conferees meet." Seems likely
that a draft, a new terrorist attack, or the collapse of the economy
will be needed to swell the military ranks.
Pentagon considering major military changes
Pentagon is considering a change in its military strategy that
soldiers to be ready to fight two major wars at the same time, The New
York Times reported… Military officials are also considering
in detail what would happen if
decided to attack
North Korea
Number Of Iraq Casualties Is Double Official Figures, Says
Puerto Rican Government
. government reports on soldiers under US command killed in Iraq are
so fragmented that they account for less than half of the total number… more than 230 battlefront reports, which
reveal that more than 4,076 troops under US command have been killed
in 799 days of battle... large
discrepancies in counts have been publicized by news outlets such as
the national German Press Agency (DPA), which ran a story reporting on
US Army documents putting the number of US soldiers with war-related
mental ailments at 100,000."
US Military Report: The High Death Rates exposed
"U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals
or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted. They
total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005. The ongoing, underreporting
of the dead in
, is not accurate. The DoD is deliberately reducing the figures… The government gets away with these huge
lies because they claim, falsely, that only soldiers actually killed
on the ground in
are reported… Anyone
who dies just as the transport takes off from the
airport is not listed and neither are those who die in the
military hospitals."
Nearly 9,000 U.S. troops dead?
lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate almost 9,000
military] dead"; this far exceeds the 'official' death
count of 1,831. How can this be? It's largely because 'U.S. Military
Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals
have not previously been counted.' In
other words,
"death" has been redefined."
Pentagon Casualty Figures Don't
Add Up (from February)
Antiwar activists say depleted uranium has led to 11,000
American deaths
Arlington Cemetery Undergoes Expansion
Iran War Buildup
Cheney's Plan: Nuke Iran
"A recent poll shows six
in ten Americans think a new world war is coming… this
ominous news, revealed in a recent issue of The American
Conservative by intelligence analyst Philip Giraldi:
Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's
office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM)
with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to
another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The
plan includes a large-scale air assault on
employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within
there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected
nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened
or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons,
hence the nuclear option. As in the case of
, the response is not conditional on
actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the
United States
. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly
appalled at the implications of what they are doing – that Iran
is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack –
but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections."
points leap out at the reader – or, at least, this reader – quite
apart from the moral
implications of dropping nukes on
. The first is the completely skewed logic: if
has nothing to do with 9/11-II, then why target
? As in
, it's all a pretext:
only this time, the plan is to use nuclear weapons. We'll wipe out the
entire population of
's capital city because, as Paul
Wolfowitz said in another context, "it's
other weird aspect of this "nuke
story is the triggering mechanism: a terrorist attack in the
on the scale of 9/11. While it is certain that our government has developed
a number of scenarios for post-attack action, one has to wonder: why
develop this plan at this particular moment? What aren't they telling
us? I shudder to think about it.
The more I look at it, and the more I think of it, the more
I sense a monumental evil casting its shadow over the world, and
I have to tell you, it makes me wonder how much more time I want
to spend on this earth.
oh where is the "mainstream" media on this? That's a laughable
question, because the answer is heartbreakingly obvious: they are nowhere
to be found, and for a very good reason. As the Valerie Plame case is
making all too clear, the MSM has been a weapon in the hands of the War Party at
every step on the road to World War…"
If WWIII Is Inevitable - Who Do We Blow Up?
The War in Iran, and the Next 9/11
"So, how does our favorite administration
top the quagmire in
? Start another quagmire in
, of course. And make sure there's a handy terrorism trigger to justify
it in the American collective mind..."
What is the Plan if there's Another 9/11?
reader wrote, "This
is really nothng new. Cheney
was in command on 9/11, he chaired the Iraq working group and now he
is ordering up plans for nuking Iran. That doesn't surprise me
in the least. What caused my eyes to pop out of my
head was that these plans are in
case of another terrorist event in the
That is what it would take now, for the
American people not to have a flying hissy fit about turning yet another country
into middle ages rubble, and recruiting even more fanatics for the CIA
built Al Qeada. It would also
take the focus off Rove, for good. Two birds with one stone?"
wrote, "Consider,
if congress is on vacation, Cheney's got the run of the town. He'll
do it, too. He don't care. He's old, stubborn, and narrow minded enough
to call in an airstrike on himself. He knows his world is going to
soon come crashing down around him, what with all the indictments and
damning evidence of broken laws and deception of congress and the american
people. He knows the curtain is being pulled aside to expose the machinations
of the neocon cabal, of which he is in the center of. Why wouldn't
plans for Iran. Very
big plans.
Republican Nuclear
Iran War Plan? Alarming
if True
Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's
office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with
drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another
Iran: Bush's Next Battleground
Eixo do mal Bush-Cheney planeia ataque nuclear ao Irão
In case of emergency, nuke Iran
mag says neocons have plan to nuke Iran
Preparing to Nuke Iran
'no good reason' is apparently enough
Plan: Nuke Iran
Forget Mecca, nuke Iran
has always been the next target for the Bush administration, and Dick
Cheney has made this even more clear, according to leaked instructions
to generals from the Vice President. In the event of another 9/11 type
LaRouche Warns: - Cheney's `Guns
of August' Threaten the World
LaRouche, on this Wednesday afternoon, issued an international alert,
covering the period of August 2005, which is the likely timeframe for
Vice President Dick Cheney, with the full collusion of the circles
of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to unleash
the recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike
against Iran. The danger of such a mad, Hitler-in-the-bunker action
from the Cheney circles would be even further heightened, were the
United States Congress to stick with its present schedule, and go into
recess on July 30 until September 4. With Congress out of
, the Cheney-led White House would almost certainly unleash a "Guns
of August" attack on
Strong Personal Feelings about Nuclear Combat
foreign policy is now certifiably insane… So here's the plan:
when another 9/11 happens, nuke
US defence report eyes future uncertainties
United States
military report calls for enabling the armed forces to manage various
challenges in an uncertain future."
Governors Voice National Guard Concerns
"…concerned that troops returning from the war zone may resign if
their spouses and parents raise objections to continued service… National Guard soldiers represent about
40 percent of the
ground force in
The war against veterans
official of the Department of Veterans Affairs admitted last week that
it is short $1 billion for the current fiscal year, which ends Sept.
30, but giving short shrift to those who have served their country
is nothing new for this administration. For several years now, the
Bush bean counters have been slashing funds for veterans' medical
Backing for Bush on Iraq is gone,
local veterans say
"He's running scared," said Giblock, 63, a former
Post 2500 member who lives in
"His poll numbers are so low, he's got to say something, but the support
is gone. It's gone. I don't think there's anybody in here who's behind him."
Zogby: Bush Job Approval Unchanged by War Speech, Number
of Americans Favoring Impeachment Swells to 42%
"…more than two-in-five
voters (42%) say they would favor impeachment proceedings if it is
found the President misled the nation about his reasons for going
to war with
The sobering of America
"In short, whether or not the invasion of
was a crime, it's now clear that - at least in the form in which the
invasion and occupation was executed by the Bush administration - it
was a massive blunder."
Iraq Attacks Preceded Congressional
WMD Claims Were Totally Implausible,
says Key UK Diplomat
British Military Chief Reveals New
Legal Fears Over Iraq War
"The man who led
's armed forces into
has said that Tony Blair and the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, will
join British soldiers in the dock if the military are ever prosecuted
for war crimes in
Bush's speech on Iraq draws smallest
audience in US: survey
President George W. Bush's latest address to call Americans to stand
firm in
drew the smallest US TV audience of his tenure, according to a study
released in
New York
on Wednesday."
Troops Respond to President's Speech
need honest answers, not pep rallies… Last
week, Vice President Cheney said the insurgency is in its last throes,
but this week we're told to dig in for a 12-year battle."
Congressman suggests way to retaliate
for nuclear terror
congressman told a radio show host that the
could "take out" Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist
terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons… The congressman later said he was 'just throwing
out some ideas' and that an 'ultimate threat' might
have to be met with an 'ultimate response.'" Consider that the neocon agenda is all-out war between East
and West.
Iraqi constitution nearly ready as
US warns of more attacks
""No law that contradicts the
universally agreed tenets of Islam may be enacted," specifies
the draft text, which is still under discussion."
Rumsfeld tells Iraqis to get on with
Islam to decide Iraq law as Sunni
Arabs end boycott
Democracy was only an afterthought
situation in
is one of barely managed chaos… Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon and the White
House removed restraints on torture… In
April, the
succeeded in abolishing the office of the UN rapporteur on human rights
Summary: The courts have given the president the power
of life and death over
citizens and others, without any due process and outside the dictates
of the constitution. This
has been accomplished step by step, inch by inch over the past four years – rights
and freedoms are being stripped away under the guise of a "war
on terror." A dictatorship effectively exists already,
but won't be obvious to most people until some policy, against
which they'll have no recourse, impacts their personal comfort
zone. Until then, the
, as a nation, is apparently content to let this happen. The stories this month include: Evidence of Karl Rove as a traitor continues
to mount. Fear mongering
continues unabated. Media
pundits spew ever more hatred. The
police and secret agencies grow in power. Political
censorship by government and corporations against citizens grows. Protestors are increasingly harassed, gov't critics
ridiculed. Less and less
serious offenses are becoming grounds for arrest. Government
secrecy grows. The Supreme
Court will likely get even more conservative. More evidences of government scandals surfaces. More evidence of official manipulation
of facts surfaces. Evidence
that 9/11 involved factions of the
gov't continues to be put forth, and that the "war on terror" is
a scheme for increasing government and corporate power and profits. More about secret torture, rendition,
surveillance, police brutality, CIA misconduct overseas, hypocrisy, and
the development of "non-lethal" weapons for crowd control. Through it all, the administration is
protected from serious scrutiny by the mainstream media, who have 60%
of the
populace now expecting another World War.
Master Plan
Recommendation: read the whole article "…now the
very legal structures of the Republic are being dismantled… Bush has granted himself the power to
declare anyone on earth -- including any
citizen -- an 'enemy combatant … with no burden of proof' …
The bomb and Karl Rove
"Perhaps the most important political question is
whether the Bush administration is to be held accountable for any
of its actions, or whether it now enjoys complete impunity and a
free field of action to do whatever it likes - from waging war
to designing and presiding over systems of torture to breaking domestic
This war on terrorism is bogus (from
The Globalization of State Terror
"The 'evil ideology' that underscores
the war on terror is predicated on two basic theories; preemption
and enemy combatants. Both of these run counter to fundamental principles
of human rights and democratic governance. Both must be met head-on
and defeated. There is no wiggle-room for equivocating or appeasement; this ideology is the greatest manifestation of fanaticism in the world
since the rise of Nazism in the 1930's and must be collectively challenged... This makes the
the most dangerous nation in the world; brandishing its high-tech weaponry
at third world countries and threatening to attack if they fail to comply
's directives."
Ramping up the fear quotient
"Once you have a public
fixated on this perceived enemy, it is necessary to maintain a
constant level of fear and when necessary ramp it up… every time Muslim, Islam, schools, indoctrination,
Quran, or any other 'alien' sounding word or connection
is made, it reinforces every stereotype that the government and
the media have implanted in the public's mind about the nature
of this elusive, 'cunning' and
'evil' enemy... we
have all been here before, several times in the past one hundred years and
we all know what the outcome was every time; slaughter on an unimaginable scale
preceded by witch-hunts and the deliberate demonisation
of convenient segments of society. There is nothing new about the
current situation. When the state itself feels itself
under threat it will strike out using whatever means it has to hand. That there
are a tiny minority who will resort to the use of acts of individual violence,
is actually quite convenient for the state, for these can then be used to rationalise
the use of the overwhelming violence of the state in
Are The Good Times Really Over For Good? - Bush
said he 'preciates folks dyin' for the cause.
Memorial Day, George W. Bush,
the world's most bloodthirsty and deceitful man strutted to the podium
at our National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, to once again regurgitate
his woefully shallow and inappropriate stump speech – 'Across
the globe (sly smile), our military is standing directly between our
people and the worst dangers in the world (pause, smirk)...the war
on terror has brought great costs (no-nonsense head bob)...two terror
regimes are gone forever (narrowed eyes darting nervously back and
forth across the crowd), freedom is on the march (leaning forward earnestly),
and America is more secure.' Unfazed by plummeting
poll numbers at home or spiraling fatality numbers abroad, Bush remarked
with shudderingly bad taste that all headstones look alike… They applauded him. It was astonishing…. Where
is the raw horror that Christians should feel for a charlatan who boasts
that he is on a mission from God -- a mission to rule over a world
of hate and lies and fear and death and disease?"
House passed the USA Patriot and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization
Act of 2005 by a vote of 257-171... Thursday's House vote made 14 temporary provisions
of the legislation permanent and extended two others that had been
scheduled to lapse at the end of the year."
The Patriot Act Four Years Later
US Congressman, Ron Paul. "The tired arguments we're hearing
today are that same ones we heard in 2001 when the Patriot Act was
passed in the emotional aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks…America
was not founded on a promise of security, it was founded on a promise of
personal liberty to pursue happiness."
O'Reilly Names Terrorist Helpers
"Bill O'Reilly
announced tonight that he will be exposing and naming all the people
and organizations he considers to be helping the terrorists on
his show each night… Has Bill O'Reilly lost his mind completely? Will Fox News
allow this to continue? First off, let's talk plainly. Bill O'Reilly
is calling people traitors not "terrorist helpers" and
he is doing this on national television. The audacity of this act
is beyond belief."
Meet the New McCarthyites
"McCarthy-style witch hunts are coming back,
and the first place we'll be seeing them is at
's public colleges and universities… The
notion that leftists are in charge in academia, is as bogus as the notion
that the media are dominated by liberals... In
the 1950s, academics were attacked by Sen. Joe McCarthy and a gang of
right-wing zealots who equated liberals and free thinkers with Communist
fifth columnists and hounded many honorable teachers out of their jobs."
Court Rules Military Panels to Try Detainees
Washington Post, July 16, 2005
Domination by Detention
Deep Blade Journaly, July 16, 2005
Dark Passage: The Bush Faction's Blueprint
for Empire
Excerpt from the book, Empire Burlesque
Ruling Lets U.S. Restart Trials at Guantanamo
New York Times, July 16, 2005
Alberto Gonzales' Tortured Arguments for Reigning Above
the Law
LA Weekly, Jan. 14-20, 2005
Torture Treaty Doesn't Bar `Cruel, Inhuman' Tactics, Gonzales
Knight-Ridder, Jan. 26, 2005
Bush Has Widened Authority of CIA to Kill Terrorists
New York Times, Dec. 15, 2002
Special Ops Get OK to Initiate Its Own
Washington Times, Jan. 8, 2003
Coward's War in Yemen
Spiked, Nov. 11, 2002
Drones of Death
The Guardian, Nov. 6, 2002
Keeping Lengthy Files on Groups Opposed to Bush's Policies
"…(FBI) has amassed
at least 3,500 pages of internal documents from political protest
groups in what the targets say amounts to political surveillance
of some of President George W. Bush's leading critics."
FBI Monitored Web Sites for 2004
Criticize Agency's Surveillance for Terror Unit… 'It's increasingly
clear that the government is involved in political surveillance of
organizations that are involved in nothing more than lawful First Amendment
activities,' said Anthony Romero, executive director of the
ACLU. 'It raises very serious questions about whether the FBI
is back to its old tricks.'"
Police begin searching bags on NYC
How Comcast Censors Political Content
"Comcast effectively censors discussion of
particular political topics, and impedes the ability of people to
associate with each other, with absolutely no compulsion to explain
itself. There is no due process. A phrase or web address is tried
and convicted in absentia and without the knowledge of those involved."
Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish
"US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will
be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy,
under an agreement signed between
and the
last week. Suspects will
also have to give testimony and allow property to be searched and seized
even if what the suspect is accused of is not a crime in
… The deal was condemned yesterday by the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) as "an appalling signal of how
the rights of Irish citizens are considered by the minister when engaging in
international relations"… The
person who will request co-operation is US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,
the man who, as White House counsel, instigated the notorious 'torture memo'
to US President George W Bush which advised how far CIA agents could go in
torturing prisoners."
Man jailed for surfing "terrorist" sites
Radwan Obeid is a threat to national security because he surfed terrorist
Web sites and visited terrorist chat rooms, the FBI claims."
War protester pulled from Oswego
County parade, arrested
sheriff's deputy pulled Joshua A. Davies, 23, of 25B North St. in
, out of the parade and charged him with disorderly conduct. Davies had
been walking in the parade carrying, Harris said, an "Impeach Bush" sign
and another sign calling for an end to the war in
…. 'This was a signal to the kids
that you can't do that here," Harris said. "Dissent, I mean. I thought
that's what being an American means – the right to protest, to speak
your mind.'"
Time Magazine Breaks Ranks With The New York Times and
Agrees to Turn Over Notes in CIA Agent Case
"In one of the most serious legal
clashes between the media and the government in three decades, Time
magazine has complied with a court order to turn over the notes of
a reporter threatened with jail for refusing to identify a source."
Analyst: Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove As Source
to an article published Friday by Editor & Publisher, Assistant
to the President, Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor Karl Rove
is the confidential source who outed Valerie Plame to reporters as
a CIA operative."
Report Shows Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents,
a Federal Crime, During Oct 2003 Testimony Into CIA Agent Leak
Karl Rove/Real issue is the case for war
The Rove Factor?
"The e-mails surrendered by Time Inc., which are largely between
Cooper and his editors, show that one of Cooper's sources was White
House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove… NEWSWEEK
reported that immediately after Novak's column appeared in July,
Rove called MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews and told
him that
's wife was 'fair game.' But White House spokesman Scott
McClellan told reporters at the time that any suggestion that Rove had
played a role in outing Plame was
'totally ridiculous.'"
and his collaborators should quickly resign and face prosecution for
betraying their country, but given their sense of personal entitlement
impeachment is probably the best we can hope for. Congress, and all
Americans, should place patriotism ahead of party loyalty."
Don't You Dare Call It Treason
Henry Waxman howls in Congress that 'The intentional disclosure
of a covert CIA agent's identity would be an act of treason. If Rove
was part of a conspiracy and intentionally disclosed the name then
that jeopardizes national security'"
Memo Gets Attention in Probe of CIA
Rove-Plame: The Word from Aspen
"How is it
that the second most powerful man in
is about to take a fall and the mainstream media are largely taking a
pass? Could it be that the fear of Karl Rove and this White House is
so great that not even the biggest of the media big boys are willing
to take them on? Does the answer to that one go without saying? … Just look at how the White
House press corps is dealing with the story: by avoiding it completely."
The One Very Good Reason Karl Rove
Might Be Indicted
"All the judges who have seen
the prosecutor's secret evidence firmly believe he is pursuing a
very serious crime, and they have done everything they can to help
him get an indictment."
Republicans Must Choose: Bush Or America?
"'Karl Rove is loyal to President Bush,' a correspondent
wrote as Treasongate broke. "Isn't that a form of patriotism?" Not
in a representative democracy, I replied. Only in a dictatorship
is fealty to the Leader equal to loyalty to the nation."
Bush Aide Deflects Questions On Rove
2003, McClellan said it was 'a ridiculous suggestion' that
Rove was involved. 'I've made it very clear, he was not involved,
that there's no truth to the suggestion that he was…'"
New report connects Rove to CIA leak
Rove didn't actually name the CIA agent it's not likely that he will
be charged with any crime."
Shock over NY journo's jailing
Miller was sent to prison for refusing to name the source who published
the name of a CIA agent… 'This unprecedented sentence against a journalist who was merely
exercising her professional prerogative is a serious violation of international
law, a dangerous precedent, and the
United States
has sent a very bad signal to the rest of the world.'"
Miller could take all of them down ...
White House fears indictment
Karl Rove, Jeff Gannon,
and Joe Wilson... Sex, Lies, and Jeff Gannon - The
unmaking of a media whore
Court nominee does well in poll;
Rove does not
34% to 25%, Americans have an unfavorable view of Rove; 25% have never
heard of him." Possibly
the most powerful man in government, and 25% of Americans never heard
of him. People don't
believe in secret government because they've never heard of it. Well,
this shows how many don't even know the public government.
Bush Family Tradition: Ducking Scandal
decent review of scandalous behavior.
Isn't it time we accepted the
truth about Bush?
"No matter what he's done or what's happened
on his watch, most refuse to see their "man's" reckless
behavior for what it is."
Are Stupid White Men Really Stupid?
An excellent article about
how the
has seemingly become a nation of glazed-over zombies. "…when it seems
that we cannot, when we – we who are free to select
from all of our extraordinary people not just some arbitrary nobility – still
select inbred dynastic fools to lead us, when we allow the most commonplace
of buffoons to guide the supertanker of state that is
, Europeans take notice. When we get it wrong twice, they feel the sense
of failure and disappointment even before we do ourselves... What
blinded nearly 60 million Americans to the folly of casting their collective
lot with big-money-globalists and against their own? against their nation's
economy? against their families? against their freedoms? against their futures?
against their civil liberties? against their – and our - blood-won civil
Save Me From Myself
"Parentalism is in a sense more insidious: It emerges
when we begin to suspect that we ourselves are not competent to make
our own choices, to yearn for someone to relieve us of the burden of
choice." Could this be
why we refuse to see the failings of our leaders? "Marxist
psychologist Erich Fromm diagnosed the totalitarian movements of the
20th century as symptoms of an urge to 'escape from freedom,…'"
One-On-One Interview With Ray McGovern,
Former CIA Senior Analyst, Who Warns U.S. Headed Down A Fascist
Road And Highly Critical Of President Bush and Neo Con Explanations
OF WMD, 9/11 And Manipulation of Intelligence Gathering
highly recommended interview.
Laden Brothers Tip-Off Two NASA Research Scientists In 1987 About
U.S. Government Plans To Cause 9/11
not only learned about the U.S. government's pre-planning of 9/11 from
the bin Ladens back in 1987, but this week from her Albuquerque home
Welch added more, saying when working for NASA as a scientist on brain
development research in Phoenix, she obtained a secret computer code
and was able to uncover the findings of a government-funded project
titled "Global Cleanse 2000,"
a study outlining strategies for global war and population reduction." Note: massive de-population has long been said
to be a major goal of the "power elite" and might include
everything from planned wars to induced starvation to deadly germ disbursement. "'There is a global
catastrophe right around the corner and they may even make it look like
a natural disaster. But I saw the plans back in the 1980s and after 9/11.
I know it is going to happen unless we quickly get Bush out of power.' Welch
and Logsdon became aware of this radical element in our government, trying
to create this new world order, when they worked together as scientists
at NASA's Application Technical Center Institute in
DOWN on 9/11
testimonies have generally been excluded from the official version
of 9-11. In the Shanksville area, where many residents believe Flight
93 was shot down, there are scores of eyewitnesses whose testimonies
contradict the government's claim that courageous passengers fought
hijackers, forcing the jetliner to crash rather than be flown into
a building. Some local
residents here are deeply offended by the official explanation of what
supposedly happened to United Airlines Flight 93, calling it a patriotic
pack of lies… An
resident told AFP that federal agents had visited the marina after Spinelli
had spoken to the
news channel, TV 4, and told him to stop talking about what he saw. Local firefighters were also told not
to talk about what they had seen at the crash site."
McKinney reopens 9/11
theories implicating president aired at 8-hour hearing… But
why would the president or his administration want the 9/11 attacks
to occur? Power, the panelists agreed."
NY Fireman Lou Cacchioli Says 9/11
Comission Twisted His Words
finally walked out. They were trying to twist my words and make the
story fit only what they wanted to hear. All I wanted to do was tell
the truth and when they wouldn't let me do that, I walked out.'"
Former Asst. Sec. Of Treasury Under Reagan Doubts Official
9/11 Story
"'only a part of a mysterious but deadly Neo-Con puzzle' and
the NeoCons are 'making such fatalistic mistakes and are about as insane
as Hitler and the Nazi Party when they invaded
in the dead of the winter.'"
Bush off the
hook in U.S. media
clear evidence emerged showing George W. Bush had written in his diary
that he had lied to the American people to justify his invasion of
Iraq, would the U.S. media even consider that a story? … The
Senate committee promised last summer to probe what role the White
House may have played in concocting the faulty intelligence — but
only after the presidential election. Once the president was re-elected last
fall, the Senate committee chairman, Republican Pat Roberts, simply
cancelled the promised investigation of the White House's role… Roberts'
decision to let the administration off the hook on
was barely covered in the media."
Bush loses some luster on credibility
"…can Bush reverse his slide in public trust? 'That's
very event-dependent,'
says political scientist Bruce Buchanan of the
Bush sets up domestic spy service
President George W Bush has ordered the creation of a domestic intelligence
service within the FBI, as part of a package of 70 new security measures. The White House says it is enacting the
measures to fight international terrorist groups and prevent the spread
of weapons of mass destruction. The
authorities will also be given the power to seize the property of people
deemed to be helping the spread of WMD."
Bush's Grimmer Vision
"Bush's 'grim
vision' always recognized that the 'war on terror' abroad
would require restricted freedoms at home – as well as expanded
powers for the police and military. So, just as in 2002, when the 'Bush
Doctrine' on preemptive wars laid the intellectual groundwork
for invading Iraq, new doctrines are now being promulgated to justify
the creation of a full-scale 'security state' inside the
United States… the 'Strategy
for Homeland Defense and Civil Support,' sets out a military
strategy against terrorism that envisions an 'active, layered
defense' both inside and outside U.S. territory… The likelihood of
military operations overseas will be high throughout the next 10 years… the Bush administration is prescribing
a large dose of military action and political repression as the cure
for Islamic terrorism."
who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must
therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system
that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? … The
First Amendment, after all, was enacted to protect unpopular ideas.
Think about it: Popular ideas hardly need protection… Without that broad tolerance of dissent --
even flag-burning -- the flag loses much of its meaning… Since we're sacrificing so many lives
to promote our democratic ideals in the
Middle East
, you'd think we'd show a little more respect for them here at home. "
Detainee Trials Are Upheld - Court
Backs Bush On Military Panels
federal appeals court yesterday backed the Bush administration's plan
to let special panels of military officers conduct trials of terrorism
suspects… The ruling was an important test of the
government's strategy of denying such detainees access not only to
civilian courts but also to the more formal proceedings of military
courts-martial, in which they would enjoy additional rights and legal
protections… The panel said courts should defer to
President Bush's decision in 2002 that the Geneva Conventions do not
apply to detainees… lead
civilian counsel, Georgetown University professor Neal Katyal, denounced
the decision as
'contrary to 200 years of constitutional law.'" This decision gives the president
unchecked power to create an alternate justice system, outside the constitution,
that he controls entirely.
Everything You Need to Know About
Michael Ledeen
preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader—a
dictator—willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures,
which few know how, or are willing, to employ.' … 'We
should not be outraged by Machiavelli's call for a temporary
dictatorship as an effective means to either revivify or restore freedom.' … The
belief in a single voice that governs the public should cause all Americans
to understand these men want to convert this nation to a permanent
Show your Independence on the 4th; Burn a Flag
"Apparently, it's alright to incinerate Iraqis, but not okay to
burn a 5'x7' piece of tri-colored cloth… The
flag burning issue is mainly a way for puerile congressman to entertain
themselves while the matters of state are conducted by an iron-fisted
White House… 'The
flag', Einstein wrote, 'is proof that man is still a
herd animal'. We gather around these tribal symbols to identify
ourselves with the gaggle of humanity, excluding
'the other' as a vital threat to our survival... The Bush Administration
has been particularly astute at marshalling the dormant energy of terror and
putting it to use in carrying out its radical agenda."
July 4th and the end of America,
land of the free
"There is no longer anything
resembling "private property" in this country. There
is only the illusion of ownership, as long as it is allowed
by your government… The
government simply kidnaps anyone they want, ships them off to Gitmo,
then leaves them there to rot, without being charged, without a trial,
and without legal representation… That
our own government is systematically destroying the Bill of Rights is
proof that our forefathers were correct… we have a police state,
operated under the illusion of freedom."
Harvest of Pain and Sorrow
"War without end. Rape of Mother Earth by
faceless corporations. Exploitation of the poor. Subjugation of the
masses. 9/11/01 marked the beginning of a new era of profound
fear and suffering for the human race. Contrary to the Ministry of
Truth of the
United States
government, the terrorists are not the source of this misery. A malevolent
force has taken root in the
United States
. This force is rendering damage terrorists can only fathom in a dream… Bush
spreads fear and loathing, not
'freedom and liberty'…"
Senators want to nix 1898 telecom
people cede something to the government, they rarely get it back. "The Spanish-American War may have
ended over a century ago, but anyone in the
with a telephone line is paying a 3 percent "luxury" tax created
to fund the conflict in 1898... The
obscure telecommunications tax took center stage in January when a congressional
committee suggested the tax could be extended to include
"all data communications services" including broadband, dial-up,
fiber, cable modems, cellular and DSL (digital subscriber line) links. In addition,
the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have said they are
considering whether the tax should apply to Internet phone calls."
U.S. Counts 3,200 Terror Attacks in 2004
a more stringent definition of terrorism, the State Department and
the counterterrorism center had tallied 651 significant international
terror attacks with more than 9,000 victims… the
shift was primarily the result of new, broader criteria for what constitutes
a terror attack." This is convenient for broadening the "war on terror" and
being able to identify more people as "terrorists," allowing
for greater use of all those new "anti-terror" laws.
U.S. Holding 5 Americans for Iraq
military is holding five
citizens suspected of insurgent activities in
… Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the
government has held more than 70,000 people in
Guantanamo Bay
Poll suggests drop in Bush's personal
Inside Guantanamo Bay
Protesters Demand Guantanamo Shutdown
The U.S. – a world leader in hypocrisy
past Sunday, U.S. President George Bush said that the
United States
is committed to eliminating torture worldwide… Contrary
to Bush's rhetoric, the
has also been a major stumbling block in the world's attempt to build
effective institutions to deal with the problem of torture and war crime… Far
from being committed to ending torture, the present U.S. administration
under Bush has not only failed to act against torture, except when
to do so aids the pursuit of some other self-serving purpose, it has
actually endorsed torture in some instances, trained people to carry
it out, and supplied implements of torture to repressive regimes."
Glorious torture keeps homeland free
you just feel safer? Don't you just sleep better at night knowing that
our glorious leader detained a whole lot of folk by lying? Don't you
feel just warm and democratically snuggly knowing that torture is used
in your name on folk that did not one thing to you?"
More Nuremberg Trials?
own humble proposal to put an end to war and terrorism everywhere is
somewhat different, namely that the International Criminal Court in
The Hague be empowered to investigate, indict and try every high-level – and
only high-level –
governmental leaders whose policies have led to the murder of civilians."
Secret 'gas' test staged at Grand
Central Station
Supreme Court Justice O'Connor retires
resignation allows Bush to make his first appointment to the high court,
which must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate."
assails Gonzales critics from right and left
Bush on Wednesday assailed critics of potential Supreme Court nominee
Alberto Gonzales … The Republican president's choice could shape
the court for years to come"
Bush picks conservative judge for
US Supreme Court
nominated conservative judge John Roberts to the US Supreme Court,
a move that could shape the outcome of battles over volatile issues
like abortion for decades. Republicans
welcomed the choice of a candidate with a reputation as a brilliant
lawyer with right wing credentials… 'nobody
really knows what (he) believes, because he has been unusually careful
about not discussing his views.'"
Introducing Judge Dread: The Affable Accomplice of a Coup
"…Roberts' most dangerous decision, issued just last Friday, when,
as part of a panel of appeals judges, he upheld Bush's outrageous claim of dictatorial powers:
the right to dispose of anyone he arbitrarily designates an 'enemy
as he sees fit; in this case, sending them to the kangaroo court 'military
tribunals' he has concocted… Roberts'
decision is part of an on-going process of elevating the president beyond
the reach of law… What we
are witnessing is the creation of a '
,' where the form and pressure of law no longer apply to
the president and his designated agents.' … George
W. Bush has granted himself the power to declare anyone on earth – including
any American citizen – an 'enemy combatant,' for any reason he
sees fit. He can render them up to torture, he can imprison them for
life, he can even have them killed, all without charges, with no burden
of proof, no standards of evidence, no legislative oversight, no appeal,
no judicial process whatsoever except those that he himself deigns
to construct, with whatever limitations he cares to impose."
White House denies access to Roberts' tax returns
nominees in recent decades were required to provide their three most
recent annual tax forms, the administration will neither collect such
documents from Roberts nor share them with the Senate Judiciary Committee…"
Kissinger regrets
India comments
after a meeting with the visiting Indira Gandhi. "We really slobbered
over the old witch," says President Nixon. "The Indians are
bastards anyway," says Mr Kissinger. "They are starting a
war there." He adds: "While she was a bitch, we got what
we wanted too…." Nice to know
that our leaders act instinctively out of rational thought first, and
could never stoop to anything as childish as name-calling. When
will people realize that leaders become leaders because they are self-interested
and are seeking control of others? The most successful are the most ruthless. The well-intentioned and moral in politics
are destroyed by it. The
president is well known to be incredibly foul-mouthed, even in the
presence of foreign leaders.
CIA methods exposed by kidnap inquiry
use of commercial mobiles gives Italian police detailed picture of
how Muslim cleric was abducted." More on this caper that was covered last month.
Egyptian Imam Was a CIA Informant
"A radical Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped from
by the CIA once provided the American spy agency with valuable information
about Islamic militants in
, according to a published report."
Italian court issues arrest warrants
for more CIA agents
"An Italian court has issued arrest warrants
for six more alleged CIA agents, accusing them of helping kidnap
an Egyptian Muslim cleric in 2003, a court official says."
Politicians demand inquiry
into CIA operations in Italy
Did the CIA undermine Italy's war
on terror?
The New World Order
"Among democracies, only in
do soldiers and other uniformed servicemen figure ubiquitously in political
photo ops and popular movies. Only in
do civilians eagerly buy expensive military service vehicles for suburban
shopping runs… a
perilous time in our history, one I do not think enough people take seriously.
Too many people in
are a-historical. It seems to me they think that we are immune to history's
worst impulses."
plans for dozens of French kids wanting to visit
New York City
are toast - the apparent victim of anti-French feelings here since the
start of the
France and US form secret antiterror
and the
United States
are cooperating on a unique antiterror partnership, tasked with analysing
the transnational movements of terror suspects and developing operations
to catch or spy on them, the Washington Post reported Sunday… Funded largely by the CIA's
, Alliance Base consists of small numbers of
intelligence case officers working with handfuls of foreign operatives,
often in tentative arrangements.
UK and France announce joint anti-terror
Feds blacklist 'illegal' Cuban Web
L.A. police kill gunman holding baby;
child also dies
DoE Seeks Star Trek Phasers For Nuclear Plants
weapons capable of harmlessly stunning intruders are being developed
and should be in general use by 2008… an emerging
class of non-lethal weaponry using 95GHz millimeter-wave directed
Military's Energy-Beam Weapons Delayed
CIA-backed tech can instantly spot
terrorists in a crowd
"'It does a reasonable job of matching people that sort of
look alike,' Pixlogic chief executive officer Joseph
Santucci said." Apparently,
the cameras we have everywhere already do not amount to enough surveillance
of the public.
The Pain of Remembering Aug. 6, 1945
- Sixty years after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
Taser controversy refuses to die (Victims have no such problem)
'less-than-lethal' weapons have been involved in 74 deaths in the
United States
, according to Amnesty International. It
also claims Tasers have been used gratuitously - against children or
the elderly or on people posing no real threat."
No Charges in Taser Gun Death
Dead after cop scuffle
Man dies after Taser shot
Report Cites 103 Taser-Related
Pregnant Woman Tasered by Seattle Cops
Taser trigger fingers
Taser use on boy, 6, brings outcry
Police stun 75-year-old
Police officers to carry
Tasers in schools
"…authorized to shock anyone including students"
for extinction
"Criminal governments, corrupt media, comatose
public: the perfect combination to permanently eradicate the human
species… The dire predictions of so-called conspiracy
theorists are all coming true: senseless
wars are being created with transparent lies for the profits of a
select few; the populace is infected with obvious poisons from
both the medical profession and the food industry who because of
recently passed laws are immune from legal action by the victims
of these cruel concoctions; and our money is being steadily stolen
by inbred elitist bankers who use accounting sleight-of-hand to funnel
currency to that same small segment of the population who all seem
to be immune from laws that guarantee poverty for the rest of us… Isn't it strange so few Americans have
objected to the new, out-front use of torture on people who have
never even been tried in a court of law - never mind convicted -
especially when underground reports of those taken prisoner and persecuted
at Guantanamo reveal them not as terrorists but as hapless victims
abducted to lend apparent authenticity to a minor detail of Washington's
contrived terror fantasies?"
you prepared for World War Three?
New name for 'war on terror'
Bush administration is abandoning the phrase 'war on terror' … senior
administration figures have been speaking publicly of 'a global
struggle against the enemies of freedom', and of the need to
use all 'tools of statecraft' to defeat them."
Maurice Strong loses UN job
businessman Maurice Strong has lost his job as the United Nations top
envoy to
North Korea
over his connection to the oil-for-food scandal, said the UN." Strong advocates the collapse of the industrialized nations. See here.
Former Bush official to get RFID
has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company
that specializes in subcutaneous RFID tags for humans and pets."
Payola Shocker: J-Lo Hits, Others Were 'Bought' by Sony
is nothing new, but think of how interesting it is that our minds are
molded, our tastes are shaped by corporations in this way. Think of the other ways, too – see the connections?
They Just Never Meant Very Much To Us
truth is that we are trained
to value the lives of our countrymen more highly by a socio-political
system that has much to gain from a restricted, patriotic version of
compassion, and much to lose from an excess of popular concern
for suffering inflicted on 'foreigners' by our governments and corporations… If
they do something to us, the world is coming to an end. But if we do
it to them, it's so normal, why should we even talk about it?"
Trend: Oil hits record high prices. Commodity prices in general continue
rising, suggesting lack of confidence in stock markets.
housing bubble thought near to breaking as home mortgages, property taxes
and general inflation increase -- could sink economy of US and the world.
job creation is weak, continues losing jobs to overseas. True
deficit is staggering. Corporate
profits are down, defaulting on pensions is up. Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer. Other nations concerned about
wants US to foot the bill for their pullout of settlements from
Why the Bears Are Smiling
through 2005, the stock market has nothing to show for itself. And
if you're waiting for the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest
rates before you buy equities, don't hold your breath... the
economy is navigating myriad threats to growth."
Asset-Inflation Economy Could Go on a While Longer
the ultimate reckoning even worse…"
Homeowners Deal With Rising Property
Six Myths About the Benefits of Foreign Investment in
Oil hits record as storm looms
Oil Prices Plunge Amid London Explosions
U.S. stocks drop after London explosions
NY gold rises on London blasts, other precious up
US economy creates 146,000 jobs in
"…less than expected by Wall Street… They
reckon that an average rise of 150,000 a month is needed to keep
pace with population growth."
U.S. losing lead in science and engineering-study
Allegations of Fake Research Hit
New High
U.S. workers say they waste 2 hours
a day
WorldCom's Ebbers Gets 25 Years in
White House: Deficit Plummeting to
"Bush said the improving deficit
picture vindicated his stewardship of the economy and budget… 'Over the last three years,
the Bush administration has posted the three worst deficits in history
and though the deficit for 2005 has improved, it remains among the
largest on record.'"
Federal Deficit Reality:
An Update
"When the
U.S. Treasury reported the official 2004 federal budget deficit at
a record $413 billion last October, the hisses and boos in the financial
media were unrelenting. Two months later, the Treasury reported the actual 2004
deficit using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to
be an incredulous $11.1 trillion, up from $3.7 trillion in 2003,
yet nary a word was heard in the financial media, from Wall Street
or from any political denizen… For nearly four decades,
officially sanctioned accounting gimmicks have masked federal deficit
Human Toll of a Pension Default
"The scale of the default, the largest in
history, has received more attention than the toll on the lives of the
bankrupt [United] airline's 120,000 employees and pensioners."
A Hands-Off Policy on Mortgage
two months now, federal banking regulators have signaled their discomfort
about the explosive rise in risky mortgage loans. First
they issued new "guidance" to banks about home-equity loans,
warning against letting homeowners borrow too much against their houses.
Then they expressed worry about the surge in no-money-down mortgages,
interest-only loans and "liar's loans" that require no proof
of a borrower's income. The
impact so far? Almost nil." The
"easy money" that's out there, designed to stimulate the
economy, has placed home-buying within the grasp of a vast number folks who
can't truly afford it. These
folks are betting on rates staying low (but they can't) or wages rising
(but they haven't in thirty years). So,
losing the bet will mean financial ruin for these consumers and a dire threat
to the solvency of lending institutions and then to the entire
US deficits aren't just China's problem
creditors face an endless stream of additional borrowing and a good
chance of default at the end of it, they should refuse to throw good
money after bad. They will then impose huge costs on the debtor."
Help the Economy: Invest Your Son
recent years, some eminent pundits
and top government officials have become brazen about praising war
as a good investment… 'Since the
United States and its coalition partners have invested a great deal
of political capital, as well as financial resources, as well as the
lives of our young men and women -- and we have a large force there
now -- we can't be expected to suddenly just step aside…' I
went through the latest annual reports from some American firms with
Pentagon contracts. Those reports acknowledged, as a matter of fact,
the basic corporate reliance on the warfare state."
Part of US oil future tilts in the
"BP Plc.'s Thunder Horse platform… is tilting
20 to 30 degrees after Hurricane Dennis hit the
Gulf of Mexico
DreamWorks Lowers Full-Year Profit
A tale of two classes
"fewer workers
are able to amass any significant savings or put money away for retirement.
Instead, they have been forced deeper and deeper into debt... pay for American CEOs has continued to rise, reaching
levels far in excess of pay for executives anywhere else."
American Taxpayers Footing Israel's
Withdrawal From Gaza
…wants the American taxpayers to cough up $2.2 billion in addition
to our regular $3 billion-or-so annual subsidy to pay for the withdrawal
… A normal president would view
's actions as unacceptable… If
gives in, we taxpayers will be spending about $227,000 per Jewish settler."
Trend: Ariel Sharon appears to be every bit as dishonest
and as far to the radical right as the top members of the US administration,
hell bent on destruction, yet there are factions in the Israeli government
who want him out of office because he's not radical enough!
prepares for pullout of 8000 settlers from
, though some fear this will be followed by a massive increase in Israeli
hostilities there. Violence
continues, with Palestinians taking the brunt of the casualties.
, drifting toward theocracy, continues to pass laws and take other measures
that discriminate against the native Palestinians, and continues to interfere
with US politics via lobbying groups such as AIPAC, recently implicated
in spying. Yasser Arafat
is confirmed to have been murdered, and Steven Spielberg starts a film
about Israeli assassins.
Israeli rightists place death curse
on Sharon
"A group of extreme rightists said they had held a ceremony and
placed a death curse on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon … Tuesday's
ceremony organizers included Rabbi Yosef Dayan, who was among the
rabbis who had placed a death curse on Rabin."
Sharon's son charged over fraud
have been brought against the son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
over the funding of one of his father's election campaigns in 1999."
REAL INSIDERS A pro-Israel
lobby and an F.B.I. sting
foreign countries interfere in
politics: "Asher went on, 'He beat
Findley with a lot of help from Jews, in-state and out-of-state. Now,
how did the Jewish money find him? I travelled around the country talking
about how we had the opportunity to defeat someone unfriendly to
. And the gates opened.' Durbin, who went on to win a Senate
seat, is now the Democratic whip… Rosen's
main role at AIPAC, he once told me, was to collect evidence of "Iranian
and share it with the
United States
… He was fired earlier
this year by Howard Kohr, nine months after he became implicated in an F.B.I.
espionage investigation."
Children Without a Country: Israel's Theocrats
"Israel's government is taking gigantic steps
towards instituting a theocratic rule of control… In
an effort to boost
's Jewish population, the government opened immigration lines with the
Soviet Union
's Jewish community. However, over 60% … live in mixed marriages. …the
non-Jewish partner in such marriages cannot bring his or her children
to live with them in
if they do not come together - even if they do, the child cannot become
an Israeli citizen. Such a child, like so many Palestinians living in
, has to live without any legal rights or status.
Israel approves separation barrier for Jerusalem, drawing
Palestinian ire
cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to build 11 passages through the
barrier. The ministers did not
explain how they would ensure quick passage of tens of thousands of Arab
residents who need to get to schools, jobs and hospitals and the
centre of the city."
Palestinians rage at proposed fence
across Jerusalem
Palestinians shut out from their
"Israeli occupation forces are preventing
Palestinians from passing through gates in the separation barrier
to work their farms… other
gates, such as Gate 45, had been shut for more than 18 months and
that farmers had no practicable access to their own land…"
MKs pass bill, pare down family reunification for Palestinians
host of new rules to limit the rights of Palestinians in
Charge: killing a child; Sentence:
a scolding and a promotion
Israeli military court sentenced a soldier charged of killing a Palestinian
resident in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, to disciplinary
measures but did not delay his promotion."
Dahlan: Settlers poisoning land
Jewish settlers of "poisoning" the lands in the settlements
slated for evacuation. Dahlan told reporters in
that the aim of
"poisoning" the lands was to cause severe damages to them so that
the Palestinians would not be able to use them after the Israeli pullout."
40 settlers beat Palestinian boy
while soldiers watch
Majidi is critical condition in the hospital…"
Arik's Horror Show
"All the world saw the horror on TV: a Palestinian
boy lying on the ground, unconscious. An Israeli soldier bending
over him, not knowing what to do. A settler coming up from behind
and throwing a stone at the head of the injured Palestinian. Another
settler dropping a big stone on him at point-blank range. A bearded
medic, also a settler, approaches the wounded boy, hesitates, and
then goes away without treating him, pursued by the chants of a chorus
of settler boys and girls: 'Let him die! Let him die!'"
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian
teen in W. Bank
"Mohamed al-Missimi, 17, was killed after
being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers, said the medics at
a hospital in
… local Palestinian residents said the
killed was a 17-year-old teen and was not holding a gun."
Police arrest alleged ringleader of Muasi lynch in Jerusalem
the videos Jewish youths are
heard shouting
"lynch him, lynch him", and seen throwing stones. The Palestinian took a few direct blows
to the head and lost consciousness. His
life was saved thanks to a few IDF soldiers and journalists who took him to
"Though legal proof is not and may never be available -- short
of a 'Deep Throat' coming forward --
the overwhelming preponderance of circumstances, threats, and evidence
traces the assassination to the Israelis with American, and in fact
with some Palestinian, connivance."
Fatah chief: Yasser Arafat was poisoned
"'I can categorically confirm that Abu
Ammar (Arafat) was poisoned,' exiled Fatah chairman Faruq
Qaddumi told reporters."
Ariel Sharon orders forces to target leaders of Islamic
Israel raids West Bank town
Israel - The Source Of Atrocities
Withdrawal is a prelude to annexation
no Palestinian state in a unilateral move. The
real purpose of the move is to derail the road map and kill the comatose
peace process. For
, withdrawal from
is the prelude not to a permanent settlement but to the annexation of
substantial sections of the
West Bank
The 3rd Category and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement
"It is all about viewing Jewishness as the
key element in one's being. Any other quality is secondary."
Israel and Palestine: the end of
the "calm"
Settlers stab a child to death near
'I acted in God's name'
"Ultra-Orthodox man charged with three counts
of attempted murder over
gay parade stabbing… "I
came to murder on behalf of God. We can't have such abomination
in the country,'"
Israeli president warns extremists opposed to Gaza pullout
could kill Sharon
Lithuanian paper fined for saying
Jews rule the world
Phony Trauma
IS SET to evacuate its settlements from the Gaza Strip in mid-August." Many watchers
are certain that this is a ploy by
to enhance
's grip on the West Bank, were there are 30 times as many settlers as
What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from
the Gaza Strip
Warning from
… We believe that one primary, unstated
motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel
to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out
of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli
government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on
the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,
of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees… The
scenario could be similar to what has already happened in the past -
a tactic that Ariel Sharon has used many times in his military career
- i.e., utilizing provocation
in order to launch massive attacks."
Israel poised for ground assault,
Gaza mass demo planned
a second day running, thousands of extra soldiers and armoured vehicles
remained deployed across the border with
, awaiting the green light for a threatened large-scale assault, should
rocket attacks continue."
2 religious soldiers suspected of placing J'lem fake bomb
Israel Defense Forces soldiers from an infantry regiment of ultra-Orthodox
troops were arrested on suspicion of placing a fake bomb at the
central bus station last week…
the beginning of March, right-wing extremists have planted six dummy
bombs: two in a Tel Aviv train station and four in
. In those incidents the fake bombs also bore notes reading, 'The
disengagement will explode in our faces.'"
Spielberg's Biggest Gamble
"Even to raise the topic of
's extra-legal assassination policy requires walking on eggshells. Mr.
Spielberg quietly began filming the most politically charged project
he has yet attempted: the tale of a secret Mossad hit squad ordered to
assassinate Palestinian terrorists after the massacre of Israeli athletes
at the 1972 Olympics in
… Indeed, the movie's terrain is
so packed with potential land mines that, associates say, Mr. Spielberg has
sought counsel from advisers ranging from his own rabbi to the former American
diplomat Dennis Ross, who in turn has alerted Israeli government officials
to the film's thrust. Mr. Spielberg has also shown the script to Mr. Ross's
old boss, former President Bill Clinton. Mr. Clinton's aides said Mr. Spielberg
reached out to him first more than a year ago and again as recently as Tuesday.
Mr. Spielberg is also being advised by Mike McCurry, Mr. Clinton's White House
spokesman, and Allan Mayer, a Hollywood spokesman who specializes in crisis
Trend: Bad press continues to increase against
, which the
knows is its ultimate rival for power and control of the world. This month, the Chinese ban US beef. They are blamed for higher oil prices
by building their own strategic reserve tanks. They
are identified as a dangerous enemy by the
military, even a nuclear threat.
responded with the threat of nuclear retaliation in case of attack by
joined with
in demanding US exodus from central Asia and joined with
in expressing concern over the political activities of the US-funded
National Endowment for Democracy.
did give in to US pressure to unpeg its currency from the dollar, but
it's unknown if a more expensive yuan will really help make US
products more attractive.
China continues to ban imports of
cow, beef from US
"…following confirmation of the country's
first homegrown case of mad cow disease…"
China to fill strategic oil reserve
will start to fill its strategic oil reserve in the fourth quarter of
this year with its own oil…"
Unocal may back bid by China's CNOOC
if it meets conditions
From China, Some Relief on Oil Demand
"China's overall oil use declined 1 percent in the second quarter
from the comparable quarter a year earlier, the agency said… world
oil prices could take a heavy blow if Chinese use did not increase… Mr. Birol said there had been
a vigorous debate in the last two days within the International Energy
Agency over how to explain the decline in Chinese consumption, and
he acknowledged that other, longer-term explanations were possible."
Pentagon cooks up report on China's
Pentagon report on
's military is being worked on by several
government agencies, the Defense Department said on Tuesday, suggesting
an expanded drive to make sure it meshes with the Bush administration's
views… The report is sensitive because
has objected strongly to being portrayed by the
United States
as a growing threat to the military balance in
. 'The
wave of '
military threat theory' whipped up by the
military is a dangerous practice,' People's Daily said … 'setting
up all kinds of obstacles in the way of the development of Sino-U.S.
Pentagon report reflects "cold
war mentality"
military experts said Pentagon's
annual report on Chinese military power is full of 'guesswork
and prejudices' and it reflects the animus and ambivalence
of certain forces in the
United States
's peaceful rise."
China stocks nukes as anti-U.S. tactic
China Tells Congress To Back Off Businesses
"The Chinese government on Monday sharply criticized the
United States
for threatening to erect barriers aimed at preventing the attempted
takeover of the American oil company Unocal Corp. by one of
's three largest energy firms, CNOOC Ltd."
China Severs Its Currency's Link to Dollar
Severs Currency's Peg to the U.S. Dollar, Retains Controls on Its Exchange
simultaneously announced it was dropping its own policy tying its currency,
the ringgit, to the U.S. dollar and would adopt a similar arrangement."
China Unpegs Itself
China Floats, America Sinks
China revalues currency; repegs to
basket of currencies
Treasury Secretary John Snow had warned
that if it did not move on its currency by mid-October, the White House was prepared to name
as a currency manipulator, a move that might have led to trade
Dollar sags as China scraps currency
Yuan hits high as c.bank tests waters
"Yuan kicks dollar butt by rejecting 'free
Forget Unocal. Real China Risk Is
No. 2 economy has a disturbing amount of leverage over the
politicians want to protect national security, they should be looking
at how much their government is becoming indebted to
… What if
began dumping
debt? … The
used to fear
, the biggest holder of
debt, in this regard. Japanese officials in the past have made not-so-veiled
threats about pulling the plug on
and other Asia nations have made it possible for the
to live far beyond its means."
Pentagon is considering a change in its military strategy that
soldiers to be ready to fight two major wars at the same time, The New
York Times reported… Military officials are also considering
in detail what would happen if
decided to attack
North Korea
... 'War with
North Korea
... would require a much more capable Navy and Air Force,' "War
North Korea
... would require a much more capable Navy and Air Force…"
China, Russia push for U.S exit from
Central Asia
"A regional alliance led by China and Russia called today for the
United States and its allies in Afghanistan to set a date for withdrawing
from several states in Central Asia, reflecting growing unease at
the U.S. military presence in the region… The
United States
rejected the call for a deadline… The military said
hosts at least 800
troops, while 1,200 U.S.-led troops are in
's suspicion of the West has increased recently amid speculation the
United States is encouraging the overthrow of
Central Asia
's pro-Russian governments." There
is strong evidence that the
is funding the "soft revolutions" in former Soviet republics
and in
US on Nepal's case
from its perceived success in
, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an American non-governmental
organization, has a new mission in
, where King Gyanendra has assumed autocratic powers…
has even more reason to concern itself with the NED's presence in
, next door to sensitive
. The NED makes no bones of its concerns about Uighur Chinese, and is
known to have earlier funded anti-China forces in
… The significant aspect of the NED, however,
is its recent role in the "color-coded" revolutions in Central Asia
- in the backwaters of
. Those "democratic revolutions"
were designed to help
and antagonize
. It is too early to tell whether these "revolutions" will have
the necessary staying power - but what is certain is that the NED was an active
player… The most notable
of NED's
"conquests" in recent months took place in
's worries concerning the NED are broad and indirect.. Formed during the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s, the
NED is a favorite of the Bush administration. In fact, on the issue of spreading
democracy around the globe, the Bush administration and the NED are in total
sync. Not for nothing, President George W Bush, in his January 22, 2004,
state of the union message, vowed to double the NED budget…
is a more direct target of the NED. Reports have confirmed the identification,
looting and arson of Chinese and Turkish properties in Bishkek on the evening
the "Tulip" revolution" took to the streets and drove out
The London Explosions, the Rogue Network, Bush and Iran
US GET OUT OF CENTRAL ASIA - The US, UK and Israel have been on the
brink of war with Iran for at least a year, and the rogue network is
generally aware that time is not on its side. There is also an important
new development which threatens the ability of the Anglo-Americans
to wage war. On July 5, the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO), which brings together China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Krygyzia, Kazakhstan,
and Tajikistan plus new members India, Pakistan, and Iran, issued a
call for the United States to vacate the bases seized in the autumn
of 2001 under the cover of the 9/11 emergency and the looming invasion
of Afghanistan. The parties to this call represent about half of the
world's population. "
Top Chinese general warns US over
the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition
on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have
to respond with nuclear weapons,'
said General Zhu Chenghu." Shocked? What
about these bits from March 2002: Britain
'Prepared to Use Nuclear Weapons' and US
plans widespread use of nuclear weapons in war – "Bush orders Pentagon to target seven nations
for attack. These
, the two powers which have long been targeted by the
nuclear arsenal;
North Korea
, the three countries demonized by Bush as the "axis of evil" in
his State of the Union speech; and
Summary: Last month saw the brutal slaying by government
troops ( most recently trained by the U.K.) of anti-dictatorship protestors
in Andijan, Uzbekistan, a police state ruled by the tyrannical Islam
Karimov, one of President Bush's close allies. Well
documented stories describe the
policy of rendering suspected
criminals to that country's prisons, where they often undergo torture.
U.N.: Uzbeks Troops to Fault in Uprising
demanded an international inquiry into 'what amounted to a mass
killing.' Uzbek opposition groups and human rights
activists claim more than 700
people - mostly unarmed civilians - were killed on May 13 in Andijan… The report also
said there was urgent need for neighboring countries to halt deportations
of Uzbek asylum seekers and Andijan witnesses back to their home, saying
they would face the risk of torture if returned to
Trial of U.S. Media Group Employees Begins in Tashkent
authorities have begun the trial of a former director and another employee
of the U.S.-based media rights and training organization, Internews
group, the Svoboda radio station reported Monday… Karimov
has alleged that Western organizations helped the opposition in those
two countries [
Summary: Inexplicably, despite open threats against the
North Korea
has not received the treatment of
, which never threatened the
N. Korea defector seeks help from
people who are at the camps, the [North Korean] government wants to
kill them all,' Kang Chol-hwan said in an interview with The
Washington Times. 'Instead of executing them, they kill them
slowly, making them work in forced labor...'"
North Korea has nuclear bomb, would-be defector claims
Trend: The war of words between the
(dominated by the right wing and the power elite) and
(led by the leftist president Hugo Chavez, who is sharing the national
wealth with all the people), although in a lull this month, continues.
is the fifth-largest oil-producing nation in the world, and thus of great
interest to those who seek to control the world's resources.
Chavez stresses state sovereignty
on Independence Day
President Hugo Chavez stressed state sovereignty in a speech to mark
the oil-rich South American country's Independence Day on Tuesday. 'Here
the Venezuelans rule; there is no hegemonic power from any other part
of the world that has to do with the sovereign decisions taken in
.'" It's clear
who he's talking about. "Chavez, a fierce critic of the United States,
has accused the Bush administration of trying to topple his government.
He also said
will remain a steady supplier of oil as long as there are no
Trend: Most of the news involving
is covered in sections above. The
trend is continued demonization of
, over its nuclear development, by the
, despite no evidence that
is doing anything illegal in this regard.
Iraq to launch
military, anti-terror cooperation with Iran
's defence minister, on a landmark visit to
, called for reconciliation between the two neighbours and former arch-foes
and pledged not to allow Iraqi soil to be used for attacks against the
Islamic republic… Dulaimi
pledged that the two sides would begin military and anti-terrorist cooperation,
but nevertheless asserted it was too soon for US and other foriegn troops
to pull out of his country… The
Iraqi minister pledged that the
United States
could not oppose the cooperation between the two countries: 'We
are going to cooperate and no one can stop this cooperation'… 'Our Iranian brothers have promised us a billion dollar
aid as a loan,' he added."
Trend: Russia
seems to want emulate the
in terms of "fighting terror" – to take advantage
of an unseen and largely unidentifiable enemy as an excuse to project
power. Of course,
has identified different enemies as "the terrorists." There is also mounting evidence that
, as well as the EU and
are concerned about limiting or stopping the "gone wild" foreign
policy of the
Death toll in Russian terrorist attack
rises to 11
blast in
, capital of
Russia's Putin Wants Preventive
Strikes Against Terrorists
Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian interior ministry to conduct
preventive strikes against terrorists." The
has set the precedent for leaders everywhere to capitalize on this
type of
"kill now, ask questions later, if at all" policy that has become "the
way the world works."
Africa's new best friends
US and
are putting the multinational corporations that created poverty in charge
of its relief…" Readers
might not understand that corporations pay the leaders of developing
countries to gain access to natural resources, rightfully the wealth
of the local people. The
corporations take and sell the resources in return for hiring a few locals. The payoffs never seem to mange not to trickle down to the
citizens. The G8 is saying, "business
as usual," lending credence to the notion that world leaders serve
wealthy corporations first, and are effectively controlled by them. "Few would deny that
one of the things
needs is investment. But investment by many of our multinationals
has not enriched its people but impoverished them. The history of corporate involvement in
is one of forced labour, evictions, murder, wars, the under-costing
of resources, tax evasion and collusion with dictators. Nothing
in either the Investment Climate Facility or the Growth and Opportunity
Act imposes mandatory constraints on corporations."
Why I won't be watching Live 8
simply do not think it is right that ex-pop star Bob Geldof should
be the human catalyst for one of the biggest problems facing mankind
- it is beyond the wisdom of Solomon, let alone Geldof."
Percent Of All International Aid Is 'Phantom': Actionaid
"Some 60 percent of all announced international
aid does not exist, global pressure group ActionAid said Thursday,
singling out the
United States
as the main culprits in "phantom" aid."
Zambians march to call on rich nations to act on promises
African Union: Rich countries must fulfill promises
Trend: There is increasing polarization of groups highly
devoted to particular religious teachings. There is also increasing hypocrisy evident within extremist
factions of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish groups. This polarization and extremism seems to be driving members
of these various groups to deeds, in the name of religion, that are
anything but holy.
Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels - Signed
Letters from Cardinal Ratzinger Now Online
Thousands Gather to Celebrate Megachurch
's largest church celebrated its move into the former arena for the Houston
Rockets with a capacity crowd of 16,000, an upbeat sermon from its televangelist
pastor and a spirited welcome from the governor of
of Christ
… She called it 'spiritual restoration.'
Anyone can do it, she promised, 'even a gay activist.' Linda
had seen with her own eyes the sex demons that make homosexuals rebel
against God, and she said they are gruesome; but she did not name them,
for she would not 'give demons glory.'"
Articles on the Rise of Dominionism in America
The Crusaders: Christian Evangelicals are Plotting to Remake America in
their Own Image
and liberty for all who believe…"
an age where the powerful seek, as they always have, to control information
and its flow, the internet is a mixed blessing. It
allows for identification and tracking of people, but allows for information
to be disseminated outside of the corporate mainstream system. The current internet model allows
for too much freedom to suit our leaders. It
may be prudent to expect that they'll try to do something about
that, openly or covertly.
U.S. Won't Cede Control of Net Computers
government will indefinitely retain oversight of the main computers that
control traffic on the Internet, ignoring calls by some countries to
turn the function over to an international body…"
Univ. of Southern Calif. says database
"USC learned of the breach June 20 when it was tipped off by a
journalist, Harrington said. It has since shut down the Web
site and has notified people whose names and Social Security numbers
were in the database of the security breach."
In Canada: Cache a page, go to jail?
bill before
's Parliament could make it illegal for search engines to cache Web pages,
critics say, opening the door to unwarranted lawsuits and potentially
hindering public access to information."
Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax,
And Why Corporate News Censored the Story
"The days are now numbered for surfing an uncensored, open-access
Internet, using your favorite search engine to search a bottomless
cyber-sea of information in the grandest democratic forum ever conceived
by humankind. Instead you can look forward to Googling about on a
walled-off, carefully selected corpus of government propaganda and
sanitized information
"safe" for public consumption… Federal
government--from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the White House--and
corporate mainstream media have worked cooperatively to quietly block open
access to cyberspace… Broadband and DSL are therefore on their
way to becoming extensions of corporate mainstream media. In fact, the companies
that have taken control of the Internet are themselves part of an intricate
web of corporate media ownership."
Blair rejects calls for probe into
"He is expected to tell his
counterparts governments must ensure operators
keep data on telephone and internet exchanges for up to a year."
Secretary Charles Clarke says firms
should be ordered to retain phone and e-mail records to help track
down terrorists… '"We
should guarantee the full traceability of the movements of terrorists'" Or anyone, for
that matter? "…proposing
that records of all private telephone calls, text messages and e-mails
be retained by telecommunications firms so they can be passed on to
the police and security services if necessary."
Google has engaged
in questionable censorship practices
Downloading 'myths' challenged
who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal
music downloads, research suggests."
Report offers no clue to cause of
plane crash
pilot who crashed his small Cessna airplane into
on June 19… only minutes after achieving his maximum altitude…"
Crashed plane still submerged in
NEW YORK – "A plane in Bowline Pond remained
submerged yesterday as authorities continued an investigation into the
crash that sent a
man to
Plane crashes at Fort Payne airport
- A plane crashed while taking off at the
Thursday morning. Two people were in the twin-engine Navaho airplane
when it went down."
Pilot was cool on way down
- Jerry Robinson wouldn't change a thing he did two weeks ago today
when he was forced to crash-land his single-engine plane in a swamp
with his wife and son aboard."
Pilot survives crash after plane
engine quit
- A former military pilot who crashed his single-seat airplane in rural
Putnam County Thursday night escaped with minor injuries."
North Atlantic Ocean Temps Hit Record High
Australia admits secret climate pact talks with US
Stalagmite fuels climate debate
stalagmite from an Alpine cave may indicate that global warming is
not as unusual as many think."
G-8 say global warming requires urgent
World environmentalists meet in Cuba
Call to Save Mt. Everest from climate change
Writing the Planet's Epitaph
"With each passing month it becomes
increasingly unlikely that the human species will come to its senses
before destroying the planet that gave it life."
Vital marine species under threat
Now the Pentagon tells Bush:
climate change will destroy us (from February)
Key findings of the Pentagon (from February)
wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion,
ideology or national honour…"
FLOODS and STORMS
Flash floods block Paris-Brussels
94 die in torrential rains, flash
floods in India's Gujarat state
Hurricane Dennis Kills Five in Haiti
Hurricane Dennis Blows Through Ala.,
Hurricane season set to be stormy
Dennis Leaves Many Without Power
in Fla.
Emily Strengthens to Category 4 Storm
Hurricane Emily Lashes Yucatan Peninsula
China evacuates 600,000 after typhoon
lashes Taiwan
Floods sweep Bulgaria, ruined grain
crops threaten to hike up bread prices
Floods kill dozens in India as Bombay under water
Indian monsoon deaths near 900 after
stampede, bodies dug from landslide
Tornado hits Birmingham
have an average of 33 reports of tornadoes in the
each year but these are especially rare in built-up areas and there has
not been one of this strength in many years…"
Fires blaze in south of France and Corsica
France's rivers run dry
whole pattern of our agriculture will have to change, from Africa to
France faces drought, locusts
Drought-hit Portugal battles wildfires, homes threatened
Drought and locust plague leave Niger
on the brink of famine
Locusts invade Cirebon regencies
Hot Weather Hampers Colorado Firefighters
Heatwave bakes China, power demand
Heat wave pushing power consumption
in Eastern Canada
How Hot Is It? Arizonans Are Complaining
Drought parches lawns, cripples water
supply in Midwest
Ice Shelf Collapse Reveals New Undersea
Con Edison reports record energy usage (
New York
Record power demand sparks Calif.
blackout scare
Chicago Experiencing Driest Summer
on Record
Wildfire Forces Evacuations Near
Relentless Heat in Phoenix Kills
Ferocious Heat Maintains Grip Across
the West
Triple-Digit Temperatures Scorch Midwest
Blistering heat wave causes more misery across the U.S.
Midwest and East
Melting Greenland glacier may hasten
rise in sea level
Heat Wave Prompts Summer School 'Snow
Day' (
Nearly all of Illinois declared drought
Catastrophic Sand Avalanches, Sea Level Changes Found In
Gulf Of Mexico
Mysterious Hot Spot Sparks Fire (
Santa Barbara
FDA issues warning on antidepressant
associated with possible increased suicide risk, says
agency… a second public warning today that
adults who use antidepressants should be closely monitored for warning
signs of suicide…"
Bird Flu May Pose Threat to Humans
Signs Point to Global Influenza Oubreak
- WHO Warning
Bird flu: World is on the edge
'S bird flu outbreak is at a critical stage where it could easily become
a human pandemic, health experts warned yesterday…"
Flu mutates quicker than thought
Death toll in China's mystery illness rises to 19; 17 in
critical condition
Preparing for the Next Pandemic
an influenza pandemic struck today, borders would close, the global
economy would shut down, international vaccine supplies and health-care
systems would be overwhelmed, and panic would reign."
Bloggers surfing, sharing science
in quest to understand pandemic threat
Kilian's H5N1, http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/
Flu Wiki, http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?nMain.HomePage
Measure, http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/
Mattson's Just a Bump in the Beltway, http://www.node707.com/
-Epidemica, http://www.epidemi.ca/
Flu, http://avianflu.typepad.com/
UN says it may take a decade to beat
bird flu in Asia
Earthquake rocks Nicaragua, no injuries
or damage reported
Small earthquake shakes Baja California
Moderate earthquake hits north Andaman
Big shake's 'unlikely' as quake swarm
rattles on
Strong Earthquake In Northwest Sumatra
Low Intensity earthquake hits northern
5.4-magnitude earthquake near Kamchatka
Eastern Japan shaken by earthquake
Earthquake hits Palu, Indonesia
Earthquake Hits Sea Waters near Japan's Izu Islands
Earthquake shakes northeast Albania
Asian quake tears 1,000km rupture
Swarm of quakes heightened possibility
of larger temblor
Earthquake shakes Big Island
Moderate earthquake jolts southern Pakistan port city,
no injuries reported
Two small temblors hit eastern San
Bernardino County
Minor earthquake of 3.6 magnitude
rattles south central Utah
Moderate earthquake jolts Kupang
eastern Indonesia
Earthquake shakes historic Myanmar
Quake jolts Indonesia's Aceh
Earthquake hits Aceh, Indonesia
Quake sounds reveal Earth 'ripping apart'
Another earthquake shakes the Big
Earthquake hits Dien Bien Phu
Small earthquake felt in Anchorage
Magnitude-5.8 earthquake jolts eastern
Earthquake Hits Tokyo
Major earthquake hit India's Nicobar
Tokyo earthquake a foretaste of expected disaster
Magnitude 5.6 Earthquake - WESTERN MONTANA
Moderately strong earthquake hits Tokyo area
Moderate Quake Jolts Alaska Village
Magnitude 4.8 Quake - NEAR THE COAST OF SOUTHERN PERU
Magnitude 5.0 Quake - OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Magnitude 5.4 - OFF THE
Magnitude 4.7 - EASTERN
Magnitude 4.6 -
Magnitude 4.9 - OFF THE
Lava Dome Falls Into Mount St. Helens
Mt. St. Helens Still Kicking
Mount St. Helens still cooking: Quakes
shake, lava domes build
Japan Investigates Giant Column of
Steam in the Pacific
High lake temperatures puzzle regional scientists
Mexican volcano rumbles to life once
A Volcano In Austin?
Shiveluch volcano becomes active in Kamchatka
Volcano heats up on Indonesia's most
densely populated island
Experts eye SA meteor site
Drilling set at Chesapeake Bay meteor site
Meteor seen in Siskiyou skies Tuesday
Kaali crater: still having an impact
Space Debris, Meteor Or What?
Scientists Use Meteors To Investigate
Climate Change And Giant Waves At 'Edge Of Space'
New Comet Findings from Deep Impact
Fireball Streaks Across Oregon Skies
Meteorite hits tractor
UFOs / ALIENS
New Mexico City UFO Fleet Sightings Cause Commotion
For UFO expert, sci-fi is real life
The Great UFO Debate
UFO sighting in Exeter - again
Scientists predict
brave new world of brain pills
use of drugs to improve the mind poses ethical challenge…"
Gravity doughnut promises time machine
Ancient Aryan civilization achieved
incredible technological progress 40 centuries ago
Scientists find genetic evidence for southern origin of
modern humans in East Asia
Roman legion founded Chinese city
Super current created at Nevada site
Distant object found orbiting Sun
have found a large object in the Solar System's outer reaches. It is
being hailed as 'a great discovery'."
450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in
-- First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds,
who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as
nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish
media reported." What can we
learn about following the herd?
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