Now we know that no other President of the US has ever lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably…The presumption now has to be that he's lying any time that he's saying anything.CD, I (Or as Pilger put it,
I know when Bush is lying. His lips move.ICH)
We mourn every soldier lost.(What's this
we,paleface? W's gone to not one soldier's funeral. RMN
I was really shocked that the president wouldn't attend a funeral for a soldier he sent to die, but at the same time I'm not surprised in the least. This Administration has consistently shown a great deal of hypocrisy between their talk about supporting the troops and what they've actually done.VAIW) CD
Looks like a bunch of Nazi Stormtroopers.[ATV News] (But I don't think anyone was shot, unlike in Oakland CA, say.)
Press conference by Mahir Arar, Canadian deported by the US to Syria where he was tortured. (I guess someone finally got him outta there.) IHT Harper, of course, has had much bad to say about the Canadian gov't but hasn't had an audible peep to say about the Mercans. (On the other hand, I'm getting tired of Big Mandible Graham telling me everything's peachy.)
38% would vote for W, 44% would vote against W. MSNBC
Record solar flare, X20+, rated X40 by some. S I'm sure W's desprit to find a way to blame it on al Qaeda. But then, his sheeple are so bad at basic science, he'll probably succeed…Maybe he'll use it as an explanation for global warming, instead; it's a lot more plausible. ECTV (I confess I've been having trouble avoiding an instinctive thought that greenhouse gas is somehow causing this solar activity. =p)
I'm unblocked at Wikipedia. *sigh* It was a good excuse not to waste time on the thing.
Does president baby like the Prime Minister? Yes he does! He's such a
nice cooperative Prime Minister, yes he is!
TT
World News Tonight report, from Iraq: When we left, the old man called us
brother.
Later, we learned our translator had told him we were
French.
Activists exhort Matrix Revolutions goers to take the Red Pill—actually cards very like Deception Dollars—and see the real matrix. Oh, we know we are living in another matrix. These are wonderful.
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What was it Mahathir said? ZOA But, to be fair, the US is, quietly, not backing Israel's claims against Arafat. AAI
SC principal calls in the stormtroopers, guns drawn if not exactly
blazing, to hunt for drugs and weapons that aren't found.
MSNBC
although some officers had drawn their weapons they were
S
Oh, well, that makes it alright. (Musta got the idea from Dubya.)
not pointing at the faces or heads of the students
I'm blocked from WP again. Hmm.
extremely timidminiseries. WSWS
CBS is admitting that it is incapable of handing any subject more controversial than a Hallmark card.WSWS
This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.WH (With a corrective footnote, like the century and a half of peace with Japan.) (Also
Ronald Reagan would be pleased, and he would not be surprised.1: that ol' Raygun worship again. 2: Raygun ain't dead, you can ask him if he's pleased! We know Poppy wasn't pleased when communism collapsed.)
I'm unblocked again! WTF?
resistancere Iraqi attacks. SMH
US postal services closed for anthrax
checks, and other
news that some figure sounds an awful lot like psychological priming for
another Pearl-9-Reich-Harbor-11-stag.
It occurs to me to check up on the progress of the AIDS rethink promised in South Africa in 2000. *sigh* It looks like it's died in committee. AAW
The multi-billion dollarGood Lord. k$14 over 18a would go a good way to paying for some decent hedgekashun for the Xrister. Or for its diapers. Mum the Municipal Councillor was just tonight sputtering about disposable diapers—she thinks they should be banned from our landfills, like all the other organics have been, by provincial dictat—and how the little urchins are @hitting in their first year's university tuition.baby businessmust surely place a great burden on any healthcare system, as well as on the insurance business. The hospital wants $2700 to $3000 for a normal birth with no problems. In addition, the doctor asks around $2500 for his/her part of the prenatal and delivery. A friend of mine paid $14,000 for C-section delivery. Compare these figures with around $1500 total for a lay midwife (prenatal, birth, and aftercare), $1800 for a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), and $50 for supplies. It's crazy.
The book and the movie are unrelated and tell different versions of the story.Even Newsmax carries it. NM · ND · OC · NYT (NYT doesn't bury it under a login, either. 'K, she's gonna meet with an accident, now. Or her brother will be used as a lever. Y!) Meanwhile the media are hiding the story with
she was rapedrubbish.
There are two families on our block who face the same custody situation.WSWS (The US military seems to be great at finding ways to discourage people from joinin up. What if there was a war and nobody came?)
Irreplaceable collections of microbes essential for managing and tracing outbreaks, bioterrorist or natural, are being destroyed simply because labs cannot comply with the new rules.NS
I have been aware of a disturbing change in the US government for the last 12 years…This is a warning to the world to watch out for the new America. America is no longer the moral guardian you knew it to be… [It's been going on a lot longer than 12 years, buddy. By the day the US decided to nuke a half-million Japanese for the power trip, it had already begun.][Today] I called CN8 live, a national cable news program to speak on the air. They took my personal information including name, address and phone number. They then hung up and called me back to verify that I really was at that address. They then said something that scared me half to death, They said that if I did not stay on subject and say what I told them I would say that they would
notify the authorities.…Outside [the] house some police were beating a man who was laying down on the road and not fighting back. The 16-year-old opened the window and shouted at the police, telling them that they were doing too much and that they did not need to beat the man so hard. They did not let up, instead they kicked in the door to the house and assaulted the boy…The seven year old girl ran to the officer who kicked in the door and tried pulling him off her brother. The officer pushed her away so hard that she hit the wall and broke her arm. LF
confected.I
NYPD attacks apparently peaceful gathering at Brooklyn community center. NYC
Bush was rightabout Saddam-bin Laden ties, even though the Pentagon had just said he wasn't. MI · E&P (Well, some of the media. The National Journal says
the French were right.SFC)
most antisemitic country.H Roger Cukierman, prominent French Jew, figgers the Israeli ambassador in Paris is exaggerating antisemitism. MSNBC
al Qaida threatsspun during the runup to W's UK visit, obviously to provide excuses to clamp down during the actual visit.
In case you missed it, the US responded to a series of suicide attacks with a volley of deranged, incoherent strikes at empty buildings. In particular, the US rocketed an abandoned dye plant at the edge of Baghdad, making sure that it was empty first, and not even destroying the structure but simply shooting it full of holes to render it dysfunctional. It had not been functioning anyway…when even [AP} are laughing at you, you know you have problems.(What up with that? Kicking the Iraqi employment situation further into the stone age?)And what's not to laugh at? In response to an actual attack that killed numerous human beings, we race to the edge of town, drive through a neighborhood from the safety of an armored vehicle shouting harried warnings in what was doubtless an hilarious computer-generated Arabic-and then shell an abandoned factory with an AC-130 gunship, not even leveling the thing but just shooting it full of holes. The plant's owner, Waad Dakhel al-Boulani, said the only weapon found was a Kalashnikov belonging to the plant guard. NYP
Elizabeth Windsor and Co. Bush not welcome.M Robin Cook says it's
dishonest, shallow, and cheap.K Ken Livingston describes W as
the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen—the policies he is initiating will doom us to extinction.RL · IMC · I Policy rethink permitted protestors to march by Paliament and Bliar's office. TA Trafalgar fountain is dyed blood-red. TIL Some wave pretzels. G W mouths off about how much freedom of speech is had in the US and UK [CBC Newsworld] after his minions had spent weeks trying to make London into an exclusion zone, and after he'd reduced his speaking plans to an invited audience. JR (Apparently he even threw in Iraq; but see Fisk and Reporters w/o Borders supra) He says war to prevent war is okay (pure Orwell) and the UN must enforce itself to be relevant. R (And so it must. But the UN was deliberately created impotent, a Babel with no means to enforce its resolutions without the coöperation of the
Big Five. To see how one Big player, the US, overrides the UNSC, watch how the US protects its best dependent and the UN's worst offender, Israel; or filibusters when it doesn't give a d@mn, as in Rwanda. This is why I've concluded that those in the US that cry about the UN removing the US' sovereignty APFN are full of bunk; the UN has no means to enforce its will on the US, never did, never shall, and this was amply demonstrated the past year. The operations they've been spotting within the US are probably false-flagged as UN. JR The flip side is that those who hope for salvation to come from the UN, eg as Moore appears to in Stupid White Men, are also doing to be disappointed.) US media busily ignore W's critics FAIR describing them as a
smattering.Y! W was evidently bored to death with HM tour. G His helicopters and goonsquads chunder HM gardens and flamingoes, getting HM dander up. He even interefered with HM TV reception. M (
H'm h'm. I missed Coronation Street. Off with his head.) He declares the Pentagon will send more troops to Iraq if they're needed, startling Powell and Rice, because the Pentagon has been trying to ease the troops out of Iraq. WT He tells Frost the world has to change its attitude to Saddam's nukes, they were very advanced. ICH (Especially their cloaking devices. Meanwhile, the US is advancing its own collection. WT The US likes to call them mininukes, but critics ask how Mt-yielders count as minis. G) It's hard to pin down the actual number of protestors; even the reports of the police estimates vary widely; 30,000, 70,000, 120,000, 110,000. Organisers claim anything up to 350,000. Bliar talks about wiping out terrorism wherever it's found; I wanna know when he's gonna invade Ft. Benning. CD · OTV · CL · SFG
In the name of Bush's safety, the SS requested that the London Underground, the provider of transportation to millions daily, be closed down [because of the incredible assertion that a Tube train could be blown up underneath the emperor as he travelled above! That most of the Tube trains actually run hundreds of feet below ground obviously escaped the attention of the(This is how they treat theirintelligenceagents. WB Even on a shallow train, it'd take a tremendjous explosion and extreme luck in timing to take W out, esp in his sedantank.] American snipers and special agents traveling with Bush were to be given diplomatic immunity in the event that they should kill any of the expected 100,000 protesters. An artillery weapon called themini gun,normally used in battlefield conditions, was to be flown in in case it was deemed necessary to mow down protesters en masse. Vast sections of the city were to be closed to all traffic, forcing the closure of untold hundreds of businesses. Americans were to be placed in charge of all security operations, ahead of the British Scotland Yard, the MI5, the Metropolitan police, and Blair's own security detail. And US fighter jets and Blackhawk attack helicopters, armed with surface-to-ground missiles and high-powered machine guns, were to secure the skies over London. All of this in addition to flying in not only Bush's own presidential limousine, but in fact his own motorcade. No foreign cars for our President—only a custom-imported procession of Humvees would do.The shock and awe inspired by the administration's chutzpah resulted in a resounding succession of no's from British officials. Even under Blair, Britain was loathe to sacrifice cherished rights such as freedom of speech and assembly for the sake of Bush's photo-op. AN
best friend. Then they whine and cry that
nobody loves us. Powell puts in a kicker a few days later—no consideration for the Brits chained down in Guantanamo. BBC)
Irony may be dead, but this safety obsession should raise more than a few eyebrows. It should be more than a bit alarming that the American pResident cannot safely visit his only ally in his gargantuan crime against humanity. I remember being within a stone's throw of the Nicaraguan president, surrounded merely by a few bodyguards in the midst of a civil war, and it begs the question of whether people like our good Boy George might be a bit safer if they were not so widely despised. But oh, wait, it's just becausethey're jealous of our freedoms.Begging another question: if no one notices it, does irony still exist?…They can reminisce about how their exports of
democracyand therule of lawhave brought smiles to the faces of those they have liberated. If they invited me, I would have shared my favorite anecdote about democracy. Watching late night election returns with a friend a few years back, our minds had all but been numbed into complacency when one candidate conceded with the requisite fought-the-good-fight-but-hey-that's-democracy shtick. My friend clicked of the remote with a snort:Yeah, right, that's democracy: two virtually indistinguishableDPWcandidatesspending a million dollars to convince as many people as possible that the other wet the bed when he was seven.
How Stupid Can An American President Be?(Not Dubya:
As a Canadian PM once said, just watch me.)
The Americans hold more than 4,000 prisoners—a higher figure, it is estimated, than those incarcerated at any time by Saddam Hussein.ICH
More bombing in Istanbul, blamed on al Qaeda, just as Bliar and Shrub's War on Terra needed a boost. [ATV] (Heard somewhere that someone claiming to be al Qaeda took responsibility. But the Turkish PM has his doubts. VOA Incidentally, Wolfowitz met with Turkey's military boss yesterday. GR)
CNN spends the afternoon watching an airport for Michael Jackson's
surrender to pleece, and following the pleece convoy OJ-style, and then
jaw-greasing about it all when no visuals-generation is ongoing.
This is about as blatant an example of the media distraction trick as one
will ever see. What merits no more than a 90-s blurb in the bottom half of the
evening news is made into a hubbub, probably to hide the massive antishrub
protest in London
(CNN said they would not even bother covering the event, as the extent of opposition to Bush and the US occupation of Iraq had been exaggerated.
WSWS).
Or maybe the US is getting nastier in Iraq.
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Or maybe it's to ignore the Miami antifascism protests
OLJ,
where pepper, batons, rubber bullets, and tasers are being used against FTAA protestors. [ATV]
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Two years ago Argentina was…the darling example of these policies,
and now one out of every three Argentineans does not have enough to eat.
CD
And apparently, all those stormtroopers for naught: Brazil got the thing
watered down.
G,
G&M)
(ATV's priorities are similar to CNN's, giving MJ 2:41 as the lead,
FTAA protest gets 0:29
[email from a snr producer—I'd told him I didn't think much of
ATV's priorities, he told me MJ is important to people, I told him
that's only because the media have made it so]
as the last news item. So much for it bleeds, it leads.
)
This is the grand bull moose gold medal winning distraction of all time.
TO
(I don't normally bother with ATV anymore; if I want real news I go through
WRH.
And I told them, their coverage this night was an example of why.
And I don't seem to be alone.
UKN
She's right; between this and the JFK anniversary we won't see any real
news on Mercan TV for a week or two.)
ABC runs its schmancy computer animation. Impressively manages to get
Kennedy and Conally in alignment—strikes me they did a Ford on the
locations of Kennedy's wounds—but ignores Conally's wrist wound, and how
he kept holding the Stetson with it (perhaps they'd resort to a Turin-shroud
explanation, that that kind of wound causes the thumb to draw in such a way
that he couldn't let go), and how the bullet to which all this is attributed
was only a bit flattened, at the tail.
(This minor distortion is mentioned, as if that in itself explains everything;
a classic technique. I think they slipped in a pic of the nose of a different
bullet, too. Also Connally testified that he felt nothing until he
was turning back to his left, but one's memories around the time of a serious
injury are often inaccurate.)
PC
Claimed the evidence that Oswald shot Tippet is overwhelming
and ironclad,
without any explanation why the lone eyewitness' description
matches Oswald not at all.
(The same classic technique; don't explain, just say it and move on, implying
everyone knows that; how can you be so fool as to question it?
)
Prominently interviews Posner; I've seen a single page of his Case Closed
so thoroughly discredited I see no reason to pay the rest of the book or
its author any mind. (Posner has now earned the distinction of having written the most error-ridden, mistake-laden, misleading, misinformed—and, therefore, the most thoroughly deceitful—book on the assassination…so flawed, so erroneous and misleading, so selective and biased that, were it not for the massive media effort to sell this piece of deception to the American people, it would be completely ignored.
The references are where Posner plays dirty tricks. Only people with the
original evidence can see he has quoted selectively and misrepresented
testimony
Posner ignores and/or distorts the unwavering testimonies of Governor and
Mrs. Connally; misrepresents portions of the photographic evidence; erroneously
reports key points of the medical findings; fabricates the bullet trajectory;
and manipulates the ballistic evidence…This [revision] of the
single-bullet theory is analogous to the [farcical builder's] specifications
PC
Cut to suit, beat to fit, paint to match.
I shall in this article focus on a single page of Case
Closed and show that Posner commits no fewer than 10 fallacies there.
AS
That said, about half of Piper's sources are Jewish, and other than Gerald Posner, they are mostly respected assassination researchers.
JR)
Spends several minutes blaming Oliver Stone for perpetuation of myths, and takes
time to play a dramatic speech by Garrison
that they say the real Garrison never made—as if
they have no idea what artistic license is. (They carefully avoid the fact
that Garrison kept getting elected after the Shaw trial, despite or because
the New Orleans media had very different, more accurate, coverage of the trial
than did the Wurlitzer
.)
Goes into how the partial opening of the Nat'l Archives has not quelled
the appetite for conspiracy, without touching Bertrand Russell's simple question:
if there is no conspiray, why are there so many secrets? (Why, say, was the
car so rapidly cleaned and repaired?)
Speaks to no serious dissenters at all, that I noticed; not even, say, Cyril Wecht.
Distinctly coy about the head shot, alleging a cratered
(depressed)
wound on the back of JFK's head but specifying or showing no autopsy documents.
(Does
this
look like a cratered wound?) Ignores the oddity of Oswald passing up the
earlier clear slow approaching target on Houston for the later somewhat
obstructed accelerating receding and traversing target on Elm, which makes
zero sense for a lone-nut-in-the-6th-floor-window theory but perfect sense
for a multiple-shooter theory
(as Roger McCarthy of Failure Analysis noted in the '92 mock trial).
Plus ignores the few photos that slipped through
the FBI roundup which show the fully
sunlit window—mind, that was the south wall at noonhour—empty
seconds before the shooting.
Shows Marina and Robert Oswald coming in to testify to the WC, with no mention
of how Marina was browbeaten for 9 weeks or what Robert said.
Closes by painting those who doubt the WC as Holocaust deniers!
There were only two things in it new to me. One, an analysis that placed
the motorcycle with the open mic' in the wrong place for where
(they claim) the HSCA scientists said it had to be. No mention of the
recent analysis in a British magazine contradicting the NAS' attempt to discredit the HSCA.
Two, a booklet purported to be Oswald's Marine shooting record, showing him to
be a far better shot than other Marine documents have indicated. Is it
part of that partial opening of the Nat'l Archives?
Or were we shown Oswald's unrepresentative good day
?
PG
They extended the time for the three shots to 8 s, which brings the
feat into the realm of possibility, but I'm not clear on how it was done. I'd
have to see it again to judge the validity.
My opinion: a glitzy piece of schlock very selective with the evidence (eg
does not explain how Oswald got from the 6th floor to the 2nd so fast with a
jammed elevator, a stairway blocked by two witnesses who didn't see him
pass, and all the other little jobs he had to do
R),
and full of Hofstadterian psychobabble hor@@@hit that people bleeve in
conspiracy theories,
not because the WC's own evidence debunks its lone-nut conclusion, but
only because the idea a lone nut could kill a relatively popular
President is too traumatic. Like the Warren Commission itself, it proceeds
from the assumption Oswald did it (check the subpanels of the Commission—there was none set to determine who killed Kennedy), and then spins everything toward that idea.
(One of the interviewees laments the influence moviemakers have on the
perception of history, because people so fixate on images—hoping
you won't notice ABC has embedded compelling but nevertheless
artificial/synthetic/fictional computer animations for the exact same reason.)
A warmed-over version of the late-'70s smoke-n-mirrors show, just as I
expected on reading days ago of the kaputey animation. Dare I say, it is
itself proof of at least a media conspiracy after the fact to hide the truth?
(PS: I tried sending Jennings an email, that he gave good honest Canadians
a bad name by putting his voice on such rubbish, and it bounced, with an
odd message: Disney is upgrading its email service. I didn't know
Disney owned abc.com.)
Gaaaah. Check today's Blondie. Product-placing an iMac in a 1930s-style comic strip is somehow cognitively dissonant.
made in China in a factory that has been certified by Disney for labor standards.
emergency measures—in place for years; there's very little left to do but trip the triggers.)
out of the picture.Y!
If you are right now watching this TV commercial for Celebrex and have no idea what the h@ll Celebrex is because we don't ever actually tell you what the h@ll it is, and, hence, if you feel the pharmac[hemical] industry is this freakish mega-powerful mind-control cult fully bent on convincing as much of the human population as possible that wildly expensive prescription meds are the answer to all your problems, this, too, means you should take our medication, pronto. SFGI allus chuckled over that ad for the acne medication that causes sterility (sold, of course, as the only birth-control pill that clears your skin). Oooo, what was its name now, uhmmm…
Touch-screen voting machines offer many advantages that make them far superior to…paper-based voting machines.(Yeah. Ahnolt and Dubya can have whatever outcome they want.) Kathy Feng:
It's easier to steal an election with paper than anything else.('k, there's waaay too much fluorine in her water. Or maybe it's too much radium. ABC)
An unprecedented gathering of senior American intelligence officers, diplomats and former Pentagon officials met in Washington the other day to say, in the words of Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and friend of Bush's father:Now we know that no other president of the US has ever lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably…The presumption now has to be that he's lying any time that he's saying anything.ICH
Unofficial JFK Assassination FAQ. It leaves some things unanswered. (It says
I'll be the final judge of what goes into this particular FAQ. Criticisms which are independent of any coherent theory of the assassination are useless and won't be included,which seems to mean
I'm going to pick and choose the evidence.
Don't like it, write your own FAQ!At the least, he's saying
unless you can tell me who did it instead of Oswald, any evidence you have is garbage.) Stuff I saw that's contrary to other stuff I've seen:
Oswald could not have escaped from the sixth floor in time. False.
Does not deal with the immobile elevator nor the witnesses in the stairway that didn't see or hear Oswald.Oswald's rifle had a misaligned scope. True. But it is not known whether the scope was out of alignment [during the shooting].
I'd read the scope could not be put into alignment without shims which were never found. Would it not be an odd thing for a competent gunman—as Locke claims Oswald to be—to burden himself with a useless appliance?The third (head) shot had to have come from the front. False…Considering physical forces alone, a bullet lacks the force to violently push a human body…Such force would also have to recoil against the gunman when firing.
Well, not quite. One way and another a bullet will always deliver less momentum and energy than the shooter gave it, but that does not readily translate to less force. Force is impulse (change in momentum) per time. The barrel being longer than a skull, it would take longer to traverse the barrel than to be captured by a skull; thus there would be more force in the skull than the shoulder—which is why the skull breaks and the shoulder doesn't. Plus the shooter is readied, braced for the shot; the target is not. On the other hand, the motion imparted to the skull is more simply/directly related to momentum than force. On the former paw, a head has less mass than the shooter puts behind the rifle, so we can expect significant speed in the head. The body motion is more likely involuntary muscle spasm. It's true that by the same mass argument the muscle spasms could quickly override the bullet-imparted head motion. (Unless his spinal cord was severed, which many WC acolytes seem to claim when they go into the arms-up gesture.) So I don't think the force-momentum arguments are all that conclusive. So go back to the first argument:A bullet causes the skull to
Aha, now I think I know what ABC meant bydish,
i.e. a beveled portion of bone will be knocked out away from the direction of the bullet.cratering
. But I've no idea where they get the direction of the bevel—in fact Locke talks aboutdishing
behind and in front.JFK's body was altered before the autopsy. False.
But, wasn't a tracheotomy done in the throat wound?The assassination was predicted. Rose Cheramie's…claims were made after the assassination.
Not according to what I've read. It werereported
afterwards, but the policeman and hospital staff were quite clear that they'd heard it from her before.- Was there a cover-up? This section makes no mention of the speed with which the car was repaired, either to acknowledge or deny it.
Garrison was connected with the mob.
An obvious smear attempt. Perhaps it's true. But LBJ had his shady side too. (Later versions of this FAQ list the extrarational techniques used by one side against the other. From the FAQ's POV, of course, only by the dissenters against the orthodox.)JFK was killed for opposing the Vietnam war. False. There is no chain of connections that link US foreign policy with the lone assassin, LHO.
The Mafia had JFK killed. The only known potential connection between Oswald and organized crime…
Fair enough so far as they go—but fully predicated onOswald did it by himself.
I've given up thinking Oswald was even a shooter, let alone the shooter PG—and that we'll ever know who really did it—and there's not enough in this FAQ to change my mind back.
down. CNN
broad, strong and getting stronger,with numbers estimated at 50,000. [ICH citing CIA]) A Yahoo piece implies the crowd was
about a dozen swarming teenagers—very subtle—but does seem to say there's more antiamerican sentiment than pro. Y! · Y! WTF??? Later the story gets all changed around; they died of gunshots
during a robbery—who was robbing whom?—and were not mutilated. CD
attack—and the psych groundwork is being done. NYP · NM
antisemitism.H
After hearing how villagers implored Sgt Muir to help them to clear their fields of explosives so they could harvest cropsNicholas Gardiner said it was
unacceptablethat 30% of bomblets fail to detonate immediately. (He doesn't get it. This is a feature of cluster bombs, making them into dual-use weapons; immediate slaughter plus indefinite neutralisation of realestate. For the UK, it's a way around their precious princess' landmine treaty.) LMA
Finding this enlightenment is challenging, because the relevant facts are usually withheld from the public for decades, seldom appearing in mainstream discourse even after they become common knowledge—not because of some grand conspiracy, but because legions ofAmerica Firsters…simply don't want to hear it…Invariably, they respond with hostile apologetics, ranging from simple denial and ridicule to the claim that such incidents are random and unrelatedmistakes.That they can sincerely believe thisunrelatedclaim is remarkable, given the way it crushes into dust under any burden of historical proof: America's state crimes have been ethically monstrous, vast in both scale and number, unilateral in their aggression, virtually uninterrupted in their chronology, and very coherent in both motive and method. NYCI
I am shamed by men like Ernst Zundel, who languishes in his tiny prison cell in Canada, abused by callous guards and corrupt judges, who can speak of the noble nature of mankind and how it is time to organize that urge and rise up against the maniacs who enslave us with their jingoistic doublespeak. How can he, who has so little, see so much freedom, and how can I, who have so much, feel so imprisoned?I haven't seen any dolphins this year, all year. Used to be, last year and before, I'd see them everytime I looked out to sea. But red tide's been in all summer. Shouldn't swim in it. Get a sore throat. But usually it doesn't smell like it sometimes does, when it makes you cough. The blight doesn't keep the tourists away. They're happy enough to have escaped the snows of New Jersey. But it miss my dolphins. It's not a good sign.
I miss my country, too, the one I was taught to believe meant liberty and justice for all. What a joke that was, when you finally get around to reading how George Washington slaughtered Indians in Ohio or American soldiers went around executing peasants in Vietnam without anybody ever hearing about it until 40 years later.
Of course, of course, and about American soldiers murdering innocent families in Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom, right? Freedom from life, is what.
I miss my country, the one I was taught I had. I think soon, too, I will miss my planet, given the condition of the fractured ionosphere, the particulated air, the poisoned oceans, and the toxic soil. (A friend put her hands in her garden in a well-heeled Sarasota subdivision recently and came out with chemical burns that took weeks to heel.) This is not to even mention the radioactivity being spread around the planet. You know. It's in the bullets. Oh yes, and also in the sperm of the soldiers who come home in one piece.
In the bright sunshine, dimmed somewhat by those curious chemtrails in the sky, I feel like I am on Death Row. And it's more than the doctrinaire existential dilemma of turning 59. Death from old age would be a comfort to look forward to. It's just that more and more I feel hope is being systematically removed from the world. That a great extermination is about to take place. And, through my inattention to things economic and my willingness to speak about my dreams, I am in the lead phalanx on America's inexorable death march toward Camp Ashcroft.
Others I talk to share my malaise. I hope they have more food in their cupboards than I do. But they, too, will face this moment.
It was compelling to read the other day of the interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine of retired Gen. Tommy Franks saying one more terrorist attack in this country and all Constitutional guarantees will be terminated. It is one of the great satisfactions of my life that ten minutes after the so-called terrorist attacks of 9/11, I exclaimed:
This was an inside job!It's nice to have been proven right, even though a majority of Americans have yet to catch up with the obvious evidence.Looking forward to that first Red Alert, where nobody will be allowed to leave their homes, and the military will come around, checking out everybody, house by house, no doubt dragging a few away kicking and screaming. Or, maybe they'll sedate you on the spot.
It was somewhat reassuring today to read a letter from a Wyoming newspaper stating that anybody who would work as hard to prevent an investigation into a crime obviously had something to do with the crime itself. This is a revelation that is slowly dawning on all Americans: that all those people in New York and Washington were murdered, not by Arab terrorists, but by rich businessman and contemptuous bankers, who are all still profiting from the business of mass death.
Yet the realization comes too slow, too late. Not one politician dares even whisper the sentiment. Okay, LaRouche.
I am reading increasing signs that the bottom is about to drop out of the American dollar. They're talking bread lines in '04. That will be a great campaign slogan for all those disgusting Democrats who steadfastly refuse to discuss the real issues that are destroying America and the world right before our eyes.
In the meantime, with freedom and the health of the planet precariously hanging in the balance, the needless killing continues: not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the Philippines and the Congo—you know the list, it's long. The needless killing also continues here at home. Did you know that deaths from reactions to properly taken medicines exceeds the totals for auto accidents and cancer? Check out those new designer drug ads on TV and imagine how many extra people they're killing. I love that story about how the death rate goes down when doctors go on strike.
That's the place America has come to, and Americans deserve it, too, because of their sheer, selfish inattention to what has been happening, to what has been done in their names. And as with the extermination of 60 million native Americans that has served as the models for genocides by both Stalin and Sharon, Americans don't really care about who gets killed as long as those sale prices stay low.
It's a sunny day. I feel like I'm on Death Row. I feel like the Earth is on Death Row, and America, George W. Bush in particular, is the executioner. JR
While US imperialism accelerates its military rampage against working people from Iraq to Afghanistan to the Philippines to Colombia, while it spreads death and destruction to every corner of the globe, in the words of its illiterate and sadistic commander in chief, Revolutionary Cuba has produced the first synthetic vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis, diseases which ravage infants and children in semicolonial nations exploited and oppressed by world capitalism.Vicente Verez, chief of the University of Havana's Antigen Research Center, announced on Nov. 16, 2003, that clinical studies conducted in Camaguay, Cuba, showed that 99% of infants vaccinated developed antibodies against pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases.
While Bush exports death and destruction around the globe, Fidel exports doctors, nurses, engineers, and construction workers. Compare Washington and Havana's track record in foreign policy and military intervention. Does Cuba have hundreds of military bases around the globe? Is it Cuba that has hundreds of thousands of soldiers invading and occupying other nations? Has Cuba invaded or attacked other countries hundreds of times in the last 100 years? Did Cuba kill millions of Vietnamese and Koreans? Did Cuba incinerate two Japanese cities with atomic bombs? Has Cuba used napalm and depleted uranium against other peoples? Did Cuba overthrow democratically elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile?
Cuba sent its troops once—in response to a request for internationalist aid from Angola to help it repel a US-backed invasion by the apartheid South African army in 1987. Cuba, sensing correctly it was her internationalist and revolutionary duty to defend Angola's sovereignty from imperialist aggression, complied with Angola's request and helped the besieged African nation kick the white supremacist army's ass at Cuito Cuanavale, a heroic act which not only defeated the South Africa army, but led to the downfall of apartheid and liberation of South Africa.
There's no comparison. I'm with Revolutionary Cuba. CL
Georgy Porgy pudding and pie,
Took cocaine which made him high,
When the sheriff came his way,
Georgy's pa sent him away.Georgy Porgy wasn't daft,
Wanted to avoid the draft,
He found being a coward not too hard,
Daddy's friends got him into the guard.Georgy Porgy businessman
With daddy's money his career began,
When the seed money all dried up,
Georgy's business went belly up.Georgy Porgy governor guy
Brought the crime rate up so high,
And that was not his only solution,
Texas is number one on pollution.Georgy Porgy's a true Texan,
Though he may fail again and again,
As long as his father has wealthy friends,
He'll do to us, what he did to them. S
I'm not saying that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons. In my uneducated opinion, who would blame them if they did? They just watched their neighbor and fellowaxis of evilcompanion be destroyed even though Iraq claimed it had destroyed all their WMD. The pre and post war inspections have not found a milligram of evidence. My wife could testify that the gas coming out of my butt is more deadly then anything they have found in Iraq.
The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.HNN TT (FOX interview w/Brit Hume, September? WPM · BC, MH Regardless, somewhere there's an ancient quote about those who have the king's ear having the power…And speaking as a member of the smallish clan Hume, let me assure y'all some of us are quite embarassed by Brit.)
violent, underreported death in Washington. He was an advisor to four presidents. JR
Isn't he adorable? Sit him in front of Teletubbies
and he's good for hours!
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Bliar bellyaching again. S
Although announced that W would be at the ranch, he actually makes a
blacked-out fast night pass through Baghdad for a Thanksgiving meet-the-troops
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Just like grandpaw's Adolf took a quick trip through Paris in '40.
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Curious claims arise later that the trip was almost aborted when
British Airways craft contacted AF1…which the BA pilots
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So the Whitehouse changes its story, saying it was a London ATC that ID AF1
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flyin handy London. More likely AF1 illegally jiggered its transponder.
By identifying itself as a Gulfstream V instead of the much larger 747, Air Force One could have put itself and other airplanes in danger. The Gulfstream can climb faster and maneuver more nimbly than a 747, which means controllers could have assumed the president's plane was capable of a collision-avoiding maneuver that it couldn't actually do. And the
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or decided it's a lot easier to keep feet out of mouths that aren't open.)
wake vortex
of a 747, much larger than a Gulfstream's, could jeopardize smaller planes that were told by unsuspecting controllers to follow in the mislabeled plane's wake…The White House has declined to elaborate further…
92 countries promise to force each other to clean after themselves in war—specifically things like landmines and cluster bomblets. Even the US signs up!!! However it doesn't come into effect until 20 countries ratify it. IO (Watch the US totally fail to ratify it, and then claim with some validity that it doesn't apply to them. Regardless, how would you make them comply?)
Substitute the wordterrorismforcommunismand you have your contemporary historical tragedy made to order. The filmmaker Robert Greenwald has put together an infuriating string of interviews with former intelligence agents and national security professionals in which it becomes clear that the Bush Administration is the Johnson Administration without the self-doubt. (The film, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War, can be ordered from MoveOn.org.) Administration war planners purposely ignore the intelligence that does not fit their preconceived notions and deliberately mislead the nation—and possibly themselves—about their ability to bomb hostile populations into Jeffersonian democracy. Like McNamara and Johnson, they are destroying two countries at once: theirs and ours. Look for Paul Wolfowitz, twenty years from now, to tell us, tearfully, that he never really thought it was such a hot idea in the first place. TN
out of print. Let's see what happens =) (Note that Amazon.ca has a correction facility—but as of today, it does not take corrections to OOP status.)
best friendsqua' in the nuts once too often? Is Bliar taking his marbles and going home? SMH (Trouble is…the kind of tantrums pitched by the spoiled.) Hm! the US is also pi@@ed that they aren't handing over Bashir Nafi. T (Isn't that fu@king typical of the US though? Call you a friend, treat you like @hit, trash your house, deny all rights of your citizens in their concentration camps, and then talk about you like you're the terrorist.)
hugeBritish petroleum find. It's all of 5¼ days' worth. Global oil extraction itself could peak as soon as next year.
The notion that the war with Iraq had nothing to do with oil is simply preposterous. The US attacked Iraq (which appears to have had no weapons of mass destruction and was not threatening other nations), rather than North Korea (which is actively developing a nuclear weapons programme and boasting of its intentions to blow everyone else to kingdom come) because Iraq had something it wanted. In one respect alone, Bush and Blair have been making plans for the day when oil production peaks, by seeking to secure the reserves of other nations [for their own]. G
