If Bush is so "in the pocket" of Saudi Arabia, why is he Ariel Sharon's strongest backer?

"What has been happening over the years is a predictable routine of foreign visitation from the head of the Israeli government. The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington. The Israeli puppeteer meets with the puppet in the White House, and then moves down Pennsylvania Avenue, and meets with the puppets in Congress. And then takes back billions of taxpayer dollars. It is time for the Washington puppet show to be replaced by the Washington peace show."

If the facts presented here were reported in headline news where they belong, concerned citizens would be astounded and demand to know more.

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We've all seen the video. It figures prominently in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". It is the video of George Bush at Booker Elementary School being informed by Andy Card of the second impact of a passenger jetliner into the World Trade Center, then sitting there for several minutes reading about goats.
What damns the Bush administration is not what is in this video, but what SHOULD be in the video and is not.

During the singing of "God Bless America" in the seventh inning, an image of Cheney was shown on the scoreboard. It was greeted with booing, so the Yankees quickly removed the image.

There were no celebrations because no Iraqi believes their country is now independent of the United States.

Legal custody of Saddam Hussein and 11 others was transferred to the Iraqis on Wednesday, an international official said.

Tony Blair suffered another blow over Iraq yesterday when it emerged that the inquiry into Britain's intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons will report on the eve of two critical by-elections.

"If we had attacked the Iranian positions, all hell would have broken loose," a defence source said yesterday.

Digging deeper for help in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is recalling to active duty about 5,600 people who recently left the service and still have a reserve obligation.

Jay says he hasn't felt so much hostility against any other president - not Nixon, not Reagan. Jay says of Mr Bush: "He is beyond the beyond. What he's done with this war. The murder of the innocent. And now the prisons. It's too much. It makes me so angry. And it's a new kind of anger, too."
Checkpoint

New criticism of President Bush's policies Tuesday from France's leader showed that relations between the two remain testy despite Bush's efforts to ease tensions.

In Central America, Negroponte left a trail of blood. In the '80s more than 200,000 people were killed in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala as a result of President Ronald Reagan's support of brutal military regimes in the area. More than 3 million fled the violence sponsored by Reagan, and continued by former President George H. W. Bush.

Three U.S. soldiers will testify that a former CIA contractor beat an Afghan detainee with a heavy flashlight 10 to 30 times and kicked the man so hard he came off the ground and later begged to be shot, a prosecutor said Friday.

FEMA in New York City prior to 9-11 for Project TRIPOD terror drill, scheduled for 9-12

What I found in Florida was that the government story about the terrorist conspiracy?s activities before September 11th is not just an error, it s a lie.

The idea that Mr. Ashcroft might be the guy standing between us and Armageddon, on the other hand, is already a reality and scarier than anything in "The Day After Tomorrow."

Who is stealing Iraq's oil revenues?

The Middle East Report concluded in 1998 that probably the greatest strategic move in the Clinton post-Cold War years is what could be called "The Ankara Pact" -- an alliance between the U.S., Turkey, and Israel that essentially circumvents and bottles up the Arab countries.

President George W. Bush's job approval rating has fallen to the lowest number of his presidency, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a law meant to punish pornographers who peddle dirty pictures to Web-surfing kids is probably an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech.

Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and gunships fired missiles at two buildings early Tuesday in what the military called a major drive to prevent Palestinian rocket fire from hitting Israel's border towns.

Needless to say, Maupin would be alive today, along with Nick Berg, hundreds of American kids, and thousands of Iraqis, if the government of the United States had not lied to the people to trick us into a war of conquest.

...we don't like/trust/want Conservatives

"No, it was the aircraft, you see, had totally unconscious people on board. There were no hijackers. At 9:35, the Happy Hooligans, the Air Guard flying the F-16s were ordered to take that plane out. And they took it out from 9:35 to 10:00."

The ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom has repeated claims of a link between Zionists and al-Qaeda terror attacks in Saudi Arabia.

A new poll shows a significant number of young Canadians would use "evil" to describe their U.S. neighbours.

Another pro-war politician takes his party down in flames.

It was the SISMI [(Italian) Military Intelligence and Security Service] that came into contact, between October and November 2001, with an African dimplomat who was selling forged documents (the six pages reproduced on these pages) about a trade in "500 tonnes of pure uranium per annum, for delivery in two installments," between Niger and Iraq.

Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right.

Iraqi experts accused 'foreign hands' of being behind the deadly string of random attacks in the war-torn country in an attempt to stir unrest ahead of the handover of power to Iraqis.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says it's "entirely possible" that U.S. troops could stay in Iraq for years to come.

The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday that Congress gave President Bush the power to hold an American citizen without charges or trial.

The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early Monday in a surprise move.

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"Occupation ends", "Iraqis now in control". These will undoubtedly be the sort of headlines that the corporate press carries on July 1, following the nominal handover of "sovereignty" in Iraq at midnight on June 30 from Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) head Paul Bremer to the US-appointed Interim Government of Iraq. Both formally and in reality, however, the IGI will have little power

President Bush declared an end on Saturday to Western rifts over Iraq but won little in his search for European military help and took heat over prisoner abuse.

"We will go beyond barricades protecting Bush," and "We will make Bush's Ankara visit hell." Police sprayed and fired tear gas at the group from an armoured personnel carrier.

Israel says the most wanted Palestinian militant on the West Bank was among seven people killed Saturday when its troops ambushed the group in an underground tunnel in Nablus.

On the morning of September 11, Pakistan's Chief Spy General Mahmoud Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" behind the 9-11 hijackers, was at a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill hosted by Senator Bob Graham and Rep. Porter Goss, the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees.
The reason for this meeting was never disclosed.
The story never became political issue in U.S. Media

On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, endorsed right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon?s efforts to colonize and annex large sections of the Palestinian West Bank, seized by Israel in the June 1967 war.

We can only imagine what it was like in the Oval Office yesterday morning when President Bush -- attended only by his new private lawyer -- faced 70 minutes of questions from prosecutors about the outing of a CIA operative.

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Cheney said: "If we had to do it all over again today, we'd do it, absolutely."

The Great New Western Frontier now has assimilated these third world countries into the Bush-Cheney reorganization program for the "New World Order" and their global plutocratic policies. So without further ado or remorse, Let's have a really big welcome for Boy George Bush and his band of thieves performing their new fabulous hit that all America loves; "Everybody in my administration wants to rule the world."

...like he would understand it?

So if you were Karl Rove, Bush's top political strategist, and your candidate was slipping in the polls, what re- election strategy would you be cooking up right now?

IOF Shoot Dead Two Teenagers, Occupy 16 Buildings in Casabah

Ring of steel welcome for Bush

There were no screaming Bolsheviks (one viewer had an anti-animal rights T-shirt) or marijuana-scented bohemians in the crowd. This wasn't the sort of crowd you'd see at a Phish concert, or storming McDonald's at an anti-WTO rally. There were Wal-Mart customers, people who probably listen to country music (even Toby Keith), and even vote Republican. And they were PISSED ? quietly, but palpably. A would-be political prisoner Martha Stewart would say, that's a good thing. And well overdue.

Google Adwords team confirmed its advertiser "Michael Moore Hates America" does NOT violate the same editorial guidelines by which it dropped Perrspectives.com.

Troops sealed off the casbah and carried out house-to-house searches for fugitives and bomb factories in an operation beginning on Wednesday night.

...how conveeeeeeeeenient!

"They dare not admit the truth lest they look like complete fools for launching our country into a reckless, discretionary war against a nation that posed no immediate threat to us whatsoever."

The military plans to charge two intelligence soldiers in the suffocation death of an Iraqi general during an interrogation last fall, according to a newspaper report.

Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out the "F word" at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont during a heated exchange on the Senate floor, congressional aides said on Thursday.

U.S. legal experts and human rights activists on Thursday questioned assurances by President Bush that the U.S. government never ordered and would never order detainees to be tortured.

When Israeli soldiers opened an exhibit this month documenting some of their own misdeeds while serving in the tense West Bank city of Hebron, they caused a brief stir.

We all are afraid when we see these lies being exposed. When we see the truth about the yellowcake in the Niger, the alleged sarin, mustard gas and other weapons that didn?t exist, connections between Saddam and Bin Laden which do not exist, the outing of a CIA agent as retaliation, the gutting of our civil liberties and all of the other horrific lies being spun by this administration we should be afraid. Only one thing scares me more. If this administration does not fear lying to this extent, I am much more afraid of the lies yet to come.

Moore's Magic: 9/11 Electrifies

The EUR500,000 ($605,000) film covers many topics, including how the "Christian right Israeli lobby" has influenced U.S. policy in the Middle East and how the Sept. 11 attack gave a "clueless" Bush his raison d'etre -- the "crusade" against terrorism, the "false pretext" under which the second war on Iraq was waged, and the "big lie" linking Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11. The film illustrates how George H.W. Bush, first as vice president and then as president from 1988 to 1992, armed and financed Saddam Hussein. The Bush family's alleged ties to the Bin Laden clan and Saudi Arabia are also examined.

Facing strong opposition, the United States announced Wednesday it was dropping a resolution seeking a new exemption for American peacekeepers from international prosecution for war crimes.

The new "Iraqi government" has indeed been granted sovereignty, but sadly only in the United States and by our media. Someone should tell the Iraqis.

There are untold profits to be made from controlling the simplest and most vital ingredient of our survival: water.

Negroponte will now be free to set up right-wing death squads in Iraq and will be helped by some of the worst thugs that South America has to offer. Blackwater USA, a military contractor has hired mercenaries from Chile for security duty in Iraq. Blackwater began recruiting in Chile in the fall of 2003 and the first group consisted mostly of former Chilean military members trained under the fascist regime of Pinochet. The military under Pinochet was responsible for torturing and murdering thousands of citizens during his regime.

The Iranian government declared today that it was releasing the eight British sailors and marines it arrested early Monday, after they entered Iranian territorial waters of Shatt Al Arab.

Britons have little understanding about what is going on in the region.UK television news coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is confusing viewers and favouring the Israeli position, a new report says.

It has emerged that the Royal Marines arrested off the coast of Iran are from Faslane and Arbroath. It is understood they were on a secret reconaissance mission when they were confronted by the Iranian authorities.

We know about Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib but until now Bagram and America's secret network of Afghan jails have come under little scrutiny. In a major investigation, Duncan Campbell and Suzanne Goldenberg discovered a familiar pattern of violent abuse and sexual humiliation

President George W. Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture laws and treaties covering prisoners of war after the invasion of Afghanistan, and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized guards to strip detainees and threaten them with dogs, according to documents released Tuesday.

When in the course of human events it becomes crystal clear and overtly apparent that our Commander in Chief along with the entire Executive Branch of government have gone over the line and are proven certifiably insane, then ?we the people? are left with no other choice but to demand of our Congress that they do the Constitutional thing and impeach and remove the whole lot of them.

For today, in the year 2004 it is sacrilege for the U.S. government to use the word "God" -- anywhere, anytime, for any reason.

As the situation in Iraq continues to get messier and messier, it conversely gets clearer and clearer why this war was started in the first place.

A series of motions are set to be discussed criticising Tony Blair and his government for pursuing a "reactionary right-wing agenda".

Officials said one nonlethal tool under development is what they term an "active-denial" microwave-like device. The system can be directed at a distance to heat up the moisture in a person's skin, causing a sharp pain.

The ABC News/Washington Post poll also found, for the first time, that more than half of Americans believe the Iraq war was not worth fighting.

It was Alexis de Tocqueville who said that despotism can govern without faith, but liberty cannot. For Americans it has always been a matter of faith that their government's intentions were noble. But recent history has twice proven this to be delusional.

Let the Patriot Act Die
Businesses such as car dealers, insurance companies, investment brokers, lenders and real estate firms will be required to file "Suspicious Activity Reports" to the Treasury Department.
The Act says that the government does not need to have a suspect or to even be conducting an investigation related to terrorism to monitor your visits into web sites on the Internet.
The Patriot Act changes the definition of terrorism, allowing even legitimate protestors, such as pro-life activists, to be at risk of being labeled "terrorists" if violence erupted at their events.
The Act expands the capability to obtain warrants and conduct searches without disclosing them immediately.
...and on and on.
Repealing our liberties in the name of fighting terrorism will not lead to peace.

Kim's body was found by the U.S. military between Baghdad and Fallujah, west of the capital, at 5:20 p.m. Iraq time, said South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil.

"We think that pushing someone to the brink of suicide, particularly where the person comes from a culture with strong taboos against suicide, and it is evidenced by acts of self-mutilation, would be a sufficient disruption of the personality to constitute a `profound disruption."

Iraq's interim prime minister on Sunday defended a U.S. missile attack on the city of Fallouja that left 22 people dead and said he planned to restructure Iraqi security forces to help battle a stubborn insurgency.

About 300 Chechen gunmen have penetrated into Iraqi territory to fight against the Western coalition forces, a source in the Italian intelligence services was quoted by news site ANSA

If the analogy holds, four score and seven billion dollars and over 4,000 killed or wounded troops are only the first payment for a goal that will be almost fully realized in 2144.

The high court rules 5 to 4 that officers can arrest people who won't reveal their identity.
"It's a green light to explore the bounds of how much personal information can be demanded on pain of arrest," says Timothy Lynch of the Cato Institute in Washington. "It also gives a green light to perhaps the Congress to move with a national law."

The Spanish investigation has revealed that two individuals involved in allegedly supplying explosives to the alleged 3/11 Madrid terrorists were police informers.

State-sponsored terrorism against its people is not a new concept ? it is a tool that has evolved and been perfected over the centuries. After all, what better way for a government or ruler to gain complete and unquestionable control of its subjects than by instilling fear?

Hopsicker is a former NBC News producer who spent two years in Venice, Florida researching Huffman Aviation, the school that trained 9/11 pilots Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. Hopsicker's investigation connects this Florida flight school to a series of shadowy international figures. In Welcome to Terrorland, not only does Hopsicker exclusively interview Atta's American girlfriend, he finds reason to believe that the FBI is covering up key aspects to the 9/11 story.

Did Dick Cheney follow proper procedures in ordering the shoot-down of U.S. airliners on 9/11? Well, almost no one seemed to follow procedures that day simply because there were none, the 9-11 Commission concludes.

The original story was simple - Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula - was killed in a shootout after trying to dump the body of the American hostage Paul Johnson.
Johnson had had just been beheaded by Muqrin's group after a deadline expired for the release of prisoners in Saudi jails.
But by Saturday the picture had begun to muddy.
It turns out that Paul Johnson's body had not been discovered after all and the search was still going on for it around Riyadh.
So how was it that Muqrin was found?

A military judge ruled today that lawyers defending two U.S. soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners can question top U.S. military officials and ordered that the Abu Ghraib prison be preserved as a "crime scene."

Iran said Monday it has seized three British naval vessels in Iranian waters and arrested eight crew members.

Israeli military and intelligence operatives are active in Kurdish areas of Iran, Syria and Iraq, providing training for commando units and running covert operations that could further destabilise the entire region, according to a report in the New Yorker magazine.

For nearly two and a half years, American officials have maintained that locked within the steel-mesh cells of the military prison here are some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. The secrets they hold and the threats they pose justify holding them indefinitely without charge, Bush administration officials have said.
The New York Times has found that government and military officials have repeatedly exaggerated both the danger the detainees posed and the intelligence they have provided.

Censorship in this country takes on a different dimension of its own as opposed to the direct elimination of specific forms of speech. If a citizen is courageous enough to speak out, he still has the right to do so, but at his own risk. Many will endure pressure from different sources and in different ways, which silences many individuals nonetheless. This is the pressure fear.

"They're trying to make it legally risky to introduce technologies that could be used for copyright infringement," said Jessica Litman, a professor at Wayne State University who specializes in copyright law. "That's why it's worded so broadly."
Litman said that under the Induce Act, products like ReplayTV, peer-to-peer networks and even the humble VCR could be outlawed because they can potentially be used to infringe copyrights.

In essence, the news organization owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to even lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves. In it's opinion, the Court of Appeal held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.

Seven of the certificates state that corpses handed over to hospital authorities by British troops showed signs of "mutilation" and "torture".

So far as war for the propagation of faith is concerned, such a thing is not mentioned even once in the Qur'an. This fact should be a revelation for those who think that Islam requires its followers to fight for the spread of their religion.
Muslims are ordered to be ready for war, not in order to start it, but to keep their enemy from disturbing the peace.

It's not too hard to get your vote lost -- if some politicians want it to be lost

And this teaches us a big lesson, that we cannot intervene in the Muslim world ever again. What we can do is bomb the living daylights out of them, just like we did in the Balkans.

...will that include the president himself?

The National Lawyers Guild calls for the prosecution of President George W. Bush with a "command responsibility" theory of liability under the War Crimes Act. Bush can be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act or the Torture Statute, if he knew or should have known about the U.S. military's use of torture and failed to stop or prevent it.

Classified sections of the military's prisoner abuse report detail sexual assaults on women detainees

My father has left this planet 3 months ago, it's still pretty fresh to me.
I miss him. It's bizzare...his not here.
His there.
Happy Father's Day to Him.

My two lovely daughters got me the best card.
...the card, written by them, said...
"You are the best Dad in the Whole world!
We're not just saying that to give the card
a nice corny line...it's the truth!
You have always been there for us.
We trust you, we care about you,
we treasure the close ralationship we have
with you and above all...
we love you...
have a great day!"

They are awesome.
I love them.
oh,
and the card had a toaster-oven attached.
I'm loving it.

Happy Father's Day

"The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."

Osama will get ya!

What is revealed in these torture memos are the foundations for a kind of fascist rule in America. The object was (and is) to establish Bush as an extra-constitutional dictator, under cover of "law."

A group of British politicians were shot at by Israeli soldiers during a UN-supervised fact-finding mission.
The Liberal Democrats' international development spokesperson said the incident had shown her "the indiscriminate violence faced by Palestinians on a daily basis".

"They brought us 22 corpses, children, women and youth," said cemetery worker Ahmed Hassan.

Saudi TV broadcast pictures today of four bloodied bodies that authorities identified as the reputed leader of Al Qaeda in the kingdom and three other militants killed in a gun battle after dumping the mutilated body of an American hostage.

Israeli helicopters fired six missiles at two metal workshops and a third empty building in a crowded Gaza Strip neighbourhood tonight, Palestinian security sources said.

Transactional Analysis provides a convenient way to understand how otherwise intelligent people are often unable to tell reality from fantasy.

Mr. Bush, responding to a reporter's question about the report after a White House cabinet meeting yesterday morning, said: "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and Al Qaeda" is "because there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda."

If the group Move America Forward has its way, come June 25th, you will not be able to see Michael Moore's new film, Fahrenheit 9/11.

...for this is the first time that teleportation has involved atoms and that there has not been a physical link in the transfer.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has rebuked the United States for trying to get another exemption from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court and urged the Security Council to oppose the measure.

Yasser Arafat "definitely" understands that Israel must preserve its character as a Jewish state, the Palestinian Authority chairman told Haaretz in an interview this week.

Vice President Cheney did not issue orders to shoot down hostile aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001, until long after the last hijacked airliner had already crashed, and the order was never passed along to military fighter pilots searching for errant aircraft that morning, according to a new report issued by the panel investigating the attacks.

It's a sign of the times when even the people who bankroll Washington's leading conservative newspaper are said to be uneasy with Bush administration foreign policy

...often told me my column was "the best thing in the paper"

Pschoanalyst describes Bush as "paranoid meglomaniac," "untreated alcoholic"
How is it that our deeply religious president feels free to bomb Iraq
and then celebrate the results with open expressions of joy?

Move America Forward has attacked Michael Moore and is attempting to block Americans from seeing his film with an email campaign, Stop Michael Moore, asking theaters not to show his film.

Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush: The father, the son, and the unholy boast. It has an eerie non-theological sense to it.

Watching the exploits of the supposedly Christian Bush administration, one has to wonder: What Bible are they using?

Blessed are the merciless: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the warmakers, if they are called the children of God.
Blessed are the aggressive: for they shall conquer the earth.

WHAT???

An exhibit of 800 combat boots -- to call attention to the loss of life in Iraq -- was canceled Wednesday, the day it was to be displayed.

Art speaks...
Art is speaking the truth...
Art is silenced...
Tv speaks...
Tv is speaking the lie...
Tv is amplified...

Evil is in charge
sorry...not yet...
Art speaks...
Evil is 'trying' to be in charge.
Shut up! Shut up!

Putin Says Russia Gave U.S. Intel on Iraq - an assertion that appears to bolster President Bush's contention that Iraq was a threat.
A very, very 'clever' move.
Bush' ratings are going up.
One wonders what Putin gets in return...?

"Let him taste something of what Muslims have long tasted from Apache helicopter fire and missiles," the statement said.

"Is it possible... that an American president could have... welcomed an attack on America that he would interpret [as] justifying an invasion of another country?"
"Well, that's more than possible

So it turns out that there weren't any links between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, after all, but, hey, guess what? The story has been revised and updated. Forget Iraq, we really meant to link Al Qaeda to ? Iran! Yeah! That's it!

Not quite pure news, not quite salacious rumors, blogs are something of both.

U.S. troops will remain in Iraq as long as necessary until Iraqi forces can handle security on their own, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on Thursday during a visit to northern Iraq.

Welcome to America, 2004, where the actions of more than 150 million citizens are monitored 24/7 by the TIA, the Terrorist Information Awareness (originally called Total Information Awareness) program of DARPA, DHS and the Department of Justice.

The only other president to hire a private attorney for acts committed while president, Richard Nixon, eventually resigned from office.

Right-wing groups are launching a campaign to stop Michael Moore's film from being seen.

Sharon's policy is to avoid negotiation or compromise with the Palestinians. He has been in power for three years and he has not resumed final-status talks with them. Sharon has been the unilateralist par excellence throughout his long and checkered career, and that is what he is now. He has his own agenda for Greater Israel, and he is trying to impose it by force on the Palestinians. As you note, Sharon does not want a cease-fire with Hamas.

Bush uses "war on terror" as a pretext to commit war crimes, then White House lawyer tortures the truth.

Video images of a US engineer taken hostage in Saudi Arabia, possibly by the al-Qaeda network, could have been put on the internet via a US firm based in California, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday.

This prisoner and other "ghost detainees" were hidden largely to prevent the International Committee of the Red Cross from monitoring their treatment, and to avoid disclosing their location to an enemy, officials said.

...deliberate policy to manipulate public opinion and create an association between Saddam and the attacks on New York and Washington.

Vice President Dick Cheney, who took the lead in pushing the idea of long-standing links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, has no intention of backing down despite a finding to the contrary by the Sept. 11 commission, aides said on Wednesday.

In actual fact, the mobile weapons trucks turned out to be for pumping up hydrogen baloons and were provided by the British. The mass graves were actually an exchange program of bodies between Iran and Iraq dating back to the war and so-called poison factories turned out to be nothing more than bakeries.

Israeli occupation forces have shot dead a Palestinian, wounded a second and arrested several others in the West Bank city of Jenin.

nations should work to meet their goals within a one-year postponement of the deadline.

...compared Hollywood celebs to Nazi faithful

Couldn't be clearer. If your intention is to extract information, you cannot be accused of torture.

I thought it was terrible. I was wrong. It is far, far worse! These words sum up my feelings at that moment.

Bush must stop claiming that the problems lie with just a few bad apples. That is simply not true.

"no credible evidence" that al Qaeda collaborated with Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq on the Sept. 11 strikes or any other attacks on the United States. That finding comes in the wake of statements Monday by Vice President Cheney that Iraq had "long-established ties" with al Qaeda, and comments by President Bush yesterday backing up that assertion.

The Israelis have rules, he said, and their techniques for breaking down prisoners are far more sophisticated. "What the Israelis do is much more effective than beatings," he said. "Three days without food and without sleep and you're eager to tell them anything. It just shows us the Americans are amateurs. They should have taken lessons from the Israelis."

Using a technique known as vagus nerve stimulation, the device uses electrodes implanted in the neck to activate brain regions that are believed to regulate mood.

Security experts have discovered what is believed to be the world's first computer "worm" aimed at mobile phones.

French fries may be the bane of low-carb diets and obesity foes, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a federal judge in Texas have another name for the popular food: fresh vegetable.

After months of uncertainty, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon learned on Tuesday that he will not be indicted on charges of bribery involving a real estate deal.

The European Union has rejected the requests of some member nations to recognize Christianity in its new constitution.

The Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, monitored in Beirut, reports Iran has massed four battalions at the border.

Several major Web sites, including Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google, were inaccessible at times early Tuesday due to what the company that distributes them online called an attack.

Five steps to using hip hop within a political framework and to developing a viable political constituency in the hip-hop generation.

Straight from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up file, the five congressional votes that everyone in America should know about.

Britain's war on Iraq violated international law, a former senior government legal adviser has said.

Fox News, the US news network owned by Rupert Murdoch, has been found in breach of British broadcasting rules for an on-air tirade that accused the BBC of "frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism".
Television regulators said the broadcaster failed to show "respect for truth" in a strongly worded opinion item, broadcast on the day the Hutton report was published, which also accused BBC executives of giving reporters a "right to lie".

Denouncing increased official secrecy, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley unveiled a plan for a media-advocacy center to lobby in Washington for open government.

Defense attorneys preparing for Pfc. Lynndie England's upcoming hearing on charges she abused detainees at Abu Ghraib prison have compiled a list of 100 potential witnesses stretching from the halls of power in Washington, D.C., to the sand-swept vistas of Iraq.

A 1st Infantry Division soldier in Germany who refused to deploy to Iraq, citing his Muslim beliefs against fighting fellow Muslims, was sentenced to 14 months confinement and given a bad conduct discharge.

As Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, Dick Cheney steered millions of dollars in government business to a private military contractor -- whose parent company just happened to give him a high-paying job after he left the government.

Americans should care about what goes on at Guantanamo for a number of reasons. First of all, the way we are treating the prisoners there is a scandal, an embarrassment to the people of this country and an outrage to the people of the world. That you can take someone and put him in a prison offshore with no legal rights whatsoever for two and a half years is simply inhumane.

George W. Bush is asserting presidential authority that in theory covers the lives and liberties of everyone, everywhere, U.S. citizens and foreigners alike, a claim of power so sweeping that it permits him to imprison, torture and kill at his choice without legal constraint anywhere in the world.

Federal and state prosecutors are applying stiff antiterrorism laws adopted after the 9/11 attacks to broad, run-of-the-mill probes of political corruption, financial crimes and immigration frauds.
If the government gets its way, even routine transactions of buying or selling American homes could soon come under the scrutiny of money-laundering provisions of the USA Patriot Act.

The American general who was in charge of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison claimed she was being made a scapegoat for the abuse of detainees, and said her successor once told her that prisoners should be treated "like dogs."

"The paper trail shows very clearly that these privates and corporals weren?t the ones who suggested pulling out of the Geneva Convention," Gore said.
"The President of the United States ordered the withdrawal from the Geneva Convention and the secretary of defense said take off the gloves, get tough with them."

Radioactive control team from Kuwait's Health Ministry discovered that one of the trucks belonging to the U.S.-led coalition forces was carrying heavy radioactive materials trucks. The trucks were headed for Iraq.

He's been given a kicking at the local elections and was last night facing a bloody nose at the European polls. So it's just the kind of cheerful news Tony Blair needs now: that the cinematic equivalent of a rottweiler, Michael Moore, is contemplating making the prime minister his next victim.

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A driver and a technician from the Iraqi public television channel, Al-Iraqiya, have been shot dead near the border with Syria.

Moore noted in the statement that it was "very possible" that many teenagers who were now 15 and 16 would be "recruited to serve in Iraq in the next couple of years".

Europe's elites took a battering in elections across the European Union yesterday as governing parties suffered heavy losses and Eurosceptics made their first breakthrough.

The first Korean reporter into Fallujah tells of the smell of death wafting from every direction
"The U.S. soldiers are dogs. They kill humanitarian workers. Even if they see a humanitarian team, or a doctor, they attack. It's like they're trying to get rid of us. Why do they do this?"

He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, 'You haven't begun to see evil...' then trailed off. He said, 'horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.'

"It's clear that they were contacted and that they were in a position to influence the deal," a member of Mr Waxman's staff said yesterday.

Under the smokescreen of the widely-reported plan for an Israeli intended "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) are incessantly creating new facts on the ground and have started to annex 150 kilometers in the northern West Bank while plans are underway for building a new illegal Jewish settlement south of Jerusalem.

The memo was written at the request of the CIA. The CIA wanted authority to conduct more aggressive interrogations than were permitted prior to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The interrogations were of suspected al Qaeda members whom the CIA had apprehended outside the United States. The CIA asked the White House for legal guidance. The White House asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel for its legal opinion on the standards of conduct under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Mr Talah's case - first revealed by the IoS earlier this year - is one of the most notorious to come out of a now infamous raid on a hotel near Basra by a Queen's Lancashire Regiment unit on 13 September last year, in a search for an illegal weapons cache.
An expert analysis of Mr Talah's medical notes is expected to be given to the High Court, with witness statements from all six men, for a hearing next month into allegations that British troops illegally killed more than 20 Iraqi civilians, including two children.

Israeli suspected to be a member of the al-Qaeda terror network in in Baguio City on June 7.

The Bureau of Immigration on Monday clarified that the Israeli woman arrested in Baguio City last week is not a member of the al-Qaeda terror group

Qatar's Al-Jazeera television station has aired video footage of what it says is the murder of US national Robert Jacob in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The American military launched some 50 air strikes designed to kill specific targets during the Iraq war, it emerged yesterday, but none of them found its mark.
Instead the air strikes had a high civilian toll, according to military officials serving at the time.

A group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials, several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement this week arguing that President George W. Bush has damaged America's national security and should be defeated in November.

The attack comes a day after interim deputy foreign minister was killed by gunmen in the capital.

Toughening its stance in advance of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, Iran on Saturday said it would reject international restrictions on its nuclear program and challenged the world to accept Tehran as a member of the "nuclear club."

"It is just unprecedented for a president to ask for help from the Vatican to get re-elected, and that is exactly what this is," Mr. Lynn said.
Linda Pieczynski, a spokeswoman for Call to Action, a liberal Catholic group, said, "For a president to try to get the leader of any religious organization to manipulate his fellow clergymen to support a political candidate crosses the line in this country."

Compelling new evidence emerged today that torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison were either endorsed or encouraged high up the US military chain of command.

...some people don't like the truth

All four walls are filled with plasma television screens, the latest in display technology, including some with satellite videoconferencing capabilities. The floor space is filled with rows of tables and computers, and populated with men and women from various branches of the military as well as civilian experts in science, medicine and bioterrorism.

A U.S. national was shot dead in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday in the sixth attack on Westerners in six weeks, security and diplomatic sources said.

The top U.S. military officer in Iraq approved letting officials at a Baghdad jail subject detainees to temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns and diets of bread and water whenever they wished, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

Gunmen have fatally wounded a senior official of Iraq's foreign ministry in Baghdad, a foreign ministry official says.

Total government debt outstanding is about $7.2 trillion dollars.

When I can't pay my 45 dollar a month phone bill, or my 100.00 a month electric bill after my husband has worked a good job for 37 years with what most would consider a decent pay ... how are they going to make this crappy economy look like it getting better?

"In this region of South America, coca tea is so common and so accepted that it has even been regularly served in the American embassy in Bolivia."

Military and civilian employees at the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were warned recently not to talk with attorneys who represent detainees held there, according to a document prepared by the legal office of the Army-led task force that runs the facility.

...the first nightclub in the world to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated entry card. Those who wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their skin. The chip not only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit account from which they can pay for drinks.

A California National Guardsman says three fellow soldiers brazenly abused detainees during interrogation sessions in an Iraqi police station, threatening them with guns, sticking lit cigarettes in their ears and choking them until they collapsed.

In 1996, the Pentagon, under intense public pressure, released the classified training manuals used at the School of the Americas. The Washington Post, in a story headlined "U.S. Instructed Latins in Executions, Torture," reported on Sept. 21, 1996, that the manuals promoted executions, torture, blackmail and other forms of coercion.

If everyone knew the history of US actions in the Mideast, no one would ask-Why do they hate them?

John Abizaid, the CENTCOM commander, is planning to appoint a 4-star general to head up the Army's investigation:

The State Department acknowledged Thursday it was wrong in reporting terrorism declined worldwide last year, a finding used to boost one of President Bush's chief foreign policy claims - success in countering terror.

The Bush Administration is committing war crimes and other serious violations of international law in Iraq as a matter of routine policy, according to a report released today by the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
"Torture is only the tip of the iceberg," said Roger Normand, an international lawyer who directs the Center. "From unlawful killings, mass arrests, and collective punishment to outright theft and pillage, the U.S. is violating almost every law intended to protect civilians living under foreign military occupation."

Iraq's top leader in the interim government last month, was in coastal Georgia for the G8 Summit on Thursday morning before traveling to Washington with other world leaders for Reagan's funeral service Friday at the National Cathedral.

Legendary entertainer and Grammy-winner Ray Charles died today at age 73.

According to his spokesman, Jerry Digney, Charles died at 11:35 a.m. at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., of acute liver disease, the Associated Press reported. He was surrounded by family and friends.

It is currently estimated that at least $17 BILLION of Parmalat funds have simply disappeared and cannot be accounted for. The way this came about is a complex web of high risk derivatives based on worthless bonds which, in turn, were founded through offshore shell companies. If this derivatives scandal is ever fully exposed, the collapse of U.S. and European banks, and the U.S. and European economies, will be eminent. After derivative based scandals like Enron and WorldCom, this just may be the pin that bursts the financial balloon.

What if a foreign leader were to decide that the torture of an American was needed to protect his country's security? Would Americans regard that as acceptable?

According to the Bush administration, they should.

Local and state homeland security authorities are beginning to build a regional network of 24-hour surveillance cameras that will go live this summer in Baltimore and expand through the area.

...perhaps the most alarming aspect of the Reagan legacy is how little this country seems to have learned from it. Twenty-three years after Reagan first took office, we are now in the grips of yet another administration that wants to turn this country into a theocracy, another administration that runs up record deficits by cutting taxes for the rich, another administration that wants to eliminate or "privatize" every social program possible.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, was stripped naked and tied to a stretcher during interrogation after the office of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered intelligence officers to "take the gloves off" when questioning him.

...well, Dubya...worry.
Or we're the ones that should worry.

...as of Wednesday morning, was $2.3 million "and increasing."

The State Department is planning to have more than 900 Americans staff the U.S. Embassy in central Baghdad, assisted by 600 to 700 Iraqis

Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind.

In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."

FOX News is the epicenter of the merger of entertainment, technological innovation, and propaganda. It's a powerful narcotic that is currently in the hands of the forces of darkness interested in nothing more than dismantling democracy through control of the media message.
Rupert Murdoch, you are the wizard behind the Orwellian birth of a one-party media where news and bias become indistinguishable.

A new umbrella organization called 911Truth.org announced the launch of a website to serve as a clearinghouse for the highest quality work of the emerging 911 truth movement. The site highlights the efforts of leading investigators, authors, videographers, and activists calling for a truly independent investigation of still unexplained facts.

The head of Florida's elections division resigned Monday amid reports he was feeling political heat over a push to purge thousands of suspected felons from the state's voter rolls.

Weapons of mass destruction do not exist in Iraq and it is "delusional" to think they will be found, says former chief US weapons inspector David Kay.

Reply from the editor of La República del Uruguay to the US ambassador there, Martin Silverstein, who complained about the comparisons the newspaper had drawn between Hitler and Bush.

On Tuesday September 11, 2001, at least 35,615 of our brother and sisters died from the worst possible death, starvation. Somewhere around 85% of these starvation deaths occur in children 5 years of age or younger. Why are we letting at least 30,273 of the most beautiful children die the worst possible death everyday? Every 2.43 seconds another one of our fellow brothers and sisters dies of starvation. Starvation doesn't just happen on Tuesday September 11, 2001, it happens everyday, 365 days per year, 24 hours per day, it never stops.

The Constitution of the United States has just been released for the iPod.

What tricks will BushCo pull to attempt to win the election in November?

Well, he'll probably try something around or before October to swing or steal the vote. Welcome to October Surprise, where you can predict what will happen before the November 2004 election. Take the poll.

The Department of Defense spent at least $100 million for airline tickets it did not use, a new congressional report found, even as some troops serving in Iraq were forced to dip into their own pockets to get home on leave.

"There is a distaste and a disbelief in what comes from Washington, and because of this White House, it is thought to be what comes out of this country.

Reagan's image replace that of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary, on the $10 bill.

Meanwhile, an effort is underway in the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), to put Reagan's face on the $20.

Israel is an American aircraft carrier in the heart of the Middle East.

On Saturday, June 5, 2004, standing only a block away from the White House on a rainy, cool afternoon, in Washington, DC, Michael Berg accused the Bush-Cheney administration of being substantially responsible for the death of his son, Nick Berg, age 26.

Iraq's newly appointed minister of communications, a former mobile network designer, owns a home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is still a registered voter.
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The minister of electricity, an avid Bulls basketball fan, has also kept his home, which is on the outskirts of Chicago. His voice still directs callers to leave him a message on the answering machine of the engineering firm that he left for "an indefinite leave of absence."
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...classified Pentagon report on interrogation methods concluded that the president was not bound by laws prohibiting torture.

...every financial transaction of every American is now recorded and monitored by the federal government. Any bank transaction, all credit card charges plus phone records, credit reports, travel and even health records are captured in real time by the DARPA computers.

The body bags have been shipped in, locals are running scared, and foreigners are being arrested and deported.

people close to the pope claim that amid these concerns, the pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations.

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Police deployed some 10,000 officers around Rome as an estimated 500,000 protested Bush's arrival and Italy's active support of the U.S. war in Iraq.

thousands of Italian anti-war demonstrators marched through central Rome to protest against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, many waving peace banners and calling for the pullout of Italian troops in Iraq.

...Wherever he shows his face...his shadow follows.
the Government of ours! the Caretakers!
the Lawmakers!
...and the Law of yours!
...and your Money and Power!
how very little we love you...
Now.
Human kind deserves more.

A second top CIA official is to retire from his post, less than a day after the surprise resignation of the agency's director George Tenet.

It?s amazing that he hung around as long as he did.

translation of an article published in Le Monde

...i don't know.

Three Israeli border policemen were charged yesterday with abusing two Palestinian youths, including beating them up and forcing them to eat gravel and kiss their shoes.

Fahrenheit 9/11

The Senate and a House committee voted Wednesday to give President Bush the $25 billion he wants for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan later this year, but denied him the free hand he sought to control the money.

CIA Director George Tenet, buffeted by controversies over intelligence lapses about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has resigned. President Bush said Thursday that Tenet was leaving for personal reasons and "I will miss him."

Demonstrations have been banned in central Paris throughout this week to ensure no hostile protests are in evidence to disturb President George W. Bush's brief presence in the French capital on Saturday, where he will be dining with President Jacques Chirac.

Federal investigators have begun administering polygraph examinations to civilian employees at the Pentagon to determine who may have disclosed highly classified intelligence to Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi who authorities suspect turned the information over to Iran, government officials said Wednesday.

President Bush on Wednesday compared the war in Iraq and the fight against terrorism to World War II and the battle against communism.

The 41st President of the United States has stepped up to defend his son, the 43rd President of the United States, against "slimeball" filmmaker Michael Moore.

For decades Zionists have imposed their power upon the Jewish people, forced by the Zionist tactics to leave their homes and move to Israel, losing their wealth, their liberty, and their faith. The imposition of Zionist power continues to this day.

Do you remember how many U.S. soldiers died in the first Gulf War?
On television at the time, they told you it was around 64. Later, as news agencies recalculated the total from a variety of sources, it became 146.
But now, some 13 years later, according to the Veterans Administration itself, the first Gulf War death toll among U.S. troops who served there stands at 8,013! And this a figure from a 2002 report.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" has picked up a U.S. distributor and will hit theaters June 25.

The U.S. Army has issued an order preventing thousands of soldiers designated for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan from leaving the military even when their volunteer service commitment expires.

"I am very unhappy that I've been misinformed,'" Howard said. "We're dealing here with what was clearly an inadequate briefing.'"

The only noteworthy difference between the two groups battling for power in Washington is that the neocons are willing to pursue their imperial ambitions in full view of the international community, while the progressive internationalists prefer to keep their imperial agenda hidden behind the cloak of multilateralism.

The National Security Agency, located in Fort Meade Maryland, is the largest spy organization in the world. It's about halfway between Washington and Baltimore. With its 38,000 employees, it is more than twice the size of the CIA, and at least twice as secretive. This NSA complex is surrounded by a ten-foot Cyclone fence crowned with multiple rows of barbed wire. Along the fence are warnings telling you not to take pictures or make sketches of the building. Inside this fence is another, consisting of five thin strands of high-voltage electrified wire attached to wooden posts. After that is ANOTHER Cyclone fence reinforcing the others. This last fence is occasionally patrolled by armed guards with dogs.