Unbelievable...

June 30, 2005 by element115
Baghdad Burning ---> According to Bush, Iraq is flourishing under the occupation. In Bush's Iraq, there is reconstruction, there is freedom (in spite of an occupation) and there is democracy.

...tens of thousands of lives later, we would have to bear the burden of 9/11 again.
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University of California professor says UC press must publish Beyond Chutzpah

June 30, 2005 by element115
It is possible that the University of California Press might not, after all, publish the long-awaited book by Norman Finkelstein, "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History." The reason is that UCPress, under pressure from outside political forces as well pressure from inside the UC administration, has asked Norman Finkelstein to make further changes despite and in violation of an earlier commitment to publish the final galleys without any further changes.
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Blair admits authenticity of the Downing Street Memo

June 30, 2005 by element115
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has finaly admitted the authenticity of the so-called "Downing Street Memos" in an interview with the Associated Press which also viewed the memo, the New York Times reported yesterday.
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White House taking seriously allegations that Iran's president-elect was a former hostage taker

June 30, 2005 by element115
The White House said Thursday it is taking seriously the allegations of some former American hostages who say they believe that Iran's president-elect was one of their captors in the late 1970's.

...let's invade Iran...let's invade
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How the Washington Post Lied About Its Own War Poll

June 30, 2005 by element115
The Washington Post published the results of their joint survey with ABC News on the front page yestertoday under the heading "Survey Finds Most Support Staying in Iraq
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There Are No Words

June 30, 2005 by element115
US Radiation In Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs.

...putting Four Million Pounds of Radioactive Uranium Dust (RUD) on the ground in Iraq was a definitely "on-purpose" kind of thing. It was not "just an accident." We, the citizens of the United States, through our kids in the Army, did this on purpose.
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Bush sets up domestic spy service

June 30, 2005 by element115
US President George W Bush has ordered the creation of a domestic intelligence service within the FBI, as part of a package of 70 new security measures.
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The biggest of Big Lies

June 30, 2005 by element115
To the extent that George Bush had retained the slightest shred of dignity through the whole ugly Iraq imbroglio, it was found in his refusal to fully embrace the biggest of the Big Lies told by his aides: the claim that Saddam Hussein had played a role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Over the limit

June 30, 2005 by element115
Leaps of faith into the realms of Tolkien and The X-Files are vital if science is not to become boring and die.

Science, like well-crafted fantasy, is not about the known, for that is boring. Science is about exploring the limits of the unknown and trying to peer further into the gloom.
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Violence erupts at Gaza eviction

June 29, 2005 by element115
Israeli troops ejected dozens of Jewish protesters from a building in Gaza yesterday, as anger at the planned withdrawal from the territory intensified.

Some 30 protesters were arrested after they seized a house near the Gush Katif settlement in the Gaza Strip and fought a rock-throwing battle with local Palestinians.

The episode was compounded by roadblocks across the country mounted by hundreds of rightwing Israelis angry at plans to pull out of Gaza later this summer.
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Movies a shared religion

June 29, 2005 by element115
Red State fundamentalists and Christians are as likely to watch violent movies and rent R-rated DVDs as their Blue State counterparts, according to a MarketCast study presented at Wednesday's Integrate '05 conference, co-sponsored by Variety.
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Fear in a soaring tower

June 29, 2005 by element115
The darkness at ground zero just got a little darker. If there is anyone still clinging to the expectation that the Freedom Tower will become a monument of the highest American ideals, the current design should finally shake them out of that delusion.

Somber, oppressive and clumsily conceived, the project is a monument to a society that has turned its back on any notion of cultural openness.
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ABC Pulls 'Neighborhood' Reality Series

June 29, 2005 by element115
"Welcome to the Neighborhood," an ABC reality series that pushes hot buttons of racism and anti-homosexuality, was pulled by the network before its debut.
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Facts, Quotes From President's Address

June 29, 2005 by element115
Bush mentioned "September Eleventh" 5 (five) separate times

Bush mentioned "terror", "terrorism" or "terrorists" 35 times
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Iraqi Resistance Replies To Bush Speech

June 29, 2005 by element115
Europe, The Russians, the Chinese are watching the raging tired and bleeding American bull, and are rejoicing the strikes of the resistance in heart. Before the final blow!
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NY unveils redesigned ground zero Freedom Tower

June 29, 2005 by element115
Ground Zero's Freedom Tower, redesigned to address security concerns, will lose the distinctive asymmetrical shape envisioned in earlier plans, but will be the strongest and safest skyscraper in the world when it is complete, officials said.

The redesigned tower will be straighter and squarer, but will rise from a base clad in shimmering metals chosen for both beauty and blast-resistance, and will be topped with an illuminated spire that will throw a beam of light to the horizon.
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Thousands riot in China, attack police, burn cars

June 29, 2005 by element115
Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, set fire to cars and wounded six police officers in an outburst likely to worry communist leaders in Beijing desperate to cling on to power.
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Blair Denies Memos Prove Iraq Decision

June 29, 2005 by element115
...Blair said Wednesday the "Downing Street memos" paint a distorted picture, and he insisted that the
Iraq war was not predetermined by the United States.
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North Korea Cuts Int'l Phone Lines

June 28, 2005 by element115
North Korea has cut most of its international phone lines since late March over concerns that sensitive information about its society will flow out of the isolated country.

Since April, even people with permits to make international calls have been able to do so only under the strict surveillance of security officials, the report said.
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France Will Host World's First Nuclear-Fusion Reactor

June 28, 2005 by element115
France was chosen to host the world's first nuclear-fusion reactor, ending a deadlock with Japan over a location of the 4.6 billion euro ($5.6 billion) experiment involving the European Union, Japan, the U.S., Russia, China and South Korea.
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Bush: Iraq war worth it

June 28, 2005 by element115
"The terrorists can kill the innocent -- but they cannot stop the advance of freedom,"... Bush said in a nationally televised speech to Americans on Tuesday night that the Iraq war is vital to U.S. security and there will be "tough moments that test American resolve."
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Patriot Act lets train stations bar homeless

June 28, 2005 by element115
The USA Patriot Act allows the government to find out which books and Internet sites a person has seen. It also lets investigators secretly search someone's home and monitor people's phone calls and e-mail, all in the name of fighting terrorism.

Now, a New Jersey town being sued for kicking homeless people out of a train station claims the Patriot Act allows it to do that as well.
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Historic vote in Canada

June 28, 2005 by element115
Supported by most members of the Liberals, the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP, the legislation passed easily, making Canada only the third country in the world, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to officially recognize same-sex unions.
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Realistic Pessimism from an Israeli Peace Activist

June 28, 2005 by element115
Yitzhak Frankenthal, founder of The Parents Circle, an organization of Israeli and Palestinian parents whose children were killed by terrorists or by the IDF, exlains why there are grounds for pessimism in the current situation in Israel.
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Blood Sacrifices for Empty Slogans

June 28, 2005 by element115
Paul Craig Roberts ---> Bush's Ruinous Empire
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Former MI5 Agent Says 9/11 An Inside Job

June 28, 2005 by element115
Former MI5 agent David Shayler, who previously blew the whistle on the British government paying Al Qaeda $200,000 to carry out political assassinations, has gone on the record with his conviction that 9/11 was an inside job meant to bring about a permanent state of emergency in America and pave the way for the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and ultimately Iran and Syria.
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Torture's Dirty Secret: It Works

June 28, 2005 by element115
Naomi Klein ---> ...when it comes to social control, nothing works quite like torture.
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Twelve more years

June 28, 2005 by element115
Pepe Escobar ---> If only those "axis of evil" fellas were a little more ... cooperative.
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Fox News Peddles a War With Iran

June 28, 2005 by element115
This is how Neil Cavuto opened his show (June 27, 2005):
"Remember how much we fussed over this guy? [Video of Saddam Hussein shown while the banner at the bottom of the screen read: Forget Saddam?] Now what if I told you we might be facing a bigger threat from this guy? [Video of Iran's President-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while the banner below read: A Bigger Threat?] Why Iran's newly elected President had oil prices jumping and no less than our President talking. [Video of men working on an oil derrick over a banner reading: Fear Factor?]" And that was just the teaser --->
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Is This What They Call Democracy?

June 28, 2005 by element115
"Snipers hunt people in the streets. People attempting to go to health centers are shot at," testified Eman Kmammas, an Iraqi translator. "There are many crippled children. There are thousands of widows and orphans. There are no police for security and there are no courts. Even hospitals are occupied and bombed and burned."
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U.S. Attack on Iran May Be in the Cards

June 28, 2005 by element115
Two recent analyses, both appearing a day before Iranians elected former Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency on June 23, reveal how this may happen and what the logic behind such an attack may be.
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World Tribunal on Iraq : PRESS RELEASE about JURY STATEMENT

June 28, 2005 by element115
"The attack on Iraq is an attack on justice, on liberty, on our safety, on our future, on us all" - The Jury of Conscience
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World Tribunal on Iraq Documenting War Crimes

June 28, 2005 by element115
People in Iraq now laugh at us if we say democracy...
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Tribunal of Iraq activists wants Bush and Blair investigated for war crimes

June 28, 2005 by element115
Dozens of activists holding an unofficial tribunal to put the U.S.-led war in Iraq on trial recommended Monday that U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair be investigated for crimes against humanity.
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World Tribunal on Iraq Condemns U.S. and Britain, Recognizes Right of Iraqis to Resist Occupation

June 28, 2005 by element115
The World Tribunal on Iraq wrapped its three-day session today in Istanbul, Turkey. The tribunal investigated various issues on Iraq including the legality of the war, the role of the United Nations, war crimes and the role of the media, as well as the destruction of the cultural sites and the environment.
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What Have We Done to Ourselves America?

June 28, 2005 by element115
Is the noose of fascism tightening around the necks of Americans or are corruption, cowardice and the malfeasance of our Congress responsible for more serious, recently inflicted blows to American freedom and our American way of life? Congress has long since confirmed John Negroponte as our new ?insecurity? czar. This marks the zenith of a ?tyrant?in-waiting? that Bush has added to his ?cabal of criminals?. Negroponte?s confirmation drew less attention from the American public and what is laughingly called the ?news? media than the 1938 appointment of his kindred spirit, Lavrenty Beria, by Stalin to serve in the NKVD.
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Scott Ritter on War with Iran

June 28, 2005 by element115
Bush is a Liar - US at War with Iran - The Downing Street Memo's & More - The Peace Movement Failed

Question and Answer Session with Scott Ritter
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Incinerating Iraqis; the Napalm cover up

June 28, 2005 by element115
Two weeks ago the UK Independent ran an article which confirmed that the US had "lied to Britain over the use of napalm in Iraq". (06-17-05) Since then, not one American newspaper or TV station has picked up the story even though the Pentagon has verified the claims. This is the extent to which the American "free press" is yoked to the center of power in Washington.
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A Defeat Bred in Deceit

June 28, 2005 by element115
Paul Craig Roberts ---> Would Congress have let Bush invade Iraq if Congress had known that it would not be a 3-week war but a 12-year war?

What kind of fantastic lie or gross incompetence caused a 12-year war to be marketed as a 3-week war?

How can any people, no matter how deceived and deluded, support a government capable of such miscalculation or deceit?
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Restoring Order Balances Bush Criticism

June 28, 2005 by element115
A sense of obligation balances negative public views on Iraq: Despite broad concerns and sharp criticism of the administration's performance, nearly six in 10 Americans say U.S. forces should remain in place until civil order has been restored there.
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WHO: 5,000 birds die of avian flu in China

June 28, 2005 by element115
five times the number previously reported by the Chinese government.

Twenty birds a day are still dying in Qinghai province, but that rate is falling and the outbreak appears to be winding down, said a member of a WHO team that visited the remote region last week with Chinese health officials.

Chinese authorities haven't killed any birds to prevent the spread of the disease because they are rare, protected species, said Dr. Julie Hall, WHO's China-based coordinator for communicable diseases, surveillance and response.
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UK took nuclear arms to Falklands

June 28, 2005 by element115
Royal Navy ships sent to the Falklands in the 1982 war were carrying nuclear weapons, the official history of the conflict has revealed.
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Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming

June 28, 2005 by element115
A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes.
"Reducing solar insolation by 1.6 percent should overcome a 1.75 K [3 degrees Fahrenheit] temperature rise," contends a group led by Jerome Pearson, president of Star Technology and Research, Inc. "This might be accomplished by a variety of terrestrial or space systems."
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State Guard forms anti-terrorism intelligence unit

June 27, 2005 by element115
...civil libertarian claims that the group will monitor American citizens.

Known as the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program, the project is part of an expanding nationwide effort to better integrate military intelligence into global anti-terrorism initiatives.

Although Guard officials said the new unit would not collect information on American citizens, top National Guard officials have already been involved in tracking at least one recent Mother's Day anti-war rally organized by families of slain American soldiers.
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U.S. Has Plans to Again Make Own Plutonium

June 27, 2005 by element115
The Bush administration is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war.

"The real reason we're starting production is for national security," Timothy A. Frazier, head of radioisotope power systems.
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Israeli guilty of shooting Briton

June 27, 2005 by element115
A former Israeli soldier has been found guilty of the manslaughter of British student Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip.

The court was told Hayb fired at Mr Hurndall from an Israeli army watchtower, using a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight.

Witnesses said Mr Hurndall, from north London, had been escorting children away from gunfire when he was hit in the head by a single shot.
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Chinese dragon awakens

June 27, 2005 by element115
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ---> China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials.
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Israel: U.N. Must Halt Iral Nuke Ambitons

June 27, 2005 by element115
"The clock is ticking, and time is not on our side," Ayalon said.
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High Court Declines to Hear Appeal of Reporters

June 27, 2005 by element115
The high court declined to hear the appeal of reporters Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, who had argued that the 1st Amendment protected them from having to identify their sources to prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the politically charged case.

Today's ruling means that the government is now free to seek their incarceration, for up to 18 months.
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Dogs reanimated after several hours of clinical death

June 27, 2005 by element115
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
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'Bongs' outlawed in Israel

June 26, 2005 by element115
The Justice Ministry's Department of Counsel and Legislation added a clause that prohibits the holding of any device that can be used for the preparation or consumption of dangerous drugs to the 1973 Dangerous Drug Order.
The possession of the devices for the purpose of selling can result in 20 years in prison. Possessing them for personal use can result in a three-year sentence.
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Nine Eleven Down the Memory Hole

June 26, 2005 by element115
"The American people know what they saw with their own eyes on September 11, 2001," said Texas A&M president Dr. Robert M. Gates in a written statement. "To suggest any kind of government conspiracy in the events of that day goes beyond the pale," and the "pale," of course, is defined by Bush and the corporate media, both confirmed liars and lie disseminators.
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U.S. headed for disaster when efforts in Iraq collapse

June 26, 2005 by element115
We may now be only weeks away from a complete collapse of the Iraqi army and the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in the face of overwhelming public pressure on Tony Blair.
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General admits to secret air war

June 26, 2005 by element115
THE American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.

Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the Iraq war Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than 600 bombs on 391 "carefully selected targets" before the war officially started.
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Bush warns Blair he must boost UK forces

June 26, 2005 by element115
BRITAIN is coming under sustained pressure from American military chiefs to keep thousands of troops in Iraq - while going ahead with plans to boost the front line against a return to "civil war" in Afghanistan.
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Beyond Impeachment: The Bush Administration as War Criminals

June 26, 2005 by element115
While it is certainly appropriate to demand an independent investigation of the Bush administration's pre-invasion shenanigans, as well as to pursue bringing articles of impeachment against the President for his official misconduct, there is something larger at stake. There is the matter of the Bush administration's post-invasion atrocities.
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America's religious right

June 26, 2005 by element115
You ain't seen nothing yet.
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Union blow to ID card scheme in U.K.

June 26, 2005 by element115
Controversial government plans to introduce identity cards for every Briton were dealt a severe blow last night after the union representing the officials charged with implementing the scheme dramatically came out against it.

Unison, Britain's biggest union with 1.3 million members, used its annual conference to attack the proposals in a move likely to set alarm bells ringing in government.
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Baghdad airport closed

June 26, 2005 by element115
Travelling out of Baghdad airport is hazardous enough at the best of times but now it is not possible at all, at least on civilian flights.
Military flights, however, are not affected.
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Spielberg thriller leaves Israeli spies in the cold

June 26, 2005 by element115
Steven Spielberg, famed for Hollywood blockbusters, is keeping mum about his latest project, a dramatization of tit-for-tat killings that followed the 1972 massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian guerrillas.

Such is the secrecy that even the Israeli spymasters who commanded the reprisals after the Munich Games have been left out in the cold.

Five retired Mossad agents, all of whom served in key intelligence posts during the hunt for Palestinian guerrilla chiefs in Europe and the Middle East to avenge the slaying of Israel's 11 sportsmen, voiced surprise at hearing of the film.

"I know nothing at all about this project," a former Mossad director who declined to be named told Reuters.
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Cheney hospitalized?

June 25, 2005 by element115
Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to the cardiac unit of the Vail Valley Medical Center soon after his plane landed at a nearby airport this Friday. Contrary to Associated Press reports that he went to see orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Steadman, for a knee injury, Vice President Cheney went directly to the cardiac unit to see Dr. Jack Eck and his team. The Vice President checked into the hospital under the name of Dr. Hoffman.
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Refusal raises suspicions of detainee abuse

June 25, 2005 by element115
A panel of U.N. human rights investigators yesterday slammed the United States for failing to let them visit detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, saying the refusal gave credence to charges that prisoners there had been mistreated.
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US opinion turns against war

June 25, 2005 by element115
US President George W.Bush is to launch a public campaign seeking support for the Iraq war as opinion polls slip dramatically against him and calls mount within Congress for a timetable to be set for US withdrawal.

Emboldened by the shift in public opinion as the US casualties in Iraq mount, the Democrats, and some Republicans, are stepping up their attacks on the Bush administration for exaggerating its success in the war.
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Billions in States' Homeland Purchases Kept in the Dark

June 25, 2005 by element115
About $8 billion in homeland security funds has been doled out to states since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but the public has little chance of knowing how all of that money is being spent.
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Canadian military accused of lying about Agent Orange

June 25, 2005 by element115
An angry crowd accused military officials of a coverup during a hearing into the spraying of Agent Orange and other defoliants at a New Brunswick military base in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Prime Minister of Bulgaria lures voters with lottery prizes

June 25, 2005 by element115
...the exiled child king who became the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, is fighting to stay in power in the general election today by dangling lottery prizes in front of jaded voters. Lucky ones will win cars, package holidays and televisions, but only after casting their ballot.
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Falluja is shut down after 2 marines are killed

June 25, 2005 by element115
"Stay inside your homes, and if you have any information on terrorists go to the nearest coalition checkpoint and report it," said a voice in Arabic over loudspeakers as U.S. patrols roamed the Sunni Arab city.
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Socialists Lead in Bulgaria Elections

June 25, 2005 by element115
Those polls gave the opposition Socialists a strong lead, suggesting the prime minister will pay the price for his government's austerity measures despite stable economic growth.

Early projections showed the Socialists leading but falling short of winning a majority. According to exit polls conducted by the local Gallup International affiliate, the Socialists received 31.1 percent of the vote and Saxcoburggotski's party 21.7 percent.
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US Support for Repression in Uzbekistan Belies Pro-Democracy Rhetoric

June 25, 2005 by element115
Recent revelations that the United States successfully blocked a call by NATO for an international investigation of the May 13 massacre of hundreds of civilians by the government of the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan serves as yet another reminder of the insincerity of the Bush administration's claims for supporting freedom and democracy in the Islamic world and the former Soviet Union.
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Drapes removed from Justice Department statue

June 25, 2005 by element115
The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures.
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The return of '1984'

June 25, 2005 by element115
And what about the Bush administration's insistence that all is going well in Iraq? In the Ministry of Truth, statistics are adjustable to suit politics -- ''merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another," Orwell wrote. ''Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection to anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in the rectified version." Welcome to the Iraq war, Mr. Orwell.
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Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America

June 25, 2005 by element115
...mainstream media no longer produce news for the mainstream population-nor should we consider the media as plural. Instead it is more accurate to speak of big media in the US today as the corporate media and to use the term in the singular tense-as it refers to the singular monolithic top-down power structure of self-interested news giants.
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Rape earns dubious distinction as a weapon of war

June 25, 2005 by element115
According to a report prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross, titled "Women and War" and based on two years of research from 1998 to 1999, approximately 80 percent of war victims are women and children. This is mainly because military conflicts now more commonly engulf towns and cities instead of only frontline areas.
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The answer is no

June 25, 2005 by element115
Palestinian expectations were low before the meeting between Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas -- they are now non-existent.
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Bush administration officials join ranks of tyranny

June 25, 2005 by element115
This is how fascism comes.
It comes through creating legal nonpersons of citizens and noncitizens alike. It comes through violating human rights standards, sanitizing torture, and condoning murder.

It comes through whitewash "investigations" of war crimes that leave the real perpetrators untouched, and a Congress resolutely determined to see and hear no evil. It comes through a press cowed by censorship and a judiciary impotent in the face of constitutional invasion.
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Machines mimic life at Chicago's 'NextFest'

June 25, 2005 by element115
"NextFest," the high-tech carnival at a Chicago convention hall this weekend showcasing futuristic, sometimes uncannily lifelike technology.
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America's neo-conservative world supremacists will fail

June 25, 2005 by element115
Current US megalomania is rooted in the Puritan colonists' certainties.
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Iran hardliner sweeps to victory

June 25, 2005 by element115
The ultra-conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won a landslide victory in Iran's presidential poll.
Mr Ahmadinejad won 62% of votes.
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Iran far from nuclear bomb-making capacity: Blix

June 24, 2005 by element115
Iran is years away from achieving a nuclear capacity sufficient to create a bomb, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq Hans Blix said in a Swedish public radio interview on Thursday.
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Georgian TV Says Russian Soldier Held Over Grenade Attack on Bush

June 24, 2005 by element115
Georgian authorities may accuse a Russian military servicemen of throwing a hand grenade at U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit to Tbilisi on May 10, Georgian TV station Rustavi-2 reported.
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Former Asst. Sec. Of Treasury Under Reagan Doubts Official 9/11 Story

June 24, 2005 by element115
A former high-ranking Republican official, also a well-respected author, tells the American people to stop listening to Bush administration lies about Iraqi war and claims the mainstream media will not publish anything he writes against Bush or his policies.

Claims Neo Con Agenda Is As 'Insane As Hitler And Nazi Party When They Invaded Russia In Dead Of Winter'
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Neoconservatives Speechless!

June 24, 2005 by element115
Karen Kwiatkowski ---> The Downing Street memoranda also indicate that the George W. Bush administration crafted and disseminated half-truths and falsehoods to Congress and the media to support this predetermined policy.

I saw it, many others saw it, and we could not stop it. Each and every day since the war in Iraq was illegally launched, long before actual invasion in March 2003, people have died as a result. Cities and entire nations have been destroyed as a result. Billions and billions of U.S. borrowed money ? added to the oppressive tab already owed by our children and grandchildren ? has been wasted as a result.
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World Tribunal on Iraq

June 24, 2005 by element115
Opening Speech Arundhati Roy On Behalf Of The Jury of Conscience Of The World Tribunal Of Iraq - Istanbul, Turkey

"Saddam Hussein is being tried as a war criminal even as we speak. But what about those who helped to install him in power, who armed him, who supported him - and who are now setting up a tribunal to try him and absolve themselves completely?"
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Censorship

June 24, 2005 by element115
...the American government is pressuring foreign countries to censor their news. Aside from the fact that this act is the height of arrogance by the United States, it makes it exceedingly clear why so many Americans who rely on the corporate media for their news continue to be so misinformed/un-informed about the goings on in Iraq. If the American government is attempting to censor the news in foreign countries, you can imagine what they are doing at home.
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Iraq reality check

June 24, 2005 by element115
On Iraq, the majority of Americans has gone from delusion to denial to the awareness, now just dawning, that they were misled and that the war is a tragic mistake. The main reason for this new and still emerging consciousness is that this war, at the outset opposed by almost the entire world but supported overwhelmingly by Americans, has cost more in lives and money than its enthusiastic backers, among the blindly patriotic masses and the cunning politicians, ever imagined.
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Child Abuse

June 24, 2005 by element115
Chris Floyd ---> When the public liars sat down together -- in Crawford, in the Pentagon, in the Oval Office, at 10 Downing Street -- and very deliberately, very guilefully and very knowingly devised their act of mass murder in Iraq, it is unlikely they gave any thought to the most vulnerable targets of their war crime: the children. So in considering this aspect of the bloodbath, we should give the liars the benefit of the doubt. Let's not make them more monstrous than they are. Let's stick to the facts.
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U.S. doctors linked to POW 'torture'

June 24, 2005 by element115
Detainee medical records are being used to design more effective interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, says a new report.
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US acknowledges torture

June 24, 2005 by element115
Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.
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Dems say Rove should apologize or resign

June 24, 2005 by element115
Democrats said Thursday that White House adviser Karl Rove should either apologize or resign for accusing liberals of wanting "therapy and understanding" for the Sept. 11 attackers, escalating partisan rancor that threatens to consume Washington.
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MIT physicists create new form of matter

June 24, 2005 by element115
MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.
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Cheney: Iraq will be 'enormous success story'

June 24, 2005 by element115
"We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan." said Cheney
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"...well treated, well fed and 'living in the tropics.'"

June 24, 2005 by element115
Defending the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay, Vice President Dick Cheney said...
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Critics Blast Anthrax Vaccine Test

June 24, 2005 by element115
National Institutes Of Health Officials Plan Trial On 100 Children
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Report: U.S. Government Funds Terrorism-Promotion

June 24, 2005 by element115
An Israeli watchdog group alleges that American aid to Palestinian universities and cities promotes terrorism.
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Jerusalem to Ban Annual Gay Pride Parade

June 24, 2005 by element115
Jerusalem officials said Thursday they will ban the annual gay pride parade set for next week, claiming the march would offend many of the holy city's residents.
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Pandemic could kill half million in U.S. - report

June 24, 2005 by element115
Half a million Americans could die and more than 2 million could end up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu hits, a report predicted on Friday.

In an average year, influenza kills an estimated 36,000 Americans and puts 200,000 into the hospital.

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Italy seeks 'CIA kidnap agents'

June 24, 2005 by element115
Italian authorities have issued arrest warrants for 13 people they claim are agents "linked to the CIA".

The suspects are accused of abducting an Islamic cleric in Milan in 2003 and flying him to Egypt for interrogation.
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Bush to address Americans from Fort Bragg

June 24, 2005 by element115

President Bush will deliver a major address to U.S. troops and the nation about
Iraq on Tuesday night from the U.S. military base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the White House said.

"This is a critical moment in Iraq," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said on Friday in announcing the speech. "This is a real time of testing."
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Body's own 'cannabis' helps pain

June 23, 2005 by element115
A cannabis like chemical produced naturally in the brain aids pain relief, researchers have found.

Aside from identifying an important function of these compounds, it provides a template for a new class of pain medications that can possibly replace others shown to have acute side effects.

"This is the first time anyone has shown that one of the body's natural occurring cannabinoids, 2-AG, has anything to do with pain regulation under natural conditions."
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Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes

June 23, 2005 by element115
Cities may bulldoze people's homes to make way for shopping malls or other private development, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday, giving local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.

...the decision bowed to the rich and powerful at the expense of middle-class Americans.
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Rumsfeld, isn't it time for you to resign?

June 23, 2005 by element115
Kennedy told Rumsfeld: "In baseball, it's three strikes, you're out. What is it for the secretary of defense?"

"Isn't it time for you to resign?" Kennedy asked.

"I've offered my resignation to the president twice," Rumsfeld shot back, saying that President Bush had decided not to accept it. "That's his call,'" he said.
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Phillip K. Dick Resurrected

June 23, 2005 by element115
In an unparalleled technical collaboration, a team of artists, writers, engineers, literary scholars, and freethinkers are creating a lifelike, android portrait of one of America's well-known science-fiction writers Philip K Dick. The robot will be featured at WIRED magazine's NextFest, June 25-27, 2005.

The robot will portray Dick in both form and intellect through an artificial-intelligence-driven personality. The hardware will manipulate Hanson's proprietary lifelike skin material to affect extremely realistic expressions with very low power. Cameras in the eyes will allow the robot to perceive people's identity and behavior through advanced machine vision and biometric-identification software. The robot will track faces, perceive facial expressions, and recognize people from the crowd (family, friends, celebrities, etc).

The visual data will be fused with some of the best speech recognition software, advanced natural language processing, and speech synthesis in the world. All of this will run in sync with Hanson Robotics' highly expressive robot face to emulate a full human-conversational system.
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...how cameraphones could revolutionize photography and communication

June 23, 2005 by element115
People think of the cameraphone as a more convenient tool for digital photography, an extension of the digital camera. That's missing the mark. The mobile phone is a communications device. The minute you attach a camera to that, and give people the ability to share the content that they're creating in real time, the dynamic changes significantly.
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A War Waged by Liars and Morons

June 23, 2005 by element115
Paul Craig Roberts ---> What is Bush's Agenda in Iraq?
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Bush Administration Psychological Warfare Against the U.S.?

June 23, 2005 by element115
An Interview with (ret.) Colonel Sam Gardiner.

There is absolutely no question that the White House and the Pentagon participated in an effort to market the military option.
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Confronting Israeli Myth-Making

June 23, 2005 by element115
...in the occupied West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, which Israel has controlled for 38 years, more than three million Palestinians enjoy no democracy at all under Israel's rule. Inside Israel, where over one million Palestinian Muslims and Christians are citizens of Israel, they live in a distinctly second-class status because they are not Jews. Because Israel was established as a specifically Jewish state and explicitly defines itself as a state not of its citizens but of Jews everywhere, it gives benefits to Jews that Muslims and Christians do not enjoy. Although they can vote, Muslim and Christian Palestinians in Israel are subject to various types of institutional discrimination. Because 97 percent of Israel's land is held "in trust for the Jewish people," non-Jews cannot even purchase land in Israel.
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Single brain cells show selective response to specific face

June 23, 2005 by element115
Is a single cell in your brain devoted to Jennifer Aniston or Bill Clinton? Maybe so, according to new research.

A recent experiment showed that single neurons in people's brains react to the faces of specific people. Researchers see the findings as evidence that our brains use fewer cells to decode a given image than previously thought.

Neurobiologist Jerome Lettvin coined the term 'grandmother cell' to parody this view, as it would mean that the brain contains a specific cell to recognize one's own grandmother.
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Pentagon creating student database

June 23, 2005 by element115
The Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits.
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The Real News in the Downing Street Memos

June 23, 2005 by element115
Bush and Blair began their war not in March 2003, as everyone believed, but at the end of August 2002, six weeks before Congress approved military action against Iraq.
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Ultra-Lifelike Robot Debuts in Japan

June 22, 2005 by element115
...the android is partially covered in skinlike silicone, powered by a nearby air compressor, and has 31 points of articulation in its upper body.

Internal sensors allow the android to react "naturally." It can block an attempted slap, for example. But it's the little, "unconscious" movements that give the robot its eerie verisimilitude: the slight flutter of the eyelids, the subtle rising and falling of the chest, the constant, nearly imperceptible shifting so familiar to humans.
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Rights group decries 'sham' of Israeli probes

June 22, 2005 by element115
The Israeli military's investigation of Palestinian civilian casualties is a farce and encourages soldiers to think they can act with impunity, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday.
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"Secret" Air Base for Iraq War started prior 9-11

June 22, 2005 by element115
...further evidence that Bush and the neocons were planning pre-emptive military action long before September 11th, and no matter what WMD intelligence revealed
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You cannot lie with your brain waves

June 22, 2005 by element115
NeuroSky Inc. wants to get into your head. By fusing brain wave recognition algorithms with a sensor chip and dry electrode, NeuroSky hopes to simplify cell phone-based applications that today require error-prone human input, as well as revolutionize applications from gaming to medical diagnostics and therapy.
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Indymedia doesn't live here anymore

June 22, 2005 by element115
Independent Media Center Israel
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New Oil Reserves Found in Venezuela

June 22, 2005 by element115
Vierma did not specify the oil field's total output, but said it could reach 220,000 barrels a day in the next three years.

With an estimated 78 billion barrels in oil reserves, Venezuela has the largest oil deposits outside the Middle East.
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U.S. Interests Protect Cairo and Riyadh Governments

June 22, 2005 by element115
Egypt and Saudi Arabia have cooperated with U.S. diplomatic, military and economic interests in the region for decades, traditionally earning kid-glove treatment on domestic policies.
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Wolfowitz won't discuss critical British memos

June 22, 2005 by element115
"There's a lot I could say about what you're asking about, if I were willing to get distracted from the main subject," Wolfowitz said. "But I really think there's a price paid with the people I've just spent time with, people who are struggling with very real problems, to keep going back in history.

"There will be a time and place to talk about history," he added, "but I really don't believe it's now."
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U.S. was big spender in days before Iraq handover

June 22, 2005 by element115
The United States handed out nearly $20 billion of Iraq's funds, with a rush to spend billions in the final days before transferring power to the Iraqis nearly a year ago, a report said on Tuesday.
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US has 'Lots of Secrets to Hide' Regarding Saddam

June 22, 2005 by element115
Iraq's justice minister on Tuesday accused the United States of trying to delay Iraqi efforts to interrogate Saddam Hussein, saying "it seems there are lots of secrets they want to hide."
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House to Vote on Flag Burning Amendment

June 22, 2005 by element115
The House votes today on a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban desecration of the flag.

The issue has come up in Congress on a regular basis ever since the Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag is a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

Supporters of the amendment, like Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey, say that "to burn a flag is to disrespect America."
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U.S. air force U-2 spy plane crashes in southwest Asia; pilot killed

June 22, 2005 by element115
One official said the location of the crash was not released because "host nation sensitivities" were involved.

The Central Command's statement used the term "southwest Asia," which can be used as a substitute for describing the Middle East.
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China advances missile program

June 22, 2005 by element115
China has successfully flight-tested a submarine-launched missile that U.S. officials say marks a major advance in Beijing's long-range nuclear program.
The missile was launched from a Chinese submarine near the port of Qingdao and was tracked to a desert impact point in western China several thousand miles away.
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Downing Street Is For Liars

June 22, 2005 by element115
Why isn't the media screaming about the latest proofs of Bush's war scams? Don't you know?
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Middle East anchored in history

June 22, 2005 by element115
Interview with Robert Fisk --->

They lived the Balfour declaration, which was made in 1917, last night, one hour before. You cannot ask the Arabs to separate themselves from history, because they live it today.
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The Beginning of the End?

June 22, 2005 by element115
"We see this as the beginning of the end," said Tom Andrews, a former Democratic representative from Maine who is executive director of the antiwar group Win Without War. "It's the very beginning of a new wave of activism on this war. There's a real sense that something is beginning to move."
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War: Realities and myths

June 22, 2005 by element115
...the lie, about war, about ourselves, is imploding our democracy
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Democracy For America

June 22, 2005 by element115
Flash ---> Demand that Congress hold full hearings
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Private warriors

June 22, 2005 by element115
...they operate outside of the military command structure and have been criticized for their rough treatment of Iraqi citizens. Has their presence become a liability? And which parts of the U.S. military's mission are appropriate to oursource?
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Sen. Durbin says he's sorry for Guantanamo comments

June 22, 2005 by element115
"Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," the Illinois Democrat said. "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies."
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Israel revives assassination policy

June 22, 2005 by element115
"An opportunity presented itself. Any means to neutralize the organization are relevant and possible."
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Rumsfeld considers striking Hizbullah to provoke Syria

June 21, 2005 by element115
In an article to be published on Friday, the journal said multi-faceted US attacks, which would be conducted within the framework of the global war on terrorism, are likely to focus on Hizbullah bases in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon.

It noted that the deployment of US special forces in the Bekaa Valley, where most of Syria's occupation forces in Lebanon are based, would be highly inflammatory and would "almost certainly involve a confrontation with Syrian troops."
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How Cheney Fooled Himself

June 21, 2005 by element115
President Bush planted the seeds of the destruction of his Iraq policy before the war started. Salvaging the venture will require an unprecedented degree of candor and realism from a White House that was never willing to admit -- even to itself -- how large an undertaking it was asking the American people to buy into.
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Animal Rights Extremism a Priority for FBI

June 21, 2005 by element115
Violence by environmental and animal rights extremists against U.S. drug makers has increased so much in recent years that it's currently the FBI's top domestic terrorism issue, a top agency official says.
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Common virus kills cancer, study finds

June 21, 2005 by element115
A common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous cells in the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Gloom at end of Jerusalem summit

June 21, 2005 by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas appear to have made little significant progress at a summit in Jerusalem.
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Now 88 Dead Scientists And Microbiologists

June 21, 2005 by element115
While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders.
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American's censored Nagasaki A-bomb report unearthed after 60 years

June 21, 2005 by element115
A controversial report and photos a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist produced on the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki have been unearthed almost 60 years after U.S. military censors forbade their publication.
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Corporate Crime Reporter

June 21, 2005 by element115
9 out the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Index are convicted corporate criminals, according to a report released yesterday.
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Interpreter: prisoner screamed and wept

June 21, 2005 by element115
Torture-charged former intelligence officer Annemette Hommel refused to break off interrogations when one of her prisoners wept from pain and begged her permission to change posture, one of Hommel's interpreters said on Thursday.

When the prisoner was finally allowed to stand up, after kneeling with his back straight and his hands cuffed behind his back for an hour and a half, his legs did not carry him, the witness said.

'He screamed and cried. He collapsed completely. His legs buckled under him in an unnatural manner. I threw what I had away from me, and suddenly I was out of the tent,' the interpreter said. 'He was in such pain that he said at one point: 'Why don't you just kill me?'
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AIPAC can place you by the elbow of the president

June 21, 2005 by element115
AIPAC is already flexing its muscle to diminish the impact of the Franklin case. Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman were taken off the payroll. The New York Times and The Washington Post have made an executive decision that this espionage trial is unworthy of their attention. If you expect any bulletins on this story from CNN or FOX, don?t hold your breath. Most Americans don?t have a clue that another Pollard has been caught in the act of passing classified information to Israeli spies. In all, it is a very impressive display of AIPAC?s media clout.
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UK had advance alert of jail abuse

June 21, 2005 by element115
The British army's senior military lawyer in Iraq was aware of allegations that human rights abuses were being committed at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison months before they were exposed by the American media.
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More than 1,200 who had anthrax vaccine now sick

June 21, 2005 by element115
More than 1,200 military personnel who received the anthrax vaccine before going to Iraq have developed serious illnesses, according to an Army report released last month, though local military officials contend the shots still are safe and necessary.
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Will the CIA let Posada spill the beans on all their dirty tricks in Latin America?

June 21, 2005 by element115
Until 1974, the ex-CIA agent, who specialized in explosives at the infamous School of the Americas in Georgia, was head of the Venezuelan political police -- DISIP -- from where he, reportedly, oversaw the assassination of prominent leftists.
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They Died So Republicans Could Take the Senate

June 21, 2005 by element115
US media pundits, knowing the "WMD lie" and the "Saddam attacked us" lie for what they are, mostly suggest that Bush's use of WMD and terrorism to justify invading Iraq was a "lie of convenience." The implicit assumption is that Bush did this because of a "greater good"; that even though he lied, he was doing so to advance America's interests. This helps pundits to feel like they're part of an in-crowd elite who know what's best for America, even if they can't tell the children - er - citizens.
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Dirty Little 9/11 Secrets Exposed.

June 21, 2005 by element115
Dirty little secrets include napalm to enhence explosions like at the WTC, drones, substitute aircraft, domestic terror (Washington is mentioned!), bogus passenger lists, funerals for fake named people, manufactured incidents.
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Eye Witness Hears Explosions at WTC

June 21, 2005 by element115
...a maintenance worker on duty the morning of 9/11 and one of the last to leave the building, is also the lead plaintiff in a federal RICO lawsuit filed against Bush and others, alleging conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes in the WTC deaths of more that 3,000.
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If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you'll love the Downing Street Memo

June 21, 2005 by element115
We apparently have an administration that can, on the word of a British clerk, "fix" not just findings but also "facts."
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Ancient 'Bog Body' Unearthed in Germany

June 21, 2005 by element115
A body found in a peat bog in northern Germany, first thought to be a murder victim, turned out to be a sensational archeological find: the 2,700 year old mummified corpse of a teenage girl.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid--Something Evil This Way is Coming!

June 21, 2005 by element115
Bush told the world that, "I am a war president...I make all my decisions with war in mind..." For Bush, his road to immortality and greatness was, and still is, thru war; and not just one war, but continuous war.
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Bush administration is basing its Middle East policy on newspaper articles

June 21, 2005 by element115
American officials' 'neglect' of true facts in the region is 'shocking'
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Where were the doctors at Abu Ghraib?

June 21, 2005 by element115
...and why didn't they speak up?
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House agrees to spend more for Iraq war

June 21, 2005 by element115
The House of Representatives voted to advance the Pentagon another $45 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on Monday as it passed a $409 billion defense spending bill.
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Neocon gameplaying

June 21, 2005 by element115
In his role as a monthly columnist for the Washington Post, neoconservative Robert Kagan has written a curious little piece. In its title he poses "Whether this war was worth it," and he bookends that ponderable with, "the effort to change the direction of the region was surely worth paying some price."
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What Is Bush's Agenda in Iraq?

June 21, 2005 by element115
Bush's Iraq war is the first war for which Americans have not known the reason. The reasons they were given by their president, vice president, secretary of defense, national security adviser, secretary of state, and the sycophantic media were nothing but a pack of lies.
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Hours Left To Stop The Broadcast Flag

June 20, 2005 by element115
Today, you can use any device you like with your television: VCR, TiVo, DVD recorder, home theater receiver, or a PC combining these functions and more. If the FCC's broadcast flag mandate had taken effect, some of those capabilities would have been forbidden.

"The Broadcast Flag cripples any device capable of receiving over-the-air digital broadcasts."

"It gives Hollywood movie studios a permanent veto over how members of the American public use our televisions."

"It forces American innovators to beg the FCC for permission before adding new features to TV."

"It will prevent fair use of copyrighted works: critical review, and use of material in distance learning"

"This is an important issue which will affect all Americans, and should not be inserted in a large bill, at the last moment, with no debate."
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We've seen enough to impeach Bush

June 20, 2005 by element115
...if Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about having sex with an intern, then George Bush needs to be impeached for the deliberate lies he and his cabal told to start a war that has now taken the lives of more than 1,700 young American men and women and countless Iraqi citizens, plus threatens to bankrupt the country.
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Bush Says US is in Iraq Because of 9/11 Attacks on US

June 20, 2005 by element115
President George W. Bush defended the war in Iraq, telling Americans the United States was forced into war because of the September 11 terror strikes.

"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

...who listens to that 'warmonger'?
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Oil prices strike historic record above 59 dollars

June 20, 2005 by element115
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July, surged to an intraday peak of 59.52 dollars a barrel before ending 90 cents higher at a record 59.37 dollars.
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Bush and Hawks Try Pre-Emptive Strike Vs. Iran Vote

June 20, 2005 by element115
A familiar clutch of hardline U.S. hawks who led the march to war against Iraq have tried to carry out yet another pre-emptive strike. But this time it wasn't military.
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They Had a Coup d'etat and We Weren't Invited...Now It's Our Turn

June 20, 2005 by element115
There is plenty of evidence that somewhere along the line, we all have lost any influence that we might have had as citizens. Think about the Downing Street Memo. That should be enough to convince even the most ardent fan of the Republican or Democratic Party. That memo is just an echo of the Project for a New American Century.
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Americans Can't Neglect Signs of Progress in Iraq, Rice Says

June 20, 2005 by element115
HA HA Ha Ha Ha HA HA Ha Ha Ha HA HA Ha Ha Ha HA HA Ha Ha Ha
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Promotion for Commanders from the Abu Ghraib prison

June 20, 2005 by element115
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is considering new top command assignments that would possibly include promoting Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former American commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Pentagon and military officials say.
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Boycott Advertisers in the Washington Post

June 20, 2005 by element115
...contact all the advertisers on this link, and tell them you will not buy their products so long as they support a newspaper known to be lying to the people of the United States.
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Bush May Bypass Senate on Bolton

June 20, 2005 by element115
Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice is keeping open the possibility that President Bush will bypass the Senate to get John R. Bolton installed as U.N. ambassador temporarily if Democrats persist in holding up a confirmation vote.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan did not rule out that Bush would consider a recess appointment if the Senate does not approve Bolton's nomination. He blamed the Democrats for "obstructing progress" by stalling a vote on Bolton.

...Caesar Dubya does it his way
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Web users caught in midst of adware debate

June 20, 2005 by element115
Slip a prerecorded DVD into your computer, and this software program quietly goes online to report what you're watching.

Is it spyware? Hardly. In this case, it is Microsoft Corp. The software is the ubiquitous Windows Media Player.
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China used human flu drug on birds

June 20, 2005 by element115
The World Health Organization (WHO) is attempting to clarify from China, reports that the government there encouraged farmers to use a human anti-viral drug to treat birds infected with a deadly strain of avian flu.

This action would be breaking international guidelines.

Scientists have long feared the bird flu, which although infectious in birds, does not spread easily among humans, could mutate into a form capable of generating a pandemic in which millions of people without immunity could die.
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The Insurgent Word: Impeachment

June 20, 2005 by element115
Regime change begins at home.

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Francis Boyle, Professor of Law, have both drafted an "Impeachment Resolution Against President George W. Bush" while Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese argue in the Boston Globe that "THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.
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Smoking signposts

June 20, 2005 by element115
Imagine that the Pentagon Papers or the Watergate scandal had broken out all over the press - no, not in the New York Times or the Washington Post, but in newspapers in Australia or Canada. And that, facing their own terrible record of reportage, of years of being cowed by the Richard Nixon administration, major American papers had decided this was not a story worthy of being covered.
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"Generational Commitment"

June 19, 2005 by element115
This morning on Fox News Sunday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked if "the Bush administration fairly [can] be criticized for failing to level with the American people about how long and difficult this commitment will be?" Rice responded:

[T]he administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq.
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American Intelligence Analyst Exposes the Treason Behind the Iraq War

June 19, 2005 by element115
Ray McGovern a 27-year senior CIA intelligence analyst has exposed the lies of the Neocons and the Israeli-controlled foreign policy of the United States.

Here is a quotation from a scathing article in the Washington Post:
The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "Neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."

Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his "candid answer."

At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations - that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 - that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks.
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The Ultimate Deception?

June 19, 2005 by element115
Department of Defense is using a cynical tactic to mislead the public regarding the true death toll for American military personnel in Iraq. Harring claims he has an internal pdf. file from the D.O.D. which establishes that nearly 9000 Americans have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom, but that the official number has been held to 1713 by designating as Iraq deaths only those who perish on Iraqi soil. The remainder, he says, are military personnel who have died en route to Germany or in German hospitals-- casualties of the war, but not listed in the official death toll.
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Behind the Downing Street Memos

June 19, 2005 by element115
Justin Raimondo ---> Everyone is talking about the Downing Street memos, and they are important - although not for the reasons generally assumed.
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We Are All Complicit - But What Can We Do About It?

June 19, 2005 by element115
Robert Fisk ---> If our government uses information drained out of these creatures, it is we who are holding the whips.
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British bombing raids were illegal, says Foreign Office

June 19, 2005 by element115
A SHARP increase in British and American bombing raids on Iraq in the run-up to war "to put pressure on the regime" was illegal under international law, according to leaked Foreign Office legal advice.

The advice was first provided to senior ministers in March 2002. Two months later RAF and USAF jets began "spikes of activity" designed to goad Saddam Hussein into retaliating and giving the allies a pretext for war.

The Foreign Office advice shows military action to pressurise the regime was "not consistent with" UN law, despite American claims that it was.
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The US war with Iran has already begun

June 19, 2005 by element115
Scott Ritter ---> "Liberation" and the spread of "democracy" have become none-too-subtle code words within the neo-conservative cabal that formulates and executes American foreign policy today for militarism and war.

By the intensity of the "liberation/democracy" rhetoric alone, Americans should be put on notice that Iran is well-fixed in the cross-hairs as the next target for the illegal policy of regime change being implemented by the Bush administration.

But Americans, and indeed much of the rest of the world, continue to be lulled into a false sense of complacency by the fact that overt conventional military operations have not yet commenced between the United States and Iran.

The reality is that the US war with Iran has already begun. As we speak, American over flights of Iranian soil are taking place, using pilotless drones and other, more sophisticated, capabilities.

The violation of a sovereign nation's airspace is an act of war in and of itself. But the war with Iran has gone far beyond the intelligence-gathering phase.
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No paradox for time travellers

June 19, 2005 by element115
...time travel sets up paradoxes, many researchers suspect that some physical constraints must make time travel impossible. Now, physicists Daniel Greenberger of the City University of New York and Karl Svozil of the Vienna University of Technology in Austria have shown that the most basic features of quantum theory may ensure that time travellers could never alter the past, even if they are able to go back in time.
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Downing Street secrets

June 19, 2005 by element115
The Boston Globe ---> The so-called Downing Street memos, which have been roiling Washington and London since the first one was published by The Times of London on May 1, can be interpreted in more than one way. They do not quite damn the Bush administration to perdition, as Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan and other congressional Democrats had been hoping to show at a public hearing held in the US Capitol on Thursday, but then nor do they bring much joy to the White House.
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Limbaugh: "If we get hit again" by terrorists...

June 19, 2005 by element115
...it will be the fault of Democratic senators, the mainstream media, and Amnesty International, "who have names and identities and spend their every waking moment trying to obstruct our ability to secure intelligence information for our own national security."
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Bush-Blair excuse for the Downing Street Memo doesn't hold water

June 19, 2005 by element115
Bush and Blair are claiming they went through the UN- they Did Not - they pulled the 2nd Resolution before the vote. Bush and Blair Did Not get UN approval but they invaded anyway.
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Israel apologizes to U.S. over China arms sale

June 19, 2005 by element115
Israel publicly apologized to the United States on Sunday over arms exports to China that have drawn criticism from Washington and strained U.S.-Israeli security ties.
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10 Questions for the director of the CIA

June 19, 2005 by element115
Time: SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHERE OSAMA BIN LADEN IS. WHERE IS HE?
Porter Goss: I have an excellent idea of where he is. What's the next question?
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Eggs and sperm could be grown from stem cells

June 19, 2005 by element115
Scientists in the UK have proved that human embryonic stem cells can develop in the laboratory into the early forms of cells that eventually become eggs or sperm. Their work opens up the possibility that eggs and sperm could be grown from stem cells and used for assisted reproduction, therapeutic cloning and the creation of more stem cells for further research and for the improved treatments for patients suffering from a range of diseases.
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War of words

June 19, 2005 by element115
Just after midnight on Friday, on the 190th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Tony Blair strode grim-faced into the British briefing room in the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels.

Fifteen minutes later Jacques Chirac marched into the French suite, separated from its British counterpart merely by a wall and a door, which was firmly closed.

"We are in one of the worst political crises Europe has ever seen," added Mr Schröder.
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Leak of secret plan to protect G8 leaders sparks security alert

June 19, 2005 by element115
'Operation Sorbus' security briefing revealed to the 'IoS'. Identifies areas vulnerable to attack at Gleneagles summit base. 'Potentially immensely serious breach of national security
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Weapons In Space: Dawn of a New Era

June 18, 2005 by element115
"The new policy will be more military-oriented, rather than the heavily civil-oriented predecessor," Hitchens suggested. What's ahead is a shift of terminology, she added, a "playing with the words."

As example, the term "freedom of action in space" is now a code phrase for "freedom to attack as well as freedom from attack," Hitchens emphasized, drawing the distinction from recently issued U.S. Air Force Counterspace Operations Doctrine.
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Extra time - and another round of voting - in Iran

June 18, 2005 by element115
Disillusion with the reformist tenure of the outgoing President Khatami, a shaky economy and widespread unemployment have merged with regional divides, deep-rooted religious faith and conservatism to produce the most unpredictable elections in the Islamic republic?s 26-year history.
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U.S. planes drop 500 lb bombs in Iraq operation

June 18, 2005 by element115
U.S. F-16 fighter planes dropped a series of 500 lb (220 kg) bombs in western Iraq overnight as the U.S. military launched a heavy offensive against rebels near the Syrian border.
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Downing Street and Beyond

June 18, 2005 by element115
Hearing Builds Momentum for Full Investigation
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G8 to pool data on terrorism

June 18, 2005 by element115
Justice and interior ministers, including the US secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, agreed to press ahead with unprecedented cooperation on data-sharing.
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Your ISP as Net watchdog

June 18, 2005 by element115
The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the explosive idea of requiring Internet service providers to retain records of their customers' online activities.
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The US are continuing to make a case against Iran, can we expect a new 9/11 soon?

June 18, 2005 by element115
The propaganda from the U.S. has been growing at an increasing rate against Iran, with attempts to tie them to al-Zarqawi, Osama bin Laden, other terrorists that hide there and of course nuclear weapons.

Most people have come to accept that the Bush administration will be involved in an attack on Iran, the only question is when?
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Bush: Pulling Out of Iraq Not an Option

June 18, 2005 by element115
"We will settle for nothing less than victory" over terrorists there, he said.

...what a coward!
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To The Citizens Of The United States Of America

June 18, 2005 by element115
John Cleese (Monty Python) ---> In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy.
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Mocking the Downing Street Memo

June 18, 2005 by element115
Washington Post editors - having already dismissed the leaked British government documents about the Iraq War as boring, irrelevant news - are now turning to the tried-and-true tactic for silencing any remaining dissent, consigning those who won?t go along to the political loony bin.
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Conyers Slams Washington Post

June 18, 2005 by element115
In my opinion, the ridicule should be placed in two places: first, at the feet of Republicans who are so afraid to discuss ideas and facts that they try to sabotage our efforts to do so; and second, on Dana Milbank and the Washington Post, who do not feel the need to give serious coverage on a serious hearing about a serious matter - whether more than 1700 Americans have died because of a deliberate lie. Milbank may disagree, but the Post certainly owed its readers some coverage of that viewpoint.
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Aliens have taken the place of angels

June 17, 2005 by element115
Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction.

Understanding the imagination is no longer a pastime, but a necessity; because increasingly, if we can imagine it, we'll be able to do it.
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Artists Against War presents...

June 17, 2005 by element115
"Bury The Dead" - a play by Irwin Shaw
Toronto, Monday, June 20
at Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas Street West
Show begins at 8pm sharp.
Doors open at 7pm.
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Bush's Support on Major Issues Tumbles in Poll

June 17, 2005 by element115
Increasingly pessimistic about Iraq and skeptical about President Bush's plan for Social Security, Americans are in a season of political discontent, giving Mr. Bush one of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and even lower marks to Congress, according to the New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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Bush's great unraveling

June 17, 2005 by element115
The American people seem to have had it with the swaggering braggadocio of Bush, Cheney and their coterie of propagandists, Bible-thumpers and cover-up specialists.

Hate to say we told you so
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Crowd storms Kyrgyz government building

June 17, 2005 by element115
Police and Interior Ministry troops firing tear gas regained control of the building an hour after the crowd of about 2,000 forced its way through a gate.

Up to 100 Interior Ministry troops carrying riot shields and truncheons sealed off the building after driving out the protesters. They then advanced on the crowd outside, beating their shields and causing protesters to break and run.
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Finland to adopt mobile broadband

June 17, 2005 by element115
"What goes on in the Nordics is watched around the world and what happens here has credibility far beyond the number of inhabitants," said David Poticny, head of European operations of Lucent Technologies, which makes CDMA equipment.

Austria, Ireland, Britain and France will also award 450 MHz licences in the near future. Germany has already awarded two licences, but has yet to decide on the technology it will use.
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The American Taliban

June 17, 2005 by element115
"We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

"Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest."

"I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure."

"George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God."

....and many more --->
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Israel doesn't like it

June 17, 2005 by element115
Arutz Sheva Israel Broadcasting Network ---> Iran Off the Hook?

More and more analysts are coming to the conclusion that the Bush Administration intends to do nothing to effectively prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

The Bush Administration recently seems to have gone through a serious strategic reevaluation. Not only does it no longer threaten Iran with military action against its nuclear facilities, it seems to have given up the hope that Security Council action would somehow induce Iran to abandon its nuclear program.
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Really funny, Mr. President

June 17, 2005 by element115
Video ---> ...stop it, you killing us!
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Burned Qurans Left at Va. Muslim Center

June 17, 2005 by element115
A bag stuffed with burned Qurans was left in front of an Islamic center, shocking members when they arrived for prayers.

The torched copies of the Muslim holy book were inside a plastic shopping bag, members of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg said. They said the bag had been placed at the center's front door.
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Hijacking the Facts

June 17, 2005 by element115
Village Voice ---> FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11 cover-up - and then hide it some more.
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Appointees in all the wrong places

June 17, 2005 by element115
...in order to learn from your mistakes, you have to recognize you made them. The president assured us just last week that he is "heartened" by what is happening in Iraq and, "I am pleased with the progress." The vice president says there is "major progress" and the insurgency is in its "last throes." These folks are in such deep denial.
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Inside Joke

June 17, 2005 by element115
Chris Floyd ---> You steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the public treasury to secretly prepare for a war you've been planning for many years; you tell your closest ally months in advance that the invasion is on, come hell or high water; you unleash a massive bombing campaign against the target months before the war; you deceitfully manufacture and massage evidence to build a bogus case for launching an unprovoked act of aggression against an opponent who has already met all your demands -- and then you tell the world that you only wanted peace!
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The coming trade war and global depression

June 17, 2005 by element115
The nomenclature of neo-classical economics reflects, and in turn dictates, the warped logic of the economic system it produces. Terms such as money, capital, labor, debt, interest, profits, employment, market, etc have been conceptualized to describe synthetic components of an artificial material system created by the power politics of greed. It is the capitalist greed in the worker that causes the loss of his or her job to lower-wage earners overseas. The concept of the economic man who presumably always acts in his self-interest is a gross abstraction based on the flawed assumption of market participants acting with perfect and equal information and clear understanding of the implication of his actions. The pervasive use of these terms over time disguises the artificial system as the logical product of natural laws, rather than the conceptual components of the power politics of greed.

As people facing the hard choice of survival in the present versus well-being in the future, they will always choose survival, and social capitalism will inevitably go the way of absolute monarchism, and make way for humanist socialism.
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Iraqis struggle to make ends meet as food rations shrink

June 17, 2005 by element115
At food markets, a 35-pound can of vegetable oil, which just a few months ago cost $4 - a little more than an average day's wage - now costs $12.
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Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out

June 17, 2005 by element115
Neal Stephenson ---> Nothing is more seductive than to think that we, like the Jedi, could be masters of the most advanced technologies while living simple lives: to have a geek standard of living and spend our copious leisure time vegging out.
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In The Name Of Freedom

June 17, 2005 by element115
Warning: Video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should be viewed by a mature audience.
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Cassette Tapes: RIP

June 17, 2005 by element115
The cassette may have hissed, been prone to wow and flutter, and often ended its life chewed in a tape deck, but it ruled for four decades.

...industry experts believe it does not have long left.
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Another quake - Magnitude 6.7

June 17, 2005 by element115
A strong earthquake occurred at 06:21:41 (UTC) on Friday, June 17, 2005. The magnitude 6.7 event has been located OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
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U.S. Launches Major Operation in West Iraq

June 17, 2005 by element115
Operation Spear started in the pre-dawn hours in Anbar province.
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Israel heralds plans for underwater barrier

June 17, 2005 by element115
Israel is planning to build an underwater security barrier on the coastal border with the Gaza Strip to prevent any infiltrations from the sea by would-be Palestinian attackers, security sources said on Friday.

The first 150m will be a concrete wall with its foundations buried into the seabed. A floating metal fence will then stretch for another 800m.
The navy-built barrier is expected to stretch nearly a kilometre out into the Mediterranean sea.
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Iranians go to polls to pick new president

June 17, 2005 by element115
Iranians began voting for a new president on Friday, with moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani the front-runner in a race the United States has declared unfair.
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Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail

June 17, 2005 by element115
A Halliburton Co. unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense Department announced.

...what a nerve!
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White House Press Secretary Mocks 'Downing Street Memo

June 17, 2005 by element115
"...our focus is not on the past. It's on the future and working to make sure we succeed in Iraq."
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US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war

June 17, 2005 by element115
American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.
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540,000 Petitions Delivered to President Bush Demanding Truth About Iraq War

June 16, 2005 by element115
Downing Street Memos Trigger Public Outrage Over Deception.
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White House rejects call for Iraq pullout

June 16, 2005 by element115
Critics of the Iraq war proposed a congressional resolution on Thursday calling for a U.S. troop withdrawal in a reflection of growing American unease, but the White House and the Pentagon rejected the idea.
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Mind Control Made Simple

June 16, 2005 by element115
A Silicon Valley startup is working on a system to give users the power to control a mobile device with the power of thought.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
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Inquiry on Bush? ---> the word "impeachment" loomes large

June 16, 2005 by element115
Exhibit A was the so-called Downing Street memo, a prewar document leaked from inside the British government to The Sunday Times of London a month and a half ago.
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California: Third quake in week

June 16, 2005 by element115
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck Southern California on Thursday, shaking skyscrapers and rattling residents left jittery by two larger temblors that rumbled through the Golden State earlier this week.
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Did Bush mislead nation to go to war?

June 16, 2005 by element115
msnbc --> live vote

...as of now - 94% says YES
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Leading Egyptian Government Daily Al-Akhbar: "Al-Zarqawi is an American Agent"

June 16, 2005 by element115
In a June 15, 2005 editorial titled "All the Evidence Proves that Al-Zarqawi is an American Agent," a leading Egyptain government daily Al-Akhbar states that Al-Zarqawi is working for the U.S. and is massacring Iraqis in an effort to extend the occupation in Iraq.
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Democrats Cite Downing Street Memo in Bolton Fight

June 16, 2005 by element115
U.S. Senate Democrats rejected a Republican compromise over John Bolton's nomination as U.N. ambassador on Thursday and cited a British report backing their view that the Bush administration hyped intelligence on Iraq before the 2003 invasion.
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An Open Letter to US Troops on Loyalty

June 16, 2005 by element115
You do not have to follow illegal orders EVER, under any circumstances, and you ARE bound by International Law. You should also be bound by what you know is right, by your sense of plain common decency.
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More Damning than Downing Street

June 16, 2005 by element115
It's bad enough that the Bush administration had so little international support for the Iraqi war that their "coalition of the willing" meant the U.S., Britain, and the equivalent of a child's imaginary friends. It's even worse that, as the Downing Street memo confirms, they had so little evidence of real threats that they knew from the start that they were going to have manufacture excuses to go to war. What's more damning still is that they effectively began this war even before the congressional vote.
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Indonesia reports case of bird flu

June 16, 2005 by element115
Indonesian health officials confirmed the first human case of bird flu in the country on Thursday.
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Gitmo called death camp

June 16, 2005 by element115
"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."
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White House Castigates Durbin for Remarks

June 16, 2005 by element115
The White House said a senator's comparison of American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was reprehensible and a disservice to those serving in the military.
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Child sacrifices in London

June 16, 2005 by element115
Boys from Africa are being murdered as human sacrif ices in London churches.
They are brought into the capital to be offered up in rituals by fundamentalist Christian sects, according to a shocking report by Scotland Yard.

Followers believe that powerful spells require the deaths of "unblemished" male children.

...evil and ignorance everywhere...
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Washington Post ---> The End of Europe

June 15, 2005 by element115
...not simply because it disagrees with some U.S. policies but also because it doesn't want to make the commitments required of a strong ally.

U.S. ---> "...listen Europe, play our game and you will be fine.
'The world according to us' is inevitable.
Resistance is futile."
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Just a Coincidence?

June 15, 2005 by element115
Four of Jessica Lynch's Rescuers Have Died Mysteriously.

...statistically improbable occurrence.
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Babies given electronic tags in U.K.

June 15, 2005 by element115
New-born babies are having electronic tags applied to their ankles in the first hour of life.
Under the scheme, immediately after birth a personalised electronically-programmed tag is attached to the baby's ankle. Each baby's position in the ward can then be monitored on a central control panel.
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Nail It to the White House Door

June 15, 2005 by element115
William Rivers Pitt ---> Almost five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church, initiating a sequence of events which forever altered the geometry of global religion, politics and power. Luther's Theses began with the words, "Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg."

Another document is going to be nailed to another door on Thursday, June 16th. This door opens not to a church, but to the White House. This document is freighted with hard truths, stern demands and nearly a million names. This document, once nailed up, likewise carries with it all the possibilities of change.

So be it.

On Thursday, June 16th, Rep. John Conyers will hold a hearing to investigate and expose the facts revealed by the release of the Downing Street Minutes and the other documents. A variety of witnesses will be called to describe the contents of these documents, and to describe what has been done to Iraq, and to us all, by this administration. Lurking in the corners of the hearing will be a phrase - "High Crime" - that aptly describes what has taken place.

The Conyers hearing will be held on Thursday at 2:30pm EST in room HC-9 in the Capitol Building in Washington DC. This is a small room, so any overflow of public viewers will be directed to the Wasserman Room in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.

At 5:00pm EST, a rally will take place in Lafayette Park, at the gates of the White House.
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Big Brother Is Watching Your Email

June 15, 2005 by element115
A 2005 Proofpoint survey finds that 63% of all large companies employ or plan to employ personnel to monitor employee email.
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Proof is in the memo

June 15, 2005 by element115
"But - but - but " over and over in sheer frustration at the absurdity of it all.
What else is there to say when some fool in Washington says the equivalent of, "No, you're wrong. Humans don't breathe oxygen. No truth in that!"
And then - just to compound the absurdity - the press reports that humans don't breathe oxygen. And then Americans are suddenly waving flags about the fact that we can now breathe underwater.
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Poland to cut troop levels in Iraq by up to 300 this summer

June 15, 2005 by element115
Poland said Wednesday it will cut its 1,700-troop deployment to Iraq this summer by as many as 300 troops.
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Iraq News Is Bleak

June 15, 2005 by element115
"We can't kill them," he said. "When I kill one, I create three."....observation from a U.S. officer who works with the task force overseeing training of Iraqi troops.
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Bush's Willing Executioners

June 15, 2005 by element115
If Germans were complicit, as Goldhagen claims, how can Americans avoid the charge of complicity in Bush's crimes against Iraq when Americans are in possession of such damning facts and have the power of impeachment? Why do Americans tolerate a liar and a war criminal as their president?

Why has Congress voted still more money for an illegal war launched in deception?

Why does the US military permit its human and physical resources to be squandered in a pointless war that has no strategy for victory and no timetable for withdrawal?

How can America be so dominated by a lame-duck president that it loses all sense of itself, its honor, and its purpose?
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Israel Police to start DNA bank of suspects, convicts

June 15, 2005 by element115
The Israel Police will soon systematically begin to collect DNA samples from suspects taken in for questioning under caution and convicts currently serving time in jail.
...the Knesset approved an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law pertaining to a data bank of identification particulars.
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US Senators Want to Punish Red Cross Over Criticism

June 15, 2005 by element115
Republican Senators believe the US should reconsider funds allocated to the International Committee of the Red Cross in view of its repeated criticism of rights violations by US troops in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A lie...

June 15, 2005 by element115
Flash
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Indictment Shows Washington Is 'Israeli-Occupied Territory'

June 15, 2005 by element115
Justin Raimondo ---> The players: a hardline faction of the administration committed to "regime change" not only in Iraq, but throughout the Middle East. Skilled at the art of bureaucratic infighting and relentlessly determined, even as the neocons' plan for the invasion and occupation of Iraq was being implemented they were planning to put the next phase of their grand plan for the Middle East into operation: a confrontation with Iran.
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Televangelist breached guidelines

June 15, 2005 by element115
When televangelist Jimmy Swaggart said he would kill a homosexual who looked at him romantically, he violated the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' ethics code, an industry panel has ruled.

Swaggart made the remarks during a discussion of same-sex marriage on a Sept. 12 broadcast that was carried by the Toronto station Omni 1.

"I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died," Swaggart said.

Swaggart also said that politicians who are undecided on the issue of same-sex marriage "all oughta have to marry a pig and live with him forever."
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Israel 'set to hand over' Jenin

June 15, 2005 by element115
Israel has agreed in principle to return control of the West Bank town of Jenin to the Palestinians, according to the Palestinian interior ministry.
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Former Bush' team member ---> A controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers

June 14, 2005 by element115
A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7. Reynolds, who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas A&M University said, "If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling." Reynolds commented from his Texas A&M office.
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Wireless broadband for the whole world

June 14, 2005 by element115
Hardware giants Intel and Nokia on Thursday announced a cooperation to accelerate the standardization and development of the wireless broadband technology known as WiMax.
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...like a bad dream

June 14, 2005 by element115



...certain saluts come with a certain state of mind

...and we all thought it ended fifty years ago.

Bush speaks at the 2005 President's Dinner, a Republican Party fundraiser, in Washington D.C. June 14, 2005
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Mississippi Republicans not sorry for lynching

June 14, 2005 by element115
In passing the measure, the senators acknowledged their predecessors' failure to act had helped perpetuate a horror that claimed the lives of more than 4,700 people from 1882 to 1968, most of them black men.

Among those missing from the list of co-sponsors were senators from the state that reported the most lynching incidents -- Mississippi Republicans Trent Lott and Thad Cochran
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The Guantanamo will operate for years

June 14, 2005 by element115
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that such a detention center will be needed until the war on terror is over.

"They're not common car thieves. They're believed to be determined killers," he said.

"...as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed."
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Kabul on brink of cholera crisis

June 14, 2005 by element115
MORE than 2000 cases of cholera have been detected in the Afghan capital Kabul, sparking fears the city is on the verge of an epidemic.
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Christian Coalition: Gay Warning Labels

June 14, 2005 by element115
"We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we 'celebrate' a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average life span according to the 2005 issue of the revered scientific journal Psychological Reports," Rev. Bill Banuchi, executive director of the New York Christian Coalition told the Mid Hudson News.
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Time to indict our leaders for crimes against humanity!

June 14, 2005 by element115
If nothing else, the utter disregard for the lives of the Iraqi people who have, since 1990 suffered at least 1 million deaths at the hands of the 'coalition of the killing', surely tells us everything we need to know about the nature of our so-called civilisation. Our darker-skinned brothers and sisters count for nothing in the scheme of things; the scale of the atrocity barely gets a mention in the mainstream media, and if it does, it's always preceded by 'our' casualties.
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Fluoridated water can cause bone cancer in boys

June 14, 2005 by element115
New US research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma -- bone cancer -- between the ages of 10 and 19.
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