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Is the Draft Is Coming? "The Pentagon is scrambling to find enough fresh troops to begin an orderly rotation program that would bring home some of the 147,000 soldiers spread thinly across troubled Iraq. ... The need for replacement troops is putting great strain on both the active and reserve forces already stretched thin meeting obligations in Iraq as well as in Afghanistan, South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Sinai - and a brigade-sized force of up to 5,000 troops expected to be deployed to peacekeeping duties in Liberia. With only ten active duty divisions the 480,000-man U.S. Army has been stretched almost to the breaking point by the Iraq deployments. While Defense Secretary Donald L. Rumsfeld and his top civilian aides have talked in the past of chopping another two divisions out of that Army, some in Congress have begun urging an increase in the active Army by as much as 25 percent." Test Of Secret Electromagnetic (EM) Supergun Planned KNOW ANY YOUNG MEN WHO ARE WONDERING WHETHER TO REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT? In just five minutes and seven brief points they'll get a lifetime's worth of principles and good libertarian sense. I wish every 18-year-old knew about this. Send 'em here. (via clairewolfe blog)The most important reason why you should not register for the draft is because you own your body. You own your life. With the draft, the government says that they own your life and they will do whatever they want with your body for as long as they want when they decide the time is right. US Intelligence Believed Sadaam Greater Threat if Defeated Maybe this is what they wanted all along...must have a boogy man out there...now we have three saddaamn, o ben laden, al kader(bushspeak) President Bush's Economic Record: Record Job Losses, Stagnant Growth, Budget Deficits, and a Stock Market in Declin Number of Jobs Created Under: Bush Sr 2.5 Million Clinton23 Million Bush Jr-2 Million It's up to -2.7 million now cryptome has a buttload of new docs go ck em out... How RFID Spies on Customers,Images of 8 Forged Nigerien Uranium Docs,Briefing on Launch of kids.us Domain (this is scary)... Dr Kelly had been taken to a safe house? Does this adds fuel to the assassination of kelly speculation? Identifying Fascism (via woods lot) U.S. Syria raid killed 80 (bet you didn't hear this in the news... Remeber that "border skirmish" with Syria last month? Well, it was much larger than a "skirmish." 80 Syrians were killed, and the raid was also based on bogus intelligence. Furthermore, the fallout has destroyed out important intelligence relationship with Syria. At this point, though, we have really trashed out intelligence relationship with everyone. Credibility can not be restored to the US' foreign policy with Bush/Cheney still in power.(Via postmodernpotlatch) Just so you know... Police knew Toby Studabaker was in Germany on Sunday night thanks to a 60billion [British pound] satellite system which tracked his mobile phone even when it was not in use. READ:TURNED OFF. (Via underreported news blog) It's for the children... ;-) A plan to use head-retinal scanners for buying and selling. "...It has full safety approval from the US, and meets UK safety regulations." Lying -- a Bush Family Value In most cases, it wouldn’t matter much that a 40-year-old long-time heavy drinker refused to admit to his alcoholism, nor that years later, he continued to play word games when asked about his cocaine use. Doctors might say that denial isn’t good for a person’s recovery, but that wouldn’t affect the rest of us. Is assimilation inevitable? The Moral Of The Story~... DON'T READ IN PUBLIC. "Someone in the shop that day saw you reading something, and thought it looked suspicious enough to call us about. So that's why we're here, just checking it out. Like I said, there's no problem. We'd just like to get to the bottom of this. Now if we can't, then you may have a problem. And you don't want that." (Via Chapel Perilous) The retaliation from Washington was swift. ... Nice way to treat people.. "On Wednesday morning, when the ABC news show reported from Fallujah, where the division is based, the troops gave the reporters an earful. One soldier said he felt like he'd been "kicked in the guts, slapped in the face." Another demanded that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quit. The retaliation from Washington was swift. " ""It was the end of the world," said one officer Thursday. "It went all the way up to President Bush and back down again on top of us. At least six of us here will lose our careers." First lesson for the troops, it seemed: Don't ever talk to the media "on the record" -- that is, with your name attached -- unless you're giving the sort of chin-forward, everything's-great message the Pentagon loves to hear. " "On Wednesday morning, when the ABC news show reported from Fallujah, where the division is based, the troops gave the reporters an earful. One soldier said he felt like he'd been "kicked in the guts, slapped in the face." Another demanded that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quit. The retaliation from Washington was swift. " ""It was the end of the world," said one officer Thursday. "It went all the way up to President Bush and back down again on top of us. At least six of us here will lose our careers." First lesson for the troops, it seemed: Don't ever talk to the media "on the record" -- that is, with your name attached -- unless you're giving the sort of chin-forward, everything's-great message the Pentagon loves to hear. " (via danlife) Bush Documented... American Soldiers: We're Still Here Because of Brown & Root Soldiers say most of their work involves civilian contractor Kellogg Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton Corp. The company has contracts to haul fuel, and 319th members are riding along as armed escorts. "The main reason we're still here is to support Brown and Root," said Sgt. 1st Class David Uthe, 45, of Augusta. . . . "We don't understand what's going on. We've been here long enough. We did our mission." Sgt. Robert Curl, on waiting to return home. [more] Pentagon to dig into marketing data on citizens The type of information that can be legally obtained for a new federal government computer program ranges from political and religious contributions to magazine subscriptions, clothing sizes and even data about prostate problems. Cheney Bypass...oil oil oil Judicial Watch, media release today: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.” The documents, which are dated March 2001, are available Upload a File, Go to Prison I saw the best peer-to-peer networks of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the cyberpunk networks at dawn looking for an angry file, angleheaded uploaders burning discs for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of all-consuming transnational corporate night... This is an outrage -- the attempt to turn the most potentially democratic aspect of the Net into a heavily regulated commercial wasteland is a travesty. Will the youth who rolled over on Napster realize their error and release a torrent of rage? It's the only hope -- the older generations (those in the positions of power) just don't seem to understand the importance of what has been happening to P2P. (Via: American Sam) A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a peer-to-peer network. The bill was introduced by Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.). They said the bill is designed to increase domestic and international enforcement of copyright laws. More specifically, the bill targets peer-to-peer file trading, an aide working for the congressmen said. The law is meant to keep up with changing technology. Witchcraft, War, and "Pannick Fear" extract «There is, finally, a strange irony about In the Devil's Snare. It's almost as if witchcraft has worked a bit of unexpected deviltry here. As hard as Norton strives to avoid present-mindedness and describe the Salem trials exactly "as people in Essex County experienced [them] in 1692," so, too, does witchcraft insist on its enduring relevance, the uncanny shadow it casts over later times. The writing of this book was completed somewhat before September 11, 2001. But consider... In the late spring of 2003, as this edition of Harvard Magazine goes off to press, "pannick fear" once again is abroad in the land. Devastating "raids" have cropped up all along the global "frontier"; indeed, some have reached our national center. Most of us are as yet untouched by violence, yet all feel (to one degree or another) threatened. The danger lurks in hidden places, and usually surfaces without warning. The urge to strike back can be overwhelming; and when our foes seem invisible or unreachable, we find surrogates on whom to unleash our fury. The future is painfully uncertain; some anticipate a coming clash of civilizations. Words like "evil," even "Satan," are heedlessly tossed about. Our traditional liberties may soon be set aside for the sake of an elusive (or illusive?) security. As was the case at Salem in 1692, much will depend on the attitudes and actions of our leaders. What do they have "personally at stake" in the unfolding crisis? Might the "devil" now "operating in their world" be put to use as a cover for "their own failings?" Or will they choose a better way, one that does not exploit the "pannick fear" but instead confronts and deals with it honestly? Are you listening, down there in Washington, D.C. It's the witches calling.» Psychic TV: Nervous System Manipulation By Electromagnetic Fields From Monitors (Vai Disinfo.com)Check out this interesting patent on a method for manipulating the nervous system of a subject located near a television or computer monitor. Further incentive to chuck your TV. The information, both legal and medical, is available at the US Patent Office. Note that the patent (registered 1971) predates both cable TV and the personal computer. Fuck Micro$oft Microsoft Awarded Homeland Security Contract Expect more spyware in your software. 200 N Korean missiles pointed at Japan, warns Wa$hington The U$ government has warned Japan that North Korea has positioned 200 medium-range Rodong missiles to target Japan Props where props are due. Being as I get anywhere from two to three hundred hits a week,(prolly due to the wonderful mom and pop op of unknownnews),I would like to plug my New friend over at postpotlatch blog,he has a high-end professionally done site with fancypants comment section.Do check it out.I'll stick with this old clunker of a blog and be greatful. Pepsi...PEPSI? Well, I just finished reading the post from Salam Pax, and he continues to post about the lack of electricity due to damage and insurgency, and the pressure that is putting on U.S. troops as well as the mantra by the Iraq people of Electricity, Water, and Security and was somewhat dumbfounded by this statement: "The amount of Pepsi trucks you see being unloaded everyday is incredible". What the fuck? These people AS WELL,as our BOYS need WATER!And these parasites are somehow getting in Pepsi by the truckload? If there is a Santa in the sky may he send a pox upon these turbo- capitalist pigs. Safe peaceful wishes to our boys, and may the BUSHCO and PNAC/CFR/WORLD BANK/IMF klan live long with pus filled cancer and weak knees. BOGUS FROM THE BEGINNING BACKLASH AGAINST WAR PARTY'S LIES Fire Paul Wolfowitz! [You are probably expecting today's memo was written yesterday or today. Of course, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz should be fired, but this memo was written on October 9, 2001, almost one month after 9-11. It was clear even then that Wolfowitz was eager to use 9-11 to boost his plans for war against Iraq. I've known Rumsfeld since 1966 or 1967, when he was still a member of the House from Illinois. He of course did not take my advice, but did everything in his power to help Wolfowitz persuade President Bush to go to war. As a result of the fiasco now unfolding, it may be necessary for President Bush to fire Rumsfeld. The only good explanation of how the President believed he was telling the truth is that he was not experienced enough to be able to assess the material being fed to him by his Cabinet. Wolfowitz should surely go and I now think Rumsfeld should go too, and so should Condi Rice, the hapless National Security Advisor. Before this is all over, I suspect Mr. Bush will also have to pick a new running mate in 2004.] All War All the Time... Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has ordered the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines to draft plans for a sweeping restructuring of the 900,000-strong National Guard and reserve forces. Ulterior motives behind ID tags exposed Why is it you have to go outside of America anymore to get reportings on whats going on in America? Plans to swamp the world in invisible tracking devices were revealed last week as secret industry documents detailing a global agenda to "pacify" consumers and co-opt key lawmakers were leaked The Bankruptcy of America By Porter Stansberry I wonder why this doesn't include the Trillions of dollars we have given our 'friends'Israel in the last several years... Perspective? I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." -- Jack Handy/ Sometimes ya gotta laugh or go stark raving mad...-mobythor 2 fat 2 fatty How many people knew that Philip Morris (yes that Philip Morris Cigarettes company)owns Nabisco, and Kraft products among other food stuff or that the Spanish waged a ferocious, decades-long campaign war using food to subjugate and conquer the Aztec Indians...-mobythor / "Multinational food companies have known for years of research that suggests many of their products trigger chemical reactions in the brain which lead people to overeat, The Telegraph can reveal." "Prof Banzhaf described the food industry's knowledge of possible links between high-calorie food and over-eating by humans as "astounding". "This would seem to constitute failure to disclose a material fact - information that might sway the decision of consumers, had they known about it," he said. While there is no suggestion that the food industry knowingly manipulates its products to boost over-consumption, Prof Banzhaf said there were parallels with the case against the tobacco industry. "They said smokers smoke for the taste, and it had nothing to do with the brain. It sounds to me that we have something very similar here." via (Danklife blog) ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. ( A book ) Haven't had time to check it out,but this comes from clairewolfe's blog and I trust her judgement on this.../ A sniper opens fire on a crowded football stadium on the first day of the season. The crowd panics and stampedes. A thousand people die ... and the federal government immediately goes not only into gun-banning mode, but into a post-911-type security frenzy that ultimately brings the country FIST (Firearm Inspections Stop Terrorism) checkpoints and brutal demonization of gun owners. The alleged (and quickly deceased) sniper has conveniently used a "military-style assault weapon," and conveniently fits the profile every anti-gunner loves to hate. The loss of freedom looks unstoppable. But is it? And that's merely the opening of Enemies Foreign and Domestic, the first novel by Matthew Bracken, a self-described "freedom addict." The book is due out the end of this month. You can read a generous selection of excerpts on the Web site and put in your pre-order, as well. Unlike most freedom-movement novels, this one is loaded with action and populated by characters you'll believe, like, and identify with. Go Matthew! I can't wait to read the whole thing. How to fight for privacy Bruce Schneier's latest Cryptogram newsletter leads with a stirring editorial about the erosion of privacy and the difficulty for average people to address it. My wife needed a prescription filled. Her doctor called it in to a local pharmacy, and when she went to pick it up the pharmacist refused to fill it unless she disclosed her personal information for his database. The pharmacist even showed my wife the rule book. She found the part where it said that "a reasonable effort must be made by the pharmacy to obtain, record, and maintain at least the following information," and the part where is said: "If a patient does not want a patient profile established, the patient shall state it in writing to the pharmacist. The pharmacist shall not then be required to prepare a profile as otherwise would be required by this part." Despite this, the pharmacist refused. My wife was stuck. She needed the prescription filled. She didn't want to wait the few hours for her doctor to phone the prescription in somewhere else. The pharmacist didn't care; he wasn't going to budge. I had to travel to Japan last year, and found a company that rented local cell phones to travelers. The form required either a Social Security number or a passport number. When I asked the clerk why, he said the absence of either sent up red flags. I asked how he could tell a real-looking fake number from an actual number. He said that if I didn't care to provide the number as requested, I could rent my cell phone elsewhere, and hung up on me. I went through another company to rent, but it turned out that they contracted through this same company, and the man declined to deal with me, even at a remove. I eventually got the cell phone by going back to the first company and giving a different name (my wife's), a different credit card, and a made-up passport number. Honor satisfied all around, I guess.Via boing boing It depends on what the definiton of DEFICIT is is is is?? I was reminded of this article over at Dailykos.com. Some readers here at Mobythor's guide can go back and read the post's I put up below on Grover Norquest (part of P.N.A.C.?) remember how he (and P.N.A.C.?) Plan to train-wreck the economy so as to do away with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start and Food Stamps pension funds 401k's retirement etc. because the moneyed elite do not need these programs.Well, we're off to a damn good start on that...read this shit and weep.This doesn't Include our world tour of War's expenses either... PROMIS Keepers? A very curious story Indeed.../Good to see Disinfo.com back in the game after a dry spell and now a revamp to boot. Operation Ditch Cheney? Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of retired intelligence agents, have written a memorandum to President Bush pointing the finger directly at the Vice President in the Niger forgery flap and calling for his resignation. JUST HOW FUCKED UP IS THIS? Kissinger's Now Declassified Position Paper on Population Control IMPLICATIONS OF WORLDWIDE POPULATION GROWTH FOR U.S. SECURITY AND OVERSEAS INTERESTS BYE BYE IRAN... TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has made a major new oil find containing estimated reserves of more than 38 billion barrels, making it one of the world's biggest undeveloped fields, a senior oil official was quoted as saying Monday. Somebody blew up Amiri... New Jersey Abolishes Poet Laureate Post They couldn't fire Amiri Baraka, so they did this instead. (Via American Samizdat) Encore article: "Energy and Empire" Review by Phil Leggiere Nineteenth Century historian Brooks Adams is the most blatant philosopher of global adventurismin US history. Adams was obsessed with the concepts of energy and entropy, and their role in the rise and fall of empires. He believed that nations must either expand outward, using up new sources of energy in the process, or dissipate spiritually and morally-their "vigor" depleted. Soon-to-be President Theodore Roosevelt was among the strongest believers. In brutal conquests of the Philippines, Cuba, Hawaii and elsewhere, Roosevelt and his generation of romantic imperialists translated Adams' bookish ruminations into practice, establishing the U.S. as a global super-power. Bush sr. audio files... BUSH SR, PUPPET MASTER OF HEGELIAN DIALECTICAL MANIPULATIONS. IN HIS OWN WORDS... /AUDIO ARCHIVES/KEEP IN MIND: "PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION"... AS YOU LISTEN TO THESE GEMS HOPEFULLY, THE TRUTH WILL COME THROUGH. This is just to good to pass up, people send me stuff all the time here at Mobythor's guide to The Bush Underground Reich... and I really find most the stuff coming from rumourmillnews.com to be quite far out there...but this is as stated a 'gem'. Enjoy.( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUMORMILLNEWS/message/8239 ) Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler If it's your interest - it's free... The entire book from which this chapter is excerpted, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton, is available online at. It would behoove every American to read it. It documents the involvement of American industrialists such as the Rockefeller, Harriman, Ford and -- of course -- the Bush Crime Familys. For instance, did you know that Hilter had a portrait of Henry Ford on his office wall? Faith-based intelligence in the major newsweeklies? The cover of this coming week's TIME: "UNTRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES" Some snippets: In what looked like a command performance of political sacrifice, the head of the agency that expressed some of the strongest doubts about the charge took responsibility for the President's unsubstantiated claim. and How did a story that much of the national-security apparatus regarded as bogus wind up in the most important speech of Bush's term? The evidence suggests that many in the Bush Administration simply wanted to believe it. There it is, ladies and gents, faith-based intelligence in the major newsweeklies. They also talk to Wilson and Theilmann directly, both of whom are quoted at length. On March 9 of last year, the CIA circulated a memo on the yellowcake story that was sent to the White House, summarizing Wilson's assessment. Wilson was not the only official looking into the matter. Nine days earlier, the State Department's intelligence arm had sent a memo directly to Secretary of State Colin Powell that also disputed the Italian intelligence. Greg Thielmann, then a high-ranking official at State's research unit, told TIME that it was not in Niger's self-interest to sell the Iraqis the destabilizing ore. "A whole lot of things told us that the report was bogus," Thielmann said later. "This wasn't highly contested. There weren't strong advocates on the other side. It was done, shot down." The Project for the New American Century's entire website has been taken offline. We have now seen the end of the stupidest move in the history of wacky power conspiracies: we are no longer allowed to read the evil plans of our overlords. Sometimes the biggest stories are the ones that never break. The yoinking of PNAC's nonsense from the web sends a clear signal that they are circling the wagons down on Pennsylvania Avenue. It is disappointing that the site won't remain up. While Americans are beginning to become insensed about the war in Iraq, most still fail to see the issue in a broader context: this would not have happened without the influence of ideology and haste. The collection of like-minded PNAC ideologues occupying seats of power was an historically significant mistake, as was Congress' abdication of their right to declare war. Bush, Cheney, and Wolfowitz are not the problem. The problem is the disrespect for Constitutional procedure and principle that is inherent in the "CEO President" methodology. Indeed, the American government has become a well-oiled war-profteering machine. But somehow I doubt that PNAC will now cease to be a story. For one, they are still an operating think tank, though they have obviously had their glory days. I doubt that all of their current employees are going to disappear. Bill Kristol is unlikely to contract Wellstone's disease before tomorrow morning. And aside from all that, how many thousands of people have saved everything that was ever on PNAC's site to their own computers? How many thousands are saving the google caches now? Tenet's goose is not the only one that is cooked. Cheney is trying to hide, but it's impossible. PNAC--and Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Wolfowitz, Khalilzad, Bill Bennet, all those m-----f------ --are finally going to have to face the public that they have been exploiting and defrauding for the last two years. Bring 'em on. You do realize We've Been Neo-Conned Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy. A few have, and others will continue to do so, but too many – both in and out of government – close their eyes to the issue of personal liberty and ignore the fact that endless borrowing to finance endless demands cannot be sustained. True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society. Understanding the P.N.A.C. ( Project for the New American Century ) I don't understand how anyone can be cognizant of PNAC, see it playing out before their eyes, and not be pretty freaked out by it.( Via pattonprice over at postmodernpotlatch) Money money money...make that Blood money! WAR for profit?...nah. Faith-based intelligence? In lite of the recent passing of the buck by our fearless leader.... Anyone remember this? GOP presidential hopeful George W. Bush challenged rival Al Gore's credibility while a chastened Gore apologized for getting "details wrong" in his campaign rhetoric during their second debate last night. "I think credibility is important," Bush said, when asked whether Gore's exaggerations were a serious issue. "It's going to be important for the president to be credible with Congress, important for the president to be credible with foreign nations. It's something people need to consider - I think this is an issue." Not Welcome : NYC is not united behind the Republican's war-mongering agenda. We are New Yorkers adamantly opposed to the Republican's selection of our city to celebrate rising unemployment, their gutting of social services, tax cuts for the mega-rich, unlawful detention of immigrants, and their unrelenting exploitation of the 9/11 victims while standing on their ashes. Bucky On War ( It's Bucky's Birthday ) "Society neither hears nor sees the great changes going on. Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers." Aids cash goes to US bio-defence United States Government funds for research on diseases such as Aids are being diverted into procuring anthrax vaccine. SPY AGENCIES ABUSE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION EXEMPTIONS BUT CONGRESS MAY GRANT NEW ONE TO INTERCEPTS AGENCY Proposed FOIA Exemption Would Provide National Security Agency With Virtually Unchecked Power to Keep Records Secret How important is African oil? President George W Bush is in Africa to launch HIV/Aids, development and anti-terrorism initiatives. But his visit has also highlighted the growing importance of oil imports for the United States./US oil imports from Nigeria and Venezuela are more important than imports from the Gulf. The recent gas price hikes have to do with trouble in those countries more than with the Iraq war. "The two major political parties are crooked." Indeed,BUT YOU KNEW THAT DIDN'T YOU..."Corporate Crime Reporter last week released a report documenting $9.3 million given by convicted criminals to the Democrats and the Republicans in the 2002 election cycle. (See the full report, "Dirty Money: Corporate Criminal Donations to the Two Major Parties Being Invisible Beware the DOD... Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe. BEYOND BUSH? Some say take MICHAEL C. RUPPERT with a large grain of salt...and I'm not saying I agree or disagree...I say read the damn article and decide for yourself. What's more important: profits or jobs? If you were being asked to plan the perfect economy, what do you think would be more important: jobs for everyone or the chance for anyone to make as much money as possible?/ While such a question may seem like nothing more than a term paper topic in a graduate level economics class or the province of an hopelessly unreconstructed socialist, this very question has been playing itself out across all segments of the American economy for decades now, and has recently gotten a boost in light of the economic policies of the current Bush administration. What's critical this time around, however, is that in the run-up to the 21st century and beyond, the structural tension between jobs and profits has become heavily skewed away from jobs and towards profit, so much so that the current economic environment - often referred to as a "jobless recovery" - may well be the harbinger of a redefined relationship between labor and capital that could cut much deeper than the recent round of unemployment numbers suggests. Total war" through "creative violence."? This article appears in the July 11, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review, but don't let that stop you from reading it...Lyndon LaRouche is dubious at best, but there is info here that is important./Michael Ledeen is a believer in "total war" through "creative violence." There is no such thing as peace between nations, he maintains; peace is just an interlude between wars.[AND WAR IS ACQUISITION AND PROFIT!] Follow-up on CBS NEWSFLASH...(The backpedaling begins) On the below link regarding CBS NEWSFLASH....Don't get too happy: the backpedaling is also being forced upon CBS. They've changed their headline from "false" to just "dubious;" before nightfall, I expect the story itself to be radically changed. Hope you all saved a copy for posterity... GM Companies Aim To Own Entire Global Food System Sydney Morning Herald A handful of companies is moving towards owning every stage of the global food system, writes Gyorgy Scrinis. News Flash! : CBS News is finally exposing the administration's LIES - Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False About every media outlet in the nation is now running with the story.Execpt fox of course...and as of this morning it's been pushed to the back burner...page 23 c "...But the bottom line is the White House knowingly included in a presidential address information its own CIA had explicitly warned might not be true...." How did the Bush administration and the GOP benefit from the 911 catastrophe. Covering Up Iran-Contra ( and why it''s Relevant today) "To protect the growing number of secrets, the Reagan-Bush administration organized a domestic public diplomacy operation, headed by another CIA officer named Walter Raymond Jr. The goal of this operation was to conduct what was called 'perception management,' that is the control of how the American people perceived the events unfolding in Central America and elsewhere. A high priority was given to bullying U.S. journalists who didn’t toe the government’s line. One of the key congressional Republicans fighting this rear-guard action was Rep. Dick Cheney of Wyoming, who became the ranking House Republican on the Iran-contra investigation. Cheney already enjoyed a favorable reputation in Washington as a steady conservative hand. Cheney smartly exploited his relationship with Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who was chairman of the Iran-contra panel. Hamilton cared deeply about his reputation for bipartisanship and the Republicans quickly exploited this fact. So, Hamilton gave Bush a pass. The limited investigation also gave little attention to other sensitive areas, such as contra-drug trafficking and the public diplomacy operation. They were pared down or tossed out altogether. Despite surrendering to Cheney’s demands time and again, Hamilton failed, in the end, to get a single House Republican to sign the final report. Only three moderate Republicans on the Senate side – Warren Rudman, William Cohen and Paul Trible – agreed to sign the report, after extracting more concessions. Cheney and the other Republicans submitted a minority report that denied that any significant wrongdoing had occurred. The watered-down Iran-contra majority report essentially let Vice President Bush off the hook. Bush’s political career was saved." As early as the Clinton transition period in December 1992, the incoming Democrats rejected overtures from the Iranian government offering details about the 1980 October Surprise controversy. Rep. Hamilton, who had been named to head a task force on the October Surprise issue in 1992, proved his commitment to bipartisanship again. When evidence supporting the long-held October Surprise suspicions poured in during the last weeks of the Bush administration, Hamilton’s task force turned a deaf ear and – in the case of the Russian report – actually hid the evidence from public view. Given the Bush family’s success in containing unpleasant secrets from the past quarter century, it also might be easier to understand why George W. Bush has taken chances hiding his own personal indiscretions." Why is this important now, you ask? Because Lee Hamilton is the VP in charge of the 9-11 commission. And after reading the article, it became clear why Cheney was chosen as Junior's Second-Hand Man. (vai Chapel Perilous) Consent of the governed gives legitimacy... ''Never has any people endured its own tragedy with so little sense of the tragic.'' "Let's be clear: American fascism, if it comes, is not likely to come on the form of a charismatic leader pulling the political wool over the eyes of right-thinking Americans - for that, the common sense of most American citizens will do just fine in beating it back. But it is likely to come on the form of denigrated civil liberties in the face of governmental and corporate absolutism, coupled with expanded militarism, a structured class system, and an alienated, psychologically disenfranchised citizenry, among other characteristics. The day is hardly likely to come, then, when American jackboots parade down Main Street, but certainly could arrive when that all government policy is centered on "national security" issues as defined by a narrow set of corporate self-interests and ideological perceptions about foreign policy, complete without any true recourse by the citizenry. ...such a day is already close at hand." (via Abuddhas memes) The future is Now... (via metafilter) "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…" More fraud... Florida GOP Official Receives Heavy Fine For Running Bush 2000 Election Effort to Intimidate Florida Supreme Count During the Recount Crisis 7/10 Iran ‘terrorist’ group finds support on Hill ( Thats' "Capital Hill" my friends ) Some members of Congress are refusing to drop their support of a Middle Eastern group, even though the State Department says its terrorist fighters are attacking U.S. and coalition troops in southern Iraq. Complete collection of articles and resources on Vote Fraud In lite of the recent stories posted here on diebolt and vote rigging I found this. Follow-up on Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program Take Back or Create Democracy in America! Assure a Free and Fair Election!!! (via American samizdat) CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numberin , that fierce doberman watching over shoppers' privacy, has discovered that anyone can access "confidential" documents on the MIT Auto-ID Center web site. This is a delicious irony, since the Auto-ID Center is the spooky institution that's not only building the global infrastructure for adopting universal product ID (virtually invisible radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking tags to be imbedded in literally every product manufactured on earth), but is also charged with convincing us ignorant peasants how useful and "secure" the technology is. Among the "secure" documents on the site is one that talks about how to "pacify" the vast majority of individuals who hate the very idea of having themselves and their toilet paper use tracked from store shelf to sewer, and another that wistfully hopes we'll all just get over it and become "apathetic" and "resign" ourselves to "the inevitability of it." more here:( http://www.autoidcenter.com/publishedresearch/cam-autoid-eb002.pdf ) (Via Clairewole blog) The Blacklisted Journalist (via abuddhas memes) Ari, Just Leave Already (Via medley) You have to go read this transcript from a White House Press briefing this morning. This is about Bush's mendacity in the state of the union address regarding uranium and Africa. Just read the whole thing. These guys are freakin' incompetents. WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS, AMERICA. Fuk U Francis When history refuses to end, put it out of its misery. The Halliburton bill of rights Eleven (11) of the most pressing questions that emanate from the Terrible http://www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc1241.html Who owns the world? I rarely ever visit commondreams, let alone link to any of it's articles, but this guy has a point~ and it's and eyeopener...is this our democracy? Privatising the Military?!?! The Halliburton/KBR relationship with the Pentagon.I'd been worrying that this administration was going to propose privatising the military, but damned if they aren't already doing it. Fear Factory Here's how it works: Throw a hundred claims against the wall and poll every night to see what sticks. Leak stories that are later discredited. Get a graduate student's dissertation and plagiarize it. Lift paragraphs from a war-industry magazine. Every so often, raise the danger level to code "yellow" or "orange." Give the people a rest. Then start all over again. Mix it all up and put an official seal on it. Now it seems true, despite the skepticism of intelligence professionals. Mossad ...sad. Okay, I don't agree with the entire article, but...... "It is common knowledge that Mossad trained the apartheid South African regimes police and military that terrorized Blacks and Browns in that country for years, Israel also sold the weaponry and technology to South Africa that was banned by the UN and the USA that helped hold the African natives of the region and nation in check; experts on Africa say there are others operating in Africa at this time in Nigeria and Kenya. What is interesting also is how much Israel and its agents have infiltrated American intelligence and politics. It is a known fact that Wolfowitz, Fleischer, Perle, Lantos and some others have dual citizenships between Israel and America. Some of their behavior helps reinforce this loyalty to Israel; at times, Lantos asks for more funds for Israel than for the poor in America or even in California (his district and state). It is well known by every literate person in the world that Wolfowitz and Perle were two of the prime movers for an attack on Iraq and continue their pressuring for attacks on Iran, Syria and Lebanon (which are at the top of Israel’s hit list). AIPAC, the American Israel Political Action Committee uses millions of dollars of its funds to get billions in aid for Israel through donations and political pressure on American presidents, congress people and senators.Israel at this time has a huge stock of atomic weapons, thanks to our assistance. Israel also has major supplies of anthrax and other poison weapons, again, thanks to the assistance of the U.S. Government who at one time feared Arab attacks on Israel. These are the reasons that Israel will not allow atomic inspectors into Israel and will not sign the vaunted American pushed, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that America wants everyone else to sign, and uses pressure to achieve this, but never on Israel. As to the poison weapons, neither America nor Israel will sign this accord banning poison weapons because they have so many in their security vaults. Thus, to many experts in the world, the U.S. attack on Iraq for WMD and poison weapons, was very much a bald-faced farce, without merit, when two of the biggest abusers of atomic proliferation and poison weapons were the ones calling for the war, America and Israel ." (Via Chapel Perilous) what do you call the president of a voting machine company? Senator!::::: U.S. CHUCK HAGEL NOW ADMITS OWNERSHIP IN VOTING MACHINE COMPANY SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE DIRECTOR RESIGNS "Hagel's ethics filings pose disclosure issue" -- "The Hill" 1/29/2003 On October, 10, 2002 Bev Harris, author of the upcoming "Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering" in the 21st Century, revealed that Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has ties to the largest voting machine company, Election Systems & Software (ES&S). She reported that he was an owner, Chairman and CEO of Election Systems & Software (called American Information Systems until name change filed in 1997). ES&S was the ONLY company whose machines counted Hagel's votes when he ran for election in 1996 and 2002. The Hill, a Washington D.C. newspaper that covers the U.S. national political scene, confirmed her findings today and uncovered more details. 'We Found the Hack' on Diebold-owned Black-Box Voting Machines Interesting thread over at Democratic Underground for those having any curiosity about this. Seems like something nefarious has been found dealing Diebold voting machines, involving as many as 30 states, and going back to 1998. I'm going to forward this to all my contacts and suggest that anyone who knows of Bev Harris and the project with which she has preoccupied herself for several years, should do the same. http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID70/1995.html Interesting thread over at Democratic Underground for those having any curiosity about this. Seems like something nefarious has been found dealing Diebold voting machines, involving as many as 30 states, and going back to 1998. I'm going to forward this to all my contacts and suggest that anyone who knows of Bev Harris and the project with which she has preoccupied herself for several years, should do the same. Bev Harris's Smoking Gun On Diebold Voting Machines Well, Bev Harris may have done it with some help of the Democratic Underground and BartCop forums. She has been working on something special for 3 weeks or so. The people involved moved the activity off the forums for self preservation. I check BartCop every day for her posts. Looks like something very big broke last night on Democratic Underground. I found the first post on BartCop this morning. A link goes to the DU post by Bev: NEWS: Black Box Voting -- we found the hack. S.O.S. , with comments Only in America 'Our problem is not that we are being Americanised. In spite of the massive impact of cultural and economic Americanisation, the rest of the world, even the capitalist world, has so far been strikingly resistant to following the model of US politics and society. That is probably because America is less of a coherent and therefore exportable social and political model of a capitalist liberal democracy, based on the universal principles of individual freedom, than its patriotic ideology and Constitution suggest. So, far from being a clear example that the rest of the world can imitate, the USA, however powerful and influential, remains an unending process, distorted by big money and public emotion, a system tinkering with institutions, public and private, to make them fit realities unforeseen in the unalterable text of a 1787 Constitution. It simply does not lend itself to copying. Most of us would not want to copy it' (via Also not found in Nature blog) US admits to 50 secret tests of bio weapons on troops "on it's own people"...sound familiar? Wave and say hi to Poindexter... Pentagon Watching You: Latest Developments On Surveillance Front All technologies developed can and most likely will be used on US citizens; DARPA's open bidding announcements are simply one way they have to periodically deal with the fact that the media eventually learns about what they are doing. Mossad: masters of global terrorism? The other day I was scanning the news reports and came across a rather mundane item that really got me to thinking. It simply read: Cloudcroft chief stops Israelis with suspicious cargo The Two Georges, Orwell and Bush Tish pointed me to this Reading of George Orwell’s 1984 interspersed with recent news clips from President Bush and others (More Audio)This is just as Chilling... Weapons dossier 'sent back six times' A dossier including the claim that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes was repeatedly returned to intelligence chiefs for changes, the BBC has learned./oh, and...Blair says the charges are totally untrue. Of Mice and (Con) Men The Brits are so embarrassed about their outrageous claims that they have removed it from their web site (number 10's official website). I had a URL pointing to the page's place in the google cache - but that seems to have mysteriously disappeared as well. Funny, google aren't usually that efficient at cleaning out their cache (six weeks after a page is withdrawn from the web?) Well, *I* have a copy. In the document we find that Iraq supposed to have:- 8,500 litres of anthrax spores, weaponising 6,500 litres; 20,000 litres of the botulinum toxin, half of which are placed into warheads; 2,000 litres of Aflatoxin, weaponising 1,500 litres; 5,000 litres of gangrene Gas; 10 litres of ricin; up to 3,000 tonnes of precursor chemicals including 300 tonnes suitable for VX; up to 360 tonnes of bulk CW agent; over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents. That's 38,860 tonnes (not counting the munitions). At 30 tonnes per semi trailer this would have taken 1,295 loads to ship the material to hiding places. Yet America's spy satellite, drones and spy planes saw nothing suspicious?? It is noteworthy that Bushco has recently claimed that looters probably took the stuff before the US military could get to it. So what are poor Iraqis going to do with 38,860 tonnes of deadly materials? To hear a CIA agent spill his guts (on BBC radio) Note this file has also since been "lost" but I found a copy click the link... Military develops system to track every car in a city in real time. Says "It can't be used for civilian purposes." "Government would have a reasonably good idea of where everyone is most of the time," said John Pike, a Global Security.org defense analyst./Welcome to the Machine. Hypersonic drones and Bombs... yay! Allies to become less important as new generation of weapons enables America to strike anywhere from its own territory [and from space]? Counterintelligent How the GOP keeps the FBI stupid./Josh Marshall has the goods on Republicans, intelligence failures, and Republican spy Katrina Leung. The short answer is they've put politics before good intelligence measures at the FBI and are therefore responsible for a great deal of the mess of the last decade. You should read the long version however. This is all I have to say about it... With the recent flap over ‘Free-speech zones’ popping up on campuses nationwide and especially places where the pResident makes a Royal appearence... Israel holds prisoners without trial and without acknowledging they are being held by them.Israel Acknowledges Running & Against the Geneva Convention , Israel's Shin Bet security agency has held Palestinian prisoners incommunicado for weeks at a time at a secret detention center, The Associated Press has learned. Prisoners say they are blindfolded and kept in black, windowless cells. When they ask where they are, they are told: "On the moon." Defense Department Pulls Report on National Imagery and Mapping Agency Embarassing audit reposted Americans in the Dark About Online Privacy What the Pentagon doesn’t want us to know about depleted uranium. In the weeks leading up to the war on Iraq, TV screens across America were crowded with images of U.S. soldiers readying for upcoming battles with a crazed dictator who would stop at nothing. One clip after another showed U.S. soldiers racing to don $211 suits designed to protect them from the chemical and biological attacks they would surely suffer on the road to ousting Saddam Hussein. But these grim forecasts were wrong. Despite the advance hype, Hussein’s dreaded arsenal was not the biggest threat to Americans on the battlefield in Iraq. In fact, it was no threat at all. The real threat—not only to U.S. troops but to Iraqis as well—may prove to be a weapon scarcely mentioned before, during or after the war: depleted uranium. Surveillance & Society The fully peer-reviewed transdisciplinary online surveillance studies journal. More on David Kay... Bush's Privatized Hell ! Tubo-Capitalists hate competition, as they relentless strive to build monopolies and crush their competitors. All that stands in their way are anti-trust laws and the courts – which is to say, government.Things seem to be going right on plan If their Goal is to train wreck the economy and do away with 'all Social Programs'(including Social Security) as stated by Grover Norquest. If you have been reading this blog you would know.If not read some posts below... PLANTED WMD ALERT: IS SOMETHING GETTING READY TO GO DOWN? Something very fishy is happening. Get ready for a big "discovery" in the Media about Iraq WMDs in the next few weeks. This David Kay is very suspicious. CNN, for example, did an interview with Kay recently in which he specifically stated, no make that BOASTED, that the world should be prepared for "some big surprises" in the coming days concerning Iraqi WMDs. Also, not the curious connections between the corporation that this David Kay used to work for, SAIC, and the Anthrax suspect Stephen Hatfill. / PLEASE REPOST THIS ARTICLE FAR AND WIDE IN ORDER TO WARN THE ACTIVIST COMMUNITY TO BE ON ALERT FOR A POSSIBLE PLANTED WMD SCENARIO IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. WE HAVE TO BE READY TO RESPOND, QUESTION, AND INTERROGATE ANY ALLEGED "DISCOVERY" WHEN IT GOES DOWN... YOU KNOW THE BUSH REGIME WILL PULL SOMETHING LIKE THIS SOONER OR LATER. THEY HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN EITHER PLANTING SOME WMDs TO SAVE THEIR ASSES, OR FACE IMPEACHMENT AND EVEN WAR CRIMES CHARGES. via Indymedia (portland) Answers to Advance Questions Dr. Stephen A. Cambone Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence but,Here's the kicker: besides being "a protege of Donald Rumsfeld," he also was one of the authors of the Project for the New American Century's Rebuilding America's Defenses, the radical, Strangelovian document that formed the basis for the Bush administration's National Security Strategy.PNAC BABY! 8 million may lose OT pay Bush administration proposal would dramatically alter rules for paying overtime, study says. Mr. Cambone Follow-up to the link below :WMD? Sorry, That's Not My Department Meeting last month at a sweltering U.S. base outside Doha, Qatar, with his top Iraq commanders, President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, "Are you in charge of finding WMD?" Bremer said no, he was not. Bush then put the same question to his military commander, General Tommy Franks. But Franks said it wasn't his job either. A little exasperated, Bush asked, So who is in charge of finding WMD? After aides conferred for a moment, someone volunteered the name of Stephen Cambone, a little-known deputy to Donald Rumsfeld, back in Washington. Pause. "Who?" Bush asked. Posted on Sunday, June 29, 2003 RFID Chips Are Here to stay...Welcome to the Machine. Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been. You've been in the pipeline, filling in time, provided with toys and Scouting for Boys. You bought a guitar to punish your ma, And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool, So welcome to the machine. Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream. You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar, He always ate in the Steak Bar. He loved to drive in his Jaguar. So welcome to the machine. The Fact That Hussein's Gone Doesn't Make Lying Right "Never in modern times have we beheld a Congress so easily manipulated by the executive branch. Last week, the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee caved in and dropped their opposition to closed hearings on whether Congress was lied to. How can they not be open to the public, which is expected under our system to hold the president and Congress accountable?" GEOSLAVERY. We fear what governments will be able to do to us on the soon-to-arrive day when they can not only remotely track, but remotely control, our movements. But now Jerome E. Dobson and Peter F. Fisher, two long-time insiders in geographic information science (GIS), predict something different but equally ominous. They posit a future of worldwide geoslavery in which abusive spouses control their partners, rigid parents rule their children well into adulthood, plantation owners enslave their workers, and village headmen clamp iron order over their subjects -- all via remote tracking and control technologies. Chilling reading. And their proposed solutions are no less chilling than the horrors they foresee. Another bright light from Sunni. This article appears in the current issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, a professional journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Invisible handshake? But the trend in the United States, as evidenced by eBay, among many companies, now sees huge private-sector commercial entities becoming, in effect, agents of law enforcement. It's an arrangement between government and the private sector, which Kozlovski calls the "invisible handshake"--Internet companies promise to open their files to law enforcement, while law enforcement insures that citizens stay in the dark. This new relationship raises crucial questions regarding civic life in the United States, and our rights as citizens and consumers. According to Sullivan, "when someone uses [eBay's] site and clicks on the 'I agree' button, it is as if he agrees to let us submit all of his data to the legal authorities..." Is this more than we bid for? Et tu, Amazon.com ...? Durango Bookstore Owners Fight Patriot Act Colorado: Peter Schertz and Andrea Avantaggio, owners of Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, are leading a Durango petition drive to spur political support for the Freedom to Read Protection Act (FRPA), the Durango Herald reports. The FRBA would overturn powers of the federal government to obtain customer-purchase and library-usage records, and monitor Internet traffic at public computer terminals without notification or a court order. WMD? Sorry, That's Not My Department Meeting last month at a sweltering U.S. base outside Doha, Qatar, with his top Iraq commanders, President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, "Are you in charge of finding WMD?" Bremer said no, he was not. Bush then put the same question to his military commander, General Tommy Franks. But Franks said it wasn't his job either. A little exasperated, Bush asked, So who is in charge of finding WMD? After aides conferred for a moment, someone volunteered the name of Stephen Cambone, a little-known deputy to Donald Rumsfeld, back in Washington. Pause. "Who?" Bush asked. Ominous Parallels I'm not a big fan of Ayn Rand idealology, but nor do I throw the baby out with the bathwater this is an eye opening Book. Psychotronic War? "The Mind Has No Firewall" 10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq Pretty good overview of Bushco lies... The Shameful Legacy of Radioactive Weaponry Watch what they do, not what they say... For example, the White House griped that various pay-and-benefits incentives added to the 2004 defense budget by Congress are wasteful and unnecessary — including a modest proposal to double the $6,000 gratuity paid to families of troops who die on active duty. This comes at a time when Americans continue to die in Iraq at a rate of about one a day. Similarly, the administration announced that on Oct. 1 it wants to roll back recent modest increases in monthly imminent-danger pay (from $225 to $150) and family-separation allowance (from $250 to $100) for troops getting shot at in combat zones. Up is Down Black is White on and on... President Bush said on Tuesday al Qaeda's leadership had been dismantled...( http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20030624/ts_nm/pakistan_usa_binladen_dc ) And yet... The shadowy leader of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, Mullah Omar, has named a 10-man leadership council to organize resistance against foreign troops in the country... CIA+Bushco=LIES CIA Intelligence Reports Seven Months Before 9/11 Said Iraq Posed No Threat To U.S "Seven months before two-dozen or so al-Qaida terrorists hijacked three commercial airplanes and flew two of the aircrafts directly into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, killing 3,000 innocent civilians, CIA Director George Tenet, testified before Congress that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or to other countries in the Middle East. But immediately after the terrorist attacks on 9-11, which the Bush administration claims Iraq is partially responsible for, the President and his advisers were already making a case for war against Iraq without so much as providing a shred of evidence to back up the allegations that Iraq and its former President, Saddam Hussein, was aware of the attacks or helped the al-Qaida hijackers plan the catastrophe. It was then, after the 9-11 attacks, that intelligence reports from the CIA radically changed from previous months, which said Iraq posed no immediate threat to the U.S., to now show Iraq had a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and was in hot pursuit of a nuclear bomb. The Bush administration seized upon the reports to build public support for the war and used the information to eventually justify a preemptive strike against the country in March. " Still glad Saddam is gone--still very Unhappy our government felt it had to lie to get the job done. Some of you might need this... U.S. pushes for global police force The United States would train and lead an international police force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping bodies such as the United Nations and NATO, under a proposal by the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld./These motherfuckers are drunk on power.... 27 year CIA vet speaks You don’t start a war on an assumption, and with the sophisticated collection devices the US intelligence apparatus has, it is unconscionable not to have verified that so they could say, “Yes sir, we know that it’s there, we can confirm it this and that way.” Instead, as I said, it was analysis by subtraction. We had the inventory here, and we know we destroyed that, so they must have this. Analysis like that, I wouldn’t rehire the analyst who did it if he were working for me. That’s the biological and chemical part." " The prospect of the Secretary of State and Condoleezza Rice and Cheney convening in CIA headquarters to sit around a table and help with the analysis…give me a break! Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United George's younger brother Marvin was the director of the insurance company that handled the WTC AS WELL AS the director of Securacom,security contractor with the WTC .How many out there knew this? I sure didn't till now...no wonder they (Bushco) wanted to stop the investigations of 911.-mobythor Jebus, save me from your followers... So now we know. After all the mountains of commentary and speculation, all the earnest debates over motives and goals, all the detailed analyses of global strategy and political ideology, it all comes to down to this: George W. Bush waged war on Iraq because, in his own words, God "instructed me to strike at Saddam." Know Your Homeland Security Lingo? In an attempt to provide tools for the everyday citizen to understand the issues, LW has created an "open-source" project to provide an EZ reference to the overwhelming amount of jargon pouring in from pundits and reporters, bureaucrats and politicians.... Suppose You Wanted to Have a Permanent War The Ciarán Ferry Legal Defense Fund Ciarán Ferry, a thirty one year old Irish citizen, was arrested by the Bureau of Customs and Immigration Enforcement (formerly INS) on January 30th, 2003. He was attending a formal interview with his wife, Heaven Ferry, in relation to his pending permanent residence application that had been filed a year earlier. The official charge against Ciarán involves overstaying his visa.Colorado has seen a marked increase of illegally jailed prisoners of conscience, even prior to Sept 11th. Most recently, Ciarán Ferry, a 31 year old Irish immigrant who moved to the U.S. to escape the persecution and death threats in Ireland, is being illegally imprisoned in solitary confinement at the Denver County Jail. Ciarán spent over 7 years in prison for his involvement with the Irish Republican Army during his youth. Shortly after being released under Clinton's Good Friday Accords in 2000, he married an Irish-American, moved to the U.S. and saw the birth of his daughter on American soil. Now, after over 150 days of confinement, the U.S. government refuses to let him go or send him back to Ireland where he could most likely be killed. Interview of a 27 year veteran of the cia Why does no one (I mean no one) pick up on this... You are a Terrorist. LAPD starts quiet probe of activists: Al-Qaeda doesn't exist and so the Patriot Act is targeting Americans in moderate protest groups and defining them as 'potential terrorists'. Man raided by FBI/Joint Terrorism Task Force for BREAKING NO LAWS AND HAVING NO LINKS WHATSOEVER TO TERRORISM! US TV networks 'kissed ass', says Wolff "EVIDENCE" SO "SENSITIVE" IT HAS TO BE KEPT SECRET even from a defendant and his lawyer. Predictably, this is what comes if it. Kafka was a prophet. And prosecutors write fiction. (via clairewolfe blog) Bush Misled US Into Iraq War--An Official Finding? George W. Bush misled the nation into war. Who says? Representative Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee. Afghanistan? WHATS Afghanistan? CENTCOM has just announced that one of the three soldiers wounded in Afghanistan today has died. Two missing soldiers apparently abudcted in Iraq Q:So how many of our boys have to die or get kiddnapped before the sheeple awake? A:? THE WAR IS OVER. Unnamed investors take over voting Web site Election.com, a struggling Garden City start-up scheduled to provide online absentee ballots for U.S. military personnel in the 2004 federal election, has quietly sold controlling power to an investment group with ties to unnamed Saudi nationals, according to company correspondence. North Korea's War Strategy of Massive Retaliations against US Attacks No wonder Bushco wont even look in N.Korea's direction. A Phone Call To The Fed YOU'VE BEEN GOT... Shameless On second thought this whole thing is worth reading.Ck out Hullabaloo blog and read the 'rest of the story' Shameless: Commander Codpiece is shamelessly running on his "success" in the War on Terror. Fine. As those smarter than I have already suggested, perhaps it's time we turned the tables on their lying asses. You want to run on the war, Maverick? Then maybe you would like to explain to the American people how they're supposed to feel so safe in your big, manly embrace when you obviously let a bunch of terrorists run off with the makings of dirty bombs and huge amounts of fully weaponized bio-chem WMD, right under your nose. At least we knew where they were when Saddam was in power, didn't we Colin? C'mon Condi, you assured us quaking Muricans that if we took out Saddam that we'd be keeping the weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Are you going to try to convince us that it was worse to have them in the hands of Saddam than to NOT KNOW WHO HAS THEM OR WHERE THEY ARE? So, where the fuck are the weapons? We know Saddam and Osama are on the run and we're smokin' 'em out of their caves and all, but let's hope they haven't been able to stash those"thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas" that we knew were in Iraq right before the war. We already have evidence that the spent uranium that the IAEA had carefully catalogued and kept under lock and key was looted by somebody while American troops just stood outside the gates and watched. What happened to it? (Ever heard of a suitcase bomb, Junior? Even a little one sure could make a mess of shopping mall or an office building.) Who but TRAINED TERRORISTS could waltz around an Arab country in the middle of a war and steal a bunch of unconventional weapons, huh Rummy? It's looking pretty damned likely that bin Laden and Saddam, whose organizations the administration claimed had been meeting for over a decade, and both of whom are also missing, are together in a cave somewhere with a bunch of lethal weapons preparing their next attack on America. How could you have let this happen? Thanks, folks. Thanks a lot. If this is what the Republicans call "Mission Accomplished" you've got to wonder which side they're actually on. *I'm serious, here. We will get nowhere by trying to take these guys down with standard logical arguments. They are not playing by those rules and we can no longer afford to. The NY Times is now saying openly that lying is just a form of selling an idea to the public (as long as it isn't about consensual sex.) Okey dokey. So, just as we should start using the phrases "Bush's economic plan," "dangerous" and "socialism" in the same breath, we should use their wartime propaganda to our advantage -- "Saddam and al Qaeda," missing WMD", "dirty suitcase bomb," "on the run." Over half the country believes (or pretends they believe) that al Qaeda were in cahoots with Saddam and that Iraq was crawling with nukes and bio-chem weapons before the war -- because these guys made that case. By taking them at their word and asking the obvious questions that follow, they either have to admit they lied or explain why the public shouldn't be worried that the weapons --- and the evil ones who hate us, Saddam and Osama --- are all unaccounted for. These guys are 100% in charge. What do they now propose to do about all these unconventional weapons and America-hating terrorists that are now on the loose because we invaded Iraq and obviously didn't have any clue about how we were going to secure them? Bush is running as the flyboy hero who is winning the War on Terrorism. Well now, that all depends on how you look at it, doesn't it? The George W Bush 2000 Stolen Election Commemorative Coin Get Yours Now! Fucking Liars... You want to run on the war, Maverick? Then maybe you would like to explain to the American people how they're supposed to feel so safe in your big, manly embrace when you obviously let a bunch of terrorists run off with the makings of dirty bombs and huge amounts of fully weaponized bio-chem WMD, right under your nose. At least we knew where they were when Saddam was in power, didn't we Colin? C'mon Condi, you assured us quaking Muricans that if we took out Saddam that we'd be keeping the weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Are you going to try to convince us that it was worse to have them in the hands of Saddam than to NOT KNOW WHO HAS THEM OR WHERE THEY ARE? So, where the fuck are the weapons? But I thought the war was over WASHINGTON, June 25, 2003 – "The best protection that we can give our soldiers is an offensive spirit in a tough place," said Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid today during his Senate confirmation hearing to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command. Abizaid, who is currently CENTCOM's deputy commander, said that coalition forces need to seek out the enemy and bring the fight to them. "They will be able to do that as long as we don't hunker down in base camps and try to avoid contact," he said before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We need to seek out contact. We need to be aggressive, and that's what we're doing in Iraq." He said that, contrary to press reports, American soldiers and Marines are being aggressive. He said in more than half the instances, the U.S. forces are the ones who initiate the actions.(Warning the following link goes to the military) CIA and DOD Attempted To Plant WMD In Iraq A DOD whistleblower detail an attempt by a covert U.S. team to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The team was later killed by friendly fire due to CIA incompetence. What media? It took a British journalist to put the American Defence Secretary on the spot. Why, asks Justin Webb, are the US media so timorous? Bush's Frankenstein judges Court nominees would be funny -- if liberty wasn't at stake Siege Mentality How the White House is exploiting terrorism to promote a reactionary domestic agenda The NEUROPHARMACY of an EIGHT-CIRCUIT Break the trance... THE CONSTITUTION OF NO AUTHORITY A GAME CALLED "U.S.A." The Grand Deception What is Slaughtergate? ALONG with the Americans who died at the altar of these terrible lies were thousands and thousands of Iraqi civilians. The Associated Press attempted to do an accounting of the civilian dead after the war, and came up with 3,240 killed. U.S. Again Uses Enemy Combatant Label to Deny Basic Rights “The Bush Administration has once again done an end run around the criminal justice system. It is invoking the laws of war in the United States to justify locking people up without charge and without access to a lawyer. This kind of military detention has no place in country committed to the rule of law.” Ten Spy-Busting Secrets (via abuddhas memes) "Feature-rich business phones provide snoops with a variety of powerful eavesdropping options. The phones themselves provide: electrical power; built-in microphones and speakers which can serve dual purposes; and ample hiding space for bugs and taps." Bush Dominates a Nation of Victims "George W Bush is generally regarded as a mangler of the English language. What is overlooked is his mastery of emotional language — especially negatively charged emotional language — as a political tool. Take a closer look at his speeches and public utterances, and his political success turns out to be no surprise. It is the predictable result of the intentional use of language to dominate others." — Renana Brooks, a clinical psychologist who researches the use of language for power and persuasion, writing in The Nation [via AlterNet] Dust clouds may carry infectious organisms across oceans On February 11, 2001, an enormous cloud of dust whipped out of the Sahara Desert and moved north across the Atlantic, reaching the U.K. two days later. A few days afterward, counties across the island began reporting simultaneous outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, a viral sickness of livestock (sometimes confused with mad cow disease). For Eugene Shinn, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, Fla., that coincidence suggested an obvious link. Yeah, Go bush! The prosecutors say that Mr Bursey was not in a special “free-speech zone” that was set up for protesters half a mile from the hangar. The pro-Bush people did not need to be there because they were not protesting. Mr Bursey told the cops, defiantly, that he was under the impression that the whole of America was a free-speech zone.(via Danklife) PRIVACY TIPS and jamming the system (via clairewolfe blog) GARY MARBUT OFFERED TWO CUTE PRIVACY TIPS while I was stranded at his house last month. I shared the first one on June 12. Here's the other. This one is for users of PGP and similar forms of encryption. And -- amazingly! -- it's the first idea I ever heard of for turning spam into something useful. If you have reason to think the feds might be interested in your e-mails, arrange with a friend to swap spam. Create an encryption key -- or two or three. Make 'em the biggest, most unbreakable keys you can generate. Then encrypt the spam you receive and send it back and forth to chosen friends using these special keys. Federal code-crackers are thus faced with attempting to break multiple large keys -- and the only thing they'll get out of it is viagra ads. To make this work, you must remove the original headers on the spam messages and replace them with headers that clue your friend in to the fact that they're dummy messages while not giving the game away to the snoops. (For instance, you might have a word beginning with XX in every dummy message: "Vital update about XXander" or "The secret can be found in the last XX-Files episode." And you might change your game code from time to time to keep others from catching on.) If you and your friend also have SpamAssassin or another customizable anti-spam program, you can then divert the dummy messages straight into a special e-mail box. It'll really be trash, of course. But call it "Chem-Bio Info" or "Arsenal." Media Silent on Clark's 9/11 Comments Many don't like or trust FAIR, but Media Silent on Clark's 9/11 Comments "The June 15 edition of NBC's Meet the Press was unusual for the buzz that it didn't generate. Former General Wesley Clark told anchor Tim Russert that Bush administration officials had engaged in a campaign to implicate Saddam Hussein in the September 11 attacks-- starting that very day. Clark said that he'd been called on September 11 and urged to link Baghdad to the terror attacks, but declined to do so because of a lack of evidence. (via chapel-perilous blog) CLARK: "There was a concerted effort during the fall of 2001, starting immediately after 9/11, to pin 9/11 and the terrorism problem on Saddam Hussein." RUSSERT: "By who? Who did that?" CLARK: "Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.' I said, 'But--I'm willing to say it, but what's your evidence?' And I never got any evidence." Clark's assertion corroborates a little-noted CBS Evening News story that aired on September 4, 2002. As correspondent David Martin reported: 'Barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, the secretary of defense was telling his aides to start thinking about striking Iraq, even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.' According to CBS, a Pentagon aide's notes from that day quote Rumsfeld asking for the 'best info fast' to 'judge whether good enough to hit SH at the same time, not only UBL.' The notes then quote Rumsfeld as demanding, ominously, that the administration's response 'go massive...sweep it all up, things related and not.'" PSYWAR OPS? [ Flashback] Sheep Free Zone claims the following: Instapundit links to a BBC article about the Iraqis handing out chemical protective gear to select units. There's a discrete portion of the article that I am absolutely positive is part of a psychological warfare operation against Iraq. It then backs it up with a pretty interesting analysis -- I'm no expert on the subject, but it struck me as worth considering. Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Cause DNA Damage Monsanto Sends Seed-Saving Farmer to Prison This complete bullshit... Paul Wolfowitz has admitted that the US is now waging a "guerrilla war" in Iraq, according to the Financial Times. (Via thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse blog) Devil in the Details Patriot Act II, Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive US Army Patent on Bioweapons Grenade Watergate returns to the White House Watergate returns to the White House. Watergate ex-prisoner Chuck Colson is back in the White House, kissing up to an easy mark for his latest faith-based sideshow (Guardian): Convicted Watergate figure Chuck Colson returned to the White House Wednesday for a meeting with President Bush on Colson's post-prison endeavor - ministering to inmates. "I felt quite emotional coming back here after my experiences in this building - and leaving it,'' Colson told reporters gathered on the White House driveway after his 40-minute meeting inside. [...] Colson was White House counsel for former President Nixon and spent seven months in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate scandal. In 1976, he founded Prison Fellowship Ministries. Now an author and radio commentator, Colson was part of a group invited to the White House to talk with Bush about helping former inmates find work and keeping them from returning to prison. Colson's Reston, Va.-based organization operates the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a rehabilitation program for inmates that is based on fundamentalist Christianity. The program was begun under then-Gov. George W. Bush in 1997 at a Texas prison and now is also offered at prisons in Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota. Colson praised Bush for allowing the program to start. "At that time, I didn't believe he'd be willing to fight it through - the church-state issues and all that were involved in it,'' he said. Participants live in a separate prison unit and follow a curriculum of religious study, other education and work for up to 18 months. After an inmate's release, the program continues for at least six months with guidance from a mentor and local church support. An advocacy group, the Washington-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State, has filed suit against Iowa, contending state funding for the program is unconstitutional. Bush asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to work on ways that such efforts could be expanded to the federal prison system, said Jim Towey, head of the White House faith-based office. The plan, especially the appeal to Ashcroft, smells not only a bit too Christian, but too fundamentalist Christian. Even though we've studiously ignored the Saudi influence on 9-11-01, aren't we all a little sick of government-sponsored fundamentalists yet? Besides, shouldn't Buddhist or Shinto or Jewish or Islamic prisoners be entitled to the same availability of religious study? Colson's penal Christianity is all a ruse. He has much bigger ambitions beyond the superficial prison-prayer nonsense, and he's hoping President Gump will bite the bait. What Colson really wants is $5 billion to preach abstinence to Africans, the amount he envisions as his portion of the vague $15 billion AIDS in Africa relief package Dubya proposed during the State of the Union address. Medicine and food for the Iraqis? Nope, that's just another broken Bush promise 0rrin Hatch w4nts to 0wnz j00. THE PARENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS? The folks on Wall Street are preying on our kids on Main Street and you can do something about it. Our nation's largest corporations resort to extreme measures to influence our children, invading places previously were off-limits, like schools, to target children with ads. The ads cause children to nag and whine for products, sowing strife and stress in our homes -- but even more disturbingly, these ads help create an epidemic of marketing-related diseases in our children, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and eating disorders. Tell Congress to stop corporations from pitting children against their own parents and jeopardizing childrens' health, safety and education. The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney By Greg Palast What is "Oppositional Defiance Disorder,"? Psychiatry has often played a key role in the marginalization and control of "social undesireables" or "deviants" throughout history. UK: Police will run internet after terrorist attack Report Says U.S. Did Target Media Outlets In Gulf War II Report Says U.S. Did Target Media Outlets In Gulf War II A newly released report notes that during the coalition air assault on Iraq, Central Command “authorized” bombing strikes against “media facilities” in which a number of journalists were killed and employed weapons that human rights groups want banned. Bush signs executive order claiming Iraq oil for himself Bush signs executive order claiming Iraq oil for himself The executive order says that oil companies may pump Iraqi oil without fear of lawsuits. There will be no pesky 9-11 style lawsuits to worry about. Sen. Orrin Hatch words of wisdom... Nothing in the Patriot Act threatens our cherished Bill of Rights. In fact, the act is expressly designed to enhance our nation's fundamental freedoms. Moreover, despite the steady drumbeat of opposition by some groups, none of them has cited one instance of abuse against our constitutional rights, nor one shred of evidence to contradict the fact that these tools have saved American lives by preventing terrorist attacks against our people. Special forces 'prepare for Iran attack' We're Right On Schedule...go Merika! http://postmodernpotlatch.blogspot.com/PNACprimer.htm When enough people buy into the phonecam culture, (and it will happen) we will truly be a Transparent society Here's the begining :All mobiles to be banned from Australian courts over phonecam fears? BoingBoing reader Dan sez: "More dispatches from the anti-cell-photo frontlines. All cellphones are likely to be banned in Australia from courts, on the basis that perps with photo-enabled cellphones might take photos of witnesses and threaten them."http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/16/1055615728563.html Feds using Patriot Act for whatever they want "It's clear that the problems of 9/11 were the result of not analyzing information we had already collected. Creating more hay to search through the haystack is not an effective way to find the needle," Mr. Edgar said in an interview. "It's impossible for anyone to make the case that our civil liberties were the problem," agreed Lee Tien, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. Red Meat for Birchers (DISCLAIMER: The following article should not be read by pregnant women, people with heart conditions and/or other severe medical problems, and those who have just eaten a large meal): One painful lesson from the ongoing chaos in Iraq is that the UN does matter. Before the war, right-wing war supporters worked themselves into an unsightly froth berating the "irrelevant" UN for its alleged "appeasement" of Saddam. Ever since the Day Saddam's Statue Fell, however, it has become increasingly obvious that if UN weapons inspectors had, y'know, been able to do their jobs, a war that snuffed out thousands of lives and turned Iraq into a Mad Max-like dystopia could have been avoided. Having said all that, the UN has often come in for well-deserved criticism for its bureaucratic timidity in the face of unconscionable slaughter, and abominable shit like this (see above) can only reinforce this conception. (Via Groupthink Central blog) I love Secret meetings ...don't you? I feel so safe now... Dereliction of Duty By PAUL KRUGMAN Last Thursday a House subcommittee met to finalize next year's homeland security appropriation. The ranking Democrat announced that he would introduce an amendment adding roughly $1 billion for areas like port security and border security that, according to just about every expert, have been severely neglected since Sept. 11. He proposed to pay for the additions by slightly scaling back tax cuts for people making more than $1 million per year. The subcommittee's chairman promptly closed the meeting to the public, citing national security — though no classified material was under discussion. And the bill that emerged from the closed meeting did not contain the extra funding.[use " unknews " for the login and password] Why, yes, you are chopped liver: 6-15-03 Tonight’s “QuickVote” at CNN.com asks “Should states be allowed to regulate sex between consenting adults?” I clicked “no,” and was immediately given a pop-up window stating that 727 people had voted “yes” and 0 people had voted “no.” Just practicing for 2004, I guess.(via Electrolite) Just for grins and giggles... America the beautiful! Liberation Of An Island? As Just Now Seen On 60 Minutes~ Diego Garcia, tiny island turned into a US military base, essential to operations in the Middle East. Did you know that the US and UK completely evacuated all of the indiginous people of that island so that it would b population-free? "Four decades ago, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union were racing to get footholds in this region, the U.S. discovered Diego Garcia, a coral island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The Americans had asked the British, their longtime allies, who still had colonies in the region, to find an uninhabited island for their base. There was just one problem -- there were inhabitants on Diego Garcia and they have been living there for more than 200 years. But the British didn't see that as a problem. They simply moved all the inhabitants 1,200 miles away to other tropical islands, Mauritius and the Seychelles. "When the final time came and the ships were chartered, they weren't allowed to take anything with them except a suitcase of their clothes. The ships were small and they could take nothing else, no furniture, nothing." The people of Diego Garcia say they left paradise and landed in hell when they were dumped here in the urban slums of Mauritius. They had brought no possessions and as islanders who had lived off fishing and farming they had no real professional skills. No one helped them resettle or pay for the homes they lost. They were forced to become squatters in a foreign land." That's pretty fucked up right there. But even moreso~ "The islanders say the other force that got them out was fear when British officials ordered their pets to be exterminated. They were gassed with exhaust fumes from American military vehicles." You know, I lived in Hawai'i for a good number of years, and I came to appreciate their anger and resentment towards Haoles. I was eventually considered kama'aina because I could speak the pidjin with fluency and befriended many locals. So when I hear a story like this, I really feel empathy for the people we forced off of their own island. Infuriating. And of course, the word "empirialism" comes to mind.......neither the US nor UK gave one fuck about the welfare of these people that lived content on that island for 200 years. "So last August, the islanders appealed directly to President Bush. The Bush administration, however, said it was Britain's call: 'Because of the vital role the facility plays in the global war on terrorism, British authorities have denied permission to visit Diego Garcia. We concur and support the decision.'" "The Americans and the British always talk about the champions of human rights. What they did to us they should rectify, they should look after us. You know, they should do what they preach." Don't hold your breath. McKiernan's dilemma t. Gen David McKiernan faces a problem as old as Iraq: how to keep the tribes and various factions under control. His methods have involved sweeps and nightly patrols in a war which may go on as long as Americans are in Iraq. The White House and Defense Department are using loaded words like terrorists and Baathists, which may sound nice on Fox News, but does little to explain how complex the politics of Iraq are. One must keep in mind Saddam used a complex series of bribes and a secret police establishment to work his magic. He rarely acted overtly, except when needed. But even he couldn't prevent a full-scale Shia uprising and many of the secret dead come from that period. The US faces a grim series of realities and some military choices . [more] 'Obedience to Authority' 2003 I read Eliot's observations on Millgrams' 'Obedience to Authority' study with interest, as it has always facinated me. But, my interest was piqued when he brought it into our current situtation. Here is what he concluded : Turning the tanks on the reporters Iraq will go down as the war when journalists seemed to become a target, writes Philip Knightley Behind the Homefront "A daily chronicle of news in homeland security and military operations affecting newsgathering, access to information and the public's right to know" from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. We the sheeple... So just how did it come to pass in a "free country" that the people that "work for us" have snoop files on the people rather than the other way around?/National party computers today keep track of where you live, your phone number and e-mail address, whether you vote, your willingness or refusal to make political contributions, your interests, ethnic background, reading habits and church attendance. Some files contain hints about your sexual preferences, whether own a gun, and your views on abortion and other issues. Library of Intelligence and Surveillance Reference Documents Worlds Largest Archive Regarding TSCM and Spy Hunting Executive Order 12333 - United States Intelligence Activities ("Keystone Document") Safety is a matter of idea, projection, and actual threat. The safety of North America has never been in question except for ideas (want to buy a bridge?) projected by those facing real threats - ie: the one percent that seem to be consumed with the idea that their projection of perceived threat can be bought and imbued by the mass of our consumptive media. For the rest of us life has too much depth, richness, hypocrisy, or any number of fully dimensional facets to be enumerated, collated, disseminated, espoused, formulated, or in any way brought down; except by a conscious psy-optical effort with purpose. Environment is context. (Via Abuddas memes) KAREN DE COSTER SENDS THIS REMINDER OF WHAT A FREE COUNTRY WE LIVE IN: "We have legal custody of the children and we will do with them as we see fit," DSS worker Susan Etscovitz told the Bryants in their Gale Street home."They are minors and they do what we tell them to do." ... Both sides agree that the children are in no way abused mentally, physically, sexually or emotionally, but legal custody of the children was taken from Kim and George Bryant in December 2001. The children will remain under the legal custody of DSS until their 16th birthdays. The sad tale is all about homeschooling and standardized testing. And here I thought this sort of thing went out shortly after the state of Utah "assisted" the John Singer family with its homeschooling plans.(Via clairewolfe blog) Fuck the DMCA! I just picked up the Morrissey "Under the Influence" compilation CD. When I took off the shrink-wrap, I found: This CD is copy protected and cannot be played on PCs or Macs. Surely enough, the drive on my machine at work (which had no problem playing or ripping Midbar Cactus 2.0 EMI Copy Control) fails to see the disc at all. There was no warning of the disc being anything other than a CD anywhere on the outside of the packaging; certainly no "Don't Buy Me" stickers; one has to open the jewel case to see the notice and realise that one spent A$30 on a booklet and a drink coaster. I intend to take the CD back to JB Hi-Fi and demand my money back, and/or complain to the ACCC or some other government body.(Via null device) America bling-blinging? The Protestant Ethic, as understood since Weber, stands for a bifurcation between secular work and spiritual salvation. Both are valorized. But to think that the spiritual side (Ashcroft, moral piety, God) is dominant over the material one (Cheney, secular, work, production, consumption) is an illusion of both the Right and the Left. For the Right, the illusion props up wildly anti-Christian economic behavior. And for the Left, the illusion provides an easy target for critique; it's much simpler to loathe theocracy than wrestle with the meaning of hypercapitalism. While the freedom to overconsume is conscious, the denial of responsibility that it entails is entirely suppressed - not even denied, but marginalized to the point of invisibility. There are no downers in Bush-Cheney-land: no responsibility to the working poor, no consideration of nature. Nothing other than self-aggrandizement in its quickest, most venal, and most animalistic form.(...) And again, the Left confuses the issue, just like I did in high school. They think Ashcroft is the enemy, with his theocratic moralism and assault on the bill of rights. Yes, abortion and civil liberties are endangered - but this is nothing compared with the restructuring of the American economy so that the Right wing will always stay in power. Or the foolish antiwar protesters, still moaning about the war in Iraq. You were duped, brothers and sisters. How about the fact that, with the new telecommunications rules, three companies will control all major media in the U.S.? Follow the money: that's where the heart of America is. It's more fun to be Holden Caulfield, but the phoniness is just decoration. (...) Bush is a fool and a tool. He may believe his Ashcroft-lite religiosity, but he is being used by the Voldemorts of corporatism, wealth, Big Media, and Big Oil. But he is not a dupe. Bush's Christianity is such that when he sees a moral problem, he is moved to address it, but his worldview is such that he sees very few moral problems. The American zeitgeist reflects him perfectly: a dumb, thin coating of moralism atop great, ignorant evil. Only a rare few are Voldemort incarnate. Most people are not indecent in their moral choices; they are indecent in their refusal to see that there are moral choices to be made. This blindness, in turn, comes from a self-perpetuating system in which the imperatives of insight are replaced by opportunities to consume. "Just Do It." Is it any wonder people consume so much? ... (more) Federally-funded Nationwide Police Force, answerable only to the Federal Government.? (Via Libertythink) Comprehensive Homeland Security Act of 2003 Title: A bill to enhance homeland security and for other purposes Sponsor: Sen Daschle, Thomas A. [SD] It Amends the Public Health Service Act to instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to implement the National Smallpox Vaccination Program. Establishes in the Treasury an Information Technology Fund to provide expenditures for information technology and related services for Federal agencies. Instructs the Secretary of State to implement a program to secure, consolidate, or eliminate, radiological and nuclear materials and waste located outside the United States that are determined to present a potential threat. Intelligence Community Leadership Act of 2003 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish an Office of the Director of National Intelligence to assist the Director of National Intelligence. Confers responsibility upon the Directorate for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (Department of Homeland Security) for consolidating law enforcement information with assessments and warnings relating to foreign intelligence from the Director of Central Intelligence's Counterterrorist Center. Providing Reliable Officers, Technology, Education, Community Prosecutors, and Training in Our Neighborhoods Act of 2003, or "PROTECTION Act" - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize financial and technical assistance to designated law enforcement programs, including religiously-affiliated organizations and rural law enforcement programs. This bill essentially sets up a Federally-funded Nationwide Police Force, answerable only to the Federal Government. Martial law amendment proposed for U.S. Constitution WASHINGTON - The U.S. Constitution must be amended to ensure the continuity of government if Congress is wiped out in a terrorist attack, a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission will recommend today... ''...In the event of a disaster that debilitated Congress, the vacuum could be filled by unilateral executive action -- perhaps a benign form of martial law,'' the commission found. "The country might get by, but at a terrible cost to our democratic institutions.'' So what about the Shadow Government, then? Where exactly do they fit into this "vacuum"? Would they be preventing "a benign form of martial law" or initiating it? How do we know the war in Iraq isn't over? We read it in the Army Times: When President Bush declared on May 1 that major combat operations had ended in Iraq, there was little discussion of what he meant. for all practical purposes, it seemed the war was over. It is not. Since the President made his statement to waves of applause from sailors aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln, 45 American servicemen have died in Iraq. Commanders say there is much more fighting ahead. (Via American sam) The total number of American deaths in Iraq since the war began march 19 is 183, according to the pentagon’s count. the number stood at 138 on may 1; two weeks ago it was at 171. Although large parts of Iraq are relatively peaceful and u.s. military control overall is not in doubt, an amalgam of shadowy resistance forces, including unknown numbers of non-Iraqi fighters, are carrying out almost daily hit-and-run attacks against the American occupation forces. We'll believe it's over when we read about it in the Army Times, an excellent source for military news. Bey on Crime ``The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.'' What is Stockholm Syndrome? Governments are swindles of the crude ``protection racket'' style that use the Stockholm Syndrome with panache to transform themselves from resented to wildly popular. They don't even play by their own rules - for instance, the local government of Washington, D.C. double-billed people for parking and traffic tickets, threatening to withhold auto registration or ``boot'' the cars of owners who did not pay up. Since 1981, D.C. has raked in (U.S.) $17.8 million with 829,000 illegitimate fines. Joe Bob Briggs Poor martha....Did someone say Enron? WorldCom? Just two in a long line of respectable, white-collar thefts. Ask Joe Bob Briggs how they pulled it off. More media hokus pokus... Inspired by all of this media mayhem, and dismayed about journalism standards, Paul Maliszewski operated under a number of aliases to plant bullshit and satire in The Business Journal of Central New York: How many fake writers did I invent? About as many as the months I spent working at The Business Journal full-time. In my spare time I manufactured whole companies. They emerged from my head wildly profitable and fully staffed with ambitious assistants obeying the bidding of sage bosses. If my fictional characters filed tax returns, I probably would have been personally responsible for creating more new jobs in central New York than any non-fictional company. I littered my fictions with bogus references and bastardized quotations from literature, less to show off my fine education than to underline how utterly irrelevant it now seemed. I quoted Donald Barthelme but made the words pass through the dead lips of Adam Smith. In another counterfeit, I drew names of characters from a New York Review of Books essay about Vincent Van Gogh forgers and the businessmen who knowingly peddled the knock-offs. Maliszewski even translated a School of the Americas torturer's instruction manual into business-speak to report on management skills. Kudos! NYT's is not the only fake news out there... Washington Post reporter Remember Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her (alas, fictional) story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict. Last spotted, Cooke was working retail, but had signed on to a movie project about the hoax. (See also, Mike Barnicle) "The Origins of Error" Rebuttal to a mass media misportrayal of the historical anarchist movement. S. Koreans Stage Huge 20,000 people Anti-U.S. Rallies There tends to be the same sort of problems in Korea as in Japan and Okinawa where soldiers sexually assulting locals is looked on as "boys will be boys." Of course given what we've seen at the Air Force Academy this is not all that surprising.We're so fucking arrogant everywhere we go... How big is a Billion? My physics Prof told me that a million seconds is 12 days and a billion seconds is 32 years...looks like somebodies math is off... A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.If there ever really was a Jesus. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minute at the rate Washington spends it The other war....remember? 56 U.S. and Afghan Troops Killed in Mujahideen Attacks A Tested Theocracy? for several days this week, Iranians took to the streets to protest their oppressive government. Sounds very good. However, in the wake of U.S. claims that they were going to "de-stabilize the Iranian government," one has to wonder if this is a spontaneous, native uprising, or a sneaky foreign one. Gilded Cage: Wackenhut’s Free Market in Human Misery The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History American Support for Israel now at 3 Trillion Stauffer’s research is a damning indictment of the outrageously expensive U.S. relationship with Israel, since the post WWII period. The $3 trillion cost to the taxpayers, measured in 2002 dollars, “is almost four times greater than the cost of the Vietnam War, also reckoned in 2002 dollars. Even this figure underestimates the costs because certain classes of expenditure remain un-quantified . . . in the interest of national security.”/ of course... How ISPs know your phone number even if you block caller ID IF YOU'VE WONDERED WHETHER AT&T'S NEW PREPAID ISP SERVICE might be a useful privacy option, check out the commentary on Declan McCullagh's PoliTech list. The short version is that unless you know some technically sophisticated workrounds, your phone number will be recorded, even if you've blocked it, and AT&T may also record the URLS of any sites you visit, any people you send e-mail to, etc.(Via claire wolfe blog) Our Lives and Liberty Turn on Moussaoui Accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui is fighting for his life in a death-penalty criminal proceeding brought against him by the federal government. The stakes are obviously high for him; but what most people unfortunately have not yet realized is that the stakes are equally high for us — the American people. Our own lives and liberty turn on what happens to Zacarias Moussaoui. Stepford Citizen Syndrome: Top Ten Signs Your Neighbor is Brainwashed Did you miss the better Norquist quote? : "We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals -- and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship. Bipartisanship is another name for date rape." Support our troops "Bring them Home"?...NAH, CUT THEIR BENEFITS! We need a purge ! I swear to fucking god, Every politician in washington with the exception of about 2 should be charged with criminal misconduct and put in prison. PURGE I SAY, PURGE THE WHOLE LOT! Crime and Nourishment I have been saying this for years...Here is an audio of a show which shows the double blind studies of jailed criminals revealed about nutrition and behavior; why nutrition, or lack thereof, has a direct impact on criminal behavior; and why, when given the choice, criminals often opt for the foods lacking nutrition.-mobythor $44 Trillion thats w/a "T" not a B. But the report was hidden from the Bush budget and Secretary of Treasury O'Neill was fired...oh, and don't forget the lost Trillions by the military....oh well, what a few trillian...right!? The plot to kill Social Security Bush's tax cuts won't do much to create jobs or boost economic growth, but they will bankrupt the nation's retirement program. That's the plan, anyway. Report On Islamists, The Far Right, And Al Taqwa The first part of this report will primarily summarize information from an important new book by Johannes and Germana von Dohnanyi entitled Schmutzige Geschäfte und Heiliger Krieg: Al-Qaida in Europa (Dirty Business and Holy War: Al-Qaida in Europe) published by Pendo Verlag (Zurich, 2002). The von Dohnanyis are longtime investigative reporters based in Milan. I will concentrate on part of Chapter 4 ("The Financing of Jihad") and all of chapter 5 ("A Fatal Mixture"), which summarizes pages 216-264. The second part of this report will focus more on al-Taqwa member Achmed Huber and his possible links to Said Ramadan, one of the most important Islamists in Europe but whose 1995 death has made him almost invisible in contemporary accounts. Who is Grover Norquest ? Paleoconservative Grover Norquist is called the most powerful man in Washington you never heard of.Point man for Bush and co,the Far Right and point man for the Islamic conservitaive Ethnic outreach Norquist heads Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and his goal is “to cut government in half — to get it down to the size we can drown it in a bathtub.” Grover Norquist, whom most conservatives know as Executive Director of the College Republicans, boardmember of the NRA, and head of Americans for Tax Reform, has been exposed as helping Muslim groups and individuals who finance and support Islamic terrorism gain access to the Bush White House. Norquist has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Insitute, a group believed to be funded by foreign governments, Wahhab Islam elements in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. Muslim groups recently raided by a special Treasury Department task force for funding Al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorists. /They want to wreck the economy so as to do away with Social security and all forms of welfare...except for corporate welfare of course... The mysterious Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin? On November 7, 2001, the U.S. government's "Office of the Coordinator of Counterterrorism" issued a list of some 62 Organisations and Individuals Suspected of involvement in terrorist organizations, in particular with Usamah Ibn Ladin's al-Qai'dah network. Number 56 on the list was Achmed Albert Friedrich Armand Huber, a former Swiss journalist with close ties both to Islamic fundamentalists and far-right extremists.[1] A longtime convert to Islam, the 74 year old Huber was cited by the government for his presence on the five man managing committee of "Nada Management", a Lugano-based financial institution, which was known as "Al Taqwa (Fear of God) Management" prior to March 2002./CAN YOU SAY 911? Once they get our guns and the Internet...we are done for. Few issues have been more hotly debated recently than gun ownership. The Four Reasons to Impeach Bush As if one wasn't enough... U.S. Arms Clients Profiles--ISRAEL "Since President Truman recognized the state of Israel in 1948, the United States has been Israel's most supportive ally. Since 1950, the United States has provided more than $46 billion dollars in grant military aid to Israel, a sum that outstrips military aid to Egypt, America' s next largest beneficiary, by at least $20 billion. Israel has also received many billions more in grant 'economic' aid, loans for military purchases, and used American armaments. However, Israel has been accused of actions that may violate U.S. arms export control laws. Specifically, some Israeli military operations and reported retransfers of U.S. weapons or technology may have violated the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the Foreign Assistance Act. More broadly, Israel serves as an example of how vast amounts of arms sales and military aid eventually contribute to a loss of U.S. control over conventional arms proliferation." Pinter blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair: The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the US public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched. Enslaved By Free Trade The founding myth of the dominant nations is that they achieved their industrial and technological superiority through free trade. Nations which are poor today are told that if they want to follow our path to riches, they must open their economies to foreign competition. They are being conned. Large scale experiments now permissible "Congress Passes Law" Large scale experiments permissible despite link to disease and death of U.S. citizens. Media muzzled! Government experiments on women & children law passed despite plea from Ret.. Senator John Glenn for reversal ! Electromagnetic pulse experiments are being performed in your Metro and Surburban area! Local authorities kept in dark, need to know "secrecy orders" keep them uninformed, or are ordered to deny truth. Radio ID tags get Microsoft backing The tags, which are extremely small, could one day replace bar codes on product packaging, using special microchips to communicate wirelessly with computers when scanned. The Orgy of Enslavement... The heel test you've all been given for decades is for an illegal global DNA database "WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TEST SAMPLE? The cards on which the blood has been dried is a record of the screening test. After the dried blood spot has been tested, it will be stored by the laboratory in a secure locked area in accordance with guidelines issued by each State Health Department. In NSW, these guidelines currently require the records to be held for 50 years" Consumer Group Unveils RFID Labeling Legislation CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) today unveils federal legislation calling for mandatory disclosures on consumer products containing radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. The "RFID Right to Know Act of 2003" would protect consumers against unwittingly purchasing products embedded with remote surveillance devices. RFID chips are tiny tracking devices that transmit product information by radio waves. These devices can be smaller than a grain of sand and can be hidden in consumer products, making the products remotely trackable. For example, the chips can be embedded in ATM cards, sewn into the seams of pants, or woven into shirt labels without their owners' knowledge. How the United States Lost the Second World War "America didn't win the war. Adolph Hitler won world war II." -- Guatemalan president Jose Arevalo, after being replaced by dictator Jocabo Arbenz in 1951 The CFR-Neocon Connection Fuck Bush, he is just a puppet here is the real powers that be... OIL War Indeed.... RAVE Act shuts down anti-prohibition fundraiser: "[The DEA agent] didn't tell us we couldn't have the event," said the manager of the Eagle Lodge, "but he showed me the law and told us what could happen if we did. I talked to our trustees, they talked to our lawyers, and our lawyers said not to risk it, so we canceled." Drug war critics are outraged by the incident, the first apparent use of the RAVE Act by the federal government. "This confirms all our fears," said Bill Piper of the Drug Policy Alliance. "This isn't about drug parties or raves, it's about having a club to hold over people's heads, whether it's hemp festivals, circuit parties, dances, whatever. The RAVE Act is being used to suppress political speech. This is exactly what Sen. Biden said would not happen, and now it's happening." Mossad & Moving Companies: Part 2 MOSSAD & MOVING COMPANIES: MASTERMINDS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM? Israel Ranked as World's Third Largest Weapons Exporter "Want to know who's arming the world? Want to know where rogue dictators are getting WMDs from? Want to know where suicide bombers are getting their plastique explosives from? Want to know who's fucking over humanity for a quick buck? Here's a hint, US and Israel are in the top three." Lying cocksmoking coward motherfuckers... How harmful is depleted uranium? Iraqis believe the radioactive substance from weapons is making people sick. The Pentagon says there's little to worry about. Fun with FAS (Via boing boing) Break down of foreign military assistance Top 10 US defense contractors Arms transfer recipients The case for war is blown apart (Via Independent) The build-up to war: What they said: Intelligence leaves no doubt that Iraq continues to possess and conceal lethal weapons George Bush, US President 18 March, 2003 We are asked to accept Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd Tony Blair, Prime Minister 18 March, 2003 Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary 2 April, 2003 Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit Tony Blair 28 April, 2003 It is possible Iraqi leaders decided they would destroy them prior to the conflict Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Secretary 28 May, 2003 Somebody's got to hold these lunatics accountable for their words. And the above are their words. Your Bill of Rights repealed It's coming down fast are you ready? Whether you know it or not you now have a medical identification number. Also see:"Students will scan for food":Conditioning our children for a distopian future here:http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/5957915.htm Secret Police? nah.... 'Secretive' convention of police raises questions Top FBI and White House anti- terrorism experts will join law enforcement colleagues in Seattle next week for a police intelligence convention that is drawing fire from a coalition of local social justice and minority organizations. SPIN SPIN SPIN WHEEEEEEEE!!! Rumsfeld Denies 'False Pretext' for Iraq War Just what are the "The Waldorf transcipts" Mr Powell told the foreign secretary he hoped the facts, when they came out, would not "explode in their faces". ...... What are called the "Waldorf transcripts" are being circulated in Nato diplomatic circles. It is not being revealed how the transcripts came to be made; however, they appear to have been leaked by diplomats who supported the war against Iraq even when the evidence about Saddam Hussein's programme of weapons of mass destruction was fuzzy, and who now believe they were lied to. U.S. Insiders Say Iraq Intel Deliberately Skewed (Via metafilter lots of interesting comments over there on this too)/"Vince Cannistraro, a former chief of Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorist operations, said he knew of serving intelligence officers who blame the Pentagon for playing up "fraudulent" intelligence, "a lot of it sourced from the Iraqi National Congress of Ahmad Chalabi." The marines are looking, but they can't find a damn thing. So... were Bush and company played by the INC, or were the American people played by Team Bush? The Missing 13th Amendment "To create the present oligarchy (rule by lawyers) which the US now endures, the lawyers first had to remove the 13th "titles of nobility" Amendment that might otherwise have kept them in check. In fact, it was not until after the Civil War and after the disappearance of this 13th Amendment, that American bar associations began to appear and exercise political power." RAVE Act Sparks Nationwide Action WBAI phone lines cut by NYPD Amy Goodman, host of the nationally syndicated progressive radio program Democracy Now!, reported Wednesday morning that the main phone lines for WBAI 99.5 in New York and Democracy Now! have both gone down. According to Goodman, WBAI's phone lines are the only phones out in its neighborhood; additionally, Democracy Now! and WBAI utilize separate lines. WBAI is in the middle of its spring fundraising drive. Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley experienced similar phone problems during its recent spring fundraiser. Prior to its coverage of the February 15th anti-war rally in New York City, two NYPD officers were caught yanking out the phone lines of host network, Pacifica Radio, just after it began its nationwide coverage of the day of protest. Rule by cooperation, not corporation. You Can be a S.N.I.T.C.H. Did Bob fly his flag improperly? Did Sally fail to attend the Fourth of July parade? Was Ed overheard criticizing our President? These may seem like subtle trangressions, but look closely--they are indicators of deep-seated hatred for America--the hallmarks of terrorism. THE NEW RULING BY THE SUPREMES IN THE MARTINEZ CASE will lead to the widespread use of torture by U.S. police. There is still some small room for hope; the Supremes say you may sue the police officer for "outrageous conduct" (and hope that the jury believes your word against those of the testilying cop who claims he treated you with grandmotherly kindness). But apparently all manner of coercion is okay as long as the information squeezed out of us by foul means isn't used against us in court. PENTAGON: SPACE IS FOR AMERICANS ONLY (Via threerivertechreview) Ahhh, to live in the Empire. Sexy so sexy... The BBC has a round-up of the disinformation circulated to date, including the latest allegation that the Blair dossier portraying Saddam as having the "capacity to activate his biological and chemical weapons in just 45 minutes" had been re-written, with "unreliable" information added to make the document "sexier." Pathetic... (Via American sam) Despite Bush's specific and unambiguous assertion that the war against Iraq would be fought because of the urgent threat posed by Saddam's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, administration scumbags are now saying the WMD line was but a "bureaucratic convenience," and that the real reasons for the war elsewhere: Wolfowitz said another reason for the invasion had been "almost unnoticed but huge" -- namely that the ousting of Saddam would allow the United States to remove its troops from Saudi Arabia, where their presence had long been a major al Qaeda grievance. So the war against Iraq was fought to appease al Qaeda? People With Connections To The Bush Dynasty Who Met With Suspicious And Untimely Deaths In the words of Davey D. "You think a couple thousand lives mean shit to kill3rs"? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Audio < http://www.911timeline.net/whatwouldyoudo.ra > America's Political Prisoners Although virtually unknown to the average uninformed American citizen, the United States does have its political prisoners. But instead of imprisoning these government agents and citizens for their political belief, they have become prisoners so as to silence their exposing of criminal activities by people holding key government positions. Conspiracy in 1976? "The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." - Larry P. McDonald, US Congressman, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets Dancing With the Devil "Since at least the 1980's, federal laws have prohibited U.S. companies from doing business in one or more of these countries. Yet Halliburton appears to have sought to circumvent these restrictions by setting up subsidiaries in foreign countries and territories such as the Cayman Islands. These actions started as early as 1984; they appear to have continued during the period between 1995 and 2000, when Vice President Cheney headed the company; and they are apparently ongoing even today." Note: use unknews as login and password The Daisy Cutter MOAB Rebuttal I must say this is done well... Documents from the Phoenix Program Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at "neutralizing" - through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture - the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying "final solution" that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality. The CIA destroyed its copies of the documents related to this program, but the creator of Phoenix gave his personal copies to author Douglas Valentine. He, in turn, has given them to The Memory Hole. They have never previously been published, online or in print. Want to know why the people in other nations hate Americans so much? It isn't because of some imaginary freedoms. It isn't because we're rich. It's because agents of the US Government keep screwing around with other people's countries to force them to support the American system, while killing and torturing any who might object. Read the documents about what the CIA has been doing in your name, paid for with your tax dollars, and realize just what it is that the US Government is guilty of. And think of this; that you might someday be killed by the citizens of a foreign nation which has been covertly raped and plundered by the CIA is deemed not so great a price to pay for such adventures. Your life is gladly sacrificed as a necessary cost of the business of global piracy. Hoax! Spectre Raised Iraq Weapons Claims Were A Hoax As the spectre is raised of Iraq WMD claims having been a hoax, US Senator Robert Byrd has asked "Were our troops needlessly put at risk? Were countless Iraq civilians killed and maimed when war was not really necessary? Was the American public deliberately misled? Was the world?" Oil $$ Driving [Halliburton] United States Towards Tehran US denies its use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons in Iraq pose any health hazard hahahaha...anybody that believes this is a suck3r! It just amazes me the garbage the people will swallow because they trust the Bushco. US 'pays offshore firms $1bn' Companies which have moved offshore to avoid paying US taxes are making a billion dollars a year from US government contracts Of course... Conviction Tossed on FBI Lab Misconduct Three years before FBI scientific expert Michael Malone helped put a young man behind bars wrongfully, FBI superiors were alerted that Malone may have given false testimony in an earlier case that led to the rare impeachment of a federal judge/Since when did any of the Alpha-bet agencies or the Police for that matter, ever get held responsible for fucking anything ...EVER! The Lies We Bought The Unchallenged "Evidence" For War The Illusion of Government by Consent To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first world of compliant, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. --- P.J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, translated by John Beverly Robinson (London: Freedom Press, 1923), pp. 293-294. The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate" scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Paul Krugman: "But the people now running America aren't conservatives: they're radicals who want to do away w This appeared in the NY Times, forwarded to me. I think mostbunall of you already knew this stuff Krugman's writes here. But I think he's right about the ignorance of "liberals" on this. They don't read the "ideologues", for sure. Not that I've achieved anything NEAR adequate knowledge of economics (not yet), but I used to hope the generalist-reader would at least come to grips with this simple stuff. Now I have zero illusions. Krugman cites the staid brit Financial Times as actually proffering that perhaps the Bushies WANT a "fiscal train wreck". Jeez, anyone who read any ONE of a handful of books that came out circa 1981-86 - ones that warned us that the Reaganites were anything BUT "conservative", would've known this stuff (below) LONG AGO! For example: _The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans_...Let's hope this more-accurate (formerly "conspiracy theory") take on the fascist Bush Administration and the Republikkkan Party in general gains in ascendancy. But with the corporate stanglehold on mainstream media, I won't hold my breath. Someone once said that there's nothing more horrifying than ignorance in action. And watching the 95% who work for a living remain oblivious (I've talked to people with Master's degrees who don't begin to get this stuff), much less actively rooting for their own demise (listen to talk radio) goes beyond the witnessing of a train wreck in slow motion. For me it does. Here's the Proverb that fits in this case: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." - _Gravity's Rainbow_(B293, V253) Note:use ' unknews ' as the login and password US bills Australia for Iraq bombs HAHAHA...This just cracks me up for some reason... ;-) 'what's the ol line..."play with the devil"....hahahahaha... suckers... Bushco usa..or why is Murika looking more and more like texas... Texas approved one of the nation's most sweeping abortion counseling laws [last] Wednesday, requiring doctors, among other things, to warn women that abortion might lead to breast cancer. That link, however, does not exist, according to the American Cancer Society and federal government researchers, and critics say the law is a thinly veiled attempt to intimidate, frighten and shame women who are seeking an abortion. Proponents say they are merely trying to give women as much information as possible, and argue that research into the alleged link between abortion and breast cancer remains inconclusive. After years of failed attempts to outlaw abortion outright, social conservatives across the nation are now finding success in limiting abortions by requiring so- called counseling of patients. Among the most aggressive tactics is the attempt to link abortion with breast cancer, a move that many conservative organizations have undertaken, but rarely with the success they have found in Texas. "They don't care what science says," said Claudia D. Stravato, chief executive of Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. "It's like talking to the Flat Earth Society." Who owns you... The above is an article about the yearly Bilderberg meeting, held May 15th through 18th near Paris. You know, the Bilderbergers are en elite insider group that meets "secretly" every year to plot how they're gonna govern all of us, and further secure their own interests. Afghanistan has been well and truly betrayed Via The Herald (Glasgow) Wasn't this the country that Tony Blair and George Bush pledged, in the same breath that announced war, that the people of Afghanistan would not be forgotten? Well, I can say after two visits to Afghanistan that they are not only forgotten but well and truly betrayed. The country is on its knees: roads, bridges, tunnels, schools, homes, hospitals, and farmlands are reduced to rubble and dust. It is one of the most heavily land-mined countries in the world. Only 5% of the rural population have access to clean water, 17% have access to medical services, 13% have access to education, 25% of all children are dead by the age of five. Life expectancy is 43. An estimated three million people are still in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan, let alone the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced peoples. This country is in a mess and if anyone tells me that millions of dollars worth of aid is getting into this country then I will gladly take them to Afghanistan and point out the brutal truth. The people are dying! And we are turning a blind eye.... (more) Is Money Killing Democracy in America? Or How 25% of the Voters call the shots Who's Responsible For High Book Prices? I went to buy a book this weekend and was blown away by the price,hence the above link...-mobythor THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY! Science and Sanity Disinfopedia? Who Owns Your Media? Center for Public Integrity Visit “the Center for Public Integrity’s unprecedented examination of the telecommunications industry,The three largest local phone companies control 83 percent of home telephone lines. The top two long distance carriers control 67 percent of that market. The four biggest cellular phone companies have 64 percent of the wireless market. The five largest cable companies pipe programming to 74 percent of the cable subscribers nationwide. Those findings come from the Center for Public Integrity’s unprecedented examination of the telecommunications industry, the centerpiece of which is a first-of-its-kind, 65,000 record, searchable database containing ownership information on virtually every radio station, television station, cable television system and telephone company in America. Printwash A few ornery journalists who don't like blogs are complaining that blogs are represented unfairly in Google search results. In other words, anything said in a popular blog is likely to place very high in a search engine search. It is sometimes presented as a sort of conspiracy termed "googlewash". And the old fashioned media companies might be thought to have reason for considering it unfair that little one-person blogs are more authoritative on many subjects than they are. But there's no such conspiracy, and it is quite obvious what those media companies should do to be equally well placed. Doc Searls has an excellent overview on PrintWash. "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the free ... awww, come on they were freedom journalists weren't they...I LOVE MURIKA! Welfare for the Wealthy: Are Bush's Big Backers Looting the U. S. Treasury? Some premium left wing Propaganda ( via nettime) No idea who is behind this but it pretty clear its a liberal pretending to be a Republican. Well done although I don't know how many Republicans would actually buy the argument or forward the mail. If it works its a really nice trojan horse designed to raise doubt in the minds of hawks everywhere (in America). I'm archiving it here.Note:This blog is neither Left nor Right we feel their all crooks...-mobythor “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death,” Award-Winning Director/Producer Jamie Doran Alleges a Media Cover-Up of US Complicity in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners/Jamie Doran says of State Department official Larry Schwartz, “Larry said and I quote directly, ‘You have to understand, we’re involved, we’re in touch with the national [newspapers] on a daily basis – this story won’t run, even if it’s true.’” And television industry insiders told Doran, “not now Jamie.” CONTROL THE PICTURES, CONTROL THE TRUTH Dubya's Targets are Daddy's Partners The reasonable man could conclude that Bush Jr. is more interested in hiding evidence of his Daddy's evil doing, than in bringing evil doers to justice. It's curious that the countries and people who get Dubya's panties in the tightest wad are all former partners of his Daddy. Osama Bin Laden was and is a CIA asset who is a family member of a Saudi family of Bush business associates. This is documented in various places on the web, including at www.copvcia.com. Saddam Hussein is a long time CIA asset who, according to Shermen Skolnick worked with George Bush Sr. in extorition scams against small middle eastern countries. Persons in Iran were partner in Bush Sr.'s money laundering Iran/Contra scams. Subsequent Irannian regimes inherited the counterfeiting apparatii used in those money laundering schemes. There are many in Iran who know all about that stuff, as well as the October surprise which Bush Sr. used to help Reagen defeat Carter. Isn't it curious that Bin Laden, Hussein, and Iran are the prime targets in Dubya's war on evil. The reasonable man could conclude that Bush Jr. is more interested in hiding evidence of his Daddy's evil, than in bringing evil doers to justice. Capitalism Magazine: American Gestapo: A Primer (Via post-atomic)...there is another federal "military" in America, and it is much less glamorous. Its activities are not nearly as well advertised, and its mission not nearly as clear. Soldiers in this "military" stand poised not in America's front yard, but at America's front door. Instead of scanning neighboring territories for threats to American sovereignty, these soldiers scan each room of America's house for threats to government authority, and opportunities to harass its residents. These soldiers do not aim their guns outward; they aim them inward at American citizens. And they've got a lot more guns than one might think. Not surprisingly, soldiers in this quiet "military" often wear facemasks. After all, they are not just soldiers; they are thugs. US plans death camp? Oh boy. Hopefully this UK tabloid is off its rocker on this one, as tabloids usually are. Hopefully. The US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber. Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday. The plans were revealed by Major-General Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680 suspects from 43 countries, including two Australians. The suspects have been held at Camp Delta on Cuba without charge for 18 months. General Miller said building a death row was one plan. Another was to have a permanent jail, with possibly an execution chamber...( http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/ ) Texas Trainwreck Joshua Micah Marshall is all over the Homeland Security/Texas Department of Public Safety scandal. Here's today's installment. United we stand This site (and many others) was hacked to promote a message to the public. This is not a hoax, this is not a lie. We are opening a door way to the truth. It's time to open your eyes. Please take this serious as these issues effect your life. listen little man Pentagon officials are pushing for action they believe could destabilize the government of Iran. Why? Intelligence reports suggesting al Qaeda operatives in Iran played a role in the May 12 suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia. Sound familiar? Time to brush up on Iran's history and change the Q to an N on your No War With Iraq signs?/JUST WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING? I'M SICK OF AMERICA'S COP SHOW SCRIPT GRRRRRRR... Precrime? The above is no hoax...this is though...( http://www.precrime.org/) Afghanistan the forgotten war... In this Economist story about the state of things in Afghanistan, they mention that CNN has shut down its Afghanistan operation. Hopes for America seeing things through in Afghanistan seem particularly bleak to me -- we weren't very committed before we invaded Iraq, campaign season will soon go into full swing, and there'll be even less attention avaiable for the luckless Afghans. Victims of the peace decide Americans are worse than Saddam Hadeb Hamed Hamed, the tribe’s sheikh, sat on mats on the prison officer’s porch, and said: “The Americans promised us food and medicine and freedom. But we have lost our homes, our land, our crops. Now we live in prison with nothing, and they ignore us. “It is the allied forces that have done this to us. When we run out of food, I don’t know what we will do.” In fact, he does know, because with starvation looming, he has been talking about it with the other elders. “If we don’t have a solution, we will fight the Americans even if they kill us. It is better than sitting here with nothing and just dying,” he said. Leaked Copy (of WP ad) May Have Forced Resignation Happy Memorial day? 5 US servicemen killed in Afghanistan The other (forgotten) War 'Hitler' Exec. Producer Fired Over Remarks American Rings Warning Bells, Sacrifices Job for Country "It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, who ultimately chose to give up their civil rights and plunged the whole nation into war," Gernon said in the interview. "I can't think of a better time to examine this history than now." posted by valis : 7:05 AM : Permanent archive link to this story/ Also see :Texas TV stations pull CBS 'Hitler' miniseries ( http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/tv_and_radio/article/0,1406,KNS_357_1963755,00.html ) Why Do They Hate Us? "When we ask the question 'why do they hate us?' we don?t want a complicated answer. Americans don?t want to hear that we?ve been doing anything wrong. We want to hear 'they are jealous of our freedoms.' We want to generalize that Arabs are crazed and violent, acting without logical motivation. U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman stated in a meeting of the Committee on International Relations that 'we are resented for our power, envied for our wealth and hated for our liberty.' This kind of placating reassurance may comfort Americans, but it is far from the truth. Other countries have freedoms, wealth and liberty. Why weren?t Sweden, Canada, or Holland the target of any recent terrorism?" Eye-opening observations about the differences between civil-liberties organizations in America and in the UK.(Via Electrolite ) Nuclear and present danger? irony at its borsht - The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment. Can't beet that (sic, s'cuse me while I kiss my ass goodbye). "Even more alarming from an environmental standpoint is nuclear waste disposal. Used uranium rods remain "hot" (radioactive) for between 10,000 and 250,000 years." Total Info Awareness report shredded (Via boing boing) My co-worker Lee Tien has written a devastating analysis of the report on Total Information Awareness that was just presented to Congress. Accountability in the use of TIA Privacy Act concepts like the right to a copy of one's records, the right to dispute or correct information believed to be inaccurate, the right to know how one's personal information is used and who has access to it, and the right to know what institutions and record systems contain personal information all revolve around accountability. But the Report doesn't discuss these issues -- even though TIA is already being tested on real data about real people. For the ordinary person, TIA is a giant suspicion-generating machine. TIA's most obvious purpose is to identify suspected terrorists (although, given the recent allegations about the use of the Homeland Security Department to track Democratic legislators in Texas, one should be concerned that TIA will be used for other purposes). How do you clear your name if a TIA analyst, aided by an "intelligent agent," mistakenly decides that you're suspicious? Will you even know? Amazingly, while EFF worries about the accuracy and quality of the data that TIA would use, the Report blithely dismisses the issue: "TIA does not, in and of itself, raise any particular concerns about the accuracy of individually identifiable information." R-32. The Report's logic is that TIA is "simply a tool for more efficiently inquiring about data in the hands of others," and this concern about data quality "would exist regardless of the method employed." R-32-33. It's remarkable that the government can so easily ignore the harm that suspicion based on bad data might cause to people, given the problems we already see with "no-fly" and other watchlists. A World on the Edge Is the current formula for universal free markets and democracy spurring ethnic violence around the world? Stiglitz drives a bulldozer through BushCo domestic economic policies and Dubyanomics THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT "When watching men of [coercive political] power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual -- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker -- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable 'animated instrument' which is Aristotle's definition of a slave." -- Eric Hoffer Tax Cut Man Warning:Some people don't like animation,but due to recent developments ... Why, Why, Explain To Me Why~ WorldCom gains lucrative contracts "The Pentagon made an interesting choice when it hired a U.S. company to build a small wireless phone network in Iraq: MCI, aka WorldCom, perpetrator of the biggest accounting fraud in U.S. business and not exactly a big name in cellular service."/P.S. Enron where are you?...-mobythor MoveOn holding national meetings to fight FCC's media consolidation plans I hate to say this, but why fight it? You KNOW however which way they decide to do it, they're gonna do it the way they want it.... It's pretty much the way it goes now. Probably 90% of radio stations are owned by either "Clear Channel" or "ViaCom". The few that aren't are just DYING to be bought up -- you won't notice the difference anyway.... We oppose the use of roadblocks, period. U.S. Senate backs Bush on "mini-nukes" The Bush administration has pushed to be allowed to research "mini-nukes," low-yield tactical nuclear weapons of five kilotons or less, a step Democrats said would spur a new arms race and heighten the risk of nuclear war by raising prospects of their use on battlefields U.S. Charged With War Crimes NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN An Inquiry into the General Lack of Violent Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust WHY DIDN'T THE JEWS FIGHT BACK AGAINST HITLER? And what motivated those who finally did defend themselves, like the prisoners of Sobibor and Treblinka, and the young people of the Warsaw and Vilna ghettos? Ian McCollum has written An Inquiry into the General Lack of Violent Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust. It's an easy read on a complex subject. Ian doesn't say so, but many of the reasons for the lack of Jewish resistance sound a lot like what we hear from our neighbors right now. "Are you a terrorist?" There's a judge in Tarrytown, NY, who's got an interesting spin on applying the Patriot Act. Protest Now a Terrorist Act in California: State monitored war protesters Intelligence agency does not distinguish between terrorism and peace activism/Just like it's neighbors in Oregon any decent is now terrorism...you are not only a suspect anymore you are a terrorist!Lets see "we" will fuck you then arrest you for you saying we are fucking you... The Violence of the Global ctheory (Via woods lot) Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization. To identify its main features, it is necessary to perform a brief genealogy of globalization, particularly of its relationship to the singular and the universal. CIA chief keeps silent on names Despite vow, Tenet won't say who made pre-9/11 blunder Meet the Carlyle Group "The Carlyle Group is a distressing example of the way Washington, DC works. The Iron Triangle gives you an insiders’ perspective on this ‘creature’ of the Beltway." –Thomas Fitton, President, Judicial Watch, Inc. Pop quiz: In which country can a tenant be evicted for protesting against the government? Answer: The United States of America. LifeLog: The spy machine of Darpa's dreams The Pentagon is about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person's life, index all the information and make it searchable. The embryonic LifeLog program would dump everything an individual does into a giant database: every e-mail sent or received, every picture taken, every Web page surfed, every phone call made, every TV show watched, every magazine read. All of this -- and more -- would combine with information gleaned from a variety of sources: a GPS transmitter to keep tabs on where that person went, audio-visual sensors to capture what he or she sees or says, and biomedical monitors to keep track of the individual's health. Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade Big Brother Is Tracking You. Without a Warrant. The noose tightens... room temperture fusion anyone? and then the lord said 'let there be fire' and it got hot../ don't tell BuschCo about this...it will never see the light of day...lol The Other Side Of Holocaust Denial Although I am the grandson of Holocaust victims, I am embarrassed by some Jewish organizations that want to make the Jewish Holocaust the defining event of World War Two. Left Out By Right Rhetoric There are two different models of the family, and two different models of politics. Senate Energy Bill Gives Billions for New Reactors BUSH-CHENEY-DOMENICI ENERGY BILL WOULD GIVE BILLIONS IN TAXPAYER MONEY TO BUILD DANGEROUS, UNNECCESSARY NEW ATOMIC POWER REACTORS BILL APPROVED BY SENATE ENERGY COMMITTEE WOULD SET NATION ON WRONG ENERGY COURSE FOR DECADES Have you ever wondered how Adolph Hitler - a mediocre painter of Austrian origin - transformed himself into Germany's Fuhrer during the 1930s and 1940s? The Nazi phenomenon was no historical coincidence, and far less a philosophical whim made real by just one man. Nazism had its followers, many of them exceptionally wealthy, veritable alchemists of the financial world back then. According to research carried out over the last few years, Wall Street bankers (amongst others) financed Hitler's rise to power whilst making large profits at the same time. What is yet still more deplorable is the fact that relatives of the current U.S. president were amongst this group of individuals./ Two things come to mind here,1) making Hitler out to be a monster removes him from his human standing i.e. therefore putting him in a category above believable as if it couldn't happen again and did with stalin,2) Hitler was just one man and it has be shown that the world bankers were the heart of his atrocities as in this article...-mobythor Bob Graham wants to get killed ...now he's accusing the Bush administration of "engaging in a 'coverup' of intelligence failures before and after the Sept. 11 attacks to shield it from embarrassment," according to the LA Times. He's also alleging that "the war with Iraq has allowed Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to become a greater threat to Americans than ever before." (via thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse) go there for more embedded links to this story... Flash bang boom look out merica it's superduper Bushco!YEAH, WE'RE IN A WAR ALRIGHT ITS THE TERRORISTS CALLED THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS/SENATE AND EX-BRANCH! SAD, FAMILIAR STORY. Woman dies after NY City police charge into her apartment in a no-knock, no-think, flash-bang, wrong-house drug raid. (Saturday evening) It just gets weirder and weirder. ABC news is now reporting that: The drug dealer they were allegedly raiding was already in jail; The "registered informant" had (typically, in these cases) never provided a stitch of actually useful information; and The warrant hadn't authorized use of a flash-bang grenade (which is usually required). New York's Mayor Bloomberg is "deeply saddened" over the woman's death. Yeah. No politician will ever be "deeply saddened" by this kind of thing unless it kills his own aging mother or affects his chances of re-election. Nobody in authority really cares about this kind of "collateral damage" from the insane -- but oh-so-profitable and power-building -- drug war. The full address this weekend. C-Span Democracy, the modern world’s holy cow, is in crisis. And the crisis is a profound one. Every kind of outrage is being committed in the name of democracy. It has become little more than a hollow word, a pretty shell, emptied of all content or meaning. It can be whatever you want it to be. Democracy is the Free World’s whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of taste, available to be used and abused at will.Arundhati Roy, speech delivered at the Riverside Church in Harlem, New York, on May 13: DOUBLE REPRESENTATION IS DOUBLE TYRANNY My friend from Japan sent me this...DOUBLE TAXATION WITHOUT DOUBLE REPRESENTATION IS DOUBLE TYRANNY Loyal readers hereof will recall my erstwhile diatribe against Richard Nixon (BEYOND DESPISING NIXON), comparatively honest precursor to the nefarious Bush gang, his diabolical attempts at doubly taxing Americans working abroad and the ultimately pointless troubles this tax-rapine involves for those so fortunate as to live elsewhere than with the IRS amidst the NRA. Apparently more and more folks who have the wherewithal are leaving every year to live peacefully abroad, greatly peeving the IRA and the current administrative cartel. Well those grasping folks are at it again. In keeping with the basic GOP philosophy, they're trying to repeal the foreign earned-income exclusion to help pay for the big tax cut on corporate dividends! If this ploy succeeds (and who cares but we expats?), every American working abroad will be forced to pay US taxes on their foreign income, in addition to the local taxes they must pay. It sounds downright Republican to me. I WONT AID AND ABET THESE THUGS BY POSTING THEIR "REWARD" PROPAGANDA Wanted: Anti-War Protestors Portland police are offering a reward for your help in identifying several anti-war protestors. Police arrested several dozen people during the recent anti-war protests - but some of those taken into custody - didn't carry identification and refused to give their real names. No mention in this little article of what crimes these people are wanted for, other than the crime of being against Bush's war. If they are wanted for something else, then what? Articles of this sort always tell you that, don't they? I'm reminded of the scene in The Pianist when the family reads the notice declaring that all Jews must wear identifying arm bands. I can just see myself walking down the sidewalk wearing my legally required peace-sign arm band and being spat upon by righteous Fox News watching patriotic Americans. See y'all in the ghetto, man. In Bed with Bush – The Bechtel Story A little research into the history of the Bechtel Corp reveals almost a 'classroom example' of how the links between big business and government work, and what works for Bechtel can be applied to the 100 or so, major corporations that control America and dictate not only its foreign policy but also its domestic one. They are reading what you are reading Given this county's technical sophistication, weaponry, intelligence gathering, intuition, we still can not prevent fully loaded passenger airliners from crashing into huge skycrapers, the Pentagon, the ground, even though we had plenty of time, warning. Now, you expect me to believe that you can prevent terrorism by spying into my reading list? Oh I think not motherfucker! (warning: above link is vomit inducing right wing) This article, and theory in general, reads like an Emporer generously bestowing books filled with wonderous knowledge upon his ignorant and simple subjects. Never mind that these are public libraries. Bought and paid for through city taxes. These are collective collections belonging to the citizens of that city. A pooling together of resources for local benefit. Libraries, and parks, bike trails, aboretums, are a socialist idea. A last vestige of "of the people, by the people, for the people." Libraries belong to us, not the government. Seized book lists will not combat terrorism. I can't even imagine a scenario where they would. Seized book lists violate your freedom. The violate provisions in our constitution banning illegal search and seizure. They give the government entirely too much control into what you read, see, hear, think. (via this girl thinks) The street finds its own uses for things; those camera-equipped mobile phones, for example, are ideal for vote-rigging, as the Italian Mafia have discovered: Here's the idea: you promise a voter 50 euros (31 pounds) to cast their ballot for your candidate, send them into the booth with a 3G phone, they send a picture via the phone proving that they have voted as instructed and then they get the cash.(via null devise) Attack of the xtians again... (via book slut)The Make a Wish Foundation has been flooded with angry e-mails because of their association with a comic book convention. The attack was organized by the American Family Association, one of those creepy, scary organizations that says they do everything "for the children." Water Privatising Water: What the European Commission Doesn't Want You to Know Overview of EU plans to open up markets in the developing world for exploitation by private water companies such as Suez, Vivendi, Aqua Mundo and Thames Water ( CPI ) http://europa.eu.int/ Doing Freedom! Information for Free Living The May 2003 issue is now online. The keepers of the Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights. "We pay particular attention to not only what the president says but what the American people see," Mr. Bartlett said. "Americans are leading busy lives, and sometimes they don't have the opportunity to read a story or listen to an entire broadcast. But if they can have an instant understanding of what the president is talking about by seeing 60 seconds of television, you accomplish your goals as communicators. So we take it seriously." via Metafilter Building a Nation of Snoops (well meaning snoops mind you) by Carl Takei, the Boston Globe "Watching America with Pride, not Prejudice.'' This is the Orwellian motto of the New Jersey-based Community Anti-Terrorism Training Institute, or CAT Eyes, an antiterrorist citizen informant program being adopted by local police departments throughout the East Coast and parts of the Midwest. Mike Licata, a high school teacher and retired Air Force officer, created the CAT Eyes program in cooperation with ex-military SWAT officer Jason McClendon and businessman Tony Elghossain. In a recent telephone interview, Licata said he wants to use CAT Eyes to create what he calls ''a modern civil defense network,'' converting neighborhood watch groups into antiterrorist informant cells. These groups, constantly watching for signs of terrorist activity in their neighborhoods and workplaces, would report suspicious activities directly to the FBI. Said Licata: ''I envision 100 million Americans looking for indicators of terrorism and promptly reporting it to a central database where it would get analyzed.'' Water YAIR ETTINGER, HAARETZ - The average Jewish citizen of Israel consumes almost 50 percent more water than the average Arab citizen, according to a new study published Sunday by Mossawa, an Arab Israeli advocacy center. Homeland 10 Public 0 Public Comments Overwhelmingly Support Media Diversity/ Fewer than one percent of public comments received by the FCC support loosening media ownership restrictions; the vast majority of comments were submitted by individual citizens opposed to deregulation. This has been confirmed by a survey conducted by the Future of Music Coalition and Free Press, tabulating all comments available on the FCC website. “Reading the comments in this docket has been both inspiring and disheartening,” said FMC’s Director of Research Kristin Thomson. “Many citizens express a growing dissatisfaction with the trends in their local media, and insist that the FCC show a genuine commitment to localism, competition and diversity. But it’s also frustrating to know that, even with the vast majority of comments expressing decisive opposition to the rule changes, citizens’ voices seem to be falling on deaf ears.” As i have said for months, even before the Iraq scam...(pdf) MIDEAST STRUGGLE NOT JUST ABOUT OIL, WATER IS HUGE HIDDEN ISSUE /AS WE HAVE pointed out from time to time, one of great hidden issues of Palestine's struggle to free itself from Israeli occupation is water. This point is widely ignored both in the media and in government statements. For example, here is the total mention of water in Bush's 'road map' plan: "Revival of multilateral engagement on issues including regional water resources, environment, economic development, refugees, and arms control issues." Defense guru Chuck Spinney has shared with us the charts and data from a recent presentation he made on the subject. While this is just an introduction, it will give the reader some sense of the scope of the problem. And we've added an earlier story by Spinney that expands on the subject. "Yet" being the key word... This was probably a great opportunity to really irritate the authorities without doing anything that is illegal yet. The American Politics Pledge: I will give [George W. BushCo] the same level of support and encouragement that was given to the [Clinton] Administration by such luminaries as Tom DeLay, Trent Lott, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Scaife, Ted Olson, Pat Robertson and, of course, George W. himself. In other words, I will badmouth the president daily, I will work in whatever small way I can to defeat and undermine his programs and agenda, I will believe every scurrilous lie told about him and I will criticize and ridicule his wife and children at every opportunity. --Paul Kirkpatrick, December 2000 The New Math Have you or your friends ever signed a petition... Whenever I hear the word "terrorism," I know that I am about to get fed some bullshit. "First they came for the Greens..." Texas' proposed "Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act," which its backers are hoping to extend nationally, is the next step after Patriot Acts I and II. The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights says the legislation criminalizes "basically every environmental and animal-rights organization in the country," which means that if you don't even march with, but send money to any of them, you may be tacitly waiving your 4th-amendment rights. [More at metafilter] This law, along with Oregon's SB 742 and PATRIOT/PATRIOT II are shaking out to be exactly what many feared: a basic (and base) toolkit for political spying. http://www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/sb0700.dir/sb0742.intro.html What I'm reading... Unrestricted Warfare If only art could help... Because Bush won't answer America's Questions: SOS Because 2003 is 19 years too late. Paul D. Wolfowitz said something extraordinary and deeply controversial, on Turkish television ten days ago. He essentially said that bringing democracy to Iraq was so important that the Bush administration wished the Turkish military had subverted Turkish democracy to achieve it. I explain the details in my new column in The Hill. Alert! ...Stop the FCC Fuck Chairman Michael Powell (son of Secretary of State Colin Powell)and the FCC...more at http://www.takebackthemedia.com/index.shtml The Clear Channel Conspiracies Feeding the Beast "Crime is big business, that's why. In fact, crime is government's biggest industry. Moreover, there is incentive for legislators to create new laws purely for the purpose of raising revenue. Thus they continue to engorge an already dangerously bloated bureaucracy. Elected rulers have birthed and nurtured a beast that feeds on the pocketbooks and rights of the very citizens they have sworn to protect." The quote is Jim Davidson's "I submit that there is no government. 'The government' is an illusion, sometimes consensual. In fact, there are only individuals. Individuals in 'the government' get away with murder, theft, lies, deceit, fraud, violence, viciousness, and betrayal. Were those individuals without governmental sanction, they would be merely bullies, killers, and thieves. They would deserve no greater respect and no swifter punishment. As 'the government' however, they are understood to be immune from prosecution, immune from lawsuits, immune from criticism. Even their own treason against the constitution is considered acceptable, whereas it is considered treasonous to accuse them of treason." "What's going on here? Damn,a poster named "homunculus" over at metafilter has posted one of the best damn comments on Dr.strangelovebush i have recently read.../ "Having failed to stop a gang of marauders armed with nothing more intimidating than box cutters, the U.S. is now using the "war on terror" to pursue a long-held hawkish Republican dream of a "winnable nuclear war," as the president's father memorably described it to me in a 1980 Times interview. In such a scenario, nukes can be preemptively used against a much weaker enemy – millions of dead civilians, widespread environmental devastation and centuries of political blowback be damned." Proof that even the Mafriaa isnt listening to there own crap propaganda. RIAA apologizes to Penn State. Turns out Astro-Physics Dept. Professor "Peter Usher" and an mp3 of an a cappella song about gamma ray bursts was not copyrighted music by hip-hop artist "Usher" (via fark) Fuzzy Math Or Voodoo Economics? Gore! no, not that one... "Gore Vidal is America's most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America's response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish Vidal's remarkable personal polemic urging a shocking new interpretation of who was to blame." Link to full version above (not the Observer website version, which I'm told has been "airbrushed"): What have we here...hummm? THE HIDDEN AGENDA "In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations ... by large law firms ... on more than one occasion ... by special interests. Some ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct." U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch Clear Channel-Bush Administration Connections Fuck M.P. AND THE FCC US Army Patents New Biological Weapons Delivery System "The United States Army has developed and patented a new grenade that it says can be used to wage biowarfare. This is in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which explicitly prohibits development of bioweapons delivery devices." 9th Circuit rules individuals have no right to bear arms ...without individual Second Amendment protections, the government could ban the public's only recourse against tyranny. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed, where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest, where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees... (via The Hive) Ok.. Other rights failed, check. Silences those who protest, check. Court's balls in a jar, check. Now. War against tyranny starts when? Disorder deepens in liberated Baghdad The US administrator for central Iraq left the post Sunday after just three weeks in office. I guess this is Clinton's fault. Workers won't get paid time off for President Bush's visit to their plant Monday Hitler, German Nazi Beliefs and Tibet Hushmail.com is violating RFC 2821. My friend at Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." sent me this... If you are a hushmail.com user, you might wish to know that your mail is being rejected inappropriately: May 12 18:53:52 pegasus qmail: 1052780032.839915 starting delivery 3687: msg 748823 to remote palomitas@hushmail.com May 12 18:53:52 pegasus qmail: 1052780032.840219 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 May 12 18:55:58 pegasus qmail: 1052780158.774297 delivery 3687: deferral: Connected_to_65.39.178.32_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_450_ WITH THE NEW HIPAA ANTI-PRIVACY REGULATIONS IN EFFECT it may be time to present your physician with this form requesting non-disclosure of your private medical data. The form is the work of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which has been doing other heroic work to protect physician- patient confidentiality. Among their latest efforts: A "Miranda warning" ad informing medical patients that everything we say can and will be used against us. (They could use some $$ to help get this ad out and pursue a lawsuit against HIPAA.) The government and the media call HIPAA regulations "privacy regulations." Absolutely. And war is peace, fear is security, hate is love, and George W. Bush is the greatest president America ever had. Next to Bill Clinton, of course. (Remember that because of a last-minute Clinton-administration screwup, the incoming Bushies had the chance to stop these regulations dead. And instead Bush ordered them to go into effect -- even though he had to make an end run around the objections of his own Health and Human Services secretary, Tommy Thompson, to impose the regs.) The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism And how many are now in place? Well, all 14 of course... Doctors to become snitches for the FBI Judges Being Secretly Trained to Resist Arguments Based on the Constitution Fearful of growing backlash from the public against arbitrary,prejudiced, and even malicious judgments that are protected by judicial immunity, judges have banded together under government sponsorship to devise means of defending themselves from aggrieved and increasingly militant pro se litigants... The Anti-Government Movement Handbook is a training manual for judges and court staff against pro se litigants, published in 1999 by the National Center for the State Courts (NCSC) in Williamsburg, Virginia. This book, along with Dealing With Common Law Courts: A Model Curriculum for Judges and Court Staff, published in 1997 by NCSC, was developed from an Institute for Course Management (ICM) course on dealing with common law courts, held in Scottsdale, Arizona, February 5-7, 1997. The curriculum and manuals for this course were prepared with a grant from the State Justice Institute: Award No. SJI-96-02B-B-159, "The Rise of Common Law Courts in the United States: An Examination of the Movement, the Potential Impact on the Judiciary, and How the States Could Respond." The State Justice Institute (SJI) is a non-profit, 501C(3) corporation that was started in 1986 and funded by Congress to develop courses and training manuals for state courts and judicial training organizations. Latin American fury as US buys information on millions Governments across Latin America have launched investigations after revelations that a United States firm is obtaining personal data about millions of citizens in the region and selling it to the US Government. Sad... City birds forget how to sing - study Green light for US 'little' N-bombs The Bush Administration has taken its biggest step towards developing a new generation of nuclear weapons as a Senate panel on Friday cleared the way for research on small bombs. Shiowtime! DNA - Everyone arrested to give it up Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to call for Bush's impeachment on May 12 I am reluctant to post this as every alternative blog prolly will, but these days you never know.God wouldn't it be grand?-mobythor/ Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General during the Johnson Administration has drafted articles of impeachment setting forth high crimes and misdemeanors by President Bush and other civil officers of his administration. Mr. Clark has also prepared historical notes on the power of impeachment, for consideration in the impeachment of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Ashcroft.(Why stop there?) Media Ownership and Deregulation One view right here amid many others... Say goodbye to public interest... Don't like media consolidation? Too bad. From the rules for us and different rules for them dept: (via fark) This kind of bullshit will never stop till people see that America has become corrupt to the very root. Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Democracies Do Not Make War on One Another. ...or Do They? The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn't Matter One of the most defeatist statements I've read in some time: "I think one must be careful in assuming that intellectuals have some kind of insight. In fact, if the track record of intellectuals is any indication, not only have intellectuals been wrong almost all of the time, but they have been wrong in corrosive and destructive ways." The view from Wonderland Are the people who are caught up in a mass delusion ever aware that they are living in a malignant fantasyland? When society has gone mad, does the "conventional belief" somehow "feel different" to those within the society? The question virtually answers itself and history confirms that when reason departs and collective insanity takes over, it all seems "perfectly sensible" from the inside. In the present crisis that has befallen our republic, there is still access to relevant information and there is an abundance of fallacy in "the official version" to be exposed, so that those of us with eyes to see, ears to hear, and the ordinary smarts to think it over, are quite able to come up with a reasonable assessment of our peril, and of our most prudent means to deal with it. (via Abuddhas Memes) I loathe America I can hardly bear to see the faces of Bush and Rumsfeld, or to watch their posturing body language, or to hear their self-satisfied and incoherent platitudes... Environmentalists = Terrorists? Have you ever signed a petition in support of an environmental or animal-rights issue? Do you belong to the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, or Greenpeace? Have you publicly protested some environmental or animal rights outrage? If legislation crafted and promoted by the ultra- conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) becomes law, these fundamental rights of American citizenship could become illegal. (via American sam) A lively discussion concerning the road to harm reduction... Today, a reader writes from Venezuela, about the movement in Brazil's government and civil society toward decriminalization of drug users. Ross Wild comments: "It seems that we are forgetting the human part in this discussion: Is it a good policy or not to legalize drugs? But... what do we= do about the consequences of this. Controlled substances (drugs) alter the= behavior of the human being: for example, many assasins and rapists are accustomed to acting under the effect of drugs, the mental state of the subject is strengthened by the effects of the pharmaceuticals. What would happen if we legalized the use of these substances? I think that a marked rise in criminality would be invevitable. Beyond that, what will happen to our children and youth who are more and more explosed to this plague since its being legal threatens the entire young population of the world? "In effect, I don't know if this policy would be good or not in the=20 anti-drug fight. What I do know is that the consequences of such a decision are unimaginable." This reader's comment reflects a common fear expressed by some about our editorial position in favor of ending drug prohibition. I thought about responding to him myself, but then thought, hey, this is a Readers' forum... let's see what others... what you... can say to address his concerns. You can read this and related comments, and submit your own at: God + Capital = Christianity Gotta love those Christians and their 'faith' based initiatives. Coming soon to strip mall near you. "Excuse me, I'm looking for a book by Noam Chomsky." "Sorry, our corporate parent believes he's the Devil. Here, have a prayer book instead." Managing the Rapture [snip] -- A key tenet of the end times, very popular within the Bush administration, is you never know when the moment to convert or die will occur. Heck, it could be right in the middle of a drunken stupor, or when you are choking on a pretzel. One must always be ready for the unexpected. Well, like most domesticated primates I got caught up in passing the meme virus by posting the following... Confusing E-Mail about Opt-Out Number Sends the Wrong Message I've been getting a lot of e-mails about this one, so here ya go: From privacyrights.org: An unknown individual has broadcast an electronic mail message that has reached tens of thousands of consumers, confusing them with information that is only half correct. The message explains, erroneously, that as of July 1, 2001, "the four major credit bureaus in the US will be allowed … to release your credit info, mailing addresses, phone numbers..... to anyone who requests it." This is not correct. The message goes on to explain that you can call a toll-free number, (888) 567-8688, in order to opt-out of having your credit information sold. This is only partially correct. The author of this message is confusing two separate federal laws. The Financial Services Modernization Act, also known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB), requires financial institutions to notify all their customers by July 1, 2001, of their own privacy policies. If the bank, credit card company, insurance company, or brokerage firm sells customer data to third party companies, it must provide its customers the ability to say "no" to such data sharing – in other words, to "opt-out."... [Read on] Curiously, this is in response to an e-mail circulating in 2001, but it looks to be based on a similar theme of an e-mail circulating presently./Thanks libertythink for setting the record straight...-mobythor How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis Note: This article's author, John Loftus, is a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection. Gun Control's Nazi Connection! Startling evidence suggests that the Gun Control Act of 1968 was lifted, almost in its entirety, from Nazi legislation. by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership All roads lead to Bush and the underground Reich cont.3 Anybody else here connecting the dots? All roads lead to Bush and the underground Reich cont... All roads lead to Bush and the underground Reich The Secret War Against the Jews by John Loftus and Mark Aarons history US quietly eases rules for faith-based groups. The Bush administration has quietly altered regulations for the nation's leading job training program to allow faith-based organizations to use ''sacred literature,'' such as Bibles, in their federally funded programs. Further, the change made by the US Labor Department last month, could allow faith-based groups to use religious books as historical texts. /i got some sacred literature for those bastards. it's called the u.s. constitution, and someone needs to ram a few copies up dubya's memory hole. House Considers Measure to Cut Billions in Pension Obligations Robber barrons never sleep.. try this ( http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/business/06PENS.html ) if it doesn't work try " unknews " to login. USSR OR USSA? any Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely arein a state of shock in today's America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad... Who owns your state representative? Follow the money...... Spin, spin spin...wheeeeeeee... Guarding the Truth in which it is shown that George actually did not go AWOL from the National Guard. Vinny wants people who made the accusation and/or blogged about it, as I have, to apologize. I could only go by what I had read about it in several places all over the internet~this is new information to me. When you learn something new, it's good to present it, even by way of retraction, but I see no reason for apologizing. I'm not sorry I posted it, I'm not sorry I believed it. Bush could have released his military record like other presidential candidates do and avoided controversy and suspicion altogether. It wasn't a matter of being Wrong so much as not being given enough information. So now we know. It just never ends... Guerrilla News Network With the news today that the open-ended, no bid, contract for Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, included a deal to not only rebuild Iraq's oil production facilities, but for distributing the oil as well, many in Washington are questioning the administration's true intentions in Iraq."/But Wait! Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor "Halliburton is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney. The payments are in the form of 'deferred compensation' of up to $1m a year." ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,912515,00.html ) Envoy dubs US a police state The strained relations between Germany and the United States took a turn for the worse yesterday after a senior Berlin diplomat was reported to have told Foreign Ministry colleagues that America was turning into a “police state”. High Court to Rule on Police Roadblocks From the Associated Press (Via libertythink) WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Monday it will give police clearer rules for using random roadblocks to track down criminals without violating the privacy rights of other motorists. The court will hear arguments next fall on whether police can set up checkpoints to seek information about a recent crime, then arrest drivers for unrelated wrongdoing. FLASHBACK: Protecting the Fatherland -- Americans Face Car Inspections, Armed Patrols As Terror Attack On Iraq Begins Also from the police-state files: A foreign-held private company is still manning US roadblocks Former KGB Heads To Help IAO Spy On Americans Just a Reminder: 'Red Means Big Brother's in Charge' Code Red would trigger a virtual lockdown Oregon Bill To Define Protesters as Terrorists and Put Them in Labor Camps Indefinitely Meets Opposition Red Alert means you will be a prisoner in your own home and the schools will keep you from your children, taking them to "secret locations" Are you in the no-fly zone? "The next time you go to the airport, your name could be entered in a secretive new government database, and depending on your threat rating — red, yellow or green — you could be prevented from flying or even detained. This new background check program, called Computer-Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System or CAPPS II, would assign a rating to every American based on information from secret intelligence and law enforcement databases and even commercial data such as purchase history and banking records. Innocent Americans have already been stopped and banned from flying because their names erroneously appeared on government “no fly” lists. Take the ACLU’s quick quiz to find out who’s being stopped from flying, and whether you could become one of them." (via skimble) It's a Byrd! Byrd: "I do question the motives of a deskbound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech" Next stop...? Bush Administration Readying for 2004 Invasion of Iran - While the slaughter continues in Iraq, the United States has its sights set on the real prize: the Islamic Republic of Iran. "Between April of 2003 and November 2004, the US, UK and Israel will accelerate instability operations in Iran and engage in global disinformation campaigns to belittle the political and military leadership there." How the GOP struck gold with its permanent "War on Terrorism": "(Democrats) are hoping that a collapsing economy will doom Bush like it did his father. But his dad didn't have Osama bin Laden in his corner -- or Karl Rove..." Is Your TV is watching you. Your TV is watching you. "Advertisers want to use new technology to monitor your every click -- and prevent you from tuning out their ads. And don't even think of trying to escape." Both from Salon Rolling down my cheek... W.House Denies Bush's Ship Landing a Costly Stunt ABC News , and Despite criticism, Bush 'glad' he jetted to aircraft carrier. CNN Furthermore, Iraq weapons proof 'will be found': 'The commander of UK forces in the Iraq conflict has "no doubt" that evidence of weapons of mass destruction will be found.' BBC It is all so darned entertaining that it brings tears to my eyes. Eugene Police Illegally Raid Homes with LAV; Prompts Federal Lawsuit / Is a lav (Light Armored Vehicle) a tank? I think not, but have one roll up on your lawn in the middle of the night with a commando style raid on your civilian neighborhood and I bet it wont make any difference.Welcome to Bush's America. (One should also point out that these lav's have a 50 cal gun on them)-mobythor Halliburton's Iraq role expands Army letter says oil driller unit got distribution rights in noncompetitive oil well fire contract. Inverted Totalitarianism "Empire" and "superpower" accurately symbolize the projection of American power abroad, but for that reason they obscure the internal consequences. Consider how odd it would sound if we were to refer to "the Constitution of the American Empire" or "superpower democracy." The reason they ring false is that "constitution" signifies limitations on power, while "democracy" commonly refers to the active involvement of citizens with their government and the responsiveness of government to its citizens. For their part, "empire" and "superpower" stand for the surpassing of limits and the dwarfing of the citizenry.(more) Michael Parenti : The Reasons Why Liberal intellectuals are never happier than when, with patronizing smiles, they can dilate on the stupidity of George Bush. What I have tried to show is that Bush is neither retarded nor misdirected. Given his class perspective and interests, there are compelling reasons to commit armed aggression against Iraq---and against other countries to come. It is time we dwelled less upon his malapropisms and more on his rather effective deceptions and relentless viciousness. Many decent crusaders have been defeated because of their inability to fully comprehend the utter depravity of their enemies. The more we know what we are up against, the better we can fight it.... (more) quote from Ninth Circuit Justice Alex Kozinski's recent ruling: "The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion--the mountain of verbiage it must deploy to explain away these fourteen short words of constitutional text--refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it--and is just as likely to succeed." I feel myself about to be overwhelmed by an attack of hysteria this is about the funniest thing i have ever seen... The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush: 10 Commonsense Lessons from the Commander in Chief/Hardcover – 256 pages If, according to Abigail Adams, "great necessities call forth great leaders," then George W. Bush has displayed a natural ability to lead. Through his skillful use of timeless management principles and his powerful people skills, Bush has proven to be a genius at leadership Paying cash triggers alert for terrorism in new world Your money's no good here, pal./The Complete control grid is in place...next phase loaded...-mobythor P.S. If you had read the Patrioit Act you would know. Business Connections It’s ironic (maybe you can think of a better word) that there are stronger links between Osama and the Bush administration than Osama and Saddam, even with the valiant efforts of the right wing press. Check out what's in this week’s New Yorker:(SEE ABOVE)THEN :http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PRT.jsp?articleid=6532 Picasso's "Secret" Guernica Government intelligence a misnomer If you want to understand the very real threat to our rights of free speech and free association, Jimmy Wynn is your man. Wynn is commanding officer of the Militia of Georgia, a small paramilitary group that believes we are "governed by petty despots and tyrants" who have robbed us of our constitutional rights. Despite that heated rhetoric, however, no available evidence suggests that Wynn has ever advocated violence against the government or law enforcement. He's just an American with an odd point of view. Intelligence Authorisation Bill Senate Committee OKs Intelligence Bill The Senate Intelligence Committee's intelligence authorization bill for 2004 would encourage information sharing among agencies and fund a government-wide/ I FIND IT FUCKING FUNNY HOW THESE GODDAMN SO CALLED "ADVOCATES FOR THE PEOPLE" WANT TO SALE YOUR ASS DOWN THE HOLE, WHILE MAKING DIFFERENT RULES FOR THEMSELVES...THE WHOLE CONGRESS/SENATE AND ADMINISTRATION SHOULD BE PUT IN PRISON AND OR OTHER HARSHER PENALTIES...FUCKING ROBBER BARRONS.-MOBYTHOR 2004 Defense Authorization Bill ! (pdf) Brace yourself. The Defense Secretary is pushing a 205-page Bill through Congress that would -- take a deep breath: * Strip Defense Department employees of their unions, whistleblower protections, annual pay raises, and rights to appeal disciplinary actions; * Let the Defense Secretary dole out no-bid, no-oversight, no-accountability contracts worth billions (one observer calls it "the Halliburton Bill of Rights"); * Exempt the military from environmental and wildlife protection rules on more than 23 million acres of American lands; * Free the Pentagon from dozens of requirements it report to Congress. Dissing Congress seems only fair. As long as the Pentagon is offering contempt to taxpayers, the environment and its own workers, why should it pretend it respects our elected representatives? Especially since Congress doesn't respect itself: Rumsfeld's bill is moving up Capitol Hill with a bullet McCarthy Hearings 1953-5 Full text released by Senate How Not to Count the Poor (PDF) Academic paper that thoroughly debunks the primary justification for the neo-liberal model of globalisation, that while the rich are getting richer the poor are also emerging from poverty Truth? who's truth? Why truth matters Nicholas Kristof: "The C.I.A. was terribly damaged when William Casey, its director in the Reagan era, manipulated intelligence to exaggerate the Soviet threat in Central America to whip up support for Ronald Reagan's policies. Now something is again rotten in the state of Spookdom." NY Times op-ed Public Indoctrination Centers Operating According to Plan: 23% of 3rd-graders flunk Awwww, "it just breaks his heart"...fucking shyster...-mobythor Well, well... Backed by Bin Laden: Bechtel Chosen to Reconstruct Iraq A money trail runs from the lucrative business of rebuilding Iraq to the fortune behind Osama bin Laden. Use Cash and You're a Terrorist... Saks: Use Cash and You're a Terrorist Saks said that, henceforth, it would not accept cash as a form of payment on store accounts in any amount over $350. Checks and money orders and online payments and such are fine, it said, but no bills or change totaling more than $350 in any one-month billing cycle Your Personal information goes public starting July 1st, 2003 Your Credit: Personal Information goes public Starting July 1st, 2003, the four major credit bureaus in the US (Equifax, etc.) will be allowed to release credit info, mailing addresses, phone numbers, etc., to ANYONE who requests it. If you do not want to be included in this release of your personal information, you can call 1-888-567-8688. Once the message starts you will want option #2 (even though option #1 refers to this email, push #2) and then option #3. Be sure to listen closely, the first option is only for a two-year period. Make sure you wait until they prompt for the third option, which opts you out FOREVER. You should receive their paperwork in the mail confirming the "opting out" in less than one week after making the call. It turns out this war was never about WMD ... it was about enforcing severe early withdrawal penalties On the Corporate Network News? i.e.CNN damn... Rep. Waxman asks Defense Secretary Rumsfeld about evidence that Halliburton has profited from business with countries Rep. Waxman asks Defense Secretary Rumsfeld about evidence that Halliburton has profited from business with countries on the WOT(TM)War on Terror.. Here's the letter in .pdf format. How fast would Jesus drive...hehe Damn your eyes. Scott Ritter may be the Bush reelection team’s worse nightmare. Ex-weapons inspector and former Marine Scott Ritter is calling for regime change in Washington. Christians Hail Rightist's Call To Oust Arabs One-Term George? Christopher Manion on the secret history of how he won, and how he can lose. 14 mile marker's on the fascism freeway My interest in the rise of fascism has coincided neatly with a very observable model. The US of A. Here are some interesting mile markers of the fascism freeway. Of course there are many interpretations of fascism. There does seem to be an overlap of certain attributes that form a sort of indicator. One that is not listed here would be the lack of clear political ideology. The trait that allows the party to grab at whatever will yield it power. One of the curious things about a lot of this administrations policies is an apparent lack of post decision forethought. Such as the situation in Afghanistan. It was expedient for power and with muddied notions of, "National Security" we invaded Afghanistan. After the fact, we have a nation at the mercy of tribal warlords again and with the opium trade flourishing from once more. Kabul is the only relatively, "safe" place and the economic aid promised to the puppet Karzai has not manifested itself yielding a broken nation of sick, starving and irate people. It granted power to the party so it was undertaken. Just like Iraq. Just like Panama. Just like Grenada. In fact, just like quite a few places./Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine, a journal of humanist thought. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. YALE PROFESSORS DEFEND FREE SPEECH: Unfortunately, they could only get their defense published on a blog. Oh well, you still get to read it... What Was Really Great About The Great Society The truth behind the conservative myths Bushonomics The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities calculates that a dividend-tax cut would deprive the federal government of some seven hundred and fifty billion dollars between 2014 and 2023, just when the baby boomers will be lining up for Medicare and Social Security. What’s more, the President’s tax cuts may in the end destroy more jobs than they create. As tax revenues fall and the deficit increases, interest rates will rise, and the higher cost of borrowing will impede business investment and hiring. ...Kenneth Rogoff, the I.M.F.’s chief economist, went even further. He recently told journalists, “Suppose for a minute that we were talking about a developing country that had gaping current account deficits year after year . . . a budget ink spinning from black into red . . . open-ended security costs, and a real exchange rate that had been inflated by capital inflows. With all that, I think it’s fair to say we would be pretty concerned.” When I.M.F. types start talking about the United States as if it were a banana republic on a bad day, it’s probably time to change course. MSNBC Article on Bush "Misstatement" Pulled Off Site Did the news media feel that it was unpatriotic to question the administration's credibility? Some strange things certainly happened. For example, in September Mr. Bush cited an International Atomic Energy Agency report that he said showed that Saddam was only months from having nuclear weapons. "I don't know what more evidence we need," he said. In fact, the report said no such thing — and for a few hours the lead story on MSNBC's Web site bore the headline "White House: Bush Misstated Report on Iraq." Then the story vanished — not just from the top of the page, but from the site. LIES AND MORE LIES... Randy Lavello: Bombs in the Building: World Trade Center 'Conspiracy Theory' is a Conspiracy Fact: Former CIA director Robert Woolsey, as the Fire Department’s Anti-terrorism Consultant, is sending a gag order down the ranks. Emergence of Leary's e-gov? Web Antidote for Political Apathy By Leander Kahney Call for Papers... "1st Global Conference Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberpunk and Science Fiction." And it's in Prague! I can't go. Wish I could. With a title like that, it would be the awesomest lit-gig around, even if it were six British academics in tattered sweaters sipping green tea in some Prague Commie-era sidliste. Good luck, fellas. Wars Yet to Come The war is not over ; it has not even begun. Iraq has been betrayed from within, the regime having cut a deal with the invaders. The resistance now remains deferred.---... what the Americans have brought with them is not only the gift of colonisation but all the paraphernalia of communalisation and factionalisation of Iraqi society : dividing the Turkoman against the Kurd, the Kurd against the Arab, the Sunni against the Shia, and indeed one Shia faction against the other, not to speak of the Baathist against the non-Baathist, the torturers of yesterday against a battered people, the clients against the patriots. Will the Empire be Fascist? An American Empire that repudiates international law and is unchecked by countervailing power is a political actor that possesses an abundant arsenal of nuclear weapons and is confronted by a non-state enemy that has been pronounced as "evil," justifying an exterminist approach to the conflict. Beyond this, the American approach to global security extends its response to anti- terrorism to encompass states that are perceived as hostile, and possess or may possess weaponry of mass destruction. The Iraq War is an expression of this extension, made particularly disturbing because the alleged casis belli was not endorsed by the United Nations Security Council and cannot be reconciled with international law. This essay explores the implication of these trends as defining the American Empire (more) Remember Kent State Kent State, May 4, 1970: America Kills Its Children The Ethical Spectacle, May 1995 President Nixon created a public atmosphere in which students who opposed the war were fair game for those who supported the government. In the week following Kent State, construction workers rioted on Wall Street, attacking antiwar demonstrators and sending many to the hospital, some permanently crippled. It was reported at the time that, a day or two after the deaths, President Nixon called the parents of the only slain student known to be a bystander--he was a member of ROTC--to express condolences. The phone never rang in the other parents' houses. The message couldn't have been clearer: they had it coming. I was fifteen that year, raised in a very comfortable middle class environment and very naive. Kent State was my political education. What I discovered that week, and that year, was that America in those times was perfectly willing to harass, beat and kill its own children if they disagreed with government policy. The step from being a member of the protected American mainstream to being a marginalized outsider, not entitled to the protection of law enforcement and fair prey to any violent, flag-waving bully who happened to pass, was to stand up and say you did not believe the Vietnam war was right. With the Kent State killings the White House was stunned, more worried about mushrooming protest than the deaths, which many blamed on students themselves; J. Edgar Hoover advised that one of the women killed had been "sleeping around" & was "nothing more than a whore." VP Spiro Agnew fulminated about "traitors & thieves & perverts & irrational & illogical people in our midst." U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News ''Fruitcakes'' [John Brand is a Purple Heart, Combat Infantry veteran of World War II. He received his Juris Doctor degree at Northwestern University and a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry at Southern Methodist University. He served as a Methodist minister for 19 years, was Vice President, Birkman & Associates, Industrial Psychologists, and concluded his career as Director, Organizational and Human Resources, Warren-King Enterprises, an independent oil and gas company./I have tried to stay away from articles from yellowtimes because they get heard enough and they have a rep for being so left they are right, but this article and this writer stands on his own merit and i'll let you decide-mobythor Leaked document exposes pro-Israel lobby's manipulation of US public Hmm...no mention of "terrorism"...wonder why??? There is no conspiracy. Just remember, and repeat to yourself, "There is no conspiracy. There is no conspiracy." Reminds me of the South Park episode concerning the "Planet Arium" with the brainwashed kids, one of whom kept saying, "I love my job!" See the Democratic Party presidential debate? DIDN'T THINK SO... Taxation, Subsidy, and Morality If every person received an itemized annual summary of their personal government burden, it would be much harder for them to maintain the delusion that government is somehow providing for them. Axes of Evil. Another great cartoon by Marc Brands. An excerpted from Crossing The Rubicon: An excerpted from Crossing The Rubicon: America's Descent into Fascism at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert And then we have the advent of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which came into being in January of 2003 and became fully operational in March. The best way to understand the Homeland Security Act is to think of it as the vehicle which will be driven on the road to complete totalitarianism. When overt or covert operations are carried out, cars need to be rented, motel rooms need to get paid for, staff has to be funded. Telephone numbers and data bases need to be created. Airplanes need to be chartered or scheduled. There is really no point in continuing the illusion that nation states exist and law is relevant. Crime Families Rule, Not Governments. TV-Friendly Bush Visit Caused Few Changes "Bush didn't have to make a dramatic tailhook landing on this aircraft carrier. He could have flown here on a helicopter as presidents normally would, the White House said Friday,yet Press secretary Ari Fleischer dismissed any suggestion that the overnight trip was custom-ordered to provide campaign footage for Bush's re-election campaign. Fleischer had said last week that Bush would have to fly out to the carrier by plane because the Lincoln would be hundreds of miles offshore, making helicopter travel impractical. As it turned out, the ship was just 39 miles from the coast." Fleischer is such a lying sack of poop. Why cant the WH just tell it like it is? As Comic Book Guy might say~ Most Secretive, Manipulative. Propagandistic Administration Ever. No shit.. Peace is not part of the plan.The US Department of Defense's only institute devoted to peacekeeping is closing./As if we didn't...nevermind geez...-mobythor Enron wants its tax refund. Shocking but true: Enron, MCI and Qwest and other Fortune 500 swindlers are all seeking refunds for taxes paid on their false profits (Rebecca Blumenstein, Dennis K. Berman and Evan Perez in The Wall Street Journal, sub. req'd): A parade of big companies is under investigation for inflating their earnings during the stock-market boom of the 1990s. Now some of them see an unusual silver lining: They want back the taxes they overpaid along the way. In the latest wrinkle in the unfolding series of corporate scandals, MCI and Enron Corp. are in the process of collecting or filing for tax refunds or credits from the Internal Revenue Service because of tax payments on billions of dollars they falsely claimed to have earned. Qwest Communications International Inc., which plans to restate $2.2 billion in revenue, also is likely to seek a refund. Embattled HealthSouth Corp., accused of overstating its earnings by more than $2 billion, said that it hasn't made a final decision to file for a refund but is considering it. Fraud or not, the current tax code makes no distinctions. It is a basic tenet of tax law -- both for individuals and corporations -- that those who overpay are entitled to a refund./P.S. click on over to http://skimble.blogspot.com/ to ck out "the rest of the story'-mobythor Of course... Rummy refuses to discuss his connection to N. Korea's nuclear reactor The company is Zurich-based engineering giant ABB, which signed the contract in early 2000, well before Rumsfeld gave up his board seat and joined the Bush administration. Rumsfeld, the only American director on the ABB board from 1990 to early 2001, has never acknowledged that he knew the company was competing for the nuclear contract. Nor could FORTUNE find any public reference to what he thought about the project. In response to questions about his role in the reactor deal, the Defense Secretary's spokeswoman Victoria Clarke told Newsweek in February that "there was no vote on this" and that her boss "does not recall it being brought before the board at any time." Rumsfeld declined requests by FORTUNE to elaborate on his role. But ABB spokesman Bjoern Edlund has told FORTUNE that "board members were informed about this project." And other ABB officials say there is no way such a large and high-stakes project, involving complex questions of liability, would not have come to the attention of the board. "A written summary would probably have gone to the board before the deal was signed," says Robert Newman, a former president of ABB's U.S. nuclear division who spearheaded the project. "I'm sure they were aware." U.S. says Canada cares too much about liberties to successfully assist in the WoT®. War on Terror® It's coming... Once they bankrupt America then you'll know why they want our guns...-Civil war is coming...i'd bet my lower left pinky on it...-mobythor Greg Palast On Globalization WHEN I FIRST HEARD THAT THE NRA HAD ONE OF ITS OWN CONVENTION ATTENDEES ARRESTED (via claire wolfe blog )for passing out pro-gun literature in the public area outside the convention hall, I figured there had to be more to the story. Like maybe the guy was nude, lewd, loud, obnoxious, trespassing, or keeping delegates from passing. But the more that comes out, the more it looks like the NRA doesn't believe in free speech, any more than it really believes in gun rights. Tim Condon, Esq., an attorney from Tampa, Florida, and member services director for the Free State Project, really was arrested for peacefully handing out pro-gun Free State literature in a public place. He and the FSP are considering legal action against the NRA. Go get 'em, guys! "ONLY THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE GUNS." All the folks who parrot that line must think it's just fine, fine, fine what the Tacoma, Washington, chief of police did this weekend -- while his small children looked on. Where did anybody ever get the idea that cops are inherently wiser, saner, and more judicious than the rest of us? Beware! ((27 KB, .pdf) There are some dangerous gangs out there; help spread the word. Meanwhile the country goes to shit.. Unemployment is up 6% and ...Treasury's debt managers have taken a number of steps since February to prevent the government from defaulting on the national debt, but ``on current projections, the extraordinary measures taken since Feb. 20, 2003, will only be adequate to meet the government's needs until the latter half of May,'' said a statement released Tuesday. After that - absent a boost in the government's borrowing authority by Congress - Treasury would breach the current $6.4 trillion ceiling on the national debt. ``The Treasury will continue to work with Congress to ensure the government's ability to finance its operations,'' Treasury said. Treasury has asked Congress to boost the government's borrowing authority, although it has not suggested a specific amount. A proposal is pending on Capitol Hill that would raise the debt ceiling to $7.38 trillion. Last year, Congress boosted the old debt limit by $450 billion, from $5.95 trillion to the current $6.4 trillion. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON ON "GUN CONTROL." The George W. Bushwhack on the "assault weapons" ban is just something that runs in the family. Agent disciplined over security disclosure Fatherland Security spies on militia leader, has him fired from his job/Also see: Federal Regulators Ease Restrictions on Technology That Can See Through Walls FBI has more than 80 surveillance planes spying on Americans FBI SPY PLANE WATCHES INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESSES, VEHICLES CNN: FBI acknowledges mystery flights Surveillance Drones to Patrol US Cities Military Drones to Patrol Waters Off South Florida Giant, Unmanned Blimp Drones to Hover over America Watching like a Hawk Are you one them terrotist's? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1623.htm They want our guns, because people are starting to wake from slumber... War Emperor Lands in a Shamless Propaganda Stunt That Dwarfs All Others In It's Brazen Transparency All Hail the Mighty Gun Grabber! Now the war comes home... War gaming urged for countering terrorism on state, local level MORE POWER? Even more Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon FLASHBACK: Pentagon chiefs condemned for launching propaganda war: The Office of Strategic Influence has been set up to disseminate truthful information openly, but also to spread what one senior Pentagon official called "the blackest of black programmes". War propels Exxon profits to record $7bn ExxonMobil, the world's biggest privately owned oil group and a target of street protesters, celebrated May Day by reporting the largest quarterly corporate profits in history at $7.04bn (£4.4bn). Media accused of aiding U.S. propaganda: White House spokesman Scott McClellan denied the existence of any administration propaganda campaign and predicted the American public would reject such notions as ridiculous. Plants as architecture? The above... (VIA BOING BOING) Not really news persay,but i found this to be an awesome link!(sometimes ya just get so burnt out one the shit world we have created)/ The NRC’s Dirty Little Secret Article that takes the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to task for 'bending to industry pressure and failing to upgrade nuclear plant security consistent with the post-September 11 threat environment' ( Daniel Hirsch et al via BSA )http://www.thebulletin.org/ » See also this AP article from Wednesday about FBI concerns, and this ( http://cryptome.org/62npp-eyeball.htm )Cryptome page with links to information about US nuclear reactors Rumsfeld Wants to Use Riot Control Agents in Combat Now why would the bush ilk wanna test these over there? Do ya think they might wanna know how they work, so as to use them here....nah, thats conspiracy billybobjoe... Tom Ridge Duct Tape Demonstration "Without a sense of humor life is utterly unbearable on this barbaric planet." -Robert Anton Wilson 98 paper mache sculptures, dipicting the 107th congress. This piece consists of ninety-eight paper mache pulp figures representing the members of the US senate who voted for the USA Patriot Act. It premiered at the March 2003 Howard House show The End of Reason. A confederacy of amnesiacs You're Never Short of Readers When You're Under Surveillance Nimmo you must read Nimmo! May 2nd to be sure... American shame: Children's Defense Fund: "Number of black children in extreme poverty hits record high; tax cuts for the rich will erode safety nets for children even further." Read the .pdf of the full report here. http://www.childrensdefense.org/pdf/extreme_poverty.pdf I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush The Budhha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism... Who owns the net? Business attack, we defend, we attack, they defend. It's a continuous battle for the control of the Internet, but does it really matter much? According to this, not much. The Real thing? © Mike of Law Student's Journal has posted a comparison... Coke vs. Water. And wow, what a shocker. Not for most people, but it'll certainly come as some revelation to most of residents of 'the great country': USA. 300 words that will get the CIA, FBI, and NSA to look at your web page? Is Your Car Spying On You? from KLTV, Tyler (TX) Adrianne Newman loves her SUV. But she never knew it was spying on her! "Shocked. Completely surprised," she says. Like many cars, Adrianne's has a black box - similar to those in airplanes-- that keeps track of her driving. "What you do in your own car you think is private. To be told that you're being recorded, it's an invasion of privacy." "David Sobel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center says most drivers have no idea they're being recorded. "I think the whole concept of secretly collecting information about people and their daily activities is something that most American citizens react to very negatively," Sobel says. This attorney is defending a woman accused in a deadly crash. Police are using the black box she never knew she had... to put her on trial. "It's akin to having "big brother", having a government agent sitting in the back seat with the individual," says attorney Bob Weiner. The FBI just can't seem to get that when they break the law, they're criminals too. Lawyer: FBI agent's job in jeopardy because she blew the whistle Suprise, Suprise: FBI loots WTC; fires agent who blew whistle on looting WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A veteran FBI agent, who last year reported fellow agents had taken a Tiffany globe from "Ground Zero" in the September 11 terrorism investigation, has been informed the FBI intends to fire her, her lawyer said Tuesday. Agent Jane Turner, a 25-year veteran of the FBI in the Minneapolis field office, last week received a "notice of proposed removal," according to attorney Stephen Kohn. Kohn, Chairman of the National Whistleblower Center in Washington, said Turner had received a memo from her Minneapolis supervisor charging she had "tarnished the Bureau." Privilege Revoked The government says it can pry into the attorney-client relationship all it wants Never mind the Pope, he's a pinko commie "hate-America-first" conspiracy wack-job. Well, he really is but, for different reasons...-mobythor (via American sam) The Pope thinks 9-11 was an inside job by Wayne Madsen from CounterPunch "...According to journalists close to the Vatican, the Pope and his closest advisers are also concerned that the ultimate acts of evil - the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon - were known in advance by senior Bush administration officials. By permitting the attacks to take their course, there is a perception within the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy that a coup d'etat was implemented, one that gave Bush and his leadership near-dictatorial powers to carry out their agenda." "The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor" Crossing the species barrier (via also not found in nature blog) Article about zoonosis, the process by which diseases carried by animals can mutate and jump to humans The fable of American history? Richard Slotkin teaches interdisciplinary courses on American culture, linking literature, film and history. He recently completed the last volume of a trilogy on the American Myth of the Frontier, GUNFIGHTER NATION: THE MYTH OF THE FRONTIER IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA (Atheneum, 1992). The first volume, REGENERATION THROUGH VIOLENCE: THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, 1600-1860 (Wesleyan, 1973) received the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association in 1973; the second, THE FATAL ENVIRONMENT: THE MYTH OF THE FRONTIER IN THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1800-1890 (Atheneum, 1985) received the Literary Award of the Little Big Horn Association. He has also published two historical novels: THE CRATER (Atheneum, 1980), a novel of the Civil War; and THE RETURN OF HENRY STARR (Atheneum, 1988), about the end of the Old West and the beginning of the Western. For Stacy... The above article appeared in a recent ish of The Chronicle of Higher Education, but I saw it on a Chomsky listserv. Interestingly [to moi] it follows closely on a thread there that some guy started, asking if the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is "relevant" to today's realities. Of course, most of the respondents in the Chomsky group have expressed bewilderment that anyone could still take this obvious and "proven" forgery seriously. [And the nerve to ask this in the rarified Chomsky listserv!] As good Chomskyans, some documentation of the phoniness of the Protocols has been offered, in addition to evidence that the virulent ideas in the faux-doc continue to have "legs", esp. among Wahabbis and other Islamic extremists. Shit, the goddamned thing gets paraphrased or READ outright on TV in Egypt these days. Goddess help us all... Anyway, here's a new wrinkle, which I'm sure many of you have already seen. Pay attn to the weird bedfellows, like The Nation and Pat Buchanan! This does not look good. Who Controls The Federal Reserve System? Conspiracy? I think not..."Now that we know the Federal Reserve is a privately owned, for-profit corporation, a natural question would be: who OWNS this company? Peter Kershaw provides the answer in "Economic Solutions" where he lists the ten primary shareholders in the Federal Reserve banking system. 1) The Rothschild Family - London 2) The Rothschild Family - Berlin 3) The Lazard Brothers - Paris 4) Israel Seiff - Italy 5) Kuhn-Loeb Company - Germany 6) The Warburgs - Amsterdam 7) The Warburgs - Hamburg 8) Lehman Brothers - New York 9) Goldman & Sachs - New York 10) The Rockefeller Family - New York Something is terribly wrong with this situation. Namely, don't we live in AMERICA? If so, why are seven of the top ten stockholders located in FOREIGN countries? That's 70%!" BILDERBERG TO MEET The world’s financial and political elite plan to hold their annual secret meeting at a posh French resort near the Palace of Versailles. So What? You might say. "Taxpayers will pay the travel cost for U.S. officials and lawmakers. It is against federal law for administration officials to hold secret meetings with non-officials to plan public policy. American officials will again ignore this law." Here's to ya Fartwell... Falwell calls Dixie Chicks 'French hens' "I've had it. You flag-waving, bible-thumping, venom-spewing, war-mongering, money-grubbing, republican,[democrate] conservative,[liberal], right- wing, [left-wing] GUTLESS, UNAMERICAN (whatever that means), MENTAL DEFICIENTS. Are your lives SO DAMN EMPTY? Are your loyalties to your country so weak that the only way you can feel like a good american is to continue to bash these women? I agree with everything Natalie has said thus far, including the remark that got your collective panties in a wad in the first place. Can't bash a Chick personally? Drop on in and leave me a line, I'd love to get a hold of one of you freaks. Defend your position, you monosyllabic miscreants. I dare you." NOTE: I added a few things to this...for me it's doesn't matter if you repub or liberal or democrat...they all suck ass...their all athoritarian control freaks who want to run our lives...fuck em one and all-mobythor http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=213199 CIA reins in loose cannons, and keeps their Al Qaeda creation alive and well The CIA's intent was never to destroy their Al Qaeda offspring or even to "badly disrupt" the Bin Laden network. The CIA wants to grab and silence those with "loose lips," and make sure that they never get on the witness stand, such as in the Moussaoui case. Spy on then spying on us...or DIY WarSpying Pick up video surveilance from the comfort of your car. And i thought this was a hoax... Bush Two, Ground Zero. Junior wants the open grave of Manhattan to serve as the theatrical backdrop for his reelection campaign. The families of those whose remains he will desecrate with his cheap political stunt feel otherwise (New York Times letter to the editor): To the Editor: Re "Bush's Aides Plan Late Sprint in '04" (news article, April 22): Since the worst terrorist attack in American history, which took the life of my brother, occurred in New York on Sept. 11, it seems appropriate that President Bush will be making his re-election bid from that city at that time in 2004. Perhaps the millions of unemployed Americans, veterans whose benefits have been threatened, families of dead civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, working people who lost their pensions to corporate fraud, and 41 million Americans without health insurance can come to town and join him in celebrating the other achievements of his first term. DAVID POTORTI Cary, N.C., April 23, 2003 The achievements of Bush's first term are substantial. Too bad they're the wrong ones, having nothing at all to do with those who harm America. The Iraqi oil fields are open for business — but where's Osama bin Laden? The first tax cut for the rich was enacted and the second is on its way — but where's Ken Lay?/ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/opinion/L28BUSH.html The mystery of April Foley. Bush's ex-girlfriend helps recall his Ivy League days....Bush shrugged off the trappings of Harvard and avoided the official clubs that would showcase him in the yearbook and look good on his resume. Instead, he showed up for class looking like he had just rolled out of bed in the morning, often sat in the back of the room chewing gum or dipping snuff and made it clear to everyone he had no interest in Wall Street. He was one of the few people who posed for his yearbook mug shot in a sports shirt, a wrinkled one at that. The other prominent picture of him in the book showed him sitting in the back row of class with longish hair blowing a huge bubble. "This was [Harvard Business School] and people were fooling around with the accouterments of money and power," recalled April Foley, who dated Bush for a brief period and has remained friends with him. "While they were drinking Chivas Regal, he was drinking Wild Turkey. They were smoking Benson and Hedges and he's dipping Copenhagen, and while they were going to the opera he was listen to Johnny Rodriguez over and over and over and over." April Foley was just nominated by her ex-boyfriend, now the president of the United States, to the Export-Import Bank board, which has been called "a tool for an elite group of politically well-connected corporations to get sweetheart deals and cheap financing courtesy of American taxpayers." Which well-connected corporations? "The bulk of Export-Import's benefits go to a small number of large companies that are sophisticated enough to get financing on their own: Boeing, Halliburton, General Electric, Northrop Grumman, Lucent Technologies, ChevronTexaco, Caterpillar and Dell Computer, among others...." Go read all the gory details — including the international finance loops that include Osama bin Laden and Riley Bechtel — at bad things, who rightly points out that April Foley is a cipher as far as the Internet is concerned./You gotta go to http://skimble.blogspot.com/ to get the imparative emmbeded links...-mobythor On Linguistic Relativism.. Jonathon Delacour on linguistic relativism, Wittgenstein and Godard Round up the usual Wen Ho Lee. Thousands of Los Alamos computers said missing Noah Shachtman of Defense Tech writes: Los Alamos National Laboratory hasn't kept track of thousands of its computers -- including ones containing classified information. The lab's own guards stole four of the machines. And employees didn't have to pay the government back when their laptops suddenly went missing. Those are just a few of the conclusions of a disturbing report (PDF) from the Department of Energy's Inspector General, who has been examining how the world's best-known nuclear lab handles its inventory of laptop and desktop PCs. The University of California operates Los Alamos on the Energy Department's behalf. As Defense Tech readers know, Los Alamos has been involved for months in a series of scandals involving nod- off management and droopy-eyed security. This latest report offers more evidence for just how narcoleptic lab officials have been. Many laptop computers that couldn't be found were simply "written-off," without a formal inquiry. One was used for classified work, without proper approval. And 762 computers bought with government credit cards didn't receive "property numbers," which are required to track all "sensitive items" at the lab. PDF:http://www.ig.doe.gov/pdf/ig-0597.pdf Rumsfeld reassures Arab world US has no intention to establish long term bases in Iraq and US and UK reveal plans to set up bases in Iraq http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jdw/jdw030429_1_n.shtml I'm tending to think 'message dissonance' is part of their strategy...(via American sam) Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer Rarely do i offer something like a product on my website,but I encourage anyone and everyone to read this mans work I HAVE USED THIS BOOK IN MANY PAPERS :William Lutz is professor of English at Rutgers University and author of the new book The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore.-MOBYTHOR Language as a weapon? It is interesting to note that dictionaries do not define the meanings of words. Rather, they are an attempt to document usage, based on contemporary practice. Thus, the meanings of words are determined not by the makers of dictionaries, but by the people thorough their contemporary practice and usage. Dictionaries are therefore a repository of meanings, not a source of them. Since the meanings of words are determined by usage, it is not surprising that the meanings of words change from time to time. Consider, for example, two definitions of the word fascism, spanning a time of about 5 decades: Education again... Young Minds Force-Fed With Indigestible Texts - The Language Police reviewed: "Diane Ravitch provides an impassioned examination of how right-wing and left- wing pressure groups have succeeded in sanitizing textbooks and tests." NY Times The book arose from the author's examination of the content guidelines of the major educational publishing companies as part of a Presidential committee on standardized testing during the Clinton Administration. She was amazed, incredulous, disheartened by the number of topics and terms that were off-limits in educational content (see examples in the article). It all comes down to the educational mega-corporations protecting their profitability. Their investment in developing a given textbook will be down the tubes if one of the larger states such as Florida or California fails to buy it because it offends somebody's notion of political correctness. Likewise, a standardized test susceptible to challenge and possible invalidation because its content is too disturbing or noninclusive would not get bought./ p.s. i wish i could find the link i had of an article that talked about how some outfit in texass what voting on whether they were going to omit the whole WATERGATE SCANDAL OF THE 70'S Until we say we are... Not that we're at war with Damascus or anything like that, but... "Syria Detains, Frees 2 British Commandos who had entered the country from Iraq, detaining them for five days before releasing them, a British news agency reported Monday." Guardian/UK Rumsfeld Says United States Not Threatening Syria until we say we are Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? (via follow me here)Third Culture: UCLA historian Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel) asks, "Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? What I'm going to suggest is a road map of factors in failures of group decision making. I'll divide the answers into a sequence of four somewhat fuzzily delineated categories..." Anthrax Kills Again Report: Anthrax in Suitcase Kills Egyptian Heading to Canada BRASILIA, Brazil — An Egyptian ship crewman has apparently died from exposure to anthrax contained in a suitcase he opened, Reuters news service reported Monday. An autopsy of the man, identified as Ibrahim Saved Soliman Ibrahim, revealed that he died in his hotel room April 11 after experiencing vomiting, multiple organ failure and internal bleeding, which were believed to have been caused by the deadly bacteria, according to Reuters. "He was the victim of anthrax," said Brazilian federal police spokesman Fernando Sergio Castro, adding that officials were 90 percent certain that anthrax was the culprit. This story doesn't seem to be getting a lot of media attention. I wonder why. With SARS as the New Coke, again we ask: Why are we supposed to forget about the Anthrax attacks of 2001? For better mental and cultural health, it's time we classified religious fundamentalism as a psychological disorder and nationalism? or any "ism"-mobythor Stanford Humanities Review Cultural and Technological Incubations of Fascism The Blue Party Candidate Far from being the way to move up in the world, College education for the most part...i.e. (the poor) is a way to get them stuck in a system that keeps them there...forever. Rummy's North Korea Connection (via American sam) Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions to himself. He tends not to compromise with his enemies. And he clearly disdains the communist regime in North Korea. So it's surprising that there is no clear public record of his views on the controversial 1994 deal in which the U.S. agreed to provide North Korea with two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for Pyongyang ending its nuclear weapons program. What's even more surprising about Rumsfeld's silence is that he sat on the board of the company that won a $200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. Goddamn it, which of our enemies didn't Rummy sell arms to? DEVILS and INDEPENDENTS There should be a course in college called "Blackmail 101" Firewall Test, Port Scan and Security Test at Auditmypc.com Mcliberty for Iraq? Fast food comes to Iraq Basra: Fastfood giants Pizza Hut and Burger King have set up their first franchises inside war-torn Iraq, even as many aid convoys waited on the borders for the war to officially end. Might as well...hehe Grassroots Bribery. 'Howdy America, my name is Jon Cole. I'd like to be your president and I'd like one of you to be my VP. I'm giving you the rare opportunity to buy off a presidential candidate while you can still afford it. Your money will buy my power and in turn your influence. The more you contribute, the more influence you have, and my highest contributor at any given moment will be my VP candidate.' Why we may never regain the liberties that we've lost The Bush administration's attitude, assisted by a Congress that long since abandoned any commitment to liberty, is that government has the right to know absolutely everything about you and that government can violate your fundamental rights with impunity as long as the cause is deemed worthy. You, on the other hand, have absolutely no right to know what the government is doing in your name and with your money, unless the information is deemed harmless by people who have every motive to cover up misdeeds. Bush and his people have turned secrecy into a mantra, and too few people recognize the danger that poses to our freedoms, much less our pocketbooks. Police Get Power to Check Prints On The Spot Police State, USA: "May I see your papers, er... fingers, please." (Portland, OR) -- Portland police may soon be asking for more than a license when making a traffic stop, but also requesting a motorist to stick out a thumb and forefinger. Next month, more than a dozen officers will carry handheld devices on the street that will allow them to instantly verify a person's identity by analyzing their fingerprints. Also see: Motorola, Visionics and Wirehound Provide Real-Time Wireless Facial Recognition Capability Update: Former KGB Heads To Help IAO Spy On Americans In order to understand the magnitude of this Bush Administration action, an analogy is in order: President Truman in 1945 hiring the former heads of the SS/German Gestapo as paid consultants to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is just bloody crazy whatever your politics And this... http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/23/1050777306319.html WAW Women Against War (WAW) is a growing independent network of women who oppose war. We are raising our voices against war and to challenge the U.S. to redirect its resources and energy to combat racism, poverty and violence against women. WAW strives to expose the connections between U.S. military aggression and the oppression of women, particularly women of color. Our mission is to empower, educate and motivate women and girls to stop war and demand social justice. GENERATION FUCK YOU I started GENERATION FUCK YOU as a collection of URLs to pages, which my humble opinion, present alternative views that contradict or ridicule the way things are being done now in this society, as well as giving=20 exposure to campaigns, causes, and movements whose directives and aim, I want to support. GFY is an umbrella term for the increasing amount of anger I see my peers, friends and enemies harbouring towards the way that our society (specifically North American society, but this can apply to any region) functions. It is not a prescription, nor the solution. It is a reaction, one that is intelligent and calculated, as much as it is aggressive and impulsive. It is rebellious in nature, but not rebellious for merely the purpose of being rebellious. At this point, I feel I must upgrade the manifesto in order to address some concerns and criticisms that have been levelled against the site, in order to clarify what the purpose of all of this is. CSICOP's nefarious doings with orgonomy TOXIC DISINFORMATION Ming the Mechanic Proverbs for Paranoids 3: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, page 251 The Co-Intelligence Institute Criticizing Israel will be a taboo in United States No funding if students cursed Israel WASHINGTON: A new law being proposed by Republican senators will serve prohibit criticism of Israel on American college campuses. The police-state-style "thought control" legislation is to be introduced by third-ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate, conservative Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Justice Kirby vs World Authority or How they spend our money! Albert Einstein High Court Observer The following is a transcript of 20 minutes in the life of Justice Kirby. In this time he meets a self proclaimed world authority, is told about a conspiracy, distributes some legal advice and gets a lesson in arithmetic. Go read Ken Layne on the case of the newspaper blogger who was shut down. Operation Orpheus and jeb... In his book, The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider published by National Liberty Press, Al Martin, a former Lt. Colonel in the powerful Office of Naval Intelligence [and a middle player in Iran-Contra, the scheme that on the surface illegally sold American weapons to Iran, then used that money to illegally fund the right-wing Contras’ war on the leftist Nicaraguan government] describes numerous meetings with none other than Florida Governor John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, the man who stole and hijacked Florida votes for his brother in the 2000 election heist. Rift Exposed in Sept. 11 Terror Panel ABC News: 9/11 DOCUMENTS CLASSIFIED One member's attempt to review confidential transcripts exposed a rift Friday within the independent commission examining the Sept. 11 attacks. Tim Roemer, a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, criticized the panel's leaders for not demanding immediate and total access to documents compiled during a congressional inquiry of the terror attacks. The commission's executive director, Philip Zelikow, said the panel will ultimately get unfettered access. Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana, tried to review transcripts of hearings held last year by the joint House-Senate intelligence committee. He learned that he lacked permission to see them, even though he served on the joint committee and therefore had read the material before. Roemer called the experience outrageous. He noted that the commission, by law, must build upon the work of the congressional inquiry, which found that organizational problems and human failings prevented intelligence agencies from unraveling the Sept. 11, 2001, plot. "The basic foundational work of the commission is the joint inquiry's product," Roemer said. "To delay access to that, to hinder access to that, is out of bounds." National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States www.9-11commission.gov/ ARCHIVE: First public hearing Monday, March 31 webcast replay Tuesday, April 1 webcast replay Roger Griffin's home page has two collections of articles: The Ideological Dynamics of Fascism and Nazism. The Evolution of Fascism in the Twentieth Century. Fascism redux Christopher Skinner on Roger Griffin's The Nature of Fascism Orcinus Baghdad Café (via woods lot) Sharing ideas on poetry, art, and literature, a community in Iraq's capital strives to maintain its links to normalcy amidst the chaos. Text and photographs by Jason Florio / Corbis/Amazing photography...-mobythor Calling the kettle ...? (via fark) Lobbyist who called Bill Clinton "a terrible example to our nation's young people" pleads guilty to having sex with our nation's young people Death By Slow Burn: How America Nukes Its Own Troops What "Support Our Troops" really means Fuck oil, thats a added bonus...Its really about WATER. European Commission proposes billion-euro water fund for world's poorest Companies Quietly Caught Trading with the Enemy Commentary They have a file on you Restaurants are using computers to record what diners eat, drink, say and do. All in the name of service. Anthrax, chemicals and nerve gas: who is lying? Growing evidence of deception by Washington No Comment ... http://www.libertythink.com/2003_04_24_archives.html#200192510 Exclusive Interview with Richard Ben-Veniste, a National Commissioner on 9/11 from INN TV via sanderhicks.com The Bush/bin Laden Connection? "No Comment." Daschle Threatened by Cheney over 9/11 Inquiry? "I have no Comment." Venice Flight School and the connection to Ben-Veniste's former client, the CIA drug-runner Barry Seal? "Not central to us getting started." Download the free video and see for yourself the low level of curiosity the 9/11 Commission has for the topic. New Law Putting Net—and You—at Risk As of this moment, the security level of the Internet has taken a big hit. And it's not because of a new worm or some nefarious hacker collective; it's because of a set of badly conceived laws that have been passed by several states/THE LAST BASTION OF FREEDOM IS NOW UNDER ATTACK...long live the dominators!http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/jf03/jf03krepon.html -mobythor Martyrs For Bush Media Whores The New York Times reports that George W. Bush will spend $200 million on his campaign for election in 2004, and employ the use of 3000 Americans murdered by terrorists on 9/11 as human shields against opponents' focus on the failed Bush economy. New Ohio bill will forbid govt from providing free info to citizens (via boing boing)Jimmy sez: In Ohio, the "Electronic Government Services Act" has been tacked onto Ohio's current budget bill. It prohibits a state government agency from providing information if there are two or more competing private enterprises providing those services. That would mean that a government agency would not be allowed to post its regulations or decision on its Web site if, for example, Lexis, WestLaw, or other companies offer that information for sale. Section 1306.25 (E)(1) further includes under "state agency" "similar agency of a county, township, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision,..." It then substantially limits their ability to publish electronically. While H.B. 145 is not as onerous as the previously withdrawn H.B. 482 of last year, it is a huge threat to public access. This bill threatens the right of residents in Ohio from accessing state government information, created with their tax dollars, at no cost through the Internet. It is an abhorrent model that must be stopped short. Mohamed Atta Worked for Elite U.S. - German Government Exchange Program VENICE, FL - April 24 -- For at least four years while living in Hamburg during the 1990’s terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was part of a 'joint venture' between the U.S. and German Governments, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, an elite international “exchange” program run by a little-known private organization with close ties to powerful American political figures like David Rockefeller and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The jointly-funded government effort picked up the tab for Atta on sojourns in Cairo, Istanbul, and Aleppo in Syria during the years 1994 and 1995 and employing him as a “tutor” and “seminar participant” during 1996 and 1997. Moreover Atta’s financial relationship with the U.S. - German government effort, known as the may even extend back to his initial move from Egypt to Germany in 1992, after being “recruited” in Cairo by a mysterious German couple dubbed the “hijacker’s sponsors” in a recent news account in the Chicago Tribune. In the years before he became a ‘terrorist ringleader,’ Atta was enjoying the patronage of a government initiative overseen by the U.S. State Department and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the German equivalent of the U.S. Agency currently supervising the secretive bidding race for tens of billions of dollars of post-war reconstruction contracts in Iraq, the Agency for International Development. - MUST READ - Also see: Mohamed Atta and Rudi Dekkers Seen Together in Venice Weeks before 9.11 Venice Airport Used for Covert Ops: What they're hiding down in Florida 9/11: The German Connection Dekker's Helicopter Crashed on way to Huffman Aviation showdown I.N.S. Deporting 'Magic Dutch Boy' Rudi Dekkers Terror Flight School Owners' Plane Seized for Heroin Trafficking Atta & Girlfriend's Wild 3-Day Party in Key West Key Witness 'Disappears' in Venice FL Magic Dutch Boy Escapes Fiery Plane Crash More from the MCMN Archive Even stranger, both Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris were providing celebrity endorsements to Hilliard's operation well after the company's Lear (N351WB) had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns. Red Flags and Christian Soldiers The U.S. destroys an enemy army, sets up shop, and tries to convert a nation to free markets and Jesus. With American missionaries “poised and ready” to follow the troops into the cradle of civilization, Iraq, 2003, may end up looking strangely like Japan, 1945. Another corporate criminal not in prison. NEW YORK - A former star investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston [CSFB] was arrested Wednesday on charges of obstructing investigations by a federal grand jury and the Securities and Exchange Commission and witness tampering. The complaint said Frank Quattrone "unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly, corruptly influenced, obstructed and impeded ... the due administration of justice." Quattrone was released on his own recognizance after agreeing at his initial court appearance to surrender his passport and confine his travel to within the United States. He declined comment outside court. "Released on his own recognizance." What a gentlemanly way to treat someone responsible for billions in bullshit IPOs that he underwrote and used to enrich his corporate pirate friends (Gawker). But the current administration prefers to keep children incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay (LA Times) rather than to imprison legitimately despised corporate criminals like Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the Enron CEOs still at large. Instead, the Quattrones and Lays and Skillings of the world are free to move about the country on their own recognizance or lack of indictment, instead of rotting away like the economy they destroyed. Keeping corporate criminals free exposes true Republican priorities. After all, only the people who know how to fuck with finance at the highest levels are going to enable the GOP to double their campaign spending to a record-breaking $200 million (NY Times) leading up the Republican primary to advertise the appeal of an unopposed candidate. (Why is Big Media so complacently uncritical of Bush? The answer will cost you $200 million — which is what corporate media will receive next year as a keep-your-voice-down gratuity for running homespun ads of Bush chopping cedar on his golf-cart ranch to prop up a counterfeit image without competition. It's every capitalist's dream — a monopoly — applied to its newest indentured servant, the George W. Bush presidency.)Do yourself a favor and pop on over to: http://skimble.blogspot.com/ and get the embedded links to this story-mobythor Letter from Prison: Jim Traficant Speaks "America is in trouble... not from without, but from within! The Central Government has become too powerful. Citizens fear the Government. This is wrong. This is dangerous!" The Still Before the Storm (via abuddhas memes) The following article, "The Still Before the Storm," by James Norman, details how a group of "Fifth Column" hackers have initiated a campaign to clean up political corruption, resulting so far in the announced retirement of over thirty politicians (who have received packages of information detailing their financial shenanigans). Norman calls this group "CIA computer hackers", though in fact the group is totally outside government. (One member is ex-NSA, an agency that member now despises, and another member is ex-CIA.) But, anyway, as Norman notes: ". . . the Fifth Column has managed to penetrate Swiss and other foreign banks to quietly withdraw what is now an astounding $2.5 billion in illicit money from coded accounts they have identified as belonging to government figures. "Starting in 1991, this five-man Fifth Column team has been using its own Cray supercomputer to break into foreign bank computers, download vast libraries of data and trace this money to a wide range of illegal activities, from kickbacks on drug and arms deals to insider trading profits, software piracy and the sale of state secrets. Oh yes, don't forget tax evasion." What I like about the Fifth Column campaign is that it simply asks politicians to live by their own rules. If they want to launder money themselves, then they should get rid of the money-laundering statutes and let the rest of us have the same privileges. If they don't want to pay taxes, then let them get rid of the tax laws. If they want to continue the insane "war on drugs," then they shouldn't be taking payoffs from drug lords. (It is amazing how non-authoritarian people become if forced to practice what they preach.) This article is an introduction to the politically possibilities of hacking. Hackers Versus Politicians, Part II, will present a brief how-to for the enterprising hacker to (legally) prepare his or her own background report on any given politician (sorry, Senator Exon has already received an envelope). Let's face it: journalists are too technically incompetent to do the job. Uh, ok...geez... PROGRAMMING AND METAPROGRAMMING IN THE HUMAN BIOCOMPUTER John C. Lilly, M.D., has studied and conducted research in the fields of biophysics, neurophysiology, electronics, and neuroanatomy. Best known for his groundbreaking work in human-dolphin relations, Dr. Lilly is the United States's leading authority on the states of solitude, isolation, and confinement and their psychological effects on the human mind. Credit companies are going to sock it to consumers in the form of additional and increased fees ANY issuers are also now imposing higher interest rates, or penalty rates, on customers whose credit ratings decline for any reason, including late payments to other creditors. Last month, Chase sent out notices to customers reminding them that they must make timely payments not only on their Chase card accounts but also on all other loans or accounts, even with other creditors, or run the risk of a higher rate on their Chase cards.(via medley) Cisco's routers designed for governmental eavesdropping Cisco is building cop spyware into its new routers, due to customer (government) demand. This interview with Cisco Fellow Fred Baker is scary as hell. Q: Do you have any moral problems with helping to make surveillance technology more efficient? A: I have some moral and ethical issues, but I think quite frankly that the place to argue this is in Congress and in the courtroom, not a service provider's machine room when he's staring down the barrel of a subpoena. There are two sides. One is that Cisco as a company needs to let its customers abide by the law. The other is the moral and ethical issues. There are two very separate questions. Q. The current draft does not include an audit trail. Could you do that by having your equipment digitally sign a file that says who's been intercepted and for how long? That could be turned over to a judge. It could indicate whether the cops were or weren't staying within the bounds of the law. I'm not entirely sure that the machine we're looking at could make that assurance... In fact, the way lawful interception works, a warrant comes out saying, "We want to look at a person." That's the way it works in Europe, the United States, Australia and in other western countries. The quest then becomes figuring out which equipment a person is reasonably likely to use, and it becomes law enforcement's responsibility to discard any information that's irrelevant to the warrant. That kind of a thing would probably be maintained on the mediation device... Q. A few years ago (in RFC 2804) the IETF rejected the idea of building eavesdropping capability into Internet protocols. The FBI supported the idea, but the IETF said, no way. You were chair of the IETF at the time. How do you reconcile your proposal with the decision made then? A. I thought that what the IETF decided to do was actually the right thing to decide. What it said is that the IETF would not modify protocols that were designed for some other purpose in order to support lawful interception. (via dan gilmore) Leaked? by whom? hummmmm? Who are the real Ass'es of evil.... Action Alert for Patriot Act II http://www.hatefreezone.org/index.asp?name=actionAlert Department of Education to Delete Years of Research From Its Website According to an article in Education Week, the US Department of Education is in the process of overhauling its Website. One of its main goals is to remove reports, research, statistics, etc. published before 2001, especially material that doesn't support the Bush Administration's approach to education. However, The Memory Hole will be preserving much of this material. Why Is Bush Back-Pedaling On 9/11 Commission? Fellowship finances townhouse where 6 congressmen live By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Six members of Congress live in a million-dollar Capitol Hill townhouse that is subsidized by a secretive religious organization, tax records show. SO WHAT WILL THE REPUBLICAN APOLOGISTS SAY now that the Bush administration wants to cancel the sunsetting of Clinton's "assault weapons" ban? Just a couple days ago, one of my friends told a woman that the Bushies' pro-gun statements were merely a smokescreen, a "Second-Amendment Setup (http://www.jpfo.org/2nd-setup.htm)." Refusing to examine any evidence, she shrieked back that my friend was a Gore-supporting, Hollywood-hobnobbing, Hillary-loving consumer of French toast. Worse yet, a sipper of French wines. No doubt she and folks like her will find some way to remain in denial, even after this latest. Scary, innit? (via claire wolfe) WOLVES AND SHEEP (apologies to Canis lupus) A short history of the Bush Mafia's war in Iraq By Stan Goff W Gathers His Skull and Bones Cronies for a Reunion Guess who foots the bill? Free speech, for the chosen few... Ashcroft, Spelman and Congress See Free Speech as Anything But in Some Circumstances Prison Schools? N.J. Schools Testing Eye Recognition/ If the iris image in the database matches that of the person seeking entry to the school, the school door automatically unlocks. Members of the project's control group, meanwhile, must show identification and be buzzed into the school by a staffer. Jesus Plus Nothing (via American sam) Undercover among America's secret theocrats In the process of introducing powerful men to Jesus, the Family has managed to effect a number of behind-the-scenes acts of diplomacy. In 1978 it secretly helped the Carter Administration organize a worldwide call to prayer with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, and more recently, in 2001, it brought together the warring leaders of Congo and Rwanda for a clandestine meeting, leading to the two sides' eventual peace accord last July. Such benign acts appear to be the exception to the rule. During the 1960s the Family forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most anti-Communist (and dictatorial) elements within Africa's postcolonial leadership. The Brazilian dictator General Costa e Silva, with Family support, was overseeing regular fellowship groups for Latin American leaders, while, in Indonesia, General Suharto (whose tally of several hundred thousand "Communists" killed marks him as one of the century's most murderous dictators) was presiding over a group of fifty Indonesian legislators. During the Reagan Administration the Family helped build friendships between the U.S. government and men such as Salvadoran general Carlos Eugenios Vides Casanova, convicted by a Florida jury of the torture of thousands, and Honduran general Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, himself an evangelical minister, who was linked to both the CIA and death squads before his own demise. "We work with power where we can," the Family's leader, Doug Coe, says, "build new power where we can't." ...they forge "relationships" beyond the din of vox populi (the Family's leaders consider democracy a manifestation of ungodly pride) and "throw away religion" in favor of the truths of the Family. Declaring God's covenant with the Jews broken, the group's core members call themselves "the new chosen." US plans to loot Iraqi antiques Is anyone here familiar with "Liam McDougall" or the "Sunday Herald"? Fine, fine planning eh?-mobythor Most sweeping military reorganization in 50 years (Via one hand clapping) That's what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has asked Congress for the authority to do. He said the proposed legislation requests greater flexibility over personnel policy affecting the very senior levels, allowing a defense secretary to extend the tenure of generals and admirals in especially important jobs, while easing the early retirement of those unlikely to be promoted further. Lower in the ranks, the legislation would clear the way for transferring a large number of military support jobs to civilian employees — about 300,000 are under consideration, Mr. Chu said — increasing the numbers of combat troops without adding to the roughly 1.5 million people in uniform today. And it would change the peacetime schedule of reservists, who have been called up by the tens of thousands over the past two years for the campaign against terror.[of course Bush will save Bush, (who faces re-election next year) by pocketing Syria war planning for his grand re-selection]-mobythor Spin spin spin..weeeeehhh! (Via buzzmachine) Weasels wavering? : Radio Free Europe (a spin machine, of course) asks whether the Council of Weasels failed: A budding alliance between France, Russia, and Germany seems to have struck a brick wall after having come together over fierce criticism of the U.S.-led war against Baghdad. Leaders of the three countries failed to issue an expected joint declaration on Iraq after a hastily convened summit in St. Petersburg over the weekend. Free people are free to commit crimes Donald Rumsfeld's words in a nutshell. So looting the Baghdad National Museum is OK, because it's done by "free people". And developing sectarian violence (Shia muslims vs Sunni muslims) is OK, because it's done by "free people". I must be missing something. I was only asking I was only asking The perils of a reporter getting "off message" when reporting on the war and a great read. Lots of other reporters were arriving at this early hour for their primetime spots. Every- body was making Doha jokes. I was talking about my run-in with the scary White House guys. "You've met the Hitler youth," said another reporter. Behold the dark brilliance of modern media-management during wartime. The below is a comment found on metafilter,about this article that i thought was interesting...-mobythor The entire bush presidency has been a calculated media show. the mans administration spends big bux on fancy-schmancy propoganda fishwrap backgrounds to stand in front of when he speaks, so he can be photographed in front of large type "Jump Starting The Economy" and "Thinking of the Children" and various other pithy bullshit slogans and become associated with those phrases in the minds of the Great Silent AmeriSheep. the president is a smartass who stole a position of power and has managed to make it all about complete and utter bullshit.[and possible ww3? or is that ww4?-mt] A Devil's Chaplain Richard Dawkins is at it again with his newest book.This is my website and this is not so much a commercial as, I like dawkins work...-mobythor Rider bills are blatant deception..."RAVE Act" passes! I do not normally use our alert channel to send a personal message. However, I wanted to let you know that the Illicit Drug Anti- Proliferation Act (also called the "RAVE Act"), which was attached to the AMBER Alert bill, passed both the House and Senate late yesterday (April 10). What about Private Lori? Guess she's not "hollywood material" or "news worthy" till now... The United States harbors and trains terrorists. The United States produces weapons of mass destruction. I guess Patriot Act II is our government's way of "cleaning up our act" as regards terrorism, but what about the WOMD's? I've asked this question before, and a predominant answer was "We Are The Good Guys, so it's Okay". Yeah, I'm sure that's how the rest of the world feels about it too. Anyway, Ari lies when he says Syria isn't next on the agenda, IMO. We are in Iraq for more reasons than disarmament, after all. Oh, sorry. I meant AmIraqa.(via Chapel Perilous ) White House Escalates Diplomatic Pressure on Syria "I think that we believe there are chemical weapons in Syria" --GW Bush/Fleischer declined to dispel the impression that administration was targeting Syria for possible diplomatic or even military measures. "I can only say to you that it should not be unexpected that the United States for a considerable period of time has said through diplomatic channels that nations that are rogue nations need to clean up their act," he said. "They should not harbor terrorists. They should not produce weapons of mass destruction."/ Like the ones found in Iraq right...-mobythor NBC to make movie about POW Jessica Lynch The story of Jessica Lynch -- the U.S. soldier taken prisoner in Iraq and later rescued -- is to be made into a television movie, with or without her family selling her story. Lynch, an aspiring teacher who joined the army to get an education, comes from a community that has an unemployment rate of 15 percent -- one of the highest in West Virginia. Guess she is now getting educated in Corporate Greeeeed. P.s. see previous post :"Lynch Wasn't Shot The family of rescued POW Jessica Lynch is contradicting the Washington Post report that she was shot and stabbed." posted earlier on mobythor ( http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20030404/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_pow_family ) Life Imatates Art or.... Welcome, Citizen. Here you will find the necessary information to help you transition into your new life under the Bush Homeland Regime. Life in our New Homeland will be much simpler than it was in a Democracy. No longer will you have to make decisions for yourself. Independent thought and free speech is prohibited. Our Glorious New Homeland is founded on the principle: "There ought to be limits to freedom" - George Walker Bush Welcome to Homeland-USA. US purchases data on millions of Latin American citizens from commercial firms Via Dave Farber's IP list today: Note: watch what they do with this data bank cause it is what they will/are doing to you.-mobythor Over the past 18 months, the U.S. government has bought access to data on hundreds of millions of residents of 10 Latin American countries -- apparently without their consent or knowledge -- allowing myriad federal agencies to track foreigners entering and living in the United States. A suburban Atlanta company, ChoicePoint, collects the information abroad and sells it to U.S. government officials in three dozen agencies, including federal immigration investigators who have used it to arrest illegal immigrants.The practice broadens a trend that has an information-hungry U.S. government increasingly buying personal data on Americans and foreigners alike from commercial vendors including ChoicePoint and LexisNexis Declan on Hawash case: Guilty until proven innocent I am the Hostmaster for www.freemikehawash.org. If you want to read Judge Jones' order for yourself, and in its entirety, you may do so at here. I am not going to enter this fray, except to say that you should pay attention to the word "purportedly" in the court order, to suggest that you should read the Court Order from U.S. v. Awadallah (available in the Links section of the site), and ponder whether a "full SWAT FBI takedown" was necessary for Mike's wife and three sleeping children, after he had already been arrested. You may also wish to ponder the effect of this combination of the Material Witness Statute and highly restrictive court seals in the hands of an administration that doesn't like *your* particular idiosyncracy, whether it's gun-totin' in the Montana wilderness or civil disobediance. S. McGeady ( VIA BOING BOING ) more at : ( http://news.com.com/2010-1071-996625.html ) Did CNN turn up the boos on Michael Moore's Oscars speech? Check out these two video clips -- one from CNN, the other from ABC -- and see if it doesn't sound to you like CNN turned up the booing during Michael Moore's speech at the Oscars.mOORE HERE -> ( http://jimtreacher.blogspot.com/2003_03_23_jimtreacher_archive.html#200043482 ) Terrorism databases and the fallacy of the false positive Schneier runs down the statistical problems of keeping terrorist-suspect databases: To see this, let's walk through an example. Assume a simple database -- name and a single code indicating "innocent" or "guilty." When a policeman encounters someone, he looks that person up in the database, and then arrests him if the database says "guilty." Example 1: Assume the database is 100% accurate. If that is the case, there won't be any false arrests because of bad data. It works perfectly. Example 2: Assume a 0.0001% error rate: one error in a million. (An error is defined as a person having an "innocent" code when he is guilty, or a "guilty" code when he is innocent.) Furthermore, assume that one in 10,000 people are guilty. In this case, for every 100 guilty people the database correctly identifies it will mistakenly identify one innocent person as guilty (because of an error). And the number of guilty people erroneously listed as innocent is tiny: one in a million. Example 3: Assume a 1% error rate -- one in a hundred -- and the same one in 10,000 ratio of guilty people. The results are very different. For every 100 guilty people the database correctly identifies, it will mistakenly identify 10,000 innocent people as guilty. The number of guilty people erroneously listed as innocent is larger, but still very small: one in 100.(VIA BOING BOING) Equal time or tit for tat left/ right us/them black/white bullshit ?... Aristotle STRAIGHTJACKET? Policeman of the world A tale of two photos GM blood kills human cancer cells This is quite creepy-mobythor Genetically modifying a patient's white blood cells turns them into potent cancer killers, UK researchers have revealed. The team modified T-cells - the immune system's first line of defence - enabling them hunt out and destroy cancer cells in test tube experiments. Both the cell types were taken from patients with advanced bowel cancer. The technique had destroyed the cancer cells in every experiment so far, says team member Robert Hawkins, a medical oncologist at Cancer Research UK's Paterson Institute in Manchester Hawkins. The united states has gone way past Mad... The state Supreme Court reprimanded a judge Thursday and ordered him to write letters of apology to 12 people he offended with belittling courtroom remarks. The court said it would have taken even stronger action for the ethics violations, but Circuit Judge Sheldon Schapiro had admitted fault and was undergoing behavioral therapy. The court's opinion cited 13 examples of the judge's misconduct. Once, addressing a defense attorney, Schapiro allegedly said: "Do you know what I think of your argument?" and then pushed a button on a device that simulated the sound of a toilet flushing. The crosshairs are, as feared, swinging toward Syria Just a few days ago, I remarked in an email to a pro-war guy who likes to bug me, "I'm surprised that Bush hasn't yet said anything about Syria." I was worrying about the possibility described in this article that I've already mentioned in a previous entry -- the apparent fact that one faction in Washington really does want to bump off a whole series of regimes one after another, and Syria may be their pick for the next target. Well, I don't have to wonder any longer about Syria being ignored. The campaign to paint them as military enemies has begun. "Syria's support for the collapsed regime of Saddam Hussein may have goaded Washington into seriously considering the use of military force against Damascus...." I'm started to feel seriously scared about the kind of country I'm living in, and how it's being run... I don't just mean the Bush administration, I mean the fact that the whole ruling class is apparently being taken over by unprincipled pirates who literally believe that anything they want to do is right and anything they want to have should be theirs. No principle stands in the way of taking anything from anyone, no ethic limits the degree to which they will corrupt judges and legislators. They live by the principle that no matter what you get caught doing, the thing to do is get away with it anyway. Convictions get overturned, lawsuit judgements get whittled down by 99%, while the public hears only about the tough initial judgement... and if an election is lost, they just look for ways to revise it after the fact. (Witness the current recall drive against Gov. Davis.) And as for third world countries, the thing to do is force limitless "privatization" on them -- stuff we would never sit still for here at home -- in a form so corrupt that it becomes a simple license to steal everything publically owned and clean out the entire liquid wealth of whole nations. (Did you know that half of the money taken in by the World Bank ends up in the US Treasury?) Combine this with a whole class of paid propagandists who put their entire energy into hate diatribes against the left, hungering for the day when all anti-war liberals are declared traitors (and therefore ineligible to vote), plus new police powers, and I start thinking pretty seriously about what preparations I should make in case I need to flee to Canada. My country has never scared me so much. BRAINWASHING 101 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • "As real-life experience is increasingly replaced by the mediated 'experience' of television-viewing, it becomes easy for politicians and market-researchers of all sorts to rely on a base of mediated mass experience that can be evoked by appropriate triggers. The TV 'world' becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: the mass mind takes shape, its participants acting according to media-derived impulses and believing them to be their own personal volition arising out of their own desires and needs. In such a situation, whoever controls the screen controls the future, the past, and the present." (Via incunabula) Cognitive dimensions of politics One of the fundamental findings of cognitive science is that people think in terms of frames and metaphors, conceptual structures like those we have been describing. The frames are in the synapses of our brains, physically present in the form of neural circuitry. When the facts don't fit the frames, the frames are kept and the facts ignored. Anthrax Whitewash Attempts To Instill Fear The findings reinforce the FBI theory that the mailed anthrax was probably produced by renegade scientists and not by a national military program. Uh huh...and Nelson Mandela is a klan orgainizer...FLASHBACK: Anthrax attack bug "identical" to army strain ( http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992265 ) Homeland Security summer camp for teens Hitler Youth Program Coming Soon to Your Area! Billed as one of the nation's first "homeland security training summer camps for teenagers," a program called Secure Corps in Bucks County is drilling 92 young men and women in essential skills for this new, uncertain era. When the eight-week program ends Aug. 23, graduates will be certified in first aid, CPR (both human and animal), and what organizers call "terrorism response." ...And those skills include math: "If I have 40 acres of forest," runs a typical problem, "how many search dogs will I need to find a fugitive?" ( http://www.bucks.edu/releases/securecorps.html ) Steal this barcode (Via boing boing) Salon article about re-code.com, a site that lets people print out barcode stickers that they can attach to products in stores and get reduced prices. Basically, it's a sneaky way to shoplift. Somber psychoanalysis of wartime necrophilia Total Information Awareness update It's not they haven't had this all along ya know...the only difference now, is they don't have to spend all that money taken from their Budget to hide it. Tyrants wouldn't be worth their evil salt if they didn't already have this... feeling antagonistic? (via Bookslut) I have been having some troubles in my family as my father does not believe John Ashcroft is pure, concentrated evil and I do. This leads to many yelling matches after episodes of 60 Minutes. The solution, of course, would be not to call home when feeling antagonistic, but that means these days I would never talk to my parents. My father thinks the PATRIOT Act was a swell idea. Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, the FBI continues to abuse libraries. The Village Voice tells the story of a librarian who had agents try to copy her hard drive because she had received an e-mail with the word "anthrax" in it. If you're up to some civil disobedience today, you could go to your local library and send a slew of e-mails with the word "anthrax" in the body. Keep them on their toes. That Liberal Hollywood (via Eschaton) 'Hitler' Executive Producer Fired LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The executive producer of a CBS miniseries about Adolf Hitler's rise to power has been fired after giving an interview in which he compared the current mood of Americans to that of the Germans who helped Hitler rise to power. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gernon was fired Sunday (April 6) from Alliance Atlantis, the production company making "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" for CBS. He had worked there 11 years and was head of the firm's long-form programming division. Neither Gernon nor Alliance Atlantis is commenting on the matter. "Hitler" has caused controversy ever since CBS announced its intentions last summer. In an interview with TV Guide about the four-hour film, scheduled for May, Gernon compares many Americans' acceptance of a war in Iraq to the fearful climate in post-World War I Germany, of which Hitler took advantage to become its ruler. "It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, who ultimately chose to give up their civil rights and plunged the whole nation into war," Gernon said in the interview. "I can't think of a better time to examine this history than now." 7 billion to Halliburton Without even a bid. You'd think they would, like, at least try and pretend. Another FBI Agent Resigns Was also involved with Republican activist and fundraiser, and now accused spy, Katrina Leung. -Atrios Leung Affidavit The FBI put it up and then took it down. But, Google has it. Haven't had a chance yet to read through it, but check out her aliases. Bush forever? (Via American sam) Bill Introduced to Repeal 2-Term Presidential Limit Genetic Engineering Super-viruses (via abuddhas memes) Murdered microbiologists, a massive increase in ability to sequence genes, a press distracted by airs of war, a population psyoptically set up for panic and putative presumption, and we are setup for a eugenic application of Genetic Engineering Super-viruses. "Hutchison’s team is trying to figure out the genetic recipe for creating a free-living organism from scratch. While that task is proving difficult, viruses are much easier, as they are not free-living organisms, but genetic parasites that depend on hi-jacking the cell’s metabolism to replicate. According to Hutchison and other geneticists, it will soon be a relatively easy matter to tinker with existing micro-organisms to create new, more virulent varieties, and to recreate organisms that have lately become extinct." Invictus? Breeding ground for new McVeighs? Rational Enquirer [via follow me here] War Reduces Israel's Strategic Importance: "There is only one country in the world that has not yet fully grasped the implications of the American invasion of Iraq, and that country is Israel. The invasion of Iraq dramatically lowers Israel's stock as a strategic asset." Ha'Aretz [via GVNews.Net Daily World] Fuck consensus reality and it's corny cop show script: Create your own (Via American sam) Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams... This Web site serves the growing communities movement. We provide important information and access to crucial resources for seekers of community, existing and forming communities, and other friends of community. The Militarisation of Scientific Research in Europe "In many ways, it raises the question of how much democracy is really left in the post-industrial nations of the west, if any at all. One just has to look at how the US has transformed itself into a hybrid of Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World." /I thought this was just a American phenonemena...at our universities.-mobythor Slate-gray fascism? (Via Abuddahs memes)I know whenever i see the word iraq my eyes gross over and i skip it...this is much more than that...don't cheat yourself read this....-mobythor / Iraq War Culture, by Joe Lockard, explores our inexorable slide into a spate of slate-gray fascism, lowlighted by one way transparency and entrenched economic dichotomy. "A new culture of systematic automated surveillance and Total Information Awareness has established itself, one that points to a vista of unending conflict as its self-justification. There is no particular note of social apocalypse here, only a gray statement of the rationales of perpetuation required in order to integrate an information economy with an economy that produces and exports violence, then must guard against its return." Think for Yourself; Question Authority Again the intelligent do not "throw the baby of w/the bath water." Gleen what info here that helps you.The map is not the Terriory nor is this.-mobythor "CIA STAGES ANOTHER BOGUS PSY-OP/PHOTO-OP - - - or the "FAKE OUT" ABOUT FIFTY IRAQUIS SHOW UP FOR THE BIG RALLY America’s Sovereign Right To Do As It Damn Well Pleases. Electronic Activism Revisited: "The Revolution Will be Webcast" Wartime Depression Now is when it really hits. After the initial wave of 24/7 news coverage and demonstrations in the streets, the reality remains. The bastards are getting away with it. Puppet one or puppet two thats demockrazy! CIA report slams Pentagon's favorite Iraqi It only says hanes when we say it says hanes... CIA threatened to bomb local, controlling militia opposed to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Freedom and demockcracy? CIA accused of intimidating Iraqi group WASHINGTON, April 8: A local militia took control of the southeastern city Saddam one of many US/CIA created, sadistic dictators for $$$ A Timeline of CIA Atrocities The blue revolution: Buying-Selling Nations' water supplies. Can I get an AMEN!? Patriot Act forever... as in Permanent! I feel safe how bout you!Thank-you Jebus! 9/11: The Evangelical Christian Connection (Via Libertythink) 9/11: The Evangelical Christian Connection from MadCowMorningNews The money man behind two Florida flight schools which trained an as-yet undisclosed number of terrorist pilots has ties with the Evangelical Christian Right, including having loaned televangelist Jerry Falwell a reputed $1 million to bailout his failing religious enterprises a decade ago, and serving as Director of an avowedly Christian aeronautics company planning to manufacture a new business jet in Israel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Rudi Dekkers’ financier Wallace J. Hilliard, 70, has so far managed to avoid being caught in the glare of publicity surrounding former business partner Dekkers, currently facing a charge of felony fraud as well as an ongoing multi-agency federal investigation. But Hilliard's Huffman Aviation, the Venice flight school which trained both pilots who crashed airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, has recently been embroiled in controversy in Falwell’s Lynchburg, VA. hometown. Also see: Mohamed Atta and Rudi Dekkers Seen Together in Venice Weeks before 9.11 Venice Airport Used for Covert Ops: What they're hiding down in Florida 9/11: The German Connection Dekker's Helicopter Crashed on way to Huffman Aviation showdown I.N.S. Deporting 'Magic Dutch Boy' Rudi Dekkers Terror Flight School Owners' Plane Seized for Heroin Trafficking Atta & Girlfriend's Wild 3-Day Party in Key West Key Witness 'Disappears' in Venice FL Magic Dutch Boy Escapes Fiery Plane Crash More from the MCMN Archive Even stranger, both Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris were providing celebrity endorsements to Hilliard's operation well after the company's Lear (N351WB) had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns. Depression - And Its Activism Antidote - Will Lead to Bush's Downfall April 8, 2003 · Let's talk about a subject that remains mostly hidden in American social discourse: depression. Depression is a sane, normal way of dealing with overwhelming grief, loss, confusion, shame - in this instance: cluster-bombs, depleted uranium weapons, children being slaughtered as "collateral damage," and all in our name. Because depression shakes us up, it provides opportunities, once we regain our energy and focus, for effective political action. By Bernard Weiner The Hackenblog "You mean you don't you write where you want your taxes applied on the memo section of your check? How else would the IRS to know what to do with your money?" Hackenbush This year I'm writing PEACE in big letters there. Mayerson Whats happening Inland? Lately, I've been told to love America or leave it, since I'll be the downfall of the country. I've been accused of being in league with Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Hegemoney.com is dedicated to reversing the "hostile takeover" of our democratic processes by certain government officials, corporations and moneyed special interest groups. Please don't allow your (well-justified) anger and cynicism towards "the system" to cause you to turn away from this important information. We must acknowledge the flaws in our current systems if we hope to improve them. Each of us, if we are well informed and prepared to act on our knowledge, can make a difference. Beyond Left and Right A guide for the unwary : Perle's War Profiteer Buddies CIA Refuses to Release Its Handbook on Release of Information to the Public Apparently no one told the CIA that irony is dead Disinformation on Demand calls attention to the issue of electronic surveillance on the Internet and as a service offers TraceNoizer – There is information about most people in the Internet. We call that thedatabody. Often, one cannot delete this information. To protect this data, one has to systematically falsify this information. TracenNoizer does exactly that: it offers the opportunity to clone the databody, disperse the clones throughout the Internet and therefore make relevant Information difficult to pinpoint: Spreading Disinformation as a disguise.E.g.: HELLO dear surfer I am Tate Engstrand and this is my page (link may not last) http://www.tracenoizer.org/temp/33501/index.html Gonzo patriotism: "freedom-everything!" Get Ready for the USSA (The United Soviet States of America) "Just in case you thought that the Al Martin article below is an April Fool's joke..... Homeland Security Projects at CSIS" SCROLL DOWN TO Find Kissinger and Yevgeny Primakov ex-KGB NOW WORKING FOR HOMELAND!./ ( http://impeach-bush-now.org/Articles/Americans/USSA.htm ) U.S.: After Iraq, we'll deal with other radical Mideast regimes. A communique received in Jerusalem from the American administration this week says the United States is operating with strong resolution to neutralize the Iraqi threat to Israel. After the war, the message continued, the United States will deal with other radical regimes in the region - not necessarily by military means - to moderate their activities and fight terrorism. Ha'aretz For Broadcast Media, Patriotism Pays. Now, apparently, is the time for all good radio and TV stations to come to the aid of their country's war. That is the message pushed by broadcast news consultants, who've been advising news and talk stations across the nation to wave the flag and downplay protest against the war. "Get the following production pieces in the studio NOW: . . . Patriotic music that makes you cry, salute, get cold chills! Go for the emotion," advised McVay Media, a Cleveland-based consultant, in a "War Manual" memo to its station clients. ". . . Air the National Anthem at a specified time each day as long as the USA is at war." The company, which describes itself as the largest radio consultant in the world, also has been counseling talk show stations to "Make sure your hosts aren't 'over the top.' Polarizing discussions are shaky ground. This is not the time to take cheap shots to get reaction . . . not when our young men and women are 'in harm's way.' " Washington Post NO MORE FAKE NEWS IS BACK!!! WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS WAR WHAT HAVE THEY WROUGHT? April 7. Yesterday, in an attempt to find out more about the death of NBC reporter, David Bloom, I spoke with the former head of the Pentagon Depleted Uranium Investigation Team, Dr. Doug Rokke. Rokke was the man who went to Iraq a decade ago on a mission to report on depleted uranium (DU). What he found was so horrifying the Pentagon scuttled his work and tried to make him an invisible man. Rokke suffered uranium poisoning himself. But his medical records, and those of who knows how many thousands of other soldiers, do not reflect that. History has been suppressed, has been re-written.(More... Wag the Dog Unreality TV – Part 1 Congress Ties Anti-Rave Bill to Popular Legislation sneaky fucks...I got an idea, lets work backwards. Lets outlaw everything! Everything ! and then "they" can decide on what "rights" (we/any of us) have. How bout that? As it relates to revenue...of course. In other words, "guilty till proven..." Agency Finds It Needs Experts From Academia And Colleges Pressed for Cash they Like the Revenue http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/21/mooney-c.html The CIA is Back on Campus: Spying, Secrecy and the University By David N. Gibbs Collaboration between academics and the intelligence agencies has elicited little debate or negative comment. On the contrary, such collaboration has been endorsed across the ideological spectrum. In November 2002, the liberal American Prospect published an article by Chris Mooney entitled: "Good Company: Its Time for Academics and the CIA to Work Together. Again." To the best of my knowledge, there has been no extended response to the Mooney article in American Prospect in any other publication. The CIA has become "a growing force on campus," according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. The "Agency finds it needs experts from academia, and colleges pressed for cash like the revenue." The other war... (via ted barlow blog) This story from Afghanistan doesn't sound good. Before executing the International Red Cross worker, the Taliban gunmen made a satellite telephone call to their superior for instructions: Kill him? Kill him, the order came back, and Ricardo Munguia, whose body was found with 20 bullet wounds last month, became the first foreign aid worker to die in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power 18 months ago. The manner of his death suggests the Taliban is not only determined to remain a force in this country, but is reorganizing and reviving its command structure. There is little to stop them. The soldiers and police who were supposed to be the bedrock of a stable postwar Afghanistan have gone unpaid for months and are drifting away. At a time when the United States is promising a reconstructed democratic postwar Iraq, many Afghans are remembering hearing similar promises not long ago. Instead, what they see is thieving warlords, murder on the roads, and a resurgence of Taliban vigilantism. ``It's like I am seeing the same movie twice and no one is trying to fix the problem,'' said Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghanistan's president and his representative in southern Kandahar. ``What was promised to Afghans with the collapse of the Taliban was a new life of hope and change. But what was delivered? Nothing. Everyone is back in business.'' Liberal Associated Press, blah blah blah, but seriously, folks. This is exactly what needs to happen to make "American-led liberation" sound like a sick joke. Christ, let's even say that we forget about that bleeding-heart humanitarian stuff. Can we worry about the, um, Taliban? Technical Difficulties I have had TD'S The last several days and haven't been able to post at various times, just so you know. I have no clue as to why... -mobythor Confidence Men Why the myth of Republican competence persists, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Incipient Fascists (Via Citizens Not Spectators) I hope that everyone who comes across this page reads the link to the story about Professor De Genova Derk provides in his posting yesterday. The link is to a story by David Horowitz called, "The Moment of Truth (for the Anti-American Left). Frankly, I find Horowitz's concluding statement much more harrowing than any of De Genova's quotes included in that story. Horowitz says: ( more...) WAR PROFITEERING IS CUTE! Lord Bless This Defender of Freedom Benton Foundation Home Page Benton to Host Media Ownership Forum on April 7; Event Will be Streamed Live on the Net On Monday, April 7, the Benton Foundation will host a public forum on the FCC's review of US media ownership rules. The event will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, and is being organized with The ASU Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Maricopa Community College Center for Civic Participation. Internet users with RealPlayer software may listen to the event live on Monday starting at 4pm EDT, 1pm AZ time. (If the previous link doesn't open the stream automatically, launch RealPlayer manually and paste the address http://stream.lpbn.org:8002/icy_1 into the software's location window.) Permanent war means permanent erosion of liberties Dan Gillmor's Sunday column presents a pessimistic view of the future of civil liberties. While civil liberties have ebbed and flowed in past wars, the permanent "war on terrorism," which lacks any kind of victory condition, seems unlikely to ever reliquinish the Constitutional rights that have been claimed in its name. The Bush administration's attitude, assisted by a Congress that long since abandoned any commitment to liberty, is that government has the right to know absolutely everything about you and that government can violate your fundamental rights with impunity as long as the cause is deemed worthy. You, on the other hand, have absolutely no right to know what the government is doing in your name and with your money, unless the information is deemed harmless by people who have every motive to cover up misdeeds. Bush and his people have turned secrecy into a mantra, and too few people recognize the danger that poses to our freedoms, much less our pocketbooks. The war for truth Commentary on the manipulation of coverage of the conflict in Iraq, and drawing comparisons with the US invasion of Vietnam, which Pilger covered 35 years ago ( John Pilger via Sunday Mirror ) Crimes of War - What the Public Should Know "Crimes of War was conceived as a handbook for reporters. But just as war is too important to be left to the generals, war coverage is too important to be left uncritically to the news media. The general public, too, should know the moral and legal benchmarks contained in the law. One reason for a commonality of interest is that coverage of contemporary conflicts increasingly is available to the public without a filter or a framework or context. A second is that every close observer has a restricted field of vision." The War's Dirty Secret: The War's Dirty Secret: It's About Changing United States, Not Iraq. The effort to turn Iraq into a democracy, in other words, is making the U.S. less of one. Our opposition party has disappeared, corporate interests dictate public policy, and the feds may be rummaging through your e-mail. There's a dirty secret no one has told you, and here it is: This war is not about changing Iraq, it's about changing America. LA Times Chem weapons found? or planted? The latest news is that US Marines broke into a depot near Baghdad, which had chem-war equipment (gas masks, atropine (antidote), etc., and bags and vials of powders. Many reported nausea, spots on the skin, etc; signs of Sarin exposure. I saw it on the ABC news tonight also, but oddly enough, I haven't seen as much about it "around" as I would think. We should know more soon enough. Certainly, failure to find such weapons would be an embarrassment to the US and British administrations. Buckyballs and Screaming Cells The amazing miniature world of UCLA chemist Jim Gimzewski The Gulf War: Secret History, by William M. Arkin Filled with new revelations and telling details, this 30-part series on the first Gulf War had disappeared from the Web. Now it's back Chaplain Gives Thirsty Soldiers Water IF They Get Baptised First. ''It's simple. They want water. I have it, as long as they agree to get baptized,'' he said Portland Hearing, rally Monday for detained former Intel employee Mike Hawash Lisa Rein sez: I just spoke to Steven McGeady, the friend and former employer of Mike Hawash, a long-time US citizen who has been imprisoned under a secret warrant as a material witness by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Portland, Oregon. So far Mike has been held for over 14 days (since Thu, March 20) in Oregon's Sheridan Federal Prison. He has been a U.S. citizen for 15 years, and lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years. Mike is 38, and is married to a Roseberg, Oregon woman. They raise their three children in Hillsboro, Oregon where Mike worked as a software engineer at Intel Corp up until his arrest. Mike's finally getting a hearing this Monday morning at Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Mike's friends and family ask that you show your support by gathering in front of the Federal Courthouse for a peaceful demonstration of support. A peaceful rally by well-mannered friends and supporters will show the Justice Department and media the depth of support for Mike, and our outrage over the trampling of his civil rights. We expect Mike's wife, Lisa, to come through on her way into the Courthouse. Day: Monday, April 7, 2003, Time: 8:15-8:30 AM or so until about 9:15. Mark Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, 100 SW 3rd Ave, Corner of SW Salmon/3rd, Portland, OR. Federal workers fear Homeland Security Act is being used to bust unions Congressmen Finally Get Around to Reading the Patriot Act, Seek Clarifications The chairman and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee have asked the Justice Department for more information on the government's use of the Patriot Act to track terrorists, seeking clarification on what "tangible things" the government can subpoena in investigations of U.S. citizens. The Best Unregulated Families —In spring 1999, Marvin Pierce Bush, youngest brother of George W. Bush, was a nominee for the boards of directors of two companies, both with a significant interest in security at the World Trade Center. One was HCC Insurance, formerly Houston Casualty Company, a giant holding company and major insurance carrier for the WTC. The other was a security company named Stratesec, one of the WTC's numerous security contractors. Sharon: Too Bad Bush Wasn't Around In The 30´s (Bush Family History)( http://www.libertythink.com/2003_03_10_archives.html#90480661 ) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - yes, a SARS blog The Nihilism of War Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (Via) ctheory DNA chips to be cheaply produced with inkjet printers Canon has developed a mechanism for using inkjet printers to cheaply mass-produce "DNA-chips," chips used to trace diseases. Bringing aid and the Bible, the man who called Islam wicked Muslim worries have been heightened because the man leading the charge into Iraq is the Rev Franklin Graham, who delivered the invocation at President Bush's inauguration, the son of Billy Graham and a fierce critic of Islam. He is on record as calling it a "wicked, violent" religion, with a God different from that of Christianity. "The two are different as lightness and darkness," he wrote. He runs an organisation called Samaritan's Purse, whose workers are in Jordan, waiting to move into Iraq. It has a strong record of charitable help built up over more than 30 years, but its official aim is clear: "The organisation serves the church worldwide to promote the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ." Rushkoff's Law Friedrich Engels (at least that's who I think it was) wrote in the 19th century about how quantitative changes can cross a threshold and become qualitative changes. In contemporary terms that notion has come back (and perhaps truly come of age) with the idea of the Tipping Point. Think Robert Metcalfe's Law (the value of a network equals the square of the number of users) or David Reed's (the value of a social network equals the square of the number of possible connections between individual users). In a follow-up to his New Rennaissance piece (blogged the other day) Douglas Rushkoff posits a comparable (perhaps even more important tipping point) occurring now in communications media. Call it Rushkoff's Law: (something like this) the potential of democracy in media is the relationship of "the sum total of computer processing power and media dissemination technology in the hands of real people to the sum total held by government and corporate conglomerates". Due to the ubiquity of affordable camera, microphone and network-enabled cell phones and wireless computer devices the numbers have tipped for the first time in favor of decentralized people's vs. centralized information power. Rushkoff riffs inspiringly on the qualitative implications of that quantitative shift. Subject: Possible UNGA and CHR Sessions (PDF) Leaked copy of a US Government fax distributed to UN representatives around the world in mid-March, notifying them that 'the United States would regard a General Assembly session on Iraq as unhelpful and as directed against the United States'See also this press release ( http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/news/news_main.asp?PRID=502 ) The Danger to Europe Politics... "Those refusing the cheek-swab could be fined $200,000 and jailed for a year." Patriot Act II: Just like the Gestapo: "Police officers carrying out illegal searches would also be granted legal immunity if they were just carrying out orders." Homeland Security overseeing city emergency services to include law This is a very bad move. Iraq is a trial run Like him or don't but, don't as they say don't "throw the baby out with the bathwater" sure, he has an agenda and so do you... everyone does.-mobythor/ Chomsky interviewed by Frontline "the chick was in the way" "the chick was in the way" a poem Dedicated to Sgt. Eric Schrumpf, sharpshooter with the 5th Marine Regiment, quoted in the New York Times (3/29/2003) after killing a civilian. barnyard fuss time to behead Another Mother will soon be dead (contemptuously kicks the protesting chicks) -- "the chick was in the way" horse screams in Spanish town black and white anguish the viewer surrounds Earth turned to Hell cries without sound A Work of Art (the pilots order a round) no chivalry, no dogfights here something new, killing on the ground but draped on the day the Secretary says -- "the chick was in the way" Dresden, Hiroshima, My Lai -- for the sake of the guilty, innocents die. We had to do it, they say. Why don't they rise up and throw off the yoke of the oppressors we fight? (What a joke -- if they could do that, we could stop this war.) equally powerless, complacent whores explain, justify, rationalize turn the accusing finger aside the future beckons makes the powerful sweat IT WILL BE OUR TURN ONE DAY YET. "the chick was in the way" Terror Strikes! A building falls -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu atheist, secular, I-like-to-sleep-in white, black, from all nations and races liberal, conservative, capitalist pig min-wage worker, fireman, priest good, bad, guilty as sin all united now, unwillingly blurred by a commander who accepts a certain human cost to topple an enemy most of them didn't vote for and many of them were against. Yet some still can't explain why if 9/11 was wrong, why was Nagasaki right? "the chick was in the way" A National Network throws a fit country fans don't take no shit boycott, censor, throw off the air we must be united with Bush and Blair Pole to Pole, millions say no traitors all to our common goal the Few, the Powerful insist you play your role -- "the Chick was in the way" Mean Streets USA wrong place, wrong time children lie dead for this, someone will die Who'd volunteer to pull the switch? If it were a Troop would that still be your wish? what kind of a thug would boast of his crime -- "the chick was in the way" a family dies no warning shots a mother sees her daughters' heads come off missing foot shredded skull blood money, body bags to make them whole their country, their fault we must achieve our goal Guaranteed Victory we've been sold -- "the chick was in the way" The suffering of others, is it real? If it were your family, how would you feel? Your home, your country? What could you bear? How would we see the armed men from over there? To us, killers; to others, troops. Right and wrong, like language, are loose -- Martians land -- or a world-power-to-be kicks our ass in the year 2103. Demolish this planet, by ire or nukes Or to build a brand-new hyperspace bypass loop. The chick was in the way. lost interview "Lost interview" between Mondo 2000 Editor-in-Chief R. U. Sirius (Ken Goffman) and Todd Brendan Fahey, author of Wisdom's Maw. The Propaganda Blitz is getting way out of control... Note: A fairly convincing allegation I've heard is that the "boos" heard during Michael Moore's speech were mainly canned and enhanced for television. The Academy Awards show producers were apparently prepared for Moore in particular (and perhaps others as well) who were ready to make an important and neccesary political statement against an illegal war by an illegal administration.----Where i don't agree with all of mikes ideology, and i think the game is that the UN and America are playing Good-cop/Bad-cop to get the goods and impliment global oligarchy, starting in The cradle of civilization i.e. Iraq, (it only starts there) it ends in your house with police state for all via iran, syria, and korea and then your town. God I hope I'm wrong.-mobythor Lord, watch over Halliburton, Bechtel, Raytheon and Lockheed, in this, our hour of need. Please, Amen. (VIA METAFILTER) Along the same lines of sites designed to get kids to eat more red meat comes the Presidential Prayer Kids website, which instructs the young on how best to support our leader through prayer. This week's lesson instructs the Bush Youth to be faithful, compares them to dogs. "They are showing their faithfulness by obeying the commands they are given and by doing exactly the job they were trained for." Connecting the dots of Rumsfeld's theories[ and 100 years war] This from a friend in reply to the the topic of war.-mobythor/I wuz wonderin' about this # of troops biz myself, when I happened upon this column by Tim Rutten, a guy I don't admire much. But: dig his use of blogs here. And I think we have a pretty good answer to your question, ...I hope it's wrong. But intuition tells me it will prove prescient. Steel yourself and read this article, below...btw, if a reader be desirous of a much more vast and kaleidoscopic view of this "war", I urgently recommend reading a very slim volume written in 1983 called GRUNCH of Giants, by a fellow name of Buckminster Fuller. CNN/CIA THE ENEMY WITHIN Lynch Wasn't Shot The family of rescued POW Jessica Lynch is contradicting the Washington Post report that she was shot and stabbed. PALESTINE, W.Va. - The father of rescued POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Thursday she was in great spirits following her first surgery and said doctors told him she had not been shot or stabbed during her ordeal. "We have heard and seen reports that she had multiple gunshot wounds and a knife stabbing. The doctor has not seen any of this," Gregory Lynch Sr. said. "There's no entry (wounds) whatsoever." Lynch said his 19-year-old daughter, who is at a military hospital in Germany, had surgery on her back. "She didn't have any feeling in her feet," he said outside his home in this West Virginia hamlet. More surgery was scheduled for Friday on her fractured legs and right arm, he said. Profiling by grocery receipts? Feds eye personal commercial data in terror search BoR instead of Bombs THE SOLUTION IS FOR THE WORLD TO LEARN AND VALUE THE BILL OF RIGHTS.. Then no dictator will stand a chance. Send copies of the BoR to your friends in their own languages. Or how about if the government dropped millions of copies of the BoR on oppressed nations instead of bombs? WHY AL-JAZEERA MATTERS if we believe in a free press Sterling on Poindexter Sterling's latest Wired column is a provacative look at Poindexter. Admiral Poindexter's PROF interoffice email system (powered by an IBM mainframe) seems pretty backward nowadays, but there was an unmistakable Enron-style genius in routing charity money and Saudi profits through Israeli arms contractors to buy munitions for Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries. John Poindexter, Oliver North, Elliot Abrams, Richard Secord, John Singlaub, Robert MacFarlane, Adnan Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar: These legendary innovators created something truly new and brilliant - an offshore, autonomous, self-financing, global, anticommunist venture-capital outfit big enough to fight a private war against a sovereign nation. Lieutenant Colonel North liked to call it Project Democracy. It ran loops around Congress the way offshore Internet porn rings dodge the US Customs Service... Considering the audacity of the scheme's challenge to Constitutional authority, its principals have done surprisingly well in the years since. Oliver North gave up his uniform to become what he always had been at heart: a right- wing political agitator. Elliot Abrams now manages Venezuelan revolution, counterrevolution, and counter- counterrevolution for the State Department. And, of course, John Poindexter is in charge of the Department of Defense's Total Information Awareness program. But the real success story is the Contras, or rather their modern successor: al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden's crew is a band of government-funded anticommunist counterrevolutionaries who grew up and cut the apron strings. These new-model Contras don't need state support from Washington, Moscow, or any Accessory of Evil. Like Project Democracy, they've got independent financing: oil money, charity money, arms money, and a collection plate wherever a junkie shoots up in an alley. Instead of merely ignoring and subverting governments for a higher cause, as Poindexter did, al Qaeda tries to destroy them outright. Suicide bombers blew the Chechnyan provisional puppet government sky high. Cars packed with explosives nearly leveled the Indian Parliament. We all know what happened to the Pentagon. Chinese SARS secrecy punctured by SMS One of the elements being blamed for the spread of SARS is the Chinese goverment's secrecy about the disease in China. It appears, though, that the first leaks in that secrecy came from SMS. It wasn't newspapers or television or radio that originally spread the word about the outbreak of a serious respiratory illness, now known as SARS, in southeast China. It was SMS -- text messages on mobile phones. In early February the South China Morning Post noted in an article -- I can't point to it, as it's apparently in the paid archives -- that a mysterious bug was causing a run on store shelves for traditional medical remedies in Guangdong province. It turned out that "the panic over the virus started when reports about people getting sick were sent via short messages on mobile phones in Guangzhou," the Post reported. Wired News on Ex-Intel VP fighting for detainee Mike Hawash Story in today's Wired News on the case of former Intel employee Mike Hawash, a Palestinian-born US citizen arrested and detained in solitary confinement two weeks ago by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (link to earlier post on BoingBoing). A friend and former colleague at Intel, Steven McGeady, is championing Hawash's case. McGeady, a former vice president at the chipmaker who hired Hawash as a programmer in 1992, was a high-profile witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial. "People say this doesn't happen in this country," McGeady said, "but one of my neighbors has been disappeared. It's not what he might have done that matters to me -- they disappeared him. They need to question him and let him go, or charge him. It's like Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka." McGeady set up a website, Free Mike Hawash, that urges supporters to write politicians and donate to a legal defense fund. The site is drawing considerable attention online, climbing the charts on Daypop and Blogdex. Because of the campaign, the office of Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has promised to contact the FBI about the case, McGeady said. HE IS A FUCKING AMERICAN PEOPLE! KGB General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security More on this turn of events ... The masters of social control: When the NICA (National Identity Card Act) gets passed, the Posse Comitatus Act gets overturned, a few other pieces of legislation yet to be proffered get passed, the White House will have more control over the American people than the Kremlin had over the Russian people when Stalin was alive. He said that and then he laughed. Primakov continued by saying that he had been hired as a consultant and he was consulting on other "security" matters, an ongoing policy in various agencies of government (some of these offices haven't even been created yet) to consistently narrow the rights of the American people and to expand the power of government. He professed not to know why, the reason for all this was, other than he admitted that "it doesn't have much to do with 'fighting terrorism.'" For your safety, of course FDA to regulate every morsel of food The food industry's plate will be very full when the Food and Drug Administration completes four new security measures that will, for the first time, allow the federal government to keep tabs on virtually every morsel of food that is produced or imported. The two rules proposed so far require registering almost all articles of food made domestically or imported, and giving FDA prior notice of imports -- by noon the day before shipments are scheduled to arrive. Two yet to come will deal with detention procedures for suspect shipments and recordkeeping requirements for companies. The missing link between the Contras and al Qaeda TIA is all better now TIA proponents defend domestic spy plan NEW YORK--A Pentagon data-mining project to sift through corporate and government records and spot suspicious activity is necessary to thwart terrorism, two proponents said on Wednesday afternoon. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being developed by the U.S. Defense Department, is an example of using the latest technology to guard against future terrorist attacks, representatives of two conservative groups said during a debate at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. If fully implemented, TIA would link databases from sources such as credit card companies, medical insurers and motor vehicle agencies in hopes of identifying terrorist activities. Heather MacDonald, a lawyer and fellow at the Manhattan Institute, dismissed criticism of TIA as "hysterical vociferous cries" from privacy advocates who oppose making government more efficient at snaring wrongdoers and protecting innocent Americans. "If you don't trust government to protect us from terrorists, good luck doing it yourself," MacDonald said. "We have to use every legal mechanism in our power to make sure we don't have a 9-11 type of attack," MacDonald said. She accused her opponents of taking "a Luddite approach that says al-Qaida can get its hands on the best possible technology to attack us, but we're stuck with (an) outdated mechanism." "al-Qaida can get its hands on the best possible technology to attack us" Boxcutters or a NORAD Stand Down? I get confused. This shit is chilling... Clarity I think what you'll find, I think what you'll find is, Whatever it is we do substantively, There will be near-perfect clarity As to what it is. And it will be known, And it will be known to the Congress, And it will be known to you, Probably before we decide it, But it will be known.-—Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing/ The above is from metafilter :Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is an accomplished man. Not only is he guiding the war in Iraq, he has been a pilot, a congressman, an ambassador, a businessman, and a civil servant. But few Americans know that he is also a poet. Busted! (via metafilter,lots of embedded links you don't wanna miss) BINCS is an online database of suppliers and identification numbers maintained by the Defense Logistics Information Service. It was used to look up the CAGE code on a fragment of the missile which allegedly hit a Baghdad vegetable market. This confirmed that the fragment was from a missile built by Raytheon Company, and was probably either a HARM or a Paveway. I wonder if the system will remain available online after this. Investors can rest assured that this incident will not affect Raytheon's standing in the Perpetual War Portfolio in any way. 'I saw the heads of my two little girls come off' An Iraqi mother in a van fired on by US soldiers says she saw her two young daughters decapitated in the incident that also killed her son and eight other members of her family. HIDE EVERYTHING! ACCESS TO PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS REVISITED BUSH'S BRAVE NEW WAGE WORLD In the week after the second U.S. war began in Iraq, President Bush unveiled his new corporate agenda for the American working class. President Bush's proposal looks innocent. But its effect would profoundly alter the economic relationship of American employers and their workers. For one thing, the President's regulations allow corporations to eliminate "time-and-a-half" overtime pay, as a practical matter. For another, the regulations encourage corporations to blend "part-time" low-wage hourly staff with a "full-time" low- salaried caste who, if paid above the $22,100 line, would have to work as many long hours over 40 per week as the company wants, for no extra pay.( MORE MUCH MORE...) Liars, Scoundrels and Traitors Demolishing US War Propaganda Editor's Note: What follows is the most incisive deconstruction of the carnival booths of US propaganda thus far, and deserves wide circulation. Enemy of the State Oh dear, here's a combination *some* people will roll their eyes about--Derrick Jensen interviewing John Zerzan. Go for it. FLASHBACK: Air Force Officer Disciplined for Saying Bush Allowed September 11 Attacks "Universally ignored by the press, however, was that the officer was not merely expressing a personal opinion. He was in a position to have direct knowledge of contacts between the US military and some of the hijackers in the period before the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. Lieutenant Colonel Butler, who wrote in a letter to the editor of the Monterey County Herald charging that "Bush knew about the impending attacks," was vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California — a US military facility that one or more of the hijackers reportedly attended during the 1990s. " Israeli Anthropologist: Israel Hides Behind Victimhood (via American samizdat) Zionism, he says, “is a very compelling narrative, but it is totally self-contained, a bubble in which Israelis separate themselves from all others.” Israelis regard everyone else as irrelevant. When it is suggested that fear motivates this self-absorption, Halper disagrees. “It’s not so much fear,” he says; Israelis “just don’t give a damn. They make everyone else a non-issue. They see themselves as the victim, and if you’re the victim, you’re not responsible for anything you do.” This might come in handy real soon... New Search Engine Uncovers Reported Vaccine Side Effects - Finally, you can now search through the 12 years of vaccine side effects that have been officially reported to the federal government using an online database. Find out for yourself the damage vaccines are causing. Uninsured Hospital Patients Charged More Than Insured - Uninsured patients are charged more than insurers, HMOs and the government for identical procedures. If hospitals gave a discount to self-pay patients insurance companies would sue them for fraud, but when the uninsured patients are charged more than insured patients, they frequently have no choice but to declare bankruptcy./I have know about this for years,but no one wants to believe it...-mobythor In the sun for days... (And Rumsfeld Complained about the Iraqis Violating the Geneva Convention) Hooded Iraqi POW and His Small Child Behind Barbed Wire Decades later civil rights in Murika (bushspeak) means zilch. Black woman says hair salon charged her an "ethnicity" fee Sophia Burns refused to pay more for her haircut just because she's black. The salon's owner reportedly said: "There was not much work needed to style (white people's) hair, but that with black people, there was more to it and that was why (you're) being charged." Burns has slapped the place with a lawsuit. (Denver Post) Embedded Brit Journalist reports Massacre at Nasiriya First let me say, this isn't a loud mouthed article bashing anyone. This is a story from an embedded British journlist writing for the Times in the UK who was in a major fire fight in Nasiriya. So far it is not being carried outside of independent news sources in the US. I will warn you up front it starts off with some very difficult images and this journalist does not gloss over anything or avoid any grisly details. However, it is one of the better articles I've read that explains how and why things get as insane and out of control as they do in combat situations. He is a good writer and he is not using horror for the sake of horror. Just tells things as they are. The first two paragraphs or so are the end of the story and the rest of the article is a first hand re-cap of everything that led up to that point. Mirrors are nice.. The "CNN of the Arab world" has been knocked offline, but this mirror presents Al Jazeera's English-language Website as it was the day before it went down (via the memory hole) Starting the very day that Al Jazeera's English-language Website launched, the "CNN of the Arab world" has been constantly hacked with denial of service attacks, spamming, hijacking, etc. While the Arabic site goes online intermittently (only to get knocked offline again), the English-language version is nowhere to be seen. (The URL for the English site now either doesn't work or brings up the Arabic site. Often, the main URL doesn't work either.) A reader of The Memory Hole managed to capture the entire text (and some of the images) of the English-language site on 25 March 2003. We're mirroring it here. Bush's bait and switch? Now it's free the people of... "Perhaps as a result of the coalition's difficulty in finding banned weapons," writes Brendan O'Neill, "some have noted a subtle shift in the coalition's PR campaign -- away from focusing on 'disarming Saddam' towards focusing on the 'barbarity of Saddam's regime.'" Sucking Depleted Uranium in Iraq SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Iraqi war in a nutshell. Listing of the number of bombs dropped, civilian casualties, oil wells aflame, Iraqi soldiers surrendered, weapons of mass destruction found and the ratio of Iraqi territorial control. THOSE DARN CONSPIRACY THEORISTS JUST WON'T GO AWAY. U.S. can't shake image of malevolent, imperialist power Everybody in the Arab world "knows" that the U.S. attacked itself on Sept. 11, 2001, as an excuse to invade the Middle East. Everyone "knows" that the Jews control all U.S. media and manipulate the president. Everybody "knows" that Iraq is only the first item on America's neocolonial shopping list in the region. And everyone "knows" that America is waging a crusade against Islam to benefit Israel. Remember Afganistan? More than ever, private firms aiding war effort When special operations forces members guarding Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai were sent to Iraq, the State Department hired Dyncorp to take their place. Dyncorp in turn hired 40 former special forces soldiers to guard against further attacks on the Afghan leader. Lasers, HPM Weapons Near Operational Status Directed energy weapons--lasers and high-power microwaves--are emerging from the black world of classified projects as the time nears for their debut on aircraft, vehicles, ships and eventually even spacecraft. In the future, "our strategy is simple," said Mike Booen, head of Raytheon Electronic System's directed energy programs. "We want to replace high explosives with directed energy weapons [DEW]. http://www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20020722/aw173.htm YEAH! NOW WE CAN FRY THEM LITTLE RAGHEADS TO A CRISP IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. Future Looks Bright for Tactical Laser Waepons A life-size model, developed by General Atomics and PEI Electronics, of a mobile 100-kilowatt heat-capacity laser built on a prototype of a hybrid-electric, high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle (Humvee) shows the potential compactness of a full-power weapon system. Powell Issues Ultimatum to Syria Secretary of State Colin Powell last night issued a new warning to Syria to end its support for "the dying regime of Saddam Hussein" in next-door Iraq, or face the consequences. Atwood: America is selling itself out You're gutting the Constitution. Already your home can be entered without your knowledge or permission, you can be snatched away and incarcerated without cause, your mail can be spied on, your private records searched. Why isn't this a recipe for widespread business theft, political intimidation, and fraud? I know you've been told all this is for your own safety and protection, but think about it for a minute. Anyway, when did you get so scared? You didn't used to be easily frightened. You're running up a record level of debt. Keep spending at this rate and pretty soon you won't be able to afford any big military adventures. Either that or you'll go the way of the USSR: lots of tanks, but no air conditioning. That will make folks very cross. They'll be even crosser when they can't take a shower because your short- sighted bulldozing of environmental protections has dirtied most of the water and dried up the rest. Then things will get hot and dirty indeed. You're torching the American economy. How soon before the answer to that will be, not to produce anything yourselves, but to grab stuff other people produce, at gunboat-diplomacy prices? Is the world going to consist of a few megarich King Midases, with the rest being serfs, both inside and outside your country? Will the biggest business sector in the United States be the prison system? Let's hope not. Never Forget:WWIII has been brought to you by: Is it falling apart? And if so we know noone will fall... (VIA ALSO NOT FOUND IN NATURE BLOG)GO THERE, TO MANY GOOD EMEBEDED LINKS TO POST. 'The former intelligence official told me, "They all said, 'We can do it with air power.' They believed their own propaganda." The high-ranking former general described Rumsfeld's approach to the Joint Staff war planning as "McNamara-like intimidation by intervention of a small cell" - a reference to Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara and his aides, who were known for their challenges to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Vietnam War. The former high- ranking general compared the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Stepford wives. "They’ve abrogated their responsibility." ' The Unaccountable Administration ? Operation: Cover George's butt? As the backpeddling and fingerpointing over "cakewalk" predictions continues, Talking Points Memo notes a recent article (http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5510092.htm ) in the Charlotte Observer that quotes "senior administration officials" in saying that "dissenting views [about the war plan]' were not fully or energetically communicated to the president.'" Sounds like someones taking out an insurance policy, don't it? And more : One more thing - "Pentagon officials told reporters last week that "I think we underestimated" the strength and capability of Iraq's paramilitaries. Last fall a Defense official dismissed them as insignificant, predicting, "the Fedayeen will run with their tails between their legs." If war planners worried about the paramilitaries at all, they assumed the trouble might come in Baghdad. The CIA says it distributed a classified report in early February to policymakers warning that the Fedayeen could be expected to employ guerrilla tactics against U.S. rear units. These Washington intelligence analysts now complain that their views were softened as the report moved up the chain of command. The intelligence was there, an official told TIME, but "I have no idea how much attention they paid to it." Starting in February, Saddam himself telegraphed his intention to use unorthodox forces to hinder a U.S. invasion in televised appearances certainly monitored by U.S analysts. Maybe they dismissed his declarations as bombast. Last week he even listed Baath militia, tribal warriors and the Fedayeen by name when explaining how he would triumph, and then publicly commended them: "Under various names and descriptions, the Iraqi mujahedin are inflicting serious losses on the enemy." ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030407-438860,00.html) It would probably be prudent to only donate to government-approved faith-based initiatives from now on. (Via metafilter) Secret Police strike again. What country is this, again? 9-11 Commission Funding Woes "I think the fact that they didn't include funding for 9/11 Commission - didn't warn Gov. Kean that they weren't going to include it, didn't return my phone call —suggests to me that they see this as a convenient way for allowing the commission to fail. They've never wanted the commission and I feel the White House has always been looking for a way to kill it without having their finger on the murder weapon." -- Stephen Push, a leader of the 9/11 victims' families. Quite a few. It's fun to see which American Companies the US government gives contracts to, paid for by American tax dollars, that are harbored off shore. Off shore, so that they will not pay American taxes. Because, these Republican leaders of the business community are true patriots. I just wish they'd hurry up and rapture the fuck outta here (Note once again to many links embedded in this post click on over to metafilter to get the dope.) War in Babylon has evangelicals seeing Earth's final days, reports the SF Chron. End-Time Interpreters See Apocalyptic Meaning in Iraq War, reports Belief Net. End-times radio from End-Times.com. Israel's End-Time Gamble, from World Net Daily. Jimmy Carter notes that a stance against war is an almost universal conviction of religious leaders, with the most notable exception of a few spokesmen of the Southern Baptist Convention who are greatly influenced by their commitment to Israel based on eschatological, or final days, theology. Factoid: The Southern Baptist Convention has more churches (over 37,000) in the United States than any other religious body — even more than the Catholic Church. Making Dictators Extinct inclueding ours... Pedophiles Exploit the Besieged Children of Basra The term “Pedophilia” is normally used to indicate the direct sexual abuse of an innocent child, but in reality has a far wider interpretation. Pedophilia means the intentional exploitation and/or abuse of an innocent child or children, for any reason that is detrimental to their individual or collective physical or mental health. The Temporary Autonomous Zone I know this is old, and he very well might be a CIA provocateur, but damn he can write, he juggles the words like chainsaws slicing free your mind. A true ronin of the metaphysical. We need a new system. A Contrast in Tactics Good stuff here. US arms trader to run Iraq? and Man who would be 'king' of Iraq 'Jay Garner, the retired US general who will oversee humanitarian relief and reconstruction in postwar Iraq, is president of an arms company that provides crucial technical support to missile systems vital to the US invasion of the country. Garner's business background is causing serious concerns at the United Nations and among aid agencies, who are already opposed to US administration of Iraq if it comes outside UN authority, and who say appointment of an American linked to the arms trade is the 'worst case scenario' for running the country after the war. Garner is president of Virginia-based SY Coleman, a subsidiary of defence electronics group L-3 Communications, which provides technical services and advice on the Patriot missile system being used in Iraq ... SY Coleman has also worked on the Arrow missile defence system, deployed in Israel, and is involved in the US national missile defence programme' ( Observer )Note: click on over to also not found in nature weblog as there are to many good links to post here... (http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm) MINDFUCK HEAD WAR? "The following procedural outline documents typical techniques, processes, explanations, and definitions of the National Security Agency's Behavioral Modification Procedure using Subliminal Implanted Posthypnotic Suggestions through acoustically delivered phonetically edited language elements combined into scripts without somnambulistic preparation in the subject." Drunks/dry drunks in control? (via tony at abuddha memes) "War is like driving drunk. Sure, you don't intend to run over people. In the morning you may not even remember the dreagging sound under the car. But you knew when you loaded up that anything that happened under the influence, whether you "intended" or not, is attributable to your oiginal choice to drink. It's the law, unfortunately." The Looming Biological Warfare Storm "It’s likely that the regional media would have a “heyday,” which would lead to a groundswell of anger against the United States. Another similar attack could be launched after several months if the United States had not elected to significantly downsize its presence in the region. Again, the United States would be blamed, and locals might evacuate areas close to US installations. A continued US presence in the region could become politically impossible to maintain. Such small-scale attacks could be repeated over and over with lethal or nonlethal BW agents." Don't hate the media, become the media!" - Biafra The Crimes of War Project What the public should know. GET READY A TRAINS A COMING... Quarantines in Toronto SARS has reached Toronto and a quarantine has been issued. Anyone who has even visited the Scarborough Grace hospital since March 16 has been asked to voluntarily isolate themselves in their homes for 10 days since their last visit. "We realize this is a substantial number of people," said Dr. Sheela Basrur, Toronto's medical officer of health. "It could be in the thousands. Some more information on this disease is available at the CDC's website. 53 people have died in the less than two weeks that this disease has been in the news. BS NEWS What we have seen here is a endless sequence of rumors whose durations dovetail end to end chronologically. By the time one story is finally put to rest, another has risen to take its place. The upshot is that the public digests a continuous dose of bullshit. They float out of the military, get picked up by the big, totally compromised media. The headlines say 'maybe this happened,' but the repetition and emphasis gives it the strength of "news." The big pundits pick it up, weaving in their perverse moral lessons, and then the little pundits of Blogistan go babbling after. Welcome to the marketplace of ideas. Doctor WHO ID's SARS dies from SARS Italian Dr Carlo Urbani, 46, a World Health Organisation expert on communicable diseases, has died in Thailand where he had been receiving treatment after becoming infected while working in Vietnam. More HAARP volunteers needed for triangulation... VLF PULSES AND HAARP..it's getting funky again. "The military's own Executive Summary of the HAARP program clearly states their reliance on ELF waves. Instead of transmitting these waves from ground based transmitters, HAARP created these waves through the use of "pulse" transmissions of their HF energy beams. Or, to put it another way, HAARP duplicated the ELF signals by turning their signal on and off at rates (30 to 3000 cycles per second) within the ELF range. The result was that ELF radiation could be directed to a specific area on the surface of the planet, at will." ADULT CONTENT... FOR THE RECORD: ANOTHER LIE The Solomon Islands was listed in the coalition without their knowledge. Classify everything! Executive Order 13292 of March 25, 2003 Perle's Conflict Issue Is Shared... By Others on His Defense Panel Doe this tell you anything? Iraq to use CDMA A bill has been introduced in US Congress that would require postwar Iraq to use CDMA mobile phones, based on US patents and technology, rather than GSM phones whose licensing fees flow to places like France and Germany. Oh, and CDMA networks have built-in FBI-compliant surveillance technologies, which will make keeping order a lot easier for the colonial administration. The fact that neighbouring countries all use GSM is, of course, irrelevant; that's the old Middle East. (via Techdirt) More on Richard N. Perle's resignation... Perle Out. Rumsfeld Adviser Resigns as Head of Pentagon Panel: Richard N. Perle has resigned as chairman of an influential Pentagon advisory board following disclosures of business dealings that included his meeting with a Saudi arms dealer and a contract with a bankrupt telecommunications company seeking Defense Department permission to be sold to Chinese investors. NY Times Is this another news event driven by webloggers' revelations and hounding? (Via Follow me here blog) Statistical atrotcities to convict war-criminals I'm afraid this guy will be killed soon, before he ever gets to the big boys like Sharon and Bush-mobythor/ (Via Boing boing) Statistical atrotcities to convict war-criminals Great interview with Patrick Ball, the deputy director of the Science and Human Rights Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who uses statistical modelling of war atrocities to build human-rights cases. Every human rights story goes like this: I am a deponent, and I'm here to tell you about things that happened to one or many victims. I myself may or may not be one of those victims. Each of those victims may have suffered one or more violations, and those violations may or may not be what historians call colligated at one or more points in time or space. Each of the violations may have been perpetrated by zero, one, or many identifiable perpetrators, and those perpetrators may be individuals with names and ranks, or they may be institutions. Each of those may be associated with one or more of the violations in this story. That's the complexity of one story. Now we're going to collect 10,000 stories, and there is a dense, complex overlapping of all the stories. Then we aggregate the stories from, say, four different organisations, and each of those organisations' sets of judgements has a dense and complex overlap with the other organisations' information. The result is a multidimensional, multilayered Venn diagram built up from this information, which I refer to as "reporting density". Use a Firewall, Go to Jail It's getting nastier by the hour now... Iraq hawk Richard Perle quits Pentagon job! Iraq hawk Richard Perle quits Pentagon job Date: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:07:23 PM EST WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- A top adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned his post Thursday. Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle said he was concerned controversies surrounding his finances might distract Rumsfeld from the management of the war with Iraq. -- New Scrutiny of Role of Religion in Bush's Policies - The President's Rhetoric Worries Even Some Evangelicals "The Gospel, some evangelicals are quick to note, teaches that the line separating good and evil runs not between nations, but inside every human heart." I'm sure this will help! Gods on our side right? Right?...What a nitemare America has become, i keep telling myself, it's just a bad dream, just a dream...-mobythor Getting Away With It All Night Long: NSA and PSYOPS Getting Away With It All Night Long: NSA and PSYOPS Just stop reading. They already control you and they'll keep controlling you as you deny that this is possible. go aheead. read something else. CNN is on 24 hours aday you know. They could never brainwash YOU. The Government would NEVER use PsyOps against its own people. That X-Files stuff is only for wingnuts and kooks. It could never be real, and that could never explain why millions would support our government. Those people aren't brainwashed, they are RIGHTEOUS AMERICAN PARTIOTS ON A MISSION FROM GOD TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM SADDAM AND HIS EVIL. Did I get your attention? RUMSFELD IGNORED WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus On Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein Mind Control Operations at Stanford Research Institute Nah, we all know mind control is just a conspiracy.Move along nothing to see here.Right?RIGHT???? "WE HAVE CAUGHT THE SNIPER LIKE A DUCK IN A NOOSE"-Police Chief Charles Moose.(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/24/national/main526811.shtml) Preventive War Opens Way to New Rules on Conflict: Note:On the following article,Keep in mind "Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us." With thanks to,Robert Anton Wilson/ SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It sounds like an arcane debate among wordsmiths. But the distinction between pre-emptive and preventive war, drawn by President Bush in ordering the U.S. invasion of Iraq, could change the face of war. More... Microsoft will be releasing a service pack that fixes this bug in December. Its Not a Glitch, Its a Feature [tm] US Missile System Settings [] Down Enemy Missile [] Down Friendly Aircraft [] Precision Hit on Enemy Target [] Precision Hit on Crowded Civilian area [] Flatten Everything [] Shuffle All Hey at least...You can try asking Rumsfeld what he is doing to fix the software glitch in the Patriot system. Ask him at this web site. http://codeback.com/Rumsfeld01.aspx /you gotta laugh or you'd cry to death...-mobythor us exports of biological materials to iraq I blogged this already. I just wanted to remind myself of it. Surrender claim was false Remember the story last week that an entire Iraqi infantry of 8,000 men surrendered to the American forces? A lot of people pointed to it as an indication that the war was going well early on. Well, it turns out it never happened. "I don't think this is the gratitude that Bush expected." The fifth day of the war with Iraq was also the worst - by far. And as the bad news started piling up, TV viewers who lived through the tumultuous Vietnam era must have thought they were watching a History Channel rerun. War Means (Almost) Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Civilian Deaths and Official Apologies.../"The President will regret any action that is taken that does lead to loss of innocent life." - Ari Fleischer "Shut your mouth" As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America. Tim Grieve More Queen of Baghdad,Barbara Bodine. Yes, you've got it - the Bush administration is putting the woman with arguably the highest personal responsibility for the death of 3,000 americans at the hands of terrorists of any U.S. official, through stupidity and an overpowering need to emphasize that no-one was the boss of her, in place in post-"liberation" Iraq. Barbara Bodine, Queen of Baghdad. Barbara Bodine is a harbinger of death. She stymied the USS Cole investigation, and helped to prevent the one man who was figuring out Osama bin Laden's real story from acting effectively. Her presence in the scheme for postwar Baghdad expands the arguments about incompetence and deception as basic principles of Bush foreign policy. Another leaked memo from a media company? (via American samzidat)Note to many links to post do go there and check this story out...(http://www.drmenlo.com/samizdat/index.html)-mobythor/ How to keep your war film within budget Another leaked memo from a media company... (source) Timely Studios Location shooting for Codename Courage TO: Anita Lavine, Sr. VP Production FROM: Taylor Donahue, VP Production SUBJECT: Location shooting for Codename Courage Anita, Assuming the current situation with Iraq leads to combat activity by US troops, I suggest we get a small film crew credentialed as press to shoot over there. This will solve some of the budget vs. production value problems we?ve discussed. In the best case scenario we can also get one or two of our leads over there in costume to do a scene with the mayhem of real war as a backdrop. [Take a look at pages 65, 72-74, and 96 for examples that lend themselves.] Failing this, we can have the war as a back plate to use with blue screen of our actors or to add CGI on. We?ll be the only movie with a multi billion dollar effects budget. Tay Wielding power over policy from the shadows I feel safe how bout you? (sarcasium) Wielding power over policy from the shadows I feel safe how bout you? Bush Orders Delay in Declassifying Papers President Bush issued an executive order Monday that will delay the release of millions of historical documents for more than three years and make it easier to reclassify information that "could damage national security." Dictatorial Powers to Governor AL: Bill Creates State Homeland Security Dept. Granting Dictatorial Powers to Governor The bill says the governor could proclaim a homeland security emergency after consultation with a commission of top elected officials. During such an emergency, the director would have extraordinary power to assume control of emergency response forces; sell or transfer goods and services without regard to existing law; buy, condemn or seize property; compel evacuation of people in stricken or threatened areas; quarantine people, animals, plants, food and fruits; and control traffic on public highways and streets. Woman Vaccinated Against Smallpox Dies To many links to post go to libertythink and scroll down and check these stories out!-mobythor Woman Vaccinated Against Smallpox Dies from the Washington Post Federal officials are investigating whether the smallpox vaccine contributed to the heart attack death of a Maryland woman and brought on heart problems in six others. The vaccination has never been associated with heart problems before, but health officials are now recommending that people with a history of heart trouble refrain from being vaccinated while authorities investigate a possible link. Study: Smallpox-vaccinated doctors may infect patients More than half of all New York state hospital patients may face an increased risk of complications from contact with smallpox-vaccinated health care workers, a study suggests. FLASHBACK: Smallpox Gunmen Deputized to Secure Vaccination Areas: Resistance Mounts to FEMAs Involvement in Public Health Plan Dec. 19, 2002 -- Sandpoint, ID -- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials are directing police chiefs nationwide to search local gun owner records to identify and train civilian deputies to secure smallpox vaccination sites. According to documents forwarded to civil rights groups by police chiefs engaged in a growing smallpox vaccination resistance movement, the plan calls for armed civilian security guards to maintain the peace in every room the vaccine will be given. DARK WINTER: US has been playing a war game for Smallpox attack Under tight security, US does smallpox experiments 20 Reasons Not To Take The Smallpox Vaccination "Public health officials want to shut down roads and airports, herd people into sports stadiums and, if needed, quarantine entire cities in the event of a smallpox attack".- Boston Herald, Nov. 8, 2001 You Heard Them Right, the National Guard Is Considering Shooting Old Ladies "Would a National Guardsman," he asked, "shoot a grandmother trying to evade quarantine?" "Maybe", Gostin said. "You have to use all reasonable force. Sometimes", he added, "that could mean lethal force." HART: SMALLPOX TO HIT DENVER, DALLAS, CLEVELAND 'SOONER RATHER THAN LATER' CFR'S GARY HART: CODE RED COMING “Don’t be surprised if in the coming hours or days we go to Code Red,” Hart said this morning in Washington. “It is almost inevitable.” To learn the truth about smallpox, visit http://www.allaboutsmallpox.com/ Wilhelm Reich in Hell: RA Wilson excerpt from Act I (The scene: Wilhelm Reich is on trial in Hell. The trial looks in all respects like a 3-ring circus, complete with jugglers, acrobats, fire-eaters, etc. The prosecuting attorneys are the Marquis de Sade and Count von Sacher-Masoch, both of whom are dressed as clowns. The Ringmaster (Satan) presides as judge. Early on in the trial, Dr. Reich introduced as evidence a Computer which continually monitors the growth of the worldwide nuclear weapons stockpile. The Computer emits an ear-splitting whistle every time there is an increment in firepower equivalent to the original Hiroshima bomb.....) SADE: Why did you rebel against Freud? REICH: (slowly) I rebelled against Freud because he was a coward. The Computer whistles again. SADE: A coward? The man who challenged all the taboos of his age? REICH:He back-tracked, he evaded, he weaseled. He would not say flatly what his theories all implied. The Computer whistles again. SADE: (shouting over whistle) You mean he did not share your Utopian fantasies. REICH:Look at the photos of him; look at that jaw. The Computer whistles again. REICH:Look at his expression, those clenched teeth. He was holding back -- and I tell you, all of you, that is why he got cancer of the jaw finally. He wouldn't speak what he knew. He held it in, behind those clenched teeth, until it killed him. SADE: And what is the truth Freud dared not speak? REICH:Everybody knows it by now. Look at the crime news on TV -- Computer whistles again. REICH:or go into the emergency clinics and talk to the rape victims. Talk to the battered wives and the abused children. Our whole species is mad, emotionally plagued. We have been mad so long that every attempt to break out of the Trap just unleashes unconscious rage and increases the violence. Computer whistles again. REICH:We all know we're in the Trap, but nobody knows how to get out of it. We attack each other thinking that's the way out. SADE: What? That is the truth Freud dared not speak? I thought he said all that in Civilization and its Discontents. REICH:He would not say there was a way out of the Trap -- one way only -- SADE: Your way, of course. REICH:The way I discovered, gradually, after many mistakes. SADE: Which is? REICH:Work on the breathing and the muscle tensions. And tell people frankly that there is no metaphysical Good and Evil in the human world any more than there is in the animal world or the chemical world or the physical world of gravity and mass. SADE: Hedonistic materialism, in short. The permissive society. REICH:Not permissiveness. Sanity. If a child is a nuisance, tell him so. Tell him his behavior is annoying. But never, never make a metaphysical moral issue out of it. Never, never say anything is sinful or wrong in a cosmic sense. Never pass on the lunacey, the Emotional Plague, that has come down to us from ages of superstition and barbarism. SADE: A world without morals. Anarchy. That is what you mean? REICH: It is not anarchy. It is what every person with an ounce of sanity knows. Nobody is to blame for anything. We are all in the mess together because our ancestors were mad and a mad society has passed on their repression from generation to generation. SADE: And the things I did before I was brought here and cured? They were not Evil? REICH: You enjoyed feeling Evil because it made you seem heroic. The humiliating truth, Marquis, is that you were merely ill. SADE: And Hitler was merely ill? REICH: That is the horror of the situation. We all know it by now, but we cannot remember. We repress it and go on blaming one another -- we forget what we know, because remembering it means remembering that we are robots, too -- that we have all been crippled in different ways by trying to live in the imaginary world of morals instead of the real world of nature. SADE: So we just teach people how to breathe properly and relax their muscles and we will have Utopia? REICH: No. I never said it was that easy. I said it was almost impossible, but we had to try, if there was to be any chance of survival at all. Removing the Emotional Plague is just like removing bubonic plague. It will take decades of work all over the world by thousands of specialists. But if we don't try -- Computer whistles again. REICH: We must understand that every moral idea is strictly a hallucination. It creates guilt which creates muscular tension, which creates rage. That leads to further armoring, to hold the rage in. That leads to all the psychosomatic illnesses that orthodox medicine can't cure and to all the social pathologies around us. Rape. Child-beating. War. Computer whistles again. REICH: (excited, beginning to harangue) You compared me to Rousseau. Yes, in the Age of Reason, he had to recreate the myth of Eden again; he called it the Noble Savage. A hundred years later, Marx had to recreate it: he called it the primitive matriarchy, before private property. Eden is always recreated, because we know there is a natural grace and a natural way of life we have lost. We lost it through the invention of Good and Evil. As soon as we believed we were sinners, the Trap closed on us. We accepted the sin and punished ourselves. Or we projected the sin outward and punished scapegoats. Computer whistles again. REICH: (rage bursting through) Masochism or sadism -- those were the only choices once we believed in Good and Evil, once we believed in Sin. We are animals. We are no more guilty than a dog, a cat, a horse, a chipmunk. Everybody has known it since Darwin. But we are still in the Trap. SADE: You really hate the Morality that caused you to kill your parents. REICH: It is causing the whole human race to kill its children! We cannot see what we are doing. We have been robbed blind by our damned Morality. SADE turns away sharply. SADE: Your Almightiness, the prosecution rests. We believe it is obvious, out of his own mouth, that the defendant is a menace to civilization as we know it. REICH: Wait! Do you know why that moment in nature is so precious, that moment of peace and oneness? RINGMASTER: The defendant will not speak at this time. REICH: It is a moment beyond Good and Evil! RINGMASTER: You can argue that later. Fifteen minute recess. Then we will hear the case for the defense. (He rises) The Computer whistles three times rapidly. MASOCH: All rise! Houselights up. As audience starts to leave, REICH begins addressing them. REICH: Listen to me a moment! That moment of peace, that moment in Nature, beyond Good and Evil -- that is the essence of us. Our core. Our true selves. We normally never feel it because -- RINGMASTER: Clear the Court! REICH: because our muscles hold it down. Our muscles are chronically tense, it is so chronic that we never notice it. We only notice the peace when on a rare moment the tension relaxes. What do you think the Drug Culture is all about? Relaxing the muscular armor, getting rid of that tension for a few hours, or a few moments. ACROBATS go down into the audience and persuade people to leave. They are very polite, like well-trained policemen, and become very threatening (in a polite way) with those unwilling to leave while REICH is still talking. REICH: We are diseased -- dis-eased. We have lost touch with natural feeling. When the Life Force tries to break through the muscular armor, it gets deflected, I say, and comes out dis-eased and violent. That's why all political revolutions fail. That's why there are no political solutions. That's why RINGMASTER: Silence the defendant. MASOCH and SADE "beat" REICH with bladders again and drag him offstage right. REICH: (as he goes) You can't feel naturally. You can't see what you are doing, or what is being done around you. You are robots. Robots. All of you. All of you. Curtain. China readies for future US fight The Iraqi war has convinced the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership that some form of confrontation with the US could come earlier than expected. Make that five wars at one time... Tape ‘reveals US role in Colombia bombing’ Is Iran Next? This Senate Resolution, Suggests It May Be: Again, how many wars can we fight at one time? Halliburton Handed No-Bid Iraqi Oil Firefighting Contract (Via metafilter) You still believe this war is about nothing more then WMD's? I wonder how many other of Bush and Cheney's friends are benefiting from this war? The US government didn't even bother to give other companies a chance to bid for this contract. While on the topic of WMD's you might want to check out this,(http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0325-12.htm) about the lack of skepticism when it comes to the media making claims for weapons in Iraq. Remember Fox and their claim of a "HUGE" chemical weapons stash? How are we to get accurate news on this war if the journalist's we rely on are nothing more then puppets for this administration? Washington accuses Russia of assisting Iraqis CAIRO,(Xinhuanet) -- The US administration has accused Russia of assisting Iraqis with anti-missile expertise during the war, Qatar-based Al Jazeera Satellite TV network said on Sunday. A number of Russian experts are currently in Iraq to assist the Iraqi forces by driving US cruise missiles astray, the report said. /Addendum :I looked into his eyes and his soul -Bush Americans suffer the colossal losses I looked into his eyes and was able to glimpse into his soul..."-Bush (http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2740) According to the existing/available information, this morning, during the approach in the south of Iraq, the column of American troops, after moving to 15 kilometers from the boundary, fell under the impact/shock of the army of Iraq and sustained the most serious losses.Practically all helicopters of combat support were destroyed.The administration of the White House is in the complete confusion. Time for an Enron update Two sizeable articles in the Chron today about the state of the Enron criminal and forensic accounting investigations. This first one asks the question why the feds have mostly bagged small fry instead of the big fish,... (More at the link above)Read it and weep... Korea preparing long range missile test...How many wars can we fight at one time? US has detected signs North Korea is preparing missile test: Envoy: The United States has detected signs that North Korea may be preparing to test-fire a long-range missile, the top US envoy to Japan told senior ruling party lawmakers on Monday. Yes, you have to go to news sources outside of the U.S. to get any real coverage of events. Iraq's second amendment (via The road to surfdom blog) March 25, 2003 Iraq's second amendment There is discussion in this article about the influence Iraqi's tribal leaders are having on the war currently being fought. Apparently Saddam formed new alliances with them in the wake of the first George Bush's first Gulf War and those alliances are coming to fruition now. The tribes are part of what is essentially a militia force working on behalf of Saddam Hussein. This is reinforced by a quote from Saddam himself: "Even in the open desert, American and British soldiers are exposing themselves to civilians' weapons," he said. I've read elsewhere that many Iraqi civilians are armed, and it seems to be reinforced by some of the reports we have had over the last few days, but doesn't this strike anyone else as strange? Isn't the gun lobby argument that an armed citizenry is the ultimate protection against a tyrannical government? Isn't that why we're not supposed to regulate firearm ownership, as that puts us on the slippery slope to disarmament and a disarmed citizenry is vulnerable to dictatorship? Yet here we have yer actual tyrannical government and the tyrant himself seems happy enough to have an armed citizenry and that citizenry seems happy enough to use said arms against their ostensible liberators in support of said tyrant. On the logic of the gun lobby, Australia, with its strict gun ownership laws should be well on the way to tyranny, while Iraqis should have been disarmed years ago by the tyrant who rules them. Isn't the gun lobby now going to have to come up with a better excuse to keep their guns? What am I missing here? Energy and Empire! I feel the need to repost this article as It seems, it is as close as anything I have read so far as to whats really going in this dark time of kaos...-mobythor A wonderful comment i got from a friend on the Energy and Empire article worth a gander. Robert Anton Wilson champions R. Buckminster Fuller's _Critical Path_ for these reasons. Well, among these reasons...(See RAW's "Bucky Fuller: Aborting the Self-Destruct Mechanism", pp.105-115 of _Right Where You Are Sitting Now_.) Oil=energy=wealth=national strength and vigor. Aye, but it's the short view and quick fix and it's beginning to meld imperceptibly with the Killing Machine. Bush, Cheney, etc.are strung out on oil and blood. Also, the above is wrong, in my view. Knowledge is the basis for wealth. And money ain't wealth, either. Fuller says, "Wealth is the accomplished technological ability to protect, nurture, support, and accomodate all growful needs of life. Money is only an expediency-adopted means of interexchanging disparately sized, nonequatable items of real wealth." (Critical Path, p.xxvi) Guys like Bush and Cheney pay geologists, metallurgists, computer scientists, etc. - any discipline that is based in mathematical knowledge combined with people getting their hands dirty and "seeing for themselves" - fees to make themselves rich. They're Pirates, Business Criminals. They're in cahoots with Banking Schemers (They all went to school together and their daddies know each others' daddies, and they marry the little girls of their friends' daddies...) As Bucky says, "Those who make money with money deliberately keep it scarce." But I digress... Btw, Fuller also says that, if you look into it closely, "Those who own oil also own the atomic energy and have long ago assumed that, if humanity exhausts or abandons oil, it will automatically switch over to atomic energy." (Critical Path, p.112) A lovely thought... On pondering and writing about the human misery and constant, low-level panic of not having ENOUGH and what it does and has done to domesticated apes throughout history: "There is some kind of masochistic pleasure in continuing the analysis of a painful subject into every byway and intricacy of its labyrinthine torments. There is something of this beneath the 'objectivity' of Marx, Veblen, Freud, Brooks Adams. 'As bad as it is, we can at least look at it without screaming,' such writers seem to be assuring us, and themselves." -Robert Anton Wilson, _The Illuminati Papers_, p.30 And perhaps this passage applies to Michael Klare's concerns? Klare (as told by Leggiere) SEEMS "dispassionate", but one wonders. Me? When I read this sorta stuff I seethe a little, even if I've read similar analyses many times before. Same old greed game from here to eternity. Then I remind myself that we live on the Planet of the Apes, and I detach a bit from the gravity... Re: Brooks Adams: RAW gives Brooks the credit for being the first to articulate fully how Real Knowledge (which Fuller has called "metaphysical know-how", a phrase I love) produces Real Capital, which produces Real Wealth, and Adams said historically Real Capital had moved "steadily westward." _The Law of Civilization and Decay_(1892). In RAW's wonderful extrapolations and syntheses from Fuller and Korzybski and (it seems) hundreds others, Brooks Adams plays a significant role. (q.v. "The Neurogeography of Conspiracy", pp.90-98 of _Right Where You Are Sitting Now_.) Re: Oil: I love Fuller's vivid picture of oil as "impounded solar energy." Get this: "The Earth [...] is a celestial center where energies from stars are being collected and photosynthetically combined in an orderly molecular assembly as hydrocarbons, which are consumed by orderly designed species, and then self-multiply to make these biological species grow, undergo transformations, and eventually be buried deep beneath the Earth's surface." (Critical Path, p.28) Cheney: You see, George, that's why we're going to have to blow the torsos of very many men, women, children, and other animals to shreds. Their intestines will end up yards away from what's left of their bodies. I don't like it anymore than you do, but I'm willing to stand tall and make the tough decisions, from our bunker 8,000 miles away. We gotta stay Number One, right? I know you understand THAT, doncha, George?...George? Bush: Huh??? Oh, yea, of course. For freedom. We must extend freedom! TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT ?????? A History of US Secret Human Experimentation Claire wolfe back online... With blog! Life Imprisonment for Any and All Involved in a Protest That Blocks Traffic???? So I ask because i really want to know, when did America become so fucking insane?-mobythor/ When a person is convicted of terrorism under this section, the court shall order that the person be confined for a minimum of 25 years without possibility of parole, release to post-prison supervision, release on work release or any form of temporary leave or employment at a forest or work camp. Elite Sets the Stage for World War Three Americans to Take the "Fall" This Time? Good cop bad cop? Murika the bad cop.The U.N. is the good cop.? End result? Read this... The Story Behind the Dog and Pony Show UN already has "loving" plans for Iraq oil money How many wars can we fight? What? You thought the war in Afghanistan was over? Shame on you. (Or is it "Fool me once, shame on....shame on you.......fool me, you can't get fooled again!")(http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/multimedia/foolbush.mov) By the way, Osama's still missing. Proposed Projects Under the Information Awareness Office Welcome my friends to the show that never ends. News Media Let White House Approve and Change Quotes in Articles Washington Post reporter reveals Pravda-style control of media by the government Paying the Pipers Bush has asked for $75 billion to pay for the next month of the war. Nearly half of that money is going to pay off the bribes we doled out prior to the war's commencement. In the chunk of change assigned to the Pentagon, $30.3 billion goes to "coercive diplomacy," $13.1 billion is for military conflict, $12 billion for stability and transition and $7.2 billion for reconstitution, according to an official breakdown given to reporters by defense officials. Coercive diplomacy refers to the amount of money spent prior to March 20, or the beginning of the war. The money includes the cost of pre-combat work with coalition partners as well as the cost of transporting troops and equipment overseas as the lengthy diplomatic machinations continued. This last sentence here is somewhat confusing. I'm not sure if the "pre-combat work" is included in the "coercive diplomacy" part of the budget. That seems to be what's implied, but it's not really clear. How in the world? The population of the US is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize- counts on down, the US leads the world by miles. You would think that a country with such resources, and such a field of talent, would be able to elect a leader of the highest quality. Yet, what has happened? At the end of all the primaries and party caucuses, the speeches and the televised debates, after a year or more of non-stop electioneering bustle, who, out of that entire population of 300 million, emerges at the top of the heap? George Bush. It's like living in a bad science-fiction movie, isn't it? CRYPTO AG: THE NSA’S TROJAN WHORE? FOR AT LEAST HALF A CENTURY, THE US HAS BEEN INTERCEPTING AND DECRYPTING THE TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS OF MOST OF THE WORLD'S GOVERNMENTS! Disinfopedia: the encyclopedia of propaganda The Geneva Conventions are back, ...now that it suits Dick and Donald "It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. - Irony is lost on most people. I like proactive stances don't you... U.S. Flexes Muscles Before the Koreas Scheduled war games with South Korea apparently are meant to impress the North. Baghdad siege is hours away Don't Worry about Your Legs, Little Girl... We've Secured the Oil Fields for Halliburton.Go Murika!(BUSHSPEAK) Fuck tactics,Who makes the hardware! In an enlightened civilization (of which were are certainly not)The CEO'S, Stockholders and Janitors would be tried for Crimes Against Humanity.Og course the higher ups would get the highest punishment. Truth Alliance? The following organizations and people have expressed their support for the introductory statement of the "ad hoc organizing committee of the 9/11 Truth Alliance, calling for the creation of a national citizens' coalition. Many may ask, why do we feel there is a need to create a truly independent investigation when there is the National Commission on 9/11 already established by the federal government? We think history shows that power needs to be checked. A system of checks and balances that includes active participation by citizens is key to an effective democracy. Plus, we gratefully acknowledge it was only persistent pressure from 9/11 victims' family member groups that forced the Bush Administration to allow an official investigation in the first place. From the outset, the Administration had shamefully attempted to stifle any investigation from taking place. We are united in announcing this endorsement for an Independent citizen-based 9-11 Truth Commission to the American people and to our elected officials. We will not rest until American policy, foreign and domestic, is based upon verifiable and established facts and full accountability. Democracy demands no less. Warmongering Chicken Hawk Profiteer My, what a surprise. Not! Thank you Sy Hersch for doing what you do./ Richard Perle's Conflict As chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle has been an influential architect of the Bush administration's Iraq policy and war plans. At the same time, it turns out, he has signed on to represent a major telecommunications company that has a strong financial interest in lobbying the Defense Department. This is a conflict pure and simple, and Mr. Perle should immediately drop one of his two roles. Mr. Perle, who served as an assistant defense secretary under President Reagan, is indisputably an important part of the current Defense Department. His position as chairman of the policy board, to which he was appointed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is unpaid. But he is nevertheless considered a "special government employee" and is subject to federal ethics rules. Global Crossing, the telecommunications giant, is now in bankruptcy. It has retained Mr. Perle to help persuade the Defense Department to drop its objections to a proposed sale to foreign buyers in Hong Kong and Singapore. The deal has been opposed by the Defense Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a threat to national security because it would put Global Crossing's fiber optics network, which is used by the United States government, under foreign control. Mr. Perle stands to make up to $725,000 from his work for Global Crossing. Mr. Perle insists that there is no conflict in his case because the Defense Policy Board is not involved in approving the Global Crossing deal. But that is not the right test. Global Crossing's fee is clearly payment, at least in part, for the influence Mr. Perle exerts through his Defense Department post, and federal ethics rules prohibit using public office for private gain. To remove the conflict, Mr. Perle will have to choose between the gain and the office. The Pattern of Denial, Deceit and Deception ( FROM MY FRIEND HAM) I guess that I just get tired of being insulted. I get tired of the blatant manipulation. I am weary of lies of the most obvious sort being passed without a blink. I listen to Washington Journal every day and am amazed at the callers that are for war because we are: A) Fighting for our freedom B) Retaliating for 9-11 C) Fighting to protect us from WMD D) To end oppression and tyranny. It has been clearly shown that the evidence presented against Iraq is manufactured or very old. The plagiarized report that was presented as up to the date intelligence by Powell was an embarrassment. And it was 12 years old, too. The constant verbal ejaculation about aluminum tubes and nuclear weapons has been totally contradicted by Hans Blix and crew. The Killer Drone that could Spread WMD!!!!!!!!! Oh, it was only a few pieces of balsa wood and some duct tape with a weed eater motor. The "Mobile Chem/Bio" tractor trailer units were a fabrication of the inspectors in trying to think of ways that weapons could be hid. In fact, the artist rendition of one given by Powell was a creation of the inspectors and never a reality. They were formulating some scenario's (on how Iraq might hide manufacturing facilities) and somehow in the twisted world we live in, the fact that Iraq cannot produce some of them is evidence that they have them. The report from Niger was an obvious forgery and the administration was told it was suspect, yet it was presented as fact and authentic. Repeatedly we have heard of a "Poison" factory in the north of Iraq. This has been shown to be, in reality, a crude propaganda center for making films. The mantra of gassing his own people and invading his neighbors is ludicrous. We were complicit in both of these activities. Over 12 years ago. There has been no proof that Iraq has financed Al-Qaida or "Al-Qaida like organizations" as GW proclaimed in his Diazepam induced press show. That same "press Conference" itself was an insult to me and to our country. The cartel that is executing this "War" has wanted this for a long time and now they have it. To call it a "War" is an insult. We are bombing a devastated country with little defense and an "army" in name only. We are doing a lot of it from ships hundreds of miles away with the best technology of death in the world against Ack Ack. This is a blatant act of aggression and cannot be excused. The realization of whatever goals our administration has set will be overshadowed by the long term ill that this "War" will bring. If the coalition of the willing is fighting for freedom, maybe they ought to issue an ultimatum that John Ashcroft leave in 48 hours. With the USA PATRIOT Act and it's little buddy the Domestic Security Enhancement 2003 act we are well on the way to being free only in Mayberry RFD reruns. The rhetoric of Sadam having secret arrests, torture and disappeared is happening here. Recently two Afghani POW's were beaten to death. Yes, they were overseas, but they were in our custody. We have US citizens being re-labled as enemy combatants. We have US citizens executed by Predator drone fired missiles for being in a car with a "suspect". We have captured "POW's" in Gitmo that are being treated contrary to the Geneva Convention which we use at our discretion to assault other nations. The USS Maine incident..............a useful accident that set off the Spanish American War Pearl Harbor............................... An anticipated attack that was allowed to happen to enter WW2 Tonkin Gulf..................................The lie that took 58K US lives and millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotions Incubators and Armies...................The baby's in the ' bator's shown to be a lie, the Iraqi army massed on the Saudi border never happened, a note from April and we are in Desert Storm 9-11..............................................The national tragedy so horrible that our administration has fought getting an investigation for nearly 2 years, but into Afghanistan immediately. Nukes, bio/chem, drones.................Some of the lies that have put the stability of the world at risk and will reap untold consequences I have only touched on the obvious and that which is easily seen when one looks. The Pattern of Denial, Deceit and Deception could be a charge labeled against us. I just wish that we could be told, "This is how it is. Deal with it. We are going to do what we want because we can. Now go back and watch a baseball game". Save the lies and patriotism based rhetoric for some other gullible nation. Ham http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/international/ worldspecial/ 23CIA.html?ex=1049379077&ei=1&en=ee77c3c46cfa8c47 Overthrow of the American Republic? I'm not sure what to make of this guy, i have been reading him for a while,his discourse is fasinating if nothing else...you decide.-mobythor/ The following may possibly be related to my 3/22/3 story "The Overthrow of the American Republic", Part 30: A U.S. airman, reportedly a Muslim, serving at a highly secure rear airbase in Kuwait, was arrested as a suspect in having fired guns and hurled hand grenades into the tents of his commanding officers, wounding several of them. |
