Post American
20050228
Bush Treason In Spy Whorehouse
"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? "
http://www.rense.com/general63/nix.htm
"They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them."
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide
http://thebosh.com/archives/2005/02/hunter_s_thomps.php
"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
Hunter S. Thompson was working on an expose of the homosexual pedophile underground which permeates the MSM, Washington, DC, & BOTH political parties, a la the Franklin Coverup scandal of the 80's & 90's.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=94
Kingpin, Jeff Gannon, stayed upstairs with Bush. Reportedly, CBS White House boss John Roberts and Matt Drudge are implicated.
The other purported picture shows Jeff Gannon naked next to George W. Bush likewise naked. This picture to some is very questioable on the basis it may be too good to be true. On the other hand, some dissident flag officers in the Military contend that some dissidents in the U.S. Secret Service who are fed up with Bush's sordid activities, somehow arranged the clandestine picture.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gad.htm
Gannon alias Gosch received reportedly directly from George W. Bush in the White House and/or right nearby, the secret American CIA records used to blow the cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The result was that some of the 70 CIA penetration agents, supervised by Plame, operating in countries very hostile to the U.S. were identified and murdered. Blowing the cover of Plame was a reprisal against her husband, a former U.S. Ambassador who criticized George W. Bush.
Is Dubya in the closet?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6318.shtml
Perhaps Bush, like other public homophobes, decries the gay life because of yet another secret in his sordid past. Maybe booze and cocaine wasn’t the only thing our President stuffed into an available orifice.
"And we'll prevail, because we're a faaabulous nation, and we're a faaabulous nation because we're a nation full of faaabulous people."
-- George W. Bush
http://www.bettybowers.com/isbushgay.html
"Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House."
http://www.tarpley.net/bush21.htm
She indicates that she set [sic] at a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent.
Crazy, yes. But crazy enough to be true?
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/02/crazy-yes-but-crazy-enough-to-be-true.html
Deadliest single insurgent attack of war
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/28/iraq.main/index.html
A suicide car bomber Monday morning drove into a crowd of people outside a government medical office in Hilla, killing at least 125 and wounding 200 others. One Report Says up to 300 Dead.
Wary Iran readies for guerrilla war if U.S. invades
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05058/462990.stm
Iran has begun publicly preparing for a possible U.S. military attack, announcing efforts to mobilize recruits in citizens' militias and making plans to engage in the type of "asymetrical" guerrilla warfare which has bogged down American troops in neighboring Iraq.
Pentagon announces death of Navy doctor at Guantanamo Bay
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/nation/10965052.htm
Ten months after the fact, the Pentagon Tuesday disclosed the death of a Navy doctor at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
It's Called Torture
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/opinion/28herbert.html?hp&oref=login
As a nation, does the United States have a conscience? Or is anything and everything O.K. in post-9/11 America? If torture and the denial of due process are O.K., why not murder? When the government can just make people vanish - which it can, and which it does - where is the line that we, as a nation, dare not cross?
Relatives of Iraqis tortured by British soldiers revealed last night how they were also arrested and brutally beaten simply for asking questions.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=615205
Muthanar Jaseem Mahmud, 22, was crouching on the ground, blood pouring from his head, holding one broken distended arm with another. This was the result, he claims, of being beaten with a metal rod. Others were limping around, victims of a day of severe beatings and abuse which had been undertaken by troops engaged in Operation Ali Baba to hunt looters of precious humanitarian supplies.
Q Has the President ever issued an order against torture of prisoners? And do we still send prisoners to Syria to be tortured?
MR. McCLELLAN: The President has stated publicly that we do not condone torture and that he would never authorize the use of torture. He has made that --
Q But has he issued an order?
MR. McCLELLAN: -- statement very publicly, and he's made it clear to everybody in the government that we do not torture.
Q Well, why do we still hear these stories then?
MR. McCLELLAN: If there are allegations of wrongdoing, then the President expects those allegations to be fully investigated and if there is actual wrongdoing that occurs, then people need to be held to account. The President has made that very clear.
Q Well, do you deny that we still send prisoners to other countries to be tortured? Is that a denial?
MR. McCLELLAN: Judge Gonzales testified previously that we have an obligation not to render people to countries that we know would torture them.
Q He did not rule out torture.
MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, David.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050228-8.html
Bliar: Hundreds Planning Terror Attacks in Britain
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4189103
"And these will be restrictions on their liberty that we will use only in the most limited circumstances. But we genuinely believe that they are necessary in order to protect the country."
Israel reportedly planning nuke reactor
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050228-102618-6881r
Israel refuses to submit its nuclear facilities, including the Daimona plant in the Negev Desert, to inspection and control by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Israel pushes U.S. on Iran nuke solution
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2005/02/21/World/Israel.Pushes.U.On.Iran.Nuke.Solution-871601.shtml
Military analysts say the United States "would have no problem" taking out Iran's major nuclear facilities should it decide to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Explosion reported near Iran nuke site
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42885
State TV announces missile sightings, but later says fuel tank fell from plane
U.S. Plans to Expand TV Broadcasts to Iran
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7763181
The regime is seeking money for the expanded telecast in Bush's $81 billion supplemental budget request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other U.S. efforts abroad.
THE IRAN GAME PLAN
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=64506
...the only really logical approach would be to sacrifice some of Israel. Possible scenario: Israel takes out some of the Iranian reactors; the Iranians respond with a shinny new Russian missile that is lobed over to Israel (taking out a good part of Palestine. Two birds with one stone, can't beat it!). We saber rattle, giving the Israelis the green light to respond in-kind.
The desired synthesis of "Chaos" ensues, and we parlay with Russia to both jointly occupy Iran as well as divvying up the oil swag like all good swashbucklers do.
Once again, Israel has been caught with spies at the highest levels of the US Government.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.html
Once again Israel denies wrongdoing, or faced with incontrovertible evidence (in this case one of the spies has reportedly cooperated with the FBI) dismisses the spying with the claim that such spying is harmless, because Israel and the United States are such good friends.
US arrests 200 young Israelis in spying investigation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/07/wspy07.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/03/07/ixworld.html
There is no evidence linking these arrests to the September 11 attacks although some intelligence commentators have pointed to allegations that Israel may have been shadowing Arab militants in America without sharing its knowledge with Washington.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."-- US official
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring
Top U.S. Army analysts believe Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, is "ruthless and cunning," "a wildcard" that "has [the] capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."
http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_26_01/U_S__Army_Officers_Say___Mossa/u_s__army_officers_say___mossa.html
This eye-opening assertion about America's supposed closest ally was reported in a front page story in The Washington Times on September 10-just one day before the terrorist attacks in America that are being blamed on "Arabs."
This might be a good time to review the history of the Lavon affair.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lavon.html
Who is responsible for the World Trade Towers attacks? We truly do not know. What we do know beyond all doubt is that someone went to a great deal of effort to provide an easy and at times all-too-obvious a target to blame. Our nation was fooled by that stunt before. The result was that our money and the blood of our children was spent to attack someone else's enemies.
The only people who benefited from this bombing are extreme right-wingers in Israel who don't want any concessions made to advance the peace process.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/02/everybody-did-it.html
Israel bombing perpetrators still a mystery
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/news/ci_2588356
Israelis blame Syria, Palestinians blame Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad claims responsibility
Israel says truce over with Islamic Jihad after Tel Aviv blast
http://www3.turkishpress.com/w.asp?s=i&i=050226225857.s3z827h1
...in the same day Israel claims that Syria was behind the blast and is threatening to invade them?
Israel Threatens to Attack Syria after Nightclub Bomb
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=5427
Syria and Iran is more close to an Israel-American attack, news sources claim after yesterday's Tel Aviv explosion. The terror groups blamed, rejected the responsibility, so Syria is in the row for blame which will be followed by Iran some analysts claim
Israel 'To Show Damascus Guilt'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4301851.stm
Israel has insisted that Syria was behind Friday's suicide bomb in Tel Aviv that killed five people.
SYRIA DENIES BOMBING ROLE
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=106129®ion=6
The Syrian foreign ministry instead accused Israel of trying to sabotage the Middle East peace process.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said Israel is escalating military measures and would freeze peace efforts after a Tel Aviv suicide bombing unless Palestinians smashed militant groups.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=680777
Israel also pointed a finger at Syria for the attack. Sharon said leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad faction in Syria had ordered the bombing outside a Tel Aviv nightclub that killed four Israelis.
Lebanon's Syrian-backed government collapsed Monday, piling more pressure on Damascus, already under fire from the United States and Israel.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050228/2005-02-28T181940Z_01_L28051548_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SYRIA-DC.html
Israel says Syria-based leaders of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad ordered the bombing and, since it hosts them, the Syrian government therefore shares responsibility.
US welcomes resignation of pro-Syrian Lebanese government
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&u=/afp/20050228/pl_afp/lebanonpoliticsus_050228190432&printer=1
"The process of (forming) a new government should proceed in accordance with the Lebanese constitution and should be free of all foreign interference," the White House spokesman said.
The message from Washington could not be clearer: damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. The financial implications of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan will not be lost on China, whose purchases of US debt are financing so much of the government’s deficit, and the strategic implications of its runaway military budget will not be lost on the other powers, who can only look at the financial and military mess in Iraq and shrug. After nearly four years of trying, the US has yet to score a real success in its War on Terror. It needs one badly, no matter what the price.
http://www.sandersresearch.com/sanders/newsmanager/shownewsgen.aspx?newsid=848
Pity poor Lebanon in the cross fire.
Syria has come under intense scrutiny following Hariri's death, with many in Lebanon blaming Damascus and Beirut's pro-Syrian government for the killing. The United States and France also have called on Damascus to withdraw 15,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1WQZKP5E.html
Washington has long accused Syria of harboring and aiding former members of Saddam's toppled Baathist regime suspected of involvement in the deadly insurgency against U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
Bin Laden Urges Zarqawi to Hit U.S.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148999,00.html
Zarqawi, the leader of "Al Qaeda" in Iraq and believed to be the inspiration of the ongoing bombings, beheadings and attacks on Iraqi and American forces, pledged his alliance to bin Laden last year and changed the name of his group in Iraq to reflect his ties to Al Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda Mocks Iraqi Claims That Noose Is Tightening on Zarqawi
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20050227/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestzarqawideny
Iraq's most wanted man, Zarqawi has a 25-million-dollar US reward for his death or capture. He has also been sentenced to death in absentia in his native Jordan for the murder of a US diplomat.
CIA-Mossad Mercenaries Stage 'Al-Qaeda' Beheadings
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=94&contentid=1344
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:The Dead Voice of "al Qaeda" in Iraq
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/zarqawi_woodenleg.html
How US fuelled myth of Zarqawi the mastermind
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/04/wirq04.xml
Intelligence reports are contradictory even on whether he is missing a leg.
Usama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead
It's been 1,260 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!' ¶ 28.2.05 1 Comments
http://www.rense.com/general63/nix.htm
"They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them."
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide
http://thebosh.com/archives/2005/02/hunter_s_thomps.php
"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
Hunter S. Thompson was working on an expose of the homosexual pedophile underground which permeates the MSM, Washington, DC, & BOTH political parties, a la the Franklin Coverup scandal of the 80's & 90's.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=94
Kingpin, Jeff Gannon, stayed upstairs with Bush. Reportedly, CBS White House boss John Roberts and Matt Drudge are implicated.
The other purported picture shows Jeff Gannon naked next to George W. Bush likewise naked. This picture to some is very questioable on the basis it may be too good to be true. On the other hand, some dissident flag officers in the Military contend that some dissidents in the U.S. Secret Service who are fed up with Bush's sordid activities, somehow arranged the clandestine picture.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gad.htm
Gannon alias Gosch received reportedly directly from George W. Bush in the White House and/or right nearby, the secret American CIA records used to blow the cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The result was that some of the 70 CIA penetration agents, supervised by Plame, operating in countries very hostile to the U.S. were identified and murdered. Blowing the cover of Plame was a reprisal against her husband, a former U.S. Ambassador who criticized George W. Bush.
Is Dubya in the closet?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6318.shtml
Perhaps Bush, like other public homophobes, decries the gay life because of yet another secret in his sordid past. Maybe booze and cocaine wasn’t the only thing our President stuffed into an available orifice.
"And we'll prevail, because we're a faaabulous nation, and we're a faaabulous nation because we're a nation full of faaabulous people."
-- George W. Bush
http://www.bettybowers.com/isbushgay.html
"Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House."
http://www.tarpley.net/bush21.htm
She indicates that she set [sic] at a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent.
Crazy, yes. But crazy enough to be true?
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/02/crazy-yes-but-crazy-enough-to-be-true.html
Deadliest single insurgent attack of war
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/28/iraq.main/index.html
A suicide car bomber Monday morning drove into a crowd of people outside a government medical office in Hilla, killing at least 125 and wounding 200 others. One Report Says up to 300 Dead.
Wary Iran readies for guerrilla war if U.S. invades
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05058/462990.stm
Iran has begun publicly preparing for a possible U.S. military attack, announcing efforts to mobilize recruits in citizens' militias and making plans to engage in the type of "asymetrical" guerrilla warfare which has bogged down American troops in neighboring Iraq.
Pentagon announces death of Navy doctor at Guantanamo Bay
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/nation/10965052.htm
Ten months after the fact, the Pentagon Tuesday disclosed the death of a Navy doctor at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
It's Called Torture
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/opinion/28herbert.html?hp&oref=login
As a nation, does the United States have a conscience? Or is anything and everything O.K. in post-9/11 America? If torture and the denial of due process are O.K., why not murder? When the government can just make people vanish - which it can, and which it does - where is the line that we, as a nation, dare not cross?
Relatives of Iraqis tortured by British soldiers revealed last night how they were also arrested and brutally beaten simply for asking questions.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=615205
Muthanar Jaseem Mahmud, 22, was crouching on the ground, blood pouring from his head, holding one broken distended arm with another. This was the result, he claims, of being beaten with a metal rod. Others were limping around, victims of a day of severe beatings and abuse which had been undertaken by troops engaged in Operation Ali Baba to hunt looters of precious humanitarian supplies.
Q Has the President ever issued an order against torture of prisoners? And do we still send prisoners to Syria to be tortured?
MR. McCLELLAN: The President has stated publicly that we do not condone torture and that he would never authorize the use of torture. He has made that --
Q But has he issued an order?
MR. McCLELLAN: -- statement very publicly, and he's made it clear to everybody in the government that we do not torture.
Q Well, why do we still hear these stories then?
MR. McCLELLAN: If there are allegations of wrongdoing, then the President expects those allegations to be fully investigated and if there is actual wrongdoing that occurs, then people need to be held to account. The President has made that very clear.
Q Well, do you deny that we still send prisoners to other countries to be tortured? Is that a denial?
MR. McCLELLAN: Judge Gonzales testified previously that we have an obligation not to render people to countries that we know would torture them.
Q He did not rule out torture.
MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, David.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050228-8.html
Bliar: Hundreds Planning Terror Attacks in Britain
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4189103
"And these will be restrictions on their liberty that we will use only in the most limited circumstances. But we genuinely believe that they are necessary in order to protect the country."
Israel reportedly planning nuke reactor
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050228-102618-6881r
Israel refuses to submit its nuclear facilities, including the Daimona plant in the Negev Desert, to inspection and control by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Israel pushes U.S. on Iran nuke solution
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2005/02/21/World/Israel.Pushes.U.On.Iran.Nuke.Solution-871601.shtml
Military analysts say the United States "would have no problem" taking out Iran's major nuclear facilities should it decide to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Explosion reported near Iran nuke site
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42885
State TV announces missile sightings, but later says fuel tank fell from plane
U.S. Plans to Expand TV Broadcasts to Iran
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7763181
The regime is seeking money for the expanded telecast in Bush's $81 billion supplemental budget request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other U.S. efforts abroad.
THE IRAN GAME PLAN
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=64506
...the only really logical approach would be to sacrifice some of Israel. Possible scenario: Israel takes out some of the Iranian reactors; the Iranians respond with a shinny new Russian missile that is lobed over to Israel (taking out a good part of Palestine. Two birds with one stone, can't beat it!). We saber rattle, giving the Israelis the green light to respond in-kind.
The desired synthesis of "Chaos" ensues, and we parlay with Russia to both jointly occupy Iran as well as divvying up the oil swag like all good swashbucklers do.
Once again, Israel has been caught with spies at the highest levels of the US Government.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.html
Once again Israel denies wrongdoing, or faced with incontrovertible evidence (in this case one of the spies has reportedly cooperated with the FBI) dismisses the spying with the claim that such spying is harmless, because Israel and the United States are such good friends.
US arrests 200 young Israelis in spying investigation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/07/wspy07.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/03/07/ixworld.html
There is no evidence linking these arrests to the September 11 attacks although some intelligence commentators have pointed to allegations that Israel may have been shadowing Arab militants in America without sharing its knowledge with Washington.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."-- US official
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring
Top U.S. Army analysts believe Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, is "ruthless and cunning," "a wildcard" that "has [the] capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."
http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_26_01/U_S__Army_Officers_Say___Mossa/u_s__army_officers_say___mossa.html
This eye-opening assertion about America's supposed closest ally was reported in a front page story in The Washington Times on September 10-just one day before the terrorist attacks in America that are being blamed on "Arabs."
This might be a good time to review the history of the Lavon affair.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lavon.html
Who is responsible for the World Trade Towers attacks? We truly do not know. What we do know beyond all doubt is that someone went to a great deal of effort to provide an easy and at times all-too-obvious a target to blame. Our nation was fooled by that stunt before. The result was that our money and the blood of our children was spent to attack someone else's enemies.
The only people who benefited from this bombing are extreme right-wingers in Israel who don't want any concessions made to advance the peace process.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/02/everybody-did-it.html
Israel bombing perpetrators still a mystery
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/news/ci_2588356
Israelis blame Syria, Palestinians blame Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad claims responsibility
Israel says truce over with Islamic Jihad after Tel Aviv blast
http://www3.turkishpress.com/w.asp?s=i&i=050226225857.s3z827h1
...in the same day Israel claims that Syria was behind the blast and is threatening to invade them?
Israel Threatens to Attack Syria after Nightclub Bomb
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=5427
Syria and Iran is more close to an Israel-American attack, news sources claim after yesterday's Tel Aviv explosion. The terror groups blamed, rejected the responsibility, so Syria is in the row for blame which will be followed by Iran some analysts claim
Israel 'To Show Damascus Guilt'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4301851.stm
Israel has insisted that Syria was behind Friday's suicide bomb in Tel Aviv that killed five people.
SYRIA DENIES BOMBING ROLE
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=106129®ion=6
The Syrian foreign ministry instead accused Israel of trying to sabotage the Middle East peace process.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said Israel is escalating military measures and would freeze peace efforts after a Tel Aviv suicide bombing unless Palestinians smashed militant groups.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=680777
Israel also pointed a finger at Syria for the attack. Sharon said leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad faction in Syria had ordered the bombing outside a Tel Aviv nightclub that killed four Israelis.
Lebanon's Syrian-backed government collapsed Monday, piling more pressure on Damascus, already under fire from the United States and Israel.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050228/2005-02-28T181940Z_01_L28051548_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SYRIA-DC.html
Israel says Syria-based leaders of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad ordered the bombing and, since it hosts them, the Syrian government therefore shares responsibility.
US welcomes resignation of pro-Syrian Lebanese government
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&u=/afp/20050228/pl_afp/lebanonpoliticsus_050228190432&printer=1
"The process of (forming) a new government should proceed in accordance with the Lebanese constitution and should be free of all foreign interference," the White House spokesman said.
The message from Washington could not be clearer: damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. The financial implications of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan will not be lost on China, whose purchases of US debt are financing so much of the government’s deficit, and the strategic implications of its runaway military budget will not be lost on the other powers, who can only look at the financial and military mess in Iraq and shrug. After nearly four years of trying, the US has yet to score a real success in its War on Terror. It needs one badly, no matter what the price.
http://www.sandersresearch.com/sanders/newsmanager/shownewsgen.aspx?newsid=848
Pity poor Lebanon in the cross fire.
Syria has come under intense scrutiny following Hariri's death, with many in Lebanon blaming Damascus and Beirut's pro-Syrian government for the killing. The United States and France also have called on Damascus to withdraw 15,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1WQZKP5E.html
Washington has long accused Syria of harboring and aiding former members of Saddam's toppled Baathist regime suspected of involvement in the deadly insurgency against U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
Bin Laden Urges Zarqawi to Hit U.S.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148999,00.html
Zarqawi, the leader of "Al Qaeda" in Iraq and believed to be the inspiration of the ongoing bombings, beheadings and attacks on Iraqi and American forces, pledged his alliance to bin Laden last year and changed the name of his group in Iraq to reflect his ties to Al Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda Mocks Iraqi Claims That Noose Is Tightening on Zarqawi
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20050227/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestzarqawideny
Iraq's most wanted man, Zarqawi has a 25-million-dollar US reward for his death or capture. He has also been sentenced to death in absentia in his native Jordan for the murder of a US diplomat.
CIA-Mossad Mercenaries Stage 'Al-Qaeda' Beheadings
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=94&contentid=1344
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:The Dead Voice of "al Qaeda" in Iraq
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/zarqawi_woodenleg.html
How US fuelled myth of Zarqawi the mastermind
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/04/wirq04.xml
Intelligence reports are contradictory even on whether he is missing a leg.
Usama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead
It's been 1,260 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!' ¶ 28.2.05 1 Comments
20050226
You think an Israeli club let an Arab in on Friday evening?
Mixed Picture in Israeli Nightclub Bombing
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/apress_022605_israelbombing.html
You know, the bombing that happened just when the media was starting to pay attention to the 6000 new homes Sharon is building in the West Bank. The bombing that happened just in time to counter the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to halt construction on Sharon's wall. The bombing that happened just as the UN was (once again) protesting over Israeli warplanes invading Lebanese air space. The bombing that happened just in time to take the story of the settler deliberately running over Palestinian children off the news wires.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a "third party" of orchestrating a suicide bombing in Israel to sabotage the Mideast peace process, and his security officials claimed the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah was involved.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/5076.htm
But in Beirut, Hezbollah denied the accusations, and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility from Lebanon, reversing earlier denials by its members in the territories. Israel also pointed to Islamic Jihad.
Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility for Bombing
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7745624
Al-Aqsa Brigades claims Tel Aviv suicide attack
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/134526/1/.html
Responsibility for bomb attack against Tel Aviv disco denied by Palestinians
Israel: Syria, Iran Terrorism Behind Tel Aviv Bombing
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/terrorismisraelsyriapalestinians6870226.html
A Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at the entrance of a nightclub near Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade tonight, murdering at least five people and wounding dozens. The Arab terror suicide bomber, suspected by Israel officials of working with operatives in Syria and Iran, destroyed the fragile Middle East peace agreement put into place by Israel, Jordan and Egypt.
Frame-up for Tel aviv bombing shifts to Lebanon
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050225/w022579.html
"Okay, here's what happened. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the UAE, Lebanon, Libya, umm, yeah, all those Arab places, they all took up a collection, yesh, that's it, a collection, and they HIRED a Palestinian bomber to bomb that place in Tel Aviv. Yeah, that's the ticket, all those Arab places paid for the hit. Right. And, and, and, and, you Americans have to bomb all those people right now!"
Hizbollah Denies Role in Tel Aviv Bombing
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=533613
Frame-up for Tel-Aviv bombing shifts from Paletinians to HAMAS
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=8855&lang=en
ISRAELI ROOTS OF HAMAS ARCHIVE
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_hamas.html
Not all enemies of Israel are what they appear to be.
Israeli Terrorism and the Framing of Muslims
http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/framing.html
Israel purposely manufactured false evidence of Arab terrorism tricking the US to go to war against an innocent nation, as related by a former Mossad agent in his book.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring ¶ 26.2.05 0 Comments
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/apress_022605_israelbombing.html
You know, the bombing that happened just when the media was starting to pay attention to the 6000 new homes Sharon is building in the West Bank. The bombing that happened just in time to counter the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to halt construction on Sharon's wall. The bombing that happened just as the UN was (once again) protesting over Israeli warplanes invading Lebanese air space. The bombing that happened just in time to take the story of the settler deliberately running over Palestinian children off the news wires.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a "third party" of orchestrating a suicide bombing in Israel to sabotage the Mideast peace process, and his security officials claimed the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah was involved.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/5076.htm
But in Beirut, Hezbollah denied the accusations, and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility from Lebanon, reversing earlier denials by its members in the territories. Israel also pointed to Islamic Jihad.
Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility for Bombing
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7745624
Al-Aqsa Brigades claims Tel Aviv suicide attack
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/134526/1/.html
Responsibility for bomb attack against Tel Aviv disco denied by Palestinians
Israel: Syria, Iran Terrorism Behind Tel Aviv Bombing
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/terrorismisraelsyriapalestinians6870226.html
A Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at the entrance of a nightclub near Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade tonight, murdering at least five people and wounding dozens. The Arab terror suicide bomber, suspected by Israel officials of working with operatives in Syria and Iran, destroyed the fragile Middle East peace agreement put into place by Israel, Jordan and Egypt.
Frame-up for Tel aviv bombing shifts to Lebanon
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050225/w022579.html
"Okay, here's what happened. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the UAE, Lebanon, Libya, umm, yeah, all those Arab places, they all took up a collection, yesh, that's it, a collection, and they HIRED a Palestinian bomber to bomb that place in Tel Aviv. Yeah, that's the ticket, all those Arab places paid for the hit. Right. And, and, and, and, you Americans have to bomb all those people right now!"
Hizbollah Denies Role in Tel Aviv Bombing
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=533613
Frame-up for Tel-Aviv bombing shifts from Paletinians to HAMAS
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=8855&lang=en
ISRAELI ROOTS OF HAMAS ARCHIVE
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_hamas.html
Not all enemies of Israel are what they appear to be.
Israeli Terrorism and the Framing of Muslims
http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/framing.html
Israel purposely manufactured false evidence of Arab terrorism tricking the US to go to war against an innocent nation, as related by a former Mossad agent in his book.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring ¶ 26.2.05 0 Comments
20050225
Tar and Feathers ?
How long can Bush get away with lies?
http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel25.html
You can still get away with the "big lie" as long as Karl Rove and his team of spinners keep providing persuasive rationalizations. The American public is still supine, uneasy about the war, but not willing yet to turn decisively against it. Will that still be the case next year when we "celebrate" the third anniversary of the war? Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Who convinced the president that our democracy depends on a worldwide crusade?http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_28/buchanan.html
Giddy with excitement, the neocons are falling all over one another to hail the president. They are not conservatives at all. They are anti-conservatives, and their crusade for democracy will end as did Wilson’s, in disillusionment for the president and tragedy for this country.
Putin loses his smile after lecture from Bush on democracy
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=614535
"Democracies always reflect a country's customs and culture, and I know that," Mr Bush said. "Yet democracies have certain things in common; they have a rule of law, and protection of minorities, a free press, and a viable political opposition."
... with US troops in Iraq between Iran and Israel, and with Russian assets purportedly on the ground in Iran, an Israeli strike seems intended not so much to destroy a power generating station as to throw the US and Russia into a war with each other.
Iran has dismissed Israeli allegations that it is close to developing a nuclear weapon, saying the accusations are designed to shift attention away from Israel's own large non-conventional arsenal and its "terror" against Palestinians.
http://www.spacewar.com/news/iran-05l.html
Israel itself has never publicly acknowledged that it has any nuclear weapons but foreign experts say it has used a reactor at Dimona in the southern Negev desert to produce between 100 and 200 warheads.
Iran is way different than Iraq http://www.sanfordherald.com/articles/2005/02/24/news/editorial/edit08.txt
The Bush administration is making the same mistakes with Iran that it made with Iraq. It makes allegations unsupported by facts, refuses to negotiate and threatens sanctions or military action, neither of which is feasible. In short, it has no rational Iran policy.
US Military, President Out of Control -- What Does "Mildly Radioactive" Mean, Anyway?http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15814.shtml
Delicate lung cells of 19 year old American troopers and 60-year-old Iraqi “guerrillas” don't have the ability to "spin" what is turning them into infection, pus and cancer.
Armed Rebels Blocked the Main Road, Connecting Baghdad to Southern Regions of Iraq http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=58552&ch=0&datte=2005-02-25
A roadside bomb blast killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded eight others north of Iraq's capital Friday, the military said.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/25/022506098.html
At least 1,489 members of the U.S. military had died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
US Will Arm Militants To Rebel Against Elected Shi`ite leadership http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html
Democratic Terrorists?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7025012/site/newsweek/
MSNBC, without so much as a second of shame for the lies they told to start a war in Iraq, start whipping up the frenzy to send your kids off to Lebanon.
The Media
http://electroniciraq.net/news/1886.shtml
There is a structural relationship between media and state power. They are closely linked. Who are the media? Not just in the United States, but around the world, they're a handful of corporations that dominate what people see, hear, and read. They have been able to manufacture consent, particularly in the United States, for imperialist wars of aggression. ¶ 25.2.05 0 Comments
http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel25.html
You can still get away with the "big lie" as long as Karl Rove and his team of spinners keep providing persuasive rationalizations. The American public is still supine, uneasy about the war, but not willing yet to turn decisively against it. Will that still be the case next year when we "celebrate" the third anniversary of the war? Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Who convinced the president that our democracy depends on a worldwide crusade?http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_28/buchanan.html
Giddy with excitement, the neocons are falling all over one another to hail the president. They are not conservatives at all. They are anti-conservatives, and their crusade for democracy will end as did Wilson’s, in disillusionment for the president and tragedy for this country.
Putin loses his smile after lecture from Bush on democracy
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=614535
"Democracies always reflect a country's customs and culture, and I know that," Mr Bush said. "Yet democracies have certain things in common; they have a rule of law, and protection of minorities, a free press, and a viable political opposition."
... with US troops in Iraq between Iran and Israel, and with Russian assets purportedly on the ground in Iran, an Israeli strike seems intended not so much to destroy a power generating station as to throw the US and Russia into a war with each other.
Iran has dismissed Israeli allegations that it is close to developing a nuclear weapon, saying the accusations are designed to shift attention away from Israel's own large non-conventional arsenal and its "terror" against Palestinians.
http://www.spacewar.com/news/iran-05l.html
Israel itself has never publicly acknowledged that it has any nuclear weapons but foreign experts say it has used a reactor at Dimona in the southern Negev desert to produce between 100 and 200 warheads.
Iran is way different than Iraq http://www.sanfordherald.com/articles/2005/02/24/news/editorial/edit08.txt
The Bush administration is making the same mistakes with Iran that it made with Iraq. It makes allegations unsupported by facts, refuses to negotiate and threatens sanctions or military action, neither of which is feasible. In short, it has no rational Iran policy.
US Military, President Out of Control -- What Does "Mildly Radioactive" Mean, Anyway?http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15814.shtml
Delicate lung cells of 19 year old American troopers and 60-year-old Iraqi “guerrillas” don't have the ability to "spin" what is turning them into infection, pus and cancer.
Armed Rebels Blocked the Main Road, Connecting Baghdad to Southern Regions of Iraq http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=58552&ch=0&datte=2005-02-25
A roadside bomb blast killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded eight others north of Iraq's capital Friday, the military said.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/25/022506098.html
At least 1,489 members of the U.S. military had died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
US Will Arm Militants To Rebel Against Elected Shi`ite leadership http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html
Democratic Terrorists?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7025012/site/newsweek/
MSNBC, without so much as a second of shame for the lies they told to start a war in Iraq, start whipping up the frenzy to send your kids off to Lebanon.
The Media
http://electroniciraq.net/news/1886.shtml
There is a structural relationship between media and state power. They are closely linked. Who are the media? Not just in the United States, but around the world, they're a handful of corporations that dominate what people see, hear, and read. They have been able to manufacture consent, particularly in the United States, for imperialist wars of aggression. ¶ 25.2.05 0 Comments
20050224
Good blogs are Open Source News
Bush: World Must Gang Up On Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/international/europe/23cnd-prex.html?ex=1109826000&en=e9237b5235681da5&ei=5070
Bush Says United Front Is Essential to Curb Iran
Iranian distrust of America is 50 years in the making
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050222/opcom22.art.htm
The recent revelation of secret U.S. reconnaissance missions inside Iran and President Bush's inaugural speech, which included his promise to end tyranny around the world, brought back memories for me and many Iranians. Those recollections include a coup d'état in 1953 that led to a distrust of America that lingers today.
Iranians Depict American 'Den of Spies'
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=508478&page=1
Although this museum has been around in some form since the hostages were released, it has been updated to include derogatory pictures of George Bush, shown drowning in one depiction along with Israel's Ariel Sharon. There is a new exhibit on the war in Iraq and the mistreatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison.
The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48522-2005Feb23?language=printer
"This is a military order on a global scale, something that hasn't existed since World War II."
Syria Committed to Withdraw From Lebanon
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/24/022403954.html
In the wake of Hariri's Feb. 14 assassination, the Bush administration has issued strong calls for Syria to withdraw completely from Lebanon, where Damascus has about 15,000 troops. The Americans have also said Syria should remove its intelligence agents, but there was no sign of such a move.
The Syrian intelligence officer who appeared on the U.S.-funded Iraqi state television station had a stark message about the insurgency - he'd helped train people to build car bombs and behead people.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/24/022403735.html
The videos were broadcast as the Bush administration steps up pressure on Syria to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs by allowing insurgents to cross into the country to fight coalition troops and by harboring former Iraqi regime members. Syria has denied the charges.
Fear of Death Omnipresent in Baghdad
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/24/022404290.html
Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion, and almost a month after elections, Baghdad remains a terrifying place.
George W.M.D. Bush today hailed images of “jubilant Iraqis dancing in the streets last month, holding up ink-stained fingers.”“
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3bp.htm
In recent times, we have witnessed landmark events in the history of liberty: A Rose Revolution in Georgia, an Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and now, a Purple Revolution in Iraq.”
Also drawing U.S. alarm are Putin's attempts to influence elections in Ukraine, Russian arms sales to Syria and the Kremlin's close ties to Iran.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050224&cat=news&st=newsd88f0ndo0&src=ap
High on Bush's agenda for the meeting were his concerns over Putin's moves to solidify his power and clamp down on civil and press liberties.
Lives more important than liberties says Bliar
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16847543?version=1
The most controversial powers, being kept in reserve, could see suspects held without trial in their homes or in Government accommodation.
Geroge W. Bush taught three Oregon schoolteachers a new lesson in irony – or tragedy – Thursday night when his campaign removed them from a Bush speech and threatened them with arrest simply for wearing t-shirts that said “Protect Our Civil Liberties.”
http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view^3Far_id^3D18712.htm
Three Medford-area schoolteachers Janet Voorhees, Candice Julian, and Tania Tong were ejected from a Bush rally in Central Point, Oregon for wearing these shirts, which Bush event staff called “obscene.”
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
Media is the front line of the corporate system. And media transmits the values, sells the products. All of this is about selling, not telling. The tradition of journalism is being eroded. And in its place we have impressions, images, archetypes, icons, celebrities and the like. This is how public opinion is now being massaged and manipulated. The war was a testing ground, not only for new weapons systems and techniques, but also for new communications strategies.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/02/int05010.html
...our media became a weapons systems targeted at us. Usually in war propaganda you try and confuse the enemy. In our case, this propaganda infiltrated very skillfully back into American and global public opinion, and it was done with the help of Hollywood producers, and corporate PR people brought in to help out at the Pentagon.
Hard Questions About White House Media Manipulation
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=83323&lftnav=talkingpoints
Perhaps President Putin should press President Bush about his own media abuse and manipulation at home. The White House record of corruption continues to grow: paid journalists acting as administration shills; fake news stories produced by government agencies; and now partisan GOP "newsman" James Guckert (who works under the false name Jeff Gannon to cover up his second life as an Internet prostitute) gaining access to the White House press office and potentially sensitive national security information.
The Case of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali. The Latest Revelation of the Bush Cartel Stalinesque Gulag.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/opinion/24thu2.html?
In an undisciplined attempt to wring statements out of any conceivable suspect, American officials have worked with countries like Saudi Arabia, a nation whose attitude toward human rights is deplorable, and Syria, which is counted by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism. And now these officials are faced with the problem of what to do with these prisoners, most of whom have proved to be no use to interrogators, but who remain on America's conscience.
US Army Reports New Detainee Procedures
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-24-voa2.cfm
The U.S. military says it has implemented new procedures to ensure that detainees are not abused, as they were at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and allegedly at other U.S. military detention facilities. Officials say allegations of abuse by army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in 308 criminal investigations.
War Crimes
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0508,hentoff,61345,6.html
Congress dozes while detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured
Torture Nation
http://www.counterpunch.org/wright02242005.html
Meanwhile, we live under one-party domination with an enfeebled "opposition" party trying to appeal to the snake-handling and clinic-burning crowd before the next election. And the U.S. military is in Iraq, not to spread the virtues of punch-card voting or high-fructose corn syrup, but to dominate the planet's central energy supplies. This it will do by any means necessary, employing torture, leveling more Fallujahs, or whichever atrocities people will accept back in the "homeland."
At least 15 people, including two U.S. soldiers, were killed in blasts today across Iraq, U.S. military and Iraqi political officials said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ask7Ns1HPXbg&refer=top_world_news
As many as 18,339 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence, according to a tally by Iraq Body Count, a London-based group that opposes the war and compiles its casualty toll from media reports and official statements?
Dropping Report's Iraq Chapter Was Unusual, Economists Say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45323-2005Feb22.html?referrer=emailarticle
Concern About Impact on White House's Credibility Cited
Reports Question Blair's Steps to War
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=526518
The demands came after The Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 television reported that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned the government in a written report on March 7, 2003, that an invasion of Iraq could be deemed illegal.
Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm
...despite threatening war against Iraq for developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological weapons -- which the nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: 'New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal', biological -- will be more widely available ... combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool';
l and pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes and says their existence justifies the creation of a 'world-wide command-and-control system'.
Few tears will be shed when Saddam Hussein's rule meets its rightful end. But we err when we assume that deposing a dictator is in itself a noble act. We have deposed many dictators in the past, and replaced them with equal tyrants who we cloaked in the now-tired rhetoric of democracy. For this reason we have earned the skepticism with which the world now views us. In the Persian Gulf, ours is a history without honor, and our cause has rarely been just. They who would bury more men in the Middle East owe us far more than bluster. Thus the onus is on the Bush Administration. They owe us evidence, and if they want their war taken seriously, they owe us as well a reckoning--an acknowledgement of past crimes and a plan that shows us something meaningfully better.
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=225
These, of course, likely will not come. But the war will. It has ever been thus; the powerful have never lacked the capacity for betrayal. Nor the powerless for broken hearts.
For many 9/11 families, one more heartbreak
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7022540/
Out of nearly 2,800 victims, fewer than 300 whole bodies were recovered.
No trace found of 1,100 WTC victims
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-wtc24.html
Since the attacks 3 1/2 years ago, the medical examiner's office identified nearly 1,600 victims, although progress had slowed considerably in recent months. The city has about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead.
Separating the Gannons from the Guckerts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6844293/#050220a
“I can’t speak to the White House vetting process,” Guckert/Gannon told CNN in the only answer he gave that even bordered on being substantive. “I suppose that they don’t - they aren’t interested in reporters’ sexual history either.” This would come as a surprise to the ABC producer/reporter in Iraq who was outed by the infamous Matt Drudge (because, as Drudge told The Washington Post, “Someone in the White House communications shop tipped me to it”) as being not only gay, but Canadian.
Bush Tells Canadian Prime Minister's Scott that He has a Prettier Face Than Bush's Scott!
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/01/con04022.html
After a small discussion about Scott's duties for the PM, Dubya said, "Well, you got a pretty face. You got a pretty face. You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott [McClellan, Bush's Press Secretary and Karl Rove's mouthpiece] anyway."
Gingrich expressed surprise that Democrats aren't piling on more on issues such as Republican contracts with conservative commentators and the White House's admission of a pro-Republican male hooker to the press corps.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3052707
"It's fair to say that in my career I would probably have found an opportunity to comment on it," Gingrich said.
Gannongate: It's worse than you think
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/23/more_gannon/index_np.html
Bush's press office gave Jim Guckert access, even knowing his only credentials were from the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA.
The Unholy Alliance Between Iran and Syria
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/cmolin/2005/cdm_02231.shtml
Hinchey suggested that presidential political mastermind Karl Rove is behind the fake documents that brought down several top executives at CBS. The controversy led to the early retirement of longtime anchor Dan Rather, many believe.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/02/22/hinchey2.htm
"Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened: It originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in the White House ... . Once they did that, then it undermined everything else about Bush's draft dodging. … That had the effect of taking the whole issue away."
Bush Gets Stoned by the World Media
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48042-2005Feb23.html
President Bush all but admits to illicit drug use for the first time. Overseas it's the stuff of headlines. At home, the U.S. press has generally downplayed the story.
On the audiotapes of George W. Bush recorded secretly by his erstwhile confidant Douglas Wead in 1999, the future President revealed how much he feared candid discussion of his personal use of marijuana and cocaine. As quoted in The New York Times, Mr. Bush vowed that no matter what rumors and facts circulated about what he did or might have done, he would doggedly decline to answer forthrightly.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18611
The poor and the black are incarcerated for using pot and coke, while the rich and the white lie to their kids (and occasionally to the voters) about those same transgressions. ¶ 24.2.05 0 Comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/international/europe/23cnd-prex.html?ex=1109826000&en=e9237b5235681da5&ei=5070
Bush Says United Front Is Essential to Curb Iran
Iranian distrust of America is 50 years in the making
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050222/opcom22.art.htm
The recent revelation of secret U.S. reconnaissance missions inside Iran and President Bush's inaugural speech, which included his promise to end tyranny around the world, brought back memories for me and many Iranians. Those recollections include a coup d'état in 1953 that led to a distrust of America that lingers today.
Iranians Depict American 'Den of Spies'
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=508478&page=1
Although this museum has been around in some form since the hostages were released, it has been updated to include derogatory pictures of George Bush, shown drowning in one depiction along with Israel's Ariel Sharon. There is a new exhibit on the war in Iraq and the mistreatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison.
The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48522-2005Feb23?language=printer
"This is a military order on a global scale, something that hasn't existed since World War II."
Syria Committed to Withdraw From Lebanon
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/24/022403954.html
In the wake of Hariri's Feb. 14 assassination, the Bush administration has issued strong calls for Syria to withdraw completely from Lebanon, where Damascus has about 15,000 troops. The Americans have also said Syria should remove its intelligence agents, but there was no sign of such a move.
The Syrian intelligence officer who appeared on the U.S.-funded Iraqi state television station had a stark message about the insurgency - he'd helped train people to build car bombs and behead people.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/24/022403735.html
The videos were broadcast as the Bush administration steps up pressure on Syria to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs by allowing insurgents to cross into the country to fight coalition troops and by harboring former Iraqi regime members. Syria has denied the charges.
Fear of Death Omnipresent in Baghdad
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/feb/24/022404290.html
Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion, and almost a month after elections, Baghdad remains a terrifying place.
George W.M.D. Bush today hailed images of “jubilant Iraqis dancing in the streets last month, holding up ink-stained fingers.”“
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3bp.htm
In recent times, we have witnessed landmark events in the history of liberty: A Rose Revolution in Georgia, an Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and now, a Purple Revolution in Iraq.”
Also drawing U.S. alarm are Putin's attempts to influence elections in Ukraine, Russian arms sales to Syria and the Kremlin's close ties to Iran.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050224&cat=news&st=newsd88f0ndo0&src=ap
High on Bush's agenda for the meeting were his concerns over Putin's moves to solidify his power and clamp down on civil and press liberties.
Lives more important than liberties says Bliar
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16847543?version=1
The most controversial powers, being kept in reserve, could see suspects held without trial in their homes or in Government accommodation.
Geroge W. Bush taught three Oregon schoolteachers a new lesson in irony – or tragedy – Thursday night when his campaign removed them from a Bush speech and threatened them with arrest simply for wearing t-shirts that said “Protect Our Civil Liberties.”
http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view^3Far_id^3D18712.htm
Three Medford-area schoolteachers Janet Voorhees, Candice Julian, and Tania Tong were ejected from a Bush rally in Central Point, Oregon for wearing these shirts, which Bush event staff called “obscene.”
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
Media is the front line of the corporate system. And media transmits the values, sells the products. All of this is about selling, not telling. The tradition of journalism is being eroded. And in its place we have impressions, images, archetypes, icons, celebrities and the like. This is how public opinion is now being massaged and manipulated. The war was a testing ground, not only for new weapons systems and techniques, but also for new communications strategies.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/02/int05010.html
...our media became a weapons systems targeted at us. Usually in war propaganda you try and confuse the enemy. In our case, this propaganda infiltrated very skillfully back into American and global public opinion, and it was done with the help of Hollywood producers, and corporate PR people brought in to help out at the Pentagon.
Hard Questions About White House Media Manipulation
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=83323&lftnav=talkingpoints
Perhaps President Putin should press President Bush about his own media abuse and manipulation at home. The White House record of corruption continues to grow: paid journalists acting as administration shills; fake news stories produced by government agencies; and now partisan GOP "newsman" James Guckert (who works under the false name Jeff Gannon to cover up his second life as an Internet prostitute) gaining access to the White House press office and potentially sensitive national security information.
The Case of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali. The Latest Revelation of the Bush Cartel Stalinesque Gulag.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/opinion/24thu2.html?
In an undisciplined attempt to wring statements out of any conceivable suspect, American officials have worked with countries like Saudi Arabia, a nation whose attitude toward human rights is deplorable, and Syria, which is counted by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism. And now these officials are faced with the problem of what to do with these prisoners, most of whom have proved to be no use to interrogators, but who remain on America's conscience.
US Army Reports New Detainee Procedures
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-24-voa2.cfm
The U.S. military says it has implemented new procedures to ensure that detainees are not abused, as they were at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and allegedly at other U.S. military detention facilities. Officials say allegations of abuse by army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in 308 criminal investigations.
War Crimes
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0508,hentoff,61345,6.html
Congress dozes while detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured
Torture Nation
http://www.counterpunch.org/wright02242005.html
Meanwhile, we live under one-party domination with an enfeebled "opposition" party trying to appeal to the snake-handling and clinic-burning crowd before the next election. And the U.S. military is in Iraq, not to spread the virtues of punch-card voting or high-fructose corn syrup, but to dominate the planet's central energy supplies. This it will do by any means necessary, employing torture, leveling more Fallujahs, or whichever atrocities people will accept back in the "homeland."
At least 15 people, including two U.S. soldiers, were killed in blasts today across Iraq, U.S. military and Iraqi political officials said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ask7Ns1HPXbg&refer=top_world_news
As many as 18,339 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence, according to a tally by Iraq Body Count, a London-based group that opposes the war and compiles its casualty toll from media reports and official statements?
Dropping Report's Iraq Chapter Was Unusual, Economists Say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45323-2005Feb22.html?referrer=emailarticle
Concern About Impact on White House's Credibility Cited
Reports Question Blair's Steps to War
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=526518
The demands came after The Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 television reported that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned the government in a written report on March 7, 2003, that an invasion of Iraq could be deemed illegal.
Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm
...despite threatening war against Iraq for developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological weapons -- which the nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: 'New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal', biological -- will be more widely available ... combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool';
l and pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes and says their existence justifies the creation of a 'world-wide command-and-control system'.
Few tears will be shed when Saddam Hussein's rule meets its rightful end. But we err when we assume that deposing a dictator is in itself a noble act. We have deposed many dictators in the past, and replaced them with equal tyrants who we cloaked in the now-tired rhetoric of democracy. For this reason we have earned the skepticism with which the world now views us. In the Persian Gulf, ours is a history without honor, and our cause has rarely been just. They who would bury more men in the Middle East owe us far more than bluster. Thus the onus is on the Bush Administration. They owe us evidence, and if they want their war taken seriously, they owe us as well a reckoning--an acknowledgement of past crimes and a plan that shows us something meaningfully better.
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=225
These, of course, likely will not come. But the war will. It has ever been thus; the powerful have never lacked the capacity for betrayal. Nor the powerless for broken hearts.
For many 9/11 families, one more heartbreak
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7022540/
Out of nearly 2,800 victims, fewer than 300 whole bodies were recovered.
No trace found of 1,100 WTC victims
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-wtc24.html
Since the attacks 3 1/2 years ago, the medical examiner's office identified nearly 1,600 victims, although progress had slowed considerably in recent months. The city has about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead.
Separating the Gannons from the Guckerts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6844293/#050220a
“I can’t speak to the White House vetting process,” Guckert/Gannon told CNN in the only answer he gave that even bordered on being substantive. “I suppose that they don’t - they aren’t interested in reporters’ sexual history either.” This would come as a surprise to the ABC producer/reporter in Iraq who was outed by the infamous Matt Drudge (because, as Drudge told The Washington Post, “Someone in the White House communications shop tipped me to it”) as being not only gay, but Canadian.
Bush Tells Canadian Prime Minister's Scott that He has a Prettier Face Than Bush's Scott!
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/01/con04022.html
After a small discussion about Scott's duties for the PM, Dubya said, "Well, you got a pretty face. You got a pretty face. You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott [McClellan, Bush's Press Secretary and Karl Rove's mouthpiece] anyway."
Gingrich expressed surprise that Democrats aren't piling on more on issues such as Republican contracts with conservative commentators and the White House's admission of a pro-Republican male hooker to the press corps.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3052707
"It's fair to say that in my career I would probably have found an opportunity to comment on it," Gingrich said.
Gannongate: It's worse than you think
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/23/more_gannon/index_np.html
Bush's press office gave Jim Guckert access, even knowing his only credentials were from the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA.
The Unholy Alliance Between Iran and Syria
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/cmolin/2005/cdm_02231.shtml
Hinchey suggested that presidential political mastermind Karl Rove is behind the fake documents that brought down several top executives at CBS. The controversy led to the early retirement of longtime anchor Dan Rather, many believe.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/02/22/hinchey2.htm
"Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened: It originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in the White House ... . Once they did that, then it undermined everything else about Bush's draft dodging. … That had the effect of taking the whole issue away."
Bush Gets Stoned by the World Media
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48042-2005Feb23.html
President Bush all but admits to illicit drug use for the first time. Overseas it's the stuff of headlines. At home, the U.S. press has generally downplayed the story.
On the audiotapes of George W. Bush recorded secretly by his erstwhile confidant Douglas Wead in 1999, the future President revealed how much he feared candid discussion of his personal use of marijuana and cocaine. As quoted in The New York Times, Mr. Bush vowed that no matter what rumors and facts circulated about what he did or might have done, he would doggedly decline to answer forthrightly.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18611
The poor and the black are incarcerated for using pot and coke, while the rich and the white lie to their kids (and occasionally to the voters) about those same transgressions. ¶ 24.2.05 0 Comments
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Somebody set up us the bomb!
Dollar drops on reserves concerns
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4287413.stm
Analysts reckon that other nations may follow suit and now ditch the dollar.
OIL HOLDS NEAR $51
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050223/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc_19
A falling U.S. dollar, which suffered its biggest daily decline in two months against major currencies Tuesday, also sparked fund buying and drove oil prices higher.
Iran takes on west's control of oil trading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1239644,00.html
Bush: talk of strike on Iran is ridiculous
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1423227,00.html
"This notion that the US is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table."
Bush says Iraq row is over, but warns of dispute over China
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050222/pl_afp/usbusheunato_050222193027
Laura Bush said the protesters should recognise that "people want freedom and no one wants to live under tyranny"!
Who Lost Russia?
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=4919
Russia is going her own way: selling SAMs to Syria, AK-47s to Venezuela, missiles and fighter aircraft to China, and aiding Iran in completing its first nuclear power plant.
Iraq has telegraphed limits on U.S. power, allowing others to say no to Washington
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/karon/article/0,9565,1029937,00.html
Last Friday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin pooh-poohed the U.S. claim that Iran seeks nuclear weapons, and Moscow agreed to move ahead with delivering the nuclear fuel for Tehran's reactors despite Washington's opposition. And in case you missed the message, Russia has also agreed to supply advanced surface-to-air missiles to Syria, the latest focus of U.S. ire in the Middle East — again in defiance of Washington's stated wishes.
Will there be a draft?
http://csmonitor.com/2005/0222/dailyUpdate.html
New Recruits Could Be Sent to Boot Camp Within Two Weeks of Passage of Draft Legislation
http://www.economicsdaily.com/2005/02/new-recruits-could-be-sent-to-boot.html
Pentagon plans to draft in robot army
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=133862542&p=y33863z48
Technological advances predict them to hunt and kill enemies while their human controllers remain a safe distance away, carefully monitoring proceedings through a laptop.
"Jaber said that although Hariri's motorcade had equipment to jam electronic transmissions, the device could have been circumvented by a wire-triggered bomb or a counterdevice placed in a nearby vehicle."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/
We are in for a long buildup to direct intervention in Lebanon, and Syria, as the Lebanese elections loom: any defeat for the opposition will immediately provoke charges of fraud, as in the Ukraine, and this time the military option is going to be a real possibility. Every official and quasi-official government agency and paid administration propagandist will be dishing out stories of Syria's crimes, both real and imagined, and the Lebanese elections will be examined under a microscope for any hint of deviation from the predetermined "fair" outcome. Millions will be pumped into funding "pro-democracy" groups, supposedly unbiased polls will project the "winners" before a single vote is cast, and the war propaganda machine will rev up to full volume, as both liberals of the Carlson type and neocons bray in unison for war and "democracy."
Bush warns Syria to withdraw from Lebanon
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/544083.html
"It's vital that the Iranians hear the world speak with one voice that they should not have a nuclear weapon," Bush said. "Iran must not have a nuclear weapon, for the sake of security and peace," he added.
'Bin Laden tape' warns US to withdraw from Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3203878.stmThe US blames Usama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network for the 11 September attacks that prompted President George W Bush to launch his "war on terror".
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring
US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Usama bin Laden:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead
It's been 1,255 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!'
Extraordinary security measures for Bush visit to Germany
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bush-f21.shtml
If illusions remain that Bush’s foreign policy has to do with the fight against “tyranny” and the spread of “democracy” and “freedom,” the circumstances surrounding his visit to Germany should provide the antidote. Such security measures have always been associated with autocrats who are profoundly aware of the depth of the popular hatred they arouse.
Plot to assassinate Bush!
http://www.realestategates.com/News/23022005/plot-assassinate-Bush.html
Under the first scenario, the president was to be shot outdoors. The second scenario was planned to detonate a car loaded with bombs in the immediate vicinity to Bush.
US terror suspect 'was tortured by Saudis'
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/230205terrorsuspect.htm
When the charge was read out that he had plotted to assassinate Mr Bush, more than 100 of his supporters in the courtroom, burst out laughing.
Allawi Forming Coalition to Fight for PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
At least 1,485 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
US: Won't Talk to Insurgents, but Iraqis Might
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20050222/pl_afp/usiraqinsurgents
Time magazine reported Sunday that Pentagon officials have been in direct contact with representatives from Iraq's Sunni insurgency to negotiate an end to ongoing attacks against against US troops there.
Is Matt Drudge a Gannon "client?"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/16/212018/281
White House spokesman Scott McClellan On Thursday challenged liberal media activists, who are currently feigning outrage over events surrounding "Jeff Gannon," to examine the definition of reporter in the new century.
Democratic leadership joins call for Gannon inquiry; Whip calls on members to join push
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=117
Chicago Tribune: A White House plant?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-gleaner,1,1375290.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
What did the White House know and when did it know it on the question of the kinky bald guy with the stinky Web sites who got to pose as a "daily pass" reporter in the White House press corps?
Red State Alert: Rove-Orchestrated GOP Says Gay Prostitution is Fine With Them
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05032.html
Yes, and the usual diversions have started to pop: an American citizen suddenly being "unrendered" from the torture chambers of Saudi Arabia and charged with plotting to kill President Bush three years ago! And we have the odd so-called pre-election tapes popping up, which reveal nothing other than that they can grab some headlines from the Gannon/Guckert scandal. Oh, and that Bush oddly said in them that he wouldn't condemn gays, because he was a sinner too, whatever that meant, since he rides atop homophobia like a bunking bronco.
Secret tapes reveal future president's marijuana use !
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=2973876
Second Talon News reporter lifted passages from other sources without citation
http://mediamatters.org/items/200502220006
"Talon News correspondent Steve Roeder lifted passages, clauses and sentences from stories published by The New York Times, FOX News Channel and Reuters."
The non-Fox cable news outlets began to pick up on it last week; msnbc even assayed a special logo, “Gannongate.” A better name for it, though, would be “Nothinggate,” because nothing is what is likely to come of it. What all the memorable scandals of the past thirty years—real and fake alike, from Watergate to the Clinton impeachment—have had in common is that the opposition party controlled at least one house of Congress, which gave it the power to hold hearings and issue subpoenas. If Bush ends up having an easier time of it in his second term than any of his two-term predecessors since F.D.R., it won’t be because the scandals aren’t there. It’ll be because the tools to excavate them are under lock and key.
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?050228ta_talk_hertzberg
Last Thursday, Bush had another press conference, to announce the appointment of a director of national intelligence, and he made an elaborate show of familiarity with his interlocutors. A dozen of them got to ask questions, and the President called upon all but one by name. Perhaps he was simply letting the world know that from now on the reporters who are vouchsafed the privilege of asking questions at Presidential press conferences will actually be reporters. But be careful, White House correspondents. He knows who you are.
Bush's White House is embroiled in a sex scandal that is both more sordid and more serious than anything involving Clinton's infamous libido. This involves not just a huge security lapse, but what appears to be yet one more case of the Bush White House illegally deploying propaganda tactics through the institutions of the Fourth Estate.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/02/int05009.html
Moreover, Gannon/Guckert seems to have been given classified information. He evidently knew of "shock and awe" before it was announced, for instance. The story's busting out all over, and getting uglier and weirder by the day--but not on the networks, not on cable, and, in print, primarily in opinion pieces. If this had happened in a Democratic White House, there would be no escaping it, and the rightists would be shrieking that the President of the United States had taught our precious children all about gay sex for hire. (According to the right, remember, it was Clinton--not his enemies, and not the press-- who went public with the news about those blow jobs.) ¶ 23.2.05 1 Comments
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4287413.stm
Analysts reckon that other nations may follow suit and now ditch the dollar.
OIL HOLDS NEAR $51
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050223/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc_19
A falling U.S. dollar, which suffered its biggest daily decline in two months against major currencies Tuesday, also sparked fund buying and drove oil prices higher.
Iran takes on west's control of oil trading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1239644,00.html
Bush: talk of strike on Iran is ridiculous
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1423227,00.html
"This notion that the US is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table."
Bush says Iraq row is over, but warns of dispute over China
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050222/pl_afp/usbusheunato_050222193027
Laura Bush said the protesters should recognise that "people want freedom and no one wants to live under tyranny"!
Who Lost Russia?
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=4919
Russia is going her own way: selling SAMs to Syria, AK-47s to Venezuela, missiles and fighter aircraft to China, and aiding Iran in completing its first nuclear power plant.
Iraq has telegraphed limits on U.S. power, allowing others to say no to Washington
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/karon/article/0,9565,1029937,00.html
Last Friday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin pooh-poohed the U.S. claim that Iran seeks nuclear weapons, and Moscow agreed to move ahead with delivering the nuclear fuel for Tehran's reactors despite Washington's opposition. And in case you missed the message, Russia has also agreed to supply advanced surface-to-air missiles to Syria, the latest focus of U.S. ire in the Middle East — again in defiance of Washington's stated wishes.
Will there be a draft?
http://csmonitor.com/2005/0222/dailyUpdate.html
New Recruits Could Be Sent to Boot Camp Within Two Weeks of Passage of Draft Legislation
http://www.economicsdaily.com/2005/02/new-recruits-could-be-sent-to-boot.html
Pentagon plans to draft in robot army
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=133862542&p=y33863z48
Technological advances predict them to hunt and kill enemies while their human controllers remain a safe distance away, carefully monitoring proceedings through a laptop.
"Jaber said that although Hariri's motorcade had equipment to jam electronic transmissions, the device could have been circumvented by a wire-triggered bomb or a counterdevice placed in a nearby vehicle."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/
We are in for a long buildup to direct intervention in Lebanon, and Syria, as the Lebanese elections loom: any defeat for the opposition will immediately provoke charges of fraud, as in the Ukraine, and this time the military option is going to be a real possibility. Every official and quasi-official government agency and paid administration propagandist will be dishing out stories of Syria's crimes, both real and imagined, and the Lebanese elections will be examined under a microscope for any hint of deviation from the predetermined "fair" outcome. Millions will be pumped into funding "pro-democracy" groups, supposedly unbiased polls will project the "winners" before a single vote is cast, and the war propaganda machine will rev up to full volume, as both liberals of the Carlson type and neocons bray in unison for war and "democracy."
Bush warns Syria to withdraw from Lebanon
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/544083.html
"It's vital that the Iranians hear the world speak with one voice that they should not have a nuclear weapon," Bush said. "Iran must not have a nuclear weapon, for the sake of security and peace," he added.
'Bin Laden tape' warns US to withdraw from Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3203878.stmThe US blames Usama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network for the 11 September attacks that prompted President George W Bush to launch his "war on terror".
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring
US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Usama bin Laden:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead
It's been 1,255 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!'
Extraordinary security measures for Bush visit to Germany
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bush-f21.shtml
If illusions remain that Bush’s foreign policy has to do with the fight against “tyranny” and the spread of “democracy” and “freedom,” the circumstances surrounding his visit to Germany should provide the antidote. Such security measures have always been associated with autocrats who are profoundly aware of the depth of the popular hatred they arouse.
Plot to assassinate Bush!
http://www.realestategates.com/News/23022005/plot-assassinate-Bush.html
Under the first scenario, the president was to be shot outdoors. The second scenario was planned to detonate a car loaded with bombs in the immediate vicinity to Bush.
US terror suspect 'was tortured by Saudis'
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/230205terrorsuspect.htm
When the charge was read out that he had plotted to assassinate Mr Bush, more than 100 of his supporters in the courtroom, burst out laughing.
Allawi Forming Coalition to Fight for PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
At least 1,485 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
US: Won't Talk to Insurgents, but Iraqis Might
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20050222/pl_afp/usiraqinsurgents
Time magazine reported Sunday that Pentagon officials have been in direct contact with representatives from Iraq's Sunni insurgency to negotiate an end to ongoing attacks against against US troops there.
Is Matt Drudge a Gannon "client?"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/16/212018/281
White House spokesman Scott McClellan On Thursday challenged liberal media activists, who are currently feigning outrage over events surrounding "Jeff Gannon," to examine the definition of reporter in the new century.
Democratic leadership joins call for Gannon inquiry; Whip calls on members to join push
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=117
Chicago Tribune: A White House plant?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-gleaner,1,1375290.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
What did the White House know and when did it know it on the question of the kinky bald guy with the stinky Web sites who got to pose as a "daily pass" reporter in the White House press corps?
Red State Alert: Rove-Orchestrated GOP Says Gay Prostitution is Fine With Them
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05032.html
Yes, and the usual diversions have started to pop: an American citizen suddenly being "unrendered" from the torture chambers of Saudi Arabia and charged with plotting to kill President Bush three years ago! And we have the odd so-called pre-election tapes popping up, which reveal nothing other than that they can grab some headlines from the Gannon/Guckert scandal. Oh, and that Bush oddly said in them that he wouldn't condemn gays, because he was a sinner too, whatever that meant, since he rides atop homophobia like a bunking bronco.
Secret tapes reveal future president's marijuana use !
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=2973876
Second Talon News reporter lifted passages from other sources without citation
http://mediamatters.org/items/200502220006
"Talon News correspondent Steve Roeder lifted passages, clauses and sentences from stories published by The New York Times, FOX News Channel and Reuters."
The non-Fox cable news outlets began to pick up on it last week; msnbc even assayed a special logo, “Gannongate.” A better name for it, though, would be “Nothinggate,” because nothing is what is likely to come of it. What all the memorable scandals of the past thirty years—real and fake alike, from Watergate to the Clinton impeachment—have had in common is that the opposition party controlled at least one house of Congress, which gave it the power to hold hearings and issue subpoenas. If Bush ends up having an easier time of it in his second term than any of his two-term predecessors since F.D.R., it won’t be because the scandals aren’t there. It’ll be because the tools to excavate them are under lock and key.
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?050228ta_talk_hertzberg
Last Thursday, Bush had another press conference, to announce the appointment of a director of national intelligence, and he made an elaborate show of familiarity with his interlocutors. A dozen of them got to ask questions, and the President called upon all but one by name. Perhaps he was simply letting the world know that from now on the reporters who are vouchsafed the privilege of asking questions at Presidential press conferences will actually be reporters. But be careful, White House correspondents. He knows who you are.
Bush's White House is embroiled in a sex scandal that is both more sordid and more serious than anything involving Clinton's infamous libido. This involves not just a huge security lapse, but what appears to be yet one more case of the Bush White House illegally deploying propaganda tactics through the institutions of the Fourth Estate.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/02/int05009.html
Moreover, Gannon/Guckert seems to have been given classified information. He evidently knew of "shock and awe" before it was announced, for instance. The story's busting out all over, and getting uglier and weirder by the day--but not on the networks, not on cable, and, in print, primarily in opinion pieces. If this had happened in a Democratic White House, there would be no escaping it, and the rightists would be shrieking that the President of the United States had taught our precious children all about gay sex for hire. (According to the right, remember, it was Clinton--not his enemies, and not the press-- who went public with the news about those blow jobs.) ¶ 23.2.05 1 Comments
20050222
I AM BLOGGER, HEAR ME ROAR!
The battle between the mainstream media and the blogs isn't starting. It's already over.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html
The blogs won.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA PUSHES THE PANIC BUTTON
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4209801.stm
Blogging 'a paedophile's dream'
Bloggers' Internet obsession
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/business/technology/10961508.htm
Addicted to blogging?
The global web log community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4278241.stm
Blogs are free sites through which people publish thoughts and opinions. Iranian authorities have been clamping down on prominent sites for some time.
The Blogosphere By the Numbers
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3438891
The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half,
All the News That's Fit to Fake
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/220205fittofake.htm
How do average, ordinary Americans get the truth?
Do we even want to hear it?
Media ignore 9/11 questions
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050221/NEWS/502210360/1022
What has happened to the US media?
Blogosphere vs. mainstream media http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/021405brodsky.html
The last decade of the 20th century will be remembered for the global Internet. The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered for blogs.
If journalists won't point out the liars, who will?http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050220/OPINION/102200026
Reporters at some point need to realize that fairness in reporting doesn't mean ignoring truth. At some point, if you have evidence that someone likely isn't telling the truth, you have to say it.
Bush's journalism jihad exposed
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=29340&ntpid=0
"With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs, and replacing them with ringers."
GANNONGATE SCANDAL ELUDES LOCAL DAILIES
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/column203.html
It is a sad disgrace that, unless you're tuned into the national media or what is now known as the blogosphere, or unless you read the Reporter, you can't find anything out about what our local representative in Congress has been up to over the past week.
Conservative Bloggers Blow Gaskets; Panties Also Reported To Be in "Bunch" http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/conservative-bloggers-blow-gaskets.htmlA. The Bush Administration, which is the governmental outfit presumably keeping us from suffering a nuclear holocaust tomorrow, is so lax in securing the personal safety of the President that they unknowingly and unwittingly allowed a gay prostitute using a false name and posing as a journalist to get within ten feet of a sitting U.S. President (memo to The Rocket: prostitution is a crime); or B. The Bush Administration, which ran on "moral values" and the second-class citizenship status of homosexuals, has some obscure reason to be "okay" with the fact that The Bulldog is a gay whore: like, he's blackmailing them, or balling the hell out of someone high up in the White House.
The strange story of White House reporter 'Jeff Gannon' http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/oped/all-columnfeb19,0,4042766.column
Based upon recent events, it appears that George W. Bush creates not only his own reality, but also, his own news media.
"Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats http://www.unknownnews.org/0502150214BushKerry2004.html
Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war - again http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/OPINION04/102200015/-1/opinion
...the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield. Never before in our country’s history has an administration charged with defending our nation been so lacking in hands-on combat experience and therefore so ignorant about the art and science of war.
Bush friend regrets releasing secret tapes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050222/BUSHTAPES22/TPInternational/TopStories Mr. Bush appears to admit using marijuana and talks about how he intends to skate around questions on possible cocaine use.
Bush's '06 Budget Would Scrap or Reduce 154 Programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42369-2005Feb21.html
"Does the program meet the nation's priorities"? Is it an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? And does it "produce the intended results"?
Russia told to pursue democracy http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/10957991.htm?1c
"We recognize that reform will not happen overnight," Bush said. "We must always remind Russia, however, that our alliance stands for a free press, a vital opposition, the sharing of power and the rule of law — and the United States and all European countries should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia."
U.S. Citizen Accused of Discussing to Kill Bush
http://reuters.excite.com//article/20050222/2005-02-22T171548Z_01_N22535000_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BUSH-DC.html
Mainz residents told not to take a peek at president
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ca1d3720-8457-11d9-ad81-00000e2511c8.html
Although the country has no history of terrorism, more than 5,300 policemen will be deployed, supported by 400 soldiers, 400 firemen and elite anti-chemical forces.
Piss Off
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/276vsdtv.asp
They show an American flag and the head of George W. Bush. "Go ahead. Piss on me," the caption says.
It's unfortunate that Bush doesn't understand what is happening in the world he so arrogantly believes he owns. The European trip he's on now is a barely concealed attempt to strong-arm support for his upcoming invasion of Iran. An invasion, according to former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter, that Bush has already approved, and is slated for June 2005.
http://www.opednews.com/samples_022205_kink_in_pants.htm
"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign ... Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign," the official said. "We've declared war and the bad guys wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah -- we've got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism."
War on terror has bred new enemies
http://www.theage.com.au/news/War-on-Terror/War-on-terror-has-bred-new-enemies/2005/02/17/1108609345036.html?oneclick=true
The intelligence chiefs on Wednesday suggested the Bush Administration's war on terror was far from being won and that, despite claims by the Administration that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein had made the world a safer place, Iraq was now a recruiting ground for Islamic extremists who represented a threat not just to Iraq, but the whole Middle East and beyond.
George W Bush arrived in Europe with research showing that anti-Americanism is deeper and broader than at any time in modern history.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/33912.html
It will take more than emollient words to heal divisions over Iraq, especially as Mr Bush failed to admit any fault over intelligence or misgiving for invading Iraq.
Senators visit Iraq for first-hand look http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/19/senators.iraq.ap/index.html
McCain said the group had not left the Green Zone, home to Iraqi government institutions and the American and British embassies, because of the security situation.
Sen. Clinton Says Iraq Insurgents Failing
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050219/ap_on_go_co/iraq_senators
Today, security is so bad that none of the senators dared drive through Baghdad's streets, even in armored cars. Aside from the Green Zone, their only glimpse of the capital came from the relative safety of U.S. military helicopters that ferried them from the airport.
Shiites Pick Al-Jaafari As Iraq PM Nominee
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_politics
He also said calling for the immediate withdrawal of coalition troops would be a "mistake" given the lack of security in Iraq.
Wanted: Interrogators for Iraq Interrogators for Iraq
http://jobsearch.monster.co.uk/getjob.asp?JobID=21518097&AVSDM=2005%2D02%2D19%2007%3A48%3A40&Logo=1&brd=1&ct=ME&aj=Middle%20East
This position is in Iraq and requires U.S Citizenship with a Secret clearance.
Shooting the Messenger
http://www.democracynow.org/static/Eason_Jordan.shtml
In many of these cases, there is a common thread: The journalists, mostly Arabs, were reporting on places or incidents that the military may not have wanted the world to see--military vehicles in flames, helicopters shot down, fierce resistance against the "liberation" forces, civilian deaths.
Did US Military Kill Journalists in Iraq
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1019
"Well, I was sitting there in my tank with my finger on the trigger button, and he was wearing this sign that said 'press'..."
PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ
http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/02/2193.shtml
According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the the free spread of information."
Al-Sadr demands US withdrawal
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/42E3C682-B997-4217-AE85-C105C2DD7CAD.htm
"I ask all parties to show patience and not to be dragged into the plots of the West which aim to destabilise the country and justify the presence of the occupation," Sadr said.
"Any attack on any Iraqi group is an attack on all Iraqis ... and it is wrong for a Muslim to kill a Muslim," he added.
Americans and rebels begin talks on timetable for withdrawal from Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613492
The US military has lost 1,479 dead and 10,740 wounded in Iraq since the invasion began in March 2003.
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD -- Three U.S. soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded Monday when a roadside bomb detonated in the capital near a helicopter carrying an Army medical team, U.S. military officials said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050222/ts_washpost/a41721_2005feb21
A third intifada?
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050218-031832-5385r
There were also warnings of possible plots to attack the third holiest shrine in Islam, al-Aqsa Mosque to provoke the Palestinians into retaliation and sabotage the Gaza disengagement plan.
Israel has been privately pressing Washington to solve the Iran nuclear problem in a hint that
Tel Aviv may be left with no choice but to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, defense officials say. http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050221-123842-3048r Military analysts say the United States "would have no problem" taking out Iran's major nuclear facilities should it decide to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Iran readies military, fearing a U.S. attack
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/21/MNGHUBERIV1.DTL
Tensions with Bush administration surge over Tehran's disputed nuclear ambition
IAF: Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543087&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri "can create a new picture in Lebanon," Shakedi said.
Assassinating Al-Hariri Fits Washington’s Plan http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8127.htm
To understand who assassinated Rafik al-Hariri we don’t need to look any further than the $1.5 billion US Embassy currently under construction in Baghdad. The new embassy, the largest of its kind in the world, will facilitate 1,800 employees and serve as the regional nerve center for American political and economic activity.
NEW FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR
http://www.sundayherald.com/47857
With controversial diplomat John Negroponte installed as the all-powerful Director of National Intelligence, is the US about to switch from invasions to covert operations and dirty tricks? The assassination of the former Lebanese PM has aroused suspicions
The Assassination of “Mr. Lebanon”
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/February/20%20o/The%20Assassination%20of%20Mr%20Lebanon%20By%20Habib%20Siddiqui.htm
The assassination of Hariri matches very well (almost like a carbon copy) with previous activities of the Mossad. It provides Washington the necessary pretext to broaden its ‘war on terror’ to punish Syria and Hizbullah, something that Israel and its neocon friends have long wanted. The ‘Amen corner’ inside the Capitol Hill also would not require any solid evidence, much like the WMD case in Iraq, for approving punitive measures against Syria and its allies.
Iran takes on west's control of oil trading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1239644,00.html
"INVADE! INVADE! INVADE NOW, DAMMIT, NOW NOW NOW!!!!" ¶ 22.2.05 0 Comments
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html
The blogs won.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA PUSHES THE PANIC BUTTON
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4209801.stm
Blogging 'a paedophile's dream'
Bloggers' Internet obsession
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/business/technology/10961508.htm
Addicted to blogging?
The global web log community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4278241.stm
Blogs are free sites through which people publish thoughts and opinions. Iranian authorities have been clamping down on prominent sites for some time.
The Blogosphere By the Numbers
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3438891
The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half,
All the News That's Fit to Fake
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/220205fittofake.htm
How do average, ordinary Americans get the truth?
Do we even want to hear it?
Media ignore 9/11 questions
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050221/NEWS/502210360/1022
What has happened to the US media?
Blogosphere vs. mainstream media http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/021405brodsky.html
The last decade of the 20th century will be remembered for the global Internet. The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered for blogs.
If journalists won't point out the liars, who will?http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050220/OPINION/102200026
Reporters at some point need to realize that fairness in reporting doesn't mean ignoring truth. At some point, if you have evidence that someone likely isn't telling the truth, you have to say it.
Bush's journalism jihad exposed
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=29340&ntpid=0
"With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs, and replacing them with ringers."
GANNONGATE SCANDAL ELUDES LOCAL DAILIES
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/column203.html
It is a sad disgrace that, unless you're tuned into the national media or what is now known as the blogosphere, or unless you read the Reporter, you can't find anything out about what our local representative in Congress has been up to over the past week.
Conservative Bloggers Blow Gaskets; Panties Also Reported To Be in "Bunch" http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/conservative-bloggers-blow-gaskets.htmlA. The Bush Administration, which is the governmental outfit presumably keeping us from suffering a nuclear holocaust tomorrow, is so lax in securing the personal safety of the President that they unknowingly and unwittingly allowed a gay prostitute using a false name and posing as a journalist to get within ten feet of a sitting U.S. President (memo to The Rocket: prostitution is a crime); or B. The Bush Administration, which ran on "moral values" and the second-class citizenship status of homosexuals, has some obscure reason to be "okay" with the fact that The Bulldog is a gay whore: like, he's blackmailing them, or balling the hell out of someone high up in the White House.
The strange story of White House reporter 'Jeff Gannon' http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/oped/all-columnfeb19,0,4042766.column
Based upon recent events, it appears that George W. Bush creates not only his own reality, but also, his own news media.
"Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats http://www.unknownnews.org/0502150214BushKerry2004.html
Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war - again http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/OPINION04/102200015/-1/opinion
...the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield. Never before in our country’s history has an administration charged with defending our nation been so lacking in hands-on combat experience and therefore so ignorant about the art and science of war.
Bush friend regrets releasing secret tapes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050222/BUSHTAPES22/TPInternational/TopStories Mr. Bush appears to admit using marijuana and talks about how he intends to skate around questions on possible cocaine use.
Bush's '06 Budget Would Scrap or Reduce 154 Programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42369-2005Feb21.html
"Does the program meet the nation's priorities"? Is it an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? And does it "produce the intended results"?
Russia told to pursue democracy http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/10957991.htm?1c
"We recognize that reform will not happen overnight," Bush said. "We must always remind Russia, however, that our alliance stands for a free press, a vital opposition, the sharing of power and the rule of law — and the United States and all European countries should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia."
U.S. Citizen Accused of Discussing to Kill Bush
http://reuters.excite.com//article/20050222/2005-02-22T171548Z_01_N22535000_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BUSH-DC.html
Mainz residents told not to take a peek at president
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ca1d3720-8457-11d9-ad81-00000e2511c8.html
Although the country has no history of terrorism, more than 5,300 policemen will be deployed, supported by 400 soldiers, 400 firemen and elite anti-chemical forces.
Piss Off
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/276vsdtv.asp
They show an American flag and the head of George W. Bush. "Go ahead. Piss on me," the caption says.
It's unfortunate that Bush doesn't understand what is happening in the world he so arrogantly believes he owns. The European trip he's on now is a barely concealed attempt to strong-arm support for his upcoming invasion of Iran. An invasion, according to former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter, that Bush has already approved, and is slated for June 2005.
http://www.opednews.com/samples_022205_kink_in_pants.htm
"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign ... Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign," the official said. "We've declared war and the bad guys wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah -- we've got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism."
War on terror has bred new enemies
http://www.theage.com.au/news/War-on-Terror/War-on-terror-has-bred-new-enemies/2005/02/17/1108609345036.html?oneclick=true
The intelligence chiefs on Wednesday suggested the Bush Administration's war on terror was far from being won and that, despite claims by the Administration that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein had made the world a safer place, Iraq was now a recruiting ground for Islamic extremists who represented a threat not just to Iraq, but the whole Middle East and beyond.
George W Bush arrived in Europe with research showing that anti-Americanism is deeper and broader than at any time in modern history.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/33912.html
It will take more than emollient words to heal divisions over Iraq, especially as Mr Bush failed to admit any fault over intelligence or misgiving for invading Iraq.
Senators visit Iraq for first-hand look http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/19/senators.iraq.ap/index.html
McCain said the group had not left the Green Zone, home to Iraqi government institutions and the American and British embassies, because of the security situation.
Sen. Clinton Says Iraq Insurgents Failing
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050219/ap_on_go_co/iraq_senators
Today, security is so bad that none of the senators dared drive through Baghdad's streets, even in armored cars. Aside from the Green Zone, their only glimpse of the capital came from the relative safety of U.S. military helicopters that ferried them from the airport.
Shiites Pick Al-Jaafari As Iraq PM Nominee
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_politics
He also said calling for the immediate withdrawal of coalition troops would be a "mistake" given the lack of security in Iraq.
Wanted: Interrogators for Iraq Interrogators for Iraq
http://jobsearch.monster.co.uk/getjob.asp?JobID=21518097&AVSDM=2005%2D02%2D19%2007%3A48%3A40&Logo=1&brd=1&ct=ME&aj=Middle%20East
This position is in Iraq and requires U.S Citizenship with a Secret clearance.
Shooting the Messenger
http://www.democracynow.org/static/Eason_Jordan.shtml
In many of these cases, there is a common thread: The journalists, mostly Arabs, were reporting on places or incidents that the military may not have wanted the world to see--military vehicles in flames, helicopters shot down, fierce resistance against the "liberation" forces, civilian deaths.
Did US Military Kill Journalists in Iraq
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1019
"Well, I was sitting there in my tank with my finger on the trigger button, and he was wearing this sign that said 'press'..."
PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ
http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/02/2193.shtml
According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the the free spread of information."
Al-Sadr demands US withdrawal
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/42E3C682-B997-4217-AE85-C105C2DD7CAD.htm
"I ask all parties to show patience and not to be dragged into the plots of the West which aim to destabilise the country and justify the presence of the occupation," Sadr said.
"Any attack on any Iraqi group is an attack on all Iraqis ... and it is wrong for a Muslim to kill a Muslim," he added.
Americans and rebels begin talks on timetable for withdrawal from Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613492
The US military has lost 1,479 dead and 10,740 wounded in Iraq since the invasion began in March 2003.
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD -- Three U.S. soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded Monday when a roadside bomb detonated in the capital near a helicopter carrying an Army medical team, U.S. military officials said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050222/ts_washpost/a41721_2005feb21
A third intifada?
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050218-031832-5385r
There were also warnings of possible plots to attack the third holiest shrine in Islam, al-Aqsa Mosque to provoke the Palestinians into retaliation and sabotage the Gaza disengagement plan.
Israel has been privately pressing Washington to solve the Iran nuclear problem in a hint that
Tel Aviv may be left with no choice but to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, defense officials say. http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050221-123842-3048r Military analysts say the United States "would have no problem" taking out Iran's major nuclear facilities should it decide to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Iran readies military, fearing a U.S. attack
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/21/MNGHUBERIV1.DTL
Tensions with Bush administration surge over Tehran's disputed nuclear ambition
IAF: Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543087&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri "can create a new picture in Lebanon," Shakedi said.
Assassinating Al-Hariri Fits Washington’s Plan http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8127.htm
To understand who assassinated Rafik al-Hariri we don’t need to look any further than the $1.5 billion US Embassy currently under construction in Baghdad. The new embassy, the largest of its kind in the world, will facilitate 1,800 employees and serve as the regional nerve center for American political and economic activity.
NEW FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR
http://www.sundayherald.com/47857
With controversial diplomat John Negroponte installed as the all-powerful Director of National Intelligence, is the US about to switch from invasions to covert operations and dirty tricks? The assassination of the former Lebanese PM has aroused suspicions
The Assassination of “Mr. Lebanon”
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/February/20%20o/The%20Assassination%20of%20Mr%20Lebanon%20By%20Habib%20Siddiqui.htm
The assassination of Hariri matches very well (almost like a carbon copy) with previous activities of the Mossad. It provides Washington the necessary pretext to broaden its ‘war on terror’ to punish Syria and Hizbullah, something that Israel and its neocon friends have long wanted. The ‘Amen corner’ inside the Capitol Hill also would not require any solid evidence, much like the WMD case in Iraq, for approving punitive measures against Syria and its allies.
Iran takes on west's control of oil trading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1239644,00.html
"INVADE! INVADE! INVADE NOW, DAMMIT, NOW NOW NOW!!!!" ¶ 22.2.05 0 Comments
The battle between the mainstream media and the blogs isn't starting. It's already over. The blogs won.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html
The Blogosphere By the Numbers
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3438891
The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half,
Blogosphere vs. mainstream media http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/021405brodsky.html
The last decade of the 20th century will be remembered for the global Internet. The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered for blogs.
If journalists won't point out the liars, who will?http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050220/OPINION/102200026
Reporters at some point need to realize that fairness in reporting doesn't mean ignoring truth. At some point, if you have evidence that someone likely isn't telling the truth, you have to say it.
Bush's journalism jihad exposed
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=29340&ntpid=0
"With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs, and replacing them with ringers."
GANNONGATE SCANDAL ELUDES LOCAL DAILIES
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/column203.html
It is a sad disgrace that, unless you're tuned into the national media or what is now known as the blogosphere, or unless you read the Reporter, you can't find anything out about what our local representative in Congress has been up to over the past week.
Conservative Bloggers Blow Gaskets; Panties Also Reported To Be in "Bunch" http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/conservative-bloggers-blow-gaskets.htmlA. The Bush Administration, which is the governmental outfit presumably keeping us from suffering a nuclear holocaust tomorrow, is so lax in securing the personal safety of the President that they unknowingly and unwittingly allowed a gay prostitute using a false name and posing as a journalist to get within ten feet of a sitting U.S. President (memo to The Rocket: prostitution is a crime); or B. The Bush Administration, which ran on "moral values" and the second-class citizenship status of homosexuals, has some obscure reason to be "okay" with the fact that The Bulldog is a gay whore: like, he's blackmailing them, or balling the hell out of someone high up in the White House.
The strange story of White House reporter 'Jeff Gannon' http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/oped/all-columnfeb19,0,4042766.column
Based upon recent events, it appears that George W. Bush creates not only his own reality, but also, his own news media.
"Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats http://www.unknownnews.org/0502150214BushKerry2004.html
Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war - again http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/OPINION04/102200015/-1/opinion
...the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield. Never before in our country’s history has an administration charged with defending our nation been so lacking in hands-on combat experience and therefore so ignorant about the art and science of war.
Bush friend regrets releasing secret tapes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050222/BUSHTAPES22/TPInternational/TopStories
Mr. Bush appears to admit using marijuana and talks about how he intends to skate around questions on possible cocaine use.
Bush's '06 Budget Would Scrap or Reduce 154 Programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42369-2005Feb21.html
"Does the program meet the nation's priorities"? Is it an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? And does it "produce the intended results"?
Russia told to pursue democracy http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/10957991.htm?1c
"We recognize that reform will not happen overnight," Bush said. "We must always remind Russia, however, that our alliance stands for a free press, a vital opposition, the sharing of power and the rule of law — and the United States and all European countries should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia."
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George W Bush arrived in Europe with research showing that anti-Americanism is deeper and broader than at any time in modern history. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/33912.html
It will take more than emollient words to heal divisions over Iraq, especially as Mr Bush failed to admit any fault over intelligence or misgiving for invading Iraq.
Senators visit Iraq for first-hand look http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/19/senators.iraq.ap/index.html
McCain said the group had not left the Green Zone, home to Iraqi government institutions and the American and British embassies, because of the security situation.
Sen. Clinton Says Iraq Insurgents Failing
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050219/ap_on_go_co/iraq_senators
Today, security is so bad that none of the senators dared drive through Baghdad's streets, even in armored cars. Aside from the Green Zone, their only glimpse of the capital came from the relative safety of U.S. military helicopters that ferried them from the airport.
Shiites Pick Al-Jaafari As Iraq PM Nominee
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_politics
He also said calling for the immediate withdrawal of coalition troops would be a "mistake" given the lack of security in Iraq.
Wanted: Interrogators for Iraq Interrogators for Iraq
http://jobsearch.monster.co.uk/getjob.asp?JobID=21518097&AVSDM=2005%2D02%2D19%2007%3A48%3A40&Logo=1&brd=1&ct=ME&aj=Middle%20East
This position is in Iraq and requires U.S Citizenship with a Secret clearance.
Did US Military Kill Journalists in Iraq
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1019
"Well, I was sitting there in my tank with my finger on the trigger button, and he was wearing this sign that said 'press'..."
PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ
http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/02/2193.shtml
According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the the free spread of information."
Americans and rebels begin talks on timetable for withdrawal from Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613492
The US military has lost 1,479 dead and 10,740 wounded in Iraq since the invasion began in March 2003.
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD -- Three U.S. soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded Monday when a roadside bomb detonated in the capital near a helicopter carrying an Army medical team, U.S. military officials said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050222/ts_washpost/a41721_2005feb21
A third intifada?
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050218-031832-5385r
There were also warnings of possible plots to attack the third holiest shrine in Islam, al-Aqsa Mosque to provoke the Palestinians into retaliation and sabotage the Gaza disengagement plan.
Israel has been privately pressing Washington to solve the Iran nuclear problem in a hint that
Tel Aviv may be left with no choice but to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, defense officials say. http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050221-123842-3048r Military analysts say the United States "would have no problem" taking out Iran's major nuclear facilities should it decide to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Iran readies military, fearing a U.S. attack
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/21/MNGHUBERIV1.DTL
Tensions with Bush administration surge over Tehran's disputed nuclear ambition
IAF: Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543087&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri "can create a new picture in Lebanon," Shakedi said.
Assassinating Al-Hariri Fits Washington’s Plan http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8127.htm
To understand who assassinated Rafik al-Hariri we don’t need to look any further than the $1.5 billion US Embassy currently under construction in Baghdad. The new embassy, the largest of its kind in the world, will facilitate 1,800 employees and serve as the regional nerve center for American political and economic activity. ¶ 22.2.05 0 Comments
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html
The Blogosphere By the Numbers
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3438891
The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half,
Blogosphere vs. mainstream media http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/021405brodsky.html
The last decade of the 20th century will be remembered for the global Internet. The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered for blogs.
If journalists won't point out the liars, who will?http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050220/OPINION/102200026
Reporters at some point need to realize that fairness in reporting doesn't mean ignoring truth. At some point, if you have evidence that someone likely isn't telling the truth, you have to say it.
Bush's journalism jihad exposed
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=29340&ntpid=0
"With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs, and replacing them with ringers."
GANNONGATE SCANDAL ELUDES LOCAL DAILIES
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/column203.html
It is a sad disgrace that, unless you're tuned into the national media or what is now known as the blogosphere, or unless you read the Reporter, you can't find anything out about what our local representative in Congress has been up to over the past week.
Conservative Bloggers Blow Gaskets; Panties Also Reported To Be in "Bunch" http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/conservative-bloggers-blow-gaskets.htmlA. The Bush Administration, which is the governmental outfit presumably keeping us from suffering a nuclear holocaust tomorrow, is so lax in securing the personal safety of the President that they unknowingly and unwittingly allowed a gay prostitute using a false name and posing as a journalist to get within ten feet of a sitting U.S. President (memo to The Rocket: prostitution is a crime); or B. The Bush Administration, which ran on "moral values" and the second-class citizenship status of homosexuals, has some obscure reason to be "okay" with the fact that The Bulldog is a gay whore: like, he's blackmailing them, or balling the hell out of someone high up in the White House.
The strange story of White House reporter 'Jeff Gannon' http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/oped/all-columnfeb19,0,4042766.column
Based upon recent events, it appears that George W. Bush creates not only his own reality, but also, his own news media.
"Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats http://www.unknownnews.org/0502150214BushKerry2004.html
Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war - again http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/OPINION04/102200015/-1/opinion
...the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield. Never before in our country’s history has an administration charged with defending our nation been so lacking in hands-on combat experience and therefore so ignorant about the art and science of war.
Bush friend regrets releasing secret tapes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050222/BUSHTAPES22/TPInternational/TopStories
Mr. Bush appears to admit using marijuana and talks about how he intends to skate around questions on possible cocaine use.
Bush's '06 Budget Would Scrap or Reduce 154 Programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42369-2005Feb21.html
"Does the program meet the nation's priorities"? Is it an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? And does it "produce the intended results"?
Russia told to pursue democracy http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/10957991.htm?1c
"We recognize that reform will not happen overnight," Bush said. "We must always remind Russia, however, that our alliance stands for a free press, a vital opposition, the sharing of power and the rule of law — and the United States and all European countries should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia."
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George W Bush arrived in Europe with research showing that anti-Americanism is deeper and broader than at any time in modern history. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/33912.html
It will take more than emollient words to heal divisions over Iraq, especially as Mr Bush failed to admit any fault over intelligence or misgiving for invading Iraq.
Senators visit Iraq for first-hand look http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/19/senators.iraq.ap/index.html
McCain said the group had not left the Green Zone, home to Iraqi government institutions and the American and British embassies, because of the security situation.
Sen. Clinton Says Iraq Insurgents Failing
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050219/ap_on_go_co/iraq_senators
Today, security is so bad that none of the senators dared drive through Baghdad's streets, even in armored cars. Aside from the Green Zone, their only glimpse of the capital came from the relative safety of U.S. military helicopters that ferried them from the airport.
Shiites Pick Al-Jaafari As Iraq PM Nominee
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_politics
He also said calling for the immediate withdrawal of coalition troops would be a "mistake" given the lack of security in Iraq.
Wanted: Interrogators for Iraq Interrogators for Iraq
http://jobsearch.monster.co.uk/getjob.asp?JobID=21518097&AVSDM=2005%2D02%2D19%2007%3A48%3A40&Logo=1&brd=1&ct=ME&aj=Middle%20East
This position is in Iraq and requires U.S Citizenship with a Secret clearance.
Did US Military Kill Journalists in Iraq
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1019
"Well, I was sitting there in my tank with my finger on the trigger button, and he was wearing this sign that said 'press'..."
PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ
http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/02/2193.shtml
According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the the free spread of information."
Americans and rebels begin talks on timetable for withdrawal from Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613492
The US military has lost 1,479 dead and 10,740 wounded in Iraq since the invasion began in March 2003.
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD -- Three U.S. soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded Monday when a roadside bomb detonated in the capital near a helicopter carrying an Army medical team, U.S. military officials said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050222/ts_washpost/a41721_2005feb21
A third intifada?
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050218-031832-5385r
There were also warnings of possible plots to attack the third holiest shrine in Islam, al-Aqsa Mosque to provoke the Palestinians into retaliation and sabotage the Gaza disengagement plan.
Israel has been privately pressing Washington to solve the Iran nuclear problem in a hint that
Tel Aviv may be left with no choice but to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, defense officials say. http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050221-123842-3048r Military analysts say the United States "would have no problem" taking out Iran's major nuclear facilities should it decide to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Iran readies military, fearing a U.S. attack
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/21/MNGHUBERIV1.DTL
Tensions with Bush administration surge over Tehran's disputed nuclear ambition
IAF: Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543087&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri "can create a new picture in Lebanon," Shakedi said.
Assassinating Al-Hariri Fits Washington’s Plan http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8127.htm
To understand who assassinated Rafik al-Hariri we don’t need to look any further than the $1.5 billion US Embassy currently under construction in Baghdad. The new embassy, the largest of its kind in the world, will facilitate 1,800 employees and serve as the regional nerve center for American political and economic activity. ¶ 22.2.05 0 Comments
20050221
Hunter S. Thompson shoots self in head
"Fear and Loathing" author dead at 67
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2723492,00.html
The godfather of gonzo says 9/11 caused a "nationwide nervous breakdown" -- and let the Bush crowd loot the country and savage American democracy.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/03/thompson/index_np.html
"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads?" he writes, referring to the people currently occupying the White House. "They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis."
Rest in peace, Hunter. Thank you for everything. We're going to deal with this Gannon/Guckert/Whoever person, and then move down the line and deal with the rest of the whores. You died on the eve of the birth of a new journalism, populist in nature, beholden to the truth and thanking the Google gods every step of the way. I wish you had stuck around to see it, but I'll tell you all about it when we meet at that clearing at the end of the path. Until then...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105Z.shtml
Hunter once wrote in 'The Great Shark Hunt' about walking in on two Secret Service agents sharing a joint back and forth in a hotel room. Maybe that's how Gannon/Guckert/Whoever got within pistol range of the leader of the free world. No other explanation seems to satisfy.
It comes down to this. The Bush crew has been caught in bed with the proverbial 'live boy.' Someone in that White House either eased Gannon/Guckert/Whoever through the 'hard pass' application process, which requires a thorough background check, or else smoothed the way for him to get day pass after day pass after day pass. Some complain that Gannon/Guckert/Whoever is being victimized for his political views. This misses the point. Someone let a working, advertising whore into the White House, and then was stupid enough to let him walk around alive and free after he blew his own cover. That's the point.
My hero died tonight. He was a flawed man, a maniac, in so many ways the antithesis of what a journalist is supposed to be. Worst of all, he told the truth. There is now one less warrior on this planet filled with Guckert clones, drones who get fed shit and regurgitate it wholesale for the masses because that is what we are trained to eat.
When the history of this era is written, people will wonder why we didn't challenge its excesses, why we didn't know the things we should have.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/editorial/10950740.htm
If you're still around, remember the uproar you do not hear right this moment, and tell them the truth: Ignorance was easier.
Bush administration blurs media boundary
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2352&ncid=2352&e=10&u=/csm/20050217/ts_csm/ajourno
First came video "news releases" produced by the Bush administration using a TV news format. Then came three conservative columnists who got big paychecks from federal agencies. Now, there's Jeff Gannon (not his real name), a journalist (maybe) who gained surprisingly easy access to the president, only to lob a sympathetically slanted question.
“At the moment the major press is under attack from ideologues on the right and left.”
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/21/4219954bc022f
“A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk.”
Blogs or Blotto?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer97.html
There is nothing "faddish" about the collapse of vertically-structured institutional systems, and the emergence of horizontal networks of interconnected individuals. Centralized systems are rapidly becoming decentralized – a matter about which I have written before – producing a fundamental change in how people will organize themselves in society. Because of the Internet, the information-genie has escaped its institutional confines – where it has been controlled, manipulated, and hidden from view, in furtherance of institutional interests to monopolize the content of the minds of subjugated men and women.
In our schools, children learn that the US fought the Vietnam war against a "communist threat" to "us".
http://207.44.245.159/article8112.htm
Is it any wonder that so many don't understand the truth about Iraq?
Among the believers
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/19/cpac/index_np.html
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, where rabid Bush-worshippers learn that liberals hate America and that we really did find WMD in Iraq.
U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals are not counted.
http://www.iraq-war.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=40295
They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.
Bush to Poor: Drop Dead
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0219-21.htm
What surprises me most about Bush's new Budget Proposal is that the front gates of the White House aren't being knocked down by legions of outraged clergy armed with spiked bats and pitchforks and acetylene torches screaming for the head of any of the leering corporate lackeys possessing even the remotest of roles in submitting this moral crime against humanity to Congress.
Mid-East peace is our goal - Bush
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4282051.stm
Thousands of protesters are expected to stage rallies during Mr Bush's first foreign tour since his second term in office began in January.
American troops prepare for assault on Sunni stronghold
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613165
There were no WMDs. Iraq and Al Qaeda were enemies. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Saddam is in jail. Iraq has had elections. Why is the killing still going on?
Blame America? When necessary, yes
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~155~2717811,00.html
As the Bush administration gears up for an invasion of Iran, Americans need to ask whether we can fight another pre-emptive war. To understand how wrong this doctrine really is, you need merely to reverse roles. Imagine that, in the face of all this saber-rattling, Iran decided to attack us pre-emptively. Would Americans shrug and say that it was legitimate for Iran to hit us first?
How many hundreds of billions will this war cost? Will the president give us an estimate beforehand or will he try to hide the costs as he's doing with the war in Iraq? Will American servicemen again be deployed for extended periods in a deadly conflict with vague goals and no exit strategy? How many of them will die fighting the president's pre-emptive wars?
How many more domestic programs will President Bush have to cut in order to finance the war? How much more debt will our nation take on in order to pay for it?
Outfoxed by bin Laden
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=4898
Any day now, the neocons may orchestrate a scenario that will suck the U.S. into a wider war that America has no possibility of winning. If the American people had the slightest sense of their danger, they would demand immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and accountability for the liars who orchestrated the ill-fated U.S. invasion.
Official: Attack on U.S. may be a 'matter of time'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/16/intelligence.threats.ap/index.html
"It may be only a matter of time before al Qaeda or other groups attempt to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons.
Chavez to suspend oil exports to US in case of assassination attempt
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=050220214200.4meabf8e.xml
"If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party on this planet whose name is the president of the United States, George Bush," Chavez said.
According to the Bush administration, it is Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s desire to purchase weapons from Russia that threatens to destabilize the Andean region, not the $3 billion in military aid that Washington has provided to Colombia over the past five years. Likewise, in the Middle East, it is Syria’s efforts to obtain purely defensive anti-aircraft missiles that pose a threat to that region, not the $1 billion a year in U.S. military aid to Israel. And on the nuclear front, while there is no evidence that Iran is intending to build nuclear weapons, it is the regime in Tehran that is threatening to further destabilize the region, not President Bush’s apparent pledge to support any future Israeli attack against Iran. Meanwhile, North Korea’s withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in order to develop nuclear weapons makes the Asian nation a “rogue state,” but Washington’s abandonment of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) to build its missile defense system, which could lead to the weaponization of space, apparently does not justify the same anti-multilateralist label being applied to the United States.
http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia203.htm
The hypocrisy of the Bush administration is clearly evident in its targeting of alleged rogue states—Venezuela, Syria, Iran and North Korea—while supporting non-democratic and repressive regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, among others. The Bush administration’s militaristic rhetoric and actions have not only resulted in increasing numbers of people around the globe viewing U.S. foreign policy as a significant destabilizing factor in international relations, it has also made clear exactly who is the world’s principle warmonger.
WHO IS SENDING YOUR CHILDREN OFF TO DIE IN WAR?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/offtowar.html
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has laid out the road map, with Iran, Libya and Syria next on the list: "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction," he told visiting U.S. congressmen, "and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve."
Mass Firings - Sharon Fights To Prevent Military Coup
http://www.rense.com/general63/firdst.htm
PM Sharon is now scrambling to prevent another attempt at a coup d'etat. The top echelons of the IDF, Shabak and intelligence community have all reached the same conclusions: the planned Gaza withdrawal will be a security disaster. Once the withdrawal is over, Israel will no longer be able to secure its southern coastal flank. This will be the first step in the dismantling of the country.
Baiting a Trap for Bush?
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=4894
No Arab nation has attacked the United States since the Barbary pirates, and none wants war with America. Only Osama, Sharon, and the neoconservatives look longingly to a "World War IV" and a "clash of civilizations" between America and Islam.
"Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists." He added, "These jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced and focus on acts of urban terrorism."
The war, said Mr. Goss, "has become a cause for extremists." In his view, "It may only be a matter of time before Al Qaeda or another group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/opinion/21herbert.html?hp&oref=login
What is also dismaying is the way in which the administration has taken every opportunity since Sept. 11, 2001, to utilize the lofty language of freedom, democracy and the rule of law while secretly pursuing policies that are both unjust and profoundly inhumane. It is the policy of the U.S. to deny due process of law to detainees at the scandalous interrogation camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where prisoners, many of whom have turned out to be innocent, are routinely treated in a cruel and degrading manner.
How Catholic conservatives got it wrong
http://commonwealmagazine.org/article.php?id_article=1032
Abu Ghraib presents a dilemma for Christian defenders of Bush’s “war” on terror. The argument that Abu Ghraib was just the work of “a few bad apples” might have convinced some, but it should give pause to theologians who spend so much time telling Americans how corrupted we have become because society has turned away from religious truth. I am sure George W. Bush meant what he said when he reacted to the photographs of tortured prisoners with “their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people.” But you don’t have to spend much time reading First Things or other “orthodox” critics of secularism to wonder about that. Christian conservatives regularly tell us how “barbarian” and “nihilist” we as a culture have become. Over and over again we are told about how debased American sexual practices are. War has always created its own horrors, but when you add soldiers produced in a culture as debased as First Things thinks this one is, Abu Ghraib should be no surprise at all. Surely, when seen through the lens of the conservative Christian indictment of American culture, the events at Abu Ghraib must raise the question of whether America can produce soldiers capable of jus in bello.
An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA interrogation while in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture — suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back.
http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2005_02_13.html#002057
The prisoner died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging," the documents reviewed by The AP show. It is unclear whether that position was approved by the Bush administration for use in CIA interrogations.
Iraqi women no better off post-Saddam - Amnesty
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005022113450002453854&dt=20050221134500&w=RTR&coview=
"Women have been subjected to sexual threats by members of the U.S.-led forces and some women detained by U.S. forces have been sexually abused, possibly raped," it added.
Iraq: Bush Must Negotiate
http://antiwar.com/justin/
Secret talks with insurgents signal hope for peace
Talking with the Enemy
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1029805,00.html
Inside the secret dialogue between the U.S. and insurgents in Iraq—and what the rebels say they want
Reuters: U.S. in Secret Talks with Iraqi Insurgents
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050220/ts_nm/iraq_sunni_talks_dc
The Bush administration has said it would not negotiate with Iraqi fighters and there is no authorized dialogue but the U.S. is having "back-channel" communications with certain insurgents
Insurgents Wage Precise Attacks on Baghdad Fuel
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/international/middleeast/21sabotage.html?hp&ex=1109048400&en=42d988dc64929643&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Entire US column reported wiped out in ambush near Iranian border
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293392521
US helicopters arrived on the scene 20 minutes after the battle and began revenge attacks on the local people. The US aircraft rocketed four houses, killing 19 Iraqi civilians, including 11 women and children, according to the account of al-Mundhiriyah General Hospital.
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action February 19, while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050229.txt
I MEF force protection measures preclude the release of any information that could aid enemy personnel in assessing the effectiveness, or lack thereof, with regard to their tactics, techniques and procedures. The release of more details about the incident could place our personnel at greater risk.
Bush Demands Action From Iran and Syria
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050221&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20050221_923&src=abc
"All nations now have an interest in the success of a free and democratic Iraq, which will fight terror, which will be a beacon of freedom and which will be a source of true stability in the region."
Bush Urges Allies to 'Move Beyond Iraq'
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_eu/bush
Bush Issues Forceful Words to Iran, Syria
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD, Iraq There have been more explosions in Baghdad.
http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5155&ContentID=x51828&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154&URL=http://localhost/apwirefeed/d88cscn00.xml&NewsSection=InternationalHeadlines Associated Press Television News footage shows an injured American soldier being treated by other troops near an overturned Humvee from one of at least a-half dozen blasts.
Military offering more, and bigger, bonuses
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-20-military-bonuses_x.htm
'More of a mercenary role'
Army Having Difficulty Meeting Goals In Recruiting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40469-2005Feb20?language=printer
Army officials see worrisome signs that young American men and women -- and their parents -- are growing wary of military service, largely because of the Iraq conflict.
Bush due in Brussels to kiss and make up with Europe
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=5&u=/afp/20050220/ts_afp/usbusheunato_050220022333 Bush said that talk of a US military strike on Iran's nuclear programs was "just not the truth."
Israel presses U.S. to stop Iran’s nuclear program
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7102 The U.S. “would have no problem” attacking Iran!
The US primes Israel to attack Iran and Syria
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery114.htm
The plan is simple. Israel bombs Iran, knowing that Iran has to march through the US troops already in Iraq in order to strike back.
SCOTT RITTER SAYS U.S. PLANS JUNE ATTACK ON IRAN
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293393206
George W. Bush has received and signed off on orders for an aerial attack on Iran planned for June 2005.
Syria says it will withdraw troops from the Lebanon
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1493978,00.html
Syria says it is willing to withdraw its troops from neighbouring Lebanon, after fifteen years of effective military occupation.
Bush demands end to Syrian 'occupation' of Lebanon
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12765
"In Iran, the free world shares a common goal for the sake of peace," Bush said. "The Iranian regime must end support for terrorism and must not develop nuclear weapons," he added.
Iran denies rumors it has arrested bin Laden
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm
The Saudi-born militant is blamed for the September 11, 2001 terror strikes on the United States and a string of other attacks around the world.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring
It's been 1, 253 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!
http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/Osama_Clock.html
Usama bin Laden:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:The Dead Voice of "al Qaeda" in Iraq
Homosexual press hot to 'out' Bush figures
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42954
"The Bush administration is the gayest in memory, although they are all quivering in the closet, or is that gyrating on the Internet?" Gannon is now considering suing the bloggers, "liberal interest groups" and others for the "political assassination" that drove him from his reporting job, he tells Newsweek in its current edition.
"So you're not gay if you're on top."
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05031.html
The worst reality for America is not that some of the top bulldog Republicans are screwing other gay Bush Republicans; it's that they are screwing democracy.
Who Allowed Gay Prostitutes To Freely Roam The West Wing Of The White House?
http://americablog.blogspot.com
Say what you will about Monika Lewinsky - a tasteless episode, "inappropriate," whatever. Monika wasn't a gay prostitute running around the West Wing. What kind of leadership would let prostitutes roam the halls of the West Wing? What kind of war-time leadership can't find the same information that took bloggers only days to find?
Tapes Show Bush Likes Gays And Smoked Pot
http://www.rense.com/general63/AGAY.HTM
President Apparently Admits Drug Use, Says He Wouldn't Bash Gays
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/4216141/detail.html
"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried. ... Do you want your little kid to say, 'Hey Daddy, President Bush tried marijuana and I think I will.' " George W. Bush
"The cocaine thing, let me tell you my strategy on that," Bush said on the tape. "Rather than saying no … I think it's time for someone to draw the line and look people in the eye and say, you know, 'I'm not going to participate in ugly rumors about me and blame my opponent,' and hold the line. Stand up for a system that will not allow this kind of crap to go on."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=518678&page=1
Bush has acknowledged having a problem with alcohol in the past but has not publicly admitted any illegal drug use.
Bush burning over tapes
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/283029p-242478c.html
He's feeling betrayed by stealthy pal
Warning! more Rovian tricks! Red Herring!
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/311181.shtml
Its all to get focus off of the Gannon Gay Prostitution White House connection.
Why isn't Bob Novak going to jail?
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05049/459428.stm
And then, with the announcement that "Jeff Gannon," a proud sycophant of the White House press corps, is actually James Guckert, a Republican dirty trickster and homosexual prostitute, one has to wonder whether this administration's contempt for journalists knows any bounds.
As bad as things are now, there's still room for it to get a little worse.
Where Was The Press When This Was Going On?
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0220-21.htm
"The blogging world did what the lackey mainstream press will no longer do, expose a story that is at the epicenter of the deceit and propaganda media campaign central to how the Bush Cartel continues to control America?"
An unscripted, off the cuff, unflattering remark about the President’s agenda or policies can cost a journalist his job.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1021
...in Bush’s New World Order, by February 7, 2005, seasoned journalist Jordan had already been driven from his newsroom -- permanently. So then the issue is not simply whether or not journalists are targeted in Iraq by American troops, which is still unresolved. Rather, today’s issue is that American journalists who open their mouths and don't follow some kind of ideological line are targeted at home. For a free and democratic society, that should be frightening.
Credible Evidence Emerges That Jeff Gannon Coordinated With the G.O.P. to Bring Down Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) in 2004 Election
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/credible-evidence-emerges-that-jeff.html
Despite the best efforts of the Corporate Media the Gannon Scandal kept rolling last week. Since last week's Idiots, a number of new stories have come to light. First, it was revealed that Gannon was in fact selling himself for sex online while he was a member of the White House press corps. Then it came out that Gannon was actually in the White House as early as February 28, 2003 - a month before Talon News even existed, which completely disproves White House press secretary Scott McClellan's recent statement that "[Gannon], like anyone else, showed that he was representing a news organization that published regularly, and so he was cleared two years ago to receive daily passes, just like many others are." (Maureen Dowd meanwhile revealed that White House press passes simply aren't that easy to come by.)http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/05/187.html
There are two reasons why the Corporate Media is shying away from the Jeff Gannon scandal. The first is obvious: they're plain scared of getting scooped by a bunch of bloggers who have nothing but facts at their fingertips and a willingness to actually ask questions that people want the answers to. The second reason is more insidious: the Jeff Gannon story doesn't support "conventional wisdom," and if it doesn't support conventional wisdom then the Corporate Media doesn't want to know. ¶ 21.2.05 0 Comments
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2723492,00.html
The godfather of gonzo says 9/11 caused a "nationwide nervous breakdown" -- and let the Bush crowd loot the country and savage American democracy.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/03/thompson/index_np.html
"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads?" he writes, referring to the people currently occupying the White House. "They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis."
Rest in peace, Hunter. Thank you for everything. We're going to deal with this Gannon/Guckert/Whoever person, and then move down the line and deal with the rest of the whores. You died on the eve of the birth of a new journalism, populist in nature, beholden to the truth and thanking the Google gods every step of the way. I wish you had stuck around to see it, but I'll tell you all about it when we meet at that clearing at the end of the path. Until then...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105Z.shtml
Hunter once wrote in 'The Great Shark Hunt' about walking in on two Secret Service agents sharing a joint back and forth in a hotel room. Maybe that's how Gannon/Guckert/Whoever got within pistol range of the leader of the free world. No other explanation seems to satisfy.
It comes down to this. The Bush crew has been caught in bed with the proverbial 'live boy.' Someone in that White House either eased Gannon/Guckert/Whoever through the 'hard pass' application process, which requires a thorough background check, or else smoothed the way for him to get day pass after day pass after day pass. Some complain that Gannon/Guckert/Whoever is being victimized for his political views. This misses the point. Someone let a working, advertising whore into the White House, and then was stupid enough to let him walk around alive and free after he blew his own cover. That's the point.
My hero died tonight. He was a flawed man, a maniac, in so many ways the antithesis of what a journalist is supposed to be. Worst of all, he told the truth. There is now one less warrior on this planet filled with Guckert clones, drones who get fed shit and regurgitate it wholesale for the masses because that is what we are trained to eat.
When the history of this era is written, people will wonder why we didn't challenge its excesses, why we didn't know the things we should have.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/editorial/10950740.htm
If you're still around, remember the uproar you do not hear right this moment, and tell them the truth: Ignorance was easier.
Bush administration blurs media boundary
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2352&ncid=2352&e=10&u=/csm/20050217/ts_csm/ajourno
First came video "news releases" produced by the Bush administration using a TV news format. Then came three conservative columnists who got big paychecks from federal agencies. Now, there's Jeff Gannon (not his real name), a journalist (maybe) who gained surprisingly easy access to the president, only to lob a sympathetically slanted question.
“At the moment the major press is under attack from ideologues on the right and left.”
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/21/4219954bc022f
“A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk.”
Blogs or Blotto?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer97.html
There is nothing "faddish" about the collapse of vertically-structured institutional systems, and the emergence of horizontal networks of interconnected individuals. Centralized systems are rapidly becoming decentralized – a matter about which I have written before – producing a fundamental change in how people will organize themselves in society. Because of the Internet, the information-genie has escaped its institutional confines – where it has been controlled, manipulated, and hidden from view, in furtherance of institutional interests to monopolize the content of the minds of subjugated men and women.
In our schools, children learn that the US fought the Vietnam war against a "communist threat" to "us".
http://207.44.245.159/article8112.htm
Is it any wonder that so many don't understand the truth about Iraq?
Among the believers
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/19/cpac/index_np.html
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, where rabid Bush-worshippers learn that liberals hate America and that we really did find WMD in Iraq.
U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals are not counted.
http://www.iraq-war.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=40295
They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.
Bush to Poor: Drop Dead
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0219-21.htm
What surprises me most about Bush's new Budget Proposal is that the front gates of the White House aren't being knocked down by legions of outraged clergy armed with spiked bats and pitchforks and acetylene torches screaming for the head of any of the leering corporate lackeys possessing even the remotest of roles in submitting this moral crime against humanity to Congress.
Mid-East peace is our goal - Bush
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4282051.stm
Thousands of protesters are expected to stage rallies during Mr Bush's first foreign tour since his second term in office began in January.
American troops prepare for assault on Sunni stronghold
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613165
There were no WMDs. Iraq and Al Qaeda were enemies. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Saddam is in jail. Iraq has had elections. Why is the killing still going on?
Blame America? When necessary, yes
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~155~2717811,00.html
As the Bush administration gears up for an invasion of Iran, Americans need to ask whether we can fight another pre-emptive war. To understand how wrong this doctrine really is, you need merely to reverse roles. Imagine that, in the face of all this saber-rattling, Iran decided to attack us pre-emptively. Would Americans shrug and say that it was legitimate for Iran to hit us first?
How many hundreds of billions will this war cost? Will the president give us an estimate beforehand or will he try to hide the costs as he's doing with the war in Iraq? Will American servicemen again be deployed for extended periods in a deadly conflict with vague goals and no exit strategy? How many of them will die fighting the president's pre-emptive wars?
How many more domestic programs will President Bush have to cut in order to finance the war? How much more debt will our nation take on in order to pay for it?
Outfoxed by bin Laden
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=4898
Any day now, the neocons may orchestrate a scenario that will suck the U.S. into a wider war that America has no possibility of winning. If the American people had the slightest sense of their danger, they would demand immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and accountability for the liars who orchestrated the ill-fated U.S. invasion.
Official: Attack on U.S. may be a 'matter of time'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/16/intelligence.threats.ap/index.html
"It may be only a matter of time before al Qaeda or other groups attempt to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons.
Chavez to suspend oil exports to US in case of assassination attempt
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=050220214200.4meabf8e.xml
"If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party on this planet whose name is the president of the United States, George Bush," Chavez said.
According to the Bush administration, it is Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s desire to purchase weapons from Russia that threatens to destabilize the Andean region, not the $3 billion in military aid that Washington has provided to Colombia over the past five years. Likewise, in the Middle East, it is Syria’s efforts to obtain purely defensive anti-aircraft missiles that pose a threat to that region, not the $1 billion a year in U.S. military aid to Israel. And on the nuclear front, while there is no evidence that Iran is intending to build nuclear weapons, it is the regime in Tehran that is threatening to further destabilize the region, not President Bush’s apparent pledge to support any future Israeli attack against Iran. Meanwhile, North Korea’s withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in order to develop nuclear weapons makes the Asian nation a “rogue state,” but Washington’s abandonment of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) to build its missile defense system, which could lead to the weaponization of space, apparently does not justify the same anti-multilateralist label being applied to the United States.
http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia203.htm
The hypocrisy of the Bush administration is clearly evident in its targeting of alleged rogue states—Venezuela, Syria, Iran and North Korea—while supporting non-democratic and repressive regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, among others. The Bush administration’s militaristic rhetoric and actions have not only resulted in increasing numbers of people around the globe viewing U.S. foreign policy as a significant destabilizing factor in international relations, it has also made clear exactly who is the world’s principle warmonger.
WHO IS SENDING YOUR CHILDREN OFF TO DIE IN WAR?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/offtowar.html
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has laid out the road map, with Iran, Libya and Syria next on the list: "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction," he told visiting U.S. congressmen, "and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve."
Mass Firings - Sharon Fights To Prevent Military Coup
http://www.rense.com/general63/firdst.htm
PM Sharon is now scrambling to prevent another attempt at a coup d'etat. The top echelons of the IDF, Shabak and intelligence community have all reached the same conclusions: the planned Gaza withdrawal will be a security disaster. Once the withdrawal is over, Israel will no longer be able to secure its southern coastal flank. This will be the first step in the dismantling of the country.
Baiting a Trap for Bush?
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=4894
No Arab nation has attacked the United States since the Barbary pirates, and none wants war with America. Only Osama, Sharon, and the neoconservatives look longingly to a "World War IV" and a "clash of civilizations" between America and Islam.
"Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists." He added, "These jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced and focus on acts of urban terrorism."
The war, said Mr. Goss, "has become a cause for extremists." In his view, "It may only be a matter of time before Al Qaeda or another group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/opinion/21herbert.html?hp&oref=login
What is also dismaying is the way in which the administration has taken every opportunity since Sept. 11, 2001, to utilize the lofty language of freedom, democracy and the rule of law while secretly pursuing policies that are both unjust and profoundly inhumane. It is the policy of the U.S. to deny due process of law to detainees at the scandalous interrogation camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where prisoners, many of whom have turned out to be innocent, are routinely treated in a cruel and degrading manner.
How Catholic conservatives got it wrong
http://commonwealmagazine.org/article.php?id_article=1032
Abu Ghraib presents a dilemma for Christian defenders of Bush’s “war” on terror. The argument that Abu Ghraib was just the work of “a few bad apples” might have convinced some, but it should give pause to theologians who spend so much time telling Americans how corrupted we have become because society has turned away from religious truth. I am sure George W. Bush meant what he said when he reacted to the photographs of tortured prisoners with “their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people.” But you don’t have to spend much time reading First Things or other “orthodox” critics of secularism to wonder about that. Christian conservatives regularly tell us how “barbarian” and “nihilist” we as a culture have become. Over and over again we are told about how debased American sexual practices are. War has always created its own horrors, but when you add soldiers produced in a culture as debased as First Things thinks this one is, Abu Ghraib should be no surprise at all. Surely, when seen through the lens of the conservative Christian indictment of American culture, the events at Abu Ghraib must raise the question of whether America can produce soldiers capable of jus in bello.
An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA interrogation while in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture — suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back.
http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2005_02_13.html#002057
The prisoner died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging," the documents reviewed by The AP show. It is unclear whether that position was approved by the Bush administration for use in CIA interrogations.
Iraqi women no better off post-Saddam - Amnesty
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005022113450002453854&dt=20050221134500&w=RTR&coview=
"Women have been subjected to sexual threats by members of the U.S.-led forces and some women detained by U.S. forces have been sexually abused, possibly raped," it added.
Iraq: Bush Must Negotiate
http://antiwar.com/justin/
Secret talks with insurgents signal hope for peace
Talking with the Enemy
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1029805,00.html
Inside the secret dialogue between the U.S. and insurgents in Iraq—and what the rebels say they want
Reuters: U.S. in Secret Talks with Iraqi Insurgents
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050220/ts_nm/iraq_sunni_talks_dc
The Bush administration has said it would not negotiate with Iraqi fighters and there is no authorized dialogue but the U.S. is having "back-channel" communications with certain insurgents
Insurgents Wage Precise Attacks on Baghdad Fuel
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/international/middleeast/21sabotage.html?hp&ex=1109048400&en=42d988dc64929643&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Entire US column reported wiped out in ambush near Iranian border
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293392521
US helicopters arrived on the scene 20 minutes after the battle and began revenge attacks on the local people. The US aircraft rocketed four houses, killing 19 Iraqi civilians, including 11 women and children, according to the account of al-Mundhiriyah General Hospital.
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action February 19, while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050229.txt
I MEF force protection measures preclude the release of any information that could aid enemy personnel in assessing the effectiveness, or lack thereof, with regard to their tactics, techniques and procedures. The release of more details about the incident could place our personnel at greater risk.
Bush Demands Action From Iran and Syria
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050221&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20050221_923&src=abc
"All nations now have an interest in the success of a free and democratic Iraq, which will fight terror, which will be a beacon of freedom and which will be a source of true stability in the region."
Bush Urges Allies to 'Move Beyond Iraq'
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_eu/bush
Bush Issues Forceful Words to Iran, Syria
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD, Iraq There have been more explosions in Baghdad.
http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5155&ContentID=x51828&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154&URL=http://localhost/apwirefeed/d88cscn00.xml&NewsSection=InternationalHeadlines Associated Press Television News footage shows an injured American soldier being treated by other troops near an overturned Humvee from one of at least a-half dozen blasts.
Military offering more, and bigger, bonuses
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-20-military-bonuses_x.htm
'More of a mercenary role'
Army Having Difficulty Meeting Goals In Recruiting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40469-2005Feb20?language=printer
Army officials see worrisome signs that young American men and women -- and their parents -- are growing wary of military service, largely because of the Iraq conflict.
Bush due in Brussels to kiss and make up with Europe
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=5&u=/afp/20050220/ts_afp/usbusheunato_050220022333 Bush said that talk of a US military strike on Iran's nuclear programs was "just not the truth."
Israel presses U.S. to stop Iran’s nuclear program
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7102 The U.S. “would have no problem” attacking Iran!
The US primes Israel to attack Iran and Syria
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery114.htm
The plan is simple. Israel bombs Iran, knowing that Iran has to march through the US troops already in Iraq in order to strike back.
SCOTT RITTER SAYS U.S. PLANS JUNE ATTACK ON IRAN
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293393206
George W. Bush has received and signed off on orders for an aerial attack on Iran planned for June 2005.
Syria says it will withdraw troops from the Lebanon
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1493978,00.html
Syria says it is willing to withdraw its troops from neighbouring Lebanon, after fifteen years of effective military occupation.
Bush demands end to Syrian 'occupation' of Lebanon
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12765
"In Iran, the free world shares a common goal for the sake of peace," Bush said. "The Iranian regime must end support for terrorism and must not develop nuclear weapons," he added.
Iran denies rumors it has arrested bin Laden
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm
The Saudi-born militant is blamed for the September 11, 2001 terror strikes on the United States and a string of other attacks around the world.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring
It's been 1, 253 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!
http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/Osama_Clock.html
Usama bin Laden:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:The Dead Voice of "al Qaeda" in Iraq
Homosexual press hot to 'out' Bush figures
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42954
"The Bush administration is the gayest in memory, although they are all quivering in the closet, or is that gyrating on the Internet?" Gannon is now considering suing the bloggers, "liberal interest groups" and others for the "political assassination" that drove him from his reporting job, he tells Newsweek in its current edition.
"So you're not gay if you're on top."
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05031.html
The worst reality for America is not that some of the top bulldog Republicans are screwing other gay Bush Republicans; it's that they are screwing democracy.
Who Allowed Gay Prostitutes To Freely Roam The West Wing Of The White House?
http://americablog.blogspot.com
Say what you will about Monika Lewinsky - a tasteless episode, "inappropriate," whatever. Monika wasn't a gay prostitute running around the West Wing. What kind of leadership would let prostitutes roam the halls of the West Wing? What kind of war-time leadership can't find the same information that took bloggers only days to find?
Tapes Show Bush Likes Gays And Smoked Pot
http://www.rense.com/general63/AGAY.HTM
President Apparently Admits Drug Use, Says He Wouldn't Bash Gays
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/4216141/detail.html
"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried. ... Do you want your little kid to say, 'Hey Daddy, President Bush tried marijuana and I think I will.' " George W. Bush
"The cocaine thing, let me tell you my strategy on that," Bush said on the tape. "Rather than saying no … I think it's time for someone to draw the line and look people in the eye and say, you know, 'I'm not going to participate in ugly rumors about me and blame my opponent,' and hold the line. Stand up for a system that will not allow this kind of crap to go on."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=518678&page=1
Bush has acknowledged having a problem with alcohol in the past but has not publicly admitted any illegal drug use.
Bush burning over tapes
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/283029p-242478c.html
He's feeling betrayed by stealthy pal
Warning! more Rovian tricks! Red Herring!
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/311181.shtml
Its all to get focus off of the Gannon Gay Prostitution White House connection.
Why isn't Bob Novak going to jail?
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05049/459428.stm
And then, with the announcement that "Jeff Gannon," a proud sycophant of the White House press corps, is actually James Guckert, a Republican dirty trickster and homosexual prostitute, one has to wonder whether this administration's contempt for journalists knows any bounds.
As bad as things are now, there's still room for it to get a little worse.
Where Was The Press When This Was Going On?
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0220-21.htm
"The blogging world did what the lackey mainstream press will no longer do, expose a story that is at the epicenter of the deceit and propaganda media campaign central to how the Bush Cartel continues to control America?"
An unscripted, off the cuff, unflattering remark about the President’s agenda or policies can cost a journalist his job.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1021
...in Bush’s New World Order, by February 7, 2005, seasoned journalist Jordan had already been driven from his newsroom -- permanently. So then the issue is not simply whether or not journalists are targeted in Iraq by American troops, which is still unresolved. Rather, today’s issue is that American journalists who open their mouths and don't follow some kind of ideological line are targeted at home. For a free and democratic society, that should be frightening.
Credible Evidence Emerges That Jeff Gannon Coordinated With the G.O.P. to Bring Down Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) in 2004 Election
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/credible-evidence-emerges-that-jeff.html
Despite the best efforts of the Corporate Media the Gannon Scandal kept rolling last week. Since last week's Idiots, a number of new stories have come to light. First, it was revealed that Gannon was in fact selling himself for sex online while he was a member of the White House press corps. Then it came out that Gannon was actually in the White House as early as February 28, 2003 - a month before Talon News even existed, which completely disproves White House press secretary Scott McClellan's recent statement that "[Gannon], like anyone else, showed that he was representing a news organization that published regularly, and so he was cleared two years ago to receive daily passes, just like many others are." (Maureen Dowd meanwhile revealed that White House press passes simply aren't that easy to come by.)http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/05/187.html
There are two reasons why the Corporate Media is shying away from the Jeff Gannon scandal. The first is obvious: they're plain scared of getting scooped by a bunch of bloggers who have nothing but facts at their fingertips and a willingness to actually ask questions that people want the answers to. The second reason is more insidious: the Jeff Gannon story doesn't support "conventional wisdom," and if it doesn't support conventional wisdom then the Corporate Media doesn't want to know. ¶ 21.2.05 0 Comments
