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RIP: Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65

2005-12-10T15:54:00.000-08:00

Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood’s biggest black stars, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 65.
Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor

It’s never too late to appreciate Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks

SacredCow-Bill Hicks
SacredCow-Bill Hicks

What Good is Government?

2005-09-08T22:25:00.000-07:00

Katrina and the End of Illusions by Justin Raimondo
My advice to our rulers: forget that other insurgency in the Middle East, and attend to the one germinating in your own backyard – before it overtakes you.

Hurricane Katrina
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FAILURE$ & MI$TAKE$
FEMA
WHITEHOUSE
Department of Homeland Security

BUSH IRAN NUKE TERROR DRILL AUG. 17TH

2005-08-14T18:53:00.000-07:00

Key General fired as nuke terror drill set for Aug 17
News is flying in regard to the nuclear terror drill set for this month. It is feared by informed researchers that an actual nuclear detonation may be piggybacked on the drill, as was the modus operandi in the 9/11 and 7/7 inside jobs.

Bush hints at military option for Iran
"The use of force is the last option for any president. You know we have used force in the recent past to secure our country," he said in a clear reference to Iraq.

Israel’s Nuclear Puzzle Resolved: But To What End?
The BBC’s striking revelations regarding the secretive and disconcerting British role in making an Israeli nuclear bomb possible, deserves more than a quick pause and a few dozen news reports.

What's the NWO Planning?

2005-08-08T23:42:00.000-07:00

In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran.

The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.

THE "SELLING OUT" OF AMERICA
“Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America”.
“Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America”.

WHY THE BORDER PATROL CAN’T DO ITS JOB
Finally, what happens when we allow the next 10 or 20 million uneducated, unskilled, antagonistic and un-American people into our country? Will we survive their rancor, their anger, their loud music, their drunken driving and their disrespect to our nation?

Congress Wastes Billions Overseas

2005-07-22T14:04:00.000-07:00

Congress Wastes Billions Overseas
by Rep. Ron Paul BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - July 20, 2005

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this foreign relations authorization bill. Something has gone terribly wrong with our foreign policy when we feel we must take almost 21 billion dollars out of the pockets of the American taxpayer and ship it overseas. Imagine what the Founders of this country would say if they were among us to see this blatant disregard for the Constitution and for the founding principles of this country. This bill proceeds from the view that with enough money we can buy friends and influence foreign governments. But as history shows us, we cannot. The trillions of dollars we have shipped overseas as aid, and to influence and manipulate political affairs in sovereign countries, has not made life better for American citizens. It has made them much poorer without much to show for it, however....

Ron Paul-Congress Wastes Billions Overseas
Ron Paul-Congress Wastes Billions Overseas

H.R.2601
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007 (Introduced in House)
Search H.R.2601

A SLICE FROM THE BILL:

TITLE I--AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 101. ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State under `Administration of Foreign Affairs' to carry out the authorities, functions, duties, and responsibilities in the conduct of foreign affairs of the United States and for other purposes authorized by law:

(1) DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS- For `Diplomatic and Consular Programs', $3,769,118,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $3,896,611,500 for fiscal year 2007.

(A) WORLDWIDE SECURITY UPGRADES- In addition to amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), $689,523,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $710,208,690 for fiscal year 2007, are authorized to be appropriated for worldwide security upgrades.

(B) PUBLIC DIPLOMACY- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), $333,863,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $343,699,000 for fiscal year 2007, are authorized to be appropriated for public diplomacy.

(C) BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, are authorized to be appropriated for salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

(D) ANTI-SEMITISM- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), $225,000 for fiscal year 2006 and $225,000 for fiscal year 2007 are authorized to be appropriated for necessary expenses to fund secondments, hiring of staff, and support targeted projects of the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) regarding anti-Semitism and intolerance and for the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Hate Crimes Training Program.

(E) RELIGIOUS FREEDOM-

(i) IN GENERAL- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), $205,000 for fiscal year 2006 and $205,000 for fiscal year 2007 are authorized to be appropriated for necessary expenses to fund activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe relating to freedom of religion and belief.

(ii) OSCE PROJECTS, ACTIVITIES, AND MISSIONS-

(I) PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subparagraph (A), $125,000 for fiscal year 2006 and $125,000 for fiscal year 2007 are authorized to be appropriated for necessary expenses to fund for secondments, hiring of staff, and support targeted projects of the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) regarding religious freedom and for the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

(II) MISSIONS- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subparagraph (A), $80,000 for fiscal year 2006 and $80,000 for fiscal year 2007 are authorized to be appropriated for OSCE Missions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for activities to address issues relating to religious freedom and belief and to fund the hiring of new staff who are dedicated to religious freedom and belief.

(F) CHARLES B. RANGEL INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS PROGRAM- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2006 and $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2007 are authorized to be appropriated for the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program at Howard University.

(2) CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND- For `Capital Investment Fund', $131,000,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $131,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.

(3) EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE- For `Embassy Security, Construction and Maintenance', $1,526,000,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $1,550,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.

(4) EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS-

(A) IN GENERAL- For `Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs', $428,900,000 for the fiscal year 2006, and $438,500,000 for fiscal year 2007.

(B) SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR KOREAN STUDENT LEADERS- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subparagraph (A), $750,000 for fiscal year 2006 and $750,000 for fiscal year 2007 are authorized to be appropriated for summer academic study programs in the United States (focusing on United States political systems, government institutions, society, and democratic culture) for college and university students from the Republic of Korea, to be known as the `United States Summer Institutes for Korean Student Leaders'.

(C) SUDANESE SCHOLARSHIPS- Of the amounts authorized to be available under subparagraph (A), $500,000 for fiscal year 2004 and $500,000 for fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be available for scholarships for students from southern Sudan for secondary or postsecondary education in the United States, to be known as `Sudanese Scholarships'.

(5) REPRESENTATION ALLOWANCES- For `Representation Allowances', $8,281,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $8,281,000 for fiscal year 2007.

(6) PROTECTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND OFFICIALS- For `Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials', $9,390,000 for fiscal year 2006 and $9,390,000 for fiscal year 2007.

(7) EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE- For `Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service', $12,143,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $12,143,000 for fiscal year 2007.

(8) REPATRIATION LOANS- For `Repatriation Loans', $1,319,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $1,319,000 for fiscal year 2007.

(9) PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN- For `Payment to the American Institute in Taiwan', $19,751,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $20,146,020 for fiscal year 2007.

(10) OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL- For `Office of the Inspector General', $29,983,000 for fiscal year 2006, and $29,983,000 for fiscal year 2007.

NWO: MURDER in LONDON

2005-07-08T18:23:00.000-07:00

London Terror Mystery
What did Bibi know –
and when did he know it?

What's Behind the London Attacks?
The bombing of the London Underground was a false-flag operation designed to keep the West mired in war. Don't believe otherwise.

London has bombed itself before
London

Rise of The G8 New World Order
The attacks conform to a pattern of civilian-directed psychological operations, of which the Bali and Madrid bombings were a precedent. A claim of responsibility from a previously unknown Al-Qaida group provided an immediate scapegoat. Telephone networks in London may have been disabled to increase the psychological effect.

Can the UN Really be Reformed? by Ron Paul
Mark my words, in five years nobody will be talking about UN reform and our dues payments will be higher than ever?

Wash Post desperately trying to ignore liberty-minded bloggers
In UnderReported.com's "media trying to [fill in the blank] blogs" series, we've seen the traditional media first ignore, then attempt to scare blogs. Now today the Washington Post is embracing blogs -- but only those that identify themselves as liberal or conservative. The Post not only is ignoring liberty-minded blogs in today's article (that ran on the front page of the Style section), it mischaracterizes the blogosphere as implying they don't even exist.

The G8 Summit: A Fraud and a Circus
The front page of the London Observer on 12 June announced, "55 billion Africa debt deal 'a victory for millions'." The "victory for millions" is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, "Tomorrow 280 million Africans will wake up for the first time in their lives without owing you or me a penny...". The nonsense of this would be breathtaking if the reader's breath had not already been extracted by the unrelenting sophistry of Geldof, Bono, Blair, the Observer et al.

Unknown group says Qaeda carried out London attacks
The "Secret Group of al Qaeda's Jihad in Europe" said in a Web site posting that it was behind the explosions.

London: Terror, False Flag, or Precursor Event?
We're watching the "pile on" press spread terror fears which really plays into the hands of whoever was behind today's attacks.

Explosions In London - Who Stands To Gain? Israel Warned, Cover-up In Progress
"The Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address and economic summit."

Bush Insider Claim WTC Collapse Bogus Gets 'Huge Response' And Read By Millions Worldwide
Two weeks ago, the former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush’s first term told the world he thought the WTC fell from a controlled demolition, indicating 9/11 was "an inside government job."

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11
"It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings."

Eye Witness Hears Explosions at WTC; Scientific Group SPINE Provides Sophisticated Analysis
Most people admit, 9/11 is the 'mother of all stories.' Now from all corners of the globe, conservatives and liberals are mounting a growing campaign to alert the public that the WTC was leveled by a controlled demolition not burning jet fuel like the government contends?

Morgan Reynolds: Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse?
If we put the murder of 2,749 innocent victims momentarily aside, the only unusual technical feature of the collapses of the twin towers was that the explosions began at the top, immediately followed by explosions from below. WTC-7, by contrast, was entirely conventional, imploding from bottom up.

Need a washing machine? Buy it from an American company....buy a Maytag! Better hurry, though, because it looks like Maytag is about to be bought out by China's Haier Group
Buy American! (While You Still Can)

Chinese snap up brand-name U.S. firms
By 2025, Chinese investors could own two-dozen of the Fortune 500 companies

237 Documented Administration Lies to Public, Congress, About Iraq 'Threat,' bin Laden Ties
237 Administration Lies.

Our currency and our economy are held hostage by Asia
The hardest blow on Americans will fall when China does revalue its currency. When China’s currency ceases to be undervalued, American shoppers in Wal-Mart, where 70 percent of the goods on the shelves are made in China, will think they are in Neiman Marcus. Price increases will cause a dramatic reduction in American real incomes. If this coincides with rising interest rates and a setback in the housing market, American consumers will experience the hardest times since the Great Depression.

Three reasons Washington’s empire-builders don’t have to worry about ’60s-style dissent—not including the volunteer Army
How They Get Away With It.

The Futility of Throwing Money
Why does poverty exist even in the richest nations?

FBI PROTECTS OSAMA BIN LADEN’S “RIGHT TO PRIVACY” IN DOCUMENT RELEASE
Judicial Watch Investigation Uncovers FBI Documents Concerning Bin Laden Family and Post-9/11 Flights.

Summertime Reading by Ralph Nader
Ah, summertime reading. Set aside the e-mails, close down the computer and pick up some good books. Here are some worthy suggestions ala non-fiction.

Database of 11 million job applicants' honesty/psych tests
Even before the candidates had stepped through the door for the group interview, their fate had been largely determined by a computer. They had taken a 50-minute online test that asked them to rate to what degree they agreed or disagreed with statements such as, "It's maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free," "You don't worry about making a good impression" and "You could describe yourself as 'tidy'."

Declaration of Independence

2005-07-04T10:09:00.000-07:00

Bush administration annexes internet
In a worrying U-turn, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has made it clear it intends to retain control of the internet's root servers indefinitely. It was due to relinquish that control in September 2006, when its contract with overseeing body ICANN ended.

Source Confirms Karl Rove as Plame Leaker
"I revealed in yesterday's taping of the McLaughlin Group that Time magazine's e-mails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source. I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury.

China-Russia statement on new world order
Setting forth their common stand on major international issues, such as UN reforms, globalization, North-South cooperation, and world economy and trade.

For the gifts, or for the people? Live 8 Philly performers get freebies
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that celebrities at the event will be given designer suits, satellite radio subscriptions, Gibson guitars, $125 ties, $330 sweat suits and watches worth between $1,500 and $6,000. Total worth: $12,000.

LIVE8LIVE
live8live.

US Border Agents Under Siege at the Mexican Border
Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot with high-powered firearms just north of the Mexican border Thursday afternoon-The Tucson Sector recorded 195 assaults including rock throwing, vehicle attacks and shootings against agents since Oct. 1, the start of the federal fiscal year.

US Codex delegation poised to betray the will of the American people
Codex is a joint venture between the United Nation's World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization. (WHO/FAO) The World Trade Organization (WTO) has already stated that it will enforce Codex "guidelines" as the world standard for trade in dietary supplements. This will mean that gradually, pill-by-pill, our access to the dietary supplements we depend on will disappear.
Codex News.

Russia and the United States have agreed to make two to four flights per year over each other’s military objects and regions of military training
Open Skies is one of the most wide-ranging international efforts to date to promote openness and transparency of military forces and activities.

Military Fatalities: By Time Period
icasualties.org.

According to a March 2003 publication of Fields of View -- put out by FLIR Systems, which sells the surveillance equipment -- FLIR can be used in fixed wing planes just like the ones flying over Lodi. Using it, a plane flies in left-hand circles over the area under surveillance, using thermal imaging to track people
Mystery planes continue to circle over Lodi.
FBI spy planes patrol U.S.

Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain Ruling Emboldens City Governments
The center's owners say it reminds them of the communism they left behind.

RATner: An honest discussion will put the public price tag at $1 billion or more, not $100 million (a token down payment referenced by the Manhattan news media)
brooklynpapers.com.

lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie after lie

2005-06-18T10:19:00.000-07:00

This volume of documents is meant to provide you, the reader, with evidence necessary to make up your own mind
Amidst a bitterly contested vote count that resulted in unprecedented action by the Congress of the United States, here are some news accounts that followed this election, which was among the most bitterly contested in all US history.

I can't stop thinking about what a Major said to me the other day. "The whole country of Iraq, every man, woman, and child... Kill every one of them and it still won't be worth one American's life."
A Soldier's Thoughts

Former Bush Cabinet Member Appears On Alex Jones Show; Says Government Complicit In 9/11
Government Complicit In 9/11.

"If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling."
A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11.

INTERNATIONALIZING U.S. ROADS-Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) project
Imagine this: your state government puts a transportation corridor in your neighborhood. It’s nearly a quarter-mile wide. It will serve vehicles and trains and incorporate oil, gas, electric and water lines. Try to fight it and you’ll not only face the combined might of your local, state, and federal governments, but foreign interests as well. The internationalization of U.S. roads has begun.
Interstate 69, for example, is a planned 1600 mile national highway connecting Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. Eight states are involved in the project: Once completed, I-69 will extend from Port Huron, Michigan to the Texas/Mexico border.
Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) project

Is 'Downing Street Memo' a smoking gun?
Bush critics say it shows he lied to Americans about Iraq, but others say memo offers nothing new.

AfterDowningStreet.org is a coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups, which launched on May 26, 2005, a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war
"Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

The Downing Street "Memo" is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002—eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003
No one in the Bush or Blair administrations has denied the authenticity of any of these documents.

WHR: THE LIE OF THE CENTURY
There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make.

The Liberty Dollar Bill by Ralph Nader
Go to the website www.libertydollarbill.org for action advice, updates on sponsors and sense the fervor of the students.

Administration's Offenses Impeachable

2005-06-06T20:59:00.000-07:00

Our president and all of his administration are war criminals
We live a lie when we fail to hold leaders accountable for their lies. By not calling now for impeachment, we are saying that we condone hypocrisy, pseudo-democracy, and murdering thousands of Americans and Iraqis for strategic control of energy resources that we have no right to. Patriotism demands that we insist on the ideals of democracy, not that we support the "leaders" who cynically destroy them.

memorial

2005-06-01T12:39:00.000-07:00

IS ISRAEL PREPARING TO USE US TROOPS AS HUMAN SHIELDS?
WHR

Why Did Feith Resign?
Could it have had something to do with the Larry Franklin spy scandal?

Get Out of Putin’s Face
Let us pray that Mr. Bush will not let his neoconservatives—whose expertise lies in starting wars on countries that have not attacked us and making enemies of countries that wish to befriend us—kick it away?

Justice Dept. to indict two AIPAC staffers under U.S. Espionage Act
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.

U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted. They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005. The ongoing, underreporting of the dead in Iraq, is not accurate. The DoD is deliberately reducing the figures...
A review of many foreign news sites show that actual deaths are far higher than the newly reduced ones. Iraqi civilian casualties are never reported but International Red Cross, Red Crescent and UN figures indicate that as of 1 January 2005, the numbers are just under 100,000

Justice Dept. to indict two AIPAC staffers under U.S. Espionage Act
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.

Israel, American Jews & Iraq War
What if the U.S. military were enforcing UN Security Council resolutions that say Israel should withdraw from the occupied territorities?

Things to Remember on Memorial Day
Things to Remember on Memorial Day.

What if JFK Weren't Assassinated? Where Would We be Today?
Let us first follow the money trail, and show how it connects directly to JFK, and what JFK did to try to help the American people regarding the national debt and banking.

McCain Still Can’t Come Clean on Iraq
What’s amazing is, years later, the people still aren’t being told a the straight story.

Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive

2005-05-15T19:21:00.000-07:00

President Karimov government was awarded $500m in aid from the Bush administration in 2002. The SNB (Uzbekistan's security service) received $79m of this sum
The U.S. State Department web site states "Uzbekistan is not a democracy and does not have a free press - Now I would like to introduce you to Muzafar Avazov, a 35-year old father of four. Mr Avazov had a visit from our presidents friends security force (SNB), the photographs below detail the brutality and inhuman treatment our tax dollars subsidize, with the full knowledge of our president and his administration.

Assassinating the Intelligensia
The conversation wandered like a Bedouin, touching on questions of health and elder care and personal freedom vs. social order. But by the third microbrew all had agreed on one thing: a civil society cannot exist unless critical thought is promoted, from kindergarten through the university level.

For months on end, these seven independent photographers and filmmakers have worked exclusively in Iraq documenting US troops and Iraqi civilians, resistance fighters and child laborers, imprisoned women and incarcerated youths
Iraq Uncensored.

Last Chance to Stop National ID

2005-05-11T20:26:00.000-07:00

Last Chance to Stop National ID by Rep. Ron Paul
National ID Cards Won't Stop Terrorism or Illegal Immigration.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill last week that contains provisions establishing a national ID card, and the Senate is poised to approve the measure in the next few days.

Today is the day of the vote. Call your Senators. The bill you're calling about is H.R. 418 RFS. Tell them they need to remove the Real ID Act from this bill.
Take Action Against the Real ID Act.

Secret Memo proves leadership knew Saddam was not a threat by Molly Ivins
They lied to us.
Bush Lied and the UK proves it.

THE SMOKING GUN
READ IT HERE

May 01, 2005

The secret Downing Street memo

SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY

DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
S 195 /02

cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell

IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULY

Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.

This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.

John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC assessment. Saddam's regime was tough and based on extreme fear. The only way to overthrow it was likely to be by massive military action. Saddam was worried and expected an attack, probably by air and land, but he was not convinced that it would be immediate or overwhelming. His regime expected their neighbours to line up with the US. Saddam knew that regular army morale was poor. Real support for Saddam among the public was probably narrowly based.

C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.

CDS said that military planners would brief CENTCOM on 1-2 August, Rumsfeld on 3 August and Bush on 4 August.

The two broad US options were:

(a) Generated Start. A slow build-up of 250,000 US troops, a short (72 hour) air campaign, then a move up to Baghdad from the south. Lead time of 90 days (30 days preparation plus 60 days deployment to Kuwait).

(b) Running Start. Use forces already in theatre (3 x 6,000), continuous air campaign, initiated by an Iraqi casus belli. Total lead time of 60 days with the air campaign beginning even earlier. A hazardous option.

The US saw the UK (and Kuwait) as essential, with basing in Diego Garcia and Cyprus critical for either option. Turkey and other Gulf states were also important, but less vital. The three main options for UK involvement were:

(i) Basing in Diego Garcia and Cyprus, plus three SF squadrons.

(ii) As above, with maritime and air assets in addition.

(iii) As above, plus a land contribution of up to 40,000, perhaps with a discrete role in Northern Iraq entering from Turkey, tying down two Iraqi divisions.

The Defence Secretary said that the US had already begun "spikes of activity" to put pressure on the regime. No decisions had been taken, but he thought the most likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections.

The Foreign Secretary said he would discuss this with Colin Powell this week. It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force.

The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-defence, humanitarian intervention, or UNSC authorisation. The first and second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult. The situation might of course change.

The Prime Minister said that it would make a big difference politically and legally if Saddam refused to allow in the UN inspectors. Regime change and WMD were linked in the sense that it was the regime that was producing the WMD. There were different strategies for dealing with Libya and Iran. If the political context were right, people would support regime change. The two key issues were whether the military plan worked and whether we had the political strategy to give the military plan the space to work.

On the first, CDS said that we did not know yet if the US battleplan was workable. The military were continuing to ask lots of questions.

For instance, what were the consequences, if Saddam used WMD on day one, or if Baghdad did not collapse and urban warfighting began? You said that Saddam could also use his WMD on Kuwait. Or on Israel, added the Defence Secretary.

The Foreign Secretary thought the US would not go ahead with a military plan unless convinced that it was a winning strategy. On this, US and UK interests converged. But on the political strategy, there could be US/UK differences. Despite US resistance, we should explore discreetly the ultimatum. Saddam would continue to play hard-ball with the UN.

John Scarlett assessed that Saddam would allow the inspectors back in only when he thought the threat of military action was real.

The Defence Secretary said that if the Prime Minister wanted UK military involvement, he would need to decide this early. He cautioned that many in the US did not think it worth going down the ultimatum route. It would be important for the Prime Minister to set out the political context to Bush.

Conclusions:

(a) We should work on the assumption that the UK would take part in any military action. But we needed a fuller picture of US planning before we could take any firm decisions. CDS should tell the US military that we were considering a range of options.

(b) The Prime Minister would revert on the question of whether funds could be spent in preparation for this operation.

(c) CDS would send the Prime Minister full details of the proposed military campaign and possible UK contributions by the end of the week.

(d) The Foreign Secretary would send the Prime Minister the background on the UN inspectors, and discreetly work up the ultimatum to Saddam.

He would also send the Prime Minister advice on the positions of countries in the region especially Turkey, and of the key EU member states.

(e) John Scarlett would send the Prime Minister a full intelligence update.

(f) We must not ignore the legal issues: the Attorney-General would consider legal advice with FCO/MOD legal advisers.

(I have written separately to commission this follow-up work.)

MATTHEW RYCROFT

(Rycroft was a Downing Street foreign policy aide)

IT'S GETTING DRAFTY
S.89
H.R.163

death SqUads

2005-05-07T10:22:00.000-07:00

Apocalypse Soon By Robert S. McNamara
Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we’ve come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, he believes the United States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. To do so is immoral, illegal, and dreadfully dangerous.

The Next Iran/Contra Affair: U.S. to Let Colombia Question Soldiers
The United States on Friday said Colombian prosecutors could question two U.S. soldiers accused of selling arms to far-right death squads.

theft

2005-05-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

The Bushes are robber barons, not capitalists - Buried Treasure By Chris Floyd
The network links a bewildering line-up of players -- the Bushes, the Vatican, bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and China's Communist overlords, among others -- in a staggering array of crime and turpitude: prostitution, pedophilia, mass death and war profiteering. Yet this is not some grand "conspiracy theory," a serpent's egg hatched in Bilderberg or Bohemian Grove. It's simply the way the Bush boys do business, trawling the globe for sweetheart deals and gushers of blood money from the war and terror they foment.

First Planet Outside Solar System Observed
225 light-years away from Earth near the constellation Hydra.

Israel blacklisted by U.S.
American International Trade Commission says Israel among world's major intellectual property violators.

10,000 Orthodox Jews Demonstrate in NYC Against Israel on April 28, 2005
Over 10,000 Orthodox Jews protesting the existence of the state of Israel.

Upstate New York man gets the poop on outsourcing
"My parents paid for me to get a (degree) in math and now I am a pooper scooper," Relles, a 42-year-old married father of two told Reuters. "I can clean four to five yards in a hour if they are close together."

Mossad: US Must Invade Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran
"To that end, it [the United States] will have to renew the draft, to ensure that there are enough forces to deal with developing situations in countries like Saudi Arabia,"

1 in every 138 Americans is behind bars
The US prison population, already the largest in the world, reached a new high of more than 2.1 million last year, with one in every 138 residents of the country now behind bars.

Army pair's tactics eyed
Two Army recruiters in Golden have been suspended from their jobs while military officials look into allegations the two men used improper tactics to get an Arvada high school student to sign up for duty.

The Largest Benefit Cuts for the Middle Class in U.S. History
There's nothing progressive about scamming people out of their hard earned retirement dollars by cutting benefits and replacing the most successful public program ever created with a system of private accounts.

Disputed school's lesson on diversity
When his 5-year-old son came home from his kindergarten class at Lexington's Joseph Estabrook School with a bag of books promoting diversity.Inside were books about foreign cultures and traditions, along with food recipes. There was also a copy of ''Who's In a Family?" by Robert Skutch, which depicts different kinds of families, including same-sex couples raising children.

The Largest Benefit Cuts for the Middle Class in U.S. History
There's nothing progressive about scamming people out of their hard earned retirement dollars by cutting benefits and replacing the most successful public program ever created with a system of private accounts.

Idiots: School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon
A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.

Democracy in the bU.S.h = A Bunch of Lies Wrapped Up in a Flag

2005-04-30T17:32:00.000-07:00

Lack of Democracy in the U.S. by Ralph Nader
In spreading democracy throughout the world, brazen hypocrisy prevails for Bush-Cheney.

Venezuelan President Says He Will Not Return to U.S. Until Americans "liberate" Their Nation
Declaring that U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised Friday that he would not visit the United States again until Americans "liberate" their nation.

U.S. - Pepper Spray Trial Jury Agrees Excessive Force Used by Officers Against Protesters
A federal court jury in San Francisco yesterday found that Humboldt County and city of Eureka law-enforcement officers used excessive force on nonviolent protesters in 1997 when they swabbed them in the eye areas with pepper spray.

A Private Obsession by Paul Krugman
American health care is unique among advanced countries in its heavy reliance on the private sector. It's also uniquely inefficient. We spend far more per person on health care than any other country, yet many Americans lack health insurance and don't receive essential care.

A Society That Throws the Sick Away by Barbara Ehrenreich
Most countries are proud to have a healthcare system.

OIL COMPANIES MAKING RECORD PROFITS!!!
Occidental Posts Record Profit as Oil Prices Rise.
Exxon reports record earnings from record oil, petrol prices.
BP strikes record profit and forecasts oil to stay firm.
Shell profit at £1.6m an hour.
Reliance's Q4 profit jumps 62 percent.
Superior Energy earnings rise sharply.
Unocal Net Income Soars 69 Percent on Oil Prices.

China creating office to safeguard `energy security'?
China has created a powerful new agency to oversee the country's energy security amid booming demand for power and surging oil imports, an official at the country's main planning agency said Thursday.

James Guckert - White House Access FOIA
White House Access FOIA.

Offshoring is "Psychologically Disturbing" By Jim Hightower
One of the worst aspects of the global corporate culture is that it routinely pits one group of workers against another in the corporate pursuit of dirt-cheap labor.

Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation
Let's start with a simple fact. The United States invaded and conquered Iraq on the basis of lies. Even the official report of the United States Senate admits as much.

The Israeli origins of Bush II's war
While the neoconservatives were the driving force behind the American invasion of Iraq and the consequent efforts to bring about regime change throughout the Middle East, the idea for such a war did not originate with American neocon thinkers but rather in Israel.

A Story from Occupied Palestine: A moment that changed my life
I am an occasional Portland resident who has just spent some time in occupied Palestine. There are many many stories there. This is one of them, the story of my friend Saed in Beit Sahour, Palestine.

Putin to Help With Palestinian Security
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to provide the new Palestinian leaders with helicopters and other equipment and training to help maintain order after Israel's promised withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank this summer.

DRAFT. Today the NFL - Tomorrow the SSS

2005-04-23T16:23:00.000-07:00

In a visit to the United States two weeks ago, I was told by several well-informed observers that should one of the more severe scenarios come to pass, the United States will have no choice but to deepen its presence in the Middle East. To that end, it will have to renew the draft, to ensure that there are enough forces to deal with developing situations in countries like Saudi Arabia.
The coming Pax Americana
By Efraim Halevy.

draftresistance
draftresistance.org

SSS
Selective Service

At the end of last month, the U.S. Selective Service System issued a report assuring President George W. Bush that it would be ready to implement a draft within 75 days
An Army of the Unwilling.

Will there be a draft?
As military recruiting stumbles and needs grow, some say draft may be impossible to ignore.

Denouncing the draft
“It is clear that the Bush administration is preparing for a draft. They are desperate for new soldiers to continue the occupation of Iraq and to prepare for new wars against Iran, Syria and elsewhere,”.

Getting Ready For The Draft
Why don't we all just face it, the military draft is coming back. Signs of the impending draft include, S.S.S. reporting to Bush at the end of this month they are ready to go, the stocking of the draft boards and Bush signing off on plans to bomb Iran in June.

Ocean Off Hawaii Strewn With Wreckage
From junked trucks to World War II submarines, vast fields of far-flung wreckage exist beneath the blue-green ocean off Hawaii.

Deception

2005-04-20T20:47:00.000-07:00

Bush's deceptive plans for the US social security system show why privatisation is not the answer to the global pensions crisis by Joseph Stiglitz.

Sudan says "abundant" oil found in war torn Darfur.

Oregon Bill Requires Drivers License Applicants To Register For Draft.

FBI Tells 911 Rescue Worker
To 'Shut Up' Over Finding Airplane 'Black Boxes'

The senseless death of the woman who fought George Bush.

Four indicted over 1982 murder with links to Chicago archdiocese.

Evidence of Risk for H2N2 1957 Pandemic Flu.

U.S Forest Service looks for sites to close down.

Theologian calls for response to 9/11.

Video of Tom DeLay fibbing that Social Security will go bankrupt in 2041.

GI Laughed at Grenade Movie Scene.

Nanobacteria

2005-04-19T22:46:00.000-07:00

The scientist who discovered that dust in interstellar space and in comets is largely organic, now says that nanobacteria in clouds are responsible for spreading illnesses such as kidney stones, heart disease, and HIV around the world.

Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq.

Minuteman founder leaving border early but volunteers to remain.

More Bushit: Forget retiring, Bush says raising retirement age a possibility
Bush: Raise the retirement age.

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2005-04-18T20:12:00.000-07:00

Illegal aliens get top aircraft mechanic jobs.

THE NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Iceberg Collision Forces Redraw of Antarctic Maps.

MR. FILKINS: Yeah. There's actually a company in Baghdad that does nothing except offer rides to the airport and back. They've got an armored cars and some guards. And they charge $35,000 for...

MR. RUSSERT: Thirty-five thousand dollars?

MR. FILKINS: ...for a ride to the airport. And I think you know, if you miss your plane and you have to come back, it's another $35,000. But...

MR. RUSSERT: How long--is it six miles?

U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew.

Berlusconi to Resign, Form New Government, Buttiglione Says.

They put huge deficits on plastic for our grandkids to pay. They sell us out to predatory lenders. They're the Credit Card Congress.

This film has been banned by the feds.

Is America Going Broke?

2005-04-16T09:14:00.002-07:00

Is America Going Broke?
Record deficits, colossal debt and no clear plan for digging itself out. If the U.S. sinks, it will take Canada down with it.

Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report
"Patterns of Global Terrorism".

Scientists or Celebrities? by Ralph Nader
Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman

Feds Free One Million Illegals
One million people facing immigration proceedings have been released into the general population.

Sub wreck could reveal Japanese peace offer
An American Vietnam veteran could be about to answer one of the most intriguing questions arising from the second world war: was Japan preparing to seek peace with the allies more than a year before the war ended?

PHOTO-FAKING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FALL
WORLD TRADE CENTER FALL

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and the Franklin frame-up
When a desperate group of people faces exposure of participation in horrific crimes, witnesses are typically killed or discredited as quickly as possible.

VIRUS

2005-04-15T18:03:00.000-07:00

Deadly influenza virus shipments missing: WHO
Health experts have destroyed most samples of a deadly influenza strain mistakenly sent to labs around the world; but two shipments meant to reach Mexico and Lebanon are missing.

171 Florida Labs Received Samples Of Deadly Flu Virus and destroyed the samples, yeah right.

911 Murder Triangle.

Barcelona Supercomputer.

Why Did Bill Clinton's National Security Council Fund ATF "Experiments" in Building Home Made ANFO Truck Bombs in 1994?

CRIME

2005-04-12T14:38:00.000-07:00

The Bush Family's Murky Dealings in Venezuela
"The George W. Bush Jr. government is promoting a bloody military intervention in Iraq and has tried by every means possible, from military uprising to the "democratic way".

ECONOMY

2005-04-11T12:08:00.000-07:00

For the first time in 14 years, the American work force has in effect gotten an across-the-board pay cut
"There's no such thing as raises anymore"

China's economy is projected to become 50 per cent larger than US economy by 2025 and almost double that of USA by 2035
India to be third largest economy after China, US by 2015.

1975 WTC fire burned six floors for three hours
Original Scans from archived issues of The New York Times. on 9/11 the fires burned for much shorter times and were the official cause of collapse. We have also recently seen other tall steel buildings burn for hours and stay standing.

300,000 Iraqis protest American invasion

2005-04-10T11:53:00.000-07:00

Chanting “Death to America” and burning effigies of President Bush and Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Iraqis flooded central Baghdad on Saturday in what police called the largest anti-American protest since the fall of Baghdad
“The American people need to know that they can’t suppress us anymore, even with all their strength and power”.

DELAY IS A CRIMINAL
Aides to DeLay insist he was in the dark about the Russian money behind the trip.

WHR: A SHORT HISTORY OF US GOVERNMENT RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE
"The use of human subjects will be allowed for the testing of chemical and biological agents by the U.S. Department of Defense, accounting to Congressional committees with respect to the experiments and studies."

Some lawyers claim the U.S. is guilty of crimes against humanity
Are Bush & Co. War Criminals?

Former Mossad head: There is a danger of a coup in Israel
There is a danger of a military coup in Israel if the trend of right-wing figures refusing to serve in the military widens"

Racism Lives on in USA!
"A planned auction of Ku Klux Klan items was canceled Saturday after fliers encouraging KKK membership were distributed in the community where the event was to be held."

Who Forged the Niger Documents? Forged right here in the USA...
A former counterterrorism chief claims that the now discredited documents that showed Iraq trying to purchase uranium were fabricated right here in the United States.

thi3rdeye is back

2005-04-09T14:54:00.000-07:00

i found a more recent version of my template but the links are still under construction-thanks for your patience!

'The economic tsunami, just months away'
There are a number of signs that the economy is close to meltdown-stage.

Israel Goes Extremist by Justin Raimondo
How, then, do we explain the Israeli government's recent decision to honor nine of its agents arrested and jailed in the infamous Lavon affair?

So let's have no illusions about where we are. Gangsters are in charge, and nothing and no one will be allowed to challenge their dominion-Global Eye By Chris Floyd
Let's face the facts. The game is over and we -- the "reality-based community," the believers in genuine democracy and law, the heirs of Jefferson and Madison, Emerson and Thoreau, the toilers and dreamers, all those who seek to rise above the beast within and shape the brutal chaos of existence into something higher, richer and imbued with meaning -- have lost.

Military Tests Miniature Spy Plane
If the Wasp buzzed your backyard barbecue and sent out a live video feed, you probably wouldn't notice.

Rudolph Giuliani Got Warning WTC Towers Were Going To Collapse
Giuliani was operating out of Building 7 which he evacuated before that too was 'pulled' by means of demolition as Larry Silverstein admitted in a September 2002 PBS documentary.

The origin of the 9/11 mysterious 'melt down'?
"It [WTC 2] started exploding," said Ross Milanytch, 57, who works at nearby Chase Manhattan Bank.* "It was about the 70th floor. And each second another floor exploded out for about eight floors, before the cloud obscured it all." [ASNE] "I saw small explosions on each floor." But still the perpetrators want us to believe that a plane - flying into the 70th floor above - melts the construction steel structure core in the cellars?*

Bush Caught in a Lie About the 9/11 WTC Attacks
Bush: And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."

thi3rdeye is dead again

2005-03-14T14:11:00.000-08:00

SORRY, PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON FOR thi3rdeye. 98% OF MY TEMPLATE IS WAS DELETED.
I DON'T KNOW WHY OR HOW IT WAS DELETED. THOSE OF YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE SITE OBVIOUSLY NOTICE HUINDREDS OF LINKS ARE MISSING. I CANNOT FIND A RECENT COPY OF MY TEMPLATE UNTIL I DO THE OLD ONE WILL HAVE TO DO. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE.

thi3rdeye

2005-03-01T14:48:00.000-08:00

Implanted Electrodes Combat Depression
A procedure that involves drilling two holes into a person's skull and then implanting electrodes in the brain has shown promise in treating individuals who are severely depressed and resistant to other types of treatment.

Just who is the Council for National Policy, and why isn't it paying taxes?
CNP's Tax Exemption: A History of Broken Promises.

Scientific wizards find real cloak of invisibility
The development, which works by preventing objects from reflecting and scattering light, could have widespread use in the military as it would be more effective than current stealth technology.

Mexico Vows to Fight Migrant Patrol Project in U.S.
Luis Ernesto Derbez said he asked lawyers in Los Angeles to draw up a legal strategy to fight the Arizona-based initiative called "the MinuteMan Project" that has signed up hundreds of volunteers for border patrols.

Selective Service Ready To Restore The Draft
On March 31, the Selective Service System will report to President Bush that it is ready to implement a draft within 75 days. We have to organize now to stop the draft before it starts.

NO DRAFT, NO WAY!
nodraftnoway.org.

Bush Admin. Goal is World Social Instability

2005-02-27T14:13:00.000-08:00

The public's money is already being spent to sell privatization -- one P.R. firm is being paid $1.8 million by the Social Security Administration

In pursuit of the president's political goals, federal agencies have hired pundits with public funds -- creating bogus news stories that appear on television -- and the administration has permitted at least one fake news organization to infiltrate the White House press corps
Beware the coming propaganda juggernaut.

"Congress is not doing its job of protecting the nation's borders," Sabia said. "And there's enough of us vets around who aren't going to take this sitting down."
Making a stand on the border.

CNN Reported No Plane Hit Pentagon
Here is a video clip from CNN coverage on the morning of 9/11. CNN reporter Jamie McIntyre says he inspected the Pentagon site and it is obvious no plane crashed there.

A Day in the Life of the Homeless in America
A nation in which women and children sleep in alleys and eat out of trash dumpsters is not a nation that should be giving billions in tax dollars to foreign governments.

9/11 is an Expression of a Deep and Abiding Crisis in the Capitalist World Order
9/11 a CIA- MOSSAD False Flag Operation.

Earthquake-volcano link jolts Alaska scientists
The whole Pacific tectonic plate system is readjusting after the 12/26/04 event. Within 2 months, I would expect to see a marked increase in quake activity in Southern California.

BILL HICKS - December 16, 1961 - February 26, 1994

2005-02-26T22:17:00.000-08:00

BILL HICKS - Sacred Cow Productions Multimedia
sacredcow.com

BILL HICKS.com
billhicks.com

The Bill Hicks Foundation for Wildlife
Bill Hicks Foundation for Wildlife

What Would Bill Hicks Say
whatwouldbillhickssay.com

William Melvin Hicks (December 16, 1961 - February 26, 1994) was an American stand up comedian, satirist, and social critic. Hicks is often compared to Lenny Bruce and Sam Kinison, and characterized his own performances as "Chomsky with dick jokes."
BILL HICKS

World population 'to rise by 40%'

2005-02-25T10:55:00.000-08:00

The world's population is expected to rise from the current 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050, the UN says
The new report predicts that the population in the world's 50 poorest countries will more than double by 2050.

Hollywood's dirty little secret
It's the scripts that pay a high price when Hollywood goes into battle.

Experimental Government Vaccine

2005-02-24T12:05:00.000-08:00

U.S. to test bird flu vaccine as warnings spread
Government stockpiling antiviral drugs in case of epidemic.

Illogical
The CDC is producing pandemic influenza to see how to fight it.

I Know I’m Not Alone-Michael Franti's Musical Journey Through War in the Middle East
Armed with an acoustic guitar and a video camera, musician Michael Franti takes us on a musical journey through war and occupation in Iraq, Israel and Palestine. Along the way he shares his music with families, doctors, musicians, soldiers and everyday people who in turn reveal to him the often overlooked human cost of war.
spearheadvibrations.com

Background/Sharon's List: The doomed settlements, a guide.

Numerous economists have been warning the U.S. balance of payments deficit and budget deficit, both at record levels, are exposing the dollar to extreme downward pressure
American dollar in crisis as currency falls hard and fast.

Israel Link to September 11 Terrorism.

"Republic of Texas" Again Pushes for Independence - WHR: The article is in error on one point. Texas did not join the United States. Texas was annexed by an act of Congress which was later declared to have exceeded Constitutional limits.

Buyer of SAM-7 Claims He Was Paid by CIA.

Bird Flu Pandemic

2005-02-23T09:24:00.000-08:00

World health officials have issued their strongest warning yet about the global threat posed by bird flu
"If the virus becomes highly contagious among humans, the health impact in terms of deaths and sickness will be enormous"

Has Illegal Immigration Ruined Los Angeles Public Schools?
The fate of the Los Angeles Unified School District is a tragedy that is spreading across the country. To understand what is in store for America I offer my story about the LAUSD and why I abandoned it. As you will see, the cause is our toleration of illegal immigration from Mexico.

Reinstating the Draft
The Selective Service System, the Bush Administration, and the Pentagon have been quietly moving to fill draft board vacancies nationwide in order to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005.

Pandemic Influenza as a Bioweapon
Since the WSN/33 situation in Korea provides some valuable insight into detection and reporting of bird or human flu.

"Mr. President,” George W. Bush was asked at a press conference on January 26th, “do you think it’s a proper use of government funds to pay commentators to promote your policies?”
“No,” the President replied. “I expect my cabinet secretaries to make sure that that practice doesn’t go forward,”.

Hunter S. Thompson thought 9/11 an inside job
Check out this clip of an August 2002 interview with the late Hunter S. Thompson, wherein he expounds on the likelihood 9/11 was an inside job.
Hunter S. Thompson.

PBS stations divided on "Frontline" Iraq film
Almost 50 of the nearly 350 Public Broadcasting Service stations plan to air a documentary on Tuesday night about U.S. troops in Iraq that includes extensive profanity, despite warnings the coarse language could land them in trouble with federal regulators.

Despite new technology, Border Patrol overwhelmed
Across an expanse of desert where nothing marks the Mexican border but a flimsy line of barbed wire, Border Patrol agent Mitch King flies his helicopter low to search for signs of illegal entry into the USA.

China’s Master Plan to Destroy America

2005-02-21T17:28:00.000-08:00

"What's coming will be more devastating to the U.S. economy than any nuclear strike..." - The Asia Times

China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
Unrestricted War: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America is a treatise for world domination written in 1999 by People’s Liberation Army Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. In order for China to become a dominant global power over the United States, the PLA emphasizes “The Final War over Resources”, must be won.

China: Its ultimate goals is to gradually take over the US' domination of East Asia through economic and cultural means without war
Beijing's strategy.

China: Rise of republic 'an opportunity'
China, already the world's sixth largest economy, and projected to be the third biggest in just a decade's time, is seen as a superpower-in- waiting.

World: Report Says China Overtakes U.S. As World's Leading Consumer
China has already surpassed the United States in total consumption of every basic food, energy, and industrial commodity, except oil.

Global population hits 6.5 billion
The global population has risen by a billion since 1993, despite low fertility in developed countries and high mortality in developing countries, states the report, released by the UN population division.

U.S. Law Still May Authorize Seizure of Gold And Silver; GATA Queries Treasury
While GATA believes that the law may violate the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against the government's taking private property for public use without paying fair compensation, precious metals investors may still be in some jeopardy here.

"I know I am condemned… I'm sure in Washington they are planning my death," -Hugo Chavez

Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Plotting to Kill Him
"If they manage to kill me there will only be one person in this world to blame: the president of the United States," Chavez said. "If you try, you will regret it Comrade Mr Bush."

The claims about Social Security are wrong: A privatized program would not serve African Americans better
Social Security Myths.

THE FAA KNEW! But were they set up?
A recently declassified document reveals the FAA was warned about hijacking threats prior to 9/11. If the FAA was warned, who warned them?

D.C. is a FREAKSHOW! GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring Exposed!

2005-02-20T16:43:00.000-08:00

Gannongate threatens to expose a huge GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring
"Gannongate," which is only now being mentioned by the mainstream news media, threatens to expose a potentially damaging GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring dating back to the 1980s and the administration of George H. W. Bush.

Bush Tort Reform Executive Clemency For Executive Killers By Greg Palast
It's a great day for the Eichmanns of corporate America. President Bush minutes ago signed the ill-named 'tort reform' bill into law, limiting class action suits.

Radical Son Bush may not have read Dostoyevsky—but his speechwriters have by Justin Raimondo
William F. Buckley Jr. pronounced the speech “confusing.” Aside from being “an improvisation,” it was also embarrassingly ungrammatical: “Mr. Bush said that ‘whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny.’ You can simmer in resentment, but not in tyranny.”

Yucatán helping migrants go north Guide, DVD show Mexicans how to cross border, send cash home
Officials in a Mexican state have published their own 87-page handbook for potential migrants to the United States, adding fuel to an international debate over whether such guides encourage illegal border-crossers.

Madrid fire heats up 9-11 debate
Unlike the twin trade towers (and WTC 7), this 32 story steel beamed building remains standing after burning for 17 hours straight. Does steel act differently in Spain or are we confronted with yet another 9-11 anomoly?

Debunking conspiracy theorists
As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about mythical Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the extremist Bush regime.

CCCO supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war
www.objector.org/

Military Draft Inevitable

2005-02-18T20:10:00.000-08:00

Experts See Military Draft as Inevitable
The United States no longer has a military draft and hasn't since 1973, when it converted to an all-volunteer military.

MARCH TO CENTRAL PARK ON SAT. MARCH 19th, 2005 - Troops Out Now
The world-wide antiwar movement has called for massive demonstrations against the war on the weekend on March 19-20 -- the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. We have a responsibility to respond with renewed determination and commitment in the face of the Bush Administration's launching of a new phase of the war against the Iraqi people.

How does thought control work in societies that call themselves free? by John Pilger
First, They Attack the Past.

Help your peace-loving child avoid the draft: don't wait until he's 18 to document his opposition to war. Record it now.
Avoid the Draft.

The Russian government is said to be finalizing its first major defense accord with the House of Saud — one that, if implemented, would mark "a landmark event in Russian arms exporting"
Russia.

The evidence of two new books demonstrates that 9/11 created the will for new, harsher interrogation techniques of foreign suspects by the US
'Nobody is talking'.

Madrid's Towering Inferno & The 9/11 Building Collapse Cover-Up
'Nobody is talking'.

Plague in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
As of 15 February 2005, WHO has received reports of 61 deaths of pneumonic plague in Ituri district, Oriental province in the northern part of the country.

The National ID Trojan Horse by Ron Paul
A 32-story building burns for more than 24 hours and does not collapse.

Conn. to Probe Wal-Mart on Child Labor
Wal-Mart agreed last month to pay a federal fine of $135,540 for child labor violations in which 85 minors operated hazardous equipment at stores in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Arkansas.

Milbank, Dowd, and Others Weigh In on Gannon/Guckert
Milbank said on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show last week that he thought he had seen Guckert/Gannon with a hard pass.

The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
The Franklin Coverup Scandal.

How Does Karl Rove Know "Jeff Gannon"?
The Wall has gone up. Karl "Bullpuppy" Rove is now untouchable. Any attempts to link him to either the Jeff Gannon affair or to the treasonous act of outing Valerie Plame can now be kissed goodbye.

1989: Bush matriarch says White House manwhores no big deal
The latest news on the Gannon/Guckert story is that the male prostitute was in the White House press room working for GOPUSA before they had even set up their "Talon News" front organization.

Why does Cato oppose public broadband? Of course! They're funded by Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner
New York Times Swings Late, and Misses.

IRS TAX IRS TAX IRS TAX

2005-02-14T16:47:00.000-08:00

Their Objections to War Lead Activists To Do Battle with IRS
There are 8,000 to 10,000 war tax resisters today, Benn said, down from a Vietnam-era high in 1972, when an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 people withheld taxes in some form.

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
Very simply, it is refusal to pay some or all of federal taxes that pay for war.

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund , a national non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C., advocates for US federal legislation enabling conscientious objectors to war to have their federal income taxes directed to a special fund which could be used for non-military purposes only. This fund would be called the Peace Tax Fund and the bill we seek to pass is called the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act.

$400,000 - Information priced out of reach

2005-02-11T22:56:00.000-08:00

The U.S. Justice Department has found a new way to prevent the public from inquiring into the workings of government: charge exorbitant fees for the information
When the liberal interest group, the People for the American Way Foundation, asked the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act for records related to the legal proceedings involving immigrants swept up following the attacks of Sept. 11, the group was presented with a bill of nearly $400,000.

AmericaBlog's John Aravosis on Aaron Brown's News Night
"Credential Questions" about the Jeff Gannon saga, and talks about the things that Wolf Blitzer wouldn't SCOTT McCLELLAN TRIES TO EXPLAIN JEFF (GANNON)/James Guckert.

US officials misplace $11.4bn

2005-02-01T18:36:00.000-08:00

US officials misplace $11.4bn
The post-invasion US governing authority in Iraq lost track of $US8.8billion ($11.4billion) it transferred to government ministries in a black hole of fraud, kickbacks and misappropriation, according to an official US audit released yesterday.

The fight over Social Security is, above all, about what kind of society we want to have. But it's also about numbers. And the numbers the privatizers use just don't add up By PAUL KRUGMAN
Many Unhappy Returns.

José Piñera: Architect of Bush's "Ownership" Society Scheme
Piñera is a fascist whose privatization of social security and several other free-market reforms were imposed by force.

1984-1994: U.S. govt supplied Afghanistan with militant Islamic textbooks for schools
The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum.

NIST: WTC jet fuel "consumed within first few minutes"
The jet fuel, which ignited the fires, was mostly consumed within the first few minutes after impact. The fires that burned for almost the entire time that the buildings remained standing were due mainly to burning building contents and, to a lesser extent, aircraft contents, not jet fuel.

Key Findings of NIST’s June 2004 Progress Report on the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster
Collapse of the WTC Towers – Working Hypothesis.

Flouridation reduces fertility
Most regions showed an association of decreasing TFR [Total Fertility Rate] with increasing fluoride levels.

Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
"There are statistical indications that a systematic, nationwide shift of 5.5% of the vote may have occurred, and that we'll never get to the bottom of this, unless we gather the data we need for mathematical analysis and open, robust scientific debate."

U.S. embassy in Baghdad, which has been estimated to cost $1.5 billion.
That's right: the new US embassy in Iraq is projected to cost as much as the Freedom Tower currently being constructed on the former World Trade Center site.

"The ol' [US] dollar, it's gonna go down.'' -Bill Gates

2005-01-30T23:25:00.000-08:00

Bill Gates, World's Richest Man, Bets Against Dollar
Bill Gates, the world's richest person with a net worth of $46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S. dollar.

Approximately 300 Iraqi academics have been mysteriously assassinated
"Not because of the number of lecturers (killed)," al-Husseini says, "but because of their quality."

“This war is about money. The money is only making the rich man richer.” -A soldier in Iraq Name withheld
I am a manipulated stooge who sold his soul to exploit the ignorant with the proud lies our own leaders."

thi3rdeye

2005-01-29T11:35:00.000-08:00

Hypersonic Sound-HSS
Hypersonic Sound-HSS.

25 Neoconservative Intellectuals

2005-01-28T13:31:00.000-08:00

The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history. Two of them, journalists William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, say it's possible. But another journalist, Thomas Friedman (not part of the group), is skeptical.
White man's burden.

Endless War - Intervention - $ocial in$ecurity

2005-01-27T19:35:00.000-08:00

If the administration truly wants to give people more control over their retirement dollars, why not simply reduce payroll taxes and let them keep their own money to invest privately as they see fit? This is the true private solution.

Your money has never been safe in the government’s hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it’s just their nature. It is preposterous to believe our government is capable of simply sitting on a huge pile of money without touching it because it’s earmarked for one purpose or another. No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent. -Ron Paul
Want to Reform Social Security? Stop Spending.

HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS-What If (It was all a Big Mistake)?
Policing the world, spreading democracy by force, nation building, and frequent bombing of countries that pose no threat to us-- while leaving the homeland and our borders unprotected-- result from a foreign policy that is contradictory and not in our self interest.

In declaring it to be America's mission in the world to end tyranny on earth, President Bush is launching a crusade even more ambitious and utopian than was Wilson's. His crusade, too, will end, as Wilson's did, in disillusionment for him and tragedy for his country. -Patrick J. Buchanan
Inaugurating Endless War.

700 Seabirds Killed by Oil Coast of SoCal

2005-01-23T14:40:00.000-08:00

Mystery Oil Slick Kills Seabirds Off California
Los Angeles - A phantom oil slick floating somewhere along a 90-mile stretch of Southern California coastline is killing sea life as investigators scramble to find its whereabouts and origins.

What Could Go Wrong in 2005?
Such threats would include: a persistent and increasing resort to debt-financed growth and a concomitant, growing imbalance in the trade deficit, leading the U.S. ever further into financial dependency and so leaving it dangerously indebted to rival nations, which could (at least theoretically) pull the plug at any time.

Baghdad Burning
We've given up on security and democracy. Could you please at least turn on the water?

Jesus and Jack Daniel's
In search of the Bush cultural footprint on the capital: a visit to the hot church and the hot bar?

Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats
In 1989, Lipsky led an FBI raid on the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant in Colorado after receiving reports that the plant posed a huge public-health threat.

GOP = Grumpy Old Pornographers
Grumpy Old Pornographers.

The Voice of the White House January 21, 2005
The danger is that if the Central Banks of Russia, China, Japan, and other nations, should see the U.S. Government repudiate their obligations to their own old folks, in order to manufacture a Social Security "crisis" merely in order that George Bush can have a sweet retirement, they might ask themselves, what is to prevent the U.S.

Analysis of Ruppert's recent split personality on 9-11: "just forget about it, move on."
In his event at the University of Washington, Mike Ruppert casually dismisses - as "no longer of any value," the whole of the argument for prosecuting those responsible for nine-eleven.

Analysis of Ruppert's recent split personality on 9-11: "just forget about it, move on."
In his event at the University of Washington, Mike Ruppert casually dismisses - as "no longer of any value," the whole of the argument for prosecuting those responsible for nine-eleven.

Hey Ruppert: 9-11 is NOT Dead!
With an ego so overblown it defies description (or possibly an indication of something even more sinister), Mike Ruppert – and Mike Ruppert alone – has declared that 9-11 is now a dead issue.

thi3rdeye

2005-01-21T13:49:00.000-08:00

Michael Chertoff is a Security Risk?
Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff’s ties to the financiers of the Sept. 11 attacks may prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security Chief.

W and Dostoevsky
George W. Bush is a man possessed by Justin Raimondo.

Bush Makes Veiled 'New World Order' Reference In Speech
"We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. When our Founders declared a new order of the ages, when soldiers died in wave upon wave for a union based on liberty, when citizens marched in peaceful outrage under the banner "Freedom Now" -- they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled."

Heil Bush!

2005-01-20T08:38:00.000-08:00

UPDATE: protests turn violent! (was Video and Audio from Inauguration protests)
protests turn violent!

Inauguration: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartless
Due to $17 million worth of inaugural security - paid for by the city of Washington, D.C. - the Progress Report is unable to access its office.

Homeless Mostly Invisible as Washington Celebrates
As Americans celebrate President Bush (news - web sites)'s second inauguration, the capital city's 8,000 homeless people will be mostly invisible.

Protest Photos
Protest Photos.

The Fed’s Folly
Protest Photos.

BBC news 24 tv shows cops pepper spraying people
There is probably no better indication of just how powerful the state has grown since the founding of the republic than the fact that the citizens of this nation disinterestedly sit idly by while their government engages in behavior that would send these same folks to prison.

War Criminal Inauguration
Bush arrives at Capitol for swearing-in.

Hersh: US Preparing for War Against Iran

2005-01-18T17:43:00.000-08:00

THE COMING WARS by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.

Release: U.S. Department of Defense-Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest Seymour Hersh Article
The Iranian regime’s apparent nuclear ambitions and its demonstrated support for terrorist organizations is a global challenge that deserves much more serious treatment than Seymour Hersh provides in the New Yorker article titled “The Coming Wars.”

Inauguration 2005: It's Party Time for Fat Cats by Ralph Nader
When will the organized people be heard from?

UN Scandals Are Not the Issue by Ron Paul
The real problem is that the UN is inherently illegitimate, because supra-national government is an inherently illegitimate concept.

Woman Waving From WTC North Tower Impact Hole
ImagineAccording to the media/government fable, it was hot enough to soften the steel and cause the building to collapse, however, as is evident from the picture and video, it was not hot enough to singe her hair.

Exporting America

2005-01-16T14:56:00.000-08:00

Exporting America: The list
Here is a list of companies we've confirmed are "Exporting America." These are U.S. companies either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers.

US Losses - Photos Hidden By US News Media
Photos Hidden By US News Media.

2005 Senate Bill 5113 (Regarding rainwater collection permit)
Introduced by Sen. Paull Shin on January 13, 2005, to authorize the department of ecology to require any person using rain barrels and cisterns to collect rainwater to receive a permit from the department prior to collection of rainwater. Rainwater must be intended for beneficial use on the same property from where it was collected.

The Appeal to Release the DOJ-IG Report on the 9/11 Cover-Up
justacitizen.com.

Military Pilots May Already Be Implanted With RFID's
Was this pilot chipped? And, was this clip just a subtle way of letting the public know that the U.S. Government is already using RFID's as a means of tracking pilots when they are downed in enemy territory?

IF all goes well, this year a remote-controlled portable airplane will be taking to the air over Southern California, providing a low-cost eye in the sky for law enforcement
An Aerial Crime-Fighting Tool Banks on Portability.

Iraqi police dogs are dying from starvation
virtualpolitics.us.

US Citizenship Application in 5 Minutes
The application of the US citizenship is not a simple task. Any error in your application will result in unnecessary delay or even rejection of your case. Hence, it is very important that you submit a correct and complete application.

Information about the Effects of Immigration
Over and over, we are told that immigrants only take the jobs that Americans do not want and is good for our country.

Flashback: The president's real goal in Iraq
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence.

Information about the Effects of Immigration
Over and over, we are told that immigrants only take the jobs that Americans do not want and is good for our country.

4 Years 40 Dead Microbiologist

2005-01-14T13:48:00.000-08:00

40 deaths in the last 4 years
Dead Scientists DO Tell Tales.

and so it goes...

2005-01-13T19:58:00.000-08:00

Did Bush's New Homeland Chief Sheild Terror Ring in New Jersey?
Michael Chertoff, appointed by President Bush to head the Homeland Security Department, may have shielded from criminal prosecution a former client suspected by law enforcement of having funneled millions of dollars directly to Osama Bin Laden while in charge of the U.S. Government’s 9.11 investigation.

Chertoff was the lawyer for the alleged al Qaeda-funding HMO Dr. Magdy Elamir ran. Incidentally, when Chertoff was directing the arrests of hundreds of suspected terrorist supporters and fundraisers, Dr. Elamir was not one of them.

Michael Chertoff, Master of the Cover-up
Michael Chertoff.

Michael Chertoff/Dr. Magdy Elamir Connection
New Jersey and Terrorism.

Private Help for Tsunami Victims by Ron Paul
“The whole enterprise of disaster aid has become one of the great rackets of modern government. Today we have the disgusting spectacle of senators and presidents coming to visit weather-injured places, as if they have within their capacity the ability to size up damage and make provisions for making it all correct. We are supposed to believe that they know more about the proper course of action than insurance adjusters and property owners.”

A Bush-Neocon Parting of the Ways? by Patrick J. Buchanan
The neoconservative hour may be coming to an end in the Bush era. Reason: The cakewalk war they plotted long before 9/11, on which their dreams of Middle East empire and reputations hang, has gone awry.

LASERS: The FBI is investigating several more reports of lasers being beamed into aircraft cockpits following a rash of similar incidents at the end of 2004
More reports of lasers beamed into cockpits.

Uncle Sam wants your data - all year 'round
U.S. census growing staler by the day, the federal government is embarking on a massive new survey that will collect demographic data year-round.

Russian Missile Deliveries to Syria Sparks Crisis With Israel
Israel has informed the U.S administration of a recent crisis in relations with Russia, Israeli press reported, ruling out the possibility that Israel asked the United States to intervene.

U.S. mulls strikes on Syria
Bush administration hard-liners have been considering launching selected military strikes at insurgent training camps in Syria.

U.S. demands Russia cancel proposed missile sale to Syria
The United States is demanding Russia cancel its proposed sale of missiles to Syria, warning that it will consider imposing sanctions against Moscow should the deal go ahead, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.

Add commercial two-way radios to the list of gear that troops in Iraq have purchased on their own because of equipment shortages
Troops in Iraq buy own radios.

Henry Kissinger dismissed as CIA adviser
Besides Kissinger, the notifications were received by former CIA Directors William Webster and James Woolsey, former Senators Warren Rudman, Sam Nunn and Bob Kerrey.

Black Thursday - January 20th

2005-01-12T18:12:00.000-08:00

Writer Urging Inauguration Day Boycott
Black Thursday January 20th.

Black Thursday - January 20th
Black Thursday.

TURN YOUR BACK ON BUSH
turnyourbackonbush.com.

Jazz Funeral For Democracy
The Jazz Funeral for Democracy is a wake and funeral for the principles upon which America once stood.

C.I.A. ASSet: Osama - from terrorist to Statesman.
"He's turning into more of a charismatic leader than a terrorist mastermind," -AB "Buzzy" Krongard.

C.I.A. WARNING: If the world's most wanted terrorist is captured or killed, a power struggle among his Al-Qaeda subordinates may trigger a wave of terror attacks, said AB "Buzzy" Krongard, who stepped down six weeks ago as the CIA's third most senior executive.

Let Bin Laden Stay Free, Says C.I.A. Man
"Let's say you and I want to blow up Trafalgar Square. So we go to Bin Laden. And he'll say, 'Well, here's some money and some passports and if you need weapons, see this guy'.

Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist?

thi3rdeye

What Would Bill Hicks Say? Website Turn Book Pays Homage to the Late Comedian
whatwouldbillhickssay.com.

Congress passes `doomsday' plan & Tsunami Survivor Story Below

2005-01-11T20:35:00.000-08:00

Congress passes `doomsday' plan
``I think (the new rule) is terrible in a whole host of ways - first, I think it's unconstitutional,'' said Norm Ornstein, a counselor to the independent Continuity of Government Commission, a bipartisan panel created to study the issue.

Doomsday Provision and the Death of the U.S. Constitution
Interestingly, although predictably, a Google news search of “doomsday plan Congress” and “doomsday provision Congress” returns but a single news article—the one quoted above. It is simply not a story the corporate media considers worthy of ink or electrons.

Dive Aid UK
We have all donated to the worldwide disaster fund but we have set this site up for the following reasons; the Thais do not have the option to leave their country as surviving holidaymakers have and they need a source of income, and the westerners (or "ferang" to the Thais) who began new lives in Kao Lak have lost everything - clothes, shoes, dive gear (thus their livelihood), and even their homes.

Tsunami Survivor Story
Sitting around, day after Christmas, just staring at the TV some movie we've seen before. Mid-morning, post-breakfast stupor controlling Karin and me. The power flickers and we moan. We'll have to get up and do something? Then we hear some yelling outside.

I look out the front door, still puffed up with pride about our new house, just 400 feet back from the beach. People are running up our street yelling. It looks like a fire at the large two story resort that effectively blocks our view of the beach. Smoke and dust coming up and all these people.

Then a small line of really brown water comes rolling towards us. That's weird. But I reckon it must be some strange full moon high tide. So we go upstairs so we don't get wet.

I look out the window and try and take some pictures. There is a quiet rumble to it, like those white noise generators that are supposed to help you sleep. The water is getting higher and higher and then it destroys our friends cement bungalow! Then our front door caves in, and then water is coming up the stairs! HOLY SHIT. This was the last point my brain worked for a long time.

We try and throw a mattress out the window to float on, but the water is rising too fast, and out the window we climb. It's all going so fast. It's faster than conscious thought and by the time we are on our second story roof, the water is coming out the window. We jump.

Karin doesn't jump at the same time or did I jump too early? We're separated. I scream her name, but the crashing roiling water mutes me. I can't hear her. I scream and scream until I get hit by something and pulled under. I can't swim to the top, I pull myself through trash and wood to the surface and off I go.

Ahead are trees wrapped in flotsam and as I look a Thai guy is struggling to get free of it, as I pass by at 30 MPH I realize he is impaled on a piece of wood and can't even scream.

My brain shut down when Karin disappeared, and now all I can do is survive.Something triggers and I swim. I swim to avoid the trees which will trap me, possibly kill me. It seems that I am atop the crest of the tsunami, which is less like a wave than a flood.

From on high I can see the water hit buildings, then rise, then watch the buildings collapse into piles of concrete and rebar. I swim to avoid these. Left and right I paddle, looking ahead the whole time trying to figure the hazards. None of this is conscious, this isn't me thinking it out, it's some recessed part of the brain coming out and taking control.

I was busy seeing the weird things, like massive diesel trucks being rolled end over end. Or the car launched through the 2nd storey wall of a former luggage shop. Or the person high up in a standing tree in a lurid orange thong. Or the older foreigner that got stuck in the wood and steel wrapped around a tree, and then his body torn off while his head remained. I couldn't scream.

I was pulled under, my pants caught on something, I decided that this was neither the place nor time for me to die, and ripped my pants off. I surfaced into a hunk of wood which cut my forehead.

A 5 gallon water bottle sped by, and I wrapped myself around it like a horny German Shepard on a Chihuahua. I was passing people with bleeding faces and caked in refuse. Some people reached out to me, and I back, but the water was too fast and erratic. Some people screamed for help and I told them to swim. Some people just stared with empty eyes, watching what happened, but seeing nothing. Some were just floating bodies.

At some point, I passed a guy, cut on his cheek, holding onto big piece of foam. We just made eye contact and shrugged apathetically at each other. Then I turned ahead to watch fate. When I looked back he was gone.

Trees were pulled down, and their flotsam added to the flow. I was hit by a refrigerator and pushed towards a building that was collapsing. I swam and swam and swam and swam and still was pushed right towards a huge clump of jagged sticks and metal. I was pulled under, kicked towards the mass, cut my feet and kicked again. I popped up on the other side, spun around and pulled under again.

Down there, I knew it was not the time, and I pulled my way up through the floating rubbish of my former town. I pulled and pulled and my lungs ached for air. I flashed on Star Wars, the trash compactor scene, and had some big grin in the back of head as I popped up. Sucking shitty water and air deep in my lungs.

This went on for weeks. Time simply left the area alone. I grabbed the edge of a mattress and floated. Breathing, just breathing. Awareness brought back by the sound and look of a water fall. Trying to push up onto the mattress more and more, and it took my weight less and less. Tumbling over the edge, sucked under again, and out I shot, swirled into a coconut grove, where the water seemed to have stopped. There was even a dyke like wall around the grove.

The water spun and churned, but went no where, and got no higher. It wasn't swimming, or climbing, but something in between. I made my way to the land. Every step had to be careful with broken glass everywhere, and sheet metal poking out. It was a long slow struggle.

The low rumble had stopped, and now is the occasional creak of wood on wood and metal scraping. Moans came across the new brown lake. A small boy was in a tree crying, asking for his parents in Norwegian.

I climbed up onto the dyke and looked around. I screamed out for Karin, only getting responses in Thai. I stood there, panting, trying to find a thought, anything. As I came back to earth I needed to pee. The first thing I did after surviving the tsunami was piss! Along limps an older Thai guy, finds me, naked atop a dyke amid the destruction, covered in mud and filth pissing. He didn't even smile nor did I.

I spent the next minutes running from high point to high point screaming out for Karin. If I made it, she could too. There was no response from her. I found plenty of other people, and helped who I could, but always looking across this vast area of new lakes for her head.

Through the trees was a PT boat, a large steel police cruiser. The boat and I had been brought more than a kilometer (2/3 mile) inland.

I was standing near a tree, hoping for a clue, anything to say she was out there somewhere. A small boy in a tree whimpered, and I pulled him down. We went inland. There were houses, still standing, a whole neighborhood atop a rise that was untouched. Just feet away were cars wrapped around trees. I handed them the boy.

I had finished my medic training exactly one month before, so I went to work. Pulling people out of mud, from under houses. One car, upright against the trunk of a tree still had the driver. He was dead. It went on. Before this I had only seen a dead body once or twice. That was remedied very quickly. I pulled people out of the water, only to have them choke and die right there. I would take someone's pulse, scream for help, then find that they had died before we could do anything. It was beyond any nightmare or fear I have ever had.

An older Thai woman came up to me with a pair of shorts and averted eyes. She was ashamed that I was totally naked. I smirked and slipped them on. She smiled and scurried away. Was it the bright white ass or the fear shriveled cock that had embarrassed her?

Roaming the former streets looking for foreigners to send to the higher ground, a place where we could all meet and tend to wounds. After an hour the Thais came screaming out of the mud saying there was another wave coming , and flying into the hills. We were left alone. Those that could walk did, the rest were carried. We made a new base, higher and safer. And the same thing happened again. And again.

Eventually we ended up in the jungle at a park, where there was water and high ground. It was messy. Eventually there were about 300 foreigners, about 120 of whom were injured pretty severely with broken limbs and ribs, near-drownings, everyone had gashes of some kind, severed fingers or toes and shock everywhere.

There was no medicine, no tools, no scissors, no bandages. Nothing but well water (of questionable cleanliness) and some sticks and clothes. I tried to find anyone medically trained. It was only the diving instructors who all had basic first aid. So we cleaned with the water, we broke sticks and set bones and talked people into a relatively calm place. If someone was severely cut, we used their own clothing to mend the wounds. It was a horror story. The floor was covered in blood, people were moaning, or vomiting or asking us to help them. And more arrived with every new wave of cars and trucks fleeing the "next wave".

After hours of this, we got news of helicopters evacuating the injured. So everyone rushed towards the trucks. I had to scream and push and pull people out of the way. The ones who needed the evac the most were the ones who couldn't get to the trucks. After twenty minutes of sorting through the priorities, and feeling like we had a handle on it, someone brought me to a girl who was bleeding severely out of her thigh and was in shock. No one had brought her to our little clinic area, they had left her in the back of truck.

Finally, after a few helicopters had pulled out the worst, I headed back down.

Through rubber tree plantations, and coconut groves we drove. It seemed quiet and relaxed. At the last corner it was devastation. The road was clear and dry up to a certain point and then it was a horizon of rubble. I shuddered.

Someone on a scooter came up and asked for a doctor. Everyone looked at me! I jumped on and they took me up roads I never knew existed, and over bridges that were barely standing until I was brought to five foreigners in the middle of nowhere. One of them was a good friend and diving instructor. It was the first person I had seen that I knew. It was a total joy. He was banged up pretty bad, but he got out and sent off to the hospital. Then the Thais came roaring up the hill, saying there was another wave. We had to carry four more people with broken bones (including a broken hip) up a hill. There was no wave. There never was.

I stumbled back down, wandering through the town looking for people to help. I found only bodies. I found one with a tattoo like Karin's on a scooter under some rubble. I pulled her out, and it was a Thai woman. Still griping her scooter, mouth agape.

Eventually I made my way back to the dive shop I worked at. We had always whinged about how it was too far off the main road, but it survived. It was a center for the survivors. I walked up to find friends alive and things clean and organized.

I had been able to keep on, doing what I could to help people, to close out my mind to what was around me and look only at what I was doing, to not see the dead people, to not worry about where Karin was. I had held together so well.

When I found out Karin was alive it all fell apart. I could smell the destruction, the horror I had just walked through, just lived through, that she had lived through. My body shouted out all the bruises and cuts I had ignored. It all struck me and threw me to the ground. It was too much I could no longer accept this.

We hugged and ate and slept. My feet were cut up, I had small cuts all over my body, and a sinus infection from all the bad water.

Karin had gotten hold of a coconut tree, wrapped herself around it and never let go. She had a few bruises and small cuts and a black eye. I was ecstatic to see her like that. First time I've been happy to see a woman with a black eye.

Most of the rest of our friends had come through. They had set up first aid stations and help stations, organized food and created a center for people to meet. The diving community came together and became our support, our medical care, our food - they did everything they could to help and then some.

I can't help but give massive appreciation and even a bit of awe to several people. Whether you know them or not, these are the true heroes. Keith he was tireless - for days, running around, getting medicine, doing first aid, cooking food, getting clothes, talking to the forlorn, coordinating doing everything he could. His energy was endless and bright.

Jim and Andrea opened the doors of their shop, and clothed and housed everyone they could. Joakim ran about grabbing people, helping wherever he could, evacuating people to the next town, the whole while wondering about the safety of his own family. And the two DMT's that helped me out two guys who had just taken a first aid class and then had to deal with massive trauma, death and chaos. And all the others this was not the work of just one or two people.

Of course the diving community at large shined like a beacon over the madness. When there was no one else, they all stepped forward. I can't help but swell with pride to count myself among them.

The next day I went back to where my house had been and surveyed the damage. One bungalow nearby had been lifted up and dropped on top of another. The whole beach was visible, meaning all of the two or three story hotels that had lined it were gone. There was a jet ski just near our house. The bottom floor of our house was gone, the upper floor was missing a couple of walls. The only thing left, was a plastic Jesus doll I had bought as a joke.

So I was left with nothing in the world except my own plastic Jesus.

The level of destruction is virtually impossible to describe. On our beach we had approx. 2500 hotel rooms. It looked to me, that maybe 50 could still be called hotel rooms. The week between Christmas and New Year's is the busiest of the week. Without warning, without an evacuation plan the survival rates were minimal. The wave at our house was about 7 meters high (20 feet) and in some places it was 10 meters (30 feet) high. It wiped out the third floor of most resorts. The number of dead is astronomical, several thousand on my beach alone. By the second day you could smell it, and in the short walk to my former house, we passed about 10 bodies just strewn about. Our final glance of the town was a cattle truck stacked full of wrapped up
corpses. We wanted to go home.

In Bangkok most people got help pretty quick. The Swedes, Germans and English had charted flights for their citizens to get home. The Thai government gave free hotel rooms to survivors and there were lists of places to get food.

EXCEPT the Americans. I went in to find out what help I could get I was able to get a replacement passport, a toothbrush and a paperback book. They said it was not their policy to arrange flights home. I was cut up, still covered in a pretty good layer of mud, I had no home, no money, no clothing (except some borrowed off Keith) nothing at all, and they could do nothing to help.

They did offer to let me borrow money, but they would have to find three people in America who would vouch for me, and that process should take less than a week. In the mean time I was fucked. I was destitute and rejected by the embassy. Karin was with me (she's Swedish) and said that I could still try and emigrate to Sweden. I was VERY tempted.

In these last days, watching politicians go on about helping and giving aide, but they won't even take care of their own citizens? I am very, very angry. All the other nations of the world were taking care of their own citizens! Eventually I got a flight home with JAL that would be JAPAN airlines not even an American company, but a JAPANESE company helped me get home.

I am still listed as neither found nor alive. Before I left I had spoken to the embassy twice on the phone, giving my name so I would be listed as alive so my family would not worry. I went to the embassy twice, once to get a passport to replace the one lost in the tsunami, and they never listed me as alive or found. I flew out of the country using said passport and am still not found. I went to the hospital three times, and, as of yesterday I am now listed as injured (having been in the states three days already). My family is now waiting to see how long it will take before they are notified about my status. So am I.

It does raise a good question if I am missing or dead, do I have to pay taxes?

While spiteful about the embassy, I am grateful to be alive, and that those I care about are still alive. I still look around and am in awe at what just happened. I really feel like someone has slipped me some roofies and I woke up in America.

No real moral to this story... yet.

While not exactly destitute, I am rich in friends I am fairly skint,as almost all my money, all my dive gear (my income), as well as my laptop (years of pictures and writing gone) and most everything else is probably floating somewhere near Burma. Gifts can be sent to my Paypal account... PaylPal

I would further recommend going to www.diveaid.co.uk. These are divers helping divers. Most of our community, while surviving, lost everything. This is a great site with some news of the area and those affected.

My story is just one, there and 100,000's more far worse off I had somewhere to fly to. Donations should be sent to good charities, ones that truly help. Doctors Without borders and the Thailand Red Cross were both there fast and helping out immensely. I can't speak, or even dream of what it must be like in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Breathe...

-Pearl

The Pentagon Plan in Iraq: Assassination & Kidnapping Squads

2005-01-09T21:42:00.000-08:00

The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq
‘The Salvador Option’.

The hypocrisy, narcissism and dissembling propaganda of the rulers of the world and their sidekicks are in full cry. -John Pilger

2005-01-08T19:45:00.000-08:00

The other tsunami by John Pilger
While the sea may have killed tens of thousands, western policies kill millions every year. Yet even amid disaster, a new politics of community and morality is emerging.

A Time for Leaving
American security and Iraqi stability depend on a prompt handover.

Tidal Wave Bomb: WWII Wartime Experiments

2005-01-07T14:51:00.000-08:00

Furore over `tidal bomb' claims
Classified files released this week show that a leading professor in WWII was developing a weapon almost as destructive as the atom bomb.

5 years ago... Clinton to give grants to trainee cyber-snoopers
Cyber-snooping has become an integral part of Homeland security and Patriot Act provisioning.

Worse Than Fiction By PAUL KRUGMAN
I've been thinking of writing a political novel. It will be a bad novel because there won't be any nuance: the villains won't just espouse an ideology I disagree with - they'll be hypocrites, cranks and scoundrels.

India may be the first country to explain to the world about extra-terrestrial and UFO contacts – the secret debate is on
New Delhi is in the middle of a big secret internal debate.

$240,000 of Your Tax Dollars: Education Dept. Paid Commentator to Promote No Child Left Behind Law. "a very questionable use of taxpayers' money" that is "probably illegal."
Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.

Lawmakers Launch Historic Protest of Electoral Vote
At a joint session of Congress, presided over by Vice President Dick Cheney, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) challenged the results from Ohio, the state that put President Bush over the top, handing him a victory over his Democratic rival, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.

Lynching Social Security To eliminate nation's safety net, Bush first has to convince us it's bad
In the Texas legislature, they are called "prior-roarities," such a happy coinage. What should come prior?

Border Security Bushwacked Again
Finally there's a political figure on the national scene who's making sense on the key issues of illegal immigration and border security.

U.S. Congress in Session Watchout America!

2005-01-06T09:19:00.000-08:00

Interview: Rep. Conyers with Will Pitt
I was able to interview Rep. John Conyers, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, just before the Electoral hearings began.

C-SPAN LIVE: Counting of Electoral College Votes
C-SPAN LIVE: Counting of Electoral College Votes.

A Brave Woman: Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones.

Sources with Rainbow-PUSH have confirmed that Senator Barbara Boxer of California will stand with House members to protest 'irregularities' during Ohio's presidential election
Boxer to Stand With Conyers.
Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results.
Sen. Boxer to Challenge Ohio Vote.

Harry Reid is on board/The Boxer Rebellion
WRPITT.

Dear Media Reformer
Free Press.

The American Empire Project
Americans have long believed that the very notion of empire is an offense against our democratic heritage, yet in recent months, these two words -- American empire -- have been on everyone's lips.

Presidential Election 2004: Judiciary Committee Dems Release 100-Page Report on Ohio Election
ilcaonline.org.

"We have found numerous, serious election irregularities in the Ohio presidential election, which resulted in a significant disenfranchisement of voters. Cumulatively, these irregularities, which affected hundreds of thousand of votes and voters in Ohio, raise grave doubts regarding whether it can be said the Ohio electors selected on December 13, 2004, were chosen in a manner that conforms to Ohio law, let alone federal requirements and constitutional standards."

The Russian Pipeline Decision
The Russian government has given its final approval for a major oil pipeline to the Pacific, dropping the idea of a route to China.

The Role of Selenium in Reversing AIDS
It is not a case of “AIDS disease that causes a slow and progressive decline in levels of the trace element selenium in the blood along with CD4 cell” but the other way around in which a weak antioxidant defense system opens up the immune system for suppression or impairment by oxidative damage resulting in immune incompetence and allowing opportunistic infections to occur..

911 Is a Joke... or Is It? Let's Find Out
A major new report by National Academies of Science concludes that there is not enough empirical data to determine whether gun control enhances public safety, or whether gun ownership deters crime. The report calls for further data-gathering on firearms injuries. We suggest that gathering a type of related data is equally critical: how often 911 calls result in the interruption of a crime.

US troops 'laughed as Iraqi died'
An Iraqi civilian has testified that US soldiers forced him and his cousin to jump into the River Tigris and laughed as his relative was swept to his death.

While the world's attention has been on the disaster in Asia, the situation in Iraq has deteriorated so much that the insurgency has developed into near-open warfare
Blistering attacks threaten Iraq election.

The commander of the US army reserve says it is rapidly degenerating into a "broken" force
US army reserve a 'broken' force.

What about the Children of Iraq?
My question is simply this, where is the worlds concern for the tens of thousands of Iraq's children that have been so completely decimated by the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq?

Laura Bush Salutes Her True God
Laura Bush Salutes Her True God.

N. Koreans Told To Prepare For War
North Korea has ordered its citizens to be ready for a protracted war against the United States, issuing guidelines on evacuating to underground bunkers with weapons, food and portraits of leader Kim Jong Il.

Congress should investigate elections
First, there are allegations of plain old voter fraud. Precincts in swing states across the country counted more votes than registered voters; voters described getting pre-punched ballots or seeing machines where the “default” choice was Bush.

Soldier Begging For Dog Food For Deployed Dogs
The commander of an Army Reserve detachment is begging friends back home to send food for Iraqi police dogs.

Journalist and News Producer Kristina Borjesson Examines Mainstream Media...What They Don't Do...and Why?
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW.

Presidential Election 2004: Five Senators and Eight House Members to Challenge Election
Four Senators Join Boxer, Seven House Members Join Conyers.

Once-Hated Gray Wolf Thrives in the U.S. Rockies
As the gray wolf hovered on the brink of extinction a decade ago, U.S. officials embarked on a controversial plan to open the vast refuge of Yellowstone National Park to the pack-based predators in the hopes of rebuilding the species.

The 25 Dumbest Quotes of 2004
The 25 Dumbest Quotes of 2004.

License-plate scanners lead to recovery of stolen vehicles
An experimental license-plate scanning system allowed state troopers to capture 23 criminal suspects and recover 24 stolen vehicles during a recent four-month test on the Ohio Turnpike, the Ohio Highway Patrol announced yesterday.

Cockpit Laser Beam Incidents

2005-01-05T09:05:00.000-08:00

"Federal agents are looking into two incidents in Colorado Springs, and one each in Cleveland, Washington, Houston, Teterboro, N.J., and Medford, Ore., according to law enforcement and transportation officials, some of whom spoke Thursday only on condition of anonymity." -(AP) USA Today Updated 1/2/2005 11:12 PM

LaserBeam CoverUp: This is hard to believe. This guy has great aim/speed considering how fast a jet moves at 3,000ft - and to be able to hit a pilots eyes? Where do you get a laser like that? And besides the USA Today article from 1/2/05 says the FBI are investigating 7 incidents of lasers beams in cockpits in multiple cities? And would it really be able to blind a pilot long enough to cause the plane to crash?
A man who initially claimed his daughter aimed a laser at a helicopter was charged after he told federal agents that he pointed the light beam at two aircraft, authorities said Tuesday.

Updates: Laser Beam Google News
Laser Beam News.
Green Laser Pointer II
Since green direct injection laser diodes aren't readily available, this pointer is based on the use of Diode Pumped Solid State Frequency Doubled (DPSSFD) laser technology. A high power IR laser diode at 808 nm pumps a tiny block of Nd:YVO4 generating light at 1,064 nm which feeds a KTP intracavity frequency doubler crystal to produce the green beam at 532 nm.

USA Today Repost Laser Incident: FBI probes lasers aimed at plane cockpits
Pilots from time to time encounter laser beams that stray into the cockpit on approach to an airport, but a recent rash of such incidents — at least seven since Christmas — has them worried about an organized effort to take down airliners.

U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 'Freest' Economies
The Heritage Foundation, which promotes low taxes and limited government regulation, reports the United States is tied for 12th place with Switzerland in the 2005 Index of Economic Freedom. The world's second-largest economy, Japan, ranks 39th in the survey. The report shows "a net increase in global economic freedom" overall.

The Heritage Foundation: 2005 Index of Economic Freedom
PDF: 2005 Index of Economic Freedom.

Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio
Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff.

Bush's Checks Returning NSF by Patrick J. Buchanan
A nation's foreign policy is bankrupt, Walter Lippmann wrote, when its strategic assets, its arms and alliances, are insufficient to cover its liabilities – i.e., its commitments to defend critical territory and vital interests.

Use of roadblocks means a loss of civil liberties
It would shock and offend the framers of the Rhode Island Constitution if we were to hold that the guarantees against unreasonable and warrantless searches and seizures should be subordinated to the interest of efficient law enforcement.

9/11 update from Cloak & Dagger
According to Heneghen, a missle shield over Washington, DC was deactivated several weeks before 9/11, the reason given being preparation for upcoming 'wargames'.

No Stolen Elections! Delivers Petitions To Feingold
A delegation from the local coalition No Stolen Elections! will deliver more than 800 letter petitions to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's Middleton office today, asking him to take a stand against alleged election fraud..

Dollars against Bush
According to an e-mail that's circulating these days, if you care about what our country is doing in Iraq in your name, you shouldn't spend a dime that day. It's when President George W. Bush will be sworn into office for a second term.

War Prospects for 2005
Give them a country, they want the world.

Witness says police shot half-naked, unarmed man
Haase says she and Pace were watching a movie on Pace's TV when the raid began.

Rogue State: the covert op that ate the world
While both of the terrorist pilots who crashed into the World Trade Center were students at Venice Florida’s Huffman Aviation, the flight school's owner Wallace J. Hilliard, 72, of Naples, FL., was simultaneously pursuing his own diplomatic opening to Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

Stop Sending us Money, French Aid Group Says
The medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) urged donors Tuesday to stop sending it money for Asian tsunami victims, saying it had collected enough funds to manage its relief effort there.

Washington prepares international network of permanent detention camps
“The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people in military and CIA custody whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts,”

On September 11, 2001 he has made news previously when it announced that it had developed a software mechanism to take control of Osama Binladin family's official website, whose domain registration expired simultaneously with the tragic events of September 11, 2001. "The controversy remains whether the 9/11 expiration dates were just a remarkable coincidence or if this truly was a warning code,"
SHRIMPO LLC, is no foreigner to parody or controversy.

U.S. Troops Outnumbered by Insurgents

2005-01-04T09:34:00.000-08:00

Islamic Army Threatens with Spreading War to US Lands
'Big surprise' planned: 'We will give Americans a taste of what civilians in our country go through'.

Iraqi insurgents now outnumber coalition forces
The head of intelligence services in Baghdad says that there are more than 200,000 fighters.

Repost: FBI probes lasers aimed at plane cockpits
Pilots from time to time encounter laser beams that stray into the cockpit on approach to an airport, but a recent rash of such incidents — at least seven since Christmas — has them worried about an organized effort to take down airliners.

One of the TILL lasers tracks the nose of the target, establishing a baseline for calculating how far away the target fuel tank is, while the second TILL laser tracks the target area calculated by the first TILL.
REACH OUT AND FRY SOMEONE: The Airborne Laser.

LASER TECHNOLOGY
Lasers.

Image: Depiction of the Airborne Laser (ABL)
The Airborne Laser is an accurate, aircraft-carried, high energy laser that will shoot down theater ballistic missiles shortly after launch while the missiles are still over the launching country and in the vulnerable boost phase of flight.

The Army is exploring several DE capabilities, including the Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL), designed to destroy artillery shells, mortars, rockets and unmanned aerial vehicles
DOD's Directed Energy Roadmap May Be Nearing Completion.

Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. -Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen

Flashback: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Monday, April 28, 1997 - 8:45 a.m. EDT
Cohen's keynote address at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy at the Georgia Center, Mahler Auditorium, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

HAARP - The Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate is building in Alaska a new, state-of-the-art facility for the active study of the ionosphere and its effects on radio systems.
LF can be used for long-range communications with submarines and may be useful for locating buried structures since it penetrates deeply into the earth.

Flashback: Red Cross Pocketed Half Of 9/11 Donations
Red Cross defends handling of Sept. 11 donations.

Another Official Pre-9/11 Image of the WTC Being Targeted
It's getting hard to keep track of all the ways in which one of the biggest 9/11 lies--that the government just didn't foresee, couldn't have forseen, an attack on the World Trade Center--has been exposed. Add another one to the list. The image above is from the cover of the manual "Managing Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents: An Executive Level Program for Sheriffs.".

Expert: I tried to warn of tsunami
A Thai expert says he tried to warn the government a deadly tsunami might be sweeping towards tourist-packed beaches, but couldn't find anyone to take his calls.

GUNS IN AMERICA: A Gallup Poll released this morning reveals that the average American owns 1.7 guns, with the average gun owner possessing 4.4 of them
A majority of gun owners (62%) have more than one gun on their properties, including 29% who say they have five or more guns.

Tsunami 2004
The money for Tsunami aid should come from US military budget.

Mexican Step by step guide to invading America
GUÍA DEL MIGRANTE MEXICANO.

Blind in Baghdad
The failure to appreciate the Iraqi resistance--due to a combination of wishful thinking and limitations in the field--is both a policy and an intelligence problem.

FBI probes lasers aimed at cockpits & Mexico Encourages Illegal Immigration

2005-01-03T10:13:00.000-08:00

FBI probes lasers aimed at plane cockpits
Pilots from time to time encounter laser beams that stray into the cockpit on approach to an airport, but a recent rash of such incidents — at least seven since Christmas — has them worried about an organized effort to take down airliners.

Invasion USA: Mexico publishes guide to assist border crossers
The Mexican government is giving out a colorful new comic book with advice for migrants, but immigration-control advocates worry that some of the tips may encourage illegal border crossers.

Human Hand behind earthquake and Tsunami? It is time for Indian Navy to investigate
Was this an earthquake creation experiment that ran out of control? Many countries are working on methods of creating massive earthquakes as means to defeat the enemy. The technologically advanced countries are working on this project.

A Media Blackout: Media Whites Out Vote Fraud
There is strong evidence of vote theft in Ohio. That will be news to anyone who gets their news from a television or from most print media.

FLASHBACK: A Hidden Story Behind Sept. 11? One Man's Ad Campaign Says So
"It just isn't possible that 19 screw-ups with box cutters pulled this whole thing off," Mr. James W. Walter.

USS Abraham Lincoln from the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia (Why not Hospital Ships?)
A massive American military relief operation picked up steam on Monday with U.S. helicopters dropping off cartons of food aid in Sumatra and U.S. warships with 2,200 Marines arriving in the Malacca Straits to begin ferrying supplies to the tsunami-battered Island.

Today's Conservatives Are Fascists
Torture, dictatorship, phony "elections," and endless war – it's fascism with a "democratic" face.

Digitized prints can point finger at innocent
But the same digital technology that has allowed the FBI to speed such checks so dramatically over the last few years has created the risk of accusing people who are innocent, the Tribune has found.

US fighters violate Iranian air space: report
A US warplane has violated Iranian air space, this time a border edge near Afghanistan in the eastern province of Razavi Khorassan, in the latest spate of such overflights reported by the press.

Fragments of a fraud
His memoir was hailed as a classic of Holocaust literature. There were prizes and breathless reviews. But one Swiss journalist smelt a rat and after months of whispers Binjamin Wilkomirski's book was yesterday withdrawn by his German publishers. Fiachra Gibbons and Stephen Moss unravel one of the great literary deceptions.

Vitamins Outlawed
Codex Alimentarius Commission.

US presidents in tsunami aid plea (How much have they individually pledged?)
President George W Bush and two of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and George Bush Senior, have called on Americans to aid the Asian tsunami's victims.

A law taking effect with the new year gives gay couples who register as domestic partners nearly the same responsibilities and benefits as married spouses. Heterosexual elderly couples also are eligible. (When will younger Heterosexual couples be able to enjoy these benefits? This is bullshit!)
A law.

Melting ice may create shipping shortcut
"There is no question there will be greater use of the Arctic Ocean,".

German Engineers Help the USA - Your government Bush is lying to you
Bush is lying to you.

Speech: Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution, March 20, 1962
Aldous Huxley.

MENTAL HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CONTROL
The ultimate goal of the power elite, as I have written before, is to have a world government with social control of the populace.

"American Jobs" is a documentary film that explores the loss of American jobs to foreign competition
American Jobs.

2005 - Have You Learned To Swim?

2005-01-02T01:14:00.000-08:00

Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the Indian Ocean...
Charles McCreery of the Pacific Warning Center in Hawaii confirmed that his team tried to get in touch with his counterparts in Asia. According to McCreery, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's center in Honolulu, the team did its utmost to contact the countries.

NOAA in Hawaii's Report

After southern Asia's massive quake, experts initially were blind to the threat of a tsunami. Others were unable or unwilling to act
A Tremor, Then a Sigh of Relief, Before the Cataclysm Rushed In

Remote Viewing: During Tsunami Remote Viewing primitive tribes in Andaman Nicobar Islands of India moved to higher grounds – so did most animals - more primitive tribes moved out to the higher grounds days before the catastrophe
While there is massive unbelievable devastation, the primitive tribes are relatively unaffected though most of them lived close by the ocean.

2005 - LEARN TO SWIM

2005-01-01T13:16:00.000-08:00

RELIEF WEB-South Asia
South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004

The Center for Corporate Policy's Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004
War Profiteers-Center for Corporate Policy

The Center for Corporate Policy's Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004
1) AEGIS
2) BearingPoint
3) Bechtel
4) BKSH & Associates
5) CACI and Titan
6) Custer Battles
7) Halliburton
8) Lockheed Martin
9) Loral Satellite
10) Qualcomm

Earthquake: Coincidence or a Corporate Oil Tragedy?

2004-12-30T01:53:00.000-08:00

According to Jim Cummings of the Acoustic Ecology Institute, Seismic surveys utilizing airguns have been taking place in mineral-rich areas of the world’s oceans since 1968
Now I don’t claim to be an expert on seismic activity, but there has been a series of events which led up to the 9.0 earthquake of the coast of Indonesia which can not be ignored. This all could be an enormous coincidence, but one must look at the information and choose for themselves whether there is anything to it.

A great deal of interest and seismic testing has been taking place in this area, as the government of Australia has given great tax breaks to encourage the oil exploration
appea.com.au.

100,000 Dead and Bush is Vacationing?

2004-12-29T09:48:00.000-08:00

"The United States is not stingy," Powell said on CNN
Aid Grows Amid Remarks About President's Absence.

The number of dead from Sunday's Indian Ocean sea surges is likely to rise above 100,000, the Red Cross has said
Wave toll 'could exceed 100,000'.

At the Epicenter, Tales of Death and of Stubborn Fights for Life
"I was alone in the middle of the ocean,".

Tsunamis and Nuclear Power Plants
The ocean in San Diego, 1/2 a world away, rose 10 inches. It IS a small world, after all. The "sea wall" at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ("SONGS") in Southern California is 35 feet tall, and about 35 years old. It could not have withstood Sunday's worst.

Donate

The following aid agencies are accepting contributions for assistance that they or their affiliates will provide for those affected by Sunday's earthquake and tsunami.

AmeriCares
88 Hamilton Ave.
Stamford, CT 06902
800-486-4357
americares.org

American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry St.
Philadelphia, PA
215-241-7000
afsc.org

American Red Cross
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, DC 20013
800-HELP-NOW
redcross.org

CARE
1-800-521-CARE (2273)
care.org

Doctors Without Borders
1-888-392-0392
doctorswithoutborders-usa.org

Oxfam America Asian Earthquake Fund
PO Box 1211
Albert Lea, MN 56007-1211
800-77-OXFAM
oxfamamerica.org

UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
unicef.org

"Please consider these aid agencies for donations to help the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. thi3rdeye is not affiliated with any of these organizations, nor can we directly vouch for them."

Who's in Charge of Russia Policy? by Patrick J. Buchanan
If President Bush will not get control of NED and its progeny, or defund the rogues, or assume responsibility for them all, Congress must hold public hearings. At least let the people know who is steering us into a new Cold War with Russia and the "World War IV" that ex-Director Woolsey and his friends have in store for us.

Lobbying Tab Is $1.1 Billion for Half a Year
Special interest groups report expenditures for the first half of 2004. Chamber of Commerce and AMA top the list, with $39 million.

Nat Hentoff Has His Eye on Our Eroding Freedoms...But Do the Rest of Us?
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW.

Save Social Security from White House By BOB GRAHAM
SaveSocial Security from White House.

The Federal Reserve has done a masterful job of distributing disinformation
The reason the core rate goes up so slowly is because it is carefully designed to leave out the key expenses that really affect our lives and go up in price such as energy costs, food, and housing.

Gary Webb: Do What He Did
Gary Webb.

Was Gary Webb 'Suicided'To Kill New Book?
I believe that Gary Webb's death is being sold as a "confirmed suicide" when in reality it's a "confirmed conspiracy." I also believe that Webb was "suicided" to kill his new book. To those of you who would say, "you can't PROVE Webb was working on a new book." I say, "you can't prove he wasn't."

Asian Quake Felt in Oklahoma
Shock waves from the deadly earthquake that killed thousands in Indonesia were felt in Oklahoma.

NEW YORK MIGHT FACE WATERY END
It hardly raised a ripple when it was reported over the summer, but news that a tsunami could one day hit New York is suddenly getting a second look.

700 Civilian Bodies Recovered From Fallujah; 504 Women And Children
Emergency teams from the Fallujah Hospital have recovered 700 bodies of Iraqis from the ruins of houses destroyed in the US offensive on the city. Among the 700 bodies were 504 bodies of women and children; the rest elderly and middle aged men.

TBR NEWS: Only 47% of Americans now think that a stable, democratic Iraq is a likely outcome
The Voice of the White House.

Rumsfeld Qoute: "I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten – indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be."

Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 being 'shot down'
Defense chief said to remain firm plane crashed from passenger-terrorist struggle.

55,000 Killed

2004-12-28T13:55:00.000-08:00

Asian Disaster Toll Surges Past 55,000 as Relief Operations Stall
Logistical problems hampered a massive humanitarian relief operation along Asia's devastated shores as the death toll from a huge earthquake and killer tidal waves surged past 55,000.

International ocean monitors predicted that a tsunami would likely follow the deadly earthquake that hit the Indian Ocean on Sunday. But they didn’t know who to inform...
The U.S. knew about the tsunami.

NOAA REACTS QUICKLY TO INDONESIAN TSUNAMI(?)
INDONESIAN TSUNAMI.

Magnitude 9.0 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA 2004 December 26 00:58:49 UTC
A great earthquake occurred at 00:58:49 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The magnitude 9.0 event has been located OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA.

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 003 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 1535Z 27 DEC 2004
INDONESIAN TSUNAMI.

665
WEPA42 PHEB 271528
PART ONE OF TWO PARTS
TIBPAC
CAZALL-ORZALL-WAZALL-HIZALL-AKZALL-271628-

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 003
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1535Z 27 DEC 2004

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

.................. TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ..................

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING
OR WATCH IN EFFECT.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0059Z 26 DEC 2004
COORDINATES - 3.4 NORTH 95.7 EAST
LOCATION - OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
MAGNITUDE - 9.0

EVALUATION

SOME ENERGY FROM YESTERDAYS TSUNAMI IN THE INDIAN OCEAN HAS
LEAKED INTO THE PACIFIC BASIN... PROBABLY FROM SOUTH OF THE
AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT. THIS ENERGY HAS PRODUCED MINOR
SEA LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AT MANY PLACES IN THE PACIFIC. FOR
EXAMPLE...

50 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT CALLAO CHILE
19 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT IQUIQUE CHILE
13 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT PAGO PAGO AMERICAN SAMOA
11 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT SUVA FIJI
50 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT WAITANGI CHATHAM IS NEW ZEALAND
65 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT JACKSON BAY NEW ZEALAND
18 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT PORT VILA VANUATU
06 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT HILO HAWAII USA
22 CM CREST-TO-TROUGH AT SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA USA

HOWEVER... AT MANZANILLO MEXICO SEA LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS WERE
AS MUCH AS 2.6 METERS CREST-TO-TROUGH PROBABLY DUE TO FOCUSING
OF ENERGY BY THE EAST PACIFIC RISE AS WELL AS LOCAL RESONANCES.

THIS IS TO ADVISE THAT SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES COULD CONTINUE
TO BE OBSERVED ACROSS THE PACIFIC OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO
UNTIL ALL ENERGY FROM THIS EVENT IS EVENTUALLY DISSIPATED.

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WEPA42 PHEB 271528
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TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 003
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1535Z 27 DEC 2004

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
AL

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WEPA42 PHEB 271528
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THIS WILL BE THE FINAL BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

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WEPA42 PHEB 271528
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

Magnitude 5.7 - ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA 2004 December 28 21:07:37 UTC
A moderate earthquake occurred at 21:07:37 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 28, 2004. The magnitude 5.7 event has been located in the ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA.

Quake prompts enormous aid effort
One of the world's largest.

As many as 1,000 villagers battled police in southern China in a riot that left several people dead and dozens wounded, newspapers said Sunday
Wen Wei Po said nearly 50,000 people faced off against hundreds of police officers and torched four police cars.

Susan Sontag, the celebrated American author, has died aged 71
Susan Sontag dies.

Drug Firms Issue Memos on Michael Moore
Some pharmaceutical companies are telling their employees to look out for the scruffy guy in the baseball cap.

M$ Windows XP Professional Bugging Device?
A hypothesis that Microsoft's Windows XP is a complex variation of a bugging device.

US District Court rules against Michael New

2004-12-27T21:13:00.000-08:00

Outrageous! A federal judge in Washington has upheld the right of the American military to place its personnel under United Nations command and force those soldiers to wear insignia designed by the world body...
GIs Can Be Ordered To Wear U.N. Beret.

Michael New: When is obedience to an order treason? Can an American soldier be forced to serve a foreign power? That's what we're going to find out! American sovereignty hangs in the balance.
US District Court rules against Michael New.

China launches Cernet2 high-speed Internet backbone
40 gigabits per second during a trial run conducted on 7 December. This is a record for real-world applications, where the average speeds are about 2-10 GPS for universities.

More than 12,000 people are known to have died after a massive underwater earthquake sent giant waves crashing into coastlines across southern Asia.

Kerry votes switched to Bush and ballots pre-punched for Bush.

We KNOW Rove was on the phone pressuring the media to call for Bush.. I just didn't catch how fast the switch was. In one hour Bush gained 62 EC votes and the Presidency...

Castro Announces Crude Oil Discovery.

Israeli 9/11 Hijacker Believed Planes Were Being Landed By Remote Control.

Earthquake Magnitude 8.9 NORTHERN SUMATRA

2004-12-26T23:40:00.000-08:00

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 8.9 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA 2004 December 26 00:58:50 UTC.

Asia reels from tides and tremors
Large tidal waves along the east coast of Sri Lanka have reportedly killed at least 160 people, High tides striking India's coast are said to have killed at least 26 people.Deaths have also been reported in coastal Thailand and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, believed to be near the centre of the powerful earthquake.

419 dead, hundreds missing as Indonesian quake batters Asia
At least 419 people died and hundreds more were injured or missing as tsunami tidal waves unleashed by a massive earthquake off Indonesia hit the region on Sunday.

Indonesia Quake Sparks Fatal Tidal Waves
Indonesia Earthquake Sparks Tidal Waves Across Asia; 300 People Killed in Sri Lanka.

Google: Earthquake
Earthquake.

Pentagon warns EU on sale of arms to China
Pentagon warns EU.

Israel: Selling arms to China, or not
Selling arms to China, or not.

The Israeli-American crisis
Israeli-American crisis.

thi3rdeye

2004-12-25T14:56:00.000-08:00

The Devil's Christmas by Justin Raimondo
We celebrate the Prince of Peace in the shadow of war.

Hip-Hop and the 9/11 Truth Movement
No element of the entertainment industry responded to the mass murders of 9/11 with an inquisitive mind and bold presence – except hip-hop. Because of this, Davey D’s web site has been a significant, though unofficial, ally of the 9/11 Truth Movement, publishing articles directly related to 911 Activism.

Americans ceding too much freedom
The United States is sliding down the slippery slope to becoming the 21st century equivalent of 1930s Germany and the USSR with Bush in the Hitler/Stalin role, all in the name of the Patriot Act.

Anyone claiming to be a follower of Jesus Christ has a very high standard to live up to. Christians are supposed to love everyone, their enemies included, without exception
If love of money is the root of all evil, why are churches lining up to get more of it from the government?

PHOTOS Show George W. Bush Seriously Ill Physically
George W. Bush apparently is wearing a medical device for "persons at risk of cardiac arrest." It is a LifeVest wearable defibrillator. He started using it sometime after his January 2002 fainting spell, which was attributed to choking.

It was again Thomas Jefferson who said, "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themsleves against tyranny in government."
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." --Thomas Jefferson.

Rap COINTELPRO Part I
Rap COINTELPRO.

Counter-Inaugural Demonstration January 20, 2005 Washington DC

2004-12-23T09:46:00.000-08:00

On January 20th, 2005, we're calling for a new kind of action. The Bush administration has been successful at keeping protesters away from major events in the last few years by closing off areas around events and using questionable legal strategies to outlaw public dissent...
turnyourbackonbush.org

CounterInaugural and the ReDefeatBush CounterInaugural Ball on 1/20/05
redefeatbush.com

Counter-Inaugural Demonstration January 20, 2005 Washington DC
answercoalition.org

Kerry to Enter Ohio Recount Fray By William Rivers Pitt
2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry will file today, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, papers in support of the Green Party/Libertarian Party recount effort.

Homeless Veterans: Soldiers Go From Fighting in Iraq to Fighting A New War At Home...
Homeless Veterans.

Sex scandal in Congo threatens to engulf UN's peacekeepers
HOME-MADE pornographic videos shot by a United Nations logistics expert in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sparked a sex scandal

In Ohio, almost 1 in 50 votes for president don't count
Nearly 97,000 ballots, or 1.7 percent of those cast across the state, either did not record a preference for president or could not be counted because the voter selected more than one presidential candidate.

Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination.

9/11 - WHO DID THIS?

Us To Deploy New Missiles In S.Korea To Destroy WMD In N.Korea.

How to kill yourself like a man
thebestpage

United States of Confusion

2004-12-22T13:29:00.000-08:00

Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan: A Photo Gallery
warning: 2 of the photos are graphic.

Drive To Stop Bush's 'Pinochet Plan' To Loot Social Security
In fact, the fascist "Pinochet model" is being pushed not just by the "economic summit" of Cheney and Bush, but globally.

Bush Social Security Plan Worries GOP
Ryan concedes there's risk in reshaping Social Security, whose recipients include 32 million retired workers and dependents who don't want their benefits cut.

How to hide 14 million secrets
The satellite flap is just another example of the silliness of the capital's obsession with trying to hide information that is already in the public domain or ought to be.

Alex Jones' Rebuttal To Allegations Made By Michael Ruppert Concerning Gary Webb's Death
An article written by Michael Ruppert concerning the funeral of Gary Webb contained a number of allegations directed towards Alex Jones. Here is our response to those allegations.

The year of living extravagantly
This was the year that Americans reasserted their traditional values.

Social Security isn't broke - Bush is lying!

2004-12-21T17:41:00.000-08:00

Most economists are irritated at the palpable nonsense being circulated about Social Security
Start with a basic fact - it is not broken and does not need fixing.

December 27... Expect "something big"... This is it, folks - Paul Wofowitz will authorise the detonation of a nuclear payload in the Houston area on December 27, 2004
"Something Big"... This Is It, Folks.
Another 9-11 Warning from German Intelligence?

Bush - He shouldn't be on the cover of TIME, he should be doing TIME
Time magazines' person of the year is someone that has 'grabbed international attention' or had an 'impact' the world scene...- for the better or for the worse.

Just Like Hitler: Time Selects Bush for "Man of the Year"
Just as Hitler was Time's Person of the year in 1938, Bush is Time's pick this year. After all, he is bringing in an almost identical system of oppression and tyranny.

TIME Magazine has a History of Fascist on the Cover of their Magazine!
Luce was an enthusiastic promoter of fascism during th 1920s and 1930s. Time ran five cover stories on Benito Mussolini, and in a speech given to the Scranton, Pennsylvania Chamber of Congress on April 19, 1934, Luce said: "The moral force of Fascism, appearing in totally different forms in different nations, may be the inspiration for the next general march of mankind."

President Bush is setting out to convince the nation that the danger is imminent and can be addressed only with bold action. Sound familiar?
The White House is deploying the strategy it used to sell the war in Iraq to sell its plan for partial privatization of the Social Security system.

Report: U.S. Rentals Unaffordable to Poor
Most Americans who rely on just a full-time job earning the federal minimum wage cannot afford the rent and utilities on a one- or two-bedroom apartment, an advocacy group on low-income housing reported Monday.

The government has spent about $130 billion on the program and is slated to invest $50 billion more over the next five years. Yet the only tests that have succeeded were rigged; the missiles being intercepted were equipped with homing devices, something a real attacker probably wouldn't be considerate enough to include. The most recent test before Wednesday's, on Dec. 11, 2002, failed when a warhead didn't detach from its booster rocket.
Ill-Starred 'Star Wars' Tests.

Wool-Worth Building Bombed on 911!
"Can you send somebody over to the Woolworth Building to check the roof?" a Port Authority police officer asked. "There's a possible ... they said it was ... we just had a second explosion, possibly a missile from the roof of the Woolworth Building."

NATO, the Pentagon, MI6, the CIA, and European intelligence services linked to terror, coups d’état, and torture

2004-12-18T11:01:00.000-08:00

NATO’s secret armies linked to terrorism?
At a time when experts are debating whether NATO is suited to deal with the global “war on terror”, new research suggests that the alliance’s own secret history has links to terrorism-by Daniele Ganser.

Another dead BUSH biographer. Coincidence or Conspiracy? You decide!
Gary Webb, 49; Wrote Series Linking CIA, Drugs.

Four Bush biographers, Mark Lombardi, J.H. Hatfield, Danny Casalaro, and now Gary Webb--all "suicide" victims. What are the odds all of these people actually committing suicide?
4 Bush Biographers--All Suicided.

Gary Webb Dead: Suicide? Conspiracy? You Guess.
"The odds of 4 specific, male biographers committing suicide would be the 4th power of 17/100000, or 8.3521 4.913 x 10^-17...roughly 1 chance 10,000,000,000,000,000.

Second Bush cabinet taking rocky shape

Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies

International Relations and Security Network (ISN).

"At Bush Inauguration, Lunch Will Set You Back $250,000."

This is a lunch with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, obviously exclusive to the high tax brackets. There will also be a "Salute To Those Who Serve," with free tickets for the military.

The arithmetic is too tempting. It costs $25,000 to fully armor a Humvee. Each $250,000 lunch ticket could go straight to equipping 10 vehicles, so our reservists and Guards in Iraq won't have to ride around with homemade sandbags on the floor.

Do it, Mr. Bush. Donate your lunch money to the troops.

U.S. obviously didn't do all it could to protect troops.

Christmas Wishlist...Baghdad Burning-No electricity for three days in a row (well, unless you count that glorious hour we got 3 days ago...). Generators on gasoline are hardly working at all. Generators on diesel fuel aren't faring much better- most will only work for 3 or 4 straight hours then they have to be turned off to rest.

More News and Info.

Couple proudly displayed infant cut from mother's womb.

eKoNomiX

2004-12-16T09:37:00.000-08:00

Rampant Insider Selling Raises Red Flags
AP Reports Major Corporate Execs, Including Some From the Homebuilding Industry Are Dumping Stocks - Serious Predictor of a Coming Crash...

That's right. Put all of our money into a failing Stock Market! Bush is a liar. International Bankers are intentionally/systematically bankrupting this country!
Bush: Social Security Reform Needed Now

The Source of Hitler's Success
by Ludwig von Mises

Doctor Who Criticized U.N. in Book Finds Himself Out of a Job.

A monetary coup d'etat.

BuyBlue

2004-12-13T21:47:00.000-08:00

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Baghdad Burning-Fuel Shortage...It has been a sad few weeks

Some Say Radioactive Arms Cause Gulf War Syndrome by Helen Thomas

The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical Smokescreen by Scott Ritter

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2004-11-23T14:31:00.000-08:00

“Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.” -Dr. Henry Kissinger

2004-11-22T18:32:00.000-08:00

Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela
Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over.

Militant groups control 60 percent of Fallujah: witnesses
"Defenders of the city are controlling 60 percent of the city and they are encircling dozens of US soldiers in Jolan neighborhood,"

Criminal Tom DeLay’s legal defense fund keeps growing
DeLay is quietly raking in fresh bundles of cash from GOP colleagues and big corporate donors for another highly personal cause: paying off his mounting legal bills.

Litigating the Election
Without much fanfare, a number of lawyers are busy mounting court challenges to the election. Lawsuits have been filed and other actions are being taken in Ohio and Florida, the two key electoral states. Members of Congress have demanded a General Accountability Office investigation of the election.

If bin Laden was dead, Would the U.S. admit it?
If bin Laden was dead,
Would the U.S. admit it?
The 2004 October Surprise Video is fake!

WELFARE STATE FOR THE RICH
WELFARE STATE FOR THE RICH

Falluja women, children in mass grave
Residents of neighbouring Saqlawiya village have told Aljazeera that they helped bury the bodies of seventy-three women and children who were burned beyond recognition.

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." -Henry Kissinger (at the 1991 Bilderberger conference held in Evians, France)

"There is a danger to the healthy development of the American Revolution in the fact that often revolutions are manipulated by the ruling class to appear to be a bigger threat than they really are." -Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther

The Truth-Telling Project
The Truth-Telling Project.

NEWS

2004-11-21T16:06:00.000-08:00

Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela
Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over.

Litigating the Election Recount, Lawsuits, Hearings in Ohio
Members of Congress have demanded a General Accountability Office investigation of the election.

Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt
On Saturday, November 13, the Ohio Election Protection Coalition’s public hearings in Columbus solicited extensive sworn first-person testimony from 32 of Ohio voters, precinct judges, poll workers, legal observers, party challengers.

The Missing Voices of Our World -By Howard Zinn
When I decided, in the late 1970s, to write A People's History of the United States, I had been teaching history for twenty years.

Powell 'Pushed Out' for Israel Stance?
Powell 'Pushed Out' for Israel Stance?

"Smart Dust" may soon be watching you
They are the world's smallest wireless sensors. And at about the size of a wristwatch, the contain a battery powered microphone, an accelerometer, as well as temperature and humidity sensors, according to Sam Godwin, Vice President of Crossbow.

RACE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL
"Racial tensions have been high between Hispanics and blacks."

World Government Fronts, Psycho-social Change Agents
The most successful method to manipulate and control society is the Hegelian Dialectic.

More Ohio voter suppression testimony prompts upcoming legal filing for statewide recount
As transcribed testimony from citizens denied their right to vote November 2 has become public, a coalition of public interest lawyers says it will initiate a legal filing demanding a statewide recount.

Pentagon offers Pakistan $1.2B arms deal
Some see the offer as a reward for Pakistan's support in the U.S. war on terror.

Proof of US Election Fraud
Ohio Precincts.

Resident Evil--1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Some people believe the White House is haunted. I prefer to believe the building is demon possessed.

Lab used by LAPD falsified DNA data
Cellmark has a three-year, $2.7 million contract to help the LAPD clear up a backlog of cases while the agency trains its own DNA lab analysts.

Didn't you run for president once? (Keith Olbermann)
SECURE UNDISCLOSED LOCATION— There has been a John Kerry sighting.

Carnegie Military University : How the Pentagon Funds Universities to Contribute to War
As the situation in Iraq grows more bloody by the day, people across the country continue to protest the war and the Bush administration's policies through marches, rallies and acts of civil disobedience.

S. 2986 - Every American owes– currently about $25,000

2004-11-20T23:03:00.000-08:00

Raising the Debt Limit: A Disgrace by Rep. Ron Paul
50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far.

Iraq War Topping $5.8 Billion A Month
The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals.

JFK II - The Bush Connection
A thorough, documented, criminal indictment of George Herbert Walker Bush, establishing beyond a reasonable doubt his guilt as a supervisor in the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. If we could present this evidence to a jury in Texas, he would pay with his life.

It's typical American technique- every single atrocity is lost and covered up by blaming a specific person and getting it over with. What people don't understand is that the whole military is infested with these psychopaths. In this last year we've seen murderers, torturers and xenophobes running around in tanks and guns. I don't care what does it: I don't care if it's the tension, the fear, the 'enemy'… it's murder. We are occupied by murderers. We're under the same pressure, as Iraqis, except that we weren't trained for this situation, and yet we're all expected to be benevolent and understanding and, above all, grateful. I'm feeling sick, depressed and frightened. I don't know what to say anymore… they aren't humans and they don't deserve any compassion.

Mounting evidence of US destabilisation of Sudan
The excuse of a humanitarian intervention.

CIA plans riskier, more aggressive espionage
Director Porter Goss told his new chief of spy operations this week to launch a much more aggressive espionage campaign that would use undercover officers to penetrate terrorist groups and hostile governments such as North Korea.

Alex Jones Texas radio host launches anti-Schwarzenegger campaign
A Texas radio host launched a Web-based offensive Thursday against efforts to change the U.S. Constitution to allow Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president of the United States.

Iraq War Topping $5.8 Billion A Month

2004-11-19T13:09:00.000-08:00

The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals
50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far

Outsourcing of jobs is accelerating in U.S.
Bronfenbrenner defended her data as "extremely conservative" and said companies go to great lengths to suppress or play down in the U.S. press any job shifts.

'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida
There was something odd about the poll tapes.

Let’s Get Real
Bush & company’s theft of the election was a crime so obvious that it requires more effort to deny than to affirm.

Senate OKs $800B Debt Limit Hike

2004-11-18T20:58:00.000-08:00

MORE NEWS HERE
michaelwtrainor.blogspot.com

Enactment would raise the government's borrowing limit to $8.18 trillion — $2.23 trillion higher than when Bush became president in 2001
"We don't have any more money,"

Mokhiber: No, this is the question. Has the White House counsel looked at the President’s legal exposure to a war crimes prosecution? “Should Canada Indict Bush?”
Scottie & Me.

The Sweetheart Contract With Sharon by Patrick J. Buchanan
No. All realized something that neoconservatives reject. For better or worse, as the explosion of grief at his death demonstrated, Arafat came to personify and symbolize the just cause of Palestinian nationhood.

So who killed Margaret Hassan? by Robert Frisk
Margaret Hassan's Suspected Execution Will Be Seen As 'Proof' of Evil.

World on Alert as Over 15,000 Species Face Extinction
Over 15,000 animal and plant species face extinction, reveals the World Conservation Union or IUCN in its '2004 Red List of Threatened Species'.

REDLIST - The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
REDLIST.ORG

Quit Meddling

2004-11-16T22:13:00.000-08:00

Quit Meddling in the Middle East by Rep. Ron Paul
"Peace plans" imposed by outsiders or the UN cause resentment and seldom produce lasting peace.

Noam Chomsky on Yasser Arafat, Iraq and the Draft
Democracy Now!

Cuffing Bush and the FBI by Nat Hentoff
A serious setback to the Patriot Act, despite the victorious Bush's unstinting support.

FBI Terror Informant Ignites Himself Near White House
A Falls Church man who worked as a federal informant on terrorism set himself on fire in front of the White House yesterday, hours after announcing his suicide attempt and citing his growing despondency over how the FBI managed his case.

Cruel and Unusual by Joan Dayan
The end of the Eighth Amendment.

Fallujah 101
A history lesson about the town we are currently destroying.

Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas, for example, voted overwhelmingly for constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage. But they had three of the highest divorce rates in 2003
To Avoid Divorce, Move to Massachusetts.

US to deploy hyper-missiles
American scientists are developing hypersonic cruise missiles that will fly 10 times faster than current rockets, penetrate concrete armouring and could be launched from any site in the world.

Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago.

New Bill in Congress Targets Teachers Who Dare to Question US Support for Israel
The Israeli lobby has launched an all-out drive to ensure congressional passage of a bill, approved by the House and now before a Senate committee that would set up a federal tribunal to investigate and monitor criticism of Israel on American college campuses.

Foreign sub in Israeli waters thought gathering intelligence
An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the vessel belonged to a NATO member country and was detected during the night between Nov. 9-10.

An Open Letter to the New York Times (and by implication) the Rest of the US Media Who are Trying to Whitewash the 2004 Presidential Election Scandal
Dear New York Times, etal,.

Illuminati Sex Slaves Paint Horrifying Picture
Two women tortured, brainwashed and prostituted by the Illuminati paint a disturbing picture of how the world is really run. Both say they were prostituted to world leaders as children.

Falloojeh Murdered

2004-11-15T20:31:00.000-08:00

Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal by John Pilger
In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name.

Baghdad Burning: People in Falloojeh are being murdered
Iraqis will never forgive this- never.

Whitewash as Public Service How The 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation
The 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation.

Inside Fallujah: one family’s diary of terror
The target was insurgents, but here one family reveals the horror of being caught in the conflict.

The dollar, which has declined nearly 30 percent against the euro since President Bush took office in 2001, fell to a record low this week
As the Dollar Declines.

US blocks aid from reaching Fallujah residents
The US military was not immediately available for comment.

Benjamin Netanyahu may have lost his latest battle, but now he is preparing for war. Against Prime Minister Sharon
Shoot, don't talk.

911 Cover-up: "For my 30 years of experience . . ." said Monte Belger, "the NMCC (Pentagon's National Military Command Center) was on the net and hearing everything real-time . . . I can tell you I've lived through dozens of hijackings . . . and they were always listening in with everybody else."

Bush CIA Witch Hunt for those who've been disloyal!

2004-11-14T13:13:00.000-08:00

White House orders purge of CIA 'liberals,' sources say
The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter J. Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.

"a reprieve from the agenda of paganism"-Dr. Bob Jones III

2004-11-13T22:42:00.000-08:00

Congratulatory letter to President George W. Bush from Dr. Bob Jones III
In your re-election, God has graciously granted America—though she doesn't deserve it—a reprieve from the agenda of paganism.

Water May Swamp U.S. Coasts by 2099, Good.

2004-11-12T20:45:00.000-08:00

Arctic Melting Fast; May Swamp U.S. Coasts by 2099
Scientists have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting so rapidly that much of it could be gone by the end of the century.

oilOILoilOILoil

2004-11-11T21:43:00.000-08:00

ANWR-Abraham Sees Congress Backing Alaskan Oil Drilling
U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on Wednesday he was optimistic the new Congress would vote next year to allow oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge.

EXTREME OIL
Oil's journey from beneath the earth's surface to consumer usage takes many different routes. The various oil sites determine the equipment used, the businesses involved, environmental factors, political decisions, and the flow of huge amounts of money.

Mega-gas deal between Beijing and Tehran worth $100 billion
The gas deal entails the annual export of some 10 million tons of Iranian liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a 25-year period, as well as the participation, by China's state oil company, in such projects as exploration and drilling, petrochemical and gas industries, pipelines, services and the like.

The Executioner's Lawyer, Bush Loyalist and Geneva Convention Violator Strategist, to Replace Ashcroft. God Protect America. Will Ashcroft be Nominated to the Supreme Court?
Gonzales Named to Succeed Ashcroft as Attorney General.

This Should be a Crime: Companies Sue Union Retirees To Cut Promised Health Benefits
Companies Sue Union Retirees.

2nd letter to the GAO from six members of Congress requesting an immediate investigation of the efficacy of voting machines and procedures used in the November 2nd Election. (PDF)
2nd letter to the GAO.

Gripe-site case may craft limits of Web speech
The federal case may help shape the boundaries of online speech.

U.S. military overstretch raises possibility of draft
The first bill, H.R. 163, was defeated in the House when it came to a surprise vote on Oct. 5. The Bush administration cited this defeat as proof that there were no plans for a draft.

Baghdad Burning-Rule of Iraq Assassins Must End...
I'm not feeling well- it's a combination of the change of weather and the decline in the situation.

Veteran leader Yasser Arafat dies
The veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has died in a French hospital, nearly two weeks after being transferred from the West Bank.

Surgery gives woman with bisexual organs a normal life
A young woman who was born with sexual organs of both genders was successfully transformed into a woman after a seven-hour operation.

"The objective of securing...has been achieved." -Ashcroft (Yeah, right!)

2004-11-10T20:46:00.000-08:00

Patriot Act Concentration Camps Planned to Detain Americans
Guantanamo style Patriot Act concentration camps are being secretly organized by the Department of Homeland Defense. Now that Bush dynasty has illicitly secured its second term in the eyes of the American people plans are fully underway for John Ashcroft's "Patriot Act Concentration Camps" to jail and disappear US Citizens.

Social Security: House of Cards
putting Social Security funds into government-approved investments could have dangerous consequences. Private companies would become a partner of sorts with the government. Individuals still would not truly own their invested Social Security funds. Payroll taxes likely would be raised to cover payments to current beneficiaries, as the President alluded to when warning us that fixing Social Security would be “costly."

Bush ‘will still pursue aggressive' foreign policy
NO HE HASN'T! - President George W. Bush has won a mandate from the American people to continue pursuing his “aggressive” foreign policy.

GOOD JOB: 'Body parts everywhere' in Fallujah
"Body parts everywhere!" cries a US soldier as a shell crashes onto a group of suspected rebels in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

Homeland Security Arrests Veteran for Complaining Too Much
Inspectors from Federal Protective Services — a branch of the Homeland Security Department — arrested a Bettendorf chiropractor Friday accused of making harassing phone calls to the Department of Veterans Affairs office in Des Moines.

BevHarris-BBV: Help America Audit -- 5 Things You Can Do Immediately
Help America Audit.

Blogger gets night visit from US Secret Service (US War on terror)
A WRITER on popular blog site LiveJournal has posted of her nightmare ordeal with the US Secret Service, an event spurred by a posting she made to her blog criticising George Bush prior to the Presidential Election earlier this week.

At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door to talk to me about what I said about the President.

Rogue sub sparks Japan sea alert
There has been a military alert in Japan after an unidentified submarine was detected inside the country's territorial waters.

US: Under-fire Marsh cuts 3,000 jobs
Marsh & McLennan, the US insurance broker being sued for alleged price fixing, is to cut 3,000 jobs as it faces a sharp decline in its revenues.

Ground Zero Is Setting of a Suicide, and a Mystery
It was unclear what time Mr. Veal shot himself, Mr. Coleman said. None of the private guards or Port Authority officers patrolling the site reported hearing the shotgun go off.

Got Anti-Nuke Pills? Probably Not
Three years ago the federal government began passing out pills that may protect against some of the most dangerous effects of radiation. Fourteen states whose residents live near nuclear power plants haven't bothered to accept them.

"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved." -Ashcroft (Yeah right!)

Bush Cabinet Shakeup Begins
Several names have emerged as possible successors to Ashcroft. The biggest is Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York. Another is former deputy attorney general Larry Thompson.

Druggists refuse to give out pill
Then one day last March, the pharmacist refused to fill Lacey's prescription because she did not believe in birth control.

Voters in Churchill County, Nevada, support President Bush -- and legal hookers.

Voters overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing prostitution
Voters in Churchill County, Nevada, support President Bush -- and legal hookers.

Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep...
fuckthesouth.com/

From Florida to Fallujah: What the News Coverage Covers Up By Danny Schechter
One minute, we are still debating election returns in Ohio and Florida.

Odds of Bush gaining by 4 percent in all exit polling states 1 in 50,000; Evoting/paper variance not found to be significant
A statistical analysis of exit polling conducted for RAW STORY by a former MIT mathematics professor has found the odds of Bush making an average gain of 4.15 percent among all 16 states included in the media’s 4 p.m. exit polling is 1 in 50,000, or .002 percent.

MSNBC: We will indeed be resuming our coverage of the voting irregularities in Ohio and Florida -- and elsewhere -- on this evening's edition of Countdown
Naked Promotional Announcement (Keith Olbermann).

Israel's cabinet communique approving removal of Arafat (11 September 2003)
Israel's security cabinet decided to take measures to eliminate Palestinian resistence, including the decision to "remove" Yasser Arafat, "in a manner, and at a time, of its choosing".

WAR IS A RACKET

2004-11-09T08:33:00.000-08:00

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

'I got my kills ... I just love my job'
"Prepare to copy that 89089226. Direction 202 degrees. Range 950 metres. I got five motherf****** in a building with weapons."

Cote d’Ivoire: France, Gbagbo and the Rebels at War
Whatever the outcome may be, relationships between Cote d’Ivoire and France will never be the same, no matter who takes over from Gbagbo.

George W. Bush’s vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border on the unbelievable
Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies.

An Examination of the Florida Elections
Changed title of "% Total Voters" column to "% Total Votes Cast" to allay confusion. Dated news sources.

Karl Rove's Secret For Success
Karl Rove - News Parody Cartoon.

USS LIBERTY - ISRAEL FAKED GUN CAMERA PHOTO
Clearly the "gun camera" photo is a fake.

"War is the health of the state" -Randolph Bourne

2004-11-08T14:50:00.000-08:00

The Optimism of Uncertainty by Howard Zinn
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played.

Is Mohamed Atta’s Muslim Brotherhood Being Courted in War on Terror?
Even though terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was a member, Bush Administration officials are quietly advocating "reaching out" to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a recent article in the Washington Post, to "become a barrier against jihadists worldwide.”

The Optimism of Uncertainty by Howard Zinn
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played.

Bush Won No Mandate
No sooner had the red and blue ink dried on the maps of election commentators than triumphant Republicans began talking about their clear mandate for an ambitious domestic agenda.

Japanese defense planners preparing for possible Chinese attacks: report
Japan has determined that China will become Asia's top military power and charted out scenarios for a Chinese attack against Japan.

Documents: U.S. had plan to nuke N. Korea
Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea if the country attacked South Korea.

Fahrenheit Gold & Oil Carving up the Spoils of Iraq
The big prize for the Bush administration though will be securing the Iraqi oil fields and putting these prized assets into the hands of friendly U.S. oil corporations.

Howard refuses to congratulate Bush
Michael Howard deepened his feud with the White House yesterday when he pointedly refused to offer the traditional post-election congratulations to George Bush.

U.S. PRISON POPULATION APPROACHES 1.5 MILLION
State and federal authorities held 1,470,045 prisoners as of December 31, 2003, a 2.1 percent increase during the year, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, the largest system, grew by more than 9,500 inmates during 2003 (5.8 percent); state prisons grew by about 20,000 inmates (1.6 percent).

MEDIA LENS: THE BBC - LEGITIMISING MASS SLAUGHTER IN FALLUJAH
In 1984, Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead described how "demonstration elections" are "organised and staged by a foreign power primarily to pacify a restive home population, reassuring it that ongoing interventionary processes are legitimate and appreciated by their foreign objects."

Ballot and Voting Issues Arising in Battleground States
Lawsuits, investigations, and proceedings regarding ballot issues arising in so-called battleground states.

Giuliani in line for top job
Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor who won praise for his response to 9/11, may be offered a top national security job as a reward for his support of President George Bush, according to officials.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISCREDITING THE INTERNET! Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism
The public is now assaulted by news and pretend-news from many directions, thanks to the now infamous "information superhighway."

35 US soldiers captured in Falluja: mosques
Mosques in Iraq's restive city of Falluja announced Monday that rebel fighters inside the city have captured 35 US soldiers, reports Xinhua.

Fallujah prayer
A rosary hangs off the barrel of a machinegun mounted on a Bradley belonging to the 1st Cavalry Regiment 5th Battalion positioned on the outskirts of Fallujah.

The November 2 Exit Poll Scam
Footprints of Electoral Fraud.

FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders
There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners.

On Media and the Election
By Robert W. McChesney

Perhaps the most important function our media serves is to provide voters with the information they need to make sound decisions in the voting booth. If people don't know what they're voting for, our democracy is in serious trouble.

Unfortunately, it appears that we're in serious trouble.

This election was marked by a staggering amount of voter ignorance. Polls show that voters -- especially Bush supporters -- were grossly misinformed about their candidate's position on a broad range of issues. Surveying supporters of the President, a University of Maryland PIPA/ Knowledge Networks poll found:

72% still believe that there were WMD's in Iraq.
75% believe that Iraq was providing substantial support for Al Qaeda.
66% believe that Bush supports participation in the International Criminal Court.
72% believe that he supports the treaty banning land mines.
The catch? None of these statements are true.

FreePress.

IQ and Politics
IQ and Politics.

The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago by Robert Fisk
He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy.

Your local elections officials trusted a group called NASED -- the National Association of State Election Directors -- to certify that your voting system is safe
What no one told local officials was that the ITA did not test for security (and NASED didn’t seem to mind).

Faith in democracy, not government
Election Fallout.

A woman undergoing cancer treatment has had her fertility saved after doctors transplanted her ovary into her arm
'Ovary-arm' transplant a success.

HELRAM - High Energy Laser for Rocket, Artillery and Mortar defence system
Northrop unveils laser to counter mortar attacks.

Inspired by : 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists by Michael Moore by Paul Apelgren
To Whom it May Concern, Is Michael Moore really purporting the myth I think he is?

HOMOSEXUAL CHILD PROSTITUTION RING INVOLVING GEORGE BUSH SR.
SEX AND THE CAPITAL.

On the morning of June 29, 1989, pandemonium erupted in the corridors of power in the nation's capital. ``Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,'' screamed the front-page headline of the Washington Times with the kicker ``Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.''
The Times reported, ``A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington's political elite.''

Kissinger Associates Client List
One of our most lucrative clients.

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked

2004-11-07T18:52:00.000-08:00

When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.
US Vote Hacked

ES&S and AP: Vote Fraud Partners Chicago Style
Clearly the subject of AP having direct data feed from the mainframe computer was something Burnham did not want me to discuss.

Election Theft Bombshell?: Joe McGinnis, a former employee of Election Systems and Software, which provides the voting system, was on the main computer that is used to create the ballot and compile election results, which is against election protocol
Board awaits state followup.

DIEBOLD MACHINES YIELD FISHY RESULTS!
IRREGULARITIES IN CALIFORNIA RACE.

Growing Collection of Vote Fraud links: ATTN Global Media
The list of evidence is growing that the US election was anything but a fair vote. Who could possibly think that all of these voting problems are just a minor aberation? The long lines are always in Democratic counties, that the computer ’glitches’ always favor Bush, and the new e-machines were made by a Bush ’Pioneer’ (top donor) that pledged to deliver for Bush. Funny how Diebold makes bank machines which print paper receipts millions of times daily, but they couldn’t get the printer to work in the voting machines.

Henry Kissinger: Now, back to defining a new world order
The election campaign that has mesmerized America - and the world - is over. What remains are the challenges that gave rise to this occasionally frenzied battle and the responsibility of dealing with them.

The Disunited States Of America
A new civil war: The reassertion of ‘moral values’ propelled George Bush back into the White House, but bitter divisions now pose serious problems for America. Can the differences between the Christian right and demoralised liberals ever be healed? James Cusick reports from Washington.

US phone giant to cut 10,000 jobs
SBC has shed 7,000 jobs this year and analysts say it may need to trim as many as 20,000 to catch up with rivals.

Links - A VERY AMERICAN COUP: 2002 - 2004
U.S. Election 2004: Anomalies.

Massive ID theft ring alleged
Federal agent Craig Mann said the alleged forgeries had a potential value of $50 million but the extent and reach of the organised crime operation was not yet known.

A Storm Is Coming
Years ago I read a most significant book – "The Rich and the Super-Rich," by Ferdinand Lundberg. What he had to say is very pertinent to our present economic situation.

Officer flees with battle plan
AN Iraqi military commander deserted US forces hours after he received a full briefing on US military plans to storm the rebel-held city of Fallujah, CNN reported today.

Mothers and Children, Run and Hide! America is Coming to Town!
Imagine walking down the street in your town, and finding yourself in a hailstorm of pamphlets, from another country, being dropped on you from an airplane above, telling the women and children to leave town.

NYC: Man Commits Suicide At Ground Zero - Veal apparently was distraught over President Bush's re-election
A 25-year-old university worker from Georgia shot and killed himself at ground zero Saturday morning.

Hello: You are now living in a fascist empire
Empire: A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)

Licence-plate cameras to trap criminals
IRISH criminals, be warned: your number could soon be up. Gardai are planning to introduce new road cameras capable of scanning licence-plate numbers and matching them to people wanted for crimes.

Why Kerry Conceded Defeat despite Electoral Fraud
Speaking out against voter fraud would carry an implicit challenge to the myth of American democracy.

Plane passengers shocked by their x-ray scans
AN X-RAY machine that sees through air passengers’ clothes has been deployed by security staff at London’s Heathrow airport for the first time.

AMERICAN ELECTORATE REWARDS LYING, ANTI-AMERICAN CONGRESS
No doubt the champagne flowed freely election night for the Republican party faithful, although for the life of me, I can't understand why.

Those Who Voted for Bush May Be In for a Big Surprise
Concerns closer to his heart could trump all that talk about values.

Iraq Declares Martial Law, 23 Police Killed
"We have decided to declare a state of emergency in all areas of Iraq, with the exception of the region of Kurdistan for a period of 60 days."
Iraq state of emergency: Your views.

Protester (Murdered) dies under atomic train
A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany.

Cops take new crowd-control tack
Makeover for Oakland policy born of chaos at 2003 anti-war demonstration, ensuing lawsuit.

STOCKPILES of sarin nerve gas destroyed at the end of fighting may cause Gulf War syndrome. (What about depleted uranium?)
Sarin gas threat.

Holy War: Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians
With US forces massing outside Fallujah, 35 marines swayed to Christian rock music and asked Jesus Christ to protect them in what could be the biggest battle since American troops invaded Iraq last year.

Uncle Sam Is Watching You
Uncle Sam Is Watching You

Black Panther Party
The Ten Point Plan

WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.

WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE.

WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.

WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS.

WE WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY.

WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR All BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE.

WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, All OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.

WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S. FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR All PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY.

WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are most disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

The Gilded Age of Mass Murder Courtesy of the US Taxpayer!

2004-11-06T20:39:00.000-08:00

Fallujah battle: Marines say the toll is expected to rival those seen in Vietnam War
The number of dead and wounded from the expected battle to retake insurgent-controlled Fallujah probably will reach levels not seen since Vietnam.

Some observations of the 2004 election
Examining the results of this election reveals some striking details that should make everyone who opposed Bush very concerned. In 2000 Al Gore received 51.00 million votes, in 2004 Kerry only received 55.7 million. The 2.5 million Nader voters who left him did not simply evaporate. Nader supporters are intelligent progressives who oppose corporate rule and the two-party system, but knowing the stakes this time around, it was very predictable they would abandon him.

SNAP OUT OF IT! Now is the Time to Attack on the Fronts Where We
Have Real Power by Michael C. Ruppert
The rest of the world has known for some time that it is pointless to oppose this Empire either militarily or electorally.

Neo-Con Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America...
An influential foreign-policy neo-conservative with long-standing ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W Bush has laid out what he calls ''a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.''

Cartoon: 'I have political capital. I intend to spend it'
Little sign of consensual approach as Bush sets out second-term plan.

America 2004 Is Germany 1930
We who live in the post-World War II period possess an immensely valuable symbol, even if we don't understand it or use it effectively: the example of Nazi Germany.

Marriage Wording to Change in Texas Books
The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks for the state's high school and middle school students Friday after the publishers agreed to change the wording to depict marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

Air Force report calls for $7.5M to study psychic teleportation
Star Trek fans may be happy to hear that the Air Force has paid to study psychic teleportation.
But scientists aren't so thrilled.

New York Times Killed "Bush Bulge" Story
Five days before the presidential election, the New York Times killed a story about the mysterious object George W. Bush wore on his back during the presidential debates.

ES&S run 90% of the voting machines
Who runs ES&S - company that handles US elections.

Iran nuclear stand boosted by China
Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.

Abolish the CIA!
No longer will Dick Cheney have to pay visits to Langley, Virginia and lean on CIA analysts to produce the kind of intelligence a Veep might need.

The American Century Is Over
On Nov. 2, Americans blew their only chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the world.

Senator Wants Air Guard Out Of NJ Skies
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg on Friday called for a Washington D.C. National Guard unit to halt all operations in New Jersey until it determines how and why an F-16 jet strafed an Ocean County school with 20mm cannon fire.

Senator Wants Air Guard Out Of NJ Skies
AILING Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been the victim of an Israeli poisoning, according to Palestine's delegate to Australia Ali Kazak.

U.N.: Traces of Plutonium Found in Egypt
The U.N atomic watchdog has discovered plutonium particles near an Egyptian nuclear facility and is trying to determine if they are evidence of a secret weapons program or simply the byproduct of peaceful research, diplomats said Friday.

US vote boosts interest in Canada
Canadian immigration officials said the number of US citizens visiting their website went up six-fold the day after the US election.

Internet heads into the super-fast lane
Some believe the internet is struggling to survive under the strain of technical limitations, government interference and the proliferation of malware. But in the US, a new, improved internet is already being worked on.

Prayers and tears in Falluja
The Iraqi city of Falluja is braced for an assault by US forces massed on its outskirts.

How America and Soviets compare
Soviets America.

Deja View: Another Stolen Election! Millions Disenfranchised?
CITIZENSFOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT.

Never Say Die-bold: So You Don’t Think the Bush Campaign Stole This Election? Think Again
If you’re looking for one word to sum up the way the Bush-Cheney campaign stole another election Tuesday besides obvious ones like “cheated,” try this one: Diebold.

Henry Kissinger: Now, back to defining a new world order
Henry Kissinger.

Fraud trial centers on cheap-stock trades and an FBI agent
Cheap-stock trades.

Arafat poisoned?
A Palenstian diplomat accused the Israelis yesterday of poisoning Yasser Arafat.

Flashback: 16 September 2003 The Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has publicly declared its intention to murder Yasser Arafat, the popularly elected president of the Palestinian National Authority
Cheap-stock trades.

Abortion Remark by G.O.P. Senator Puts Heat on Peers
Abortion Remark.

Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters
According to the official election results posted on the Palm Beach County election website, 542,835 ballots were cast for a presidential candidate while only 454,427 voters turned out for the election (including absentee). This leaves a discrepancy of 88,408 votes cast for the presidential candidates.

Promoting Kinsey, Censoring Grandma
The release of Kinsey by the Fox/Murdoch conglomerate should alert those fighting for Judeo-Christian civilization that the battle lines in this war are treacherous indeed.

Call it what you like, Democracy or Constitutionally Limited Republic - we're in deep shit!

2004-11-05T20:35:00.000-08:00

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." --Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin

John Kerry lied. Big surprise, huh? He gave his concession speech before all the votes were counted. It isn't John Kerry's right to concede OUR vote. Will someone please remind him of that? If he doesn't want the job of President, I'll take it!

Are Concession Speeches Legally Binding?

Nov 4 - Kerry Won. . .Palast’s investigation suggests that if Ohio’s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots -by Greg Palast

Kerry won. Here are the facts.

**For those of you who didn't pay close attention - Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell was the Associate State Chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign.**

*In addition, Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell helped the Republican Party in Florida in 2000, he was one of their principle electoral system advisers.*

Ohio-Restrictions on provisional ballots face court challenge.

READ THIS STATEMENT MADE BY OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE BLACKWELL ON FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2004-from georgebush.com

"With his convention just days away, John Kerry is beginning an extreme makeover. John Kerry will use the Democratic convention to attempt to re-invent himself for the American public. When he’s in the Midwest he claims to be the candidate who stands for conservative values, but when he is back in Boston he boasts that he is proud to be a liberal. It will be interesting to see which John Kerry shows up next week - will it be the Senator who has consistently voted to the left of Teddy Kennedy or this new everyday man who is for-and-against any given issue depending on who he’s speaking to? Transforming a Boston liberal into someone with conservative vales will make for fascinating television, but Ohio voters will not be fooled.” -OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE BLACKWELL

Secretary of State Blackwell Issues Statement Previewing Democratic Convention.

FLASHBACK: October 29th, 2004 Ohio Senator Teresa Fedor., one of the lawmakers leading the calls for Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell to resign.
Several Ohio Democratic Senators are calling for the immediate resignation of Blackwell, stating in a letter addressed to him that he has been "unresponsive to the needs of Ohio's voters" and has "failed to uphold [his] duties as chief elections officer."

FLASHBACK: “Ken Blackwell is becoming the Katherine Harris of 2004,” said Ohio Senator Teresa Fedor, who has been on Blackwell’s case all year over the issue of electronic voting.
Ohio.

Nov. 1 - An Election Spoiled Rotten by Greg Palast
It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is already down by almost a million votes.

The Last Battle, John. You Should Have Stayed to Fight It.

US Tax Payer Dollars at work! A big thanks to Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia for helping George Bush stay in the White House.

FLASHBACK: The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players — Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia — with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation, coming on strong.

FLASHBACK OHIO:
Voting Machine Controversy.
Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver GW Another Election?
Political insiders suggest Ohio could become as decisive this year as Florida was four years ago. Which is why the state's plan to use paperless touch-screen voting machines has so many up in arms.

Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests...
Black Box Voting.

The Party is over. The United States is a third world country.

OCT. 2004: U.S. job cuts top 100,000
October 2004 - U.S. employers announced 101,840 layoffs.

Dollar Falls Toward Record; Europe May Tolerate Stronger Euro
The dollar slid to near a record low against the euro as a surge in U.S. jobs failed to dispel speculation European officials will tolerate further gains in Europe's 12-nation currency.

Why did a voting machine in Republican Gahanna, Ohio report 4,258 votes for George W. Bush when only 638 people cast votes at the New Life Church polling site?
Did Kerry Concede Too Soon?

Draft agency files notice to request record matching with Department of Education
The Selective Service filed a notice in the federal register three days before the election to check the computer records of the Department of Education for compliance with a law that requires all students receiving federal financial aid to register for the draft, RAW STORY has learned.

Baghdad Burning
Well, what is there to say? Disappointment doesn't even begin to describe it...

No Surrender By PAUL KRUGMAN
President Bush isn't a conservative. He's a radical.

MICHAEL MOORE IS NO LONGER LIVING IN REALITY! 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...by Michael Moore
Michael Moore.

divided we fall...

2004-11-04T17:53:00.000-08:00

Kerry Won. . .by Greg Palast - Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided—known as “spoilage” in election jargon—because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Palast’s investigation suggests that if Ohio’s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots
Kerry won. Here's the facts.

Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?)
Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history.

Team Bush...with a Few New Faces
Team Bush...with a Few New Faces.

Are Concession Speeches Legally Binding?
Kerry holdouts want to know.

A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday. No one was injured
The military is investigating the incident that damaged Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School shortly after 11 p.m.

AIDS Is Man-Made Interview with Dr. Boyd Graves
That document is the “1971 Flow Chart of the Special Virus Program of the United States.”

Ten Reasons Not to Move to Canada
Ready to say screw this country and buy a one-way ticket north? Here are some reasons to stay in the belly of the beast.

What We Call Peace is Little Better Than Capitulation To a Corporate Coup
This is an edited extract from the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy at the Seymour Center last night.

Regardless of which candidate won, America's darkest days are ahead...
Let's assume for a moment that I wrote this editorial before Kerry conceded the election to Bush. The point I'm making here is still valid after the fact, but as I'm speaking with conjecture, let's just pretend for a moment.

U.S. job cuts top 100,000
Planned job cuts topped 100,000 for the second straight month in October, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. said Tuesday in a report that raises more questions about the future of U.S. jobs.

NYC: A Blue City (Disconsolate, Even) Bewildered by a Red America
"Do you know how I described New York to my European friends?" she said. "New York is an island off the coast of Europe."

votergate.tv Documentary
The producers of this film have created a thirty minute documentary on the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines and are making this film available as a free educational public service in time for the presidential election. For more information, go to www.votergate.tv.

Proof CNN is tampering with the election to cover the fraud
Proof CNN is tampering with the election to cover the fraud.

How can 59,054,087eople be so DUMB?
"Thursday, November 4, 2004.

PROTEST: United for Peace and Justice Events
United for Peace and Justice Events.

How Bush Was Offered Bin Laden and Blew It
Give Him an "F" in the War on Terror.

The Best Votes Money Can Buy
Facts and figures of the most expensive election campaign in U.S. history.

The US will now be ruled by the imperial party
After September 11, 2001, Bush's political position seemed unassailable. This was not entirely a reflexive defiance.

Nader: Bush Re-Election Signals Need for Renewed Effort
Time for Progressive Populists to Stand Up For the Interests of the People.

Democracy Now! Special Broadcast: Reaction to John Kerry's Concession and the Reelection of George W Bush
We speak with Howard Zinn, Phyllis Bennis, Leslie Cagan, Julian Bond, Mahdi Bray, Michael Ratner, Rahul Mahajan, Mustafa Barghouti, Paul Reickoff, Norman Solomon and much more.

Collective Depression: Woke up this mornin', got the election blues
We went to bed daring to hope and awoke to the crushing news.

The problem is just this: Slightly more than half of the citizens of this country simply do not care about what those of us in the “reality-based community” say or believe about anything
They don’t care that Iraq is turning into murderous quicksand and a killing field for our children.

After the 2004 elections: the political and social crisis will intensify
The reelection of George W. Bush, achieved largely through the mobilization of the evangelical Christian vote on the basis of overtly religious appeals, will have far-reaching and disastrous consequences for American democracy.

The Coming Indictment of Dick Cheney and the Neo-Cons
Executive Intelligence Review.

Iraq offers an interesting range of business opportunities to those firms that are patient but flexible in their approach to this market. TBI provides a familiar structure for companies that want to do business in Iraq today. Corporations should feel comfortable and confident using the trade bank, as it operates under very high standards and adheres to internationally recognised trade protocols. -Bruce Proctor, JPMorgan

Trade Bank of Iraq: Opportunity Amid Challenges
Iraq, one of the world’s most interesting new trade-finance markets, offers untold opportunities and challenges for cross-border trade, and an effective structure for doing business in the country is rapidly being developed.

Export-Import Bank Support for U.S. Exports to Iraq
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), the Iraqi Ministry of Finance, and the Trade Bank of Iraq signed a framework agreement today that enables Ex-Im Bank to continue to support U.S. exports for Iraqi reconstruction.

The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 500) has been adopted by banking associations and individual banks in over 175 countries and came into effect by replacing UCP 400 on 1 January 1994
Documentary Credits and Transport Documents.

The Electoral College vs. Mob Rule - Ron Paul
This argument is hostile to the Constitution, however, which expressly established the United States as a constitutionally limited republic and not a direct democracy.

CIA involved in illegal deportation of Iraqi prisoners
United States has once again been caught in a flagrant violation of international law.

Coalition of corruption
Polish politics make private business on the war. The corruption range to the highest authorities.

WHR: 2004 – Year of the Slave
I know that’s not what you want to hear as you hoist your New Year’s champagne, but it is the unpleasant truth that we all face going into 2004.

Michael
Moore.

Mexico City shell game and other pro-choice Bush tricks
Bush got the pro-life vote in 2000, and judging from recent rhetoric from Catholic leaders and newspapers, he's likely to get it again in 2004. It's too bad that Bush only pretends to be pro-life.

Dominoes Anyone?
As the US Current Account (external obligation) has grown out of control caused by printing too much money, manufacturing and exporting too little and above all else, importing far too much, particularly consumer goods from Asia, global investors have become increasingly uneasy in the validity, future value and sanctity of the dollar."

Venezuelan move to replace US$ with the €uro upsetting Washington more than Saddam's €uro conversion last November
International finance experts see how the US dollar has been devaluing against the €uro, as important players on the international scene convert to the European currency for more stable transactions.

White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised
The Bush administration announced Wednesday that it will run out of maneuvering room to manage the government's massive borrowing needs in two weeks, putting more pressure on Congress to raise the debt ceiling when it convenes for a special post-election session.

US Treasury to sell $51 bln next wk;warns on limit
The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday said it would sell $51 billion in notes at its quarterly "refunding" auctions next week, and warned it was running out of room to maneuver around the federal debt limit.

US Treasury to sell $51 bln next wk;warns on limit
What a Bush win will mean for Europe ...AND: What a Bush win will mean for America [guardianuk] ...AND: How to Beat A fixed Election [goldismoney.info] .. AND: Divide and Rule... For Now [libertyforum.org].

Ashcroft likely to leave post
Attorney General John Ashcroft is likely to leave his post before the start of President Bush's second term, senior aides said Thursday.

CiViL WaR

2004-11-03T23:49:00.000-08:00

A war fought by different groups of people living in the same country. Maybe the United States needs a change. Maybe we need to be divided.

Kerry calls the electoral process an unattractive option
Kerry Calls Bush to Concede Election.

The Manchurian cover-up
Revelations that the Carlyle Group was involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq's debt have vanished under a spell of silence.

Justin Raimondo: The US will now be ruled by the imperial party
GEORGE W. Bush's thin margin of victory is a mandate for nothing. Instead, it is a testament to the weakness of his political position, the sharp divisions in the country and the frittering away of the most advantageous position any Republican incumbent has held since 1864.

AmeriCONNED: CIA Neocon in Charge Looking to Bury 9/11 Truths
The director of central intelligence has asked the CIA's inspector general to modify a draft report on the Sept. 11 attacks.

AmeriCONNED: CIA Neocon in Charge Looking to Bury 9/11 Truths
The director of central intelligence has asked the CIA's inspector general to modify a draft report on the Sept. 11 attacks.

It's 3 a.m. In Ohio And PEOPLE ARE STILL VOTING!
Yep, ABC News just reported at 3 in the morning that people are still lined up and voting in at least TWO precincts in Ohio -- including predominantly college students at one polling area.

VotersUnite! presents the following compilation of problems reported in the media about the 2004 general election
Starting with early voting, we are seeing a wide array of problems, some of which appear in multiple states. This page allows you to see how widespread the problems are as they accumulate.

Democracy Now! - The Morning After: Two-Hour Democracy Now! Special (Nov. 3rd)
Tune in to Democracy Now! tomorrow November, 3rd for a special two-hour special the morning after the 2004 election. Please alert your local station.

American Conservative Magazine Endorses Kerry
John Kerry received an endorsement from what many thought was an unlikely source: The American Conservative magazine.

Day of the Dead: The Haunting of the White House
By
Cynthia McKinney and Catherine Austin Fitts.

The Wedge Politics of Osama bin Laden
Patrick J. Buchanan.

Marines in Iraq want better gear, exit strategy
Marines squaring off against Iraqi insurgents say they expect trouble in Iraq for years no matter who wins the White House.

Osama Threatening Red States?
Juan Cole.

1-866-OUR VOTE

2004-11-02T22:03:00.000-08:00

If an election official says you can’t vote for some reason, demand a provisional ballot, vote for John Kerry, then call the Election Day hotline (1-866-OUR VOTE)

An Election Spoiled Rotten by Greg Palast
It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is already down by a almost a million votes.

Election 2004
As the election unfolds and the counting (and recounting) begin, watch this page for breaking news and video from around the nation—from the heart of Florida to the war zone of Ohio and the nervously paced halls of Washington, D.C.

Votergate is the investigative documentary feature film uncovering the truth about new computer voting systems, which allow a few powerful corporations to record our votes in secret
Votergate will continue filming through the Nov. 2nd election and release a 90 minute feature film/DVD.

More than 60 papers that backed Bush in 2000 have now switched to Kerry or endorsed neither candidate
Daily Endorsement Tally.

[W]e’re up against despotism. And whatever rhetoric they want to use and say, oh, we’re not despots, we’re good Americans -- well, everybody says that. But they’re not. They are the enemy. And they have targeted the American people. -- Gore Vidal, speaking of the Bush Cartel

On the eve of the presidential election, we are honored to bring you a BuzzFlash interview with the man some regard as the ranking literary political and social critic from the left, Gore Vidal
Buzzflash Int. W/Gore Vidal.

Scott Horton interviews Rep. Ron Paul
Scott Horton discusses the future of the American empire with the republic's most intransigent defender, Rep. Ron Paul (R, Texas). Interview conducted Oct. 16, 2004.

On eve of 2004 election: US faces unprecedented social conflict
In an atmosphere charged with political tension, tens of millions will go to the polls November 2, joining the millions who have already cast ballots in heavy early voting in the US presidential election.

150 dead as riots break out in China
China is experiencing one of its most violent interludes in decades with almost 150 people reported dead in riots that erupted in two provinces over the past week.

US stem cells tainted by mouse material
Bush-approved research is limited to the older lines, federally-funded scientists cannot take advantage of newer stem cells grown on alternative scaffoldings.

China shuts 1,600 cybercafes
The Chinese government confirmed this weekend that it has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100m yuan ($12m) since March, when it began its crackdown on violent or pornographic content.

The New American Revolution

2004-11-01T16:38:00.000-08:00

An Election Spoiled Rotten by Greg Palast
It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is already down by a almost a million votes.

If an election official says you can’t vote for some reason, demand a provisional ballot, vote for John Kerry, then call the Election Day hotline (1-866-OUR VOTE)

Election day: It is time for regime change--American style. Are you changing America?
Tuesday is Election Day--Finally!

Voters claim abuse of electoral rolls Students say they were conned into registering twice -Greg Palast in New York
Abused and conned in Florida.

The US is living beyond its means, and this is true both for the American people and the government
US economy: The challenges ahead.

Who will you vote for?
Ralph Nader
Michael Badnarik
David Cobb
Michael Peroutka
Leonard Peltier
New World Order 1/Skull
New World Order 2/Bones

Martial law has been imposed in parts of the Chinese province of Henan
Tensions have been exacerbated by a gap between rich and poor which is now one of the largest in the world.

GIs Lack Armor, Radios, Bullets
U.S. Has $400 Billion Defense Budget.

Osama speaks, but are we listening? by Justin Raimondo
The Truth Hurts.

More than 100,000 Iraqis have died - and where is our shame and rage? by Scott Ritter
The war on Iraq has made moral cowards of us all.

Kerry and Genocide: Know What You Are Voting For
Senator Kerry's key foreign policy advisors, Richard Holbrooke, happened to play a significant role in perhaps the largest U.S.-backed genocide of the 20th century.

Mr. Holbrooke is considered a likely tap for secretary of state if Kerry defeats President Bush...

FLASHBACK: Timorese Skeletons in Holbrooke's Closet
Some critics accuse Holbrooke of being responsible for 200,000 Timorese deaths and subsequent human rights abuses.

Surprise: Missing prewar stockpiles may total 250,000 tons
377 tons small part of absent Iraq explosives.

Iraq: Rebels vow to use chemical weapons
Rebel commanders said chemicals such as cyanide had been added to mortar rounds and missiles that would be deployed against coalition troops reported to be preparing for a major assault on the town west of Baghdad.

Chechen leader issues new threat
The Chechen extremist leader who masterminded the school siege in the town of Beslan has threatened more attacks against Russian civilians.

"Covert support by the US military and intelligence apparatus has been channelled to various Islamic terrorist organisations through a complex network of intermediaries and intelligence proxies. Moreover, numerous official statements, intelligence reports confirm recent links (in the post Cold War era) between US military-intelligence units and Al Qaida operatives, as occurred in Bosnia (mid 1990s), Kosovo (1998-99) and Macedonia (2001)." -Chossudovsky

Flashback: Russian - Chechen Terror: Cui Bono? Who Benefits?
Tensions have been exacerbated by a gap between rich and poor which is now one of the largest in the world.

"This tactic is called a “false flag operation” or a “false flag recruitment”, used by both the CIA and Mossad for purposes of propaganda. “Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation,” which is widely propagated in the mainstream media creating an accepted version of events." -Andreas von Bülow

China promotes recycling economy
"China's economic and social development is facing increasingly heavy pressure from environment and nature resources, marked by pollution and environmental degradation".

Bush Administration officials repeatedly met with terrorists linked to 9/11 such as Sami al-Arian and Abdurahman al-Amoudi even after the attack
Though well known as a terrorist since 1996, one month before 9/11 President George W. Bush thanked Sami Al-Arian's family for a book they sent him and expressed "regret" about how their son was treated by the Secret Service.

Along With Prayers, Families Send Armor
Families Buy Equipment.

Comparison of two transcriptions of Osama bin Laden's video-tape released on Al-Jazeera
One by CNN in the US, the other from Mario Profaca in Europe, which show informative differences.

The dismal failure of central bank monetary policy
It seems central bankers and their allies still believe all things good flow from credit expansion.

"Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the free market. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous." - Ludwig von Mises

The AccuVote, acting just as a demonstration, offered two choices: "yes" and "no." Sen. Mikulski pressed "no." The machine registered "yes."
Ballot Boxing.

I wonder who does Bin Laden work for? Why would he offer his 'opponent' G.W.Bush such a good political opportunity?
Ossama (Osama) Bin Moore.

Two State Flyers Spark Cries of Racism
Two State Flyers Spark Cries of Racism.

More than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the hands of Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad to US troops in April 2003, a seminar has found
The experts said they had detected an organized campaign aimed at “liquidating Iraqi scientists” in the past 18 months.

A Matter of Survival.

By George Sprague
Concord Monitor | Letter
Thursday 28 October 2004

When I was home in New Hampshire on leave last month, a lot of people approached me to tell what a good job we're doing here in Iraq.

I appreciate the support, but I don't need the media or those people to tell me what I see every day. We are not getting the job done.

People ask me, "How's it going over there?" Cities have been overrun and are in a state of lawlessness. My job brings me into the streets. I see these things as they happen. They aren't just headlines for me. All we are doing here is treading water, and at this rate we can't keep afloat much longer. I'm just a simple man, but I can see that everything this administration has done with Iraq has been dead wrong.

We appreciate your support, but we can't see those yellow ribbons from here. I ask that you let your vote show your support. I don't know what you go to bed thinking, but I go to bed wondering not how many more years of this administration I can handle but how many more days I might survive.

George Sprague
Balad, Iraq

Italians in anti-war rally Oraganisers have estimated a turnout of 70,000
Several leaders of the Italian opposition participated in the protest despite rainy conditions on Saturday.

Part of 9/11 Report Remains Unreleased; An Inquiry Is Begun
9/11 Report.

An Electoral College primer
An Electoral College primer.

Bush v. Gore roiled a nation. It's back—and, given Rehnquist's health, looming larger than ever
A Long Shadow.

A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)
SERVE.

Hell NO! Schwarzenegger Talks White House What-Ifs
Schwarzenegger.

Whistleblower Says Halliburton Out of Control
"It was misconduct, and part of that misconduct was blatant," said Bunny Greenhouse, in an interview on NBC's Nightly News program.

2001: Powell & Rice Declare Iraq Has No WMD and Is Not a Threat
Powell & Rice.