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Bush’s Mad-dash to History’s Dustbin
Must read, a quote...."Sometimes I’m struck by the sheer enormity of Bush’s stupidity. It is truly breathtaking. After nearly 4 years of steadily-intensifying guerilla warfare with no end in sight, Bush has decided to expand the war. "

Bush's 'New Way Forward' Is into Quicksand
A quote...."The power brokers in Washington spent the week carefully arranging fig leaves and tasteful screens to cover the emperor’s nakedness while he was busy pretending to listen hard to everyone with an opinion about Iraq while hearing nothing."

"Sometime early in the New Year, President Bush will go on national television to tell a disgruntled American public what he's decided should be done to salvage "victory" from the jaws of certain defeat in the war he started."

"The word on the street, or in the Pentagon rings, is that he'll choose to beef up American forces on the ground in Iraq by 20,000 to 30,000 troops by various sleight-of-hand maneuvers - extending the combat tours of soldiers and Marines who are nearing an end to their second or third year in Hell and accelerating the shipment of others into that Hell - and send them into the bloody streets of Baghdad"
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It's Not Just Bush: We're Accountable Too.
A quote...."Blaming everything on a handful of people at the top, no matter how destructive and abusive they've been, misses a critical point. Systems tend to self-perpetuate. Remove one player and the next comes in to ensure business as usual."

"Remove Rumsfeld, a man who helped prop up Hussein in the 80's and skewed intelligence towards war, and who do you get? Robert Gates, a man who helped prop up Hussein in the 80's and skewed intelligence towards war."

"Replacing those in power won't help if the power structure itself doesn't change. And that means addressing how our own actions maintain this dysfunctional system."
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US roots in Iraq too deep to pull
A quote...."The ISG report stands out among the present flurry of re-evaluations as the sole evaluation of the war by a group not beholden to the president; as the only report containing an unadorned negative evaluation of the current situation (vividly captured in the oft-quoted phrase "dire and deteriorating"); and as the only public document with unremitting criticism of the Bush administration's conduct of the war."

"It is this very negativity that brings into focus the severely constrained nature of the debate now underway in Washington - most importantly, the fact that US withdrawal from Iraq (immediate or otherwise) is simply not going to be part of the discussion. Besides explicitly stating that withdrawal is a terrible idea - "our leaving would make [the situation] worse" - the ISG report is built around the idea that the US will remain in Iraq for a very long time."
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How the Republicans are Stealing the November Elections - Or, Bushes and Bonapartes
A quote...."You see, we do not have a democracy, with the Bush administration in power. We have an elective dictatorship. The elections are like lotteries. Many of them don't even reflect the popular vote or the general will. The Rehnquist Coup of 2000 was not intrinsically different from the Rounds Coup (if it happens) of 2006. Nor would the techniques whereby elections are "won" bear much scrutiny. Ask Tom Delay, through the penitentiary window. And the incumbents feel they owe nothing to the electorate, nothing whatsoever. They have the Power. They act as they please. The rest of us are just onlookers."

Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
A quote...." The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."

"A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act."
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Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims
A quote...."India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk. The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former chief justice of the Delhi High Court, Justice Rajinder Sachar have in their Report submitted to parliament on 30th November,2006 nailed the long-touted right-wing disinformation about Indian muslims as a skein of lies."

Survey: US Losing Arab Allies' Hearts and Minds
A quote...."Attitudes toward the United States reached new lows through most of the Arab world over the past year, according to the findings of a major new survey [.pdf] of five Arab countries released here Thursday by Zogby International and the Arab American Institute (AAI)."

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful: True Muslims Must Never Deny the European Holocaust
A quote...." Muslim Leader Critiques Holocaust Denial by the President of Iran"

Kyrgyz PM orders review of U.S. airbase agreement
A quote...."MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyzstan's prime minister told the Foreign Ministry Friday to study possible changes to an agreement on a U.S. airbase, following a U.S. airman's fatal shooting of a Kyrgyz truck driver last week."

Iranians vote in local council elections
A quote...."TEHRAN, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Iranians have been voting Friday for local councilors and members of a powerful clerical body in polls seen as the first test of public approval for the country's hard-line president since he came to power in 2005."

Democracy: Washington's Real Enemy in Venezuela
A quote...."Hugo Chavez is seen in a very similar way. Upper and middle class Venezuelans will assure you that it is only the "stupid," and "uneducated" poor people who support Chavez. Among the elite classes he is despised and regarded as an obnoxious idiot, a backwards "campesino" from the country's interior. They will assure you that no "educated" person would ever support Chavez. "Ask any criminal or thug, they are the ones who support Chavez, " one middle class student told me. "It's just the poor people who vote for Chavez, but since the majority is poor, Chavez wins the elections, " a neighbor told me. The majority of the population is seen as sub-human. They are too stupid to know anything, too stupid to know who to vote for."

Judge sides with Bush administration on expanded detention powers under new terror law
A quote...."US President George W. Bush has scored the first victory in a new and drawn-out round of court battles with Guantanamo Bay inmates, including Australian David Hicks."

"US District Court Judge James Robertson today ruled the Federal Court no longer had jurisdiction to hear cases involving prisoners challenging their detention at the US military base in Cuba."
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Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatrist
THX-1138 coming soon.

European disillusionment over the Baker-Hamilton report
The Europeans understand quite clearly now that the DemoRepub party wants ALL of the oil in the Middle East for their rich friends and they'll be left to fend for themselves once America gets it. The Eurpoeans should immeadiately cut a deal with OPEC just like China is doing and also with the Russians if they want to have any energy security at all.

The Iraq Study Group: Evading responsibility, presuming legitimacy and getting caught like a monkey
Must read, brilliant, hard hitting and utterly true.

A quote...."The Iraq Study Group has published the most candid review of the crisis in Iraq so far by an official American policy group. The principal weakness of its assessment is that it evades two central issues: the full extent of American responsibility for the crisis; and the illegality of the U.S. invasion and the resulting illegitimacy of the role that the United States is now playing in the affairs of Iraq."

"In its tortuous efforts to skirt the issues at the heart of the crisis, the Iraq Study Group has highlighted them by default, and thereby defined the necessary first step toward peace, the complete withdrawal of American military and civilian occupation forces from Iraq."
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Soured Sunni deal ends one US option
A quote...."WASHINGTON - US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad negotiated with Sunni armed groups for several weeks earlier this year on an agreement that would have supported Sunni forces in attacking pro-Iranian Shi'ite militias, according to accounts given by commanders of armed Sunni resistance organizations."

"The revelations of the intensive US-Sunni negotiations, reported by Hala Jaber in the Sunday Times of London, are consistent with an account of those negotiations provided by a Sunni participant last May in an interview with the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper."

"But the new accounts make it clear for the first time that the main objective of the talks was to explore possible US support for building a Sunni military force directed primarily against Shi'ites in Iraq."

Also....The Bloodbath We Created
A quote..."You would think that the political elite might be wary of an argument suggesting that the U.S. military presence in Iraq somehow helps restrain the Shiites and Sunnis from civil war—in light of the escalating sectarian killings in Baghdad since thousands of U.S. troops poured into Baghdad ostensibly to curb the sectarian war. Yet that is exactly what we are asked to believe by the ISG."

"The bloodbath argument evades the central fact that the U.S. occupation has never been aimed at avoiding or reducing sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites. On the contrary, the U.S. has used sectarian conflict for its own purposes. The main purpose of the U.S. occupation has been to claim victory over those who resisted it, which has meant primarily suppressing the Sunni armed resistance throughout the Sunni zone. The Bush administration had to have Iraqi allies against the Sunni resistance, and after Sunni security units showed in 2004 that they would not fight other Sunnis on behalf of the occupation, the administration began relying primarily on Shiites to assist its war against the Sunnis."

Also....A Way Forward, a Look Back
A quote....."U.S. policy in the Middle East is staggering toward the abyss along a path marked in the past few days by the Saudi ambassador's abrupt resignation and George W. Bush's postponement of a major speech on the Iraq War. It's increasingly apparent that Bush has no intention of changing direction despite prospects for a region-wide conflict. As the crisis worsens, some hidden history is relevant as are thoughts on what a creative path forward might look like. December 13, 2006"

For more on this see....The Flipping of Iraq - Interruptus
From the Front Page
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Americans Believe U.S. International Strategy Has Backfired
By two thirds mind you. So what? If ninety nine percent of Americans bitterly contested and apposed current US policies it wouldn't matter a bit, because they wouldn't compose the one percent of this country's population that really matters. An attitude amply demonstrated by this country's elites blatant disregard of the "people's" mandate expressed during the most recent elections.

When are you poor deluded saps going to get it through your thick skulls that they don't care about you, they don't care about your "quaint" notions of Democracy, or your "quaint" notions about the constitution or any of your other concerns. You're meaningless to them, totally inconsequential to the goals they want to accomplish.

You are all simply an impediment to their desires........Welcome to the New Roman Empire.
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Beyond Orwell and Kafka
Regarding Liberal delusions.

Bush's antiterror tactics unite liberals, some conservatives.
Some Liberals who live up to the name and some conservative Libertarians don't like what the Bushists have done to our constitution.

A Third Of Jailed Journalists Web-based, Numbers Increasing
Lots of governments don't like the free wheeling web, including ours.
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Dennis Kucinich -- a can’t lose campaign
There's hope yet, maybe.

See also.....Kucinich runs again for Democratic presidential nomination
A quote....."They voted for the Democrats because they expected us to end the occupation and to bring the troops home from Iraq,” he said, but the Democrats had overwhelmingly supported the last $70 billion appropriation for the war in October and “Unfortunately, our Democratic leaders have already announced they will support an additional appropriation for the war of up to $160 billion,” he complained. “Not only are we not listening to the voters and taking steps to withdraw our forces quickly, we are actually planning to spend twice as much on the war as we did last year! Somebody didn’t get the message,” he said. “And unfortunately it is the leadership of the Democratic Party, and the consequences may be disastrous for our party, our nation and the world.”

See also however...."1968-2008 Ground Hog Day"
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Troops Sue to Avoid Anthrax Vaccines
The GE's (Government Experiments) fight back.

Truth Is Public Property
It's a nice thought but as the author points out in this country truth is private property and woe onto those who trespass.

Save liberty before America finally destroys it
A quote..."How much freedom, how much liberty, how much of America’s very soul, are you willing to give up to be secure? Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff says freedom should be subject to a cost-benefit analysis. He says that’s what you want."

Google "Rashid Rauf - Mastermind".
Not!! - Well, at least not in reality. What happens in the fevered imaginations of America’s and Britain’s presstitutes is a totally different story.

Exiting the Rat-Hole: Iraq & CheneyBush
But the Rats like their hole and they intend to stay there for a very long time.

People And Power: Death of the Dollar YouTube video
To soon to know for sure.

Bush/Blair Iranian puppet show [VIDEO]
Funny video.

Infant Discovered In Barn, Child Protective Services Launch Probe
Hilarious. A good read and probably what would really happen.

War without End & Why Withdrawal Is Unmentionable
Must Read, it details how "Millennium Challenge '02" the practice exercise for the Iraqi invasion were defeated by the same tactics now used by the insurgents. The second article basically points out how the ISG report is just more of the exact same White House policy with a few more coats of paint.

US staying the course for Big Oil in Iraq
Good synopsis.
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The "Civil War" Industry
A quote..."Two days ago in the Gaza strip, unknown gunmen deliberately targeted and murdered 3 Palestinian children as they were being driven to school."

Gunmen shoot dead Hamas judge in Gaza
A quote....."Gaza (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen dragged a judge from the Hamas Islamist movement out of a taxi and shot him dead in front of his courthouse in Gaza on Wednesday, increasing fears of a Palestinian civil war."

Gaza tensions escalate: Grenade thrown at Hamas rally
A quote...."Two Hamas activists injured after Fatah member throws grenade on rally held by Hamas in Nuseirat refugee camp in heart of Strip. According to reports, Fatah gunmen are deploying across Gaza"

After reading the three articles above it's become clear the US and Israel have decided to use the same "civil war option" or "El Salvador option" thats already been employed so successfully in Iraq.

See also.....US support Death Sqds , False Flag Ops ,The CONversation and Mr Reficul Conversation Num. Two mailing #13
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The breakup of the Soviet Union ended Russia's march to democracy
Create divisions, conflicts, constructive instabilities, even civil wars....it seems these tactics have been used a lot lately by a particular country which has repeatedly stated it doesn't have to follow all those international norms, those quaint documents like the Geneva Conventions, etc.

Such countries are commonly known as rogue states.
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Pentagon's plan: More U.S. troops in Iraq
Yes of course, send in 25,000 more troops to go after the one guy in Iraq who at least "says" he wants the Sunnis and Shias to get together, who definitely wants an Iraqi national government, and who isn't really all that friendly with Iran.

Makes perfect sense.

Oh that's right...he doesn't like the US or Israel all that much. Obviously he just isn't with the program, it's hard to fathom why he doesn't appreciate all the great things the US has already done for his country. He simply doesn't realize as Bush has already stated, that the oil in Iraq should not be allowed to fall into the hands of terrorists. And as everyone knows, all Iraqis are terrorists.

It's for their own good you know. They should be grateful..
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Congress Doubles US Weapons Storage in Israel
The US getting ready for Iran, or perhaps the BIG one.

The Solution to Iraq
A quote...."Four years ago, we were told by our government that American national security was in grave danger from Iraq. We were told that Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction and were close to achieving nuclear technology. The Bush administration linked “9/11” and “Iraq” so many times that at the time of our illegal invasion, 70% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. We were told lies then, and we’re being told lies now."

Leahy to RAW: Torture memos will be made public
We'll see.

Jon Stewart Says Goodbye to the 109th Congress
Hilarious!

Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat
Must Read, the death knell of the republic? A quote...."Like the two entwining strands of the double helix, law and power form the genetic structure of government. Law is nothing but empty verbiage without power to back it up, enforce it, embody it. And power without law is nothing but a mad ape, baring its teeth, thumping its chest, raping and beating where it pleases, taking what it wants: a bestial thing, born in the muddy swamp of our lowest, blindest, rawest biochemical impulses. Disconnect these strands and things fall apart, as Yeats says; the center literally cannot hold, and the blood-dimmed tide is loosed upon the world."

"We have seen the proof of this in our time. When law – understood here as agreed-upon principles of justice and commonweal – is treated as a filthy rag or a "quaint" relic or a cynical sham by those in power, the result is an ever-growing suppuration of greed, lies, brutality and violence. Its starkest form is evident in Iraq, where a lawless invasion based on deceit has created a hell beyond imagining, and beyond control"
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CNN: Bush Is ‘Very Seriously’ Considering Sending More Troops To Iraq
Give Bush an M-16, a flak jacket and send him there....now!

Annan Bows out of UN with Attack on Bush
A quote...." In his most explicit rebuke, Mr Annan said America had sacrificed its global leadership on human rights because of its methods in the war on terror. "When it appears to abandon its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused," Mr Annan said, according to a prepared text of his remarks released by the UN."

Not to mention disgusted with the completely, unrepentant, degenerate, hypocrisy of it all.
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Is the USA the Center of the World?
Ahhhh....this one is fun.

France to bring Pinochet allies to trial
A quote..."FRENCH judges still intend to bring 17 allies of Augusto Pinochet to trial over the disappearance of four French citizens in the 1970s despite the Chilean dictator's death, a legal official said today."

Viva la France! A salutary lesson for us all. Also a lesson for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, Negroponte, and others. You guys are going to have what you did hanging over your heads for the next thirty five years or more.

You'll never be able to set foot outside of this country ever again or you might be “Pinocheted”.
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Beware the Next Bipartisan War
Regarding the bipartisan responsibility for getting the US into this mess.

Marie Cocco: A Fraudulently Financed War
And the bipartisan responsibility for spending us into this mess.

China Has U.S. By The Purse
It sure does, because our wealthy elites wanted it that way.

Ex-agent held over illegal spy ring
A quote...."A FORMER Italian spy chief was arrested overnight on suspicion of involvement in an illegal espionage ring that prosecutors believe snooped on Italy's elite, including Prime Minister Romano Prodi."

"Marco Mancini, once the head of counter-espionage at Italy's SISMI military intelligence agency, already faces possible indictment on separate charges of helping the US Central Intelligence Agency kidnap a Muslim cleric in Milan."

It reminds one of Neocons, they just keep popping up over and over again.
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Saudi clerics call for help for Sunnis in Iraq
Muslim killing Muslims, Mr. Reficul and his rich friends are ecstatic.

To all the people of the Middle East - it starts with each one of you, not your religion, sect, tribe, ethnic group, or family, you don't get off that easy.....it starts with you as an individual. Each act of hatred and vengeance that YOU commit is yours and yours alone, you alone bare the burden, you alone are responsible for it - you as an individual have the power to shape your destiny in that very moment of your decision every single time you make it.

Instead of killing and torturing the person, beat them up. Instead of beating them up break into their homes and smash their furniture. Instead of smashing their furniture, warn them. Instead of warning them talk to them. Instead of talking to them……talk with them.

Nothing is preordained, there are solutions, but splitting the Middle East right down the middle is not one of them. It is not an accident, nor is it a coincidence that such an outcome would benefit most, those who do not have the interests of the people in the Middle East as one of their priorities.
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Gulf summit opens with warning of regional explosion
Some quotes from Saudi King Abdullah ......"The Palestinians were reeling from 'a hostile and ugly occupation' by Israel while the international community watched their 'bloody tragedy like a spectator,' Abdullah said"

"In Iraq "a brother is still killing his brother," Abdullah said of the tit-for-tat killings between the Sunni Arab former elite and the ruling Shiite majority."

"In Lebanon, we see dark clouds threatening the unity of the homeland, which risks sliding again into... conflict among the sons of the same country,"
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Iran: Prosecute Torturers, Not Bloggers - posted at WW4 Report
From Human Rights Watch - (New York, December 12, 2006) "The Iranian Judiciary should prosecute officials responsible for the arbitrary detention and alleged torture of several bloggers in 2004, instead of prosecuting the bloggers for expressing their opinions, Human Rights Watch said today."

Wolfowitz Clashes With World Bank Staff and Mideast Chief Exits
Finally an institution that deserves the treatment only an official from the Bush administration like Wolfowitz could deliver. It leaves one bemused as who to root for. Perhaps in the end the World Bank and Wolfowitz will mutually annihilate each other. One can only hope.

The Atrocities of Augusto Pinochet and the United States
A quote...."For the next three years CIA-backed terrorist groups bombed and destroyed state railroads, power plants and key highway arteries to create chaos and stop the country from functioning. The goal was to "make the economy scream" as Nixon ordered. US corporations such as IT&T also participated in the efforts to destabilize the country."

Again to emphasize, this is what will happen to anyone and everyone if you do business with the US's Military-Industrial-Oil-Complex, also known as Murder Inc. Sooner or later it will happen, every single time. Remember that.
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2nd pastor resigns over gay sex scandal
Little did the Neocons know how truly apt their favorite phrase "New Roman Empire" would become....or maybe they did know.

The Psychopath's Truth
Must read. While you read this article just think of all the crud you've been forced to view over the past five years in the "mass media"

Lack of Cooperation Prevents Beit Hanoun Mission
Well they didn't actually expect Israel to cooperate did they?

A rogue 51st state
A quote..."Israel already looks to be intent on scuppering the Iraq Study Group plan for Middle East peace"

Israel supports Arabs on N-power
It gets more amusing every day in the Middle East, if it wasn't for all the people dying it would really be funny.

Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine
A quote..."The book describes the abominable oppression and persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine's citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank"

Unions oppose ‘draft’ of federal workers to Iraq
A quote..."The Iraq Study Group’s recommendation that the Bush administration consider ordering government civilians to Iraq has drawn outrage from federal employees’ unions."

A draft by any other name, would it not be as stupid?
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A Fair and Square Vote in Venezuela
Who knows, maybe we should hire the Venezuelans to run our elections in 2008.

Shell cedes control of Sakhalin-2 as Kremlin exerts its iron fist
Putin locking up Russia's energy assets. Geez one wonders why the Russians are so paranoid about their energy assets, it's almost as if they think someone might be trying to take them over.....you think they got that idea from what the US is doing to the Iraqis, and tried to do to the whole Middle East?

Tinker Bell, Pinochet And The Fairy Tale Miracle Of Chile
It seems taking the "commanding heights" of a society’s basic (got that Chavez) industries like Putin did with Russia's energy sector seems to work wonders for an economy.
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The Collapse of the Second Front
Now the US is in North Africa causing more dissension, turmoil and resentment creating more anti-US blow back from that region of the world......this all seems so eerily familiar.

Kucinich to Run for President & Democrats vow to continue funding Iraq war
It's like some play book of the absurd, it’s like the movie ground hog day where Bill Murray is stuck in an endless loop, they write science fiction stories like this where people are trapped in a cosmic Möbius strip - and they just can't get out.

We're now going to have a repeat of the 1968 democratic convention in 2008. Thanks to Pelosi and friends the war in Iraq will be raging two years from now, the Democratic Party will be split right down the middle with Hillary, Lieberman, Pelosi et. al. vowing to continue to kill thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis to avoid the "cut and run label", Kucinich and friends will rightly consider this to be total insanity and fight them tooth and nail and John McCain or some other Republican nitwit a few beers short of a six pack will be shoehorned into the White House.

We'll be stuck in the same deadly morass, with the same stagnant economy, with the same unraveling of this society as we had during the late sixties and early seventies and the war will go on and on and on.

Throughout all of these travails the wealthy elites of this society will be rolling in dough and laughing at you peons, they'll be laughing at you because they own the house, the game is rigged, the rules are changed daily, and the motto is never give a sucker an even break. America you're a bunch of rubes and you've been played big time.

American politics - It gives a whole new meaning to the word futility.
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US income figures show staggering rise in social inequality
To drive the point home......suckers.

“Nobody’s Leaving:” Never Mind Democracy and Imperial Fiasco
Must read, we're in for a long bloody two years....minimum

Sandra Day O'Connor: “My Life as a Buck-Passing Phony”
Must read, really good.

What’s the Opposite of a Pyrrhic Victory?
Must read, succinct and to the point on what should have been covered by the ISG report.

Can't Stay the Course, Can't End the War, But We'll Call it Bipartisan
More on what the ISG didn't address.

The Americans Don't See How Unwelcome They Are, or That Iraq Is Now beyond Repair
More reality based.......reality.

Who Brought Us to the Iraq Abyss?
A quote...."Here are five predictions for the short-term in Iraq. After that, some context and explanations."

Liberal Consensus Hardens for More Troops to Iraq; Meet Senator Slither; Farewell, Jeane Kirkpatrick
The RepubDemos betraying the Republic again using the ISG report as cover, how typical and how spineless.

Back to Ishaqi: Mass Death in the Fog of War
Just keep in mind as you read these types of articles, uncovering another atrocity committed by American troops, there are thousands of others out there that will never see the light of day.   Think about it.

Annals of Liberation: Bitter Tears at the Top of the "Good War"
President Hamid Karzai may not be a "good" guy, he's had various relationships with the power elites of the US including one as a consultant for the oil company Unocal, however he appears to be a decent guy and the US is forcing him to watch while we kill his people and there's nothing he can do about it. Read it and weep with him and for his people.

CIA Is Undermining British War Effort, Say Military Chiefs
The Brits want to leave. They'd be willing to die for their Empire, but not for an American one.

Kennedy's, Bushes and Oil : Public Interest vs. Self Interest
Like day and night.

Huge demo in Beirut piles pressure on government
A quote..."There were no official estimates of the crowd size on Sunday but one security source said it was the largest such gathering ever seen in Lebanon. Opposition sources said the crowd was 2 million strong -- roughly half Lebanon's population."

Chile's Gen Pinochet dies at 91
A quote...."Opponents have expressed anger that Gen Pinochet died without justice being done over the charges that had been brought.   "What saddens me is that this criminal has died without having been sentenced and I believe the responsibility the state bears in this has to be considered", human rights lawyer Hugo Gutierrez told La Tercera Online."

Oh don't worry; he's received his sentence now - for a very, very, very long time.

Pinochet Should Have Rotted To Death In A Jail Cell
Ditto

Tomgram: Greenberg, In a Confessing State of Mind
The Bushists have torture on their brains, these are a bunch of really sick and twisted individuals.

Undocumented Worker Used As Slave In WI Home For 19 Years
What all wealthy Republicans dream of but just don't have the gumption to do yet . Till it's legal that is.

Congress Approves India Nuclear Bill
You here that flushing sound....that's the NPT going down the drain.

Lebanon: Sowing the seeds of tomorrow's violence
The coming storm.....Israel must be happy.

The Sunshine Boys Can’t Save Iraq
That really begs the question.....how exactly do the Sunshine Boys define the word "save", no doubt its not in the same way the Iraqis would define it.

US bugged Diana’s phone on night of death crash
From the weird file.....what is wrong with our government? Don't they have better things to do? To all the leaders and all the government officials throughout the world just assume we're listening to everything you're saying, and if any of it's compromising you know what the US will do with it.

A quote..."The American secret service was bugging Princess Diana’s telephone conversations without the approval of the British security services on the night she died, according to the most comprehensive report on her death, to be published this week."

"Among extraordinary details due to emerge in the report by former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens is the revelation that the US security service was bugging her calls in the hours before she was killed in a car crash in Paris."
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Stop AT&T Merger which Threatens our Internet Access
They have to be watched....always.

Election firm says codes are a secret
Isn't America GREAT! We have secret elections in this country - really, really, really secret elections. So secret that we as voters don't even know who we're voting for even as we're casting our votes. Isn't that just great? Isn’t technology wonderful?

The Media Lynching of Jimmy Carter
For using the word "apartheid" to describe Israel's land use policies toward the Palestinians. You think if he used the word bantustans it would have been better? See also....Territorial fragmentation of the West Bank

Afghanistan’s opium crop at an all-time high
The US drug trade?

U.S. dollar facing imminent collapse? [Fed Heads Head To China]
Bernanke's conundrum. See also...The Housing Crash Recession of 2007 Either Bernanke lowers interest rates or the housing bubble pops hard, it's one or the other and that means he's caught between a rock and a hard landing.

Maureen Dowd: The Oval Intervention
This is hilarious!

Boomerang Effect
A quote...."12/09/06 "Military.com" -- -- Last week, one of my students, a Marine captain, asked whether I had heard a news report about an “IED-like device” supposedly found near Cincinnati, and if I thought we would soon start seeing IEDs here in the U.S. I replied that I had not heard the news story, but as to whether we would see IEDs here at home, the answer is yes."

"One of the things U.S. troops are learning in Iraq is how people with little training and few resources can fight a state. Most American troops will see this within the framework of counterinsurgency. But a minority will apply their new-found knowledge in a very different way. After they return to the U.S. and leave the military, they will take what they learned in Iraq back to the inner cities, to the ethnic groups, gangs, and other alternate loyalties they left when they joined the service. There, they will put their new knowledge to work, in wars with each other and wars against the American state. It will not be long before we see police squad cars getting hit with IEDs and other techniques employed by Iraqi insurgents, right here in the streets of American cities."

Ranger alleges war crimes
A quote..."An Army Ranger accused of holding up a Tacoma bank plans to use the notoriety of his case to reveal what he characterizes as systematic war crimes -- rapes, homicides and political assassinations -- committed by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan."

US Has the Most Prisoners in the World
No wonder they built all those Haliburton internment camps, they're running out of room.

Gary Webb's Death: American Tragedy
How it really works in America, how it worked with 9/11, how it worked with the Iraq war, and how it's going to continue to work.

Iraq Study Group: a bipartisan coverup of Washington’s war crimes
i.e. How the heck did that happen.....who knows, who cares but let's move forward with our new plan.

Friedman Finally Urges Fixed Date for U.S. Pullout
Sometimes late is not really better.

Cornered US Military Takes to Desperate Tactics in Iraq
There's a solution for all of this.....just leave.

Frank Rich Hits Iraq Study Group and Its 'Bogus' Proposals
A quote...""The group’s coulda-woulda recommendations are either nonstarters, equivocations (it endorses withdrawal of combat troops by 2008 but is averse to timelines) or contradictions of its own findings of fact."

A bad precedent for whistleblowers
Only in America....tell the truth about crimes and pay a fine, do the crimes and nothing happens to you.

Iraq Study Group Recommendations Will Not End the War
A quote..."Bennis said that the ISG's report and recommendations are aimed at getting the war off of the front page in time for the November 2008 elections without actually ending the war."

"The report is not a set of new ideas to end the war. It is an attempt to transform the war into a sustainable occupation," she argued. "

The Housing Crash Recession of 2007
Either Bernanke lowers interest rates or the housing bubble pops hard, it's one or the other.

Fruits From the Poisonous Tree
From the FRONT PAGE

We Must Prevent Permanent Bases in Iraq
Supposedly Congress cut off the funding, but the construction is still continuing. Maybe it has something to do with one of those "executive signing" statements Bush keeps blathering on about.

Washington Seeks Stronger Ties with Latin American Militaries
Calling all Nuns, calling all Nuns...you should leave South and Central America as soon as possible....calling all Nuns, calling all Nuns.....

It's Still about Oil in Iraq
As it has always been, and forever will be.

The Baker Agenda: Troops out, Oil Companies in?
It's not blood for oil, that would just be the oil companies profiting. It's blood and oil, i.e. the Military-Industrial-Oil-Complex. BOTH the oil and war industries have to make their money.

Only six fluent in Arabic at US Iraq embassy-panel
Well of course, why should any American be forced to speak Arabic. Iraq is now a US territorial possession after all, the Arabs should all learn to speak English and be grateful for it. Isn't that the way the British ran their Empire?

The Dems Go Silent on Iraq
More Democratic spinelessness

Staticide, Not Civil War in Iraq
It's the occupation stupid.

'Dirty War' extradition approved
Rummy.....oh Rummy, they're coming for you Rummy. You can run, but you can't hide.

9/11: The Roots of Paranoia
Just follow the money....that's all anyone has to do.

AP Poll: 71% Hit Bush on Iraq, 6 in 10 Want Troops Out in Six Months
Polls are rarely featured on this web site....but this is impressive. Bush is now down to 27% in his handling of Iraq.

Articles of Impeachment Filed Against Bush, In Congress
Thank you, Cynthia McKinney!!

U.S. targeting Shiite militia strongholds
A quote..."The raids into territory dominated by the Al Mahdi army, a militia loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada Sadr, risk exacerbating tensions within the government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, who has shown a new willingness to confront paramilitary forces believed to take part in kidnappings and death squad operations."

It's interesting that most observers of the situation in Iraq describe the "death squads" as belonging to the Interior and Intelligence Ministries. And they're the ones conducting the raids......interesting. See also US support Death Sqds
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Google Video - Part I, Part II, Part III
Must See, shows how the US really makes it's money.

See also... John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man YouTube video - How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions and Smedley Butler, Meet John Perkins

See also... John Perkins Site
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Orwell Rolls in His Grave - Google video
Must See - shows the US media for what they really are, the presstitutes of the wealthy elites.

Setting the limits of invasion journalism
The media telling it like it isn't.

Bush, OPEC and Chavez of Arabia
Chavez seems to be doing OK so far, certainly a lot better than Bush is.

Senate Armed Services Plays Taps for the Constitution
More of Gates evasions and lies.

Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization
A quote...."The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money."

The Iraq Debate: Looking for a Few Good Principles
What wasn't recommended by the ISG.

Bush's Meeting With A Murderer
Divide and rule.....that's what the US does so well.

Oil Groups Dream of the Day They can Enter Iraq
Drool, drool, drool.

Saudis reportedly funding Iraqi Sunnis
NO! It can't be true, this article can't possibly exist, it has to be an illusion.

It isn't the fact that “OUR FRIENDS" the Saudis continue to fund their Sunni brethren in Iraq that's so shocking, horrifying, and unspeakable, after all we've only killed about a half a million of them, no what's so shocking, horrifying, unspeakable and mind numbingly unbelievable is that Yahoo news actually reported it.

Didn't they get the memos from the White House and Congress? Aren't they on the "Game Plan"?

What's wrong with them?

There are two and only two groups that cannot be mentioned in the US mass media, one is AIPAC and the other is the Saudi Royal Family. Dang it guys it's just two groups.....can't you keep track of who not to write about?
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Jewish Influence in Washington, DC
Speaking of AIPAC....see also The Israel Lobby - extracts and The Israel Lobby - full doc/PDF and The Four Myths

Republic Takes Another Hit at Gates Hearing
Like the title says.

Gore Vidal: Living Through History
Always has something interesting to say.

The Crime of Breathing While Black
Truly captures the claustrophobic, panicky feeling of it all. Pretty soon it will simply be the crime of breathing.....see also Seventeen Acts to Restore Americans' Rights

Report documents extreme levels of global wealth inequality
Regarding world inequality and something we should all keep track of, the Gini coefficient

Gatefold: Doormats of the World, Unite!
A quote......"Democrats are once more ensconced in the cozier Congressional offices: more rolling over and playing dead, more simpering gratitude for noises of merely rhetorical "moderation" from the Bush Gang, more relief that they won't actually have to do anything to respond to the tide of anti-war, anti-corruption, anti-tyranny, anti-Bush Faction sentiment that returned them to the majority."

"It's just a scientific fact: invertebrae cannot grow spines by spontaneous generation. They were jellyfish before the elections, they are jellyfish now, and they will be wriggling, wimpering jellyfish in January -- and beyond, as they sit around with Gates and Bush "for the next year or two" (in Gates' repeated formulation) and "consider options" for "achieving success" in Iraq."
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Dennis Kucinich’s Showdown With the Democratic Leadership
Kucinich is from a different phylum he's from Vertebrata whereas the rest of the Democrats are from Cnidaria

Nobel Lecture - Art, Truth & Politics
From the history file, Harold Pinter

The United States and Lebanon’s Civil Strife
A quote...."The ongoing popular challenge to the pro-Western Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora marks yet another setback in the Bush administration's attempt to impose a new order on the Middle East more compatible with perceived U.S. strategic interests."

Another bloodbath in Lebanon?
A quote..."When Hezbollah puts a million people on the streets of Beirut, it doesn’t appear on the front page of The New York Times. That spot is reserved for Bush’s “made-in-Washington” extravaganzas like the Cedar, Orange or Rose revolutions. Those bogus revolutions were cooked up in American think tanks and engineered by US non-governmental organizations (NGOs); that’s why they got headline coverage in the Times. The Beirut demonstrations don’t promote the political agenda of the America’s ruling elite, so they’re stuck on page 8 where they’ll be ignored."

"Some things never change."
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Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon
A quote..."According to documents obtained for Wired News under [the Freedom of Information Act], the Air Force's Active Denial System, or ADS, has been certified safe after lengthy tests by military scientists in the lab and in war games."

"The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven."

"The longer waves are thought to limit the effects of the radiation. If used properly, ADS will produce no lasting adverse affects, the military argues."
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Italy to probe CIA rendition
A quote...."Italian prosecutors have asked a judge to order CIA agents and Italian spies to stand trial on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured."

The Democrats' War
After their unanimous approval of Gates, it's beginning to look that way.

American Policy in Iraq Provides the Excuse Not to Leave
Iraq is like a sponge, you just squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until there's not a drop of blood or oil left....than you leave. To all the people in the world, this is what will happen to you if you do business with a country whose only raison d’etra is "full spectrum dominance".

The Democrats and Civil Liberties
Like oil and water. See also....Seventeen Acts to Restore Americans' Rights

Iran-Contra Criminal Gates Gets Warm and Fuzzy Treatment in Senate and Corporate Media
More on Gates.

Democrats Cave on Gates Nomination
Ditto.

Robert Gates: Realist or Neo-Con?
An analysis regarding Gates underlying philosophy, the prism through which he sees the world. - Cautious, opportunistic, cronyism. He'll say and do anything that "appears" to be a reasonable and successful policy for his wealthy masters. He'll do what it takes to please their financial and political interests. He won't however go out on a limb for them.

Bombs Over Cambodia
It appears the US bombed Cambodia with a lot more tonnage and much earlier in the war than the American public were led to believe.

Democrat Senator Calls for 30,000 More Troops to be Sent into the Iraqi Meat Grinder
More on the RepubDemos.

Austria's hills aren't alive with sound of skiing
The human race is witnessing climatic changes which usually take place over thousands of years, in just a few decades or even less.

Question One About Iraq
The obvious one, and the one that will never truly be answered.

Blame the Victims in Iraq - The New Washington Consensus
This is a Must Read.

Whatever happened to that "conservative" mantra of accepting responsibility for one's own actions....Oh that’s right, what they meant by that phrase is the "little people" get to have the privilege of being blamed for what’s done to them by those in power.

Isn’t that just so sweet?
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Afghan Autopsy
Good eye witness account and analysis of what's happening in Afghanistan.

Rumsfeld's Last Stand
Rummy's "leaked" memo to the Times. Oh yeah, sure we believe that, what a whore...........you're thinking about that one right? Which one is the whore....... just go on and keep thinking about it.

A Conservative for Impeachment
Or what one might call a "true" conservative, a believer in small government, states rights, original intent, etc.

They're rarely sighted in Washington these days after most of them elected to have moral castration surgery. You'll now find them down on K street in their tight little skirts, gaudy jewelry and cheap perfume selling themselves to the highest bidder.
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Iran urges Arab countries to eject U.S. military
Pretty soon the Muslims will be talking about a common currency and an economic union just like Europe. That would be the U.S.'s worst nightmare.........absolutely the worst. Surely the US can put a stop to this, it just has to go "divide and conquer" them some more, i.e. bring them some more of that fine "freedom and democracy".

Iran to replace dollar with euro in foreign trade: Finance Minister
Now here's something South and Central America can do also.

The Pinochet Precedent
Hey all you Neocons out there, it really doesn't matter what prissy Pelosi thinks. You leave the US and you might not be coming back. That would sure put a damper on your European junket....wouldn't it?

Media Sham for Iraq War -- It's Happening Again
This war ain't over until our glorious elites say it's over, it's that simple.

Richest 2% own 'half the wealth'
And they ain't satisfied yet.

China Seeks Direct Talks With OPEC
Oh, Oh.

Chavez takes victory swipe at Bush
After all Bush tried to oust Chavez in the 2002 coup attempt.

Congratulations to Mr. Chavez, however a few words of caution…...No politician or political party is immune to hubris, moderation has always been the key to good governance and good economics. Perhaps the slogan for Venezuela should be free markets on a level socialist playing field where the rules of the game are openly determined by all, for the benefit of all, and not just to enrich the wealthy few.

Reliance solely on government bureaucracies however, which tend over time to become bloated, secretive, lazy and corrupt, can in some cases result in a severe case of economic indigestion.
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12-5-06: Government rejects NIST recommendations for paper trail
Isn't that just great, Chavez holds honest elections, monitored by all sorts of international observers, and now we in the US are going to hold more dishonest elections, monitored by no one.

What Election Fraud Looks Like
"Freedom and Democracy", American style.

What we're up against (lessons from Guatemala)
A past lesson in "Freedom and Democracy" from America to the Guatemalan people, for some strange reason it all seems so eerily familiar.

Who Killed the Electric Car?
Who indeed? We all know who did it.

Venezuela : Secession in the oil Zone - Interventionist Legacy Behind Zulia Separatist Movement - WW4 Report
You can expect to see more of this now that Chevez is set to win the election.

Bush accepts Bolton's U.N. resignation
A quote..."Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White House said Monday."

Hip, Hip, Horay!!!
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The Death Of A Nation
A quote..."The Palestinians committed a major crime in January (2006) There was a free election, closely monitored, declared to be free and fair and they voted the wrong way. That is absolutely criminal."

The dollar melts as Iraq burns
The Empire - without the buck it will end with a whimper.

O.J. Simpson For UN Ambassador
Or why John Bolton got the job as UN ambassador.

Chavez: New 'defeat for the devil'
Not really......"he" is one who tends to wait patiently, biding his time and striking when least expected.

Bush Crime Family Crony Robert Gates a Shoo-In
The expected outcome of a well run, well oiled, RepubDemo machine.

Democrat “Political Upheavals” Mean More of the Same
More regarding the RepubDemo's "thirty year war".

Iraq: “At a minimum negligence in the commission of a fraud”
Interview with Michael Isikoff co-author of Hubris - regarding fake intell.

The Times Continues to Understate the Influence of Feith's "Gestapo Office" in the Run-up to War
More on fake intell, see....Fake Intel

When U.S. Occupation in Iraq Ends the Violence is More Likely to Subside
An Interview with William Polk, Author of Out of Iraq .

How to Stay in Iraq - The Iraq Study Group Rides to the Rescue
Not of this country nor of the Iraqis....but of the Bush administration.

Tool to circumvent internet censorship set to launch
Excellent!

Iraq’s Death Squads: An Instrument - Of The Occupation
A quote..." Since the invasion, each militia group has mutated into several groups of death squads and criminal gangs such as; the Wolf Brigade, the Karar Brigade, the Falcon Brigade, the Amarah Brigade, the Muthana Brigade, the Defenders of Kadhimiyah, and the special police commandos. They are armed and financed by the U.S. and its allies, and fully integrated into the Occupation."

See also.... British “Pseudo-Gang” Terrorists Exposed in Basra
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The Surreal Politics of Premeditated War
This is a MUST READ, a good summation of how the US got were it is today.

US blasts 'intimidation' against Lebanon's government
MY GOD!! Those awful Shias are at it again, look at what they’re doing - THEY'RE DEMONSTRATING…….it’s horrible how depraved these people have become, their vileness and lack of consideration for the West’s feeling is beneath contempt. Who do these people think they are to go around "demonstrating", by doing so they’ve shown their complete disregard for international law. How could they sink to such depths?

And if you think US is angry now, just think of how angry the US is going to be when it finds out about Iran’s invasion of Lebanon this summer, how they ruthlessly bombed Lebanon for over a month causing hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes, killing over a thousand Lebanese, wounding thousands more, leaving tens of thousands homeless, and in a final act of sheer, sick, spiteful, barbarity carpeting South Lebanon with over three million cluster bomblets during the last 72 hours of their invasion.

Boy you Shias are going to be in trouble when the US finds out about that.
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The Lessons of Iraq, Gates-style
A concept Gates can't seem to master, yet it's so basic and so simple.

Who Killed the Kennedys After All?
About the Kennedy assassinations, Mr. Reficul and can we trust Google.

U.S. funding Somali warlords - intelligence experts.
My goodness the US is funding warlords....what a surprise.

He's The Worst Ever
He sure is.

Has He Started Talking to the Walls?
If you call what spews forth from his mouth talking.

Nancy Pelosi and Impeachment
A contradiction in terms.

Afghanistan Opium Crop Sets Record
US occupation at work.

US tells banks to shut down Iran operations
More US "talking" to Iran.

>>> Boeing's Side Business <<<

Flog Is My Co-Pilot
A quote...."According to Grey and others, a wholly owned Boeing subsidiary called Jeppesen Inc. cleared the airways and runways for the CIA, providing landing and navigation assistance, scheduling flight crews, and booking hotels for them. Jeppesen is a unit of Boeing's Seattle-based Commercial Aviation Division.

The cargo of prisoners includes many who say they were tortured and others who claim to have been mistakenly abducted and abused. One detainee, Khaled el-Masri, a German of Lebanese decent who is suing the CIA and aviation companies under the Alien Tort Statute for alleged Fifth Amendment (due process) violations, says he now plans to add Boeing to his lawsuit. "

True capitalism at work. Our nation's "conservatives" must be very proud of all of this. Think of the wonderful business opportunities for Boeing, they don't have to settle for just the US government's torture business there are dozens of other governments out there they could work for, thousands of opportunities if you include corporations and private individuals. Think of what they could do for the narco-trafficking business.

And why just settle for transporting the victims to torture and death. You could torture them on the plane, it would save you time. Boeing could join with other manufactures to design state of the art mechanical and electrical devices to be used on the victims while they're being transported. And if they happen to die from their treatment ocean disposal (with the properly designed airlock) from thirty thousand feet would be a practicable way to get rid of the bodies.

Think of that folks, next time you get on a Boeing plane. And if you're psychically sensitive at all, you just might still be able to hear the faint screams of the victims while you’re flying at thirty thousand feet.

It gives one a warm and cozy feeling doesn’t it?
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Death squads roam Baghdad's hospitals
Many of these deaths are being attributed to the Mahdi Army of the radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi health ministry. These stories have been circulating for some time.

However as you read these articles keep in mind the stories of Iraq troops killing babies in incubators during their invasion of Kuwait, testimony of which was falsely given by Nayirah al-Sabah who was never a witmess at the time regarding the incidents because she was with her farther, Saud Nasir al-Sabah Kuwait's Ambassador to the US and member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family.

That little propaganda gem, which launched Gulf War I, was orchestrated by Hill & Knowlton then the world's largest PR firm, which "served as mastermind for the Kuwaiti campaign. Its activities alone would have constituted the largest foreign-funded campaign ever aimed at manipulating American public opinion."

The articles about Baghdad's hospitals may still be true but keep in mind the Rendon group, the Lincoln Group and many, many others are still out there generating thousands of false and misleading articles evry single day. Paid for by your tax dollars.

For more on this see .....Fake Intel
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The Torture Society
A quote..."A trial without due process isn't justice. It's farce."

The World's Mastermind: The Hidden Face of Globalization
Also known as the "New World Order". See also The Council of Foreign Relations and The New World Order

Defense nominee's business ties raise concerns
A quote..."Robert M. Gates' affiliations have some watchdogs worried about a revolving door between the private sector and government." See also...Gates, Robert - File

Al-Sadr bloc talks of alliance with Sunnis, Christians
Maybe that's why the US and Israel want to kill him. Still, regarding Middle East politics someone considered as devious and real politic driven as Machiavelli would be considered a lost naive waif in Iraq who wouldn't last ten minutes in that caldron of anarchy.

It's been said that Al-Sadr's men the Mahdi army have participated in the sectarian killings against the Sunnis. However their attacks are nowhere near as ferocious or blood thirsty as those carried out by the US backed Iraq Interior Ministry's troops previously led by Bayan Jabr, now led by his replacement Jawad al-Bolani The troops are composed of former members of the Badr Brigade, Wolf Brigade and others. See also....US support Death Sqds
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Staying the Course: Permanent U.S. Bases in Iraq?
A quote - abstract...."Over the last few years, some reports concerning the question of "permanent" U.S. bases in Iraq have appeared in the U.S. press, mostly in its left-of-center or alternative political spectrum but also in some mainstream papers. These reports, which on occasion have been officially refuted, did not trigger any major political debate in the American public, perhaps with the notable exception of former Senator Gary Hart, who regularly raises this issue.

Yet up to 80 percent of the Iraqi public is convinced that the United States does plan permanent bases in the country. And there are other good reasons for believing that the United States intends to establish future bases in Iraq. One was provided by former senior political advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Larry C. Diamond. At a public conference he bluntly announced, "We are building permanent bases in Iraq." Another is the Congressional Research Service's (CRS) rather matter-of-fact statement, "It is now believed that continued deployment of substantial military ground forces [in Iraq] could be necessary for several years." Finally, President Bush himself suggests that the United States will certainly remain past the year 2008 and that the stay of U.S. troops in the country "will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq."
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Americans lower sights on Pyongyang
America watch out! North Korea will attack us! Run for your lives! The end of the world is coming, the terror, the horror, the axis of evil, we can't let them get the bomb, it'll be the end of us all, it will be a GIANT MUSHROOM CLOUD!!!

What....wada 'you mean they've got the bomb....they do. Aw never mind America, heh, heh, giggle, giggle....we were just kidding. What we really meant to say is it's all about Iraq, and we have to stay there, forever.....you 'all understand now don't you?

For more on this issue see.....Iran, North Korea & Oil
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The Spirit Of Resistance In Mexico City
Unlike many "middle of the road" Americans, what one could call fair-weather Americans, many Mexicans are deeply offended when the elites steal their elections.

The Dirty War of Oaxaca
"Amongst Flames of Resistance, Came Death, Torture and a Clandestine Movement"

And this is what happens when you just let them win. The dirty war hasn't yet arrived in the US, but our "government" is getting ready, see....Seventeen Acts to Restore Americans' Rights.
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