It may be that Bushco has found a new bogey man to distract our attention from the middle east disater.
Who knows, maybe he is thinking of invading South America now. His "Christian" buddies are advocating assassinating Chavez apparently.
The Rise Of America's New Enemy: "To the man in the bus, and to Beatrice whose children are being immunised and taught history, art and music for the first time, and Celedonia, in her seventies, reading and writing for the first time, and Jose whose life was saved by a doctor in the middle of the night, the first doctor he had ever seen, Hugo Chavez is neither a 'firebrand' nor an 'autocrat' but a humanitarian and a democrat who commands almost two thirds of the popular vote, accredited by victories in no less than nine elections. Compare that with the fifth of the British electorate that re-installed Blair, an authentic autocrat.
Chávez and the rise of popular social movements, from Colombia down to Argentina, represent bloodless, radical change across the continent, inspired by the great independence struggles that began with SimOn Bolívar, born in Venezuela, who brought the ideas of the French Revolution to societies cowed by Spanish absolutism. Bolívar, like Che Guevara in the 1960s and Chavez today, understood the new colonial master to the north. 'The USA,' he said in 1819, 'appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.' "
Friday, November 11, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
t r u t h o u t - Ray McGovern | CIA v. Cheney
Blairy England seldom quotes a whole piece. This one is definitely worth it. McGovern gives the best summary of the Wilson Cheney story I have seen and indicates his falling trajectory.
Everyone now knows the mushroom cloud story was black propoganda by Cheney et al.
So why has nobody yet exploded the story behind why British Intelligence apparently still believes it? The other lies the Brits called intelligence were found to be based on desert sand.
French control remains on Niger Uranium, so is this another way of blaming the French for spoiling the show? That good old entente uncordiale.
Answers please.
Vice President Cheney in Trouble
Cheney's current situation has the makings of a Greek tragedy in the way he is about to self-destruct. The tragic flaw of overweening arrogance - the Greeks called it hubris - did not begin with Euripides. Nor will it end with the inexorably approaching demise of the vice president and other leaders of the current US administration.
Richard Nixon's first vice president, Spiro Agnew, aside from his fulsome rhetoric, was hardly a heroic figure. So when his petty crimes were brought to light, he left the White House quietly by the side door. This is not Dick Cheney's style. And it is probably too late now for that kind of denouement. He is far more likely to press the self-destruct button, and perhaps even bring President George W. Bush down with him. Absolute power does indeed corrupt absolutely. Small wonder that Republican stalwart, and national security adviser to George H.W. Bush, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who has worked closely with Cheney over the years, now says "I do not know Dick Cheney."
Patriotic truth-tellers are coming out of the woodwork. For example, Larry Wilkerson, who was former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, has made public his conclusion that Cheney was the main author of this administration's policy of torturing detainees "as appropriate and as consistent with military necessity." Leaks in the dike are proliferating. Perhaps worst of all, from the president's point of view, is the fact that Karl Rove has pulled his finger out of the dike - preoccupied as he is in avoiding indictment and jail.
Katrina-type flooding is threatening the White House.
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), was a CIA analyst for 27 years. His responsibilities included daily briefings of the vice president and other senior officials.
Everyone now knows the mushroom cloud story was black propoganda by Cheney et al.
So why has nobody yet exploded the story behind why British Intelligence apparently still believes it? The other lies the Brits called intelligence were found to be based on desert sand.
French control remains on Niger Uranium, so is this another way of blaming the French for spoiling the show? That good old entente uncordiale.
Answers please.
Vice President Cheney in Trouble
Cheney's current situation has the makings of a Greek tragedy in the way he is about to self-destruct. The tragic flaw of overweening arrogance - the Greeks called it hubris - did not begin with Euripides. Nor will it end with the inexorably approaching demise of the vice president and other leaders of the current US administration.
Richard Nixon's first vice president, Spiro Agnew, aside from his fulsome rhetoric, was hardly a heroic figure. So when his petty crimes were brought to light, he left the White House quietly by the side door. This is not Dick Cheney's style. And it is probably too late now for that kind of denouement. He is far more likely to press the self-destruct button, and perhaps even bring President George W. Bush down with him. Absolute power does indeed corrupt absolutely. Small wonder that Republican stalwart, and national security adviser to George H.W. Bush, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who has worked closely with Cheney over the years, now says "I do not know Dick Cheney."
Patriotic truth-tellers are coming out of the woodwork. For example, Larry Wilkerson, who was former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, has made public his conclusion that Cheney was the main author of this administration's policy of torturing detainees "as appropriate and as consistent with military necessity." Leaks in the dike are proliferating. Perhaps worst of all, from the president's point of view, is the fact that Karl Rove has pulled his finger out of the dike - preoccupied as he is in avoiding indictment and jail.
Katrina-type flooding is threatening the White House.
For Cheney, the disclosures regarding the network of overseas prisons run by the CIA, together with his dogged opposition to Congressional restraints on interrogation techniques, may prove the last straw. There are signs he might be foolish enough to pull the strings on genuine-investigation-averse Pat Roberts (R, Kan.), chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to gather a posse to "bring to justice" the administration sources who gave chapter and verse to the Washington Post's Dana Priest for her detailed article on the prisons last week. If Roberts launches an investigation, he is likely to round up first the usual suspects in the CIA, for which Cheney has such deep distrust. But none of this would help.
Cheney, Wilson, Plame
L'Affaire Cheney-and-the-Wilsons would never sell as a novel. It is nonetheless fascinating as a "now-running" tragic drama in which the main player is once again done in by hubris. The affair is most important, though, as a harbinger of things to come. It provides a case study of how Cheney, in a self-destructive way, lashed out at the CIA when he became convinced that Agency officials were deliberately undermining his attempts to conjure up "intelligence" to justify war on Iraq. It is a telling lesson - and worth a short review, starting with a query that has troubled more than one questioner.
"It just doesn't parse," they complain, "if Vice President Dick Cheney was aware from the start of the very fragile nature, regarding both provenance and substance, of the report on Iraq seeking uranium in Niger, what was he thinking when he asked the CIA to look into it?" The Agency rank and file and Cheney were no friends. He was already having a very hard time muscle-wrestling CIA analysts into seeing "evidence" of a relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq, to enable the administration to provide "evidence" for the campaign to associate Saddam Hussein with the attacks of 9/11.
There is ample evidence that the vice president saw the reluctance of CIA analysts to jump on that bandwagon as recalcitrance - indeed, as sabotage. They continued, for example, to pour cold water on a report that one of the 9/11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, had met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague, even though the Cheney-Rumsfeld "cabal" (Wilkerson's word) kept citing that spurious report as evidence of Iraqi ties to 9/11. The CIA ombudsman testified to Congress that, in 32 years of experience in Agency's analytical ranks, he had never before witnessed such "hammering" on intelligence analysts to hold their noses and give their blessing to dubious evidence. On this issue, at least - as opposed to the issue of (non-existent) "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, Agency analysts refused to allow themselves to be corrupted - until their director, George Tenet, caved in for Colin Powell's (in)famous UN speech of February 5, 2003.
It is worth recalling that, before Tenet caved, CIA analysts were receiving outside encouragement from the likes of Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who saw the whole game for what it was and gratuitously told the press that the evidence of Iraq-al-Qaeda ties was "scant," while "cabalist" Rumsfeld was saying the evidence was "bulletproof." Scowcroft was fired almost a year ago from his position as chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Being right does not help.
So, Again, the Question
In the face of such recalcitrance, why would the vice president ask CIA officials, of all people, to investigate other dubious "evidence" of nefarious activity by Iraq?
Answer: He did not anticipate what they would do. Nothing was further from his mind. He set in train something he never intended. Cheney was hoisted on his own petard.
When the cockamamie story of Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium in Niger first came to the attention of CIA analysts in Washington, they threw it into the circular file for very good substantive reasons. First and foremost, with an international consortium led by the French tightly controlling the export of uranium mined in Niger, the chances were virtually nil that the Iraqis could bring this off. As the Silberman-Robb Commission makes clear, it was the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, not the CIA, that wrote up the analytical report that found its way onto Cheney's desk.
Why did Cheney ask his CIA briefer what he thought of the DIA analysis?
Answer: He was in the habit of "hammering" on CIA analysts - during his "multiple visits" to CIA headquarters, for example - to beat them into submission so they would serve up the politically correct answer on such matters.
In sum, in my opinion, it probably did not occur to the vice president that the CIA would take his query so seriously as to send a highly qualified person down to Niger who, in turn, would be able to give the lie to the report. I can vouch from personal experience that, when the vice president of the United States expresses interest in more information on a specific report, the Agency will hop to and pursue the matter aggressively, as it should. A mite too aggressively, in this case, for Cheney's objectives.
Enter the Nonproliferation Division
The Nonproliferation Division of the Directorate of Operations, in which Valerie Wilson was working, was told of Cheney's query and asked former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who during his earlier service in Africa became intimately familiar with the mining industry in Niger, to travel to Niger to check out the report. Wilson's findings were duly reported and disseminated. (When the vice president asks the bureaucracy a question, you can count on it being answered one way or another.) At the time, Wilson did not know that the Iraq-Niger canard had been woven out of whole cloth by forgerers. Still, his account should have put the last nail in the coffin into which that dead duck should have been thrown.
It is a safe assumption that Cheney was not pleased, to put it mildly, when he learned that the CIA had responded quickly by sending Wilson to Niger.
It was not pure paranoia. In Cheney's mind, Wilson had three main things against him.
- Rather than following the customary ex-ambassador routine of grousing privately over cocktails in Georgetown parlors, Wilson had been drawing on his considerable substantive expertise in speaking out strongly - often publicly - against the planning for and execution of the war with Iraq;
- As the diplomat who faced down Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War (for which former president George H.W. Bush had called him "an American hero"), Wilson enjoyed particularly wide respect and credibility; and
- Baffled by President George W. Bush's citing of the worn-out and discredited Iraq-Africa-uranium fairytale in his State of the Union address in January 2003, Wilson had been making not-so-discreet inquiries as to why the president chose to repeat the fable. Did he perhaps have better evidence? The answer was no.
Wilson concluded, correctly in my opinion, that the administration had shown itself prepared to twist intelligence to "justify" attacking Iraq and that it had little else upon which to base the conjuring up of the "mushroom cloud" that deceived Congress into voting for war. Several months into the war, no evidence of weapons of mass destruction (much less of the "reconstituted" nuclear weapons development program repeatedly advertised by Cheney) had been found. And the "explanation" offered by the Cheney/Rumsfeld "cabal," namely, that patience was needed because Iraq is the size of California, was wearing thin. The Iraq-Niger story was about all they had left.
Then, a Double Whammy
It was bad enough for the administration when Wilson's op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in the New York Times on July 6, 2003; and worse still when this consummate ambassador permitted himself to tell Washington Post reporters that the Iraq-Niger affair "begs the question regarding what else they are lying about." But when Cheney learned that the former ambassador's wife, Valerie Wilson née Plame, worked in the Nonproliferation Division that sent Wilson off on the mission to Niger, the vice president would almost certainly have seen deliberate sabotage by the CIA
I believe Cheney smelled a rat, the rat of deliberate defiance - in Cheney's eyes a mutinous attempt to deny him the kind of "intelligence" he knew would be required to deceive Congress. Mrs. Wilson is a veteran CIA operative trained to spot a spurious report a mile away. Cheney could only assume that she would have recognized the Iraq-Niger canard for what it was, and sent her husband to Niger to give the lie to the report. Policymakers immersed in the world of politics often have difficulty distinguishing between honest efforts by intelligence professionals to pursue the truth on the one hand and insubordination/sabotage on the other.
The Iraq-Niger fish story had already begun to stink. Tenet had insisted on deleting it from the president's "mushroom-cloud" speech on October 7, 2002, just three days before Congress voted to approve war. Yet the White House was acutely embarrassed when it had to retract the story after it had found its way into the president's State of the Union address the following January. As for then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, although he used a plethora of spurious material in his UN speech of February 5, 2003, the Niger story smelled so bad that it did not meet even that low threshold. And it did not help a bit when Powell was asked why the president had repeated the story in late January, while he (Powell) chose not to use it just a week later; Powell damned the president's words with very faint praise, saying they were "not completely outrageous."
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), was a CIA analyst for 27 years. His responsibilities included daily briefings of the vice president and other senior officials.
"Patriot Act" Measure Rejected in Britain
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Thou art more like the third reich.
Seriously, when a prime minister starts telling the countries law makers that it is the duty of every one of them to vote for his police state measures, what the washington Post describes as his Patriot Act, and appeals over their heads to the sun reading rabble, we are getting very close to a putsch.
A little bomb somewhere dangerous and we will have a state of emergency and no more parliament.
Bush ran away from something like that in the last couple of weks. But will the very scary cornered rodent Blair go for it?
: "During a heated exchange in Parliament earlier Wednesday, Blair declared that voting for the measure was 'the duty of every member of this house.' As he spoke, Conservatives shouted 'police state' at Blair, in a session that was testy even by the raucous standards of the House of Commons."
Thou art more like the third reich.
Seriously, when a prime minister starts telling the countries law makers that it is the duty of every one of them to vote for his police state measures, what the washington Post describes as his Patriot Act, and appeals over their heads to the sun reading rabble, we are getting very close to a putsch.
A little bomb somewhere dangerous and we will have a state of emergency and no more parliament.
Bush ran away from something like that in the last couple of weks. But will the very scary cornered rodent Blair go for it?
: "During a heated exchange in Parliament earlier Wednesday, Blair declared that voting for the measure was 'the duty of every member of this house.' As he spoke, Conservatives shouted 'police state' at Blair, in a session that was testy even by the raucous standards of the House of Commons."
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Feeding the right wolf
I thought it would be helpful for me and maybe my readers to quote this old Indian story.
Blairy England will try to feed the right wolf, while seeking justice, honesty, and constructive social change.
"One evening an Elder told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside
Blairy England will try to feed the right wolf, while seeking justice, honesty, and constructive social change.
"One evening an Elder told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside
people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-
pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority,lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness,
benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather ,
"Which wolf wins?"
The Elder simply replied, "The one you feed.""
AlterNet: Bush Gives Management a Bad Name
This is meant to be a funny story about the pathetic "Heckofajob" Brownie and other American managers of disaster.
I have picked out the amazing figures of how the barbarians are using their money in Iraq and Afghanistan.
AlterNet: Bush Gives Management a Bad Name: "After two-and-a-half years and $30 billion, electricity in Baghdad is on intermittently, just as it was two-and-a-half years and $30 billion ago.
So you figure, 'Of course nothing's getting done -- there's an insurgency, the country's sliding into chaos.' Let's look to Afghanistan, where peace reigns. How goes the rebuilding there? Oops. According to The New York Times, a New Jersey company got the contract to build 96 health clinics and schools by September 2004. To date, nine clinics and two schools have been completed and passed inspection."
I have picked out the amazing figures of how the barbarians are using their money in Iraq and Afghanistan.
AlterNet: Bush Gives Management a Bad Name: "After two-and-a-half years and $30 billion, electricity in Baghdad is on intermittently, just as it was two-and-a-half years and $30 billion ago.
So you figure, 'Of course nothing's getting done -- there's an insurgency, the country's sliding into chaos.' Let's look to Afghanistan, where peace reigns. How goes the rebuilding there? Oops. According to The New York Times, a New Jersey company got the contract to build 96 health clinics and schools by September 2004. To date, nine clinics and two schools have been completed and passed inspection."
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Yes, They Lied
This essay takes us back to Scott Ritter, the arms inspectors after the first gulf war, and the destruction of 95% of all wmd potential.
We knew he had them because we sold them to him and we also knew he no longer had them later, because we destroyed them.
We know Blair is in the conspiracy. But so is Cameron. Why?
t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Yes, They Lied: " Author's Note: I apologize in advance for the length of this essay. There is so much utter nonsense and outright disinformation flying around about Iraq right now that it takes 3,000 words to set things straight. Call this a fact-bomb, and put it to good use. - wrp
Yes, They Lied
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective"
We knew he had them because we sold them to him and we also knew he no longer had them later, because we destroyed them.
We know Blair is in the conspiracy. But so is Cameron. Why?
t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Yes, They Lied: " Author's Note: I apologize in advance for the length of this essay. There is so much utter nonsense and outright disinformation flying around about Iraq right now that it takes 3,000 words to set things straight. Call this a fact-bomb, and put it to good use. - wrp
Yes, They Lied
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective"
Wing TV - Connect The Dots
Ok you sceptics.
If you still doubt 911 was an inside job listen to the firemen.
Wing TV - Connect The Dots: "Fireman Admits Again: 9-11 Inside Job
by Victor Thorn
On the morning of September 11, 2005, New York City auxiliary fire lieutenant Paul Isaac, Jr. admitted yet again that 9-11 was an inside job. In fact, here is his exact quote to Lisa Guliani and myself: “I know 9-11 was an inside job, the police know it’s an inside job, and the firemen know it too.” "
If you still doubt 911 was an inside job listen to the firemen.
Wing TV - Connect The Dots: "Fireman Admits Again: 9-11 Inside Job
by Victor Thorn
On the morning of September 11, 2005, New York City auxiliary fire lieutenant Paul Isaac, Jr. admitted yet again that 9-11 was an inside job. In fact, here is his exact quote to Lisa Guliani and myself: “I know 9-11 was an inside job, the police know it’s an inside job, and the firemen know it too.” "
t r u t h o u t - Wilkerson Points Finger at Cheney on Torture
No one seems to call him tricky Dicky
I guess that will always be Nixon, right?
But Cheney seems to have a lot of hooks wiggling around him just now.
This guy is blaming him for the torture policy at just the time he is asking congress to let him carry on with it through the CIA.
t r u t h o u t - Wilkerson Points Finger at Cheney on Torture: "Wilkerson Points Finger at Cheney on Torture
The Associated Press
Friday 04 November 2005
Washington - Vice President Dick Cheney's office triggered abuse of Iraqi prisoners with word that filtered down to soldiers in the field that interrogations were not providing needed intelligence, a former senior State Department official has alleged.
Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff during President Bush's first term, said Thursday, 'It was clear to me there that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field.'"
I guess that will always be Nixon, right?
But Cheney seems to have a lot of hooks wiggling around him just now.
This guy is blaming him for the torture policy at just the time he is asking congress to let him carry on with it through the CIA.
t r u t h o u t - Wilkerson Points Finger at Cheney on Torture: "Wilkerson Points Finger at Cheney on Torture
The Associated Press
Friday 04 November 2005
Washington - Vice President Dick Cheney's office triggered abuse of Iraqi prisoners with word that filtered down to soldiers in the field that interrogations were not providing needed intelligence, a former senior State Department official has alleged.
Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff during President Bush's first term, said Thursday, 'It was clear to me there that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field.'"
Iraq Dispatches: Dahr Jamail Interviewed by Don Nash
the film evidence supports this observers views.
Falluja was a massacre.
Iraq Dispatches: Dahr Jamail Interviewed by Don Nash: "Q. What really happened in Fallujah and Ramadi?
During the November, 2004 siege of Fallujah, 60% of the city was completely destroyed. Most of the rest of it had moderate to severe damage done as well. Iraqi NGO's and medical workers in and around Fallujah estimate over 4000 dead, mostly civilians. To this day, over 50,000 residents of Fallujah remain displaced.
The US military used cluster bombs, depleted uranium munitions, and white phosphorous (a new form of napalm) during the siege, and appear to have used forms of chemical weapons as well.
I have described Fallujah as a modern day Guernica, and prefer to call it a massacre rather than a siege. Fallujah is the model of Bush Administration foreign policy. There has been next to no reconstruction completed inside the city, as was promised by occupation authorities."
Falluja was a massacre.
Iraq Dispatches: Dahr Jamail Interviewed by Don Nash: "Q. What really happened in Fallujah and Ramadi?
During the November, 2004 siege of Fallujah, 60% of the city was completely destroyed. Most of the rest of it had moderate to severe damage done as well. Iraqi NGO's and medical workers in and around Fallujah estimate over 4000 dead, mostly civilians. To this day, over 50,000 residents of Fallujah remain displaced.
The US military used cluster bombs, depleted uranium munitions, and white phosphorous (a new form of napalm) during the siege, and appear to have used forms of chemical weapons as well.
I have described Fallujah as a modern day Guernica, and prefer to call it a massacre rather than a siege. Fallujah is the model of Bush Administration foreign policy. There has been next to no reconstruction completed inside the city, as was promised by occupation authorities."
AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: Finally: Evidence of WMD in Iraq (video)
It is a year since the new barbarians used weapons of mass destruction, a modern version of nepalm, chemical weapons, to destroy Fallujah, a city full of mosques.
The film on this link reveals what Bushco has tried so hard to stop us seeing.
It is truly horrific.
It includes footage of Alice Mahon, a British MP fighting past the British attempt to cover up and deny this atrocity, and finally making them confess to the truth.
These new barbarians rained down white phospherus and /or MK77, a modernised nepalm, on the civilian poulation of Falluja.
AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: Finally: Evidence of WMD in Iraq (video): "Updated: This devastating [VIDEO] documenting the use of a napalm-like substance that melts flesh must be seen to be believed. It's 30 minutes long and relies on the claims of two US soldiers and a former MP from the UK but watch and decide for yourself.
***"
The film on this link reveals what Bushco has tried so hard to stop us seeing.
It is truly horrific.
It includes footage of Alice Mahon, a British MP fighting past the British attempt to cover up and deny this atrocity, and finally making them confess to the truth.
These new barbarians rained down white phospherus and /or MK77, a modernised nepalm, on the civilian poulation of Falluja.
AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: Finally: Evidence of WMD in Iraq (video): "Updated: This devastating [VIDEO] documenting the use of a napalm-like substance that melts flesh must be seen to be believed. It's 30 minutes long and relies on the claims of two US soldiers and a former MP from the UK but watch and decide for yourself.
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HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Paris Burning: How Empires End by Patrick J. Buchanan
Powerful stuf this. It helps you see why Blair wants to ban Izbut Tahir.
There is an important struggle of ideas to be had here, But it is not about God, since Muslims and Christians both have an old male patriarch God. No the issue is sex or the relations between the sexes.
It is time to get started. Comments please, but not spam.
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Paris Burning: How Empires End by Patrick J. Buchanan: "America had a history of having assimilated immigrants in the tens of millions from Europe.
But no European nation has ever assimilated a large body of immigrant peoples, let alone people of color. Moreover, the African and Islamic peoples pouring into Europe—there are 20 million there now—are, unlike black Americans, strangers in a new land, and millions wish to remain proud Algerians, Muslims, Moroccans.
These newcomers worship a different God and practice a faith historically hostile to Christianity, a traditionalist faith that is rising again and recoils violently from a secular culture saturated in sex. "
There is an important struggle of ideas to be had here, But it is not about God, since Muslims and Christians both have an old male patriarch God. No the issue is sex or the relations between the sexes.
It is time to get started. Comments please, but not spam.
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Paris Burning: How Empires End by Patrick J. Buchanan: "America had a history of having assimilated immigrants in the tens of millions from Europe.
But no European nation has ever assimilated a large body of immigrant peoples, let alone people of color. Moreover, the African and Islamic peoples pouring into Europe—there are 20 million there now—are, unlike black Americans, strangers in a new land, and millions wish to remain proud Algerians, Muslims, Moroccans.
These newcomers worship a different God and practice a faith historically hostile to Christianity, a traditionalist faith that is rising again and recoils violently from a secular culture saturated in sex. "
Blair goes back to an old lie
It seems Blair still wishes us to blame France for failure at the UN.
Anyone who has studied this knows that there were never enough votes in the security council for Bush and Blair. France's veto never came into it.
The UN was against war. Blair broke International Law by ignoring the security council to back the criminal Bush regime.
End of story.
Independent Online Edition > World Politics: "Mr Blair told journalists: 'If you go back and look at what happened in March 2003, I think you will see that I made the most strenuous efforts to get a second UN resolution and to end up with a second resolution that would have given us more time. The fact is, we couldn't get one for a very simple reason: the French made it clear they would veto any such resolution.'"
Anyone who has studied this knows that there were never enough votes in the security council for Bush and Blair. France's veto never came into it.
The UN was against war. Blair broke International Law by ignoring the security council to back the criminal Bush regime.
End of story.
Independent Online Edition > World Politics: "Mr Blair told journalists: 'If you go back and look at what happened in March 2003, I think you will see that I made the most strenuous efforts to get a second UN resolution and to end up with a second resolution that would have given us more time. The fact is, we couldn't get one for a very simple reason: the French made it clear they would veto any such resolution.'"
The Fall of France | The Brussels Journal
Check this out for a very different perspective.
Sarkozy as hero!
The Fall of France | The Brussels Journal: "If Nicolas Sarkozy had been allowed to have his way, he could have saved France. Last Summer the outspoken minister of the Interior was France’s most popular politician with his promise to restore the law of the Republic in the various virtually self-ruling immigrant areas surrounding the major French cities.
These areas, which some compare to the “millet” system of the former Ottoman Empire, where each religious community (millet) conducted its own social and cultural life in its own neighbourhoods, exist not only in France, but also in Muslim neighbourhoods in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and other countries.
The French establishment led by the corrupt President Jacques Chirac and his Prime Minister, the aristocrat Dominique de Villepin, an appointee who has never held an elected office, begrudged Sarkozy his popularity. The minister was distrusted. He was an outsider, a self-made man who had made it to the top without the support of relations and cronies, by hard work and his no-nonsense approach."
Sarkozy as hero!
The Fall of France | The Brussels Journal: "If Nicolas Sarkozy had been allowed to have his way, he could have saved France. Last Summer the outspoken minister of the Interior was France’s most popular politician with his promise to restore the law of the Republic in the various virtually self-ruling immigrant areas surrounding the major French cities.
These areas, which some compare to the “millet” system of the former Ottoman Empire, where each religious community (millet) conducted its own social and cultural life in its own neighbourhoods, exist not only in France, but also in Muslim neighbourhoods in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and other countries.
The French establishment led by the corrupt President Jacques Chirac and his Prime Minister, the aristocrat Dominique de Villepin, an appointee who has never held an elected office, begrudged Sarkozy his popularity. The minister was distrusted. He was an outsider, a self-made man who had made it to the top without the support of relations and cronies, by hard work and his no-nonsense approach."
Rebellion in France, apartheid in Britain?
The Tory vampire, (sorry, leader) Michael Howard declared yesterday that Blair was creating terror laws which would create the equivalent of apartheid in this country. This is truly gripping stuff.
Is the amazing burst of violent unrest in France and other European Nations something that will happen here?
90 days detention will certainly make us a police state. Just listen to Blair appeal over parliament to the sun mob.
In Blairy England it is already fine to shoot a dark skinned person in the head for no good reason.
We can now expect to see many of them locked up for no good reason too.
Howard seems to have gone even further than I would in talking about apartheid, though.
We already see French society very dangerously polarised between the haves and have-nots.
With the gap between rich and poor ever widening in this country, how long will it be before there will be more than just a parliamentary rebellion against this terrorist Government.
Looking at Blair before the cameras today you see a cornered and very dangerous animal, but still a very clever politician.
I say to you again, oh yes, I have to say to you: British society can only deteriorate in terms of a safe and equitable place to live, while leaders can tell us black is white and expect it to be accepted, as Blair has done again with Blunkett.
Riots Spread Into Rebellion: "Riots Spread Into Rebellion
by Julio Godoy
PARIS - Rioting by immigrant youth around Paris has begun to take the shape of a nationwide rebellion against racial and social segregation, and repressive police action."
Is the amazing burst of violent unrest in France and other European Nations something that will happen here?
90 days detention will certainly make us a police state. Just listen to Blair appeal over parliament to the sun mob.
In Blairy England it is already fine to shoot a dark skinned person in the head for no good reason.
We can now expect to see many of them locked up for no good reason too.
Howard seems to have gone even further than I would in talking about apartheid, though.
We already see French society very dangerously polarised between the haves and have-nots.
With the gap between rich and poor ever widening in this country, how long will it be before there will be more than just a parliamentary rebellion against this terrorist Government.
Looking at Blair before the cameras today you see a cornered and very dangerous animal, but still a very clever politician.
I say to you again, oh yes, I have to say to you: British society can only deteriorate in terms of a safe and equitable place to live, while leaders can tell us black is white and expect it to be accepted, as Blair has done again with Blunkett.
Riots Spread Into Rebellion: "Riots Spread Into Rebellion
by Julio Godoy
PARIS - Rioting by immigrant youth around Paris has begun to take the shape of a nationwide rebellion against racial and social segregation, and repressive police action."
Jason Leopold describes developments in the Plame inquiry
This is a very interesting article. I have picked out a key paragraph indicating likely developments in Fitzgerals's work.
The important information is that he has succeeded in turning some top Bush aides, who are perhaps capable of bringing down Cheney and Rove.
Leopold reckons that Fitzgerald is holding back an indictment of Rove, because informers will enable him to go for more serious charges than perjury.
Jason Leopold: "Lawyers involved in the two year old probe said that two former Cheney aides had a hand in obtaining information about Wilson and shared it with Libby after the chief of staff had personally requested such information.
Those aides, David Wurmser and John Hannah, are now cooperating with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s probe into the outing of Plame’s identity and CIA status to reporters. Wurmser and Hannah have agreed to cooperate with Fitzgerald after being told that they faced indictment for their role in outing Plame."
The important information is that he has succeeded in turning some top Bush aides, who are perhaps capable of bringing down Cheney and Rove.
Leopold reckons that Fitzgerald is holding back an indictment of Rove, because informers will enable him to go for more serious charges than perjury.
Jason Leopold: "Lawyers involved in the two year old probe said that two former Cheney aides had a hand in obtaining information about Wilson and shared it with Libby after the chief of staff had personally requested such information.
Those aides, David Wurmser and John Hannah, are now cooperating with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s probe into the outing of Plame’s identity and CIA status to reporters. Wurmser and Hannah have agreed to cooperate with Fitzgerald after being told that they faced indictment for their role in outing Plame."
Monday, November 07, 2005
20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA
This just came through. It puts the evidence of how Bush stole this last election beautifully.
20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA: "Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was 'committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/ab"
20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA: "Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was 'committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/ab"
t r u t h o u t - Jane Mayer | Deadly Interrogation: Can the CIA Legally Kill a Prisoner?
The CIA would appear to be licensed to murder torture and anything else.
Mr Cheney wants it to stay that way.
Bush says "We do not torture"
Blair always seems to say that his ministers sacked for sihonesty are without a stain on their character.
Yeah sure. It is fine for you people to turn our language and meaning inside out upside down and back to front
what hope do our children have of learning right from wrong or right from Blair.
t r u t h o u t - Jane Mayer | Deadly Interrogation: Can the CIA Legally Kill a Prisoner?: "Two years ago, at Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad, an Iraqi prisoner in Swanner's custody, Manadel al-Jamadi, died during an interrogation. His head had been covered with a plastic bag, and he was shackled in a crucifixion-like pose that inhibited his ability to breathe; according to forensic pathologists who have examined the case, he asphyxiated. In a subsequent internal investigation, United States government authorities classified Jamadi's death as a 'homicide,' meaning that it resulted from unnatural causes. Swanner has not been charged with a crime and continues to work for the agency."
Mr Cheney wants it to stay that way.
Bush says "We do not torture"
Blair always seems to say that his ministers sacked for sihonesty are without a stain on their character.
Yeah sure. It is fine for you people to turn our language and meaning inside out upside down and back to front
what hope do our children have of learning right from wrong or right from Blair.
t r u t h o u t - Jane Mayer | Deadly Interrogation: Can the CIA Legally Kill a Prisoner?: "Two years ago, at Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad, an Iraqi prisoner in Swanner's custody, Manadel al-Jamadi, died during an interrogation. His head had been covered with a plastic bag, and he was shackled in a crucifixion-like pose that inhibited his ability to breathe; according to forensic pathologists who have examined the case, he asphyxiated. In a subsequent internal investigation, United States government authorities classified Jamadi's death as a 'homicide,' meaning that it resulted from unnatural causes. Swanner has not been charged with a crime and continues to work for the agency."
A PM haunted by regime change in his own bunker | the Daily Mail
I don't often link to the Mail. It is a very disreputable source. But this is irresistible and probably about right.
It is Houdini time for Mr Blair again.
The Mail is also unsure whether he will defeat his wet Labour rebels or even form an alliance with rebel right wing tories.
Yes sir, that is the true Blair position.
It is also possible that his commercial contacts have been busy making friends elsewhere in the Cabinet and even at No10. If so, no wonder there has been no rush to defend him from these quarters. And now we learn that the wife of Mr Blunkett's successor, John Hutton, is a former civil servant who is paid to lobby her one-time colleagues on behalf of the gambling industry."
It is Houdini time for Mr Blair again.
The Mail is also unsure whether he will defeat his wet Labour rebels or even form an alliance with rebel right wing tories.
Yes sir, that is the true Blair position.
It is also possible that his commercial contacts have been busy making friends elsewhere in the Cabinet and even at No10. If so, no wonder there has been no rush to defend him from these quarters. And now we learn that the wife of Mr Blunkett's successor, John Hutton, is a former civil servant who is paid to lobby her one-time colleagues on behalf of the gambling industry."
BobHarris.com
BobHarris.com: "Finally, today, George W. Bush made a stunning announcement:
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'We do not torture,' said Bush.
This is truly an artistic breakthrough.
And so we ask: what is the nature of 'we?' Is Bush simply saying that he himself does not personally torture, perhaps extending the 'we' here to include Laura and the twins? Is 'torture' itself the elusive concept, not encompassing practices like rendition, waterboarding, sexual humiliation, and savage physical punishment?
Or perhaps (and this would be truly the master stroke) Bush is questioning the meaning of 'not'? Perhaps we are to contemplate the nature of negation -- and therefore question the very existence of any objective reality to negate?
"
Image
'We do not torture,' said Bush.
This is truly an artistic breakthrough.
And so we ask: what is the nature of 'we?' Is Bush simply saying that he himself does not personally torture, perhaps extending the 'we' here to include Laura and the twins? Is 'torture' itself the elusive concept, not encompassing practices like rendition, waterboarding, sexual humiliation, and savage physical punishment?
Or perhaps (and this would be truly the master stroke) Bush is questioning the meaning of 'not'? Perhaps we are to contemplate the nature of negation -- and therefore question the very existence of any objective reality to negate?
"
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