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Regarding the Doug Wead Tapes: On the tapes, recorded over the course of the two years before Bush became the Republican presidential nominee, Bush discusses strategy for his presidential run and appears to acknowledge past drug use. He says he will refuse to answer questions about using LSD, cocaine and marijuana because "I don't want any kid doing what I tried to do 30 years ago." At Least bush Is Lucid Enough To Realize The Enormity of the Brain Damage He Has Sustained.(3-9-06) Bush's Approval Rating Hits New Low By RON FOURNIER, AP Political WriterBush to Restate Terror Strategy 2002 Doctrine of Preemptive War To Be ReaffirmedBy Peter Baker - Washington Post Staff Writer- Thursday, March 16, 2006President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq. The long-overdue document, an articulation of U.S. strategic priorities that is required by law, lays out a robust view of America's power and an assertive view of its responsibility to bring change around the world. On topics including genocide, human trafficking and AIDS, the strategy describes itself as "idealistic about goals and realistic about means......." Dumbya must once again be tripping?, drinking?, toking, etc.. The criminal u.s. is guilty of virtually all and more of what he could possibly be fraudulently purporting to "rectify"; and, america is defacto bankrupt. War criminal dumbya should be forced to resign sooner rather than later and be prosecuted for war crimes. WASHINGTON - More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, according to an AP-Ipsos poll documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency. (3-14-06) Now 34percent approval rating. How low can bush go? Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES
AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31%
APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job
approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next
year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much
censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the
advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts
coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey
mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs
(keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction
the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to
show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist
hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON
MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS..... CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to
Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD 'A stodgy, grim thing'... 'Hanks was a zombie'... 'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it 'ROTTEN' REVIEWS..... Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'..... MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold
blood'..... Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners..... John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....
10% of Mexico's population now living in United States... Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs... Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD 'A stodgy, grim thing'... 'Hanks was a zombie'... 'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it 'ROTTEN' REVIEWS..... Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'..... MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold
blood'..... Pentagon
Details Abuse of Iraq Detainees..... Two US soldiers missing, one killed, in Iraq
6-16-06
Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners..... John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....
10% of Mexico's population now living in United States... Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs... Hastert Deals
Blow to Immigration Bill Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross
Arizona's desert... 5-26-06Immigration battle heats anew... Illegal accused of impregnating 10-year-old in TX... NYC Mayor wants DNA, fingerprint database to track all...
National Guard Soldiers to Border Next Week... 91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK... THOUSANDS OF
ILLEGALS ARRESTED IN FED BUSTS RAID
AT DULLES NETS DOZENS OF ILLEGALS..... CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in
$100 bills..... EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX..... Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen..... Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes..... House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC..... House Speaker not under investigation: Justice..... GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of
Gore?s Own Energy Use..... Dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq
massacre..... Official: Iraq Civilian Deaths Unjustified..... Marines should be charged..... Report details detainee abuse by US forces
Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian
journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli
army describes as "security-related" violation. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006 Israel Strike in Gaza Kills 8 Civilians 6-13-06 Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town
of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts.
"We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent
measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said
Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006 US and Europeans working on incentives for Iran to drop
its rights The UN Permanent Security Council members had met
yesterday in the UK to discuss Iran's nuclear file, where the US and Europe are
pressing for sanctions against Iran because of unsupported allegations that
Iran aims aims to develop nuclear weapons. Iran-UN, Politics, 5/25/2006 US propaganda payment in Iraq endangers journalists The summary of a review examining payments made to the
Iraqi media by the US military has concluded that such operations should be
re-examined. Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006 Two Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israel Sources at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah said two
youths in their mid-20s were killed when undercover Israeli troops fired
heavily on Palestinians who were throwing stones on Israeli military jeeps
backing up the undercover soldiers Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran to respond harshly to mere ideas of
aggression Iranian spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi today referring to the
recent claims made by the US President George W. Bush about Iran's nuclear
activities stressed that Tehran has repeatedly announced its readiness to hold
talks without any precondition. Iran-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006 Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five
Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and
Nablus, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006 Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems "We can not deny that there is no Palestinian
crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there
is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian
people," Ereikat said Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006 Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on
Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its
involvement in the Middle East. Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006 Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy
speaker A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on
Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of
Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house. Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006 Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the
new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two
Palestinians and wounding three others. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006 Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10
Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron,
local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli
soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped
Ashraf Massalma 22. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006 On the European nuclear offer to Iran Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an
illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the
supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006 Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his
full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006 European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities
to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU
assembly Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006 Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to
family reunification "The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly
targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson,
Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of
thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of
certain Israeli children to live with both parents." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006 Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the
new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic
requirements of the international community. Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006 Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West
Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are
ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no
independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our
stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and
those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should
know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is
bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that
without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost
political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the
money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in
a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over
nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to
take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear
weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274
gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that
the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after
arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform,
government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of
behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and
political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news
blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News Israel?s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts Neil Berry, albionroad@tiscali.co.uk During the last couple of years two prominent British
Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel?s
treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,..... GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 ? Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full
Story The Way Israeli Media Distort the Truth Uri Avnery, uri-avnery-admin@mailman.sweethome.co.il Those who listened to the radio news last Saturday heard
a stunning report: Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves
together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n.
resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator,
etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think
paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in
the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the
Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that
cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a
woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank
cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and
security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally
helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the
Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or
technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50
trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as
devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used
chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 Iraq's electricity not improved since US invasion The British government has admitted that there has been
slow progress in restoring Iraqi essential services since the US-led invasion,
especially in the supply of electricity where the situation is worse. Iraq, Economics, 5/23/2006 UK troops in Iraq under increasing attacks The number of attacks of British troops deployed in
southern Iraq have almost tripled in the first four months of the current year,
Defense Secretary Des Browne has revealed. Iraq-UK, Military, 5/23/2006 Peace Now: Israeli government supports Judaisation of
Jerusalem An anti-occupation Israeli organization revealed that the
Israeli Government supports a plan of judaization of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2006 Israeli-Western blockade on Palestinians beginning to
collapse The American-led and Israeli-enforced financial and
political siege on the estimated 3.7 million Palestinians languishing under
Israel's occupation lost a brick Monday when the European Commission drew up a
plan to provide tens of millions of dollars to run Palestinian ministries Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/23/2006 Israeli occupation arrests 25 Palestinians Israel said today it captured in Ramallah, the West Bank,
commander of the Hamas military wing, 41-year-old Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2006 Zebari: Iraq would never allow aggression on Iran Zebari said his country believes peaceful nuclear
technology is Iran's indisputable right Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006 Expectations for release Iranian prisoners in Iraq An Iraqi official yesterday evening assured he would
follow up release of Iranian nationals still held in Iraqi jails. Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006 Iran, Iraq to broaden ties Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today after
wrapping up an official trip to Iraq and after a meeting with religious
dignitaries in Najaf, said his aims was to congratulate the new Iraq government
and nation, and wished them well in their efforts to prevail over future
problems notably terrorism and security. Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006 Israeli occupation opens fire at ambulance with pregnant
woman Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) called Saturday
for providing an immediate protection to Palestinian paramedics working in the
Palestinian territories. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006 British, Palestinian organizations Urge UN, EU to restrict
Israel The British Hickman & Rose (H&R) and the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) called on "the EU to follow the
lead set by the Non-Aligned Movement of States at the UN in preventing
suspected Israeli war criminals, in particular settlers, access to those
countries," Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Ramallah
(AFP) - 5-24-06 Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian
journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli
army describes as "security-related" violation. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006 Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town
of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts.
"We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent
measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said
Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006 Lebanon says Iran has right to uranium enrichment Iran's new Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad-Reza Ravuf
Sheibani in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh today
referred to the friendly ties between the two countries and underlined
Lebanon's support for Iran's right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 5/25/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Journalist Investigated for Mocking Putin Israeli-Palestinian Gunfight Leaves 2 Dead Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to
NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama
attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak
this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is
widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said
they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to
"reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile
County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the
party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering
what to do about his candidacy. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby
said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World
War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by
the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust
industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust
denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby
said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence
of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12,
11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing
attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric
rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the
decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as
human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as
an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's
insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The
fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his
guys". Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP) AP World NewsSunday, May 14 ? Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT)
The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal
nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing
jews continue their lawless ways. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby
said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World
War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by
the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust
industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust
denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby
said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence
of that at all."..... The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in
WBank raids Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses AP World News 5-18-06 UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise NY Times: May 18, 2006 Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud By JULIE CRESWELL The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss
Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts,
including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud. The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand
jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the
government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won
multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in
the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal
indictment in recent memory. Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning
multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of
shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that
Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's. Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks,
beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action
lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law,
it is expected to have a huge impact on its business. Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled
between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss,
lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign
a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client
privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment. Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the
indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on
the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last
week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm. While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by
the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been
stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of
the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach. Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his
own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their
firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast
operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the
San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West." Both men were told in February that they would not be
indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still
remain targets of prosecutors. The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr.
Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up
last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client,
Seymour M. Lazar. Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr.
Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70
lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and
illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment. While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight
the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal
with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm. A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or
members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from
1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in
"secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new
indictment. A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills
ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted
as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in
payments, the new indictment said. Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original
investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he
offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced
sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges. Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise
or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a
person for having done so, according to the indictment. Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the
paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of
attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net
recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said. UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY,
Associated Press Writer Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a
cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of
faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a
student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage. The Sunday Times - Business The Sunday Times May 21, 2006 Markets ?are like 1987 crash? David Smith, Economics Editor CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to
those that precipitated the ?Black Monday? stock market crash of October 1987,
according to leading City analysts. U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20,
10:38 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of
Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it
had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson. "Agents of the FBI's Washington field office
executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15,"
Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said. According to court records filed in the plea deal,
Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital
Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name
of his wife and children. Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery
scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to
plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win
favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz,
pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud
and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002
and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm. William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he
hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal
corrupt american standards. Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding -
republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans. War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3
year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported
reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war
crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press. War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media
censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american
unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on
media/press/first amendment rights. War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill
his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues. Web inventor warns of 'dark' net By Jonathan Fildes BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the UK for his invention The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to
fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.
Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different
levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he
said in Edinburgh. He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a
two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period". Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the
future of the web. "What's very important from my point of view is that
there is one web," he said. "Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find
that their piece looks very boring." Imagine the audacity of congress objecting to the
enforcement of laws against corrupt members as FBI Agents [the only federal
employees that don't take bribes) raid congressional member's office for
additional evidence (William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he
hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by
criminally corrupt american standards). Congratulations to the FBI for a job
well done, consistent with the preservation of a meaningful rule of law, and
toward the end of reducing if not eliminating congressional corruption (the
same should be true for the corrupt courts) (if only there was a statute making
incompetence illegal; all congressional members could be prosecuted (record
trade deficits, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt
markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., defacto bankrupt u.s. is
printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, have been using
social security funds for current pork projects (social security is defacto
bankrupt, along with medicaid/medicare) etc.]. FBI
arrests seven in terrorism plot: source (6-22-06) Indonesia earthquake kills more than 6,000 Detention of Myanmar's Suu Kyi Extended - Time for the
World to protest this injustice! Myanmar's Suu Kyi Released From Hospital 6-9-06 Berners-Lee: Web Is Ready To Evolve - Walaika K. Haskins,
newsfactor.com Sun May 28, 1:15 PM ET The mainstream Web is ready for the next step in its
evolution, the father of the Internet proclaimed at this year's World Wide Web
Conference (W3C). Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this was
the embryonic period," Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with creating the
Web, said last week during the opening of conference. "The Web is only
going to get more revolutionary." Supporters of what is called the "Semantic Web"
predict an entirely new Internet that enables computers to do more of the heavy
lifting in terms of processing data and being able to better interpret the
information found on Web pages. Interactivity, Customization The Semantic Web is characterized by a greater focus on
interactivity and customization, and an emphasis on media content and social
technologies. In terms of e-commerce and other functionality, experts say, the
Semantic Web will bear little resemblance to the current Internet. The higher level of performance will be achieved, in
part, by new technologies that move well beyond traditional keyword-search
strategies. As fleshed out at the conference, Berners-Lee's vision of
the next-generation Internet is one in which Web sites, links, media content,
and databases are "smarter," having the ability to automatically
provide more meaning than what is available to users today. The Semantic Web would make better sense of the glut of
data on the Internet and give it context. More Automation Using new programming languages, the technology would
augment the Web with a "Semantic layer," explained Alex Linden, a
former analyst at Gartner. Linden explained that, for average Internet users, the
technology initially will mean better searches. "Because of the additional
data that can be processed better by computers, it will feed all kinds of
search, analytics, and reporting," he said. "More automation is always great," Linden said,
pointing to Google's Froogle search engine as an early example of Semantic Web
technology. The Semantic Web will be "a great improvement in user
experience," he said. "I think there's a chance actually that we can do
better this time around," said Berners-Lee during a W3C panel discussion
about the Semantic Web. Sunday, May 28, 2006 ? Volcano's Lake Turns From Blue to Red (11:58PM EDT) Questions on a Palestinian referendum on Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has proposed that the
Palestinians indirectly recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 border
boundaries and East Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Analysis, 5/29/2006 Lebanon border fight with Israel following assassination Al-Manar reported today that the launching of an attack
against Israeli targets across from the Lebanese border, was done anonymously,
and came following the assassination of a Palestinian Islam Jihad leader in
south Lebanon Friday morining. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/29/2006 South Iraq said to be lawless, report The Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday that
"Southern Iraq, long touted as a peaceful region that's likely to be among
the first areas returned to Iraqi control, is now dominated by Shiite Muslim
warlords and militiamen who are laying the groundwork for an Islamic
fundamentalist government, say senior British and Iraqi officials in the
area." Iraq, Politics, 5/29/2006 Two Pakistanis kidnapped and killed in Iraq Reports suggest that the kidnapped Pakistanis were
working for a Kuwait-based American transport company. One section of the same
company is also working in Iraq Iraq-Pakistan, Local, 5/29/2006 Tamimi: Israel breaches international & human law
against the Palestinians Islamic Chief Judge Sheikh Tayssir Tamimi affirmed that
Israel breaches international and human law in the Palestinian Territories. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006 Poverty, unemployment worsen in Israeli-occupied Arab
territories 4 out of every 10 Palestinians were living under the
official poverty line of less than $2.10 a day. Regional-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006 Arab League backs Iran's peaceful nuclear activities Moussa's at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in
Malaysia said the Middle East region should be free from weapons of mass destruction,
he said, adding that peaceful use of nuclear energy is Iran's inalienable
right. Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/29/2006 US Marines shot unarmed Iraqi civilians ..... surrounding a Nov. 19 incident in Haditha, Iraq, in
which 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed in the
aftermath of a roadside bomb attack, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
said today. Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/29/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 31 May 2006 ? An internal military
investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis ?
including women and children ? in the city of Haditha last November http://www.arabnews.com/ British academic boycott of Israel welcomed Palestinian academics have cordially welcomed a decision
by the largest university and college lecturer's union in the United Kingdom to
boycott Israeli academics and institutions that refuse to publicly condemn
Israel's decades-old occupation of the Palestinian territories Palestine-UK, Politics, 5/30/2006 Israel kills 7, bulldoze 2 Palestinian homes Israeli occupation forces today killed seven Palestinians
were killed and several others injured today, as they conducted four attacks in
the Gaza and the West Bank. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/30/2006 Abbas condemns Israeli acts Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned today the
ongoing "Israeli massacres" against the Palestinian people, which
caused in few hours the death of seven citizens and the injury of dozens others
in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Coalition forces, ie., some British officer(s), etc.,
express(es) outrage over criminal american war crimes and ie., states that if
forced to choose, he would fight alongside russians against americans. Memories That Should Never Fade Muhammad Salahuddin, Arab News A few days ago the Palestinian National Council
commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Al-Nakba, the Zionist eviction of
Arabs from Palestine, under the chairmanship of Saleem Al-Zaanoun in Amman,... Israel targets Muslim charity in campaign to starve
Palestinians Islamic Relief has accused Israel of launching a smear
campaign against the British-based charity after the freeing of its program
manager for humanitarian projects in Gaza. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 5/31/2006 Israeli practices against Palestinians considered
collective punishment Israeli occupation forces swept today into Jericho city
and arrested three citizens, sources said. Palestine-Israel, Positive example, 5/31/2006 US Marine falsified report on killings of Iraqi civilians Asked about the incident of US Marines killing of Iraqi
unarmed civilians, US Deputy Director for Regional Operations, Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Brig. Gen. Carter Ham said "two investigations under way." Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/31/2006 U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq (AP) U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer Wed May 31, 11:03 PM ET BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women ? one
of them about to give birth ? when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop
at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and
relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the
maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred
Tuesday. Haditha inquiry finds false reports: Washington Post U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq (AP) U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer Wed May 31, 11:03 PM ET BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women ? one
of them about to give birth ? when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop
at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives
said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity
hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday. Haditha inquiry finds false reports: Washington Post WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military inquiry into
whether Marines tried to cover up the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha
will conclude that some officers gave false reports to their superiors, who
then failed to scrutinize the information, according to a newspaper report on
Thursday. The Washington Post, citing an unidentified Army
official, said the three-month investigation was also expected to call for
changes in how U.S. troops are trained for duty in Iraq. The investigation is one of two ongoing military probes
into the November 19 killings of 24 men, women and children in the town of
Haditha, 125 miles northwest of Baghdad in an area that has seen much activity
by Sunni Arab insurgents. The newspaper reported that the Army official said there
were multiple failures but declined to say whether he would characterize it as
a 'coverup' as alleged by Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record). The Pennsylvania Democrat, a decorated retired Marine, is
a vocal critic of the war in Iraq..... US lawmaker John Murtha, pictured 22 May 2006, said that
US Marines tried to "cover-up" the killings in November of some 24
unarmed civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha. Probe finds Haditha killings unprovoked Reuters - Wed May
31, 4:41 PM ET A video provided to Reuters on March 21, 2006 by
Hamourabi Human rights group shows bodies being loaded onto a truck, which
Hamourabi says is of bodies of a family of 15 shot dead in their home in
Haditha, in western Anbar province. Report: False testimony in Haditha probe By NEDRA
PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Military investigators have evidence that points toward
unprovoked murders by Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha, a senior defense
official said last week. A U.S. military investigation will conclude that some
officers gave false testimony to their superiors, The Washington Post reported
on its Web site Wednesday night. The superiors then failed to scrutinize
reports adequately, the Post reported. Haditha Iraqi civilian shooting report will be public The US military said the Haditha incident, in which Iraqi
unarmed civilians are alledged to have been shot by US military forces on Nov
18th of last year as an act of revenge, was being investigated. Iraq-USA, Military, 6/1/2006 Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron Palestinian Hana Abu Haikal pointed out that the
repressive acts of the settlers are taking place in front of Israeli soldiers
who remain motionless and provide them protection, adding it is an attempt to
force families to flee. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/1/2006 7 Marines, Navy corpsman to Face Charges in Iraqi's Death
From April; being held in solitary confinement..... BBC CLAIMS NEW U.S. 'IRAQ MASSACRE' TAPE FROM MARCH US soldiers charged with murder in Iraq(6-19-06)
Scientist Recreates Mona Lisa's Voice (8:55PM EDT)
Riiiiight! Suuuuure! Who cares! The most over-rated piece of art in the
history of this world! NEW YORK Official-- State Comptroller Alan Hevesi
Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes REUTERS RUNS PHOTOS OF 'SHRINKING PRESIDENT'..... What is Behind The Haditha Massacre? Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 3 June 2006 - An internal military
investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis -
including women and children - in the city of Haditha last November and then...
Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/ Editorial: Other My Lais 3 June 2006 Thirty-eight years ago, US troops massacred hundreds of
Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai, most of them women and children.
Initially there was a cover-up, but it got out a year later thanks... Full
Story Iraq war caused London bombs: Muslim leader The outgoing secretary general of the Muslim Council of
Britain (MCB) Sir Iqbal Sacranie suggested today that last year's London
bombings would not have happened if the UK had not invaded Iraq. Regional-UK, Politics, 6/2/2006 israeli provocators Building New West Bank Settlement Christ-killing israeli jew Envoy Condemns Courageous and
Appropriate Canadian Boycott Analysis: Iraq War Ties U.S. Hands on IranWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military inquiry into
whether Marines tried to cover up the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha
will conclude that some officers gave false reports to their superiors, who
then failed to scrutinize the information, according to a newspaper report on
Thursday. The Washington Post, citing an unidentified Army
official, said the three-month investigation was also expected to call for
changes in how U.S. troops are trained for duty in Iraq. The investigation is one of two ongoing military probes
into the November 19 killings of 24 men, women and children in the town of
Haditha, 125 miles northwest of Baghdad in an area that has seen much activity
by Sunni Arab insurgents. The newspaper reported that the Army official said there
were multiple failures but declined to say whether he would characterize it as
a 'coverup' as alleged by Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record). The Pennsylvania Democrat, a decorated retired Marine, is
a vocal critic of the war in Iraq..... US lawmaker John Murtha, pictured 22 May 2006, said that
US Marines tried to "cover-up" the killings in November of some 24
unarmed civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha. Probe finds Haditha killings unprovoked Reuters - Wed May
31, 4:41 PM ET A video provided to Reuters on March 21, 2006 by
Hamourabi Human rights group shows bodies being loaded onto a truck, which
Hamourabi says is of bodies of a family of 15 shot dead in their home in
Haditha, in western Anbar province. Report: False testimony in Haditha probe By NEDRA
PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Military investigators have evidence that points toward
unprovoked murders by Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha, a senior defense
official said last week. A U.S. military investigation will conclude that some
officers gave false testimony to their superiors, The Washington Post reported
on its Web site Wednesday night. The superiors then failed to scrutinize
reports adequately, the Post reported. Haditha Iraqi civilian shooting report will be public The US military said the Haditha incident, in which Iraqi
unarmed civilians are alledged to have been shot by US military forces on Nov
18th of last year as an act of revenge, was being investigated. Iraq-USA, Military, 6/1/2006 Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron Palestinian Hana Abu Haikal pointed out that the
repressive acts of the settlers are taking place in front of Israeli soldiers who
remain motionless and provide them protection, adding it is an attempt to force
families to flee. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/1/2006 7 Marines, Navy corpsman to Face Charges in Iraqi's Death
From April; being held in solitary confinement..... BBC CLAIMS NEW U.S. 'IRAQ MASSACRE' TAPE FROM MARCH Scientist Recreates Mona Lisa's Voice (8:55PM EDT)
Riiiiight! Suuuuure! Who cares! The most over-rated piece of art in the
history of this world! NEW YORK Official-- State Comptroller Alan Hevesi Apologizes
For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes REUTERS RUNS PHOTOS OF 'SHRINKING PRESIDENT'..... What is Behind The Haditha Massacre? Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 3 June 2006 - An internal military
investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis -
including women and children - in the city of Haditha last November and then...
Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/ Editorial: Other My Lais 3 June 2006 Thirty-eight years ago, US troops massacred hundreds of
Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai, most of them women and children.
Initially there was a cover-up, but it got out a year later thanks... Full
Story Iraq war caused London bombs: Muslim leader The outgoing secretary general of the Muslim Council of
Britain (MCB) Sir Iqbal Sacranie suggested today that last year's London
bombings would not have happened if the UK had not invaded Iraq. Regional-UK, Politics, 6/2/2006 israeli provocators Building New West Bank Settlement Christ-killing israeli jew Envoy Condemns Courageous and
Appropriate Canadian Boycott Analysis: Iraq War Ties U.S. Hands on Iran dumsfeld: Illegal War May Alienate Muslim
Nations.....dah! peutin of Russia Challenges USA on Human Rights..... GENERAL BLASTS DELAYS IN PROBING CIVILIAN DEATHS US commanders knew Haditha deaths from gunfire: NYT Kerry To Introduce Amendment Calling For 'Total
Withdrawal' Of Troops From Iraq By End Of Year..... U.S. Sailor Convicted of Murder in Japan In this Wednesday, March 15, 2006 file photo, a relative
carries the body of child, reportedly killed during a U.S. raid, to a hospital
in the rural Ishaqi area, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad in
Iraq. Residents in the village of Ishaqi said 11 people, including at least five
children, were killed in a March 15 U.S. raid on the Sunni-dominated area,
whilst the American military confirmed the attack but said only four people
died - a man, two women and a child, saying later that the incident was under
investigation. (AP Photo/ Hameed Rasheed) Army
Charges 3 GIs With Murder in Iraq But pollster John Zogby, who has catalogued Mr. Bush's
loss of conservatives and his swiftly falling poll numbers -- the latest put
him at just 31 percent approval -- said the administration's decision to revive
a strategy that worked in '02 and '04 may not work this Election Day. "It's a much different circumstance this time, for
both the president and Republicans. They are clearly on the defensive, and
unlike the other two years, they've lost a pretty substantial chunk of their
base," Mr. Zogby said, noting that when Mr. Bush won in 2004, he was backed
by 91 percent of Republicans, but now has approval from just 68 percent. New Superman movie dazzles critics in first reviews
Scientist:
China plans first human moon walk by 2024 Riiiiight.....in their fraudulent
propaganda dreams along with fraudulent criminal americans!
Animal rights protest shuts restaurant
Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:14am ET What a primitive bunch of
neanderthals the failed ideological communist chinese are! China
plans first humans to walk on moon by 2024, top scientist tells Hong Kong paper
Riiiiight.....in their fraudulent propaganda dreams (far and long enough away
to sell the sizzle) along with fraudulent criminal americans (UFOetry: u.s. Never Went To The Moon -
The Award-Winning Documentary/Music/Video by John Lee [The $40 Billion Scam
(More than $100 Billion in today's worthless dollars)])!
New
Superman movie dazzles critics in first reviews
The Hypocrisy of DemocratsSpeaking yesterday before a union rally in Worcester,
Massachusetts, Senator Edward Kennedy announced: ?My vote against this
misbegotten [Iraq War] is the best vote I have cast in the United States Senate
since I was elected in 1962.? What Kennedy forgot to mention is that his vote
against the Iraq War further proves that his belief structure adjusts to wind
speeds, and Massachusetts can get mighty windy. Speaking at the Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced
International Studies only weeks before Kennedy cast his ?nay? vote on the Iraq
War, the senator remarked, ?We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is
seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.? (9/27/02) Nine days later on CBS? ?Face the Nation,? Kennedy added:
?Saddam Hussein is a dangerous figure. He?s got dangerous weapons.? (10/6/02) By 2005, Kennedy was singing an altogether different
tune: ?Instead of providing open and honest answers . . . the
president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never
should have fought.? Of course, Kennedy is not the first (liberal) democrat to
change his opinion when the polls began to indicate that the war was unpopular.
In fact, between 1998 and 2003, the Iraq WMD song was quite the hit. For music
lovers everywhere, I have assembled a compilation of democrats who proudly sang
along. Senator John Kerry?Blues ?I will be voting to give the President of the United
States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein
because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his
hands is a real and grave threat to our security.? Oct. 2002 ?Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He
is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to
miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ...
So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real...?
Jan. 2003 President Bill Clinton?Jazz Fest ?One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the
capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver
them. That is our bottom line.? Feb. 1998 "If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force,
our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction program." Feb. 1998 Al Gore?Monotone, I Mean Baritone "We know that he has stored secret supplies of
biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Sept. 2002 "Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has
proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as
long as Saddam is in power." Sept. 2002 Backup Singers ?We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the
stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.?
Madeline Albright, Feb. 1998 ?He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as
he has ten times since 1983.? Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser,
Feb. 1998 ?[We] urge you, after consulting with Congress, and
consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including,
if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond
effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass
destruction programs.? Letter to President Clinton, (D) Senators Carl Levin,
Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 1998 ?Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of
weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the
region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.? Rep. Nancy
Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 1998 ?Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building
weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.? Madeline Albright,
Clinton Secretary of State, Nov 1999 "We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein
is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has
ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass
destruction and the means of delivering them." Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI),
Sept. 2002 "The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October
of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of
chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash
course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities.
Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." Sen.
Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 2002 "There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein
is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear
weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always
underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass
destruction." Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct. 2002 "In the four years since the inspectors left,
intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his
chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his
nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists,
including al-Quaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked,
Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and
chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen.
Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct. 2002 "We are in possession of what I think to be
compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years,
a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass
destruction." Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 2002 And here I thought President Bush was behind the faulty
intelligence. Impressive how he was able to manipulate his predecessor's
intelligence as well while he was governing Texas. This compilation was brought to you by Dr Politico
Records, Inc., and special guest producer Glenn Beck. A source for each quote
can be found here. Getting back to Senator Kennedy, it?s worth mentioning
that in the sea of inconsistencies that mark his public service, his vote
against the Iraq War was a welcomed change. After all, in 1991, he voted
against the Persian Gulf War as well. I guess liberating Kuwait from Saddam?s
tyrannous grip did not meet his criteria for a ?yea? vote. I wonder where that
one falls on his list of favorite votes. Kennedy?s Inconsistencies On Abortion: Until the passage of Roe v Wade, Kennedy held a pro-life
position. In a letter dated August 3, 1971, Kennedy wrote to a colleague that
the legalization of ?abortion on demand? goes against ?the value which our
civilization places on human life.? Yet, with the flip of a switch, Kennedy has
become one of the staunchest supporters of abortion rights. In 1999, Kennedy voted ?nay? on a bill that would ban
?partial birth abortions,? the practice of which is both vile and gruesome. On Immigration: In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the
Hart-Celler Act, which dramatically changed US immigration policy. Kennedy
voiced his support for the bill to the Subcommittee on Immigration and
Naturalization: ?The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It
will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards
of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.? Today, Kennedy is the ranking Democrat on the Senate
Committee on Immigration, and has become one of the strongest advocates for
legal and illegal immigrants alike. On Alternative Energy: Kennedy has long been a staunch supporter of alternative
energy development and has a long record of voting in support of that fact. Yet
his support for such development ends where his neighborhood begins. Today, the US Senate continues to debate a proposed Cape
Cod wind energy project that would obstruct Kennedy?s million dollar view and
those of his constituents. Thus, he is leading the battle against the project
and has enlisted the support of his fellow, hypocritical democrats. According
to John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA: The maneuver to stop the wind farm ?is clearly a backroom
deal, and they're going to get called publicly on it. . . . The Democrats are
going to kill the first big offshore wind farm in the United States because of
their relationship with Ted Kennedy.? Boston Globe Should the project be carried out, Kennedy?s Hyannis Port
home would be within 8 miles of the 130-turbine, 24-square-mile cluster of
windmills. Of course, you can?t really blame Kennedy. In all fairness, he never
voiced support for the building of alternative energy sources in his own
neighborhood; rather, Kennedy supported such construction in other people?s
neighborhoods. Posted by Dr Politico at June 3, 2006 02:16 PM Mayor urged to address cocaine allegation By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press
Writer Mon Jun 19, 10:42 PM ET
STAMFORD, Conn. - Adversaries called on the mayor of Connecticut's largest city
to resign Monday, while supporters urged him to specifically address
allegations he used cocaine. Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi, a Democrat, was named in an FBI report that surfaced last
week in which an alleged drug dealer claimed an associate had a videotape of
the mayor using cocaine. KENNEDY
PLEADS GUILTY IN CAPITOL HILL CRASH..... FEMA funds spent on divorce, sex change,
booze, drugs, etc.
The huge pentagon fraud is ignored by the press, including instances of duffel bags of (taxpayers?) cash (in one case $9 BILLION) unaccounted for even as the money to Iraq, illegally destroyed by war criminals america, is not allocated for appropriate and promised reconstruction.Despite bumbya dumbya?s lies and rhetoric to the contrary, war criminal america has already lost criminal america?s illegal diversionary/thieving/murderous ?war?.Three
US soldiers charged with murder of Iraqi detainees(6-19-06)
Given the huge deficits, etc., there is no rational
argument that favors the elimination of the estate tax at a cost estimated at
$1 trillion over 10 years and that would inure to the benefit of only .75% of
the people, particularly at a time when they are cutting programs such as
medicare, etc., to the poor. Indeed, the time has come to enforce disgorgement (of
their criminally ill-gotten gains) provisions of criminal statutes which should
be applied to crime families as, ie., the trumps, bushes, clintons, etc., for
blatent violation thereof. Israeli missile hits Gaza building (Reuters) (6-19-06)
Israeli bulldozers demolish 2 houses, wounds 2 brother Israeli bulldozers demolished Monday morning two
Palestinian houses in the West Bank city of Tubas, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/5/2006 Israeli restrictions on expatriate Palestinians "I really don't know why they are doing this to us.
I am sure there is a special think-tank in Israel specialized in devising and
inventing creative ways and means to torment us or make us suffer," said
Adel Samara, a noted economist in the West Bank. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006 Israeli soldier commits suicide inside Palestinian mosque An Israeli soldier has committed Tuesday suicide inside a
mosque in the east of the West Bank City of Tubas. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006 Israeli occupation forces arrests 8 Palestinians The Israeli occupation forces arrested today eight
Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem, security
sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/6/2006 Report: Israeli Air Force Fires Missiles Israeli soldiers kill two Egyptian policemen The bodies of two policemen were found Friday morning
near the international borders in Sinai, a security source said. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/3/2006 Saudi Arabia, Yemen says focus should be on Israel, not
Iran Saudi Arabia and Yemen declared that every country is
entitled to access nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, including Iran. Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 6/3/2006 ?Suicide bomber kills 28, wounds 62 in Iraq (AP) ?Haditha lawyer criticizes U.S. payments as Too Small(AP)
?Canada nabs 17 terror suspects in Toronto (AP) ?Suicide car bomber targets U.S.-led convoy (AP) U.S. Misconduct Adds to Iraqi Woes WATCH ILLEGALS CROSSING LIVE ON WEB PAPER: Many more human-to-human infections of bird flu
than authorities have previously acknowledged..... Lion Kills Man Who Went Into Kiev Zoo Cage By Associated Press June 5, 2006, 10:38 AM EDT KIEV, Ukraine -- A lion killed a man who climbed into its
enclosure at the Kiev zoo, police said Monday. The lion attacked the
45-year-old Ukrainian late Sunday after he used a rope to climb down into an
enclosure with four lions, said police spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk..... UK reminds Israel of UN call for complete withdrawal from
West Bank The British government has reminded the Zionist regime as
well as the US that Israel must withdraw from all territories it seized in the
1967 war based on UN resolutions. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 6/7/2006 Israeli settlers beat up Palestinian woman Israeli settlers assaulted today morning a woman in the
West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/7/2006 Israeli occupation forces assault Palestinian The Israeli occupation forces assaulted one Palestinian
and arrested eight others in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus and
Tulkarem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/8/2006 UK to investigate Iraqi boy killing Reports that British troops killed a 13-year- old Iraqi
boy after firing at an angry crowd are to be investigated, the Ministry of
Defence in London has announced. Regional-UK, Military, 6/8/2006 Iraq
war made world more dangerous, say most Britons Lebanon
accuses Israel of car bombing (AP)
GOOGLE FOUNDER ADMITS: Brin says search giant compromised
principles with China deals..... Indonesia volcano spews hot gas clouds Expert: Meteor caused extinction Record meteorite hit Norway As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with
an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. 6-8-06 Rival Palestinians call truce; Israel kills three World's who's who hold secret talks in Ottawa Cats to
compete in reality TV show in New York
Jun 09 9:57 PM US/Eastern The world's political "elite", top
"thinkers" and powerful business folk gathered here for an annual,
ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference as heavy security kept conspiracy
theorists and curious onlookers at bay. Reporter Alex Jones is illegally
arrested on contrived charges to preclude his coverage of same. ENGLAND
FANS ARRESTED WITH SWASTIKAS AT WORLD CUP..... U.S. Mad Cow Cases Are
Mysterious Strain???????????? WASHINGTON
(AP) -- Two cases of mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama seem to have resulted
from a mysterious strain that could appear spontaneously in cattle, researchers
say. Cats to compete in reality TV show in New York By Sarah Coffey Mon Jun 12, 6:51 PM ET NEW
YORK (Reuters) - Ten cats in search of owners will spend the next 10 days in a
New York store window, their every move caught on camera for a reality TV show
on which they will compete for best sleeper and mouse-catcher. The show is the
creation of a petfood company and will be shown on cable channel Animal Planet,
as well as on the Web site www.MeowMixHouse.com where viewers will be asked to
vote off one feline contestant each day. UPDATE - G8 frets over growing inflation-Italy econ min -
14 hours ago UPDATE - U.S.'s Snow says must watch out for inflation - U.S.'s Snow notes global inflation rising -? IMF's Rato says inflation expectations rising Second Dancer calls Duke rape charges 'a crock'..... Accuser had sex with at least four men and sexual device
before party..... Prosecutor's
Silence on Duke Rape Case Leaves Public With Plenty of Questions.....
U.S.
troops kill 7 RESISTANCE/FREEDOM-FIGHTERS AND 2 CHILDREN in raid (6-12-06)
Interrogators
Cite Doctors' Aid at Guantanomo By NEIL A. LEWIS Published: June 24, 2005
Military doctors provided advice on how to increase stress levels and exploit
fears, according to interrogators' accounts.
AMERICA'S DEATH SQUADS- THEY'RE
MURDERING INNOCENTS IN IRAQ By: Justin Raimondo
Dead
Messengers: How the U.S. Military Threatens Journalists
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US Version of Gitmo Deaths Questioned |
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JEDDAH, 12 June 2006 ? The Interior Ministry yesterday
identified the two Saudi detainees who died Saturday in Guantanamo Bay as
29-year-old Manie ibn Shaman ibn Turki Al-Habardi Al-Utaibi and
22-year-old..... |
Given the huge deficits, etc., there is no rational
argument that favors the elimination of the estate tax at a cost estimated at
$1 trillion over 10 years and that would inure to the benefit of only .75% of
the people, particularly at a time when they are cutting programs such as
medicare, etc., to the poor.
Indeed, the time has come to enforce disgorgement (of
their criminally ill-gotten gains) provisions of criminal statutes which should
be applied to crime families as, ie., the trumps, bushes, clintons, etc., for
blatent violation thereof.
Israeli bulldozers demolish 2 houses, wounds 2 brother
Israeli bulldozers demolished Monday morning two
Palestinian houses in the West Bank city of Tubas, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/5/2006
Israeli restrictions on expatriate Palestinians
"I really don't know why they are doing this to us.
I am sure there is a special think-tank in Israel specialized in devising and
inventing creative ways and means to torment us or make us suffer," said
Adel Samara, a noted economist in the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006
Israeli soldier commits suicide inside Palestinian mosque
An Israeli soldier has committed Tuesday suicide inside a
mosque in the east of the West Bank City of Tubas.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006
Israeli occupation forces arrests 8 Palestinians
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today eight
Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem, security
sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/6/2006
Report: Israeli Air Force Fires Missiles
Israeli soldiers kill two Egyptian policemen
The bodies of two policemen were found Friday morning
near the international borders in Sinai, a security source said.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/3/2006
Saudi Arabia, Yemen says focus should be on Israel, not
Iran
Saudi Arabia and Yemen declared that every country is
entitled to access nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, including Iran.
Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 6/3/2006
?Suicide bomber kills 28, wounds 62 in Iraq (AP)
?Haditha lawyer criticizes U.S. payments as Too Small(AP)
?Canada nabs 17 terror suspects in Toronto (AP)
?Suicide car bomber targets U.S.-led convoy (AP)
Taliban attacks kill 30 in Afghanistan(6-19-06)
Senate Democrats want vote on Iraq withdrawal (6-19-06)
China to put
the first human on the moon by 2024 - expert
U.S. Misconduct Adds to Iraqi Woes
WATCH ILLEGALS CROSSING LIVE ON WEB
PAPER: Many more human-to-human infections of bird flu
than authorities have previously acknowledged.....
Lion Kills Man Who Went Into Kiev Zoo Cage
By Associated Press
June 5, 2006, 10:38 AM EDT
KIEV, Ukraine -- A lion killed a man who climbed into its
enclosure at the Kiev zoo, police said Monday. The lion attacked the
45-year-old Ukrainian late Sunday after he used a rope to climb down into an
enclosure with four lions, said police spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk.....
UK reminds Israel of UN call for complete withdrawal from
West Bank
The British government has reminded the Zionist regime as
well as the US that Israel must withdraw from all territories it seized in the
1967 war based on UN resolutions.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 6/7/2006
Israeli settlers beat up Palestinian woman
Israeli settlers assaulted today morning a woman in the
West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/7/2006
Israeli occupation forces assault Palestinian
The Israeli occupation forces assaulted one Palestinian
and arrested eight others in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus and
Tulkarem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/8/2006
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UK to investigate Iraqi boy killing
Reports that British troops killed a 13-year- old Iraqi
boy after firing at an angry crowd are to be investigated, the Ministry of
Defense in London has announced.
Regional-UK, Military, 6/8/2006
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GOOGLE FOUNDER ADMITS: Brin says search giant compromised
principles with China deals.....
Indonesia volcano spews hot gas clouds
Expert: Meteor caused extinction
Record meteorite hit Norway
?? As Wednesday
morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact
?? comparable to
the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. 6-8-06
Rival Palestinians call truce; Israel kills three
World's who's who hold secret talks in Ottawa
Jun 09 9:57 PM US/Eastern?
The world's political "elite", top
"thinkers" and powerful business folk gathered here for an annual,
ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference as heavy security kept conspiracy
theorists and curious onlookers at bay. Reporter Alex Jones is illegally
arrested on contrived charges to preclude his coverage of same.
U.S. sues New Jersey over phone company subpoenas
Second Dancer calls Duke rape charges 'a crock'.....
Accuser had sex with at least four men and sexual device
before party.....?
Zarqawi's death not going to stop the violence
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi initially survived the June 7 air
strike, the US said, but died from his wounds while laying on a stretcher
shortly thereafter, a senior US military officer in Baghdad said today.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/9/2006
Germany says 'no' to US request for military trainers in
Iraq
Germany-Iraq-US Germany will not send military trainers
or troops to Iraq, deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg told the media in
Berlin following a report that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had
requested German military trainers in the war-torn Middle East country.
Iraq-Germany, Politics, 6/9/2006
US professor on how Zionism and apartheid are alike
Corcos: I am a University of California, Berkeley
(Emeritus) Professor. I am not a practicing Jew and there are no such things as
races. But if races don't exist, racism does. And that is what defines me as a
Jew: I have come much closer to the gas chambers than Ariel Sharon, Shimon
Perez and most of the Jews who see in the immemorial persecutions of our clan
and in the Holocaust a sufficient justification for their defense of Zionism.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006
Mubarak on rights of Egyptians killed by Israel
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak asserted that Egypt would
not give up any of its people's rights.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006
Israeli air raid kills 4 in Rafah
Israeli occupation forces killed have killed four
citizens in an air strike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, medical
sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/9/2006
?Israeli Gunboats
Kill Palestinian Beachgoers
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
GAZA CITY, 10 June 2006 ? Israeli forces yesterday killed
10 Palestinians, including a family of seven on the Gaza beach when the navy
opened fire, in what Tel Aviv called retaliatory action. Palestinian.....
The world is on to war criminal america's war scam, to
pillage/steal/plunder Iraqi oil, american taxpayer money, to provide corporate
welfare to failed american companies, ie., haliburton, etc., benefit war
criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld, etc., via, ie., stock, stock
options, etc..
Indeed, the time has come to enforce disgorgement (of
their criminally ill-gotten gains) provisions of criminal statutes which should
be applied to crime families as, ie., the trumps, bushes, clintons, etc., for
blatent violation thereof.
dumbya bush declares that Zarqawi had blood on his hands
and justice was served.
War criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld,
etc., have blood on their hands but why has justice been so elusive regarding
their global and domestic crimes?
Three Guantanamo Bay detainees die of suicide
The US military said today that three detainees at US
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died of apparent suicides early this
morning.
Regional-USA, Politics, 6/10/2006
Time to withdraw UK troops from Iraq, say families
Some families of British soldiers serving in Iraq
launched a new petition today, calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw
"demoralized" troops from Iraq.
Iraq-UK, Politics, 6/10/2006
Israeli air raid kills 4 in Rafah
Israeli occupation forces killed have killed four
citizens in an air strike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, medical
sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/9/2006
Israeli Gunboats Kill Palestinian Beachgoers
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
GAZA CITY, 10 June 2006 ? Israeli forces yesterday killed
10 Palestinians, including a family of seven on the Gaza beach when the navy
opened fire, in what Tel Aviv called retaliatory action. Palestinian.....
Israeli bombing leaves child parent-less
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received tonight at
the Presidential headquarters in Gaza, the child Huda Ghalia who lost yesterday
7 members of her family while they were enjoying their weekend at the shore of
Gaza.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/10/2006
Israel's
former PM tried to kill Adenauer: German report
The late Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, before he became prime
minister, tried to kill former West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1952,
DPA quoted a report in the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, due to hit the
newsstands on Tuesday.
Israel-Germany, Politics, 6/12/2006
Peace
activists protest beach massacre
"We call on all peace-loving people around the world to pressure
Israel to stop this slow-motion genocide against our people. They are killing
us one baby at a time, one family at a time. We rely on international public
opinion for protection against this evil occupation of our country."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/12/2006
Parliament
condemns Israeli killing of two Egyptian policemen
Egypt's People's Assembly condemned yesterday the killing of two
policemen by Israeli soldiers on June 2 on the international borders between
Egypt and Israel.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/12/2006
Iran's
parliament: Zionist regime committed a new crime against Palestinians
Some 240 members of Iran's parliament on Sunday expressed outrage at
horrible crimes "the Zionist regime" committed against Palestinians
on June 10.
Palestine-Iran, Politics, 6/12/2006
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Eleven Die as Israeli Missiles Hit Rescuers |
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GAZA CITY, 14 June 2006 ? Israel killed 11
Palestinians, nine of them civilians, in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip
yesterday. Witnesses said that an Israeli aircraft targeted a van carrying
activists |
Israel Strike in Gaza Kills 8 Civilians
10
murdered in Gaza, 4 of them paramedics
Medical sources said that the
number of the Palestinian citizens murdered in the Israeli raids has climbed to
ten, including paramedics and children.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/13/2006
HR
organization: Child killed by Israel is war crime
"The tragedy of Huda's Family is a war crime and should
be treated as war crime of the first place, and what is most important is to
work on presenting the Israelis entangled in this case to the court,"
Al-Dameer said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/14/2006
Israel
to decide on kicking US citizen out for peaceful support of Palestinians
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said Paul Larudee, the 60
year-old piano tuner and ISM peace activist will get tomorrow morning a court
hearing to decide whether or not Israel will succeed in its efforts to deny his
entry to Palestine.
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 6/14/2006
Israeli
military collaborates with settlers
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) revealed today that
the Israeli military, police, and secret service are collaborating with Beit
Ayn settlers to seize Palestinian land in Hebron.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/14/2006
Its Origins and Growth
The Power of the Israel Lobby
By KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON
Former CIA analysts
Editors'
Note: Ten, even five years ago, a fierce public debate over the nature and
activities of the Israeli lobby would have been impossible. It was as verboten
as the use of the word Empire, to describe the global reach of the United
States. Through its disdain for the usual proprieties decorously observed by
Republican and Democratic administrations in the past , the Bush administration
has hauled many realities of our political economy center stage. Open up the
New York Times or the Washington Post over the recent past and there, like as
not, is another opinion column about the Lobby.
CounterPunch
has hosted some of the most vigorous polemics on the Lobby. In May we asked two
of our most valued contributors, Kathy and Bill Christison, to offer their
evaluation of the debate on the Lobby's role and power. As our readers know,
Bill and Kathy both had significant careers as CIA analysts. Bill was a
National Intelligence Officer. In the aftermath of the September, 2001, attacks
we published here his trenchant and influential essay on "the war on
terror". Kathy has written powerfully on our website on the topic of
Palestine. Specifically on the Lobby they contributed an unsparing essay on the
topic of "dual loyalty" which can bed found in our CounterPunch
collection, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism.
In
mid May they sent us the detailed, measured commentary, rich in historical
detail, that we are delighted to print below in its entirety. Which is the
tail? Which is the dog? asked Uri Avnery in our newsletter, a few issues back,
apropos the respective roles of the Israel Lobby and the US in the exercise of
US policy in the Middle East. Here's an answer that will be tough to challenge.
-- A.C./J.S.C.
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, the University of
Chicago and Harvard political scientists who published in March of this years a
lengthy, well documented study on the pro-Israel lobby and its influence on
U.S. Middle East policy in March , have already accomplished what they
intended. They have successfully called attention to the often pernicious
influence of the lobby on policymaking. But, unfortunately, the study has
aroused more criticism than debate ? not only the kind of criticism one would anticipate
from the usual suspects among the very lobby groups Mearsheimer and Walt
described, but also from a group on the left that might have been expected to
support the study's conclusions.
The criticism has been partly silly, often
malicious, and almost entirely off-point. The silly, insubstantial criticisms ?
such as former presidential adviser David Gergen's earnest comment that through
four administrations he never observed an Oval Office decision that tilted
policy in favor of Israel at the expense of U.S. interests ? can easily be
dismissed as nonsensical . Most of the extensive malicious criticism, coming
largely from the hard core of Israeli supporters who make up the very lobby
under discussion and led by a hysterical Alan Dershowitz, has been so specious
and sophomoric, that it too could be dismissed were it not for precisely the
pervasive atmosphere of reflexive support for Israel and silenced debate that
Mearsheimer and Walt describe.
Most disturbing and harder to dismiss is
the criticism of the study from the left, coming chiefly from Noam Chomsky and
Norman Finkelstein, and abetted less cogently by Stephen Zunes of Foreign
Policy in Focus and Joseph Massad of Columbia University. These critics on the
left argue from a assumption that U.S. foreign policy has been monolithic since
World War II, a coherent progression of decision-making directed unerringly at
the advancement of U.S. imperial interests. All U.S. actions, these critics
contend, are part of a clearly laid-out strategy that has rarely deviated no
matter what the party in power. They believe that Israel has served throughout
as a loyal agent of the U.S., carrying out the U.S. design faithfully and
serving as a base from which the U.S. projects its power around the Middle
East. Zunes says it most clearly, affirming that Israel "still is very
much the junior partner in the relationship." These critics do not dispute
the existence of a lobby, but they minimize its importance, claiming that
rather than leading the U.S. into policies and foreign adventures that stand
against true U.S. national interests, as Mearsheimer and Walt assert, the U.S.
is actually the controlling power in the relationship with Israel and carries
out a consistent policy, using Israel as its agent where possible.
Finkelstein summarized the critics'
position in a recent CounterPunch article ("The Israel Lobby," May 1,
http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein05012006.html), emphasizing that the
issue is not whether U.S. interests or those of the lobby take precedence but rather
that there has been such coincidence of U.S. and Israeli interests over the
decades that for the most part basic U.S. Middle East policy has not been
affected by the lobby. Chomsky maintains that Israel does the U.S. bidding in
the Middle East in pursuit of imperial goals that Washington would pursue even
without Israel and that it has always pursued in areas outside the Middle East
without benefit of any lobby. Those goals have always included advancement of
U.S. corporate-military interests and political domination through the
suppression of radical nationalisms and the 
maintenance of stability in resource-rich countries,
particularly oil producers, everywhere. In the Middle East, this was
accomplished primarily through Israel's 1967 defeat of Egypt's Gamal Abdul
Nasser and his radical Arab nationalism, which had threatened U.S. access to
the region's oil resources. Both Chomsky and Finkelstein trace the strong
U.S.-Israeli tie to the June 1967 war, which they believe established the close
alliance and marked the point at which the U.S. began to regard Israel as a
strategic asset and a stable base from which U.S. power could be projected
throughout the Middle East.
Joseph Massad ("Blaming the Israel
Lobby," CounterPunch, March 25/26,
http://www.counterpunch.org/massad03252006.html) argues along similar lines,
describing developments in the Middle East and around the world that he
believes the U.S. engineered for its own benefit and would have carried out
even without Israel's assistance. His point, like Chomsky's, is that the U.S.
has a long history of overthrowing regimes in Central America, in Chile, in
Indonesia, in Africa, where the Israel lobby was not involved and where Israel
at most assisted the U.S. but did not benefit directly itself. He goes farther
than Chomsky by claiming that with respect to the Middle East Israel has been
such an essential tool that its very usefulness is what accounts for the
strength of the lobby. "It is in fact the very centrality of Israel to
U.S. strategy in the Middle East," Massad contends with a kind of backward
logic, "that accounts, in part, for the strength of the pro-Israel lobby
and not the other way around." (One wonders why, if this were the case,
there would be any need for a lobby at all. What would be a lobby's function if
the U.S. already regarded Israel as central to its strategy?)
The principal problem with these arguments
from the left is that they assume a continuity in U.S. strategy and
policymaking over the decades that has never in fact existed. The notion that
there is any defined strategy that links Eisenhower's policy to Johnson's to Reagan's
to Clinton's gives far more credit than is deserved to the extremely ad hoc,
hit-or-miss nature of all U.S. foreign policy. Obviously, some level of
imperial interest has dictated policy in every administration since World War
II and, obviously, the need to guarantee access to vital natural resources
around the world, such as oil in the Middle East and elsewhere, has played a
critical role in determining policy. But beyond these evident, and not
particularly significant, truths, it can accurately be said, at least with
regard to the Middle East, that it has been a rare administration that has
itself ever had a coherent, clearly defined, and consistent foreign policy and
that, except for a broadly defined anti-communism during the Cold War, no administration's
strategy has ever carried over in detail to succeeding administrations.
The ad hoc nature of virtually every
administration's policy planning process cannot be overemphasized. Aside from
the strong but amorphous political need felt in both major U.S. parties and
nurtured by the Israel lobby that "supporting Israel" was vital to
each party's own future, the inconsistent, even short-term randomness in the
detailed Middle East policymaking of successive administrations has been
remarkable. This lack of clear strategic thinking at the very top levels of
several new administrations before they entered office enhanced the power of
individuals and groups that did have clear goals and plans already in hand ?
such as, for instance, the pro-Israeli Dennis Ross in both the first Bush and
the Clinton administrations, and the strongly pro-Israeli neo-cons in the
current Bush administration.
The critics on the left argue that because
the U.S. has a history of opposing and frequently undermining or actually overthrowing
radical nationalist governments throughout the world without any involvement by
Israel, any instance in which Israel acts against radical nationalism in the
Arab world is, therefore, proof that Israel is doing the United States' work
for it . The critics generally believe, for instance, that Israel's political
destruction of Egypt's Nasser in 1967 was done for the U.S. Most if not all
believe that Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon was undertaken at U.S.behest, to
destroy the PLO.
This kind of argumentation assumes too
much on a presumption of policy coherence. Lyndon Johnson most certainly did
abhor Nasser and was not sorry to see him and his pan-Arab ambitions defeated,
but there is absolutely no evidence that the Johnson administration ever seriously
planned to unseat Nasser, formulated any other action plan against Egypt, or
pushed Israel in any way to attack. Johnson did apparently give a green light
to Israel's attack plans after they had been formulated, but this is quite
different from initiating the plans. Already mired in Vietnam, Johnson was very
much concerned not to be drawn into a war initiated by Israel and was
criticized by some Israeli supporters for not acting forcefully enough on
Israel's behalf. In any case, Israel needed no prompting for its pre-emptive
attack, which had long been in the works.
Indeed, far from Israel functioning as the
junior partner carrying out a U.S. plan, it is clear that the weight of
pressure in 1967 was on the U.S. to go along with Israel's designs and that this
pressure came from Israel and its agents in the U.S. The lobby in this instance
? as broadly defined by Mearsheimer and Walt: "the loose coalition of
individuals and organizations who actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in
a pro-Israel direction" ? was in fact a part of Johnson's intimate circle
of friends and advisers.
These included the number-two man at the
Israeli embassy, a close personal friend; the strongly pro-Israeli Rostow
brothers, Walt and Eugene, who were part of the national security bureaucracy
in the administration; Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas; U.N. Ambassador Arthur
Goldberg; and numerous others who all spent time with Johnson at the LBJ Ranch
in Texas and had the personal access and the leisure time in an informal
setting to talk with Johnson about their concern for Israel and to influence
him heavily in favor of Israel. This circle had already begun to work on
Johnson long before Israel's pre-emptive attack in 1967, so they were nicely
placed to persuade Johnson to go along with it despite Johnson's fears of
provoking the Soviet Union and becoming involved in a military conflict the
U.S. was not prepared for.
In other words, Israel was beyond question
the senior partner in this particular policy initiative; Israel made the decision
to go to war, would have gone to war with or without the U.S. green light, and
used its lobbyists in the U.S. to steer Johnson administration policy in a
pro-Israeli direction. Israel's attack on the U.S. naval vessel, the USS
Liberty, in the midst of the war ? an attack conducted in broad daylight
that killed 34 American sailors ? was not the act of a junior partner. Nor was
the U.S. cover-up of this atrocity the act of a government that dictated the
moves in this relationship.
The evidence is equally clear that Israel
was the prime mover in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and led the U.S. into that
morass, rather than the other way around. Although Massad refers to the U.S. as
Israel's master, in this instance as in many others including 1967, Israel has
clearly been its own master. Chomsky argues in support of his case that Reagan
ordered Israel to call off the invasion in August, two months after it was
launched. This is true, but in fact Israel did not pay any attention; the
invasion continued, and the U.S. got farther and farther embroiled.
When, as occurred in Lebanon, the U.S. has
blundered into misguided adventures to support Israel or to rescue Israel or to
further Israel's interests, it is a clear denial of reality to say that Israel
and its lobby have no significant influence on U.S. Middle East policy. Even
were there not an abundance of other examples, Lebanon alone, with its
long-term implications, proves the truth of the Mearsheimer-Walt conclusion
that the U.S. "has set aside its own security in order to advance the
interests of another state" and that "the overall thrust of U.S.
policy in the region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and
especially to the activities of the 'Israel Lobby.'"
As a general proposition, the left critics'
argumentation is much too limiting. While there is no question that modern
history is replete, as they argue, with examples of the U.S. acting in
corporate interests ? overthrowing nationalist governments perceived to be
threatening U.S. business and economic interests, as in Iran in 1953, Guatemala
in 1954, Chile in 1973, and elsewhere ? this frequent convergence of corporate
with government interests does not mean that the U.S. never acts in other than
corporate interests. The fact of a strong government-corporate alliance does
not in any way preclude situations ? even in the Middle East, where oil is
obviously a vital corporate resource ? in which the U.S. acts primarily to
benefit Israel rather than serve any corporate or economic purpose. Because it
has a deep emotional aspect and involves political, economic, and military ties
unlike those with any other nation, the U.S. relationship with Israel is
unique, and there is nothing in the history of U.S. foreign policy, nothing in
the government's entanglement with the military-industrial complex, to prevent
the lobby from exerting heavy influence on policy. Israel and its lobbyists
make their own "corporation" that, like the oil industry (or Chiquita
Banana or Anaconda Copper in other areas), is clearly a major factor driving
U.S. foreign policy.
There is no denying the intricate
interweaving of the U.S. military-industrial complex with Israeli
military-industrial interests. Chomsky acknowledges that there is "plenty
of conformity" between the lobby's position and the U.S.
government-corporate linkage and that the two are very difficult to
disentangle. But, although he tends to emphasize that the U.S. is always the
senior partner and suggests that the Israeli side does little more than support
whatever the U.S. arms, energy, and financial industries define as U.S.
national interests, in actual fact the entanglement is much more one between
equals than the raw strengths of the two parties would suggest.
"Conformity" hardly captures the magnitude of the relationship.
Particularly in the defense arena, Israel and its lobby and the U.S. arms
industry work hand in glove to advance their combined, very compatible
interests. The relatively few very powerful and wealthy families that dominate
the Israeli arms industry are just as interested in pressing for aggressively
militaristic U.S. and Israeli foreign policies as are the CEOs of U.S. arms
corporations and, as globalization has progressed, so have the ties of joint
ownership and close financial and technological cooperation among the arms
corporations of the two nations grown ever closer. In every way, the two
nations' military industries work together very easily and very quietly, to a
common end. The relationship is symbiotic, and the lobby cooperates intimately
to keep it alive; lobbyists can go to many in the U.S. Congress and tell them
quite credibly that if aid to Israel is cut off, thousands of arms-industry
jobs in their own districts will be lost. That's power. The lobby is not simply
passively supporting whatever the U.S. military-industrial complex wants. It is
actively twisting arms ? very successfully ? in both Congress and the
administration to perpetuate acceptance of a definition of U.S. "national
interests" that many Americans believe is wrong, as does Chomsky himself.
Clearly, the advantages in the
relationship go in both directions: Israel serves U.S. corporate interests by
using, and often helping develop, the arms that U.S. manufacturers produce, and
the U.S. serves Israeli interests by providing a constant stream of high-tech
equipment that maintains Israel's vast military superiority in the region. But
simply because the U.S. benefits from this relationship, it cannot be said that
the U.S. is Israel's master, or that Israel always does the U.S. bidding, or
that the lobby, which helps keep this arms alliance alive, has no significant
power. It's in the nature of a symbiosis that both sides benefit, and the lobby
has clearly played a huge role in maintaining the interdependence.
The left's arguments also tend to be much
too conspiratorial. Finkelstein, for instance, describes a supposed strategy in
which the U.S. perpetually undermines Israeli-Arab reconciliation because it
does not want an Israel at peace with its neighbors, since Israel would then
loosen its dependence on the U.S. and become a less reliable proxy. "What
use," he asks, "would a Paul Wolfowitz have of an Israel living
peacefully with its Arab neighbors and less willing to do the U.S.'s
bidding?" Not only does this give the U.S. far more credit than it has
ever deserved for long-term strategic scheming and the ability to carry out
such a conspiracy, but it begs a very important question that neither
Finkelstein nor the other left critics, in their dogged effort to mold all
developments to their thesis, never examine: just what U.S.'s bidding is Israel
doing nowadays?
Although the leftist critics speak of
Israel as a base from which U.S. power is projected throughout the Middle East,
they do not clearly explain how this works. Any strategic value Israel had for
the U.S. diminished drastically with the collapse of the Soviet Union. They may
believe that Israel keeps Saudi Arabia's oil resources safe from Arab
nationalists or Muslim fundamentalists or Russia, but this is highly questionable.
Israel clearly did us no good in Lebanon, but rather the U.S. did Israel's
bidding and fumbled badly, so this cannot be how the U.S. uses Israeli to
project its power. In Palestine, Finkelstein himself acknowledges that the U.S.
gains nothing from the occupation and Israeli settlements, so this can't be
where Israel is doing the U.S.'s bidding. (With this acknowledgement,
Finkelstein, perhaps unconsciously, seriously undermines his case against the
importance of the lobby, unless he somehow believes the occupation is only of
incidental significance, in which case he undermines the thesis of much of his
own body of writing.)
Owning the Policymakers
In the clamor over the Mearsheimer-Walt
study, critics on both the left and the right have tended to ignore the slow
evolutionary history of U.S. Middle East policymaking and of the U.S.
relationship with Israel. The ties to Israel and earlier to Zionism go back
more than a century, predating the formation of a lobby, and they have remained
firm even at periods when the lobby has waned. But it is also true that the
lobby has sustained and formalized a relationship that otherwise rests on
emotions and moral commitment. Because the bond with Israel has been a steadily
evolving continuum, dating back to well before Israel's formal establishment,
it is important to emphasize that there is no single point at which it is
possible to say, this is when Israel won the affections of America, or this is
when Israel came to be regarded as a strategic asset, or this is when the lobby
became an integral part of U.S. policymaking.
The left critics of the lobby study mark
the Johnson administration as the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli alliance, but
almost every administration before Johnson's, going back to Woodrow Wilson,
ratcheted up the relationship in some significant way and could justifiably
claim to have been the progenitor of the bond. Significantly, in almost all
cases, policymakers acted as they did because of the influence of pro-Zionist
or pro-Israeli lobbyists: Wilson would not have supported the Zionist
enterprise to the extent he did had it not been for the influence of Zionist
colleagues like Louis Brandeis; nor would Roosevelt; Truman would probably not
have been as supportive of establishing a Jewish state without the heavy
influence of his very pro-Zionist advisers.
After the Johnson administration as well,
the relationship has continued to grow in remarkable leaps. The Nixon-Kissinger
regime could claim that they were the administration that cemented the alliance
by exponentially increasing military aid ? from an annual average of under $50
million in military credits to Israel in the late 1960s to an average of almost
$400 million and, in the year following the 1973 war, to $2.2 billion. It is
not for nothing that Israelis have informally dubbed almost every president
since Johnson ? with the notable exceptions of Jimmy Carter and the senior
George Bush ? as "the most pro-Israeli president ever"; each one has
achieved some landmark in the effort to please Israel.
The U.S.-Israeli bond has always had its
grounding more in soft emotions than in the hard realities of geopolitical
strategy. Scholars have always described the tie in almost spiritual terms
never applied to ties with other nations. A Palestinian-French scholar has
described the United States' pro-Israeli tilt as a "predisposition,"
a natural inclination that precedes any consideration of interest or of cost.
Israel, he said, takes part in the very "being" of American society
and therefore participates in its integrity and its defense. This is not simply
the biased perspective of a Palestinian. Other scholars of varying political
inclinations have described a similar spiritual and cultural identity: the U.S.
identifies with Israel's "national style"; Israel is essential to the
"ideological prospering" of the U.S.; each country has
"grafted" the heritage of the other onto itself. This applies even to
the worst aspects of each nation's heritage. Consciously or unconsciously, many
Israelis even today see the U.S. conquest of the American Indians as something
"good," something to emulate and, which is worse, many Americans even
today are happy to accept the "compliment" inherent in Israel's
effort to copy us.
This is no ordinary state-to-state
relationship, and the lobby does not function like any ordinary lobby. It is
not a great exaggeration to say that the lobby could not thrive without a very
willing host ? that is, a series of U.S. policymaking establishments that have
always been locked in to a mindset singularly focused on Israel and its
interests ? and, at the same time, that U.S. policy in the Middle East would
not possibly have remained so singularly focused on and so tilted toward Israel
were it not for the lobby. One thing is certain: with the possible exceptions
of the Carter and the first Bush administrations, the relationship has grown
noticeably closer and more solid with each administration, in almost exact
correlation with the growth in size and budget and political clout of the
pro-Israel lobby.
All critics of the lobby study have failed
to note a critical point during the Reagan administration, surrounding the
debacle in Lebanon, when it can reasonably be said that policymaking tipped
over from a situation in which the U.S. was more often the controlling agent in
the relationship to one in which Israel and its advocates in the U.S. have
increasingly determined the course and the pace of developments. The organized
lobby, meaning AIPAC and the several formal Jewish American organizations,
truly came into its own during the Reagan years with a massive expansion of
memberships, budgets, propaganda activities, and contacts within Congress and
government, and it has been consolidating power and influence for the last
quarter century, so that today the broadly defined lobby, including all those
who work for Israel, has become an integral part of U.S. society and U.S.
policymaking.
The situation during the Reagan
administration demonstrates very clearly the closeness of the bond. The events
of these years illustrate how an already very Israel-centered mindset in the
U.S., which had been developing for decades, was transformed into a concrete,
institutionalized relationship with Israel via the offices of Israeli
supporters and agents in the U.S.
The seminal event in the growth of AIPAC
and the organized lobby was the battle over the administration's proposed sale
of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia in 1981, Reagan's first year in office.
Paradoxically, although AIPAC lost this battle in a head-on struggle with Reagan
and the administration, and the sale to the Saudis went forward, AIPAC and the
lobby ultimately won the war for influence. Reagan was determined that the sale
go through; he regarded the deal as an important part of an ill-conceived
attempt to build an Arab-Israeli consensus in the Middle East to oppose the
Soviet Union and, perhaps even more important, saw the battle in Congress as a
test of his own prestige. By winning the battle, he demonstrated that any
administration, at least up to that point, could exert enough pressure to push
an issue opposed by Israel through Congress, but the struggle also demonstrated
just how exhausting and politically costly such a battle can be, and no one
around Reagan was willing to go to the mat in this way again. In a real sense,
despite AIPAC's loss, the fight showed just how much the lobby limited
policymaker freedom, even more than 20 years ago, in any transaction that
concerned Israel.
The AWACS imbroglio galvanized AIPAC into
action, at precisely the time the administration was subsiding in exhaustion,
and under an aggressive and energetic leader, former congressional aide Thomas
Dine, AIPAC quadrupled its budget, increased its grassroots support immensely,
and vastly expanded its propaganda effort. This last and perhaps most
significant accomplishment was achieved when Dine established an analytical
unit inside AIPAC that published in-depth analyses and position papers for
congressmen and policymakers. Dine believed that anyone who could provide
policymakers with books and papers focusing on Israel's strategic value to the
U.S. would effectively "own" the policymakers.
With the rising power and influence of the
lobby, and following the U.S. debacle in Lebanon ? which began with Israel's
1982 invasion and ended for the U.S. with the withdrawal of its Marine
contingent in early 1984, after the Marines had become involved in fighting to
protect Israel's invasion force and 241 U.S. military had been killed in a
truck bombing ? the Reagan administration effectively handed over the policy
initiative in the Middle East to Israel and its American advocates.
Israel and its agents began, with amazing
effrontery, to complain that the U.S. failure to clean up in Lebanon was
interfering with Israel's own designs there ? from which arrogance Reagan and
company concluded, in an astounding twist of logic, that the only way to
restore stability was through closer alliance with Israel. As a result, in the
fall of 1983 Reagan sent a delegation to ask the Israelis for closer
strategic ties, and shortly thereafter forged a formal strategic alliance with
Israel with the signing of a "memorandum of understanding on strategic
cooperation." In 1987, the U.S. designated Israel a "major non-NATO
ally," thus giving it access to military technology not available
otherwise. The notion of demanding concessions from Israel in return for this
favored status ? such as, for instance, some restraint in its
settlement-construction in the West Bank ? was specifically rejected. The U.S.
simply very deliberately and abjectly retreated into policy inaction, leaving
Israel with a free hand to proceed as it wished wherever it wished in the
Middle East and particularly in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Even Israel, by all accounts, was
surprised by this demonstration of the United States' inability to see beyond
Israel's interests. Prime Minister Menachem Begin had attempted from early in
the Carter administration to push the notion that Israel was a strategic Cold
War asset to the U.S. but, because Israel did not in fact perform a significant
strategic role for the U.S. and was in many ways more a liability than an
asset, Carter never paid serious attention to the Israeli overtures. Begin
feared that the United States' moral and emotional commitment to Israel might
ultimately not be enough to sustain the relationship through possible hard
times, and so he attempted to put Israel forward as a strategically
indispensable ally and a good investment for U.S. security, a move that would
essentially reverse the two nations' roles, altering the relationship from one
of Israeli indebtedness to the U.S. to one in which the United States was in
Israel's debt for its vital strategic role.
Carter was having none of this, but the
notion of strategic cooperation germinated in Israel and among its U.S.
supporters until the moment became ripe during the Reagan administration. By
the end of the Lebanon mess, the notion that the U.S. needed Israel's
friendship had so taken hold among the Reaganites that, as one former national
security aide observed in a stunning upending of logic, they began to view
closer strategic ties as a necessary means of "restor[ing] Israeli
confidence in American reliability." Secretary of State George Shultz
wrote in his memoirs years later of the U.S. need "to lift the albatross
of Lebanon from Israel's neck." Recall, as Shultz must not have been able
to do, that the debt here was rightly Israel's: Israel put the albatross around
its own neck, and the U.S. stumbled into Lebanon after Israel, not the other
way around.
AIPAC and the neo-conservatives who rose
to prominence during the Reagan years played a major role in building the
strategic alliance. AIPAC in particular became in every sense of the word a
partner of the U.S. in forging Middle East policy from the mid-1980s on. Thomas
Dine's vision of "owning" policymakers by providing them with
position papers geared to Israel's interests went into full swing. In 1984,
AIPAC spun off a think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, that
remains one of the pre-eminent think tanks in Washington and that has sent its
analysts into policymaking jobs in several administrations. Dennis Ross, the
senior Middle East policymaker in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and
Bill Clinton, came from the Washington Institute and returned there after
leaving government service. Martin Indyk, the Institute's first director,
entered a senior policymaking position in the Clinton administration from
there.
Today, John Hannah, who has served on Vice
President Cheney's national security staff since 2001 and succeeded Lewis Libby
last year as Cheney's leading national security adviser, comes from the
Institute. AIPAC also continues to do its own analyses in addition to the
Washington Institute's. A recent Washington Post profile of Steven
Rosen, the former senior AIPAC foreign policy analyst who is about to stand
trial with a colleague for receiving and passing on classified information to
Israel, noted that two decades ago Rosen began a practice of lobbying the executive
branch, rather than simply concentrating on Congress, as a way, in the words of
the Post article, "to alter American foreign policy" by
"influencing government from the inside." Over the years, he
"had a hand in writing several policies favored by Israel."
In the Reagan years, AIPAC's position
papers were particularly welcomed by an administration already more or less
convinced of Israel's strategic value and obsessed with impeding Soviet
advances. Policymakers began negotiating with AIPAC before presenting
legislation in order to help assure passage, and Congress consulted the lobby
on pending legislation. Congress eagerly embraced almost every legislative
initiative proposed by the lobby and came to rely on AIPAC for information on
all issues related to the Middle East. The close cooperation between the
administration and AIPAC soon began to stifle discourse inside the bureaucracy.
Middle East experts in the State Department and other agencies were almost
completely cut out of decision-making, and officials throughout government
became increasingly unwilling to propose policies or put forth analysis likely
to arouse opposition from AIPAC or Congress. One unnamed official complained
that "a lot of real analysis is not even getting off people's desks for
fear of what the lobby will do"; he was speaking to a New York Times
correspondent, but otherwise his complaints fell on deaf ears.
This kind of pervasive influence, a chill
on discourse inside as well as outside policymaking councils, does not require
the sort of clear-cut, concrete pro-Israeli decisions in the Oval Office that
David Gergen naively thought he should have witnessed if the lobby had any real
influence. This kind of influence, which uses friendly persuasion, along with
just enough direct pressure, on a broad range of policymakers, legislators,
media commentators, and grassroots activists to make an impression across the
spectrum, cannot be defined in terms of narrow, concrete policy commands, but
becomes an unchanging, unchallengeable mindset, a sentimental environment that
restricts debate, restricts thinking, and determines actions and policies as
surely as any command from on high. When Israel's advocates, its lobbyists, in
the U.S. become an integral part of the policymaking apparatus, as they have
particularly since the Reagan years ? and as they clearly have been during the
current Bush administration ? there is no way to separate the lobby's interests
from U.S. policies. Moreover, because Israel's strategic goals in the region
are more clearly defined and more urgent than those of the United States,
Israel's interests most often dominate.
Chomsky himself acknowledges that the
lobby plays a significant part in shaping the political environment in which
support for Israel becomes automatic and unquestioned. Even Chomsky believes
that what he calls the intellectual political class is a critical, and perhaps
the most influential, component of the lobby because these elites determine the
shaping of news and information in the media and academia. On the other hand,
he contends that, because the lobby already includes most of this intellectual
political class, the thesis of lobby power "loses much of its
content". But, on the contrary, this very fact would seem to prove the
point, not undermine it. The fact of the lobby's pervasiveness, far from
rendering it less powerful, magnifies its importance tremendously.
Indeed, this is the crux of the entire
debate. It is the very power of the lobby to continue shaping the public
mindset, to mold thinking and, perhaps most important, to instill fear of
deviation that brings this intellectual political class together in an
unswerving determination to work for Israel. Is there not a heavy impact on
Middle East policymaking when, for instance, a lobby has the power to force the
electoral defeat of long-serving congressmen, as occurred to Representative
Paul Findley in 1982 and Senator Charles Percy in 1984 after both had deviated
from political correctness by speaking out in favor of negotiating with the
PLO? AIPAC openly crowed about the defeat of both men ? both Republicans
serving during the Republican Reagan administration, who had been in Congress
for 22 and 18 years respectively. Similarly, does not the media's silence on
Israel's oppressive measures in the occupied territories, as well as the
concerted, and openly acknowledged, efforts of virtually every pro-Israeli
organization in the U.S. to suppress information and quash debate on the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict, have an immense impact on policy? Today, even the
most outspoken of leftist radio hosts and other commentators, such as Randi
Rhodes, Mike Malloy, and now Cindy Sheehan, almost always avoid talking and
writing about this issue.
Does not the massive effort by AIPAC, the
Washington Institute, and myriad other similar organizations to spoon-feed
policymakers and congressmen selective information and analysis written only
from Israel's perspective have a huge impact on policy? In the end, even
Chomsky and Finkelstein acknowledge the power of the lobby in suppressing
discussion and debate about Middle East policy. The mobilization of public
opinion, Finkelstein writes, "can have a real impact on policy-making ?
which is why the Lobby invests so much energy in suppressing discussion."
It is difficult to read statement except as a ringing acknowledgement of the
massive and very central power of the lobby to control discourse and to control
policymaking on the most critical Middle East policy issue.
Interchangeable Interests
The principal problem with the left
critics' analysis is that it is too rigid. There is no question that Israel has
served the interests of the U.S. government and the military-industrial complex
in many areas of the world by, for instance, aiding some of the rightist
regimes of Central America, by skirting arms and trade embargoes against
apartheid South Africa and China (until the neo-conservatives turned off the
tap to China and, in a rare disagreement with Israel, forced it to halt), and
during the Cold War by helping, at least indirectly, to hold down Arab
radicalism. There is also no question that, no matter which party has been in
power, the U.S. has over the decades advanced an essentially conservative
global political and pro-business agenda in areas far afield of the Middle East,
without reference to Israel or the lobby. The U.S. unseated Mossadegh in Iran
and Arbenz in Guatemala and Allende in Chile, along with many others, for its
own corporate and political purposes, as the left critics note, and did not use
Israel.
But these facts do not minimize the power
the lobby has exerted in countless instances over the course of decades, and
particularly in recent years, to lead the U.S. into situations that Israel
initiated, that the U.S. did not plan, and that have done harm, both singly and
cumulatively, to U.S. interests. One need only ask whether particular policies
would have been adopted in the absence of pressure from some influential
persons and organizations working on Israel's behalf in order to see just how
often Israel or its advocates in the U.S., rather than the United States or
even U.S. corporations, have been the policy initiators. The answers give clear
evidence that a lobby, as broadly defined by Mearsheimer and Walt, has played a
critical and, as the decades have gone on, increasingly influential role in
policymaking.
For instance, would Harry Truman have been
as supportive of establishing Israel as a Jewish state if it had not been for
heavy pressure from what was then a very loose grouping of strong Zionists with
considerable influence in policymaking circles? It can reasonably be argued
that he might not in fact have supported Jewish statehood at all, and it is
even more likely that his own White House advisers ? all strong Zionist
proponents themselves ? would not have twisted arms at the United Nations to
secure the 1947 vote in favor of partitioning Palestine if these lobbyists had
not been a part of Truman's policymaking circle. Truman himself did not
initially support the notion of founding a state based on religion, and every
national security agency of government, civilian and military , strongly
opposed the partition of Palestine out of fear that this would lead to warfare
in which the U.S. might have to intervene, would enhance the Soviet position in
the Middle East, and would endanger U.S. oil interests in the area. But even in
the face of this united opposition from within his own government, Truman found
the pressures of the Zionists among his close advisers and among influential
friends of the administration and of the Democratic Party too overwhelmingly
strong to resist.
Questions like this arise for virtually
every presidential administration. Would Jimmy Carter, for instance, have
dropped his pursuit of a resolution of the Palestinian problem if the Israel
lobby had not exerted intense pressure on him? Carter was the first president
to recognize the Palestinian need for some kind of "homeland," as he
termed it, and he made numerous efforts to bring Palestinians into a
negotiating process and to stop Israeli settlement-building, but opposition
from Israel and pressures from the lobby were so heavy that he was ultimately
worn down and defeated.
It is also all but impossible to imagine
the U.S. supporting Israel's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories
without pressure from the lobby. No conceivable U.S. national interest served ?
even in the United States' own myopic view ? by its support for Israel's
harshly oppressive policy in the West Bank and Gaza, and furthermore this
support is a dangerous liability. As Mearsheimer and Walt note, most foreign
elites view the U.S. tolerance of Israeli repression as "morally obtuse
and a handicap in the war on terrorism," and this tolerance is a major
cause of terrorism against the U.S. and the West. The impetus for oppressing
the Palestinians clearly comes and has always come from Israel, not the United
States, and the impetus for supporting Israel and facilitating this oppression
has come, very clearly and directly, from the lobby, which goes to great
lengths to justify the occupation and to advocate on behalf of Israeli
policies.
It is tempting, and not at all out of the
realm of possibility, to imagine Bill Clinton having forged a final
Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement were it not for the influence of his notably
pro-Israeli advisers. By the time Clinton came to office, the lobby had become
a part of the policymaking apparatus, in the persons of Israeli advocates
Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk, both of whom entered government service from
lobby organizations. Both also returned at the end of the Clinton
administration to organizations that advocate for Israel: Ross to the
Washington Institute and Indyk to the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, which is financed by and named for a notably pro-Israeli
benefactor. The scope of the lobby's infiltration of government policymaking
councils has been unprecedented during the current Bush administration. Some of
the left critics dismiss the neo-cons as not having any allegiance to Israel;
Finkelstein thinks it is naﶥ to credit them with any ideological conviction,
and Zunes claims they are uninterested in benefiting Israel because they are
not religious Jews (as if only religious Jews care about Israel). But it simply
ignores reality to deny the neo-cons' very close ties, both ideological and
pragmatic, to Israel's right wing.
Both Finkelstein and Zunes glaringly fail
to mention the strategy paper that several neo-cons wrote in the mid-1990s for
an Israeli prime minister, laying out a plan for attacking Iraq these same
neo-cons later carried out upon entering the Bush administration. The strategy
was designed both to assure Israel's regional dominance in the Middle East and
to enhance U.S. global hegemony. One of these authors, David Wurmser, remains
in government as Cheney's Middle East adviser ? one of several lobbyists inside
the henhouse. The openly trumpeted plan, crafted by the neo-cons, is to
"transform" the Middle East by unseating Saddam Hussein, and the
notion, also openly touted, that the path to peace in Palestine-Israel ran
through Baghdad grew out of the neo-cons' overriding concern for Israel. Both
Finkelstein and Zunes also fail to take note of the long record of advocacy on
behalf of Israel that almost all the neo-cons (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle,
Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, and their
cheerleaders on the sidelines such as William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Norman
Podhoretz, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and numerous right-wing, pro-Israeli think tanks
in Washington) have compiled over the years. The fact that these individuals
and organizations are all also advocates of U.S. global hegemony does not
diminish their allegiance to Israel or their desire to assure Israel's regional
hegemony in alliance with the U.S.
The claimed interchangeability of U.S. and
Israeli interests ? and the fact that certain individuals for whom a primary
objective is to advance Israel's interests now reside inside the councils of
government ? proves the truth of the Mearsheimer-Walt's principal conclusion
that the lobby has been able to convince most Americans, contrary to reality,
that there is an essential identity of U.S. and Israeli interests and that the
lobby has succeeded for this reason in forging a relationship of unmatched
intimacy. The "overall thrust of policy" in the Middle East, they
observe quite accurately, is "almost entirely" attributable to the
lobby's activities. The fact that the U.S. occasionally acts without reference
to Israel in areas outside the Middle East, and that Israel does occasionally
serve U.S. interests rather than the other way around, takes nothing away from
the significance of this conclusion.
The tragedy of the present situation is
that it has become impossible to separate Israeli from alleged U.S. interests ?
that is, not what should be real U.S. national interests, but the selfish and
self-defined "national interests" of the political-corporate-military
complex that dominates the Bush administration, Congress, and both major
political parties. The specific groups that now dominate the U.S. government
are the globalized arms, energy, and financial industries, and the entire
military establishments, of the U.S. and of Israel ? groups that have
quite literally hijacked the government and stripped it of most vestiges of
democracy.
This convergence of manipulated
"interests" has a profound effect on U.S. policy choices in the
Middle East. When a government is unable to distinguish its own real needs from
those of another state, it can no longer be said that it always acts in its own
interests or that it does not frequently do grave damage to those interests.
Until the system of sovereign nation-states no longer exists ? and that day may
never come ? no nation's choices should ever be defined according to the demands
of another nation. Accepting a convergence of U.S. and Israeli interests means
that the U.S. can never act entirely as its own agent, will never examine its
policies and actions entirely from the vantage point of its own long-term self
interest, and can, therefore, never know why it is devising and implementing a
particular policy. The failure to recognize this reality is where the left
critics' belittling of the lobby's power and their acceptance of U.S. Middle
East policy as simply an unchangeable part of a longstanding strategy is
particularly dangerous.
Kathleen Christison is a former CIA
political analyst and has worked on Middle East issues for 30 years. She is the
author of Perceptions
of Palestine and The
Wound of Dispossession.
Bill Christison was a senior official of
the CIA. He served as a National Intelligence Officer and as Director of the
CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis. He is a contributor to Imperial
Crusades, CounterPunch's history of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.
They can be reached at kathy.bill@christison-santafe.com.
(6-28-06)The foregoing CIA Analysis reveals
the underpinnings of the current conflict in the Mideast owing to the
undeniable propensity of the lawless Christ-killing israelis to foment
destabilization and conflict consistent with their continuing violation of
International Law, UN Resolutions, Non(nuclear) proliferation treaties, etc.
Seizing Upon or provocatively creating
Incident To Foment Conflict Which Ultimately Will Inure to the Detriment of
america Among Other Nations, the Christ-killing jews reject an eminently
reasonable trade, viz., the release of women and children prisoners for the
israeli soldier/existing/probable/potential war criminal. The meaningfully
lawless war criminal americans have financed the lawless war criminal
Christ-killing israelis. Indeed, their over-reaction to the natural consequence
of their continued violation of International Law, UN Resolutions, Non(nuclear)
proliferation treaties, etc., provides yet another means by which they escalate
the conflict in the Mideast to the ultimate and substantial detriment and cost
to the West and america particularly. Criminal america can?t afford,
economically and geopolitically, the criminal acts of the lawless, ab initio,
criminal israelis. Why should the West, including america, and the people of
said nations pay and incur damage for the Christ-killing criminal israeli
lawless way.
If bush really meant protecting american
people was his priority, he would not be a shill for, and operative of the
Christ-killing israelis, jew lobbies, neo cons, etc., in carrying out israeli
policy which is contraindicated to american interests which have, are, and will
be substantially damaged thereby.
Switzerland:
Israel Violating Law in Gaza (7-4-06)
U.N.
Council Rebukes Israeli Operation
Ex-GI
Accused in Brutal Rape and Murderof Young Iraqi girl, and Killings of
family members
Israel
Arrests Deputy Palestinian PM
Israeli planes buzz home of Syrian leader (AP)
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Fighters demand end to Israeli offensive
Israel
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UK
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Israel's ongoing military operations in the occupied territories are
"nothing less than the collective punishment of an entire civilian
population," said a group of human rights, civil society and NGO
organizations in the UK.
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Israel
attack on Gaza raises death toll to 12
Israeli forces have now moved deep into northern Gaza on the ninth day
of the offensive, which has seen food, fuel and electricity supplies cut off
from the occupied territories.
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Israeli
military actions criticized at first UN Human Rights Council
Dozens of speakers yesterday denounced Israel's military operations in
the occupied Palestinian territory, calling them violations of international
humanitarian and human rights law, at the first-ever special session of the new
United Nations Human Rights Council, while the country's representative
countered that the meeting was politically motivated.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/6/2006
Israeli
bulldozers devastate Palestinian Arable lands
Israeli Bulldozers devastated Thursday vast areas of arable lands in
Beit Lahya and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, witnesses said.
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Human
Rights group says Israel violate Geneva convention
"Israel's actions constitute collective punishment against the
Gazan population, reaching to 1.6 million persons. Collective punishment is
prohibited according to Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, said the
Network in a statement.
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Israeli
warplanes bombarded a house in Gaza, injure child
Palestinian Presidency Spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rdaina said today the
decision of the Israeli Security Cabinet to bring the Israeli army to populated
areas in the Gaza Strip is a dangerous and ascending escalation to reoccupy the
Gaza Strip.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/5/2006
Albright
says Iraq war biggest mistake in US history
She pointed out that Washington did not take into account the
repercussions of the Iraq war
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UN
agencies concern over humanitarian conditions in Gaza
United Nations agencies yesterday expressed concern at the humanitarian
conditions in the Gaza Strip, at a time when more than half of the area's power
supply has been knocked out, and roads and water pipes have also been damaged
by Israeli air strikes.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/1/2006
Syria
rejects US accusations
Syria condemned Israel's haughty practices in the Palestinian occupied
territories saying "The Israeli military escalation poses a real threat to
the worlds' security and stability, Israel, paying no heed to the international
legitimacy resolutions
Syria-USA, Politics, 7/1/2006
Iran
criticizes US for violating Palestinians' rights
Iran's Deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs Seyed
Abbas Araqchi today strongly criticized the US and deplored that as a permanent
member of the UN Security Council, US fails to comply with its commitment and
constantly violates Palestinian rights by misusing its right of veto.
Palestine-Iran, Politics, 7/1/2006
Gulf
states condemn Israeli attacks
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council today condemned Israel's air and
ground raids on Palestinian lands, saying occupiers' brazen crimes are clear
instances of the rule of jungle.
Gulf-Palestine, Politics, 7/1/2006
US army
investigates Iraqi family's deaths
The Army's Criminal Investigation Command is looking into allegations
that coalition soldiers killed an Iraqi family of four in their home near
Mahmudiyah, Iraq, military officials said yesterday.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/1/2006
Iranian
rejection to nuclear talks with US
Iran's Deputy head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy
Commission Mohammad-Nabi Roudaki today said that the deadline for Iran to
respond to European package of incentives has been set under US pressure.
Iran-UN, Politics, 7/1/2006
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Israel Invades Gaza Strip |
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GAZA CITY, 29 June 2006 ? Vowing to use ?extreme
measures?, thousands of Israeli troops, backed by warplanes and tanks,
invaded the Gaza Strip yesterday and Israeli warplanes buzzed the seaside
home..... |
Israel Rejects Demand of Captors, Threatens
Attack
Seizing Upon Incident To Foment Conflict Which Ultimately
Will Inure to the Detriment of america Among Other Nations
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
GAZA CITY, 27 June 2006 ? Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday ruled out negotiations with the
Palestinian captors of an Israeli soldier, rejecting their demand to free
jailed women and minors .
Rational View: Eminently reasonable to request the release of women and
children.
Israeli army launches Gaza assault ? Christ-killing jews want no peace and america among other nations and peoples pay the price for their militance.
Israeli troops enter Gaza; Bridges hit (AP) ?? Christ-killing jews want no peace and america among other nations and peoples pay the price for their militance.
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Al-Awda Tells Israel to End Siege of Palestinian
Areas |
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NEW YORK, 2 July 2006 ? Al-Awda,
the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, has strongly condemned the Israeli
war crimes that are presently being committed against Palestinians, in the
on-going siege |
Christ-killing Israelis
strike hits Palestinian PM's office
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas, second from left, is
escorted by bodyguards after an Israeli missile hit his office in Gaza City,
Sunday, July 2, 2006. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the Hamas leader's
Gaza office early Sunday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Israeli Missiles and Shells Kill 21
Hisham Abu
Taha, Arab NewsGAZA CITY, 7 July 2006 ? Israeli tanks moved deeper
into Gaza Strip and its forces killed at least 21 Palestinians yesterday in the
bloodiest day since the Jewish state invaded Gaza on June 28
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A Question of Accountability |
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We begin with aggression and
conquest directed against two sovereign nations and the subsequent death and
destruction of life and land. Belligerence directed at most of the nations of
the world.... Illegal
renditions in Europe, warrants for CIA officers |
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Guantanamo: A Disgrace to Humanity |
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In a recent appearance on German
TV, US President George Bush showed a desire for closing down the accursed
Guantanamo prison. This is no surprise considering the spate of criticism
coming almost daily
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BAGHDAD, 2 July 2006 ? At least 66 people were killed by a
car bomb in a busy Baghdad market in a Shiite neighborhood yesterday, despite a
massive security crackdown in the Iraqi capital.
Israeli
Aircraft Hit Palestinian Ministry
Israel
acts violate Geneva Convention; international silence
Palestinian Center for Human
Rights (PCHR) strongly condemned Thursday the Israeli occupation forces
detention of Palestinian Cabinet Ministers, legislative council in the West
Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006
International
calls on Israel to halt Gaza attack
The UN International Meeting, in Vienna, convened by the Palestinian
Rights Committee, condemned the Israeli intensified military strikes, attacks
and extra judicial assassinations against the Palestinian people.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006
Israel
abducts of 8 Palestinian ministers, parliamentarians
Head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization negotiations department,
Saeb Ereikat condemned Thursday the Israeli abduction of 8 ministers and 20
Parliamentarians.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006
Palestinian
-Israeli conflict at impasse
Mahmassani said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was basically a
conflict over Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
Palestine-Regional, Politics, 6/29/2006
Israeli
violations against Syria denounced
Council of Arab League today strongly condemned the new Israel
provocation representing by violation of Syrian airspace.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006
Egyptian
Council condemn Israeli attack
Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs: The Israeli assault is an attempt
by the Israeli government to collectively punish the Palestinians for their
democratic choice, the council said today
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 6/29/2006?
War Criminal americans
have no rational position:
USA
position on Israeli attack on Gaza
US White House spokesman Tony
Snow yesterday was asked that "the Israelis have bombed a power plant --
that harms innocent civilians. Haven't they, like, clearly gone beyond what
you've just described here?"
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 6/29/2006
Lebanon
Accuses Israel in Bombing
Israel to
continue Gaza raids despite botched strikes (AFP) ?(6-22-06)
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Israel Seizes Palestinian Cabinet Ministers |
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GAZA CITY, 30 June 2006 ? One day into its invasion
of the Gaza Strip, Israel yesterday arrested dozens of Palestinian
politicians in an attempt to use them as bargaining chips in negotiations
for..... |
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Only Israel Responsible for the Crisis in
Mideast |
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The Palestinian people?s choice of Hamas to govern
them was an expression of the worsening situation in the occupied territories.
Since the Madrid conference following the Gulf War II, the Palestinian |
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Hamas Defiant as Israel Raids Gaza |
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GAZA CITY, 1 July 2006 ? A defiant Hamas vowed
yesterday it would not be cowed down by Israel after fighter jets blitzed
Gaza, hitting the Interior Ministry building in the latest assault aimed
at... |
Israel's
Hamas Tactics Have Backfired
Palestinian PM
Lashes Out at Israelis.....
Monument
to Late John Paul II Unveiled
Limbaugh
detained at Palm Beach airport (for bottle of Viagra in his possession without a
prescription). The sheriff's office plans to file a report with the state
attorney's office. Miller said it could be a second-degree misdemeanor
violation. Limbaugh reached a deal last month with prosecutors who had accused
the conservative talk-show host of illegally deceiving multiple doctors to
receive overlapping painkiller prescriptions. Under the deal, the charge, commonly
referred to as "doctor shopping," would be dismissed after 18 months
if he continues to submit to random drug tests and treatment for his
acknowledged addiction to painkillers.
Hu
Calls on Communists to Stop Corruption
Communist China Cracks
Down on Blogs, Search Engines.....
The world is on to war criminal america's war scam, to
pillage/steal/plunder Iraqi oil, american taxpayer money, to provide corporate
welfare to failed american companies, ie., haliburton, etc., benefit war
criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld, etc., via, ie., stock, stock
options, etc..
Indeed, the time has come to enforce disgorgement (of
their criminally ill-gotten gains) provisions of criminal statutes which should
be applied to crime families as, ie., the trumps, bushes, clintons, etc., for
blatent violation thereof.
dumbya bush declares that Zarqawi had blood on his hands
and justice was served.
War criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld,
etc., have blood on their hands but why has justice been so elusive regarding
their global and domestic crimes?
Bush ignores laws he inks, vexing Congress
PEW POLL:
Global image of America has slipped further.....
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Editorial: Afghan Woes |
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The tensions between the Afghan government of President
Hamid Karzai and both his NATO allies and his neighbor Pakistan are a clear
sign that the rising tide of Taleban and Al-Qaeda violence is disturbing..... |
Flooding
cripples Washington June 26, 2006.
FBI: Violent crime in U.S. on rise in 2005
Amnesty
calls for investigation Guantanamo deaths
The European Union repeated calls Monday for closure of the US detention
center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after three inmates reportedly committed
suicide on Sunday.
Regional-USA, Politics, 6/12/2006
dumbya bush confirms status
as embarrassingly dumb war criminal in press conference with malapropisms,
faulty grammar, non- responsive faulty ?logic?, etc.. 6-14-06
UPDATE: Bush,
Cheney assail media over bank-data program.....(Hardly_a_bastion of
credibility, bush/cheney when it comes to all things related to war
scams/diversion/incompetence, etc.)???
(7-4-06) While there
may come a day when people within and without america decide to forget and
forego so-called principles founded upon supposed underpinnings of so-called
ie., american ?democracy?, it should not be this day, with this (successor to
criminals clinton, et als) war criminals bush/cheney/rumsfeld, et als
regime!
Top
Sunni Asked Bush for Pullout Timeline
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Reinterpreting Iraq: US Propaganda Campaign
Under Way |
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To their credit, top US Pentagon
officials cautioned journalists and the public, since the Iraq war?s early
days, that the dissemination of misinformation would be a vital weapon in
their war strategy..... |
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Gitmo Lawyer Counters US Remarks |
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JEDDAH, 14 June 2006 ? As the
suicide of three Guantanamo detainees re-ignites the debate over the
legitimacy of an offshore US prison facility, the lawyer for two Tunisian
detainees told Arab News |
(6-13-06)War Criminal dumbya bush Sneaks Into
Iraq Like the Thief in the Night and Murderous War Criminal He Is
Top
court declares Guantanamo tribunals illegal
EU-US
"partners in crime" on CIA flights: Amnesty
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Marine Glorifies Child Killings
WASHINGTON, 14 June 2006 ? An Internet video
showing a Marine singing a song glorifying the killing of Iraqi children was
condemned yesterday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations These are sick, bottom of the barrel/lowered
standard/ lowered threshold criminal recruits for criminal war. |
Most-Wanted Iraq Terrorist Al-Zarqawi Dead.....
Some Dems call killing a stunt.....
$25M bounty 'will be honored'.....
Al-Qaida vows to continue 'holy war'.....
Father of beheaded man blames Bush.....
U.S.
Mad Cow Cases Are Mysterious Strain..... http://www.drudgereport.com
Zarkawi killed (less than 3-10% of the
"terrorists" are from outside Iraq, and Zarkawi had already lost
favor owing to his anti-Shiite bent and some even opine that the deal-$25
million worth- was done as was Zarkawi pre-bombing, he did look pretty good for
post two 500 pound direct hit bombs, and will be or already has been eagerly
replaced).
Several different 'versions/explanations"
surrounding the death have been "floated". Take the one they expect
you want to believe.
Pentagon says al-Zarqawi's death may trigger attacks/
officials cautioned of violence ahead ? and a string of
blasts proved that prediction almost immediately.
Iraq attacks kill 43 (6-18-06)
More than 2,500 U.S.soldiers have died in Iraq since the U.S.invasion
in 2003.(6-18-06)
Four US
Marines killed in Iraq(6-21-06)
Troops
charged with murdering Iraqi civilian(6-21-06)
Rambling rick santorum announces chemical WMDs found unused in
Iraq.....daaaaah!.....They say made in criminal america and were and to be used
on the Kurds with criminal america?s blessing, and for which former american
criminal buddy saddam hussein is currently being prosecuted(6-21-06)
Non-transparent regimes? nuclear tests; is war criminal bush
referring to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation usa?
Soldiers
missing in Iraq found dead?
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US Army Withheld News of Troops? Deaths |
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WASHINGTON, 23 June 2006 ? Army officials waited almost
nine months after completing an investigation into the deaths of two US
soldiers before informing their families the men were murdered by
insurgents... |
Bodies
of 2 missing GIs recovered in Iraq
Three
children killed by Israel air strike on Gaza
US
expects more Afghan violence
AP:
Iraqi troops killed 2 U.S. soldiers
21,000
troops notified for Iraq deployment
Israeli
air strike kills three children in Gaza (AFP)
Army
Charges 3 GIs With Murder in Iraq
GIs
eyed in new rape, murders in Iraq
US
probes troops in Iraq rape-murder case
Switzerland:
Israel violating law in Gaza
GIs
May Planned Iraq Rape, Slayings
Nominating an Arab for the Post of UN
Secretary-General
V. Balaji
Venkatachalam, Arab News A Wise Move
Israel
attacked Palestinian prime minister's office
The secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
(OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, in Saudi Arabia Monday condemned the Zionist
regime's air raid on the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya,
referring to it as a crime.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/3/2006
PLO
criticizes Arabs' silence on Palestine incidents
The PLO representative said, "On June 28, 2006, the Zionist regime
kidnapped 64 Hamas officials, who were elected in the recent democratic
election, including eight ministers and 24 members of parliament." Turning
to the arrested officials as the leaders of Palestinian people, Zaki said that
Israel is furious over the free election in Palestine and could not tolerate
it.
Palestine-Regional, Politics, 7/3/2006
Meshaal:
Israeli attacks increase Palestinian will against occupation
The two sides further called on the world's Muslims to continue their
support for the oppressed people of Palestine.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/3/2006
Palestinian
killed, farmers' lands threatened by Israeli bulldozers
Israeli bulldozers came back early Monday to destroy agricultural lands
in the village of Beit Ummar, after they were blocked by the people of
yesterday.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/3/2006
General
sees troop cuts in Iraq this year (6-22-06)
FBI
arrests seven in terrorism plot: source (6-22-06)
Egg
narrowly misses Phony Tony Blair..... (6-22-06)
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Kingdom Blasts Israel for ?Collective Punishment? of
Palestinians |
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JEDDAH, 4 July 2006 ? On the day of Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak?s visit to the Kingdom, Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned
Israel?s recent incursions into the occupied Palestinian territories,
calling... |
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Why Is the World Deaf to Gaza?s Cries? |
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How much longer must the Palestinian people be bombed,
starved, humiliated and abused before the international community speaks up
with one voice? How much longer will world leaders avert their eyes... |
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Yemenis Protest Israel?s Gaza Incursion |
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SANAA, 4 July 2006 ? Thousands of protesters took to the
streets in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday to protest the Israeli
incursion in the Gaza Strip and to demonstrate solidarity with the
Palestinians. Protesters... |
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Israel Has No Right to Fix Its Borders
Without Regard to Its Neighbors |
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On June 12 Israel?s new Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made
his first official visit to the United Kingdom, and had talks with Prime
Minister Tony Blair in No. 10 Downing Street. His visit followed hot..... (6-22-06) |
Army
officer refuses deployment..... (6-22-06)
Schwarzenegger
Denies Bush Troop Request(6-23-06)
Miami group
charged with Sears Tower bomb plot(6-23-06)
?? It
is amazing that some are disparaging the FBI?s prudent, competent action when
the reality is, and I believe it was also their intent to show, that many such
enemies/terrorists within the nation are predisposed to such criminal acts;
look at the crime stats; the highest crime rate in the world is in meaningfully
lawless criminal america.
FBI says
suspects sought to form own army (6-23-06)
FBI Disrupts
New York City Tunnel Plot..... (7-7-06)
Analysis:
CIA program expands Bush's power (6-23-06)
? I warned against the illegal Iraq
war/occupation debacle. I warned against giving war criminal bush war powers. I
also had set forth an optimal course for meaningfully lawless criminal america
as a matter of good faith and comity prior to yet another typically
meaningfully lawless abomination of a ruling. My warnings and sound advice has
gone unheeded to the detriment of even those who have ignored the truth/reality
among many, many others. (Conveying reality and truth has been very costly to
me in light of the proclivity of the criminals to cover-up, retaliate, corrupt,
and continue in their criminal ways.) Need I say more?
A
Deadly Week for U.S. Forces in Iraq(6-24-06)
Israeli
Troops Launch Incursion in Gaza(6-23-06)
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US Warns of Rise in Domestic Terror Cells |
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WASHINGTON, 25 June 2006 ? Florida-based terrorists
sought explosives and guns to wage war on the United States, pledged loyalty
to Al-Qaeda and plotted to topple Chicago?s soaring Sears Tower, US...
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U.S.
drafts plan for steep troop cuts in Iraq: NYT(6-24-06)
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Children Killed in Israeli Missile Attack |
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GAZA CITY, 21 June 2006 ? Israel
killed three Palestinian children, two of them siblings, in a missile attack
on the Gaza Strip yesterday hours after its defense minister vowed to step up
military... Full Story ?
?
2nd botched Israeli airstrike kills 2 (AP)
?
?
Botched Israeli air strike kills 2 in Gaza
(Reuters)
?
?
Palestinian civilians killed in fresh Israel air
strike (AFP)
?
?
American-Israeli indicted for smuggling arms (AFP)
Arab
Anger Flares.....
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Editorial: Price of Divisions |
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The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli
Army since the beginning of this month is more than 40, most of them civilians.
That figure includes the Ghalia family, slaughtered while on picnic.ArabNews |
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Kingdom Blasts Israel for ?Collective Punishment? of
Palestinians |
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JEDDAH, 4 July 2006 ? On the day of Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak?s visit to the Kingdom, Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned
Israel?s recent incursions into the occupied Palestinian territories |
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Why Is the World Deaf to Gaza?s Cries? |
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How much longer must the Palestinian people be bombed,
starved, humiliated and abused before the international community speaks up
with one voice? How much longer will world leaders avert their eyes..... |
4
more charged with rape, murder in Iraq
Neighbor and eyewitness Hussein Mohammed, 33, points to the charred ground
where clothing of the young Iraqi girl who was raped then killed along with
family members was burned outside of their home, Thursday, July 6, 2006, in
Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, Iraq. Former US Army Pfc. Steve D. Green was
charged Monday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina, with rape and
four counts of murder. At least four other U.S. soldiers still in Iraq are
under investigation in the attack. (AP Photo/Ali al-Mahmouri)
On
Israel's violation of the Geneva Convention
With the latest attacks by Israel against Palestinian lands in Gaza, and
property, Israel has once again broke the Geneva Convention, as it has done in
the past, according to the most respected international human rights
organizations, that includes Amnesty International and the Red Cross among
others.
Palestine-Israel, Editorial, 7/4/2006
Switzerland:
Israel has violated international humanitarian law
Switzerland added "A number of actions by the Israeli Defense
Forces in their offensive against the Gaza Strip have violated the principle of
proportionality and are to be seen as forms of collective punishment, which is
forbidden. For the DFA, there is no doubt that Israel has not taken the
precautions required of it in international law to protect the civilian
population and infrastructure."
Palestine-Israel-Switzerland, Politics, 7/4/2006
Israeli
attacks 'war crimes', says Amnesty International
Britain's leading human rights group warned Israel Monday that
"deliberate attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and
infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and
constitute war crimes."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/4/2006
Egypt,
Saudi Arabia call Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian facilities
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak returned home last night after a flight
visit to Saudi Arabia. Egypt and Saudi Arabia Monday stressed the importance of
bringing the situation in the Palestinian territories back to normal, stop
targeting the Palestinian infrastructures and intervention by the international
community represented by the Quartet for resuming peace process.
Regional-Israel, Politics, 7/4/2006
Israeli
soldiers kill Palestinian in Jenin
A Palestinian was killed Tuesday as the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)
opened fire at citizens while assaulting the West Bank City of Jenin.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/4/2006
Palestinian
children not sure if international law can protect them
Khalil Abu Shammala, Director of AL-Dameer Association for Human Rights,
said the children of Gaza are not sure now that the International Law and
Conventions capable of protecting them.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/7/2006
UN
Human Rights Council fact-finding mission to occupied Palestinian territory
Gravely concerned over the impact of Israel's current military
operations, the new United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday decided to
"urgently dispatch" a rights expert to undertake a fact-finding
mission on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, as
it concluded its first-ever special session in Geneva.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/7/2006
Boy
killed by Israeli troops in Jenin
A Palestinian 17-year-old boy was shot dead by Israeli troops in Jenin
Refugee Camp.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/7/2006
Palestinian
military operations against enemies not terrorist acts
Palestinian Ambassador to Iran, Salah al-Zawawi, said that those
speaking about international terrorism should note that military operations
against enemies are not considered as terrorist acts, but killing members of a
family are actually terrorism.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/7/2006
Belgian
peace activists protest Israeli aggression in Gaza
Several Belgian peace and human rights groups held a demonstration in
front of the Belgian Foreign Ministry in Brussels Thursday to protest the
ongoing Israeli aggression in Gaza.
Israel-Belgium, Politics, 7/7/2006
Police
report blames Iraq war for instigating terrorism
The war in Iraq has had a "huge impact" on motivating acts of
terrorism, according to a UK police report compiled by anti-terrorist
specialists.
Regional-UK, Politics, 7/8/2006
4
GIs Charged in Iraq Rape-Slaying Case
Call
for closing of US detention in Guantᮡmo
Five independent United Nations human rights experts have renewed their
call for the speedy closure of the United States detention centre at Guantᮡmo
Bay, noting that it still holds more than 450 prisoners in breach of
international human rights law five months after they first urged that it be
shut.
Regional-USA, Politics, 7/8/2006
Iran's
president blames US for chaotic Iraq
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad today said that the current
chaotic situation in Iraq emanated from presence of foreign troops in the
country.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 7/8/2006
Ahmadi-Nejad:
Israel is root problem of Muslim nations
Iran's President Ahmadi-Nejad said that regional states and Muslim
nations should mobilize their resources to deal with Israel.
Iran-Regional, Politics, 7/8/2006
Israel launches
strikes after rebuffing ceasefire: Christ-killing israelis don?t
want peace and are cost this nation and the world thereby.(7-8-06)
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Israel Using the Extremists as an Excuse to Avoid
Negotiations |
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The Europeans have rediscovered their backbones. ?The EU
condemns the loss of lives caused by disproportionate use of force by the
Israeli Defense Forces and the humanitarian crisis it has aggravated,?... The
Christ-killing jews always have an excuse other than their inherent greedy,
thieving, blood-thirsty, Christ-killing ways. |
Hamas Rejects ?Prisoner Offer?
Hisham Abu
Taha, Arab NewsGAZA CITY, 8 July 2006 ? Israeli troops killed seven
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip yesterday, a day after killing 24 over a
soldier?s capture. But in a possible attempt to find a way out of the
crisis,...
Mother,
daughter killed by Israeli attacks
Medical sources reported Saturday that two Palestinians were wounded in
an Israeli airstrike on al-Sheja'iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/8/2006
Israel
offers deal to Hamas
Hamas rejected suggestions from Israel's Public Security Minister Avi
Dichter that some Palestinian prisoners would be freed in return for freeing an
Israeli captured soldier.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/8/2006
Isarel
continues Palestinian land seizure
It added that large swathes of land were seized and annexed to nearby
settlements. Meanwhile, in Hebron district the Israeli occupation continues to
steal land necessary for the construction of its Apartheid Wall.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/8/2006
Israel's
threats to assassinate Palestinian officials to be taken seriously
The official in charge of the Political Department of Palestine Islamic
Jihad Movement in Lebanon, Ali Abu Shahin, said today that Israel's threat to
assassinate Palestinian officials, specially Prime Minister Ismael Haniya
should be approached as a serious issue.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/8/2006
ADC
Condemns Israeli Escalating Military Operation
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) condemned Israel's
escalating military siege, dubbed "Operation Summer Rains," in the
Gaza Strip.
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/8/2006
British
Jews: Israel 'terrorizing' entire Palestinian nation
Some 300 prominent British Jews Friday condemned Israel for its brutal
invasion of Gaza and urged the UK government to achieve an immediate ceasefire.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/8/2006
War Criminal bush's
foreign friends fading fast
Most of
the leaders who defied criticism at home to stand with him on Iraq
and win his friendship are no longer players on the world stage, or are on
their way out. And it was a small band of brothers to begin with. British Prime
Minister Tony Blair has said he'll step down before the
next national election and is coming under increasing pressure from his own
party to do it sooner. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid a
farewell visit to the United States last week. He is leaving office in
September.
Berlusconi to be tried for fraud
Former
U.S. Senator abruptly resigns from Apollo
? I?d say he?s ahead of the ubiquitous
fraud curve on wall street. Clearly a smart move.
Smart money (ie., buffet, foreign nations, etc.) leaving over-valued dollar owing to record deficits. u.s. government now even dipping into federal employee pension funds, has used social security funds for unsustainable deficit (borrowed funds from, ie., China, Japan, etc.)
americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market, absent fraud, is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a "beautiful democracy" in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition.(3-22-06)Lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling with contrived suckers' bear market "rally". Oil inventories down. Mental case dummy bush announces unending budget/treasury draining illegal occupation of illegally destroyed Iraq. Meaningfully lawless criminal nation america in decline. Oil prices down slightly (riiiiight), america's broke, new debt ceiling in excess of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight!......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] Smart money (ie., buffet, foreign nations, etc.) leaving over-valued dollar owing to record deficits. u.s. government now even dipping into federal employee pension funds, has used social security funds for unsustainable deficit (borrowed funds from, ie., China, Japan, etc.) americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market, absent fraud, is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a "beautiful democracy" in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition. (3-20-06)Waning Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street only modestly lower despite fall in leading economic indicators, the fact that u.s. is defacto bankrupt, with nasdaq up based on, "increased ipod sales".....riiiiight! apple ipod company, ticker symbol aapl, is a typical example of a u.s. company that really has not evolved in a positive sense in its core business despite being around from the beginning (kind of like gm, etc.). They do everything (that any company can do, ie., ipods, animation/pixar-poor disney, etc.) but their core business remains neanderthalic- "intel's the answer".....riiiiight! Who is going to buy u.s. worthless paper and falling dollar? The american mentally ill? (3-17-06)Waning Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling, in part helped by short covering. St. Patty's Day.....What have they been drinking? Oil prices up for the week, america's broke, new debt ceiling of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. The question is how high the interest rates must be to entice foreign investors to hold/buy u.s. worth_less paper. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight (3-16-06)Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling. Oil prices up, GM's losses up ($2 billion more than estimated), america's broke, new debt ceiling in excess of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight!......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] Smart money (ie., buffet, foreign nations, etc.) leaving over-valued dollar owing to record deficits. u.s. government now even dipping into federal employee pension funds, has used social security funds for unsustainable deficit (also subtantial borrowed funds from, ie., China, Japan, etc.) (3-15-06)Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling. NY manufacturing (what, paper?) index up, and Fed (america's broke, what do you expect them to say) adds impetus for "up move", even as new debt ceiling in excess of $8 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You believe what they say.....riiiiight! (3-14-06)Full moon explains lunatic fraud wall street"rally" and today's up move in light of worse than expected economic reports (Retail Sales and the Current Account). (3-13-06) Full moon explains 3-10-06 lunatic fraud "rally" and today's up move. One money manager comments on the 3-10 lunacy and that he'll be taking profits this week. (3-10-06) Record trade deficit, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] (3-8-06) (defacto bankrupt) u.s. gov't employee of st. louis fed. jawbones market with "don't worry, be happy" b**l s**t talk which gives lunatic frauds on wall street "cover story" for a devoid of reality slight up move. gov't says "oil aplenty". "You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. (3-3-06)The wall street fraud continues and can be ignored no longer: note google gives dose of reality regarding slowing growth (competition, etc.) and as in the dot com "pre-bust days", wall street frauds "retaliate" with sharp sell-off which evokes conciliatory appeasement to the wall street frauds with the typical wall street bull-***t story of unending growth less than 2 days later.....riiiight! americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a beatiful democracy in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition. (7-20-05) Oil inventories unexpectedly up, earnings exceeding and defying all expectations, gov't numbers "cooperating", bad news is great news, ie., GM "employee"giveaways, massive layoffs, etc., Riiiiight! They're all lunatics now. Full Moon In the fraudulent alice-in-wonderland criminal american world of wall street ! (7-8,11,13,14,15,19-05) Emily projected a "miss" and communist china promises reduced oil demand.....riiiiight! and Typically fake/false/fraudulent government numbers provide excuse for fake/false/fraudulent up move in stocks in typically lawless criminals america inc.....the Lunatic Frauds on Wall Street are in "Summer Ralley Mode" - It's their right to have a "suckers' Bear Market Summer Ralley ! New scam-"say, ie., earnings, etc., exceeded expectations riiiiight! As can be seen from even a "hurricane sell-off", this market is fully discounted and priced for perfection, that is, their fiction. Wall street frauds are people too and a full moon's just around the corner, as they "ralley toward the close" on near record oil prices and greater than expected drop in the leading indicators (.5%). Leading Indicators Down for fifth month in a row.. Oil sets new record at $59.37/barrel. This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] (7-7-05) Only in the alice-in-wonderland world of wall street is an event like the London bombings viewed as a positive BECAUSE of the NEGATIVE effect it will have on the world economy thereby decreasing demand for oil ..... riiiiight! Jobless claims up, oil inventories down, but retail sales of chinese goods up..... This is a manipulated suckers bear market rally by lunatic frauds on wall street!(6-29-05) Government public sentiment polls substantially exceed all estimates.....You can believe the criminal u.s. gov't, as the lunatic frauds on wall street "window dress" the quarter in suckers bear market short-covering rally.....riiiiight! (6-23,20-05) Full Moon In the fraudulent alice-in-wonderland criminal american world of wall street and criminal american gov. says "oil inventories fell less than expected", riiiiight, as the Lunatic Frauds on Wall Street are in "Summer Ralley Mode" - It's their right to have a "suckers' Bear Market Summer Ralley ! Wall street frauds are people too and a full moon's just around the corner, as they "ralley toward the close" on record oil prices and greater than expected drop in the leading indicators (.5%). Leading Indicators Down for fifth month in a row.. Oil sets new record at $59.37/barrel. This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] (6-13,14,15,16,17-05) Ditto! Oil sets new record above $58. Prices extend week-long rally; strong demand shows no sign of letting up despite soaring costs. June 17, 2005. Record quarterly trade/current accountsdeficit. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank said its business activity index slumped to minus 2.2 in June from 7.3 in May, the index's first negative reading in 25 months. One analyst objectively states that they(the frauds on wall street) ignore the bad news and overeact (exuberantly) to the upside on even marginally good news. Only in the fraudulent alice-in-wonderland criminal american world of wall street is a substantial drop in retail sales a substantial positive/excuse for stocks to rise. I guess the wall street lunatics think other nations will buy (ultimately) worthless criminal u.s. paper for no yield at all! (6-9-05)(monthly) Trade Deficit up 6.3% to 56 billion ("less than expectations"....riiiiight!),Oil Prices up, unemployment claims down (holiday shortened week is the reason), Smart Money Index (not a contrarian indicator) regarding (big money) investor confidence drops to 48 from 66, Rosiest economic picture from Greenspan since his "envy of all the world" speech that preceded prior market bust, "FROTHEY" housing bubble ......riiiiight! (6-1,2,3-05) Talking market up/jawboning defying rational foecasts/estimates/reality-you can believe the criminal u.s. gov't........Riiiiight! ......Manufacturing Growth Slower than forecast/Oil Prices Up (5-26-05)Frauds on Wall Street in "Summer Ralley Mode" - It's their right to have a "suckers' Bear Market Summer Ralley based on fraudulent/'false gov. data (5-19-05) Leading Indicators Down for fourth month in a row.. (4-29-05) Leading indicators down. Durable goods orders down. Unemployment Up (then there's those "uncounted millions" who've just stopped looking)! Wait one minute. Some false government data (like the WMD's in Iraq) to the suckers' market rescue: oil inventories up 5.4 million barrels ........Riiiiight! "They beat (lowered) expectations", time/reason to rally........Riiiiight! This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars](4-28-05) Dumbya bush reminds all that, "he's not an economist, accountant, lawyer, etc.", but don't sweat the details, the realities. What is bush? bush is STUPID! bush is a WAR CRIMINAL! bush is BURNT OUT! bush is a LIAR! bush is INCOMPETENT! Social Security is The "Idea" Of Social Security Privatization Is As Dumb as DUMBYA'S Error/War In Iraq - The "Lock Box/Funded/Non-Stock Market" Approach Would Be Best (government bonds could be used since if worthless, social security won't much matter). A "Means Test" Would Be Consistent With The "Social Insurance" Goal And The Maintenance of Demand (and Consumption); An Economic Safety Net For Some, So To Speak, And Consistent With Macroeconomic Goals. Some Serious Actuarial Work Will All But Eliminate The "Uncertainty" Most Assuredly Engendered By The Fraudulent World of wall street In Which "Bail Outs" As Have Already Occurred Though Little Publicized Would With Near Certainty Occur On A Grand Scale.
(6-16-05)In a CBS News/New York Times poll out Thursday, more than half the public disapproves of the job he's doing. And it gets worse from there:
- Only 39 percent approve of his handling of the economy.
- Only 39 percent approve of his handling of foreign policy.
- Only 37 percent approve of his handling of the war in Iraq.
- Only 25 percent approve of his handling of Social Security.
bush/blair denials regarding the 'Downing Street Memos' don't ring true. They lie as a standard modus operandi. The results are nothing less than disastrous, viz., ie., numerous civilians killed (including women and children), inflamed hearts and minds of the Arab World, as well as (former?)allies/friends, budget busting deficits, Iraq destroyed, theft, murder, torture, abuse of detainees, theft of huge amounts of (funded) money, etc.. There are reports that even the death counts are skewed/distorted, ie., moving seriously wounded (even dead?) soldiers out of Iraq so that they won't be counted as "killed in Iraq".
16 years of criminals/incompetents bush/clinton/bush leaves criminal america in an unequivocal decline - bush sr. to meet clinton in maine. Maybe discuss a new, formerly Mena, Arkansas illegal drug run/drop?
"Freudian Slip?"
Dumbya Lashes Out, "The Last Gasp of a Discredited Regime".
Based Upon My Own (and the Rest of the World's) Observation and Experience With Meaningfully Lawless criminal america, Dumbya Must Have Been Talking About Meaningfully Lawless criminal america.
TYRANNY COMES TO AMERIKA- REPORTERS TARGETED By: Henry Makow
The "suicide" deaths of Hunter Thompson, Gary Webb and J.H. Hatfield show that reporters who expose the criminal activities of our political elite are risking their lives. They are on the front line of freedom. When they are killed, it means very bad things are in store. In the latest issue of "World Currency Review," veteran British intelligence analyst Christopher Story warns us to expect a tyranny in America worse than Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. I'll elaborate below. Hunter Thompson was killed late last month. He was working on stories dealing with a homosexual callboy (or programmed sex slave?) ring in the Bush White House and the demolition of the World Trade Center. Gary Webb was killed in December. His specialty was the Cocaine Import Agency (CIA). J.H. Hatfield "committed suicide" in 2001. His book "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President" was actually withdrawn by the publisher during the 2000 election campaign. About 100,000 copies were actually burned!
During the Terri Schiavo Passing/Turmoil/Hypocritical Obsession, Dumbya Times Release Of Assessment of Fault Regarding american War Criminals' Invasion Of Iraq Based On Lies As Requested By War Criminal Dumbya. Between Those Iraqi Children Starved By Criminal Hillbilly clinton Sanctions and Those Killed By Criminal american Dumbya's Cruise Missiles, Where Is The Outrage Over Their Failure To Err On The Side Of Life For, ie., Among Others, These Iraqi Children:
(7-7-05) Phony tony blair owes the English people an apology for having unreasonably exposed them to harm/retaliation for having joined war criminal(s) dumbya bush and company in their fraudulent war based on lies and killing numerous innocent Iraqi civilians, including women and children, continuing the contrived clinton/bush sr. 'wag the dog' tradition/conflict.
(5-26-05)The Downing Street "Memo" is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002—a full eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The Times of London printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005, but to date US media coverage has been limited. The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was "fixed" to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush administration’s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
- Downing Street Minutes/Exhibits and the b.U.S.h War Crimes
- The WTC Demolition
- The 911 Criminal american Fraud/Murders
(6-15-05) With the release of the autopsy of Terry Shiavo (admittedly a sad case), given her neuron depleted/destroyed, brain-damaged, half-brain we now understand brain-damaged murderous war criminal bush's special empathy for her plight (but not her). He must be "hearing footsteps". "Err on the side of life" (says war criminal dumbya bush). Riiiiight, just like in Iraq, criminal poppy-son.
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Details Disclosed In Fraud Case By Ernesto Londo񯊗ashington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 14, 2006;
"Former White House adviser Claude A. Allen admitted "that he was committing fraudulent returns" on Jan 2. when a store manager confronted him as he was leaving a Gaithersburg Target with merchandise he allegedly didn't pay for, a police charging document says......."(25 other instances of fraud) Former bush fed. appeals court nominee should have consulted with more "successful" fed. criminal employees/contractors, viz., ie., sam alito, maryanne trump, hugh leonard, j.h.matz, robert lester, alan shiff, dorsey, etc..
3-13-06: White House Staff Described As 'Exhausted,' 'Battered,' 'Drained'...
3-13-06: New case of mad cow reported in u.s..
Dumbya's Bumbya bush bro hillbilly jeb says he plans close relationship with New Pope. For any man of the cloth, any relationship with the "bad news bushes" is anti-Christ and anti-Christian, based on what they do, and who they are, not what they say!
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The New Big Lie/Fraud By Criminal america -
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3-16-06: u.s. bounced from world baseball; hooray!
British publisher for Nexus Magazine, Marcus Allen, presented his analysis of the Apollo moon landing, which he believes may have been faked. The reason for such a hoax was "basically for propaganda," so that America could demonstrate its "technological prowess". Having worked as a photographer in London in the 1960s, Marcus was able to examine the well known photographs issued by NASA from a professional viewpoint. He has also researched many other aspects of Apollo. He has given many public presentations on this subject during which he always asks for someone to prove him wrong. To date no one has! He has reluctantly come to the conclusion that it is beyond reasonable doubt some manipulation of the Apollo record has taken place and none of the u.s. astronauts has ever set foot on the moon. He is correct and agrees with, among others in the know, Bart Sibrel.
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Criminal america's luciferian Contingent To Rome - Word Has It: Laura bush loves(d) her dope (that's literally and figuratively true).
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ISRAELIS were 9-11 short sale stock buyers, betting on WTC terror strikes, story killed...
author: Mossad watch
FYI. Makes sense to me. Particularly when the Mossad cells were watching the "Al-CIAda" cells the whole time from Virginia to the 9-11 day-of when they were filming the towers being hit and collapsing, celebrating all the while. Of course Rabbi Chertoff of the Homeland Security Department now (then, the second in command under Ashcroft at the DOJ) let the Mossad budding filmmakers out of the country, without explanation, without much media coverage.
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Thu Apr 7, 2005 By Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY
U.S. and worldwide economic growth peaked in 2004, the World Bank said Wednesday in a report that predicted a gradual economic slowdown, while not entirely ruling out a global recession.
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AMERICA'S DEATH SQUADS-
THEY'RE MURDERING INNOCENTS IN IRAQ
By: Justin Raimondo
International Law and UN Resolution Violator israel, like the Christ-Killing jew neocons whose lies precipitated the conflagration/disaster in Iraq, claim "intelligence" regarding Iran Nuclear. |
Panelists in FDA Drug Vote Tied to Makers(AP) - Ten members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel who voted that a group of powerful pain killers should continue to be sold had ties to the drug makers, an advocacy group says. A study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest indicates that 10 of the 32 panel members had ties to either Pfizer Inc. or Merck & Co., ranging from consulting fees and speaking honoraria to research support. Typical criminal american Corruption! Ford Tries To "Shore Up" Ford's (as GM's) Junk Bonds By Alliance With Microsoft To Add Technology to Autos. NOW with microsoft/bill gates' help, your cars can be hacked, virus infected, tacken over, crashed, won't start, etc., just like the monopoly-innefficiently incompetent geek performance ofo microsoft now! How 'bout focusing on building better, more reliable CARS (like the Japanese do, for example)! The Latest Criminal american Sham/Scam - Outlaw Vitamins Except as Prescription Meds |
Fears for Pope as he undergoes surgery
John Hooper in Rome/
Friday February 25, 2005/
The Guardian
As millions of Catholics worldwide prayed last night for the health of Pope John Paul II, medical experts warned that he was a now a very sick man who could easily suffer health complications.
Pray for the Pope, Who Doesn't Just 'Talk the Talk, But Walks the Walk', and also Buy His Book. [Click Here For Some Photos]
04-02-05: The Pope Passes Away - Current Slideshows/Photo Galleries
John Paul II headed for sainthood
THE late Pope John Paul II was officially on the fast track to sainthood overnight as the Roman Catholic Church began the inquiry that could lead to his beatification or canonisation in record time. |... (photo: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images)
European View:
World View.
THEY'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN...
WAR PARTY'S AGENDA: SYRIA, IRAN & BEYOND
By: Justin Raimondo
"They've only just begun,
To kill.
White lace and Abu Ghraib,
A kiss for luck and we're on our waaaaaay"
With apologies to the shade of Karen Carpenter, the lyrics of her famous song – with a few creative tweaks here and there – pretty much sum up the triumphalist feeling on the other side of the barricades, where the War Party is gathering. It's a new day, for them, the dawning of the age of Ares, in which the widely loathed war god looms larger than Zeus, overshadows Christ, and aims his arrows at the birthplace of the latter. The much-anticipated "transformation" of the Middle East, augured by the invasion and conquest of Iraq, was supposed to usher in a new era of "democracy." The peoples of the region were supposed to recognize that they have nothing to lose, after all, but their chains: they were going to rise up, and, in doing so, uplift themselves into modernity.
EXCEPT IT ISN'T TURNING OUT THAT WAY!
- Downing Street Minutes/Exhibits and the b.U.S.h War Crimes
- The WTC Demolition
- The 911 Criminal american Fraud/Murders
General Says Iraq Insurgency Still Active By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
(6-23-05)
WASHINGTON - The Iraqi insurgency is as active as six months ago and more foreign fighters are flowing in all the time, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Thursday, despite Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence that the insurgency was "in its last throes."
Who Do You Believe?
IN DEFENSE OF
JOHN PAUL II, PEACEMAKER-
WAR PARTY PRETENDS TO MOURN HIS DEATH
WASHINGTON - The Iraqi insurgency is as active as six months ago and more foreign fighters are flowing in all the time, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Thursday, despite Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence that the insurgency was "in its last throes."
IRAQ ACTION 'CRIME OF AGGRESSION'
Lord Goldsmith has denied being 'leaned on'.
The Iraq war amounted to a "crime of aggression", the former deputy legal adviser to the Foreign Office has said.
Elizabeth Wilmshurst made the claim before war in her resignation letter, obtained by the BBC News Website (BBC 3-23-05).
IRAQ: 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED'? THAT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE MISSION WAS By: Justin Raimondo
AND THE MASSES WHO SUPPORT THE LEADERS
By: Dorothy Anne Seese
Mad Cow, Alzheimers, or Senility, Greenspan's "Gone"
Bush Is Still Mindlessly Harping On Social Security Privatization Despite One Senator (Shumer) Even Displaying on His Website The Hard Numbers. Another, Like The Debacle In Iraq, bush-bad Idea. Time For All To Realize That bush Is an Incompetent Moron. He is Quite Stupid. He also, like bad bush senior, and their Hillbilly Bro clintons, is Quite Bad. At the Least, A War Criminal Who Should Be In Jail. The bush/clinton/bush years have turned the cold war victory into at most a battle won as they have "lost the war". Remember, Consumption Is 65% of GNP.
Iraq Body Count [Current]
THE CIA CREATED THE DRUG CULTURE - MY WEEKEND WITH TIMOTHY LEARY By: Henry Makow
BIG BROTHER FOSTERS DEPENDENCY
THEN SHUTS YOU OFF
By: Paula Devlin
WHO HAS THE WMD'S? WE DO By: Jim Moore - On Depleted Uranium and Other Things
(4-28-05) Dumbya bush reminds all that, "he's not an economist, accountant, lawyer, etc.", but don't sweat the details, the realities. What is bush? bush is STUPID! bush is a WAR CRIMINAL! bush is BURNT OUT! bush is a LIAR! bush is INCOMPETENT! Social Security is The "Idea" Of Social Security Privatization Is As Dumb as DUMBYA'S Error/War In Iraq - The "Lock Box/Funded/Non-Stock Market" Approach Would Be Best (government bonds could be used since if worthless, social security won't much matter). A "Means Test" Would Be Consistent With The "Social Insurance" Goal And The Maintenance of Demand (and Consumption); An Economic Safety Net For Some, So To Speak, And Consistent With Macroeconomic Goals. Some Serious Actuarial Work Will All But Eliminate The "Uncertainty" Most Assuredly Engendered By The Fraudulent World of wall street In Which "Bail Outs" As Have Already Occurred Though Little Publicized Would With Near Certainty Occur On A Grand Scale.Pentagon says Iraq war erodes military's abilities By Will Dunham
Tue May 3, 2005 6:11 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military's operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have constrained its ability to tackle other potential conflicts, making any future war more likely to be longer and bloodier, according to America's top general. ................................
Bush was asked during an April 28 news conference whether troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan were limiting U.S. military options elsewhere in the world. Bush responded that he asked Myers a similar question.
"I say, 'Do you feel that we've limited our capacity to deal with other problems because of our troop levels in Iraq?' And the answer is, 'No,' he doesn't feel we're limited. He feels like we've got plenty of capacity," Bush told reporters.
(5-26-05) The Downing Street "Memo" is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002 a full eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The Times of London printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005, but to date US media coverage has been limited. This site is intended to act as a resource for anyone who wants to understand the facts revealed in this document.
The contents of the memo are shocking. The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was "fixed" to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush administration’s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
When asked, British officials "did not dispute the document's authenticity." and a senior American official has described it as "absolutely accurate." Yet the Bush administration continues to simultaneously sidestep the issue while attempting to cast doubt on the memo's authenticity.
War Criminals Dumbya bush and Co. Must Be Impeached/Prosecuted for Their Crimes Against Humanity!
- Downing Street Minutes/Exhibits and the b.U.S.h War Crimes
- The WTC Demolition
- The 911 Criminal american Fraud/Murders
Updated 15 February 2005.
The National Debt is $7.6 Trillion!
Check it yourself at the U. S. Treasury Department web site, it changes daily.
In FY04 the U. S. Government spent $322 Billion of your money on interest payments* to the holders of the National Debt.
March, 2005: In Testimony Before Congress, Greenspan Pegs the Social Security Shortfall/Deficit At $10.6 Trillion and the Medicare/Medicaid Shortfall at an Amount Several Times That!
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Courtesy of George Norry,Coast to Coast am, [Who has gotten smarter-but not that smart since he still thinks criminal americans have set foot on the moon - NOT!!!!! ]:George Norry senses a gradual but continuing erosion of and what will become an abrogation of constitutional law/rights in criminal america; an america that is but a fraction of what iteven purported to be, which in reality, was not that good to begin with. Meaningfully lawless criminal america is borne out by guests (in alphabetical order):
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Click For Latest In The Fraudulent 'Alice-in-Wonderland World' of criminal america's wall street - Full Moon Today (1-25-05) (and again on 1-26-05) (1-27-05 the irrational exubrance of the Lunatic Frauds on wall street begins to wane along with the waning full moon) and The Lunatic Frauds on wall street Meet Expectations of Lunacy/Irrationality/Fraud. On this day (1-31-05), having lost the "January Effect", typical wall street fraud/churn-and-earner now posits, over the air waves, on radio, that "when the year ends in the number '5' the market tends to do okay/good/fair-to-midland". What Total B**l S**t!. (2-01-05) More and more (2-2-05) irrational exuberance of the Lunatic Frauds on wall street as they welcome the higher interest rates to reign in the "booming" economy financed by huge deficits and to prop the sinking dollar. More than just numbers sinking wall street. They call it Reality. (2-4-05) Commentator/Analyst: The Market is Counter-intuitive. Badnews no problem(2-10-05) Pundit/broker/fund manager-"Seasonal sweetspot for Market". What Total B**l S**t!. They're "running on fumes" (of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus). (2-15-05) $322 billion interest paid on huge national debt, retail sales down "but not as much as expected" as stocks (suckers' bear market) rally. What Total B**l S**t!. (2-23-05) Suckers' Bear Market Bounce. Asia Limiting Prospective Investments to Non-Dollar Denominated Assets. A Very Rational Decision! (2-24-05) Oil prices up, wholesale prices up, durable goods orders down. No Problemo for the Lunatic Frauds on wall street! (2-25-05) Oil prices up, wholesale prices up, durable goods orders down, deficits up-Suckers' Bear Market ralley puzzles even the pundits/frauds - answer-the Full Moon/lunatics. They're "running on fumes" (of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus). (3-1-05) Suckers' Bear Market Bounce. Private Firm Renders Favorable Report On Manufacturing......Riiiiight! What production? Production of what? Red Tape, PaperClips, and Manila Folders? They're "running on fumes" and B**l S**t! (of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus). (3-3-05)They're "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus). (3-4-05) Fake Job Numbers Like Before The "Fixed Election". They're "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus). (3-14-05) Oil Prices Up! They're "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus). (3-17-05) Record Trade/budget deficits. Record oil prices. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway charges that the U.S. is headed for a massive dollar crisis caused by a trade deficit running at better than $600 billion annually. In Testimony Before Congress, Greenspan Pegs the Social Security Shortfall/Deficit At $10.6 Trillion and the Medicare/Medicaid Shortfall at an Amount Several Times That! They're "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus).(3-28-05) Pent-up full-moon holiday demand leads to lunatic frauds on wall street suckers' market bounce. They're "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (of the now waning deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus). (3-30-05)Pent-up full-moon holiday demand leads to lunatic frauds on wall street suckers' market bounce. They're "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (of the now waning deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus).(4-4-05) Oil Futures Down 26 cents. Market Rallies. Everything has Changed and the rest of the world loves the Criminal american frauds, China isn't going to use anymore oil, will continue to buy worthless dollar-denominated assets, and will stop embarrassing american manufacturers. APRIL FOOLS! .....Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (of the now waning deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus).(4-5-05)Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally"......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t!(4-6-05)Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally"......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t, allegedly based upon the following greenspanism, "To support the claim that prices may moderate, he pointed to the futures markets noting that "futures prices for delivery of both West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes for the summer exceed spot prices. That will likely support increased inventories of crude oil". What total B**l S**t! greenspan's either senile or like many misdiagnosed american mental cases (ie., alzheimers, etc.) suffering from mad cows' disease.(4-7-05) That "Bastion of Democracy" Saudi Arabia Tries To Bail Out Empty Words of Greenspan/bush and Falls Markedly Short of Reality. Economists Had Predicted That $50/b Oil Meant Recession. They Were Right, Except Much Worse Despite False Numbers/Reports In Light of the Convergence Of Numerous Negative Factors. The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t! (4-19-05)Lunatic Wall Street Frauds' New Fraud/Scam: Without "Santa Claus' Rally, "Year-End Rally, Etc., To Suck Them In, The Frauds On Wall Street develop new scam to keep "sucking them in", viz., "they beat (lowered) expectations", time/reason to rally........Riiiiight! They are now even discounting what are becoming the only unmanipulated indicator left, 'insider selling'. Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t.
Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] and Feeds WALL STREET SUCKERS' BEAR MARKET uptick. This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t.
(4-25-05) Waning Full Moon. Government numbers say (you can't believe a word they say) new housing sales rose 12.2 percent. Near unanimity that housing starts would be down 6.9 million. (False) numbers say they rose 6.9 million. Riiiiight! Ya think they left out the minus sign. This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t. (4-27-05) Waning full moon. Leading indicators down. Durable goods orders down. Wait one minute. Some false government data (like the WMD's in Iraq) to the suckers' market rescue: oil inventories up 5.4 million barrels ........Riiiiight! "They beat (lowered) expectations", time/reason to rally........Riiiiight! This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] (5-3,4,5,6-05) Gov't. labor stats exceed all private estimates substantially (274,000 vs. 174,000)........Riiiiight! bush and greenspan against raising FDIC/SIPC coverage/limits saying the expense when failures occur too great. At least their plugged in to what smart money already knows in this "1929-style" economy. Who's going to buy the lyin' criminal american "paper"? GM Vehicle Sales Down 7.7%. Ford's down 5.1%. Kooky Kirk Kerkorian to the Rescue? Whose Rescue? Current Shareholders who want to sell. GM worth more in parts (sale) than whole, with tougher times ahead. Government says gas inventories up ........Riiiiight! Fed Looks to 30 year bonds to finance runaway deficits. Higher interest rates (need to finance huge deficits). Leading indicators down. Durable goods orders down. Obfuscating mergers. Wait one minute. Some false government data (like the WMD's in Iraq) to the suckers' market rescue: oil inventories up 5.4 million barrels ........Riiiiight! "They beat (lowered) expectations", time/reason to rally........Riiiiight! This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t. Factory production down. Oil prices up (then down, then up-China,India, etc.). Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. (5-11-05) More Gov't. Numbers/Statistics (favorably) exceed private estimates (re: trade deficit, oil/gas/gasoline inventories, etc.)........Riiiiight! Mobster trump to come out of latest bankruptcy scam/fraud. Obfuscating mergers. Largest (UAL) pension default in history (more to follow). Wait one minute. Some false government data (like the WMD's in Iraq) to the fraudulent market rescue. "Suck them In"! "They beat (lowered) expectations", time/reason to rally........Riiiiight! This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes", fraud and B**l S**t. (5-19-05) Leading Indicators Down for fourth month in a row. (5-18-05) More gov. b.s. numbers, fuels frauds on the (wall) street (5-17-05) Fed/administration "jawbones" the market up with ooooooohhh.... so tough talk, ie., they'll huff and puff and blow the juan down (or up?). (5-16-05) Confidence Down, but wall street Confidence game (fraud) Up. N.Y. Manufacturing Down 11%, to the wall street frauds that implies things looking up........Riiiiight! More Gov't. Numbers/Statistics (favorably) exceed private estimates (re: trade deficit, oil/gas/gasoline inventories, etc.,5-13-05-retail sales)........Riiiiight! (5-26-05)Frauds on Wall Street in "Summer Ralley Mode" - It's their right to have a "suckers' Summer Ralley based on fraudulent/'false gov. data (6-1,2,3-05) Talking market up/jawboning defying rational foecasts/estimates/reality-you can believe the criminal u.s. gov't........Riiiiight! ......Manufacturing Data below Forecasts/Oil Prices Up (6-9-05)(monthly) Trade Deficit up 6.3% to 56 billion ("less than expectations"....riiiiight!),Oil Prices up, unemployment claims down (holiday shortened week is the reason), Smart Money Index (not a contrarian indicator) regarding (big money) investor confidence drops to 48 from 66, Rosiest economic picture from Greenspan since his "envy of all the world" speech that preceded prior market bust, "FROTHEY" housing bubble ......riiiiight! (6-13,14,15,16,17-05) Ditto! Oil sets new record above $58 (6-23,20-05) Full Moon In the fraudulent alice-in-wonderland criminal american world of wall street and criminal american gov. says "oil inventories fell less than expected", riiiiight, as the Lunatic Frauds on Wall Street are in "Summer Ralley Mode" - It's their right to have a "suckers' Bear Market Summer Ralley ! Wall street frauds are people too and a full moon's just around the corner, as they "ralley toward the close" on record oil prices and greater than expected drop in the leading indicators (.5%). Leading Indicators Down for fifth month in a row.. Oil sets new record at $59.37/barrel. This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]
Prices extend week-long rally; strong demand shows no sign of letting up despite soaring costs.
June 17, 2005. Record quarterly trade/current accounts deficit. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank said its business activity index slumped to minus 2.2 in June from 7.3 in May, the index's first negative reading in 25 months. One analyst objectively states that they(the frauds on wall street) ignore the bad news and overeact (exuberantly) to the upside on even marginally good news. Only in the fraudulent alice-in-wonderland criminal american world of wall street is a substantial drop in retail sales a substantial positive/excuse for stocks to rise. I guess the wall street lunatics think other nations will buy (ultimately) worthless criminal u.s. paper for no yield at all! (6-29-05) Government public sentiment polls substantially exceed all estimates.....You can believe the criminal u.s. gov't, as the lunatic frauds on wall street "window dress" the quarter in suckers bear market short-covering rally.....riiiiight! |
(7-1-05) Oil prices heading back up- market rallies -lunatic frauds on wall street continue suckers bear market bounce.....riiiiight!(7-5-05) suckers bear market rally by lunatic frauds on wall street because in the alice-in-wonderland world of wall street, one-time spike in plane orders (great b.s. talking point) and near record oil prices ("great for earnings.....riiiiight!"(7-7-05) Only in the alice-in-wonderland world of wall street is an event like the London bombings viewed as a positive BECAUSE of the NEGATIVE effect it will have on the world economy thereby decreasing demand for oil ..... riiiiight! Jobless claims up, oil inventories down, but retail sales of chinese goods up..... This is a manipulated suckers bear market rally by lunatic frauds on wall street! (7-8,11,13,14,15,19-05)Emily projected a "miss" and communist china promises reduced oil demand.....riiiiight! and Typically fake/false/fraudulent government numbers provide excuse for fake/false/fraudulent up move in stocks in typically lawless criminals america inc.....the Lunatic Frauds on Wall Street are in "Summer Ralley Mode" - It's their right to have a "suckers' Bear Market Summer Ralley ! New scam-"say, ie., earnings, etc., exceeded expectations riiiiight! As can be seen from even a "hurricane sell-off", this market is fully discounted and priced for perfection, that is, their fiction. Wall street frauds are people too and a full moon's just around the corner, as they "ralley toward the close" on near record oil prices and greater than expected drop in the leading indicators (.5%). Leading Indicators Down for fifth month in a row.. Oil sets new record at $59.37/barrel. This bull cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Suckers' bear market short-covering "rally" at best......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars](7-20-05) Oil inventories unexpectedly up, earnings exceeding and defying all expectations, gov't numbers "cooperating", bad news is great news, ie., GM "employee"giveaways, massive layoffs, etc., Riiiiight! They're all lunatics now. Full Moon In the fraudulent alice-in-wonderland criminal american world of wall street !
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"A report on Thursday night's Primetime Live gives a hint at the kind of explicit
testimony jurors may hear.
The newsmagazine recounts grand-jury testimony from Jackson's young accuser,
a onetime cancer patient, now 15, in which the boy says the entertainer "put his
hand down my pants and he started rubbing me...my private area." While Jackson did this, the boy said, the singer's "eyes were like squinching [sic] really tight."
The grand jury convened last year, returning a 10-count indictment against Jackson. The charges range from molestation to conspiracy to playing bartender to a minor.
According to ABC News, the boy told the grand jury that Jackson assured him it was "okay" to drink alcohol even if, because of illness, he had just one kidney.
Per earlier reports, Jackson allegedly enticed the accuser and his siblings with cans of Coke filled with white wine ("Jesus Juice") and red wine ("Jesus Blood").
ABC News' summary of the grand-jury testimony also includes a passage in which the accuser's younger brother tells of seeing an erect Jackson walk around in the nude.
"He started to tell us it was natural...It's just normal," the brother said, per ABC News. 
judge rules, "Vaseline Out"! "Everyone knows that jacko, aroused and in bed with young boy toy, 
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PROSECUTORS IN THE SAMANTHA RUNNION CASE-THE JUST OUTCOME WAS NEVER IN DOUBT!
There are Some american criminals Who Are Debating Using Convicted Felons In The u.s. military. Judging by the war crimes, I'd say they're already there!U.S. General Says It Is 'Fun to Shoot Some People' Feb 3, 3:09 PM (ET)
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Marine Corps general who said it was "fun to shoot some people" should have chosen his words more carefully but will not be disciplined, military officials said on Thursday. Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, made the comments at a conference Tuesday in San Diego.
american judges are lying criminals in the meaningfully lawless criminal american tradition
Arabic News Lebanese presidency: The US should be tough on Israel, not us
Lebanon-USA, Politics (2/12/2005)
Lebanese Presidential General Directorate said Friday that Lebanon's formal attitude towards the UN 1559 resolution stressed the respect to all the international resolutions particularly those related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"There is no need to issue such a resolution if former UN resolutions were implemented then," the directorate said in a statement.
Who's Killing the Microbiologists and Why?
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The Costly (To The Entire World) Turmoil In The Middle East Has Direct Current and Historical Ties To The Terrorist/Provocator/Lawless Israelis
(4-7-05)It's Not Often That I'm Constrained To Side With A Left-Wing Rag Like The La Times But GM Is Pathetic, Up To Old Tricks Consistent With Non-Performance (Remember The DeLorean "Blow-Sting"), and Shoots The Messenger:
GM Pulls Ads from Los Angeles Times Over Coverage
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. has pulled its advertising from the Los Angeles Times over what it called factual errors and misrepresentations in the newspaper, a spokesman for the automaker said on Thursday.
![Pope John Paul II was taken to a hospital late on February 1, 2005, Italian media including national news agency ANSA and Sky Italia television said. The pope fell ill with influenza on Sunday and was forced to cancel all his engagements over the past two days. The pope is shown observing a white dove released by children at the Vatican, on January 30, 2005. [Reuters]](pope20105.jpg)
Pope John Paul II
was taken to a hospital late on February 1, 2005, Italian media including
national news agency ANSA and Sky Italia television said. The pope fell
ill with influenza on Sunday and was forced to cancel all his engagements
over the past two days. The pope is shown observing a white dove released
by children at the Vatican, on January 30, 2005.
[Reuters] For this reason it was urgently
decided that he be taken to the Policlinico Gemelli which happened at 10:50 pm,"
the spokesman said in a statement released shortly before midnight Tuesday to a
throng of reporters outside the Rome hospital.
Pope
hospitalized for breathing problems(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-02 09:23b>
Flu-stricken Pope John Paul II was fighting for breath when he was
rushed to hospital in an emergency, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls
told reporters.
"The flu which has been affecting the Holy Father for three days was
complicated with acute inflammation of the larynx and laryngo-spasm," a
condition where one cannot catch one's breath, Navarro-Valls said..
