-
Perle invites French military analyst Laurent Murawiec to address US security
panel. When Murawiec said Saudi Arabia is `active at every level of the
terrorist chain,' the Bushmen hastened to describe the Saudis as allies in
the war on terrorism.
WT
(Yet when Iraq's alleged terrorism ties are shown to be old, feeble, or
nonexistent, the war drums beat even louder.)
-
Kristina Borjesson
(awarded fmr CNN producer, CBS reporter)
Into The Buzzsaw—Leading
Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
The buzzsaw is a powerful system of censorship in this country
that is revealed to those reporting on extremely sensitive stories, usually
having to do with high-level government and/or corporate malfeasance. It
often has a fatal effect on one's career. I don't want to mix metaphors here,
but a journalist who has been through the buzzsaw is usually described as
`radioactive,' which is another word for unemployable.
[ZM
quoting Buzzsaw]
-
DC's West-Nile bird deaths seem to be clustered around the former
HQ of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, which is working
on a vaccine. The infectious-diseases lab moved to Silver Spring MD
three years ago.
WND
- 1:
If the US couldn't predict 9/11, how does it know whom to strike
preëmptively? Shutuppa you with yer logic.
NA
If the US can't tell evildoers from a wedding party (killing 250, wounding 400
MSNBC
·
LT),
why should we trust them
with strike-first powers—especially with nukes, which would
erase much of the evidence they f*d up?
Bill Walker also put out a sneaky piece of logic: if indeed the Islamists
attacked America because of its freedoms, wealth, tolerance, etc., then why
have no other similar countries been Islamist targets, such
as…Switzerland, with comparable a lot of things and more/better of
some things, like money, freedom, tolerance…chocolate…
LF
-
Octogenarian greatgrandma strip-searched at airport when artificial knee sets
off scanner.
JR
- 2:
Indictment of FBI agent that killed innocent man is dropped.
SS
The Gestapo and German SS were above the rules too.
-
Britain is determined to use nukes on Iraq.
[CD
quoting Mirror Jul 2]
(Must feel left out that the US is only nuke-using monster.)
-
Gnutella developer Gene Kan found dead of `perforating gunshot wound to the
head.' Ruled a suicide, cremated (Jul 5) and buried before anoyone told.
Y!
-
World Net Daily runs poll, `Are Americans freer today than in 1776?'
84.8% say NO in some form or another.
WND
- 4:
Flash observed near El Al aircraft over Ukraine; probably a meteor.
BBC
(Those things are even more likely than the US to start WW3.)
Phil Murphy: A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We've given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.
FOT
-
Now the IMF is preparing for the buck to crumble.
FT
·
BBC
- 5:
In talks with Annan, Iraq rejects weapons inspections proposals.
BG
Denmark outlaws deep linking, making it just that much harder to refer
to sources.
/.
·
P
This is like trying to cite an article in print without being allowed to
state its title, author, or date…only the name of the paper. It's
ludicrous. But, it'll save the newspaper people having to keep articles
online forever :p
-
Nihon-Neder rift brewing: while the Japanese think GWB's an asshole,
the Dutch are going for dickhead. And apparently the ADL is miffed that
Sum of all Fears doesn't make Islam look evil.
G
- 6:
`Mainstream' notices Israel holds Hamas' strings.
UPI
Woman and daughter shot in taxi; Palestinians claim from Israli
guard post, Israel denies firing.
WP
-
New Zealand is miffed at Mohammed Saffi's treatment. `[The US State Dept.
makes very clear
that he did not need a student visa for this.]
It is very disappointing that our government has not defended the rights of
Mr Saffi as a New Zealand citizen and demanded the US authorities
release him from custody.'
NZH
-
Guess why Saddam kicked out the UN weapons inspectors: they were in
cahoots with the British to exaggerate or totally fabricate the Iraq threat
(according to a `confession' by Scott Ritter, Marine intel officer who was part
of it).
H
-
Merck Pharmaceuticals discovers a G$14 exaggeration.
TI
-
Senior UK Foreign-office guy calls GW `stupid' `arrogant' `bear of very
little brain.'
T
-
I was afraid of this. The Canadian money system is as bogus as the US'.
BI
-
The new bomb detectors in US airports spook on Reese's Pieces.
`Thomas Hartwick [pointed out] little can be done to improve the false
alarm rate [but] the machines are accurate enough to almost always
detect explosives.'
MH
(Hey, I can make an alarm that always detects explosives.
It simply goes off every time. Hartwick is chair of a National Academy of
Sciences expert committee on aviation security. Do NAS chairs study
science at all?)
-
British parents outraged at discovering the library had been
fingerprinting their children without consent.
LT
-
GWB, trying to look tough, threatens to double the prison terms for big fraud.
FT
No word on whether anyone that `matters' is actually going to be
charged for it…without which the terms are totally
irrelevant.
F
What he promises to punish harshly is precisely
what he himself got away with.
G
-
Intel's new chip factory, supposedly in Israel, may not be. It's in the
`Faluja pocket' held by the Egyptian army and local Palestinian forces
through the end of the 1948 war. The Feb 1949 armistice guaranteed the
safety and property of the ±3100 Arab civilians in the pocket.
(Of course, within days Israel had begun intimidations that scared most of
them out within weeks.)
SFC
-
The boys in the Pentagon who've actually been to war insist there'll have
to be some sort of Iraqi provocation before they'll be willing to invade.
USAT
This merely means GWB (who has no clue about war) is now guaranteed
to manufacture a provocation.
- `US economy may have stalled.' May??
FT
-
Two cops-beating-up-blacks videos caught, one in OK, one in LA
(Rampart Division, so corrupt it needs federal oversight).
The LA videographer ends up in jail and then hospital.
MSNBC
(They're trying to provoke a race riot so the last piece of GWB's dictatorship,
Gardon-Plot-type military rule, can be slid into place.
C)
-
US `softens' ICC demands; now wants renewable one-year immunities.
G
Which are granted, and which doesn't go over well.
BBC
-
`Canada is our best friend, our great ally.'
TS
That's exactly what they said about England when they couldn't lower
lower themselves to give us a thank-you. We're no military use to them;
they just want us along to give the theft and murder respectability.
Truth is, the US has no friends (nobody likes it) and keeps no friends
(the mighty have no such need).
(Back at the Alberta G8 summit, we were `fu@king Canadians.'
NP
Let's see: we're fu@kers according to the Americans, and Americans
are @ssholes and di@kheads according to the Dutch and the Japanese.
And geopolitics differs from the schoolyard…how, exactly?)
- 10:
Reporter
threatened with treason charge for taking picture of
Yankee
nuke plant. (Don't bother taking your camera to VT: `any bridge, road, canal,
dockyard, telephone or telegraph line or equipment, wireless station or
equipment, railway or property of any corporation subject to the supervision
of the Public Service Board, or of any municipality or part thereof' will get you
`not more than ten years.')
TA
He's not the only one.
CP
Buck narrowly escapes euro parity.
FT
-
US bombs Iraq for firing on the US' illegal military overflights.
NBC
- 11:
The highly publicized first-ever direct shipment of Russian crude to the
US lands Yukos in US federal court over a 7-year-old debt.
Sorting out exactly why is worth a PhD :p
`Cases like these are not rare…Companies all over the world are
[continuously]trying to collect debts from each other.'
MT
(Is this a hint at overvaluing? The debtor would doubtless strive to
ignore any such debt, not deducting the value owed from its claimed
worth; but the creditor would (somewhat validly) count what's outstanding
above its actual holdings to estimate its own worth. There's
probably trillions thus double-counted in corporate net-worth statements.
Most expensive house in Dallas TX (M$44.5) burns down
just weeks before its 7-year construction is completed. It was on
sale at Christie's and never occupied.
CNN
(Two 7-year-old things in one day!)
Japan tiring of devaluing the yen to make the buck look good
(for the sake of their export market…ah so).
FT
Bank of Japan Gov. Masaru Hayami warns of a 1971-style
dollar crisis, the kind which collapsed the postwar Bretton Woods
monetary system.
JR
-
`Lone' gunman takes piddly .22 from guitar case and takes potshot at Chirac
on parade in Paris. An Algeria-born Canadian Muslim just happens to be handy
to take the guy down. (compare
Mitterand 1959)
- `American'
edition of
Vérité Interdite
now available.
-
US recruiters get abusive and dabble at kidnapping to keep up the
cannon-fodder supply.
CBW
- 12:
Edward Lee Howard confirmed dead, supposedly of broken neck at
his dacha. Howard had been fired from CIA in '83 after failing a
polygraph; he defected '85 and was granted asylum in Soviet Union
'86 Aug 7, supposedly the first CIA defector.
[Halifax Chronicle-Herald Jul 24 p. C19
quoting New York Times]
-
Shrub admin claims to be surprised at the outrage over TIPS.
CN
(Can they be this out of touch??)
- 13:
Virginian fires on helicopter thinking it bears terrorists.
AP
Now imagine a million TIPSters doing this.
DEA invades an annual peaceful working-class party in North Norway ME,
`FUDAfest.' About 500 men, women, and children were surrounded with
police in military uniforms with automatic weapons. `I'm just following
orders,' said one; his captive reminded him `that's exactly what the Nazis said.'
IM
- 14:
Halliburton CEO David Lesar tells Newsweek `The vice president
was aware of who owed us money, and he helped us collect it.'
NL
Since when is the USVP supposed to act as a private bill collector?
- 15:
Pakistan condemns Omar Saeed (of the k$100 to Atta) to death,
ostensibly for Pearl's murder.
GR
The trial was conducted in camera
despite its relation to a prominent foreign journalist and Saeed
being a British citizen. It took far
longer than `permitted' by Pakistan law. The judge and venue
had to be changed three times. Saeed claimed the evidence was
`a tissue of lies…fabricated to please the Americans.'
[NLPW
citing
BBC,
BBC]
Up to at least a few days ago, Pearl is the only one of some 2000
foreign journalists in Pakistan since the Afghan invasion to be harassed
or kidnapped, despite strong anti-US opinion.
BBC
(So, what was he onto so hot?)
Buck = euro, first time in 28 months.
FT
(The euro's only, what, 30 months old?)
GWB: `I want you to know the economy, our economy is fundamentally
strong.'
WH
(compare
Hoover, 1929)
J. K. Galbraith in
The Great Crash, 1929:
`Always when the markets are in trouble, the phrases are the same: The
economic situation is fundamentally sound
or simply The fundamentals are
good.
All who hear these words should know that something is wrong.'
WRH
(It's not necessarily a lie: often, when something collapses, the foundation
is what survives.)
Israel shuts down Palestine's main ISP.
M
·
O
`One way to stop hackers, and students and anarchist'
SNP
and the truth getting out.
- 16:
`Jeb' Bush's daughter Noelle locked up for violating a court-ordered drug
treatment program.
R
Three in Israeli-army uniforms attack armoured Israeli bus near
West Bank Jewish settlement
BBC,
8 die. The attackers flee toward Israel-controlled Nablus.
BBC
The timers on the explosives may have been Israeli.
MSNBC
One of the claimants, Hamas, is a creature of Sharon and Likud.
MEW
So, naturally, it is assumed the attackers are Palestinian…?
Motorola posts largest net loss yet.
R
(Pity. I always thought their CPU chips, used in the Amy and Mac, were
much better than Intel's.)
Japan Times: `Dollar Heads South as US Bubble Bursts'
They compare the `bubble implosion in the US IT sector' to the collapse
of the giant Japanese real estate bubble in 1990, and project a decade or
more of US depression and no bottom for the dollar as the Fed prints
madly in response.
JR
-
Blair: `We all knew, that Afghanistan was a failed state living on drugs and
terror…To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the
public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for
what happened on 9/11.'
[X
citing
LT
Jul 17]
(Doesn't that sound an awful lot like 9/11 was the much-needed excuse
for invading Afghanistan instead of the reason for invading
Afghanistan? And, if Afghanistan thrived pre-9/11 on drugs, why did
Powell pay the Taliban M$43 reward for its antidrug efforts, and why
was opium production least during the Taliban control?
`Since the Taliban was driven from power there has been a significant
increase in drug smuggling from Afghanistan.'
A
`In October 2001, the UN Drug Control Programme released figures which
indicated that in areas controlled by the Northern Alliance, opium production
was rising, after the Taleban had practically eliminated the crop, considering
it
anti-Islamic
.'
P)
-
Steve Ballmer admits M$ hasn't figured out how to be less expensive than Linux.
R
·
VARB
-
US tries claiming al Qaeda coördinates itself via a website run
by the Centre for Islamic Studies and Research. They hide by using this
strange encryption called `Arabic' that the NSA can't crack. The URL
of the alleged site is not provided.
G
-
TransAir 204's passengers caught passing notes, earn themselves double
F-16 escort to LaGuardia. Turns out they were performance artists from
India plotting a new routine.
B
Imagine the fun when the TIPS braintrusts—delivery guys,
truck drivers, bus jockeys—get in on the paranoia.
`The window-washer, the carpet-installer, and the Roto-Rooter man
[will] get to charge double-time, since it'll take twice as long to do
the simplest tasks.'
JR
(
Mailpersons are `just saying no' for now.
APN
IM)
The US will have a higher [fraction (1 in 24)] of citizen informants
than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi.'
YT
The Stasi had 1 in 66. `It is obvious to us why the government wishes to
recruit those who hold such jobs. Not for some mental talent inherent in
such workers, but for their mobility.'
AFA
-
There's growing talk of the US gov'ts using the same accounting trix
as its corporations, and thus the ±T$14 nat'l debt may be
wildly underestimated.
USAT
·
BG
·
NT
-
The proposed Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy (RAVE) Act
targets bottled water and glow sticks as drug paraphernalia.
WP
-
Brits prove that GM foods trade genes into human-gut bacteria.
G
- 17:
Nortel and Deloitte & Touche targeted by class-action suit for
alleged Enron-style figure-fiddling.
Iran threatens counterattacks if US invades. What gall.
IPS
AL Gov. Don Siegelman calls out M1-A1 Abrams tanks for
homeland defense.
M
·
ALGP
Hope these guys are better shots at crowd control than the Israelis.
Stealth jet `accidentally' bombs
Maljamar NM and Pecos and Monahans TX.
WP
Of Moodys' ranking Japan gov't bonds worse than some `third world'
countries, and Americans strutting they could go on forever borrowing
G$1.5 a day from the world, a Tokyo official says `Who looks ridiculous now?'
JR
(It kinda looks to me like those were attempts to keep the buck afloat.)
-
Forgent Networks
announces it owns the software patent on JPEG compression technology.
[/.
citing
F]
-
WTO rules against a US trade law. Sen. Robert Byrd (WV-D) who
authored the 20-month-old law distributing tariff revenue to US companies,
rages `The WTO has decided that it and not the US Congress has
the authority to determine how American tax dollars are spent.'
WT
Oh poor baby. The US is perfectly happy to dictate to the rest of the world
how to spend taxes—eg telling Canada to spend more on military. The
US is perfectly happy when the WTO dictates in US favour; you guys
eat it for a change.
- 18:
Monsey NY Neturei Karta orthodox synagogue vandalised by Zionists.
JN
FBI agent Jeffrey Royer once jailed for insider trading rejailed for witness
tampering.
NYP
Bloomberg: `Japanese investors' plans to move money to the US this
fiscal year are vanishing faster than you can say WorldCom Inc.'
Kazuyuki Takigawa, investor for G¥100 Fuji Investment Management Co:
`We are losing confidence in the US. The dollar is not a currency we can buy right now.'
B
-
Settlements Israel claims to have removed never existed.
PC
Diabolically clever. `Look how nice we are to Palestine; we didn't
`settle' this square metre.'
-
`California beaches are public by law. But in Malibu, mansions of the rich and
famous create an unbroken chain of high walls and locked
gates…Homeowners made a deal with the state years ago where they
could turn beach cottages into multimillion-dollar mansions—provided
they give the state a 5–9-foot easement or right of way for public
access. But that never happened.'
F
Ayup. tell me about it. Chester's going the same way, and we're getting
d*n tired of it.
-
PETA survey claims support for taxing meat to pay for the health-care
costs of eating it.
WND
-
4 Israeli soldiers nabbed for selling ammo to Palestine just `tip of the iceberg.'
II
-
Britain calls up its reserve oil thieves.
T
- 19:
Dow
passes 8000, dropping 4.64% in one day.
9.3 Gg of ConAgra beef recalled
CNN
only to be fed to CO prisoners.
DP
The USDA ignored earlier warnings.
RMN
Judicial Watch wins its suit to open Cheney's Energy Task Force.
JR
NS gov't comes to its senses on town status.
Hamm makes a ghaffe in his PR: he says he's protecting
taxpayers when in fact it's electors who are
voting. It was taxpayers that made this damnable application
in the first place; there's enough difference in District 3 to matter.
On ATV Colin MacDonald sez (roughly) `What's the point of going to the URB
if they get overruled by the premier listening to a bunch of whiners and criers?'
Takes whiners and criers to know same. My version,
is `what's the point of going to the URB when they ignore the evidence?'
And that affects this entire province. (See
my notes.)
-
I forgot—Pakistan and India were on the brink of making
glow-in-the-dark charcoal of each other. What happened?
-
It is rumoured Iraq will allow weapons inspectors in August.
NM
It'd be one of
the smartest moves Saddam could make—prove to the shrinking
fraction of the world that doesn't yet know it that the US has no reason
to invade Iraq except to kill people and steal the oil. The one snag is that
the US will probably bribe the inspectors like last time. Actually there're
two snags: that shrinking fraction is too brainwashed to be confused by facts.
-
The disintegrating stock market and economy are double-punching
Social Security funds; the gazillions borrowed for nefarious purposes
have little chance of being restored and what's left is earning pitiful
interest.
BG
- 21:
Superb editorial
from Eric Margolis.
- 22:
Tomas Foral becomes first person charged under USA PATRIOT with possessing a
biological agent with no `reasonably justified' purpose. Last fall, the UConn
graduate student was moving biological specimens from a broken freezer when he
found some samples collected nearly 35 years ago from an anthrax-infected cow.
He destroyed 5 but kept 2 in his own lab freezer planning to study them. An
anonymous tip brought in the FBI and his name was added to a computerized
government watch list along with fugitives, drug smugglers, and immigration
violators.
citing `In the Lab, Suspicion Spreads'
LA Times staff writer Rosie Mestel Aug 28]
BDH
·
PBS
·
FOX
`It's gotten Kafkaesque,' he says.
X
Rumsfeld spins US military strikes as `self-defence.'
D
(I've never heard of a chainsaw murderer successfully using that plea.)
Bell South's Q2 earnings down 2/3 from last year. `It's the fault of
everything but bad accounting, really!' Per share, they `earned' 53¢;
then lost 19¢ on equity investments,
12¢ on the 5000 cut jobs,
7¢ on foreign currency transactions,
but gained 1¢ in rounding.
WP
- 23:
Israeli F16 drops 1-t laser-guided bomb on Gaza apartment building trying
to kill an Hamas top guy (remember, Israel funds Hamas), levelling about
half a block.
A couple dozen bystanders and about 9 children definitely die.
Mourners shout `Death to America!'
SMH
Sharon claims he wouldna approved it if he'd known innocent people
were at risk…by a night air-bombing of an aparment building,
with Mossad generally acknowledged as the best intel service in the world
by far. Oh they knew all right that innocents'd die.
SMH
Saudi prince, Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah, dies in car
accident en route to funeral of another Saudi prince, Ahmed bin
Salman bin Abdulaziz.
[Halifax Chronicle-Herald Jul 24 p. C19]
I notice that the Times of India and Vancouver Sun silently discard
articles from their websites.
-
Ben Shapiro states American policy very clearly:
One US soldier is worth far more than any godd*n foreigner.
TH
-
American Israel Public Affairs Committee retains
Fortune #4 rank among Washington lobbies
(behind NRA, AARP, and NFIB).
F
- 24:
US attempt to block enforcement of 13-year-old antitorture treaty fails
35–8, with the US itself one of 10 abstensions. Its stall tactic
also failed 29–15 with 8 abstains.
Y!
(Yippee!)
- 26:
The Milosevic circus trial blows up in NATO's paws as their star witness
Rade Markovic turns on them, testifying he was tortured and bribed by the
prosecutors while in their custody (17 months) to give the evidence they
wanted, that Milosevic took a hard line against anti-Albanian hate crime, etc.
ENC
·
ENC
(I wondered, months ago, why, after all the hype about bringing Milosevic
to trial, the media I hear covered it for a couple of days and then went dead
silent. I vaguely wondered whether it was because Milosevic was obviously
not going to play contrite vanquished but go on an offensive, showing how
NATO was not all peaches-n-cream in the conflict. I wondered all this
before I went a-studying (and before reading the latter ENC article),
and learned of things like the
war-crimes convictions for most of NATO
re the Kosovo conflict, see
2000 Jun 12
BTW I finally read somewhere why NATO provoked this war: several mines
(eg manganese, needed for steel) in the area now operated by NATO interests.)
Two F16s scramble from Andrews to investigate UFO.
WP
(See? They can get after something fast enough when they want to.)
FedEx crash ½mi short of Talahassee destroys papers of
non-incumbent candidates hours before filing dealine; Jebya grants
5-hr extension to those who can prove the crash affected them.
ST
Pentagon awards Halliburton (Cheney's former stomping ground)
Camp-Delta expansion contract. 204 more 6'8"×8' cells
at k$47.5 each.
MH
-
Dakota Co MN jail plans to start charging room and board in
Sep—$20/day. Jails in parts of MI, Iowa, OH, OK, and KY
already have pay-for-stay requirements.
CNS
-
E. James Ujaama, founder of
StopAmerica.org
and American who wants US foreign policy changed to cause a bit less
death and destruction, arrested.
One interesting claim: contrary to assertions the Taliban fobade education
to females, there were actually at least five all-girl schools in
Kabul—which the War on Terror promptly destroyed.
-
The adoption of HDTV hasn't been exactly what the US gov't hoped for,
so now it's thinking of mandating digital receivers in all new TVs
starting in 2006.
/.
Why are they working so hard to force something
neither manufacturers, broadcasters, nor consumers are terribly keen on
unless there're some sneaky unannounced agenda?
-
Paraphrase of CFR:
`The Arab perception of the US as arrogant and hypocritical
could undermine Bush's effort to invade Iraq and change its regime.'
Do these guys hear themselves?
SMH
-
Unocal's president of Afghanistan, Karzai, feeling threatened
by `his' people and wants US protection.
I
-
Bush forms the Office for Polishing the Turd of US Imperialist History
(Office of Global Communications),
a revamp of the Office of Strategic Lies from a few months ago.
WP
-
Zimbabwe prefers to starve than accept a shipment of US GM corn
and risk the gene contamination and lawsuits. Looks like they've seen
through the biotech industry's BS about feeding the world better food.
/.
The US then appeals to the EU to make Africa take the donations; the EU
says `it's none of our business. Whyn't you just grind the grain for 'em?'
FT
-
James Bruce, Vice Chmn CIA Foreign Denial and Deception Cmtee,
advocates sending SWAT to journalists' homes to plug leaks.
[MH
quoting
NewsMax]
-
Rep. James Traficant was way too vocal about US being FUBAR, blabbing
about the gov't being in Chapter 11
[Congressional Record, '93 Mar 17, Vol. 33, page H-1303] and the
TWA 800
and
PAN AM 103
coverups.
(more)
He'd also dared to try to get the `Justice' Dep't to fulfill its promises
of protection to a mole in the Clinton-China probes, Op. Squeezeplay.
R
So they trumped up some charges, coerced a few judges, jurors, and
Representatives, and booted him out.
EY
- 27:
US takes 15-a-old Canadian Omar Khadr into custody in Afghanistan,
holds him at least 3 months without charge.
G&M
- 28:
US-UK planes bomb an Iraq communications center, acting all surprised
that Iraq keeps defending itself from these illegal attacks.
Y!
NY Times Magazine has a flash of honesty and
calls the war on terror what it is: imperialism.
S
- 29:
Another victory for the war on drugs: helicopter scanning for hemp clips power
line, starting 57000-acre `Pines' fire that cost M$21 in firefighting plus
37 homes, 116 barns and outbuildings, and 161 vehicles for M$10 in damages.
`This is another gross excess in the War on Some Drugs.'
DW
Corolla stopped in Kabul with three occupants
supposedly found with over 500 kg TNT and C4 packed in the
doors. (I'm surprised if that can actually fit in a Corolla's doors, but
anyway…) The three are accused of being suicide bombers
(Why would they go in threes? How many does it take to drive a
car? Why not leave the car with a 5-min timer and walk away?).
- 30:
Clinton, Vietnam draft dodger, tries to convince Canadian Jews
(Hadassah-Wizo Organisation) that he'd
jump in an Israeli trench and fight and die to protect them from Iraq.
NM
Schröder and Chirac say they want a UN mandate before
joining in the US' attack on Iraq.
MH
- 31:
`Israel harbours prime 9/11 terror suspect'
(that owner of a moving & storage company).
What were GWB's words? `We will make no distinction between the
terrorists, and those who harbour them'?
-
The US begins a 3-week $¼-billion simulation of a war on `a militarily
powerful Middle Eastern nation on the Persian Gulf that was home to a
crazed but cunning megalomaniac' (obviously Iraq, except for the `militarily
powerful' part). They ultimately announce a win but in fact they lost in about
three days, after `Saddam' (Lt Gen Paul Van Riper) sank the bulk of the Gulf
fleet with `unorthodox' tactics. `Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end
to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the
Pentagon top brass simply
pretended the whole thing had not happened. They ordered their dead
troops back to life and refloated the sunken fleet. Then they instructed the
enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious
landings. Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he
refused to play any more.'
G
·
WP
(Even the tactics are presented: `Van Riper had at his disposal a
computer-generated flotilla of small boats and planes, many of them
civilian, which he kept buzzing around the virtual Persian Gulf in circles
as the game was about to get under way. As the US fleet entered the Gulf,
Van Riper gave a signal—not in a radio transmission that might have
been intercepted, but in a coded message broadcast from the minarets of
mosques at the call to prayer. The seemingly harmless pleasure craft and
propeller planes suddenly turned deadly, ramming into Blue boats and
airfields along the Gulf in scores of al-Qaida-style suicide attacks.
Meanwhile, Chinese Silkworm-type cruise missiles fired from some of
the small boats sank the US fleet's only aircraft carrier and two marine
helicopter carriers. The tactics were reminiscent of the al-Qaida attack
on the USS Cole in Yemen two years ago, but the Blue fleet
did not seem prepared. Sixteen ships were sunk altogether, along with
thousands of marines. If it had really happened, it would have been the
worst naval disaster since Pearl Harbor.' This sounds like
an attack which Iraq could muster, too. `The fancier their toys, the easier
they break and the wetter the weeping.'—Me. :)
-
US trade deficit in July, G$35.1.
FT
-
FL(?) settles out-of-court the NAACP's fraud suit re Nov 2000.
TPH
- Canada's Marijuana Commission decides the scientific evidence indicates
MJ is less harmful than alcohol and ought to be similarly regulated.
The police squawk about the evils of `illicit' drugs, apparently forgetting that
`illicit' is up to Parliament's to define. I foresee heavy pro-satus-quo
lobbying by Washington.
- Cape Breton threatens to again separate from Nova Scotia. (Oh, I'm so
scared.)
- 2:
GWB visits Carpenters' Union picnic at Neville Is (Pittsburgh PA); protestors
held out of sight by judicial
decree. `[P]olice ordered between 60 and 70 protesters to stay four blocks
away inside a sun-baked, chain-link fence-surrounded park. Anyone with
a protest sign who stood one foot outside that fence would be arrested. A
65-year-old man
[Bill Neel]
who did stand just outside that fence with a sign was,
in fact, arrested, along with his sister [Joyce], who came to his assistance when
Allegheny County police put handcuffs on him.'—two hours
before Shrubya even arrived! Jill McKenzie, 72: `I'm here because I want to
tell him how much I hate him. He's a dictator…He utterly disgusts me
because he wants to be a dictator. He said that on three different occasions.'
PG
·
IM
·
LG
(The occasions aren't mentioned, but one may be 2000 Dec 18.)
On Oct 31 Neel is handily cleared of the charge.
PG
·
PG
Body of Linux kernel programmer
Leonard Zubkoff
recovered from helicopter crash in Winstanley Lk, Alaska.
KTVA
- 5:
M$ Senior VP in charge of Windows development
Brian Valentine: `Our products just aren't engineered for security.'
IW
-
100-plane attack on Iraqi air base near Jordan.
S
-
Polk Co FL caught screwing with the election set for the 10th.
LL
-
The Whitehouse releases new photos of `what GWB did when the second
plane hit' that are in total contradiction to what was witnessed and
photographed and videoed on 2001 Sep 11.
TRF
How can they get away with this? Have the
nongov't witnesses, the teacher and the students, been liquidated—in
another infamous school shootout, perhaps? Bah. They're getting pretty
F*ing desperate.
- Another BSD appears,
MicroBSD.
-
Big Biz spent well over M$20 to defeat a CA privacy bill (SB773).
[/.
citing
SFC]
-
Greece bans all computer games—chess, Tetris,
Patience, the works, apparently. Sounds like it'd include the games
in your cell phone.
R
The ban was later `clarified;' games with `no finanical benefit' are
acceptable.
JR
- 7:
9/11 victims `honoured' with nonexistent M$800 San-Antonio class warship, USS
New York. Construction to begin next year
SPI
using the WTC srap.
B
Taliban official claims to have warned the US a few weeks before 9/11
that OBL was planning a massive attack within the US.
BBC
Is he trying to get into the `the US had a whole heap of warnings they
chose to ignore' parade, which IIRC began with the FBI, then CIA,
Germany's BWD, Mossad, Russia's KGB or GRU or whatever,
MI5, MI6, GCHQ
a Cayman-Islands radio talkshow, Egyptian civilians…or did
absolutely everyone know it was coming except
Shrubbya & Co…or did absolutely everyone know it was
coming including Shrubbya & Co and they were too
arrogant to cope with it…or did they just want it to happen in order
to kick off the invasion of Afghanistan which Shrubbya & Co had been
planning for months—since the breakdown of negotiations with the
Taliban for a pipeline to recover the G$40 of investments US oil companies
had in Turkmenistan or thereabouts—and finalised just a few days
before 9/11? Set aside the pro-US bias washed into most Westerners'
brains and ask objectively: given the evidence, what makes
the most sense? Which parts are you going to connect up and which are
you going to hope are just fantastically convenient coïncidence??
Even if OBL did do it…which the FBI admits it has
not a shred of evidence to show…it would remain to be proven he had
actually turned, and was not still a CIA asset deliberately shifted from Sudan
to Afghanistan 5 or 6 years ago after ten weeks of Sudan trying to
give him to the US. Is proof OBL got orders the thing
Mossad holds over Shrubbya & Co to tie them in knots kissing Sharon's
ass?
- Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector for the UN, declares that his
team was withdrawn from Iraq by the UN to get clear of Desert Fox, not
kicked out (even though they were spying for the US). Powell blows
his top but does none of the obvious things:
- He says `We have facts, not speculation,'
but does not provide the alleged facts.
- He asks `then why are they keeping the inspectors out?'
He fails to answer, given the US has said it would invade regardless,
`what's the point?' He ignores that Iraq has recently let people inspect sites
the US recently claimed are illegal, and no problems were seen.
- He says `it's been the policy of this government to insist that
Iraq be disarmed in accordance with the terms of the relevant UN resolutions'
but does not cite those resolutions.
- Neither does he tell us which UN document to read to see
that Scott is wrong.
NM
-
US home-mortgage foreclosures at `highest in 30 a of tracking;'
1.23% in 2002q2. Mortgage Bankers Association's chief economist Doug Duncans
states the obligatory `Strange. Economic conditions aren't all that dire.'
USAT
- 9:
Alan Rock, Industry Minister, says on ATV re marijuana `the next logical step
is decriminalisation.' Ooo the Shrubmen will sputter!
GWB is supposed to have spent the morning ranting at Chrétien
to support Iraq invasion. Wonder how it went?
Protest at Netanyahu appearance at Concordia draws in police with spray and
handcuffs. Tilt-headed organiser denies problems obtaining tickets to the
speech, slurs Concordia's security and the protestors for interfering with
his group's right to expression. [CBC Newsworld] (There's a clip of one cop
breaking out glass to spray the crowd outside.)
I guess they managed to stop him speaking; he was of course
calling for war.
(Notice the billing as calling for `democracy;' and note the photo's caption,
`Arab protesters in Montreal.' Dunno, they look Canadian to me. This
seems typical of Zionist spinmeisters. Check the
spin of the National Post,
created by self-admitted Bilderberger Conrad Black and now run by
Southam. "`The Israelis are singing and praying for peace,' says Frank Dimant,
vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada." (Bnai Brith apparently campaigned
against US interference with Hitler.)
`Even if there are attempts…by Palestinian supporters to prevent it
from coming out, [Canada's open society will let the truth be heard.]'
(You see? `Palestians always lie, Israelis never do.' What Crap.
Each side has strong motive to distort things in their favour.)
CanWest-Global owns Southam and thus 14 metro dailies and 128 local
papers across Canada. CWG owns 50% of National Post. Bill Marsden
of Montréal Gazette asserted `We do not run in our newspaper
Op-Ed pieces that express criticism of Israel.'
[YT
citing CBC As It Happens]
-
India's `most posh' train wrecked, killing dozens(?) [CBC Newsworld]
-
Washington momentarily stops claiming Iraq is linked to terrorism.
[TT
citing
`US not claiming Iraqi link to terror'
Washington Post Sep 10]
The reason appears to be that one of the few Iraqi terror links
the US is willing to detail, trails back to Ashcroft.
MSNBC
(I had the damndest time getting at that WP article, while at the same time
having no trouble getting others of that day. I think they want to hide it.)
So here's my logic, inspired by
LR:
The reason for not investigating 9/11 has been `it would divert effort
from TWAT.' Now Iraq is not part of the terrorism problem. Wouldn't
an invasion of Iraq be a far bigger `diversion of effort' than a
proper investigation of 9/11? Then why invade but not investigate?
To avoid total decrediting, Washington must now either: investigate 9/11,
drop its Iraq invasion, or link Iraq to terrorism. I predict there `be another
event' (in Rumsfeld's words) along the lines of the latter (followed by
another butcherous invasion). When this event occurs, think.
Why would Iraq do anything now to provoke another pummeling from the
largest, most savage, and most desperate military machine on the planet?
-
Switzerland admitted to UN, Swiss not what one would call overjoyed.
BBC
-
IDF takes `dead of night' literally, killing four
Palestian stonecutters in the wee hours.
HA
- 10:
British MP Graham Allen (Labour—Blair's party?) asks for first `rump
parliament' since the one that doomed Charlie One in 1649; this time to get
Blair to explain himself re Iraq. (Blair seems to have forgotten PM is not the
all-potent position that is Prezeedint.) Labour MP and fmr Speaker Lord
Weatherhill tapped to chair.
G
Ron Paul takes up Traficant's call for abolition of the Fed. `From the
Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the burst of the
dotcom bubble last year, every economic downturn suffered by the country over
the last 80 years can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.'
RP
·
LR
(He also supported McKinney's calls for investigation of 9/11.
Watch for trumped-up charges to get rid of him.)
The FL primary goes not at all smoothly. `New M$32 election system put in
place after the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential debacle failed miserably in its
debut: Ballots jammed, machines malfunctioned, and Gov. Jeb—who will face
the winner of the primary in November—ordered polls to stay open late.
Reno's political hopes hung on three south Florida counties that also were
at the heart of the 2000 election dispute.'
MJS
(The riggers seem to be tripping over each other. There is no way to have a
trustworthy election where the ballots are counted by little black boxes. It
cannot be done. IMO that's exactly why the US uses them.)
US terror alert status shifted yellow to orange because tomorrow's The
Anniversary. Big press conference of Kappellmeister Ashcroft and Ridge
assuring people they should do nothing differently. [CBC Newsworld]
(There's no apparent meaning to the colour change other than `look, see,
we're doing something, we're changing the colour, look, wahoo, see?')
The S&P 500 closes the day at 911. `It just proves the market God was
with us, remembering the day.'
JR
ADL presses to have Western leaders denounce `Big Lie' about 9/11,
that Jews caused it all.
USNW
This is another ADL ploy for sympathy; the evidence, so far, does not
support that idea, but only that Jews/Israelis knew something was going to
happen, along with the rest of the world. (There may have been a few
particular Jews involved in the plot; but there were certainly non-Jews
as well.)
![Deception Greenback]()
A major blow to the best laid plans of the New Vaccinators came on 10 Sept 02 with the Reuters article about the CDC announcing how the new smallpox vaccine is not to be recommended for:
- HIV people
- anyone on immunosuppressive drugs
- anyone with eczema
The CDC quoted a new study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, describing reactions that include blindness, scarring, and death.
So the vaccine is therefore contraindicated in all these cases, according to the CDC.
Eczema patients alone comprise half the US population. AIDS patients and those on immunosuppressive drugs add another significant proportion to the group of those who shouldn't be vaccinated.
In addition, the omniscient media seem to have forgotten that most Americans over 31 years of age have already been vaccinated for smallpox, since the vaccine was only halted in 1971 in the US. Remember? So if the vaccine is supposed to work, then obviously these people will not need a new shot, right?
Then who does that leave? Ten percent of the population would be a reasonable estimate.
It's not much of a stretch to see how the threat of smallpox is a marketing tool, right out of classic Bernays PR 101, that is being used to justify paying vaccine manufacturers $800 million for a vaccine that is unproven, untested, and contraindicated for 90% of the population.
Why then are our new masters shrieking about the 280 million doses we need to protect the American people from this imminent bioterrorist threat?
DW
- 11:
First anniversary. Newsweek and CNN report that a landlord
of two of the alleged 9/11 terrorists, Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi,
was an FBI informant and lived `in close quarters' with them.
(But they continue to plead `mistakes' rather than `complicity.')
CNN
Chrétien, bless him, comes very close to the heart
of the matter: Western greed.
C
·
TS
Blair now seems to think he too saw the first impact on live TV.
BBC
But there were no live broadcasts. Think. Why would
there be? The one public record of the first impact was made by a pair
of French journalists making a docco on firemen. It did not get on
air for several hours, because they followed the firemen through south
Manhattan's 9/11 morning; they didn't go rushing off to a TV station
to hand over the tape. In fact for awhile they lost track of each other
and thought the was dead. Their final product was broadcast in Canada
in summer 2002. I've been told it wasn't the French pair that caught
that clip.
The New York lottery evening number is 911.
JR
If it is determined that J002E3 is natural it will become Earth's third
na tural satellite. Earth's second one is called Cruithne.
BBC
(Tho' it orbits Sol more than Gæa. Bonus points if you can pronounce it
kreklee.)
- 12:
Bush babbles at the UN GA, saying he won't attack on his own unless the UN
doesn't approve of it. Or something like that. `Are Security Council
resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence?
Will the UN serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be
irrelevant?…We want the resolutions of the world's most important
multilateral body to be enforced.'
PC
I don't see him using the bald `because Saddam violates so many UN
resolutions' line, however. It could be that even he knows the UN ought
to know what UN resolutions are being violated by whom…eg Israel
MEF
·
PUN
14:
SurfControl
lists
WRH as Hate Speech
(which it is not), and the
ADL as Religion
(which it is not).
SurfControl also provides CyberPatrol.
News.com.com once reported the ADL runs CyberPatrol, but the
article was quickly spiked.
Google has several hits for
`cyberpatrol adl'
Work it out for yourself. I'm busy :)
(Working it out for yourself is generally best, anyway.) Compare
Jewish Watch Dog
to
What Really Happened
and decide for youself which engages in more slander and hate mongering.
(I repeat: I am no antiSemite, in fact I think the Shemites are smarter
than the rest of us, having first figured out the core of all modern
knowledge and then figured out how to fool Western man into doing their
warring for them. I'm against the territorial expansion of Israel, or any
country, by violence.
Rabbis for Human Rights.)
-
Stephen Harper slinks himself down to the
O'Reilly FOX network
to bash Chrétien about his `Western arrogance and greed' comments.
Featuring such racism as `This from the Prime Minister of a country that lets
absolutely anybody into the place' (from the FOX anchor Shepard Smith).
(It's our country, Mr. Smith, and we'll let in whom we
decide. We don't exist to defend your border.)
Harper: `Canadians understand that the responsibility for the attacks in New
York last year were 100%, and no less, the responsibility of the kind of dark,
evil and hateful forces that represent organizations like al-Qaeda'
(emphasis mine—leaving open the possibility it was dark, evil, hateful
forces like CIA or School of the Americas).
NP
- 15:
Another US-UK attack on Iraq; southern zone.
NP
-
It slips out in parliament that the Australian gov't taps phones at
20× the US rate. This while they want to make it even easier to do.
[/.
citing
SMH
and
A]
(Talk about the convicts running the prison colony.)
- 16:
Insurance executive and former FBI agent shoots two employees and himself
to death.
CNN
`Buoyed by a groundswell of support for his comments linking terrorism and
the western world's greed,
PM Jean Chrétien today will take the same
message to the UN in NY.'
TS
(Some of that support is mine. I emailed Harper a good blast, cc'd to
the PM and a slew of MPs. And I know others who did the same.)
*blink* `After four years of refusing arms inspections, Iraq
unconditionally agreed to allow them, Kofi Annan said today.'
`I have received a letter from the Iraqi authorities conveying its decision
to allow the return of inspectors without conditions,' he said.
[front page of New York Times
site; If you've got the registration, try
the article.]
BG
·
G&M
GWB thumbs his nose and asks for a new resolution against Iraq.
(Since Iraq, AFAIK, would be in total compliance of existing resolutions if it
goes through with this, Son of a Bush needs to concoct a new one if
his story is to hold any water.) Blair says `Saddam has a long history of
playing games.' (So do Bush regimes—look at the maneuvering they did
to get '91 war going.)
SMH
Bush needs a retroactive resolution, because he's already started bombing
air command and communications facilities.
IHT
(Rivero suggests the US will now refuse to permit inspectors, or upscale
attacks to the point inspectors can't be sent; otherwise the scale of
the last five years of illegal attacks will be too well documented.)
(Another reason the US has no real interest in weapons inspectors,
is that after the scandal of inspectors being Western spies things were
tightened up so the US can't use them as spies anymore.
LT)
(One reason the US is pushing so hard for a resolution: as a permanent
member of the Security Council—one of the great blunders in the
creation of the UN—the US can veto a resolution—the other
great blunder. But it cannot singlehandedly create a resolution.
That takes pursuasion; facts, graft, or bribery. Like in '91, the US
doesn't have a lot of fact in its favour. But does it still have the
economic clout to swing the other means?)
`The UN resolution calling for Iraq's WMD disarmament also calls for the
Middle East to be a nuclear-free zone, meaning Israel is in violation of
the very resolution that we claim Iraq is violating and is the basis for
going after Saddam.'
[CD
& Seattle Post Intelligencer 2002 Sep 17]
- 17:
Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, warns him
We will need to make it
clear in launching the document [next week] that we do not claim that we have
evidence that [Saddam] is an imminent threat.
G
·
N
GWB signs
National Security Strategy of the United States.
The doc speads it on with a backhoe, justifying global US military empire in
the name of ideals which the US has not promoted anywhere for decades: human
rights, free trade, free markets, healthcare, education…international
organisations will be players only so long as they do the US bidding.
The paper began with a ringing statement that there is a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy and free enterprise,
and that the United States has the duty to promote that model around the world.
Critics have used that wording to accuse the administration of wanting to impose a one-size-fits-all American model on the world. But most of their criticism has been aimed at the military parts of the paper, including an insistence on a military superiority.
The paper rejected the Cold War concepts of deterrence and containment of enemies, in favor of pre-emptive attack…
The paper recognized that pre-emptive warfare, such as the attack on Iraq, violates international law, which insists on an imminent threat
as justification for any first strike. But it argued that the law should be changed, by adapting the concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries.
In addition, the paper blessed the principle of unilateralism in defense of the nation. It said the United States preferred to act with allies but will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defense by acting pre-emptively.
…
Historical relationships are of significance only to the extent that the ally is prepared to materially aid the U.S. in defending its physical security,
he wrote. If European allies cannot countenance an attack on an Iraq, then what will they support?
CD
Congress approves `broad new' investigative powers for the feds to help
determine exactly why the WTC collapsed.
JR
Sec'y of Interior Gale Norton held in federal contempt for disobeying orders
to correct oversight problems with a trust handling M$100s in royalties from
Indian land. `Interior Department has spent more than M$600 since 1996 to
comply with instructions from both Congress and Lamberth, but accounting
problems persist.'
S
(Um. so they spent the entire trust fund trying to repair the handling of the
trust fund.)
Bomb explodes in Palestinian school yard, injuring 5. Second device found.
(It's soon followed by a `retaliatory' suicide bombing—Hamas?—for
which Israel begins demolishing Arafat's HQ.)
`Israeli police and Palestinian officials in the West Bank said they believe
extremist Jewish settlers planted' the two bombs. Yehoshua Mor-Yosef,
spokesman for the Jewish Settlers' Council, says the bombing was an `immoral
and illegal act.'
(Well that makes everything okay, then :p Funny how when
Arafat says such things, they never get published in North America.)
`In other developments, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a
petition by the families of two Palestinian suicide bombers to prevent the
destruction of their homes by Israeli forces,'
`On April 28, Israeli police foiled an attack by Jewish settlers when their car was stopped next to a Palestinian girls school on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. A huge bomb was found in a trailer the car was towing.'
`On July 19, gunmen ambushed a car on a road west of Hebron, killing three Palestinians, including an infant. A shadowy Jewish extremist group claimed responsibility. The gunmen apparently escaped into Israel, and no one has been charged in the ambush'
`In March this year, a bomb went off in another Palestinian school in east Jerusalem, injuring a teacher and four children. Jewish militants claimed responsibility for that attack, but no one has been charged.'
`There have been several other incidents, most involving settlers taking revenge in West Bank villages after Palestinian terror attacks'
(Notice the language: even though Israelis are the invaders, Palestinians
`terrorise' while Israelis `take revenge.')
`Of the 1,790 Palestinians who have been killed in the two-year conflict,
Jewish extremists are suspected in only a few deaths. Since the conflict
began, 609 people have been killed on the Israeli side.'
(Notice again, `Jewish' instead of `Israeli,' making it hard to criticise
the behavior without getting slapped with `antisemite.'
Almost three times as many Palestinians killed as Israelis, yet we're
carefully told Palestinians are the real bad guys. Notice it's not explained
who did the killing when it wasn't `extremists'—recall the aerial
bombing by the Israeli air force a few weeks ago that took out one target
without fair trial and dozens of collateral damages who happened to live
in the building.)
TB
-
There is something about the Zionists that really does piss me off:
they fake Canadian passports and abuse our decent reputation.
TS
And I think we're far to swift to dismiss the claims made here.
- 19:
US still trying to sort out how to deal with Iraq's little bombshell.
Powell says the US will block inspections unless there's a new Security
Council resolution against Iraq. (As a permanent member, the US can veto any
resolution and thus stall indefinitely. But they've also been demanding a new
resolution…on the other hand, the US has never much worried about
sticking to what it said yesterday.) Earlier Bush sent a draft resolution to
Congress, asking it to authorise all necessary and appropriate means to
restore peace and security to the region.
BBC
(Glassing it over would make it very peaceful.)
`Bush wants to distract attention from his own internal difficulties. That's
a favourite method. Hitler also did it.'—German Justice Minister Herta
Däubler-Gmelin
[LT
citing Schwäbische Tagblatt]
-
Walter Zeichner: `We need a regime change in the US.'
BFP
- 20:
Military called in to close Nation, a DC nightclub.
I
(The military rule is coming out of hiding.)
Sen. Byrd (D-WV) says GWB's Iraq agitation is a conscious effort to distract
from the crumbling domestic situation, and that he finds `the Constitution is
irrelevant to people of this administration.' Sen. Nelson (D-FL)
and Clinton (D-NY) lend their support.
WVG
Ha'aretz:
`Of all the grave and ugly developments on the fringes of settler society,
none is more frightening than acts of Jewish terror, whose perpetrators attack
Palestinian targets, primarily schools in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,
without hindrance…These attacks would be disturbing even if the targets
were chosen at random. But the targets are chosen carefully—and,
abominably, they are children.'
-
The US media begin the spinning. The US is trying to change the rules of the
game, eg imposing more conditions on Iraq. Iraq is saying the rules should stay
the same. This is spun into `Iraqi imposing conditions on their `unconditional'
aquiescence.' It's a trick, don't be fooled. Contrast
Yahoo's
title. `Iraq
begins imposing conditions on "unconditional return of UN inspectors' to
what's actually said: `Iraq said it would not accept any new
conditions…Baghdad rules out additional conditions
following…Iraq will not deal with any new resolution that would
run counter to what was agreed upon with the UN secretary general…George
W. Bush is pressing the Security Council to pass a tough new resolution'
(my emphases).
Times of India
has a very different, more accurate headline (on the same AFP
article): `Iraq to reject new UN conditions on disarmament'
Note this
Floridian
spin: `Iraq Says It Will Not Abide by Any
Unfavorable Security Council Resolutions' (my emphasis)
`Don't you just hate it when the bad guys agree to do what we want them
to?…But our Fearless Leader, not one to be deterred from war merely
by getting what he wants, promptly moved the goalposts and issued a new list
of demands that Iraq must meet.'
-
President of Hahvahd
denounces criticism of Israel.
BG
-
The Australian Parliament is coming apart over invading Iraq. Peter Lindsay:
any nation that took military action against another without UN backing would
be `in the same basket as the terrorists.' Harry Quick: `If we support a
preëmptive strike against Iraq, yes I am [prepared to be expelled from
Labour].'
NA
-
13-year-old Palestinian Baha Albahsh dies in Nablus. Israelis say he died of
burns received from trying to light a gasoline bomb; British witness Ewa
Jasiewics says he was shot by Israeli troops while doing nothing but standing
around. The examining Palestinian doctor said the fatal wound was a gunshot in
the thorax.
TBO
-
Powell calls the old rules `unacceptable.'
`…calling the UN weapons-inspections system unacceptable.'
(Probably because the US got kicked out of running it.)
This is a tactic called, so I'm told, bait and switch; set the rules, get the
adversary to agree; change the rules, get the adversary to reägree;
repeat that until the adversary says `fuck you;' blame the adversary for
the `failure' of the process.
-
The Taliban plan a spring offensive.
LT
- 21:
Richard Butler, fmr chief weapons inspector, tries to point out to Americans
the fundamental hypocrisy of thinking they have a right to all the weapons
they want while denying same to anyone else. `My attempts to have Americans
enter into discussions about double standards have been an abject
failure—even with highly educated and engaged people. I sometimes felt
I was speaking to them in Martian, so deep is their inability to understand.'
SMH
- 22:
Blair's Internat'l Development Sec'y Clare Short declares that another Gulf
War on the Iraqis would be wrong. `Each one of them is as precious as the 3000
people in the twin towers. We can't sacrifice them to putting it
right…We should be ready to impose the will of the UN on [Saddam
Hussein and the elite around him] if they don't coöperate, but not by
hurting the people of Iraq.'
[CNN
citing BBC]
-
I learn a new word. `Bluewashing: using the good reputation of the UN to
present a corporate humanitarian image without a commitment to changing
real-world behavior.' Bayer (fmrly of IGFarben) is the illustrative example.
CW
-
Rep. Lantos (D-SanMateo, pro-kill-Saddam): `We cannot wait for madmen to
strike first.'
SFG
(Whitehouse madmen excepted, presumably.)
-
Ha'aretz
isn't buying Sharon's reasons for demolishing
Arafat's HQ. (So why should we?)
-
I guess the rump parliament didn't come off, but the `rebel' Labour
MPs are going to try something less dramatic; a device used in '87.
T
-
A Dr. Jawad of the Basra Cancer Hospital asserts that
cancer rates have increased 9-fold since the Gulf War.
BBC
- 23:
GWB `warns' he'll veto the creation of Homeland Security Dep't unless he
gets `sweeping' hire-&-fire authority. `I will not saddle this administration and future administrations with allowing the US Senate to micro-manage the process.'
NM
(In other words, homeland security was never his reason for dreaming up
Homeland Security in the first place; it was an ego trip or power grab.)
All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment,
[GWB] continued. Are security council resolutions to be honoured and enforced, or cast aside without consequence?…Right now those resolutions are being unilaterally subverted by the Iraqi regime.
The same could be said of various other countries, but most notably Israel. Throughout its history, the security council has never once taken enforcement action over Israel's flouting of UN resolutions or its violations of international law.
Largely as a result of American pressure, criticisms of Israel in security council resolutions also tend to be softer than the criticisms of other countries for similar offences.
Not only that. Thirty-two draft resolutions criticising Israel since 1972 have never seen the light of day because the US used its security council veto to block them.
G
- 24:
Front-page Boston Globe
story
linking WNV to polio, citing New England Journal of Medicine.
IDF fires on Palestinian schoolchildren, wounding 15.
PC
Security Council passes, 14–0, another resolution, #1435, against
Israel. The USA abstained.
ToI
Israel immediately thumbs its nose
BBC
and expresses disappoinment the US didn't exercise its veto.
JP
What's really odd: it appears the US was the party which
proposed the resolution.
[JR
mirroring
R]
(Notice the article mentions the bombings in Israel `shatter[ing] a 6-week
lull' but not the bombing in Palestine.)
Although the CBC said it was a Palestinian proposal based on
US and Arab submissions. I'd guess the US tried to slip its
invade-Iraq resolution in as a naughty-Israel rider, and the Arabs
saw through it and split 'em up. I told ya them Shemites aren't stupid.
The Blair machine spits out its invade-Iraq `pulp-fiction' `dossier'.
Iraq calls it `baseless.'
TBO
(Go ahead. Try to find any real evidence in it.
PDF
·
text)
Whitehall even admits there's no `killer fact' in it; it comes down to
`we gotta hit 'em now while they're still impotent darkie pipsqeuaks with oil'
(not a quote).
M
Iraq invites UNMOVIC to check Blair's BS right now.
R
Stop the War points out, `Ludicrously, the presence of ordinary household and
industrial chemicals is taken in itself as evidence of weapons of mass
destruction. For example, disinfectants such as carbolic and nitric acid,
stuff of ordinary life, are said to constitute chemical capability.' `Even if
the claim about castor oil is so, ricin is used to produce cancer-fighting
medication. Iraq has a surfeit of cancer patients and because of sanctions
must produce much of its own medication supplies.'
MP Alan Simpson: `Iraq has never used chemical weapons against an external
enemy without the acquiescence of the most powerful states. It has done so
only in the knowledge it would be protected from countermeasures by a
superpower. There is no reason to suspect Iraq places any military gains it
might achieve through use of chemical weapons above its desire to form
international alliances with major powers.'
M
`If the proposed action against Iraq is truly about Weapons of Mass Destruction
then why doesn't the British government produce a dossier on America's weapons of mass destruction—a country that has actually used them on civilian populations? 200,000 people were killed by America when it dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Thousands of innocents have been killed by the US in Vietnam, Afghanistan and in Iraq itself to fatten up the balance sheets of corporate America.'
K
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`In another sign of significant recession, US households earned more than
2% less last year and more Americans fell below the poverty line.'
[MSNBC
citing census data]
(That's a badly-written sentence. Try `Real median income tumbled 2.2% from
its 2000 level, according to Census statistics released Tuesday, while the poverty rate rose from 11.3% in 2000 to 11.7%.')
The top 20% took in 50% of the income, up 5%;
the poorest 20% took 3.5%, down 4% (since 1985).
WSWS
-
The Index of Leading Economic Indicators slip 0.2% in August,
to 111.8 (100 = conditions of 1996). 7 of the 10 components declined.
MSNBC
(This thing sounds like a numbers gizmo concoted to make the latter half
of the '90s look good, and now things are bad enough it's slipping too.)
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The `No Child Left Behind Act' requires schools to give military recruiters
and `patriotic youth groups' the same access to students as other job
recruiters.
TO
(Think `Bushitler Youth')
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Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale:
`Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.'
CTNOW
-
Cabinet Office Joint Intelligence Committee claims Saddam could deploy
chemical and biological weapons in ¾hr's notice.
T
- 25:
IDF dynamites the home of Dura's mayor in reprisal for his son's involvement
in attacks on Israeli troops. `My sons didn't attack Israeli civilians, they
didn't attack restaurants, they attacked armed soldiers occupying our land and
persecuting our people. My sons are not terrorists, they are freedom fighters.'
PC
(The UN laws permit violence against occupying military—ie,
these boys were likely legally defending themselves/their country.
On the other hand, what the IDF did here is clearly illegal.)
Fleischer gives entertainingly evasive press briefing.
WH
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Interviewer: Some on the right call you the new Jane Fonda, and joke about what you'll call your exercise video.
Scott Ritter: Those on the right who say that disgrace the 12 years of service I gave to my country as a Marine. I love my country. I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none. If they want to have an exercise video then why don't they come here and say it to my face and I'll give'm an exercise video, which will be called, "Scott Ritter Kicking Their Ass."
T
-
UK MP Gerald Kaufman:
`Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military, and diplomatic illiteracy. Pity the man who relies on Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Rice for counsel. The only man in the US administration who knows the score is Colin Powell, who actually won the last war against Iraq. He is so marginalised as to be an object of pathos.'
S
-
`After nearly a decade of spoiled records, lost money and three Cabinet secretaries cited for contempt of court, lawmakers are saying the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Department of Interior has lost its credibility with Native Americans.'
FOX
(Gee, ya think maybe so?)
-
UN accuses Israel of taxing humanitarian supplies passing into Palestine.
`Over the last year, UNRWA has been forced to pay more than M$2.5—of
what should be a purely humanitarian budget—in additional port and
storage charges.'
D
- 26:
Alan Greenspan gets honourary knighthood for running the US annex to the
British banks to Her Majesty's satisfaction.
T
(Some whould think there are conflicts with the Constitution, Article I
IIRC, prohibiting US officials from having or accepting foreign titles.
They forget the
Federal Reserve is a private bank
owned by foreigners.)
-
JCPenney:
Forward Command Post $44.99 Take command of your soldiers from
this fully outfitted battlezone. 75-pc set includes one 11½"H figurine
in military combat gear, toy weapons, American flag, chairs and more.
Assembled dimensions; 32×16×32"H. Plastic. 10 lbs. Ages 5 and
up.
AW
(Dropped from inventory by Oct 12? Nope. Still there, Nov 26.)
- 27:
`Preëmptive' arrests of protestors in DC's Pershing Square.
The term pre-emptive is a new term for law enforcement which had rarely if
ever been heard of before. It means arresting a person who has not committed
a crime, but that might commit a crime. The arrest and incarceration of
citizens who have not committed a crime is suppose to be illegal and
unconstitutional. But a new strategy which is just beginning is apparently
taken from a page out of the Bush Administration's new strategy toward
suspected terrorists, except now it is being applied to peaceful
demonstrations, protests and now even gatherings…There was nothing
illegal going on at the park, and police never did charge that there was.
There was no violence, no civil disobedience, no property destruction of any
kind at or around the park that I observed, just a large gathering of colorful
people.
SFP
Let me tell you what was done…in your name in your capitol
to your children…Let me tell you what
the nice policemen did…Then they bound their arms behind their backs
with plastic straps, tight. Then they loaded them onto the buses, and
transported them across the river. There they were kept, bound and seated,
for fourteen hours…After midnight they were taken from the buses into
the large gymnasium of a police training building. There they were strapped
into plastic shackles: left wrist to right ankle. They could not stand or
kneel. They were kept in this position for another fourteen hours.
I
(Hopefully at least those children will believe Sesame Street's
`policemen are your friends' bullshit no more.)
President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America Mary Alexander
urges 9/11 families to take the government hush money and stop suing.
USNW
-
Three permanent Security Council members, Russia, China, France, reject US
pleas for a binding resolution against Iraq. (The other two permanent members
are US and England.)
SMH
-
Is GWB's lacklustre intellect
dry-drunk
syndrome or
aspartame
syndrome? Or is he just plain
loonytunes?
-
Italy adopts `LaRouche-style new Bretton Woods' economy plan.
JR
At last—the manufactured provocations begin. First up is a quantity
of U captured in a Turkish taxi after a tipoff. Reuters reports `more than
15 kg of weapons grade' but some say a lump that size would automelt.
The reported value, M$5, belies the quantity—C'd'n History Channel this
spring pegged the stuff at M$1/g, although that may be 1950s costs.
Ha'aretz
sets the mass at `hundreds of grams, a fraction of the initial estimate.'
CNN
sticks to the high mass for awhile but slacks off on the grade
(and says the Hiroshima bomb used about 55# of U).
It's claimed to have come from an east-European
country even though the container's all-English labelling includes
`made in W Germany.'
R
Ultimately the mass drops to 140 g and the two suspects
released for lack of evidence.
CNN
Eventually the Turkish Atomic Energy Institute says it was just
Z, Fe, zirconium, and manganese…nothing fissile.
The confusion about the weight is attributed to inclusion of the lead
container.
TBO
-
GWB cited a report from the IAEA indicating Iraq is 6 months from nuclear
weapons; the IAEA protests that no such report exists. Gwozdecky: `I don't
know where they have determined that Iraq has retained this much weaponization
capability because when we left in December '98 we had concluded that we had
neutralized their nuclear-weapons program.'
WT
-
The AOL-Time-Warner-CNN machine may merge with the Disney-ABC machine, to
survive declining ratings. `A new information monster [would] appear in the
world, which will be the largest ever seen…After the merger of both TV companies, the US Administration will have an unbelievably strong propaganda instrument that can exert influence not only in other countries of the world, but in the USA as well. This means that George Bush will never have problems with ratings, and he is sure to gain the support of the American people for any suggestion to wage war anywhere in the world.'
[P
citing LA Times]
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Sen. Lott says McDermott should `come home and keep his mouth shut.'
Rep. McDermott is actually in Iraq to see what's what.
CNN
-
Pentagon petitions UN for okay to use new Valium gas weapon on its own people.
AMR
-
Canada limits entry visas to Malaysians `because their passports were
vulnerable to abuse.'
ST
I wonder what the comment would be if the Middle East
banned Candian tourists because our passports were vulnerbale to abuse
as Israel has demonstrated a couple of times.
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Amnesty International report on children caught in the Israeli-Palestine
conflict. 250 Palestinian, 72 Israeli killed since the Sep 2000 flareup.
The majority of Palestinian children were killed when the `IDF responded to
demonstrations and stone throwing incidents with unlawful and excessive use
of lethal force…[The IDF] randomly opened fire, shelled or bombarded
residential neighbourhoods at times when there was no exchange of fire, and
in circumstances in while the lives of IDF soldiers were not at risk.'
ABC
-
GWB: `There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, it's
probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on…shame
on you. It fool me. We can't get fooled again.'
SMH
-
Israel has sent special forces into western Iraq to `find and identify places
used by or likely to be used by Iraqi Scud missiles.'
[JP
citing Jane's Foreign Report]
It's likely Israel is looking to launch a Scud to get WW3 going.
-
Did Iraq really kick out UN weapons inspectors in 1998, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said? No. We made the decision to evacuate,
says Charles Duelfer, who was deputy chairman of the UN inspection agency at the time.
[Calvin Woodward (AP) Case against Iraq stretches evidence
Santa Rosa Press Democrat Sep 28]
- 28:
Leaky tube forces shutdown of Comanche Peak 1.
AAS
WRH reader:
I went to our local bank [today] to cash a check for
$2600. Guess what? They did not have the cash to handle this check. I had to
get traveler's checks instead. Hmm. I asked why this was so, since I see so
many convenien[ce-]store folks deposit cash daily here. This is not
a bank in a mall or a grocery store. It is located as a standalone brick
building. As far as I can remember, this place has not been robbed so why the
paranoia about keeping cash?
The manager was quite apologetic but told me that this was a new trial
`policy to keep all possible transactions on paper and minimize the use of
dollars.' They would rather we use electronic payments than use cash whenever
possible.
It's not clear whose policy this is, the bank's or the gov't's. I know if
my bank tried this stunt, I'd not leave without every cent due me,
in the money of some major nation or Au.
- 29:
US attacks Basra civilian airport, second time in a week. CentCom
claims it attacked a mobile radar, Iraq claims passenger terminal.
R
German blown up in his car in Riyadh, ran local office of Crypto AG.
SN
This company had interting delings during the first Gulf War.
ACI
- 30:
Icke
Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster:
why the official story of 9/11 is a monumental lie
Judge uses confidentiality clauses to put an end to the police
investigation of Noelle Bush.
[LF
quoting
MAP
quoting Orlando Sentinel]
EU abandons efforts to keep Americans accountable to the ICC
T
US passes a law to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.
MSNBC
This would violate UN SC resolution 478.
`The Jerusalem clause in the US spending bill signed by Bush states that no
money could be spent on official US documents that listed Israel without
identifying Jerusalem as the capital.'
CH
Congress also approved payment of M$244 in back UN dues.
TI
-
US trade deficit in August, G$38.1.
FT
- (unk)
GWB, in Nashville:
Fool me once, shame—shame on—you. [Long
uncomfortable pause] Fool me—can
t get fooled again! Mark Crispin
Miller: What's revealing about this is that Bush could not say, Shame on
me
to save his life. That's a completely alien idea to him. This is a guy
who is absolutely proud of his own inflexibility and rectitude.
CD
- (unk)
Garrison Keillor: `a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.'
W
[BF
citing Time]
Meanwhile
Tuvalu (of the TLD .tv, sold to interests of guess-which-medium) is suing car
makers, oil companies, and the US for rising sea levels from global warming.
