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"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it."
  -- Dwight David Eisenhower


"I like guys who got five deferments and
never been there and send people to war, and
then don't like to hear suggestions about
what needs to be done." -John Murtha
"The evidence indicates that Iraq has
reconstituted it's nukular weapons
program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous
meetings with Iraqi nukular scientists, a
group he calls his Nukular Mujaheddin, his
Nukular Holy Warriors." -George W. Bush


"I don't know anybody that I can think of who
has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear
weapons." -Donald Rumsfeld


7/7 Mock Terror Drill: What Relationship
to the Real Time Terror Attacks?

Fictional 7/7 "scenario" of multiple bomb
attacks on London's subway

by Michel Chossudovsky -August 8, 2005
American Conservative Magazine, August 1, 2005
"The plan includes a large-scale air assault
on Iran employing both conventional and nuclear
weapons."
White House Won't Say When It
Learned Of CIA Leak Probe
Police Debate if London Plotters Were Suicide
Bombers, or Dupes - July 27, 2005
Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife,
Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads,
Drug Running, Illegal Weapon Deals And Sexual
Perversion Deep Within The Highest Levels Of
U.S. Military And Government

Terrorist camps thriving

Operating under new names and with the
implicit approval of the Pakistani military,
schools that train jihadists are an open
secret -July 22, 2005

UN seeks definition of terrorism

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged
world leaders to agree on a universal
definition of terrorism. -27 July 2005
Weed discovery brings calls for GM ban
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
July 26, 2005
Halliburton announces 284 percent increase in
war profits -25 July 2005
Munition exposure linked to brain cancer in US vets

Gulf War veterans exposed to chemical
munitions at Khamisiyah, Iraq are nearly
twice as likely as their unexposed peers from
the same war to die from brain cancer,
according to a report in the American Journal
of Public Health. -Jul 25, 2005
U.S. defies order to give up Abu Ghraib abuse photos
Saturday, July 23, 2005

In early June, Judge Alvin Hellerstein of
U.S. District Court in Manhattan ordered the
release of the additional photographs, part
of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed
by the American Civil Liberties Union to
determine the extent of abuse at American
military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan and
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Those who were awaiting Friday's
court-ordered release of more, and still more
grievous, images of inhumanity from Abu
Ghraib know it didn't happen.
An aide to Condoleezza Rice, the White House
national security adviser, visited [Abu
Ghraib], to inform the interrogators sternly
that they weren't getting useful enough
information from the detainees.
Bombings police search seized car
Police hunting the men behind the 21 July
failed bomb attacks on London are searching a
car for forensic evidence. -26 July, 2005
'No impunity' for shoot-to-kill

The shoot-to-kill policy, codenamed Operation
Kratos, was put in place six months after
9/11.

Ms Wilding denied suggestions that it was an
Israeli tactic and insisted that it was put
together following extensive research in
countries which had already suffered suicide
bombings.
Touting the use of nuclear fission to
generate electricity, American presidents
have strived to make sharp rhetorical
distinctions between atomic power and nuclear
weapons technologies, despite their extensive
overlap. Such reassuring distinctions now
have wide credibility in Iran
...the White House will claim privilege for
the work Roberts performed while serving as
principal deputy solicitor general in the
administration of former President George
H.W. Bush.
Cheney leading effort to thwart legislation
on detainees -July 25, 2005
Homeland Security officials who defied
Congress and misled the public by creating
secret files on American citizens while
testing a new passenger screening program may
have engaged in multiple counts of criminal
conduct, and at least one employee has
already lied to cover-up the misdeed.
-June 24, 2005
TSA Broke The Law, GAO Finds | July 22, 2005
TSA employees did indeed violate federal law
when it secretly expanded the nature and
extent of testing of a new passenger
screening system, according to congressional
investigators.
Global Eye
Master Plan
By Chris Floyd
July 22, 2005

President George W. Bush has granted himself
the power to declare anyone on earth --
including any U.S. citizen -- an "enemy
combatant," for any reason he sees fit.
Good page on the London bombings
Shoot-to-kill policy is based on Israeli
model -July 25, 2005
Lee Ruston, 32, who was on the platform, said
that he did not hear any of the three shout
“police” or anything like it. Mr
Ruston, a construction company director, said
that he saw two of the officers put on their
blue baseball caps marked “police” but
that the frightened electrician could not
have seen that happen because he had his back
to the officers and was running with his head
down.
Police name two bombing suspects
Police have named two of the men they suspect
of trying to set off bombs in a co-ordinated
attack on three London Tube trains and a bus
last Thursday.
"The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's
where the bomb was'. The metal was pushed
upwards as if the bomb was underneath the
train. They seem to think the bomb was left
in a bag, but I don't remember anybody being
where the bomb was, or any bag," he said.
North Korea offered yesterday to abandon its
nuclear weapons if the two sides in the
Korean War sign a peace agreement to replace
the 1953 cease-fire that halted hostilities
but did not resolve the conflict.

Most recently, the U.S. has objected to
discussing a peace deal or any other
concessions until after North Korea gives up
its weapons.
Niger Yellowcake and The
Man Who Forged Too Much
July 22nd, 2005
3300 Events to Call for Bush's Impeachment
over 'Downing Street' Allegations
Jul. 22, 2005
Former U.S. intelligence officers criticized
President Bush on Friday for not disciplining
Karl Rove in connection with the leak of the
name of a CIA officer, saying Bush's lack of
action has jeopardized national security.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco rejected prosecutors' claim
that 22,000 pages of writings and other
personal property seized from Kaczynski's
Montana cabin when he was arrested in 1996
have no value and should remain in a
government evidence locker. But the court
also rebuffed arguments by a lawyer for the
confessed serial killer that the items should
be returned to Kaczynski's control.
London Police Kill Man at Subway Station
July 22, 2005
Witnesses, however, paint a different picture
of the shooting.

One passenger said that three men were
chasing an Asian man, one of the men had his
gun drawn as he ran. According to another
passenger, the Asian man leaped over the
barriers at the station but he was being
pursued and as he approached the train, he
tripped and was 'caught-up' by the men doing
the chasing.
London police kill man day after transit
blasts
Man shot in subway chase as investigators
probe second wave of attacks
Man shot dead by police on Tube
Police have cordoned off a 200-metre area
around the station
22 July, 2005
Bush aides worked on damage control at time
of CIA leak
They helped prepare response to criticism
from agent's husband over nuclear allegation
Friday, July 22, 2005
House votes to make Patriot Act permanent
The U.S. House of Representatives voted
Thursday to make most of the USA Patriot Act
permanent, rejecting attempts to constrict
government surveillance.

The legislation approved in Thursday's vote
would make permanent 14 of the 16 provisions
in the USA Patriot Act set to expire at the
end of this year, The New York Times
reported.
Patriot Act renewed and toughened
The USA Patriot Act was renewed and toughened
today, making permanent the US government's
unprecedented powers to investigate suspected
terrorists. -July 22, 2005
Bush sees London attacks as reason for
Patriot Act -July 21, 2005
Conscientious Objection Applicants
in the Navy, 2003-2004
Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish citizens
21/07/05
US asks court for power to detain
Case on Illinois Muslim convert sparks debate
July 20, 2005
Roberts gave advice during Fla. recount
July 21, 2005
Without notice to his family and attorney,
Native American political prisoner Leonard
Peltier was moved to Terre Haute, Indiana,
Thursday June 30th, 2005. He has been placed
in solitary confinement indefinitely. Peltier
has been in prison for twenty nine years, he
is sixty years old, and his health is frail.
Syrian troops 'fired on by US forces'
From correspondents in Damascus, Syria
July 22, 2005


Officer quits over visits to women
SFPD computers used to run
checks on 9 females in city
July 21, 2005
'It's the top story in the Washington Post
this morning as well as in many other media
outlets. Who leaked the fact that the wife of
Joseph C. Wilson IV worked for the CIA?

What also might be worth asking: "Who didn't
know?"'
'...But Plame's undercover status at the time was
and is a little questionable in any case.'
...in Wingnutland, it will be--if it is not
already--taken as gospel truth that Joe
Wilson used to run a website called
"www.my-wife-is-a-big-old-CIA-agent.com".
Thousands of U.S. intelligence officers work
at desks in the Washington area every day
whose identities are shielded, as Plame's was
when her identity was leaked by Bush
administration officials, the 11 former
officers said.
UK police: Latest bombers failed

Two weeks to the day after the July 7 London
bombings, attackers tried -- and failed -- to
set off explosive devices at three Tube
stations and on a double-decker bus.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
UK boy wrongly labelled as bomber


Evidence showing that all three of the London
bombers of Pakistani descent visited Pakistan
last year has been thrown into doubt.
Rice tells Sudan to act on Darfur

Condoleezza Rice says Sudan must do more to
end violence to women

Ms Rice told reporters: "I said to the
Sudanese government that they had a
credibility problem with the international
community... I have said, 'actions not
words'."

At least 180,000 people have died and about
two million people have been forced from
their homes in the two-year conflict in
Darfur, blamed mainly on the pro-government
Janjaweed militias.

When NBC diplomatic reporter Andrea Mitchell
tried to ask el-Bashir about his involvement
with alleged atrocities, guards grabbed her
and muscled her toward the rear of the
room. State Department officials shouted at
the guards. "Get your hands off her!"
Wilkinson demanded. But all the reporters and
a camera crew were physically forced out as
Rice and el-Bashir watched.
Orwell meets Kafka
Countless recent news stories have one thing
in common -- denial of rights. -July 20, 2005
Bush, when O'Connor announced her retirement,
said he would take his time and go slowly in
finding a nominee to put before the
U.S. Senate for confirmation. As recently as
Sunday he said he still had some candidates
he wanted to interview for the seat on the
nation's high court.

Then on Monday it was announced that he was
very close to naming a nominee.
U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia warns Americans
of attacks -7/20/2005

"We have issued a warden message about our
knowledge of ongoing operation planning for
terrorist attacks in the kingdom"
Tube cleared after minor blasts

Dummy explosions using detonators only have
sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations
and the closure of three lines, a BBC
correspondent has said.
Ending Suicide Terrorism
by Rep. Ron Paul
July 21, 2005
Water Ice in a Martian Crater
Rove-Plame Scandal Leading to Deeper
White House Horrors?
Bus 'blast' and three tube stations evacuated
Four small explosions "or attempted
explosions" caused a major alarm this
afternoon at three London Tube stations and
on a double-decker bus. There were no reports
of major casualties.
NEW LONDON TERROR ALERT
Bombers have again targeted London's
transport system - with up to four explosions
reported.
...
Scotland Yard have confirmed there is an
incident involving armed police officers at
University College Hospital in Bloomsbury
close to Warren Street station.

An internal memo to staff at the hospital has
warned them to be on the lookout for a black
male, possibly of Asian origin, about 6ft
2ins tall, wearing a blue top with wires
protruding from the rear of the top.
Blasts Hit 3 London Subway Stations, Bus
July 21, 2005
Report: Explosions on London underground, bus
21/07/2005
House to Take Up Patriot Act Extension
Scientists worry about Pentagon's new ray gun
Lenses, pocket change could intensify effect
of "less lethal" weapon -July 20, 2005
Confirmation: Netanyahu and
Giuliani in same hotel on 7/7
In April 2004, the State Department used the
designation "sensitive but unclassified" to
conceal unclassified information about the
role of John Bolton, Under Secretary of State
for Arms Control, in the creation of a fact
sheet distributed to the United Nations that
falsely claimed Iraq had sought uranium from
Niger.
Thank You, Mr. President
Last week, John Roberts wrote
Bush a blank check.
Google Moon
CAFTA and Dietary Supplements
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Bomb 'mastermind' was victim of name confusion
20 July 2005
Along with virtually every deplorable act of
the Bush administration, the appointing of
Iran Contra era characters, including
convicted felons, is a prime example of how
the media consistently give George W. Bush a
free pass.
Bush Adviser Helped Law Firm Land Job
Lobbying for CNOOC
9/11: No CIA Report Yet
Did the CIA undermine Italy's war on terror?
July 19, 2005 4:35 AM
State resumes ID card program for medical pot
Despite top court ruling, Lockyer concludes
such certification doesn't violate federal
law -July 19, 2005
Burning the Stars and Stripes is illegal in
Denmark, but the country's red and white
Dannebrog is strangely enough not protected
by law.
In March 2004, in a case code-named Operation
Crevice, the police seized 1,300 pounds of
ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which can be
used to make explosives, and said they
believed it was related to a plan to attack a
pub or nightclub in Soho. Eight men were
arrested, all Britons of Pakistani origin,
and five are scheduled for trial in
September. Investigators think Mr. Lindsay
and Mr. Khan, in particular, might have some
connection to that case.
Courting Armageddon: How the Bush

administration's biological weapons buildup

affects you -By Heather Wokusch

San Francisco police cordoned off a section
of downtown this afternoon after a suspicious
backpack was found in a newspaper vending
machine, authorities said.
GET OUT THE VOTE
SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election?
18 July, 2005
Activist Enlists Unlikely Ally in Bid to
Legalize Pot

Steph Sherer teams up with a Beltway lobbyist
in fight to lift the ban on medical
marijuana.

Sherer's stake is personal and
professional. She uses cannabis daily for a
spinal injury suffered during her arrest at a
Washington protest five years ago.
BRITISH police are considering the
possibility that the four key suspects in
last week's London attacks may have been
tricked into setting off their bombs, a
British newspaper has reported.
UK bombers 'tricked' - All four paid for
return train tickets -18 July 2005
The disclosure to reporters of the arrest of
an al-Qaeda computer expert allowed several
wanted suspects from Osama bin Laden's terror
network to escape, government and security
officials said Tuesday. -August 10, 2004
A CIA officer who served in Pakistan during
the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan says the
theory that terrorists are poor, angry and
fanatically religious is a myth. -June 7, 2004
On Sunday it emerged one of the London
bombers was investigated by MI5 last year but
was deemed not to be a threat.

Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, was subject to a
routine assessment by the security service
because of an indirect connection to an
alleged terror plot.
London bomber made one-day Israel visit - official
18 Jul 2005

The government official said Mohammad Sidique
Khan, who London police believe blew himself
up on an underground train this month,
arrived in Israel on Feb. 19, 2003, and left
the next day.
How is it possible for Rove to have NOT known
Valerie Plame's name (before he started
talking about her to other journalists) if he
was only talking about her after Bob Novak's
column appeared? After all, Bob Novak's
column specifically mentioned Valerie Plame's
name.
Indian police forced around 200 people caught
watching pornography to do sit-ups in public
to shame them and keep them away from
theaters that illegally screen smutty movies.
In the name of homeland security, motorists
are going to see costs skyrocket for driver's
licenses and motor vehicle offices forced to
operate like local branches of the FBI, the
nation's governors warn.
FBI Says It Has Files on Rights Groups

The FBI has thousands of pages of records in
its files relating to the monitoring of civil
rights, environmental and similar advocacy
groups, the Justice Department acknowledges.
-July 18, 2005
Cooper Learned of CIA Wife From Rove Call

'Rove told him, "I've already said too much"'
July 18, 2005

In Baghdad, Raid Juhi, chief judge of the
tribunal, announced the first criminal case
has been filed against Saddam, stemming from
the 1982 massacre of an estimated 150 Shiites
in retaliation for a failed assassination
attempt.

Juhi said the investigation into the July 8,
1982, massacre in Dujail, 50 miles north of
Baghdad, has been completed, and the case was
referred to the courts for trial. The step
roughly corresponds to an indictment in the
U.S. legal system.

The date for the trial of Saddam and three
others was expected to be determined in "the
coming days," Juhi said. If convicted, the
four could face the death penalty.
Iraqi Panel Files Case Against Hussein
Deposed Leader Accused In 1982 Shiite Massacre
A Chinese Riot Rooted in Confusion
Lacking a Channel for Grievances, Garment
Workers Opt to Strike
Now that Scotland Yard has publicly
identified the four men believed to have
carried out the July 7 terrorist attacks
here, investigators have embarked on a far
more difficult phase of the inquiry, one that
officials concede could take months or even
years to complete.
Plan Called for Covert Aid in Iraq Vote
A bill making alarming progress in committee
would effectively strip federal courts of
most review power and shift it to the
attorney general. That's right: the chief
prosecutor of the United States would become
the judge of whether state courts behave
fairly enough toward defendants appealing
capital convictions.
In the USA, the curtain opened on new
anti-terror follies Wednesday when three
Senate committees, in blustery response to
the London bombings, voted to extend the
power of the FBI under the Patriot Act to
obtain library records without a subpoena.
Rove: Novak told me CIA agent's identity
Jul 15, 2:52 PM EDT
Bush administration refuses to relinquish US
control of Internet -15 July 2005
War in Iraq violates international law
July 15, 2005
Bush admin may be responsible for botching
effort to thwart London bombing -7/15/2005
London Bombers Tied to Al
Qaeda Plot in Pakistan
Alleged Mastermind of London Bombings Captured

Magdy Elnashar Is Taken Into Custody
Outside Cairo After Worldwide Manhunt
US should pull out of Iraq now says former
CIA chief John Deutch -07.15.2005
Former DOJ officials claim OKC Bombing
coverup began in D.C. By J.D. Cash and
Lt. Col. Roger Charles, (U.S.M.C. retired)
The London Explosions,
the Rogue Network, Bush and Iran
By Webster G. Tarpley
Bush's Plan to Loot Social Security
By Norman D. Livergood
Media repeated false GOP talking point on
authorization for Wilson trip to Niger
White House officials told The Washington
Post they fear someone in the Bush
administration may be indicted regarding the
leak of a covert CIA operative's name.
British Seeking 5th Man, Thought to Be
Ringleader -July 14, 2005
Abu Ghraib Tactics Were
First Used at Guantanamo
Ebbers Gets 25-Year Sentence
For Role in WorldCom Fraud
'Police shot bombers' reports New Zealander
09.07.05
Under a little-noticed provision of the
defense spending bill passed by Congress in
May, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld has until
July 11 to send Capitol Hill a "comprehensive
set of performance indicators and measures of
stability and security" two years after the
fall of Saddam Hussein.
It is "highly likely" one of the Tube bombers
died in the attacks on the Underground
network, police say.
Four bombers among dead
in London attacks: report
Same-time-as-attack underground bombing
exercise in London a chilling coincidence?
Law enforcement officials said investigators
suspect the bombers congregated at the King's
Cross Tube station, then set out to plant the
devices, NBC said.

According to The Times, a single bomb maker
using military-grade explosives was most
likely responsible for manufacturing all the
bombs used in the attacks.
Terrorist gang 'used military explosives'
July 12, 2005
The White House is suddenly facing damaging
evidence that it misled the public by
insisting for two years that presidential
adviser Karl Rove wasn't involved in leaking
the identity of a female CIA officer.
Some informed British sources believe that
the recent London Transport bombings may have
been the work of far right-wing British
terrorists hoping to stir up tensions with
the nation's large Muslim population. There
are several reasons for this belief.
Bush Adviser Helped Law Firm Land Job
Lobbying for CNOOC -July 12, 2005

President Bush's top independent intelligence
adviser met last winter with investment
bankers in China to help secure his law
firm's role in lobbying for a state-run
Chinese energy firm and its bid for the
U.S. oil company Unocal Corp., according to
his law firm, Akin Gump.
The London Explosions, the Rogue Network,
Bush and Iran
by Webster G. Tarpley -July 13, 2005
London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took
Place at Same Time as Real Attack

Culpability cover scenario echoes 9/11
wargames -July 9 2005
The new office, dubbed the NSS, or "National
Security Service," gives Negroponte power
over the gathering and use of both foreign
and domestic intelligence. This breathtaking
consolidation of intelligence powers for the
first time in the history of our country's
government brings domestic law enforcement
powers under control of the nation's foreign
intelligence apparatus.

It ought to be remembered that the terrorists
succeeded on Sept. 11, 2001, not because our
government lacked a huge, law
enforcement-foreign intelligence agency.
US Officials Can't Rule Out Mass Transit
Attack in US -10 July 2005

"We still have virtually all our eggs in the
basket of taking the battle to the enemy, as
if the enemy was all concentrated in those
two countries, instead of that we are dealing
with an ongoing threat that is truly global."
Mitterrand ordered bombing of Rainbow
Warrior, spy chief says -July 11, 2005
Suspected al Qaeda militants behind the
London bombings may well have come from a
previously unknown local cell and yet had
access to military explosives, European
security officials familiar with the probe
said. -July 11, 2005
The Dangerous Comfort of Secrecy

The Bush administration is classifying the
documents to be kept from public scrutiny at
the rate of 125 a minute. The move toward
greater secrecy has nearly doubled the number
of documents annually hidden from public view
- to well more than 15 million last year,
nearly twice the number classified in 2001 -
as bureaucrats have invented more amorphous
categories like "sensitive security
information." At the same time, the
declassification of documents required under
the Freedom of Information Act has been
choked down to a fraction of what it was a
decade ago, leaving the government working
behind an ever darker, ever denser screen.
IRAQ’S former interim prime minister Iyad
Allawi has warned that his country is facing
civil war and has predicted dire consequences
for Europe and America as well as the Middle
East if the crisis is not resolved.

“The problem is that the Americans have no
vision and no clear policy on how to go about
in Iraq,” said Allawi, a long-time ally of
Washington.
Explosive material used by British terrorist
who blew himself up on Tel Aviv beachfront in
2003 very likely the same as that used by
terrorists who staged London attacks last
week, Mossad tells Brits

Moreover, the Mossad office in London
received advance notice about the attacks,
but only six minutes before the first blast,
the paper reports.
Advanced bombs were so powerful that
none of dead have been identified

On Saturday, a second Al Qaida group,
entitled Abu Hafs Al Masri Brigade, claimed
responsibility for the attacks.
London Bombers Were Probably British, Says
U.K. Ex-Police Chief --July 10
Take a trip now to Edgware Road, the
heart of the Arab community in London
US, Britain planning to withdraw troops
from Iraq: report: -July 10, 2005
The proposal for a Homeland Security
Department originated in 1998 with the
launching of the so-called Hart-Rudman
Commission. Headed by former senators Gary
Hart and Warren Rudman, the project was
officially named the United States Commission
on National Security/21st Century.
Explosives Used by Terrorists in London
and Tel Aviv Identical -July 11, 2005
Thirty key al-Qa'ida-linked terror suspects
are identified by police -11 July 2005
U.S. agencies are investigating possible
sleeper cells in the country, the head of the
Department of Homeland Security indicated
Sunday.
With No Leads, British Consult
Allies on Blasts -July 11, 2005
Blair rules out bomb inquiry

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair today will
dismiss calls for an inquiry into the London
terror attacks. -11 July 2005
Pakistan: Little incentive to nab bin Laden
Ahmed Rashid International Herald Tribune

Only after a private meeting between
Musharraf and President George W. Bush did
Taliban attacks mysteriously cease for the
duration of the elections.
July 12, 2005
THOUSANDS of investors joined sharp
institutions in making millions of pounds
from the short-lived collapse in share prices
that followed the terrorist strikes in London
last week.
...
"We haven't had such a busy day since March
2003, just before the Iraq war," said Ian
Jenkins, head of spreadbetting at Cantor
Fitzgerald.
Police are appealing to the public to hand
over mobile phone images, video footage or
photographs taken after Thursday's bomb
attacks on London.
Who is behind the London bombings?
US Officials Can't Rule Out Mass
Transit Attack in US -10 July 2005
Clarke set to rush through emergency
arrest powers -08 July 2005
INVESTIGATORS were still having difficulty
establishing crime scenes at the sites of
last week's London bomb blasts because of
intense heat and extensive destruction, a
senior Australian police officer said today.
Italy to Start Iraq Troop Pullout in Fall
Applying the US Standard
State Sponsors of Terrorism
By JEREMY R. HAMMOND
July 6, 2005
Rove to be indicted "this week or early next"
LONDON: The defence ministry has drafted
plans for a significant troop withdrawal from
Iraq over the next 18 months and a big
deployment to Afghanistan, the Financial
Times reported yesterday.
Terrorism expert says at least one
person tipped off to London attacks
Passenger believes he saw bomber
MoD plans Iraq troop withdrawal
July 4 2005 22:02
There has been massive confusion over a
denial made by the Israelis that the Scotland
Yard had warned the Israeli Embassy in London
of possible terrorist attacks “minutes
before” the first bomb went off July
7. Israel warned London of the attacks a
“couple of days ago,” but British
authorities failed to respond accordingly to
deter the attacks, according to an
unconfirmed rumor circulating in intelligence
circles.
We were told by the Bushies that a vote for
John Kerry was a vote for al Qaeda because
they were so afraid of the great warrior,
Bush.
Guardian blog on London bombings
Explosions In London - Who Stands To Gain?
Israel Warned, Cover-up In Progress
July 07, 2005
The Associated Press reported July 7 that an
anonymous source in the Israeli Foreign
Ministry said Scotland Yard had warned the
Israeli Embassy in London of possible
terrorist attacks in the U.K. capital. The
information reportedly was passed to the
embassy minutes before the first bomb struck
at 0851 London time. The Israeli Embassy
promptly ordered Israeli Finance Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to remain in his hotel on
the morning of July 7. Netanyahu was
scheduled to participate in an Israeli
Investment Forum Conference at the Grand
Eastern Hotel, located next to the Liverpool
Street Tube station -- the first target in
the series of bombings that hit London on
July 7.
Ex-Israeli PM Netanyahu scheduled
for talks at site of London blast
Netanyahu had been on way
to London hotel near blasts
British Transport Police said power surge

incidents, some of which caused explosions,

occurred at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's

Cross, Old Street and Russell Square.


According to Tube infrastructure company
Metronet, which is responsible for
maintaining the Metropolitan line, today’s
incident was caused “by some kind of power
surge”.

The National Grid, which supplies power to
the Underground, said there had been no
problems with its system this morning which
could have contributed to the incidents.
A senior Israeli official says British police
told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes
before today's explosions that they had
received warnings of possible terror attacks
in the city.
BBC says it has identified the website where
claim of responsibility was posted
London Terror Death Toll More Than 45
Police chief "London was in very high state of alert"
"We are not aware of any warning at the
moment," London's police chief Sir Ian Blair
said. -07/07/2005
The associations, domains and web sites of
the designated Terrorist Sa'ad Rashed
Mohammad Al-Fagih.
Society for Internet Research - SoFIR
28 May 2005
Netanyahu Changed Plans Due to Warning
Jul 7, 7:14 AM ET
Israel was not warned about possible terror
attacks in London before at least six blasts
ripped through the city, Foreign Minister
Silvan Shalom has said.
Terror warnings received before blasts
July 7, 2005
Israel was not warned about possible terror
attacks in London before a series of blasts
ripped through the city, Foreign Minister
Silvan Shalom said Thursday. A Foreign
Ministry official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, had said earlier that British
police warned the Israeli Embassy in London
of possible terror attacks minutes before the
first explosion.
Israel says Scotland Yard was warned of
possible attack --07/07/2005
Report: Israel Was Warned Ahead of First Blast
Arutz Sheva | July 7 2005

The Israeli Embassy in London was notified in
advance, resulting in Finance Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel
room rather than make his way to the hotel
adjacent to the site of the first explosion,
a Liverpool Street train station, where he
was to address and economic summit.

Rush Hour Explosions Rock London
Blair Calls Apparent Terror Attacks
'Barbaric' Acts
More than 30 die in London blasts
A series of bomb attacks on London's
transport network has killed more than 30
people and injured about 350 others.
The idea that, because our troops are in
Iraq, terrorists will only attack us there
and not "in the streets of our own cities"
is, first and foremost, an insult to our
troops because it treats them as if their
entire mission is to serve as bait for
terrorists.
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that
Britain was committed to taking part in an
American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no
choice but to find a way of making it legal.
Top Hussein Lawyer Quits, Chides U.S.
So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go?
Anti-G8 march decision reversed
Police try to remove protesters
from the M9 at Stirling.
Police have reversed the decision to ban a
march near the G8 summit venue at Gleneagles
where world leaders have begun to gather.
6 July, 2005
White House Scrambles to Stop
Criminal Indictment of Rove
Web visits put man in jail
Jordanian is a threat to
national security, FBI says
China Tells Congress To Back Off Businesses
Tensions Heightened by Bid to Purchase Unocal
July 5, 2005
Rebels ready to face prison over ID cards
Refuseniks will copy Australian tactics
to foil scheme --July 3, 2005
Police arrested around 90 people during
violent clashes with anti-capitalist
demonstrators in Edinburgh.
Tijuana orders makeover for vendors
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - This Mexican border
city is planning a fashion makeover for its
throngs of street vendors by giving them an
ultimatum: Wear brightly colored, traditional
garb or leave. --July 4, 2005
"We're trying to be the best terrorists we
can be," said James P. Smith, who is working
on simulations of a smallpox virus released
in Portland, OR
Red-Light Cameras Stop Rolling in N.Va.
Police Lament the End of Photo Surveillance
Sunday, July 3, 2005
The man was identified as Ted E. Schelenski,
64, vice president for finance and operations
at the Heritage Foundation, a think tank that
promotes conservative policies. He pleaded
not guilty this week to a charge of simple
assault.
Ballot fight targets biotech crops
As sides square off in Sonoma, others
want to outlaw bans by counties.
Don't like the weather? Change it
The weird science of weather
modification makes a comeback
US walks tall -- but under the shadow of
global forces --July 3, 2005
If clear evidence emerged showing George
W. Bush had written in his diary that he had
lied to the American people to justify his
invasion of Iraq, would the U.S. media even
consider that a story?
FR: New Zogby Poll (42% in favor
of Impeaching president Bush)
From 1997 through 2000, Cheney’s
Halliburton sold $73 million worth of oil
equipment and services to Iraq through
subsidiaries Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll
Dresser Pump Co. to help rebuild Iraq’s
Gulf War-damaged infrastructure. That was
more business than any other U.S. company,
and Cheney later lied about his Iraqi
connection to media types like Sam Donaldson.

Halliburton also did business with
dictatorships that have committed human
rights abuses, such as in Burma, Libya and
Iran.
Bush administration annexes internet
In a worrying U-turn, the US Department of
Commerce (DoC) has made it clear it intends
to retain control of the internet's root
servers indefinitely. It was due to
relinquish that control in September 2006,
when its contract with overseeing body ICANN
ended.
Italy Denies Complicity In Alleged CIA Action
Egyptian Cleric Abducted in '03
July 1, 2005
Trade Pact Approved By House
GOP Struggles to Eke Out 217-215
Victory on CAFTA -July 28, 2005
(lists Democrats voting for and
Republicans voting against CAFTA)
Senate Approves Central
American Free Trade Pact
O'Connor to retire from Supreme Court
Washington Monument Subtly Fortified
Security Project Completed With Granite Walls
Designed to Provide Terror Protection
July 1, 2005
House Votes To Undercut High Court On Property
Federal Funds Tied To Eminent Domain
July 1, 2005
Iraq Withdrawal Bill Critical and Timely
June 29, 2005
Bush sets up domestic spy service

The FBI is to be re-organised, and will
include another new intelligence body called
the National Security Service.
State Guard forms anti-terrorism intelligence unit
Officials deny civil libertarian claims that
the group will monitor American citizens,
which is prohibited
...more than two-in-five voters (42%) say
they would favor impeachment proceedings if
it is found the President misled the nation
about his reasons for going to war with Iraq.
52 House members file FOIA request seeking
documents related to Downing Street minutes
Time Magazine to Cooperate in Plame Case Probe

In appellate court filings, Fitzgerald has
indicated that he knows the identity of
Miller's source and that the official has
voluntarily come forward.

"The sources have waived their
confidentiality," Hogan said. "They're not
relying on the promises of the
reporters. . . . It's getting curiouser and
curiouser." -June 30, 2005
Mystery planes continue to circle over Lodi
Jun 29, 2005
Salvador Option: Death Squads in Iraq
June 28th, 2005
"The president's frequent references to the
terrorist attacks of September 11 show the
weakness of his arguments," House Democratic
leader Nancy Pelosi said. "He is willing to
exploit the sacred ground of 9/11, knowing
that there is no connection between 9/11 and
the war in Iraq."
A Quick Way to End the Insurgency:
Impeach Bush Now -June 29, 2005
GOP lawmaker: Saddam linked to 9/11
N.C. representative says 'evidence is clear'
June 29, 2005
Blair Defends Iraq War, Dismisses Memo
June 29, 2005
British critics of the war in Iraq today
condemned US President George Bush for
attempting to link it with the September 11
atrocities in New York and Washington.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Trying to rally the
nation, President Bush defended the Iraq war
last night by evoking memories of the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D., Fla.) said, "Once
again the President is attempting to create
an erroneous link between Iraq and 9/11."
Bush slammed for Iraq link to 9/11
June 29, 2005
US newspapers have said President George Bush
failed, in his televised Tuesday speech, to
speak honestly about Iraq and should not have
linked the US-led fight there to September
11.
Is it really necessary to answer these bogus
claims yet again? These were the arguments
the administration attempted to sell to the
American people before the invasion,
manufacturing phony intelligence about
meetings between Iraqi agents and Al Qaeda
that were debunked well before the first
troops were sent in.
BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Thousands of
Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a
lopsided roadside brawl, setting fire to
cars, looting a supermarket and wounding six
police officers, a local shopkeeper and
domestic press said on Wednesday.
Bush: Bloodshed in Iraq Is 'Worth It'
Excerpts of Tonight's Bush Speech: The
White House Is Linking 9/11 & Iraq AGAIN
In 1999, Bush Demanded A Timetable
Could a hotel be built on the land owned by
Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new
ruling by the Supreme Court which was
supported by Justice Souter himself itself
might allow it. A private developer is
seeking to use this very law to build a hotel
on Souter's land. -June 28, 2005
SACRAMENTO - A key state lawmaker Monday
urged the California National Guard to
preserve all documents surrounding a recently
organized special intelligence unit because
he plans to conduct hearings into whether the
state military officials are laying the
groundwork for domestic spying. -June 28, 2005
SACRAMENTO - A key state lawmaker Monday
urged the California National Guard to
preserve all documents surrounding a recently
organized special intelligence unit because
he plans to conduct hearings into whether the
state military officials are laying the
groundwork for domestic spying.
FBI whistleblower Rowley running for Congress
June 28, 2005
Congress has backup at undisclosed location
June 28, 2005
UN Head Says No Military Solution In Iraq
June 28, 2005
The color-coded terror alert system went from
yellow to orange, after CIA agents thought
they saw secret numbers encoded in the moving
text at the bottom of the screen of an
Al-Jazeera broadcast, NBC said late Monday.
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) -- Former President
Bill Clinton joined his one-time political
foe, former President George H.W. Bush, for a
boat ride on the Atlantic Ocean after
attending a book-signing Monday.
Reaction To Bush Insider Claim WTC Collapse
Bogus Gets 'Huge Response' And Read By
Millions Worldwide --June 28, 2005
Former MI5 agent David Shayler, who
previously blew the whistle on the British
government paying Al Qaeda $200,000 to carry
out political assassinations, has gone on the
record with his conviction that 9/11 was an
inside job meant to bring about a permanent
state of emergency in America and pave the
way for the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq
and ultimately Iran and Syria.
Washington has, for the first time,
acknowledged to the United Nations that
prisoners have been tortured at US detention
centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as
Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.
The Supreme Court rejected appeals Monday
from two journalists who have refused to
testify before a grand jury about the leak of
an undercover CIA officer's identity.
Iraq: The carve-up begins

As the costs of the Iraq occupation spiral,
British and American oil companies meet in
secret next week to carve up the country's
oil reserves for themselves. 23 June 2005
EXCLUSIVE: BUSH'S TRILLION DOLLAR WAR
Cheaper 'to pay Saddam to quit Iraq'
27 June 2005
Cable Companies Don't Need to Share Lines
A new independent investigation of abuse
allegations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "doesn't
make sense," Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld said Sunday.
We can assume that the order to use napalm
(as well as the other unidentified
substances) came straight from the office of
Donald Rumsfeld. No one else could have
issued that order, nor would they have risked
their career by unilaterally using banned
weapons when their use was entirely gratuitous.
The Bush administration is planning the
government's first production of plutonium
238 - a highly radioactive substance valued
as a power source - since the Cold War,
stirring debate over the risks and benefits
of the deadly material. It is hot enough to
melt plastic and so dangerous that a speck
can cause cancer.
Trial unlikely for CIA suspects accused of
abduction in Italy --June 28, 2005
Exemplary sentence demanded for al-Qaida suspects

A Spanish prosecutor criticised the US war on
terror today as he requested an “exemplary
sentence” against an alleged al-Qaida
cell, three members of which are accused of
helping plot the September 11 attacks in the
US. 27/06/2005
Saudi held for attempting to kill Bush
Jun. 27, 2005
At the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in 1946,
Nazi leaders like Goering, von Ribbentrop,
Jodl and Streicher were sentenced to death by
hanging for “Crimes against Peace: namely,
planning, preparation, initiation or waging
of a war of aggression, or a war in violation
of international treaties, agreements or
assurances, or participation in a Common Plan
or Conspiracy for the accomplishment of any
of the foregoing.” (Article 6, Charter of
the International Military Tribunal, August
8, 1945) --27th Jun, 05
US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld on
Sunday rejected allegations of widespread
prisoner abuse at US-run overseas detention
facilities.

"The idea that there's any policy of abuse or
policy of torture is false - flat false," he
told the Fox News Sunday television program.
Yet, on Feb. 7, 2003, more than a month
before the war began, he predicted that "it
could last six days, six weeks, I doubt six
months." On Feb. 20, 2003, he told PBS that
the Americans "would be welcomed," as
happened in Afghanistan, where people in the
streets were "playing music, cheering, flying
kites." (Seven months later, when a broadcast
journalist asked Rumsfeld about his PBS
remarks, he replied: "Never said that. Never
did. ... You're thinking of somebody else.")
The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld,
yesterday warned that the insurgency in Iraq
could go on for at least a decade and
confirmed that the army had been in contact
with some of its leaders in an attempt to
quell the violence.
Iran’s Interior Ministry has confirmed that
the ultraconservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmud
Ahmadinejad, has won Iran’s presidential
election, Radio Farda reports. According to
official results, Ahmadinejad has nearly 62
percent of the vote, against 35.9 percent for
former President Ali-Akbar
Hashemi-Rafsanjani.
G8: Galloway to march protesters to
Gleneagles gates Anti-war MP George Galloway
obviously hasn't been listening to his
leader, Bob Geldof. 27th June, 2005
Enzyme Fully Degrades Mad Cow Disease Prion
Science Daily
January 8, 2004
Chavez pledges plastic houses for poor
On the eve of the official invasion, on March
8, 2003, Bush said in his national radio
address: "We are doing everything we can to
avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does
not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by
force." Bush said this after nearly a year of
systematic, aggressive bombings of Iraq,
during which Iraq was already being disarmed
by force, in preparation for the invasion to
come. By the Pentagon's own admission, it
carried out seventy-eight individual,
offensive airstrikes against Iraq in 2002
alone.
Fixing To Fix “Fixed”
by Ray McGovern
June 25, 2005
Fixed Is Fixed
by Ray McGovern
June 24, 2005
People in other countries who had unfavorable
views of the United States were most likely
to cite Bush as the reason rather than a
general problem with America.
Taiwanese Buy Up Sale-Priced U.S. Beef
June 26, 2005
Taiwan government rapped for policy on
US beef imports amid mad cow fears
Taiwan Reimposes Ban on U.S. Beef Imports
June 25, 2005
State officials say mad cow case likely not
from Iowa --June 25, 2005
Second U.S. Case of Mad Cow Confirmed
6/24/2005
Fast Food Chain Stocks Slip on Mad Cow

The sell-off was not nearly as severe as
Dec. 24, 2003, however, when the first case
of the brain-wasting mad cow disease sent
many restaurant stocks into a tailspin.
Man with bong attacks police dispatcher
Friday, June 24, 2005
Second case of mad cow disease confirmed
in Texas --June 24, 2005

The department has said there was no reason
to believe the animal was imported.
U.S. cattle still being fed slaughterhouse waste
June 19, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department
of Agriculture confirmed on Friday that one
animal has tested positive for Mad Cow
disease.

A preliminary test was positive, a second
test was negative and officials said the
third test was positive. The USDA said an
additional test will be performed on tissue
from the dead animal. --June 10,2005
Bill would shield mad cow outbreak
from Freedom of Information Act
June 3, 2005
Aljazeera Guantanamo inmate 'abused'
22 June 2005

"The Americans have tried to make him an
informant with the goal of getting him to say
that Aljazeera is linked to al-Qaida."
Neoconservatives Speechless!
by Karen Kwiatkowski
Tax activist wins in federal court
Ex-IRS agent says Congress has no power to
collect levy on income --June 23, 2005
Last month, representatives of WTP went to
the National Archives to pull the
correspondence of the Office of Chief Counsel
for the Treasury Department and for 1913
through 1917.

The index of records showed the records were
available for 1903 through 1912 and for 1918
and after. However, the index contained the
statement “No Longer Available,” for
the years 1913 through 1917.

At the same time, the researchers requested
the correspondence for the House Ways and
Means Committee for 1916. What was received
was a box with a large, but empty envelope
marked “Retained.”

The researchers found additional instances of
record deletions where, despite the fact the
records appeared available in the Archive
index – it was discovered after the record
group was physically “pulled” from deep
storage in the archives, that it was EMPTY.
Wolfowitz won't discuss critical British memos
Karl Rove's "Understanding of 9/11"
Kristen Breitweiser
Iran far from nuclear bomb-making capacity:
ex-UN weapons chief Blix

Iran is years away from achieving a nuclear
capacity sufficient to create a bomb, former
chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq Hans Blix
said in a Swedish public radio interview on
Thursday. --Jun 23, 2005
American presidents regularly lie to the
American people to motivate us to war.
Republicans join critics of war in Iraq
June 24 2005
Georgian TV Says Russian Soldier Held Over
Grenade Attack on Bush
Washington has for the first time
acknowledged to the United Nations that
prisoners have been tortured at US detention
centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as
Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said on
Friday.
Georgia’s parliament has passed a law
abolishing visas for citizens of the European
Union, the United States, Japan, Canada,
Israel, Switzerland and Norway, Reuters
reports.
An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13
foreigners tied to the CIA for allegedly
kidnapping an Egyptian terrorism suspect in
Milan two years ago and flying him to Egypt
for questioning, judicial sources said on
Friday.
Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes
June 23, 2005
As a result, cities now have wide power to
bulldoze residences for projects such as
shopping malls and hotel complexes in order
to generate tax revenue.
"Secret" Air Base for Iraq
War started prior to 9-11
United States secretary of state Condoleezza
Rice said on Wednesday the defeat of "evil"
terrorists in Iraq would spell the "death
knell of terrorism as we know it".
A novel said to have been penned by ousted
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein telling the
story of an Arab warrior who saves a town
from a plot to overthrow its ruler is to be
published soon, a newspaper reported on
Thursday.
Cabo San Lucas - Mexico on Wednesday cleared
a Lebanese-born, British citizen of
wrongdoing, setting him free mere days after
his arrest because of suspected links to
September 11 terror groups.

Amer Haykel was detained in the western state
of Baja California Sur on Monday, because
United States authorities provided
information that he was linked to extremist
groups believed to be involved with terrorist
attacks.
Former Asst. Sec. Of Treasury Under Reagan
Doubts Official 9/11 Story; Claims Neo Con
Agenda Is As 'Insane As Hitler And Nazi Party
When They Invaded Russia In Dead Of Winter' A
former high-ranking Republican official, also
a well-respected author, tells the American
people to stop listening to Bush
administration lies about Iraqi war and
claims the mainstream media will not publish
anything he writes against Bush or his
policies. June 22, 2005
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that
local governments may seize people's homes
and businesses — even against their will
— for private economic development.
Dust off the Nuremberg Files
Bush Administration Psychological Warfare Against the U.S.?
"One of the first items that made me uneasy
was when I heard we were encountering
"terrorist death squads." I was very
familiar with the Iraq military forces.
There were no terrorist death squads. It
became obvious the Pentagon wanted us to
connect Iraq with 9/11. Terrorists did 9/11.
There are terrorists in Iraq. Iraq must have
been behind 9/11."

They used a technique called the excluded
middle. Iraq supports terrorists. The
attacks were by terrorists. Iraq must been
behind the 9/11 attacks.
U.S. was big spender in days before
Iraq handover --June 22, 2005

Part of the challenge in tracking how money
was spent was the cash environment and lack
of electronic transfers.
House Approves Flag-Burning Amendment
June 22, 2005
A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane involved in
a mission in Afghanistan crashed while
returning to its base in the United Arab
Emirates, killing the pilot, the military
said Wednesday. --June 22, 2005
White House rebuffs independent probe
of Guantanamo --21 Jun 2005
House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Texas
said there was no need for an independent
commission to investigate treatment of
detainees.
Abu Ghraib, Rewarded
...the Pentagon believes the Abu Ghraib
scandal has receded enough in the public's
mind that Mr. Rumsfeld is considering a
promotion for Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who
was commander of American forces in Iraq at
the time of the disaster. --June 22, 2005
First Federal Industrial Hemp Bill to be
Introduced in Congress June 23; Capitol Hill
Event to Feature Rep. Ron Paul, Ralph Nader,
North Dakota Ag Commissioner, Leading Hemp
Businesses and Gourmet Hemp Cuisine
6/22/2005
Mr. Bush said he will not release Guantanamo
Bay prisoners such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,
whom he called "the mastermind of the
September the 11th attack," anytime soon.
Why the U.S. Press Won't Visit Downing Street
Dana Milbank is a pathetic hack trying vainly
to suppress important news on the Iraq
War. Fitting job for a journalist, isn't it?
Jun 21, 2005
US Spy Plane Crashes in Southwest Asia
Mental Screening of Children
The NIH Scandal and the Future of AIDS Research
Fri, 17 Jun 2005
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is
considering provoking a military
confrontation with Syria by attacking
Hizbullah bases near the Syrian border in
Lebanon, according to the authoritative
London-based Jane's Intelligence Digest.
If the Downing Street Documents are fake...

Then what were Dubya and B.Liar referring to
in their press conference on June 7 2005.?
On March 3, 2003 Newsweek published a leaked
transcript of Iraqi defector Hussein Kamel
testifying that all Iraq’s weapons had
been destroyed- yet in August ’02 Dick
Cheney claimed that Kamel told us the exact
opposite. Recall the British [CIA] Chief said
the "facts were being fixed" just a month
before... this seems to be a smoking gun case
of Cheney "fixing the facts" to make the case
for war.
The New York Times, The Washington Post and
the Los Angeles Times have all gone way out
of their way to deny that the Downing Street
Memos (it's now plural) are news.
American and British bombing raids over
southern Iraq, which began in May 2002,
almost a year before the full-scale, U.S.
-led attack, were illegal. --June 21, 2005
Don't get used to it
June 21, 2005
Report: FBI ignored, destroyed 9/11 data
Rush Limbaugh Plumbs New Depth Of Perversion;
Releases Gitmo T-shirt Line --June 20 2005
FBI & 9/11
By Sibel Edmonds
June 20, 2005
Bush devotees argued that the word
’fixed’ means something different
in England.
Nanotechnology and the treatment of cancer
20 June 2005
Congress likely to define war detainees
June 20, 2005
WMD claims were 'totally implausible'
June 20, 2005
Bush's WMD 'Joke': Is the
Media Still Laughing?
A former Harrisburg police officer who
pleaded guilty to charges that he stole and
smoked crack cocaine seized as evidence was
sentenced Thursday to three years of
probation.
Lost Credit Data Improperly Kept,
Company Admits --June 20, 2005

The chief of the credit card processing
company whose computer system was penetrated
by data thieves, exposing 40 million
cardholders to a risk of fraud, acknowledged
yesterday that the company should not have
been retaining those records.
...the data lost in the CardSystems
case was apparently not encrypted.
The reality is that the US war with Iran has
already begun. As we speak, American over
flights of Iranian soil are taking place,
using pilotless drones and other, more
sophisticated, capabilities.

The violation of a sovereign nation's
airspace is an act of war in and of
itself. But the war with Iran has gone far
beyond the intelligence-gathering phase.
Back in March, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
offered legislation to prevent credit card
companies from taking advantage of you if
your financial troubles are caused by
identity theft. The measure was voted down,
thanks to credit card industry-bought
politicians. That means MasterCard can lose
your information, and be responsible for your
identity being stolen and finances
ruined. And then - that's right - MasterCard
can legally seize on the situation by
charging you excessively high interest rates
because your credit has been ruined by their
negligence.
'Jumping genes' contribute to
the uniqueness of individual brains
Backstory: Confirming the
Downing Street documents
The 'Downing St. Memos'
destroyed? Not on your Nelly!
Symbolman: Conyers at The White
House Gate with the Petition


US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war
17 June 2005
A complete list: 123 House
members in Downing push
Saddam Interrogation Screened - In Silence
June 17, 2005
Democrats Urge Inquiry on Bush, Iraq
June 17, 2005
WH Press Secretary Mocks 'Downing Street
Memo,' as Congressman Calls for Inquiry
June 16, 2005
More British memos on prewar concerns
Officials deny intelligence that
facts were fixed to invade Iraq
Lodi father, son are indicted
They're charged with lying to FBI about
terrorist involvement. ..."the government
conceded that there was no evidence of any plan"
June 17, 2005

(Had they lied about Iraqi WMD instead, well...)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
tried to introduce an amendment to a military
spending bill that would have given the
president 30 days to show Congress criteria
for determining when U.S. forces could
withdraw from Iraq -- but GOP leaders blocked
it, saying such additions are not allowed to
appropriations bills.

The Iraq on the Record database identifies
237 specific misleading statements about the
threat posed by Iraq made by these five
officials in 125 public appearances in the
time leading up to and after the commencement
of hostilities in Iraq.

The database does not include statements that
appear mistaken only in hindsight. If a
statement was an accurate reflection of
U.S. intelligence at the time it was made,
the statement is excluded from the database
even if it now appears erroneous.
Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of
state, on Wednesday warned that the global
battle for control of energy resources could
become the modern equivalent of the 19th
century "great game" the conflict between the
UK and Tsarist Russia for supremacy in
central Asia.
What's the Deal With the Downing Street Memo?
Getting a grip on that Bush/Blair war scandal
June 16th, 2005
New "Downing Street" memos keep popping
up. In recent days, several confidential
memos written by senior officials in Tony
Blair's government in March 2002 have
garnered attention.
Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Flies
The Downing Street Memo
June 16, 2005
The session took an awkward turn when witness
Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst,
declared that the United States went to war
in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases
craved by administration "neocons" so "the
United States and Israel could dominate that
part of the world." He said that Israel
should not be considered an ally and that
Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon.
540,000 Petitions Delivered to President Bush
Demanding Truth About Iraq War; Downing
Street Memos Trigger Public Outrage Over
Deception --June 16, 2005
C-Span 3: The Downing Street Memo


Rep. John Conyers, House Judiciary
Cmte. Ranking Member, chairs a meeting on the
Downing Street Memo and pre-Iraq War
intelligence. Witnesses include former
ambassador Joe Wilson, CIA analyst Ray
McGovern, Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen
American soldier, and constitutional lawyer
John Bonifaz. --June 16, 2005
The Downing Street Memo hearings will be
broadcast live on the web at www.KPFA.org
Those of us who live in the SF Bay Area can
listen on the air at 94.1 from 11 am to 2 pm PST
Palast for Conyers: The OTHER ' Memos' from
Downing Street and Pennsylvania Avenue --June
15, 2005
With Congressman John Conyers about to hold
hearings, coverage of the Downing Street memo
is finally beginning to leak into the
media. In contrast, we've heard almost
nothing about the degree to which this
administration began actively fighting the
Iraq war well in advance of the March 2003
official attack
HALF-TRUTH: SLATE's Hard &
Soft approach to the DSM
Let's Go to the Memo
What's really in the Downing Street memos?
--June 15, 2005
On Thursday June 16, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. in
the Wasserman Room at 430 S Capitol St. SE,
Washington, D.C., Rep. John Conyers, Jr.,
Ranking Member of the House Judiciary
Committee, and other Congress Members will
hold a hearing on the Downing Street Minutes
and related evidence of efforts to cook the
books on pre-war intelligence.
After Downing Street: Activism:
Local Rallies Planned for Thursday
Fox News Channel has signed Gen. Wesley Clark
as a military and foreign affairs analyst,
Bill Shine, senior vice president of
programming, said yesterday.
Unleashing the Resistance
"Today, Iran is ruled by men who suppress
liberty at home and spread terror across the
world. Power is in the hands of an unelected
few who have retained power through an
electoral process that ignores the basic
requirements of democracy," Bush said in a
statement released by the White House.
Recycled plastic bottles could one day be
used to lubricate your car's engine,
according to researchers at Chevron and the
University of Kentucky, who in laboratory
experiments converted waste plastic into
lubricating oil. These polyethylene-derived
oils, they say, could help improve fuel
economy and reduce the frequency of oil
changes.
Pentagon Analyst Accused of Creating Web of Deception
Indictment alleges stealthy contacts by an
official suspected of leaking secrets to
Israel. --June 14, 2005
Details of a Plot Unveiled in Case
Against Franklin --June 14, 2005
U.S. Opposed Calls at NATO for Probe of Uzbek
Killings Officials Feared Losing Air Base
Access --June 14, 2005
Russia, US Blocked NATO Call for
Probe into Uzbek Massacre: Report
Why did Bolton want Bustani replaced? Because
Bustani was aggressively seeking to reinsert
chemical weapons inspectors into Iraq.
Hijacking the Facts
FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11
cover-up--and then hide it some more
June 14th, 2005
How, exactly, did a porn king and his 36DD
leading lady get themselves invited to a
fundraiser for those holier-than-thou House
Republicans?

The Republicans, Kulkis tells Radar, came to him.
Rove arrived in Houston in 1977 to work for a
George Herbert Walker Bush PAC run by James
Baker 3d.
A former Bush team member during his first
administration is now voicing serious doubts
about the collapse of the World Trade Center
on 9-11.
Alan Colmes, on his Fox radio talk show last
week, asked anti-abortion extremist Neal
Horsley if he was kidding when Horsley once
claimed to have had sex with animals as a boy
growing up in Georgia.
Osama in Iran, not Pak: US officials
From Pakistan to Lodi
According to an investigative report in the
Washington Post, those numbers are
"misleading at best." The report found that
only 39 people have been convicted of crimes
related to terrorism or national
security. (Of those, only 14 had any
demonstrated links to al Qaeda.) The rest
were convicted of relatively minor crimes
such as making false statements and violating
immigration laws. --June 14, 2005
Justice Department: Terror Trials and Tribulations

Dan Eggen: 'I'm not sure what you mean
by "innocent." If you mean innocent of
terrorism, we identified 180 cases in which
no ties to terrorist groups or activity could
be found. Furthermore, out of the remaining
cases, only 39 resulted in terrorism or
national security convictions. We also
profiled in depth several cases that did not
involve terrorism, including a group of
immigrants in New Jersey who had smuggled
cornflakes nearly two years before 9/11.'
June 13, 2005
An analysis of the Justice Department's own
list of terrorism prosecutions by The
Washington Post shows that 39 people -- not
200, as officials have implied -- were
convicted of crimes related to terrorism or
national security.

Most of the others were convicted of
relatively minor crimes such as making false
statements and violating immigration law --
and had nothing to do with terrorism, the
analysis shows. June 12, 2005
New Bill Could Make Bush President For Life
A House bill has been introduced that would
change the 22nd amendment and enable George
Bush to remain President for the rest of his
political life. --June 14 2005
Uzbek protesters ran gantlet of death
--June 13, 2005
Experiment tracks state of mind --June 13, 2005

"You know how many starving people I could
feed with all these shoes?"
Former CIA director calls for Iraq withdrawal
MIT Professor Deutch delivers Phi Beta Kappa
oration --June 7, 2005
Bank of England to call first
witness in BCCI case --13 June 2005
Today, Robert Johnson or Blind Lemon
Jefferson would be looking at fines or
lawsuits for their work.
According to author and journalist Mickey
Herskowitz, then presidential candidate
George W. Bush was already talking privately
about the political benefits of attacking
Iraq two years before September 11 occurred.
U.K. Memo Said to Question Postwar Plan
June 12, 2005

WASHINGTON -- A staff paper prepared for
British Prime Minister Tony Blair eight
months before the invasion of Iraq concluded
that U.S. military officials were not
planning adequately for a postwar occupation,
The Washington Post reported.
Today we publish further revelations in the
news section in the form of a July 2002
Cabinet Office briefing paper.

It makes clear that both Blair and Bush have
a lot to apologise for: "When the prime
minister discussed Iraq with President Bush
at Crawford in April he said that the UK
would support military action to bring about
regime change," it states, adding that
"regime change per se is illegal".
Frustrated at the refusal by the White House
to respond to their letter, the congressmen
have set up a website--www.downingstreetmemo.com
--to collect signatures on a petition demanding
the same answers.

Conyers promised to deliver it to Bush once
it reached 250,000 signatures. By Friday
morning it already had more than 500,000 with
as many as 1M expected to have been obtained
when he delivers it to the White House on
Thursday.

AfterDowningStreet.org, another website set
up as a result of the memo, is calling for a
congressional committee to consider whether
Bush's actions as depicted in the memo
constitute grounds for impeachment.
Bush and 'the memo'
Administration's Offenses Impeachable
Republican Senator Suggests Closing Gitmo
June 11, 2005
Britain accused of creating terror fears

Memo on 9/11 Plotters Blocked


New disclosures show that CIA information in
2000 about two Al Qaeda operatives in San
Diego was squelched before reaching the FBI.

The reason the CIA official, identified by
the fictitious name "John," put a hold on the
communique remains a mystery, the report
said. It said the officials involved didn't
recall the incident. Even when the author of
the memo followed up a week later with an
e-mail asking if it had been sent to the FBI,
nothing was done.

The memo contained virtually all of the
details known to the agency, including
Almihdhar's passport and visa information,
which listed his intention to stay in New
York.

But at 4 p.m. that day, another CIA Bin Laden
desk officer, "Michelle," added a note to the
memo: "pls hold off on [memo] for now per
[the CIA deputy chief of Bin Laden unit]."
According to the report, CIA employees and
four FBI agents assigned to the CIA's bin
Laden unit on Jan. 5, 2000, accessed incoming
cables containing a substantial amount of
information about Mihdhar, including that he
was traveling and that he had a U.S. visa.
Those facts weren't disseminated to the FBI.

(Hmm. Not disseminated to the FBI by the FBI?)
TWO American sailors and a Canadian national
have been arrested for allegedly smuggling
drugs into Australia aboard a US Navy ship.
Psychological Warfare Effort to be Outsourced
June 10, 2005
FBI 'missed chances to stop 9/11'
In the Turkey Breeding Factory
"The turkey is a creation of modern science
and industry," he said. "...We have to trick
it into laying all the time."
Agents arrest four men in Lodi
thought linked to al-Qaida
Father and Son Held in California Are Tied to
Al Qaeda Camp ...The affidavit said that
Hamid Hayat had originally left the United
States for Pakistan in April 2003, and had
departed Pakistan for the United States on
May 27 of this year.
Feds Charge Father, Son With al-Qaida Link
Slotter added that investigators did not have
information about any specific plans for an
attack, and the father and son were charged
only with lying to federal agents about the
son's training at the al-Qaida camp.
Former President Carter on Tuesday called for
the United States to shut down the Guantanamo
Bay prison to demonstrate its commitment to
human rights.
Revitalizing U.S.-Turkey relations
By Frank Carlucci/F. Stephen Larrabee
...Turkey can play an important role in
supporting democracy in the Middle East. But
the U.S. should avoid touting Turkey as a
model, as some U.S. policymakers are wont to
do.
Senate Panel OKs Expanded Powers for FBI
--June 8, 2005
Dates for future hearings
of the Sept. 11 Commission
Yesterday's East Room meeting of President
Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair
was worth a cool $1,000 to Steve Holland,
Reuters' chief White House correspondent, if
he cares to collect it.
Gov. Bush Signs Law Making Hazing A Crime
June 7, 2005
"This is no different than what happens at
the Skull and Bones initiation, and we're
going to ruin people's lives over it, and
we're going to hamper our military effort,
and then we are going to really hammer them
because they had a good time. You know, these
people are being fired at every day. I'm
talking about people having a good time,
these people, you ever heard of emotional
release? You [ever] heard of need to blow
some steam off?" -- Rush "Oxy" Limbaugh
Jun. 7, 2005 - Authorities have ordered all
China-based Web sites and blogs to register
or be closed down, in the latest effort by
the communist government to police the world
of cyberspace.
A homeless man is facing a possible prison
term for allegedly charging tourists $5 to
park in a free lot during the busy Memorial
Day weekend.
Kerry assails Bush on Iraq
Policies on Social Security,
health care also draw fire

Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday called on
Americans to be more aware of the "bait and
switch" Iraq war and the "hollowing out" of
the Army in the pursuit of a mistaken policy.
Tanks In The Streets Of New York
June 7th 2005
Sidelining the CIA
A new White House memo excludes CIA director
Porter Goss from National Security Council
meetings
Weren't we told to blame 9/11 on
"The Wall" between agencies?

Cranberries 'block gut viruses'
Cranberries help reduce urinary infection
Cranberry juice may help to combat viruses
that cause gut disorders, research suggests.
Man-made pesticides blamed for fall in male
fertility over past 50 years
The Fix Was In
Did Bush Deliberately Deceive America About Iraq?
By Rep. JOHN CONYERS
It's been more than a month since The Times
of London published a secret British
government memo from mid-2002 describing the
Bush administration's resolve to invade Iraq
whether it posed a threat or not.

It's been about a month since 89 House
Democrats--including six from the Bay
Area--asked the president to explain
himself in light of this memo.

And it's been almost three weeks since the
White House press secretary said that isn't
going to happen.
FDA Fraud: New Studies Prove Vaccines Cause Autism
Federal authorities may prosecute sick people
whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease
pain, the Supreme Court ruled Monday,
concluding that state laws don't protect
users from a federal ban on the drug.

Under the Constitution, Congress may pass
laws regulating a state's economic activity
so long as it involves "interstate commerce"
that crosses state borders. The California
marijuana in question was homegrown,
distributed to patients without charge and
without crossing state lines.
The Supremacy Clause and Federal Preemption
The issue: How should courts determine
whether a federal law preempts state law?
Hussein to Be Tried On 12 Counts in Iraq
Trial Likely to Start Within 2 Months
June 6, 2005
First Court Case of Hussein Stems
From Killings in Village in '82
The Americans favored trying at least some
Hussein aides first, saying doing so would
help build up a pattern of "command
responsibility" that led conclusively to him.
Selected Statements
The Iraq on the Record report highlights
selected statements by speaker and subject.
RAF bombing raids tried to goad
Saddam into war --May 29, 2005
FBI Pushed Ahead With Troubled Software
June 6, 2005
Friedman's 'heresy' hits mainstream
Private Social Security accounts were his idea
June 5, 2005
Trial to Reveal Reach Of U.S. Surveillance
Wiretaps to Be Used Against 4 Terrorism Suspects
June 05, 2005
Biden: U.S. needs to close Cuba prison
June 5, 2005
Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind
Elder Bush would like son
Jeb to run for president
Zimbabwe Police Raze Poor Towns In Rampage
Government Says Homes Being Destroyed Are Illegal
June 5, 2005
BEFORE the US attacked Iraq
Facts EVERY war supporter should have known
06/03/05
Lollipops keep pouring into Pakistan in the
expectation that Musharraf would help them
rid the world of bin Laden and his terrorist
hordes. Hasn't he already delivered nearly
500 al-Qaeda types?

What he did was to round up many poor Arabs
living in Pakistan who had become a social
pest and make them a charge on the US
tax-payers' money. Only four - repeat four -
al-Qaeda leaders of real consequence have
been caught and handed over to the US. And
that, too, only after the US intelligence
came to know of their sanctuaries in Pakistan
and Musharraf had no other option but to
arrest them.

Where were they found? asks the Pashtun
leader. Abu Zubaidah in Faislabad in
Pakistani Punjab; Ramzi Binalshibh and Waleed
bin Attash in Karachi, Musharraf's home town
after he migrated to Pakistan from India, and
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the so-called
master-mind of September 11, in Rawalpindi,
literally right under the bed of the army and
Musharraf. Nowhere in the tribal belt.
For first time, shoppers will have credit

The hope is the cards will entice people
into using banks and establishing credit.
6/2/2005
Protest outside TV studio draws attention to
Downing Street Memo (Minutes)
US offers to turn on water, electricity,
provide welfare if residents inform on
Resistance fighters --June 2, 2005
Bush's 'culture of life' stand misses
connection with carnage in Iraq --June 02,
2005
Madeleine Albright:
"we think the price is worth it"

Calif. Landslide Sends 6 Homes Crashing
Downing Street Memo Mostly Ignored in U.S.
June 01, 2005
With 9/11 Trial Set to Begin, Prosecution
Appeal Delays It --June 1, 2005
President Bush again failed to address
longstanding concerns regarding US detention
policies and practices in the context of the
"war on terror", Amnesty International said
in response to his comments today.
'After a 20-30 minute eternity that left us
all in a stupor of disbelief that the war's
legality had just been debated in a military
court, on the record, and had lost, badly,
the attorney for the prosecution sat down.

And then the judge said, "I believe the
government has just successfully proved that
any seaman recruit has reasonable cause to
believe that the wars in Yugoslavia,
Afghanistan and Iraq were illegal."

We were stunned, beyond ecstatic. Moments
later the judge asked if the prosecution
would like to reserve the right to recall
Dr. Cohn. The pitiful tone of the attorney's
"no, your honor" caused a spontaneous
eruption of laughter -which the judge chose
to allow, reportedly chuckling himself.'
Justices Overturn Andersen Conviction
Advice to Enron Jury On Accountants' Intent
Is Faulted --June 1, 2005

...the firm was convicted without proof that its
shredding of documents was deliberately
intended to undermine a looming Securities
and Exchange Commission inquiry in fall 2001.
The Washington Post has confirmed that
W. Mark Felt, a former top official at the
FBI, was "Deep Throat," the unidentified
source used by two Washington Post reporters
to help uncover the Watergate scandal that
led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Amdocs exec questioned in industrial espionage affair
The police say they have enough evidence to
indict the private investigators who have
been arrested. --31 May 05
Bush Calls Human Rights Report 'Absurd'
The 'I' word
By Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese
THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice
President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4
of the Constitution, should be part of
mainstream political discourse. --May 31, 2005
Uzbek Police Hold Activists
May 31, 2005
U.S.-Trained Forces Present in Crackdown
The Associated Press --May 31, 2005

Washington has trained and equipped Uzbek
troops and police&emdash;the same forces who
fired on protesters.
Hundreds Dead in Uzbek Uprising
The Associated Press --May 16, 2005
Ex-Envoy: No Broad Uprising
May 16, 2005
Deaths Said to Top 700 as Uzbek Unrest Spreads
The Associated Press --May 17, 2005
It is still not clear how many people died in
the May 13 upheaval that began with protests
in this eastern city over the prosecution of
businessmen charged with being sympathizers
of Islamic extremists.
An Activist Counts 500 Bodies
The Associated Press --May 25, 2005
Justice Dept. to indict two AIPAC staffers
under U.S. Espionage Act --May 30, 2005
In a unique experiment, a family will have
every move they make spied on in a home
stuffed with hi-tech gadgets

The South Yorkshire police helicopter also
circled around to have a look, from the one
viewpoint which can spy into the Parnells'
Californian-style hot tub (rapidly closing on
the laundry chute as top gizmo). --May 31, 2005
Season of Unease After Kyrgyz Spring Revolt
Critics Say Candidates In July Presidential
Poll Provide No Real Choice --May 31, 2005
18 Arrested In Israeli Probe Of Computer
Espionage --May 31, 2005

The Trojan allowed the person to control the
computer, make changes to its programs,
monitor everything it contained and raid it
for information -- all without leaving any
hint of the Trojan's existence. Investigators
also discovered that the same person had sold
the software to three of Israel's largest
private investigation companies, which
allegedly used it to illegally collect data
for their corporate clients.
Top brass not expected at funeral of war hero
May 30, 2005
Sick Strategies For Senseless Slaughter
The murderous fools are not trying to end the war;
they're trying to keep it going as long as they can
By John Kaminski --5-24-05
UK ID scheme rides again, as
biggest ID fraud of them all
Iraq: how we were duped
9/11 Truth for Peace and Justice
Call for Art
Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment,
Says US Amnesty Chief
Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally
FBI Participated in Interrogations Despite
Apparent Knowledge of Torture, Abduction
Missile & remote control systems added to
small jets before 9-11; same parts found at
Pentagon
The neocon power grab at NSA and an attempt
to stifle the press --Wayne Madsen
Officials from the American Civil Liberties
Union, the Open Society Institute and the
Center for Democracy and Technology said in a
telephone conference call the new provisions
to the USA Patriot Act would allow the FBI to
secretly demand medical, tax, gun purchase,
travel and other records without needing to
get approval from a judge.
President Bush today signed a "strategic
partnership" with Afghan President Hamid
Karzai and said afterward that U.S. military
commanders in Afghanistan would "cooperate
and consult" with the government there but
would retain their control over U.S. troops
...
Karzai said, however, that anti-American
demonstrations in Afghanistan that resulted
in at least 16 deaths "were in reality not
related to the Newsweek story" but were
motivated more by opposition to elections in
Afghanistan and "the strategic partnership
with the United States."
Blair faces US probe over
secret Iraq invasion plan
May 22, 2005
Galloway Senate testimony PDF goes AWOL
Evidence 'missing' from Committee website
20 May 2005
Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of
statement --May 18, 2005
Posada again May 18, 2005
U.S. Arrests Cuban Exile Accused
in Deadly '76 Airline Bombing
FBI: Grenade at Bush Rally Was Live
May 18, 2005
Does Anthrax Trail Lead to White House?
3 part series, exclusive to LibertyForum
Afghan riots NOT connected
to Newsweek Report (Myers)
General Lord told Congress last month that
Global Strike would be "an incredible
capability" to destroy command centers or
missile bases "anywhere in the world."

Pentagon documents say the weapon, called the
common aero vehicle, could strike from
halfway around the world in 45 minutes.

Published studies by leading weapons
scientists, physicists and engineers say the
cost of a space-based system that could
defend the nation against an attack by a
handful of missiles could be anywhere from
$220 billion to $1 trillion.
Another fake document by US government
Forgery shows Galloway's name pasted
on UN Oil For Food paper
Report claims blind eye was turned to
sanctions busting by American firms in
purchases that accounted for 52% of the
kickbacks paid to the regime in return for
sales of cheap oil - more than the rest of
the world put together
The US and its 'special' dictator
Bush's Nutty Referral
by Gordon Prather

Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as
a policy implementing official for national
security-related technical matters in the
Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research
and Development Administration, the
Department of Energy, the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and the Department of
the Army.
Newsweek Got Gitmo Right
Newsweek report on Quran
matches many earlier accounts
As intent as Republicans were to impeach
President Clinton for lying about a sexual
affair, they have a blind eye for President
Bush's far more serious lies.
Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran
Handling, General Says Army investigating
allegations of mishandling at Guantanamo Bay
facility
"Ehsannullah, 29, said American soldiers who
initially questioned him in Kandahar before
shipping him to Guantanamo hit him and
taunted him by dumping the Koran in a
toilet. 'It was a very bad situation for us,'
said Ehsannullah, who comes from the home
region of the Taliban leader, Mohammad
Omar. 'We cried so much and shouted, "Please
do not do that to the Holy Koran."' (Marc
Kaufman and April Witt, "Out of Legal Limbo,
Some Tell of Mistreatment," Washington Post,
March 26, 2003.)
State Secret: Thousands Secretly Sterilized
A government commission studying overseas
military bases sent Congress a report that
included criticism of Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld's strategy, then removed
the document from the commission Web site
after the Pentagon complained that it
divulged classified information.

The congressionally appointed panel contends
that the 262-page report is based only on
public sources...
'Superpower behind' Burma blasts

"It is crystal clear that the
terrorists... and the time bombs originated
from training conducted with foreign experts
at a place in a neighbouring country by a
world famous organisation of a certain
superpower nation," Information Minister Kyaw
Hsan told reporters.

He also accused the unnamed organisation -
based in Washington - of having given
$100,000 to a dissident group led by a
cousin of pro-democracy leader Aung San
Suu Kyi.
Pakistan on Saturday denied a media report
that an unmanned CIA Predator aircraft killed
a senior al-Qaida operative near the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border earlier this
week.
Terrorism Trial Set for Fla. Ex-Professor
The men face life in prison if convicted of
charges they used Al-Arian's think tank and
charity as fundraising fronts for the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

"Much of what people are saying about Sami
Al-Arian could have been said likewise about
Nelson Mandela," attorney William Moffitt
said.
As Halliburton Watch growled last June, the
company's subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root
(KBR) charged us millions of dollars for
meals that never existed. The Defense
Department's own audit agency found last June
that Halliburton overcharged the government
for meals by $136 million.
On Saturday, Les Paul, less than a month shy
of his 90th birthday, was inducted into the
National Inventors Hall of Fame, in Akron,
Ohio, as the creator of the solid-body
electric guitar, arguably the most important
musical innovation of the past half-century,
a device as common today in the nightclubs of
Nairobi and Manila as in Bethesda on prom
night.
Two Jewish extremists were questioned on
suspicion they planned to fire a missile into
the Al Aqsa Mosqe, Islam's third holiest
shrine, in hopes of disrupting the planned
Gaza withdrawal, police said Monday.

...the suspects have since been released.
The prime minister of Egypt said yesterday
that more than "60 or 70" terror suspects had
been sent to his country by the United States
since September 11, the first public
acknowledgment by any country that it
receives detainees from U.S. agencies in the
legal practice known as rendition.

Mr. Nazif denied, however, that the suspects
were tortured as a matter of policy
Today's Conservatives Are Fascists

Al Nakheel Properties are working on a Dubai
island project that will consist of between
250 and 300 islands shaped like the
continents of the world - The Dubai World
Islands.
Army Recruiter caught on tape
threatening youth with arrest
I doubt that George W Bush knew, as he
delivered his speech at the "Celebration of
Freedom" concert on the eve of his second
inaugural, that its most memorable line was
straight out of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Navy Judge Finds War Protest Reasonable
"I think that the government has successfully
proved that any service member has reasonable
cause to believe that the wars in Yugoslavia,
Afghanistan and Iraq were illegal."

-- Lieutenant Commander Robert Klant,
presiding at Pablo Paredes' court-martial
McClellan Spars With Press,
Says No Need to Notify Bush
The legacy of Agent Orange



Three-year-old Xuan Minh, believed to have
genetic defects from Agent Orange Vietnam
doctors believe the effects of Agent Orange
are ongoing Thirty years after hostilities
ended between the US and Vietnam, relations
remain strained by one of America's most
notorious actions, the use of the chemical
Agent Orange
Philadelphia MOVE Bombing

Still Haunts Survivors
'Homeshoring' means that call center might be
in someone's bedroom --May 9, 2005
Obama Amendment to Pay for Wounded
Soldiers' Food Passes Senate
May 12, 2005
The White House is being pressed by
congressional Democrats to explain leaked
British documents which suggest that
President George Bush and Tony Blair had
basically decided to invade Iraq as early as
July 2002.
A mysterious French-Arab man resurfaced last
week who authorities had dubbed the "5th
terrorist pilot" and a "Second" Mohamed in
Venice, FL. In an email, he alleged that a
number of eyewitnesses, including the girl
who had lived with him, had all mistaken
him... for Mohamed Atta.
Wrong Number of the Beast
Newly examined Scripture fragment
lends credence to argument it's 616
A blistering indictment by a Republican
senator cast the fate of John Bolton as the
next American ambassador to the UN into
renewed doubt, just when it seemed the
controversial nominee was edging towards
grudging approval.
Driver fined for 'having
a face like a moron'
An Air France jetliner en route from Paris to
Boston was diverted to Maine on Thursday to
check on a passenger who happened to have
almost the same name and the same birthdate
as someone on a no-fly list suspected of
terror connections, officials said.

"You had a match of the name save for slight
deviation
in spelling"

Investigators later concluded it was a
coincidence that the passenger's name and
birth date were identical to those of the
person on the list
Former Taunton cop avoids molestation trial
A former police officer accused of molesting
a 7-year-old girl has struck a deal allowing
him to avoid trial and conviction.
Drug smugglers exploiting internal chaos in
Iraq have turned the country into a transit
route for Afghan heroin, an influential drug
agency says.
Judge Won't Allow FBI To Quash FOIA
Request In Oklahoma City Bombing
Iran Leaves Door Open For Nuclear
Discussions --May 13, 2005
Jeb has always been the most mysterious of
the Kennebunkport Klan. Like the two Georges,
he trawled murky waters indeed to make his
fortune. One of his business partners, Camilo
Padreda, was indicted for drug-dealing,
gun-running and embezzlement; but the charges
were dropped when the Bush family firm -- the
CIA -- told the FBI that Padreda was their
man, fronting covert ops.
Troops Open Fire on Protesters in Uzbekistan
May 13, 2005
Ahmad Chalabi has become a convenient
scapegoat not only for the United States
Government, but also, it seems, for the
American media establishment.
Legislation supporting a standardized
national driver's license may have won
unanimous approval in the Senate on Tuesday,
but the bill's apparently smooth passage left
some jagged edges in its wake. May. 12, 2005
Yesterday, even as a goodly swath of official
Washington was running panic-stricken into
the streets, President Bush was riding his
bike in the country, completely unaware of
what was going on.

His Secret Service detail reportedly decided
that since he wasn't personally in danger, he
didn't need to know.
Press Secretary Releases Timeline of Incident
That Caused Evacuation of White House,
Capitol --May 11, 2005
Four bloody lies of war, from
Havana 1898 to Baghdad 2003
May 08, 2005
On Tuesday, May 10th, 2005, the US Senate
voted on the implementation of a national ID
card system without ever debating the
issue. The Real ID Act is nothing less than a
Real National ID Act. The only thing left to
the individual states is which pretty picture
they will choose to put on the card:
everything else will be controlled by
Washington DC bureaucrats.
Two lost aviators flying with outdated maps
from a rural Pennsylvania airstrip triggered
a red alert at the White House yesterday,
along with the frantic evacuation of the
Capitol and the Supreme Court, before they
were intercepted by Air Force jets lobbing
warning flares. ... when officials finally
made radio contact and ordered the plane to
divert, the fliers refused, asserting their
right to proceed on their way.
Former Afghanistan envoy Khalilzad nominated
as U.S. ambassador to Baghdad --May 11, 2005
A study carried out by the UN and issued on
Friday revealed that 84% of the higher
education establishment in Iraq were
"destroyed, damaged and robbed " since the
beginning of the American invasion in 2003.
British scientists have developed an
antigravity machine that can float heavy
stones, coins and lumps of metal in mid-air.
Scientists Succeed At (Cryogenically Enhanced
Magneto-Archimedes) Levitation
United Can End Pensions, Judge Says
Ruling Clears Way For Largest Default
In U.S. History May 11, 2005
Setting up the largest pension default by a
U.S. corporation, United Airlines won
approval Tuesday from a bankruptcy judge to
walk away from plans covering 120,000 active
and retired employees.
White House, Capitol briefly evacuated
'All clear' later given; Cessna
reportedly entered airspace
The Bush administration periodically put the
USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even
though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge
argued there was only flimsy evidence to
justify raising the threat level, Ridge now
says.
US court dismisses Cheney energy
task force case --10 May 200
Neocons hunt for the right surrogate at the
right time to take on Iran --May 10th, 2005
Ex-FBI translator plans
appeal to Supreme Court
Karl Schwarz Running For President
Initiating "Independent" Movement Across America
Appeals Court Backs Dismissal of Suit on F.B.I.
Bush dances after arrival in Georgia
President plans speech on democracy during
trip's final stop --May 9, 2005
Man Arrested for Having Uzi
A man from Queens is under arrest for
allegedly wanting to buy six hand
grenades. He's accused of trying to make a
deal with a person who turned out to be an
undercover cop.
States May Disobey Driver's License Rules
May 10, 2005
Halliburton Given $72
Million In Bonuses
5-10-5
On Mar. 23 in the Dirksen Senate Office
Building U.S. Congressmen Danny Davis of
Illinois crowned Reverend Sun Myung Moon the
new Messiah. 6-9-2004
Zapper Detects, Destroys
Unwanted RFID Chips
Why Not.net
4-4-5
Government: Post 9-11 Security Spending Inefficient
Autism linked to coal-burning power plants;
Penn. protests Bush's gutting of Clinton
emission proposal--March 21, 2005
War on Iraq:
Not oil but Israel
UNITED STATES: 57% don't think
Iraq war was worth it
Ruling party wins in Tunisia
09/05/2005
Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of
"mistaken identity" --May 08, 2005
Truth drug fails to get al-Qa'eda No 3 to
talk--08/05/2005
Pentagon Seeks Greater Immunity from
Freedom of Information Act
Wars Strain U.S. Military Capability,
Pentagon Reports --May 3, 2005
In 1965, the U.S. Army published a detailed
manual on how to build and hide booby traps,
complete with detailed diagrams illustrating
various means of wiring detonators to
explosives, and advising on the best
locations for concealing the deadly bombs
along roadways and elsewhere.

Two decades later, the Iraqi military issued
its troops an Arabic version of the same
manual, copying not only the wording but also
many of the drawings.
...states would have three years after the
bill becomes law to meet the standards or
their driver's licenses won't be accepted by
federal officers for identification.
"There's no information in Ready.gov that
would help your chances" of surviving a
nuclear blast or the resulting mushroom
cloud, he said.
TAJIKISTAN: GOVERNMENT RESORTS
TO REPRESSION AND INTIMIDATION
Nazar Nazarov 4/29/05
Bushzarro Google
The Quality of Omission and Lies
2nd May, 05
A Con Job by Pakistan's Pal, George Bush
Robert Scheer
March 29, 2005
Another example came after 9/11, when
Washington dropped anti-proliferation
sanctions against Pakistan while Bush focused
his wrath on Iraq.
Judge in Moussaoui Case Blocks Release of
Sept. 11 Report --April 30, 2005
School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon
April 29
The Secret Service has requested racial
information on journalists and guests
scheduled to attend a reception tomorrow
night with President Bush. --April 29, 2005
Syrian Role in Hiding Iraq Weapons Doubted in
Report (Update1) --April 26
The Mysterious Death of Marla Ruzicka: The US
Military has Detailed Statistics on Civilian
Casualties by Michel Chossudovsk--24 April 2005
Requesting Feasability Study of Mustard Seed
Biodiesel--Dennis Kucinich speaking from the
Floor of the House
The extraordinary rendition program was the
brainchild of the CIA during the mid-1990's,
under the Clinton, not Bush,
administration. In this regard, it is a
bi-partisan dirty little secret.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of
California told Rumsfeld: "It is beyond me as
to why you're proceeding with this program
when the laws of physics won't allow a
missile to be driven deeply enough" to
prevent deadly radioactive fallout from
spewing into the air after a nuclear
detonation."
Proper Release of Griffin in Madison
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Sibel Edmonds, Other National Security
Whistleblowers Form Coalition to Continue the
Fight for Reform, as Explosive New Info
Revealed
President George Bush was bundled into an
underground bunker, Dick Cheney was evacuated
to an "undisclosed location" and heavily
armed secret servicemen took up defensive
positions when a fast-moving cloud scudded
towards the White House, it was reported
yesterday. The cloud that materialised 30
miles south of Washington on Wednesday
morning was so dense it triggered radar
monitors on the Domestic Events Network,
intended to prevent a repeat of the September
11 attacks.
The number of secret court-authorized
wiretaps across the country surged by 19
percent last year, records show. As law
enforcement authorities scurried to keep
apace of improving technology favored by
criminals, not a single application was
denied.
Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked
By George A. Lopez, David Cortright
Foreign Affairs ( July/August 2004 )
A conservative writer who quit his job
covering President Bush amid criticism for
his pointedly political questions visited the
White House 196 times in two years, the
Secret Service has disclosed. --April 25, 2005
U.S. Contests Terrorist's Request
for Reduced Sentence

...information from Ressam was often
incorporated into presidential security
briefings, including the controversial memo
given to President Bush a month before the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, titled "Bin Ladin
determined to strike in US." --April 27, 2005
Neil Bush, Ratzinger co-founders

President's younger brother served with
then-cardinal on board of relatively unknown
ecumenical foundation --April 21, 2005
A Bolton from the Bush
22 April 05
Opposition fury at Togo poll loss The army tried to install Mr Faure after his
father died but pressure led him to step down
and call an election.
...

The main opposition party has called on
Togolese people to "resist" the government
...
...results did not include areas where ballot
boxes had been destroyed.

These issues would be decided by the
constitutional court which would announce the
final results, she said.
RealNetworks giving away 25 songs/month
For $9.99 a month, users will get an
unlimited number of songs each month. For
another $5, they can transfer the tunes to
selected portable music players. --April 26, 2005
Court Of Appeals Abruptly Closes
Hearing To The Public --04/21/05
British Government Ordered
Shutdown Of Fake Ricin Story
April 22 2005
Campaign coffers profit from 911,
coke and courts

FBI linguist won't deny intelligence
intercepts tied 911 drug money to
U.S. election campaigns
FBI Whistleblower Case Closed to Public
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Aid worker uncovered America's secret tally
of Iraqi civilian deaths

A week before she was killed by a suicide
bomber, humanitarian worker Marla Ruzicka
forced military commanders to admit they did
keep records of Iraqi civilians killed by US
forces.

Tommy Franks, the former head of US Central
Command, famously said the US army "don't do
body counts", despite a requirement to do so
by the Geneva Conventions. --20 April 2005
In the first modification of its kind,
Japanese researchers have inserted a gene
from the human liver into rice to enable it
to digest pesticides and industrial
chemicals.
Adam Curtis, who won the factual series award
for BBC2's The Power of Nightmares, used his
speech to question newspaper and broadcast
reports of last week's ricin trial, which he
said had sensationalised the threat of a
poison terror attack.

The acceptance speech was removed from BBC1's
Bafta coverage when it aired two hours later.
FEMA's inspectors included criminals
Agency relied on them for honest reports
April 24, 2005
When You Can't Beat 'Em
Since everyone wants to kill Moussaoui, he'd
be nuts not to agree. --April 19, 2005
Moussaoui Linked to September
11 Attacks by Al Qaeda Captive
Moussaoui says he's guilty, but not for 9/11
He tells court he was in a separate plot to
fly into White House at another time
--April 23, 2005
Case of the Missing Terrorist Solved...Not!
Alleged Moussaoui Henchman Atif Ahmed
Still a Mystery
Pakistan will never allow IAEA to inspect
nuclear facilities: Musharraf
April 20, 2005
Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Is Competent
to Plead Guilty --April 21, 2005
FBI Whistleblower Case Closed to Public
Thursday, April 21, 2005
FBI PROTECTS OSAMA BIN LADEN'S "RIGHT
TO PRIVACY" IN DOCUMENT RELEASE

Judicial Watch Investigation Uncovers FBI
Documents Concerning Bin Laden Family and
Post-9/11 Flights
Ceramic in fuel cell test
April 21, 2005
Uranium prompts agency to ban mine access
April 20, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Call it a rude awakening.
A bored juror was cited for contempt and
fined $1,000 by a judge for yawning loudly
while awaiting questioning in an attempted
murder trial.
Report: Beslan HQ Was Run by Others
April 19, 2005
The White House has defended President George
W Bush's nomination of John Bolton as envoy
to the United Nations.
Oregon Bill Requires Drivers License
Applicants To Register For Draft
April 20 2005
Vote on Bolton nomination
for U.N. envoy is postponed
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi will
face a vote of confidence in the Italian
parliament later this week, Senate officials
said today, after he refused last night to
resign and form a new government to appease
disgruntled members of his ruling coalition.
AUSTRALIAN researchers have developed a
world-first blood test which could help in
the early detection of mesothelioma, a deadly
asbestos-related cancer of the lung lining.
...
It can take up to 30 years for symptoms of
the condition to develop so most sufferers
are identified at an advanced stage and die
within a year.
In January Condoleezza Rice sparked a small
controversy by describing the tsunami as "a
wonderful opportunity" that "has paid great
dividends for us."
The Italian prime minister, Silvio
Berlusconi, today agreed to resign and form a
new government to strengthen his struggling
conservative coalition, a move that will
avert fresh elections. --April 18, 2005
Apr. 18 (ABC7) --The FBI is investigating
after a mysterious white powder was sent to
the IRS mail room in Fresno.
The Panopticon, a model prison envisioned by
philosopher Jeremy Bentham, would feature
guard towers using mirrors that allowed the
guards to see the prisoners without being
seen themselves. This would leave the inmates
uncertain as to when they were actually being
watched.
Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old
international terrorism report --Apr. 15, 2005
The Bush administration helps the cause of
Islamic terrorism by failing to engage in
serious dialogue with the international
community, author Salman Rushdie said on
Tuesday.
Sharon: Israel Won't Attack Iran
April 14, 2005
Charles Kennedy may well be heading towards
getting the musician's vote. For a party
leader he is young (born in 1959, he joined
the SDP at the age of 23), his anti-war
message has chimed with the artistically
inclined
It is precisely because the Patriot Act is so
deeply implicated in wider human rights
abuses that mere technical fixes are not
enough.
Three companies are racing to market
a new form of technology for
detecting concealed weapons, using
physics borrowed from radio
astronomy and manufacturing
techniques from cellular phone
makers.

The technology, called millimeter wave, is a
new category of sensing so unobtrusive that
it seems like something out of "Star Trek."
U.S. Airmen Allegedly Used Military Jet To Smuggle Drugs
April 14, 2005
Bush Admin demands more banking data
12th April 2005
You Will Know Them by the Trail of Dead
Days before the Pentagon is expected to
release the results of its investigation into
what happened at the checkpoint, Sgrena tells
Correspondent Scott Pelley that shortly after
her release by insurgents, American soldiers
in Baghdad opened fire on her car without any
warning.
Posada Carriles is still considered a
fugitive from justice in Venezuela, where he
escaped from prison after being sentenced to
25 years imprisonment for having organized
the 1976 terrorist bombing of a Cuban
civilian airliner flying from Bermuda to
Venezuela. All 73 people aboard were
killed. Stating that Venezuela was stepping
up its demands for extradition, Vice
President Jose Vicente Rangel told the press,
"I hope Mr. Bush will take note of his own
anti-terrorism policies and hand over Posada
Carriles."
Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA-trained Cuban
exile implicated in a series of terrorist
incidents, applied for political asylum in
the United States yesterday, prompting at
least one congressman to assert that granting
the request would undermine the nation's
credibility in the war on terrorism.
The identity thieves who stole passwords to
tap personal data from information broker
LexisNexis hacked the records of more than
300,000 Americans, 10 times what the company
first acknowledged, the company disclosed
today.
Lab error sparks global alert
for deadly flu strain
April 14, 2005
Thousands flee volcano's wrath
12 April 2005
Mount Talang, 40km east of Sumatra's coastal
Padang city, began pumping out volcanic ash
shortly before dawn, prompting scientists to
urge people to move away from the fall-out
zone.
Sumatran Coffee: descriptions and prices
Chinese Attack Japanese Targets in Beijing
April 9, 2005
Secret Service visits art show at Columbia
April 12, 2005
The Bush Family's Murky Dealings in Venezuela
July 02, 2004
Akayev resigns in Kyrgyzstan
12apr05
When a Food Marketer Devises Nutrition Advice
April 10, 2005
In August 1935, the US held its largest
peacetime military manoeuvres in history,
with 36,000 troops converging at the Canadian
border south of Ottawa, and another 15,000
held in reserve in Pennsylvania. See the New
York Times, August 18-22. The war game
practiced a US motorized invasion of Canada
and "assumed a blue foreign army advancing
across a feigned international boundary
defended by a red army".
Lapierre said Canadians and Americans see the
issue of national security differently.
...
That's one reason Lapierre is planning to
visit Israel to take a first-hand look at its
renowned security apparatus, including
extraordinarily tight air passenger
screening.
Exit Polls Revisited -
Likelihood of Fraud is High
April 05, 2005
Jimmy Carter Who?
6 April 2005
The current Patriot Act already gives the
government power to wiretap at will, snoop
into private travel and financial records and
monitor the day-to-day activities of
virtually any American citizen. But FBI
Director Mueller says that's not enough. He
wants the powers expanded. ...

Section 215 allows subpoenas for library,
bookstore, medical and gun-store records, but
Mr. Gonzales said no document orders have
been issued. Asked why the library provision
should be reauthorized if it has never been
used, he said libraries so far have
cooperated in turning over information, but
that subpoena power might be needed in the
future.
The papers in the cabinet are
computer-generated replicas of $1.7 trillion
in Treasury bonds--the amount the
government has promised to repay Social
Security for spending payroll taxes that
finance the retirement system on other
programs such as defense and education.

Today, roughly 75 percent of U.S. processed
foods--boxed cereals, other grain
products, frozen dinners, cooking oils and
more--contain some genetically modified,
or GM, ingredients, said Stephanie Childs of
the Grocery Manufacturers of America.
The announcement Friday that the United
States is authorizing the sale to Pakistan of
F-16 fighter jets capable of delivering
nuclear warheads--and thereby escalating the
region's nuclear arms race--is the latest
example of how the most important issue on
the planet is being bungled by the Bush
Administration.
Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians,
fear not. The U.S. government will not use
radio-frequency identification tags in the
passports it issues to millions of Americans
in the coming years.

Instead, the government will use "contactless chips."
Most everybody has chronic sinusitis. They
have ringing in the ears. Some people's
teeth and gums are bothering them. In the
last year, I've lost seven teeth. They
have just broken while I was eating. I have
three or four more teeth that are just
dying. And my dentist says, "I've never
seen anything like this in someone who's
healthy. There is something wrong with you
but I cannot find what it is. And I can't
stop it either."
A massive earthquake off the coast of
Indonesia sent residents in several countries
fleeing Monday in panic that it would cause
another tsunami disaster. But those fears
eased within hours, as officials throughout
the region said they had received no reports
of waves striking their coasts.
Kyrgyz MPs back new leader
March 28, 2005
Amazon.com Knows What You Bought and May Know
What You'll Shop for Next Time You're Online
Militants bomb Thai train
March 28, 2005
Strong Indonesia Quake Forces Evacuations
March 28, 2005 7:16 PM
Bhutan's king is circulating a draft
constitution aimed at establishing a
multiparty democracy that would end almost
100 years of monarchical rule in the tiny
Buddhist nation, the editor of a
government-run newspaper said on Sunday.
IRS May Consider EBay Sales Taxable Income
Kyrgyzstan's Bakiyev confirmed as interim leader
Geopolitics at Heart of Kyrgyzstan Unrest
23.03.2005
US arms Coast Guard terror units
Helicopters are tested on Cape Cod
March 27, 2005
10th Annual Anarchist Bookfair Includes
Speakers, Performers, Books, Browsers
THOUSANDS PASS THROUGH BOOKFAIR TO
SEE AND BE SEEN 10th Annual Anarchist
Bookfair Saturday March 26th was the 10th
annual San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair.
Authority a four-letter word at this book fair
Anarchists find common ground at S.F. get-together
March 27, 2005
We all know by now about the enormous raft of
lies that were fed to the American people and
the world about weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq. Would you be shocked to know,
however, that they are doing it again?
Earlier this year, the Bush administration
told allies in Asia that North Korea had
supplied nuclear materials to Libya. This was
a bald-faced lie; North Korea sold nuclear
materials to Pakistan, an ally of the United
States. Pakistan turned around and sold the
stuff to Libya, but the Bush crew decided to
fire a salvo of lies and disinformation at
North Korea, and US allies in Asia.
Local man fills car w/ hog-lard for fuel
March 23, 2005
Kay predicted that by 2010, almost 95 percent
of all computers sold will have the trusted
platform module.
Enraged protesters overthrow Kyrgyzstan's
government and make president flee
Shifting Wisdom
With Wolfowitz's rise and Kennan's death,
the days of cautious US diplomacy are over
March 25, 2005
North Korea threatens US with war
Two years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq,
the Pentagon has formally included in key
strategic plans provisions for launching
preemptive strikes against nations thought to
pose a threat to the United States.
Syria's ambassador to Washington said on
Wednesday he hoped the United States and
Israel would follow his country's example and
withdraw from Iraq and Palestinian areas,
just as Syria was leaving Lebanon.
One-Way Planet
March 25, 2005
Pentagon Reaffirms Globocop Role
March 23, 2005
Policy OKs First Strike to Protect US
Pentagon strategic plan codifies unilateral,
preemptive attacks. The doctrine marks a
shift from coalitions such as NATO, analysts
say --March 19, 2005
Court Rules NYC Fire Dept. Must
Release Most Sept. 11 Tapes
Who should control access to the archives of
the 9/11 Commission after it closes up shop
in August? The commission's records will go
to the National Archives. On April 8 the Bush
Administration quietly pushed the current
archivist, John Carlin, a Clinton appointee,
to step down.
The Real Unemployment Rate is 23%:
How and Why Jobs are Vanishing from America
NIST Has No Evidence of WTC 1,2
Core Columns Overheating
News Agency Sues Google, Testing Fair Use
Mar 23, 2005
U.S. bars Italians from examining victim's car
The U.S. military command in Iraq has blocked
two Italian policemen from examining the car
in which an Italian intelligence agent was
shot to death in Baghdad, a newspaper said
Wednesday.
Crude Oil Spills Into Los Angeles
Reservoir (Supplies Drinking Water)
March 24, 2005
Accused School Shooter Was On Prozac
Everyone who has seriously considered the
9/11 attacks is a conspiracy theorist. To not
try to put the pieces together is to be
incurious about the most profound event of
this new American century.
Judge is urged to start trial
of 9/11 defendant --March 23, 2005
The U.S. government asked a judge on Tuesday
to put Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person
facing U.S. charges for the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, on trial on Oct. 31.
The US has dismissed a call by the head of
the UN's nuclear agency to offer Iran
security assurances as a boost to talks over
its nuclear programme.

Tehran denies seeking nuclear weapons but has
suspended uranium enrichment after
negotiations with France, Germany and the UK.
Keep Louisville Weird
Robert B. Harris, president and chief
executive officer of Commonwealth
Biotechnologies Inc. in Richmond, Va., also
said the anthrax found at the Pentagon was
the same genetic strain used in the 2001
attacks.
The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal
by Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person
charged in connection with the 11 September
2001 attacks, to be allowed to have three
captured al-Qa'ida suspects testify in his
defence.
The World Court ruled that the United States
must "revisit" at least the 51 cases in which
the defendants ended up on death row.
Army Raises Enlistment Age for Reservists to 39
Mar 21, 2005
U.S. Misled Allies About Nuclear Export
North Korea Sent Material To Pakistan, Not to Libya
March 20, 2005
Pakistan's role as both the buyer and the
seller was concealed to cover up the part
played by Washington's partner in the hunt
for al Qaeda leaders, according to the
officials, who discussed the issue on the
condition of anonymity.
The Bush administration last week instructed
US government agencies to ignore a ruling by
the comptroller general of the United States
barring the dissemination of "covert
propaganda."
High Court Turns Down Moussaoui
March 21, 2005
Also fascinating is the telephone encounter
with Meiring, who obviously knew "Channel
11's News Defenders" had no idea what they'd
gotten themselves into: "If this harms me in
any way, you will find my power then, and
you'll find out who I am. But I will come for
you. You harm me I will not let you off the
hook."
One female student in seven attending the
nation's military academies last spring said
she had been sexually assaulted since
becoming a cadet or midshipman, according to
a report on the first survey of sexual
misconduct on the three campuses released
yesterday by the Defense Department.
March 19, 2005
President Bush, needing more converts to his
plan for Social Security reform, brought his
mom to help with the sales pitch Friday.

Wearing her trademark pearls, Barbara Bush
took the stage with the president and another
of her sons, Gov. Jeb Bush. George W. Bush
opened the program by reassuring people born
before 1950 that their Social Security
benefits would not change.
March 18, 2005
Anarchists Endorse Wolfowitz
for World Bank President
Stereophonics' singer Kelly Jones sparked an
airport security alert last week when
boarding a flight out of Londons Heathrow
Airport for wearing a t-shirt with the print
of a gun.
President Bush said on Wednesday that the
U.S. government's practice of sending
packaged news stories to local television
stations was legal and he had no plans to
cease it.
...
GAO, an arm of Congress, said this ran
counter to appropriation laws and was a
misuse of federal funds.
Few analysts believe that the People's
Liberation Army (PLA) is capable of getting a
full-scale armada across the Taiwan Strait.
CIA's Assurances On Transferred Suspects Doubted
Prisoners Say Countries Break No-Torture Pledges
March 17, 2005
The U.S. Congress on Monday voted to extend
by two years the life of a government panel
charged with declassifying CIA documents that
detail the spy agency's ties to former Nazis
and war criminals.

The House of Representatives voted 391 to 0
on a bill that clears the way for the release
of thousands of documents on former Nazis,
including some who assisted in the CIA's Cold
War espionage against the former Soviet
Union.
In a statement released last week to the
media, the US embassy in Paramaribo, said
that is the sovereign right of the Surinamese
people to choose its political leaders, but
Washington won't deal with a person in the
presidential seat who is convicted on drug
charges. In 1999 Bouterse was sentenced to an
11-year prison term by a court in the
Netherlands for cocaine trafficking.
Public statements of the Bush camp aside,
rumors of his past cocaine use are not
totally unfounded.
...three independent sources close to the
Bush family report that Governor Bush was
arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession, and
taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail
or formal charges through an informal
diversion plan involving community service
with Project P.U.L.L., an inner city Houston
program for troubled youths at the Martin
Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's
dirt-poor Third Ward.
The dismissal of a case in the United States
which accused chemical companies of war
crimes by supplying the US military with
Agent Orange in the Vietnam War triggered
angry protests from Vietnamese victims on
Friday.
The Pentagon is working to develop a
suborbital space capsule within the next five
years that would be launched from the United
States and could deliver conventional weapons
anywhere in the world within two hours,
defense officials said.

In addition to creating attack weapons, the
Pentagon is working on new defense systems to
protect the ever-more-important satellites
the United States has in space.
Former CIA Agent Affirms Possibility of
Chavez's Assassination in Venezuela
March 15, 2005
THE PROOF IS IN THE DOCUMENTS:
THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE COUP AGAINST
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CHAVEZ
CIA Classifies Venezuela as Top
"Potentially Unstable Country"
February 16, 2005
What offends me about the Abu Ghraib torture
is that the US army and Bush administration
have made scapegoats of the lower enlisted
soldiers, all of whom have testified that
they were following orders. No officer or
person of any consequence has been held
accountable for what went on in that dark
prison.

Since the Nuremberg trials, the world has
rejected the "just following orders"
defence, and rightfully so. Yet in the
military, the lower enlisted are ingrained
not to ever question authority until they
have a position from which to do so. It is
the officers and non-commissioned officers
who are responsible for what happens under
their noses.
Mr Wolfowitz, one of the leading hawks in the
Iraq war, is a very unlikely choice to lead
the World Bank, although he would not be the
first Pentagon figure to be president of the
world's leading development institution.
One in three American workers are chronically
overworked, with job-related stress varying
significantly by age, employment situation,
and demands at home, according to a new
survey.
Deficits Make You Poorer
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
British engineers who yesterday unveiled the
prototype of the world's first
hydrogen-powered motorbike confessed they
were considering adding an artificial "vroom"
to the machine as they were worried its
silence might be dangerous.

He is planning to introduce an artificial
engine noise which could be used in an urban
setting to alert other road users but
switched off in the countryside to allow for
a peaceful ride.
Muslim-convert Brandon Mayfield spent 17 days
in detention after an FBI Lab wrongly linked
him to prints recovered by Spanish police
investigating the 11 March terrorist
outrage. US authorities matched digital
images of partial latent fingerprints
obtained from plastic bags that contained
detonator caps to Mayfield, leading to his
arrest.

But last week Spanish investigators matched
the fingerprints to an Algerian, forcing the
FBI to admit it was wrong.
Contrary to what is generally thought, there
is little scientific basis for assuming that
any two supposedly identical fingerprints
unequivocally come from the same person.
Spain, according to UK Immigration Minister
Des Browne, regards ID cards as valuable in
the fight against terrorism, but this ID was
one of a batch of 300 stolen from the
Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
(FNMT), which prints banknotes, passports and
IDs, in November 2002.
In their public statements and background
briefings in recent days, Mr. Bush's aides
have acknowledged that Iran appears to have
the right - on paper, at least - to enrich
uranium to produce electric power. But
Mr. Bush has managed to convince his
reluctant European allies that the only
acceptable outcome of their negotiations with
Iran is that it must give up that right.
In what amounts to a reinterpretation of the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Mr. Bush now
argues that there is a new class of nations
that simply cannot be trusted with the
technology to produce nuclear material even
if the treaty itself makes no such
distinction. -- March 15, 2005
Data Is Lacking on Iran's Arms,
U.S. Panel Says --March 9, 2005
US attack against Italians in
Baghdad was deliberate: companion
3/5/2005
"I immediately thought of what my kidnappers
had told me. They said they were committed to
releasing me, but that I had to be careful
'because there are Americans who don't want
you to go back'.
While Mr Goss praised the choice of Mr
Negroponte, he admitted he was unsure what
his own, reduced, job would entail. "It's got
a huge amount of ambiguity in it ... I don't
know by law what my direct relationship is
with John Negroponte," he said, adding he was
also not sure where he stood with the defence
secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, or with other top
intelligence officials.
The Human Rights Record of
the United States in 2004
By the Information Office of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China
March 3, 2005
The Padilla Ruling Is a Victory for Freedom
If the Pentagon's power to arrest Americans
for terrorism and punish them without federal
court interference is upheld by the courts,
the floodgates will be open to omnipotent
military power in America. American life will
never be the same again. Life will be
transformed by such power in ways
unimaginable. No one will be safe from
military arrest, including newspaper editors,
government critics, and dissidents.
A newly revealed case shows that the vast
commercial database of personal information
at ChoicePoint Inc. was tapped by identity
thieves in 2002 -- contradicting a
statement by its CEO that a much more recent
breach was the first of its kind.
Bush Gets Stoned by the World Media
U.S. Press Less Interested in Drug Remarks
February 24, 2005
Trio of Papers Pull Today's 'Boondocks'
Referring to Bush and Drugs

The syndicate further noted that The Miami
Herald plans to pull "The Boondocks" when
McGruder addresses a different topic this
Friday and Saturday; Universal declined to
say what that topic will be.
Jeff Gannon Returns to the Briefing
Room! In Spirit, at Least
March 03, 2005
Bush wielding secrecy privilege to end suits
National security cited against challenges to
anti-terror tactics -- March 3, 2005
Bank of America has agreed to pay $460.5
million to settle with investors who bought
Worldcom's stock and bonds before the
telecommunications giant filed for bankruptcy
in 2002.
Bush Cites bin Laden as
Security Chief Takes Oath
March 3, 2005
CIA Avoids Scrutiny of Detainee Treatment
Afghan's Death Took Two Years to Come to
Light; Agency Says Abuse Claims Are Probed
Fully
Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays
close to home while making a point about
privacy
The regulation that mandates ID at airports
is "Sensitive Security Information." The law,
as it turns out, is unavailable for
inspection.
Uncommon Sense
Oil and 9/11
A Peek Behind Bush II's
"War on Tyranny"
Using a phrase often levied by conservatives
to denigrate liberal judges, Floyd -- who was
appointed by President Bush to the federal
bench in 2003 -- accused the administration
of engaging in "judicial activism" when it
asserted in court pleadings that Bush has
blanket authority under the Constitution to
detain Americans on U.S. soil who are
suspected of taking or planning actions
against the country.

Floyd said the government presented no law
supporting this contention and that just
because Bush and his appointees say Padilla's
detention was consistent with U.S. laws and
the president's war powers, that did not make
it so. "Moreover, such a statement is deeply
troubling. If such a position were ever
adopted by the courts, it would totally
eviscerate the limits placed on Presidential
authority to protect the citizenry's
individual liberties."
Some VoIP providers don't offer 911 at
all. More typically, those such as Vonage and
AT&T offer a bare-bones 911 service that
doesn't show operators a caller's number or
address. And it doesn't ring on the emergency
phone lines in the dispatch center. As a
result, some 911 centers don't accept the
calls.
Martin said last Friday that the United
States must get permission before firing on
any incoming missiles over Canada.

"This is our airspace, we're a sovereign
nation and you don't intrude on a sovereign
nation's airspace without seeking
permission," Martin said.
Entire Lebanese Government quits
01mar05
State Dept. will not
encrypt RFID passports
"It is my understanding it's possible to read
this information from 10 to 30 feet away with
the right equipment," Tien said. "When you
think about the issues Americans have,
especially when they travel abroad -- do you
really want your passport to be broadcasting
your name and nationality?
THE man who headed the Bosnian Muslim army
during most of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war
today turned himself in to the UN tribunal in
The Hague, which has indicted him for war
crimes.
Egypt not a proliferation threat
28feb05
Mr. Bush has gotten Teddy Roosevelt's dictum
exactly upside down. He shouts loudly and
carries a small stick.
Handful of Congressmen Could Rule
America in Event of Catastrophe
Congressman tells GOP crowd
we really did find WMD in Iraq
21 February 2005
Director General Mohamed ElBaradei reported
to the IAEA Board of Governors at their last
meeting that after a year-long exhaustive and
intrusive inspection, he has found no
evidence that Iran has ever attempted to
acquire nukes or the makings thereof.
Negroponte: Unfit to Lead
by David Corn
February 24, 2005
FALLEN Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein would be
tried in one of his palaces sitting inside a
top security Hannibal Lecter-style cage, The
Sun newspaper said today. --28feb05
A MAN today pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey
to conspiring to blow up an aircraft.

Saajid Badat, 25, from Gloucester, was
alleged to have conspired with fellow Briton
Richard Reid and a Belgian terrorist to make
a shoebomb to be detonated on an aircraft.
Remember the comments made by CNN news chief
Eason Jordan about whether journalists in
Iraq were targeted by the military? He
resigned but the questions still linger:

Thirty-six journalists - and 18 media support
workers - have been killed since the
beginning of hostilities in Iraq in March
2003, according to the Committee to Protect
Journalists (CPJ).
Paul Bremer and the Looting of Iraq
24th February 2005
Bank of America Corp. has lost computer data
tapes containing personal information on 1.2
million federal employees, including some
members of the U.S. Senate.
The company that would sell
your soul to the devil
February 25, 2005
The Hunter S. Thompson Interview
It took the boys in Homeland Security a whole
Orwellian minute to figure out that buying
the information from a third party -- though
contemptuous of the spirit of the law --
doesn't technically violate the Privacy Act
of 1974.

That law forbids Uncle Sam from assembling
dossiers on law-abiding Americans unless
they're specifically targeted by federal
investigators. Like low-rent identity
thieves, the government can gather the
information in bulk and sit on it until it is
needed.
The Handover That Wasn't
By Antonia Juhasz,
Foreign Policy in Focus.
July 20, 2004.
WARNING TO CONGRESS
We the People have determined that being a
White House "Bag Man" may be hazardous to
your Political Health
February 25, 2005
The Globe and Mail: Canada refuses further
role in missile defence

"Although Prime Minister Paul Martin said
Canada would "insist" on maintaining
control of its airspace, U.S. ambassador Paul
Cellucci warned that Washington would not be
constrained.

"We will deploy. We will defend North
America," he said.

"We simply cannot understand why Canada
would in effect give up its sovereignty--
its seat at the table--to decide what to
do about a missile that might be coming
towards Canada.""
What exactly are these "paramilitary
operations" which the commission, the
U.S. Congress and all our stalwarts think we
should have more of? As Knight-Ridder notes,
they are actions "conducted by armed units
that do not belong to conventional military
formations" -- in other words, terrorist
groups, according to the Bush regime's own
definition.
Breach Points Up Flaws in Privacy Laws
Bush: Attack on Iran 'ridiculous'
"This notion that the United States is
getting ready to attack Iran is simply
ridiculous. Having said that, all options
are on the table," Bush said.
Bush: talk of strike on Iran is ridiculous
February 23, 2005
No Bush Left Behind Act of 2001
- Uncle Bucky Bush
October 21, 2004
Windfall for Bush's uncle
He cashes in on stock options
from wartime Pentagon contracts
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Bush's Uncle Profits From Iraq Stock Sale
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

The Pentagon's inspector general is
investigating whether an ESSI subsidiary
improperly got a contract to make equipment
from the Air Force.
In an attempt to maintain credibility, a
minority report has been issued by a
Congressional Committee on Government Reform,
which concluded that Halliburton overcharged
for the fuel in Iraq by $167 million, a
mark-up of 90 percent. One energy expert said
it looked like "highway robbery" to
him. But none of this overcharge has been
paid back, nor have monies been withheld from
Halliburton.
As mentioned previously, since 1965 Canada
has insisted that its uranium is not to be
used for military purposes. Nevertheless, by
continuing to sell uranium to countries with
nuclear weapons programs -- the United
States, Britain and France -- Canada is
undoubtedly helping them to make bombs. As
Ernie Regehr points out in Chapter 5, even if
Canadian uranium were being used in these
countries only to fuel electricity-producing
reactors, still that frees up more uranium to
be used in bombs.
As Gonzo in Life as in His Work
PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER
TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ
The star in a jar effortlessly reaches
temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees,
which is hotter than the surface of the
Sun. It was able to do all this by simply
focusing the energy of the sound wave into a
tiny hot spot.
ATTORNEYS FOR the Justice Department appeared
before a federal judge in Washington this
month and asked him to dismiss a lawsuit over
the detention of a U.S. citizen, basing their
request not merely on secret evidence but
also on secret legal arguments. The
government contends that the legal theory by
which it would defend its behavior should be
immune from debate in court. This position is
alien to the history and premise of
Anglo-American jurisprudence, which assumes
that opposing lawyers will challenge one
another's arguments.
Iraqi women no better off post-Saddam - Amnesty
IAF: Israel must be prepared
for an air strike on Iran
ABOUT 1000 people have demonstrated against
the Bush administration in central Brussels
ahead of the US president's arrival.
The man, who wore a surgical mask and would
not identify himself, left the auction
immediately after winning the bid for licence
plate number 12, which sounds like "certainly
easy" in Cantonese, the South China Morning
Post said.
Author Hunter S. Thompson kills himself
Hunter S. Thompson radio
interview 2002
Transcript of HST interview
August 29, 2002
Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004
Bush burning over tapes
He's feeling betrayed by stealthy pal
In another aside, Mr Bush displays his sense
of destiny. "It's me versus the world," he
tells Mr Wead. "The good news is, the world
is on my side. Or more than half of it."
On Iran, Ritter said that President George
W. Bush has received and signed off on orders
for an aerial attack on Iran planned for June
2005. Its purported goal is the destruction
of Iran's alleged program to develop nuclear
weapons, but Ritter said neoconservatives in
the administration also expected that the
attack would set in motion a chain of events
leading to regime change in the oil-rich
nation of 70 million -- a possibility Ritter
regards with the greatest skepticism.
UZBEKISTAN: BRITAIN'S FORMER ENVOY SPEAKS OUT
ABOUT RIGHTS ABUSES Kathleen Moore 2/19/05
"I want Ashcroft to stay in there, and I want
him to be very strong," Mr. Bush said. "I
would love it to be a Bush-Ashcroft
race. Only because I respect him. He wouldn't
say ugly things about me. And I damn sure
wouldn't say ugly things about him."
Mexico announced Friday it has suspended
permits for a U.S. research vessel conducting
sound-wave experiments in the Gulf after the
ship ran aground on a coral reef and damaged
it.
US caught wiretapping UN
atomic energy head ElBaradei
15 December 2004
IAEA Head Disputes Claims on Iran Arms
ElBaradei said Tuesday that the past six
months have uncovered very little new
information. "On Iran, there really hasn't
been much development, neither as a result of
our inspections or as a result of
intelligence."
Mini Helicopter Thinks For Itself--On The
Fly--To React To Dangerous Situations
Co. Pulls Out of Deal to Track Students
Negroponte named as intelligence czar
Last fall, con artists apparently used
previously stolen identities to create what
appeared to be legitimate businesses seeking
ChoicePoint accounts, said Chuck Jones, a
spokesman for the Alpharetta, Ga.-based
company. They opened about 50 accounts and
received volumes of data on consumers,
including names and addresses, important
identification numbers and job histories.

On Oct. 27, Los Angeles County sheriff's
deputies arrested Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41,
when the Nigerian national went to his office
to receive a fax ostensibly from
ChoicePoint. Police were waiting for the
Hollywood resident at his office in Los
Angeles.
WHO WAS THAT EX-PRESIDENT
I SAW YOU WITH LAST NIGHT?

A READER INQUIRES as to why Bill Clinton and
Bush the Elder are so chummy these days. This
is anothher case where just considering the
political aspect of the news lets you down.
The Shi'ite coalition that won Iraq's
elections has agreed on Vice-President
Ibrahim al-Jaafari as its candidate for the
prime ministership, as parties haggled over
the make-up of the next executive.
The Role of Lebanon in the Bush
Administration's Crusade for Empire
by Chris Floyd --16 February 2005
CNN's 'North Korean' Nuke Plant Shows Up
Again at U.S. GOV FUNDED 'News' Site!
Syria Denies Involvement In Lebanon Assassination
CIA seizes Sen. Jackson papers
Overseeing the CIA's "black budget" for
covert operations and interventions from a
subcommittee of Armed Services, [Scoop
Jackson] was one of a handful of senators who
gave a nod to two U.S.-backed coups in Iraq,
one in 1963 and again in 1968. Those plots
brought Saddam Hussein to power amid
bloodbaths in which the CIA, exacting the
price for its support, handed Saddam and his
Baath Party cohorts lists of supposed
anti-U.S. Iraqis to be killed.
Iran: Missile fired near nuclear plant
Iran: US spy planes flying over nuclear sites
Iranian TV Reports Explosion Near Deylam
"There is a big possibility that it was a
friendly fire by mistake." February 16, 2005
By April, an armed version of the
bomb-disposal robot, capable of firing 1,000
rounds a minute, will be at work in Baghdad.

The one metre-tall "soldiers" will be
equipped with tank tracks, night vision and
mounted automatic weapons.
There are new allegations that heavily armed
private security contractors in Iraq are
brutalizing Iraqi civilians. In an exclusive
interview, four former security contractors
told NBC News that they watched as innocent
Iraqi civilians were fired upon, and one
crushed by a truck. The contractors worked
for an American company paid by
U.S. taxpayers
US multinationals awarded huge
tax break on foreign earnings
Not only will traditional manufacturing
benefit, but the term is defined so broadly
as to include such far-flung fields as
construction, engineering, energy production,
computer software, film and videotape, and
any processing of agricultural products. A
national retail coffeehouse chain will be
allowed to call its coffee-roasting
"manufacturing."
Mystery Disease Killing Lobsters
British troops face new charges as
bodies of Iraqi civilians are exhumed
16 February 2005
THE Northern Territory Government is keeping
a secret database of people who criticise the
Government or its policies, it was learned
last night.

The files viewed by the Northern Territory
News contained hundreds of names, party
affiliations, their jobs or roles and a
record of their comments to talkback radio.
The FBI is conducting intelligence operations
abroad without notifying colleagues at the
CIA and State Department, current and former
government officials say.
The Senate approved Chertoff on a vote of
98-0 following debate over procedures for
interrogating terrorism suspects established
while he was at the Justice
Department. Chertoff said during his
confirmation hearings that he believes
torture is wrong.
In the case of a natural disaster or
terrorist attack, some emergency officials in
Western Washington plan to be prepared with a
large, shrink wrap machine.
The National ID Trojan Horse
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Pop goes the Bush Mythology Bubble
Part 6: This world is led by 4-star
clowns, liars and frauds
By Karl W. B. Schwarz
CNN's Nuke Plant Photos Identical
for Both Iran and N. Korea!
Lies, Damned Lies And Rice
ChoicePoint Data Stolen By Imposters
What is Habeas Data?
The literal translation from Latin of Habeas
Data is 'you should have the data'. The name
is quite appropriate, for it describes its
nature very accurately. Habeas Data is a
constitutional right granted in several
countries in Latin-America.
US fights back against 'rule by clerics'
A military analyst familiar with strategic
and proxy operations commented that there is
a specific reason behind procuring arms from
Pakistan, rather than acquiring US-made ones.
Halliburton Contracts Illegal -
Bush & Cheney Say So What
The report was not allowed to mention two
trailers held at the ISG camp which the CIA
had previously labelled mobile biological
weapon laboratories, Barton said.

"They were nothing to do with biology,"
he said. "We believed that they were
hydrogen generators."
'Justice' Blasted Over
Patriot Act Prosecutions

Shops and schools were closed in the Togolese
capital today as heightened security and a
general strike followed a weekend of violence
against demonstrators protesting last week's
military coup. -- February 14, 2005
A former CIA official has confirmed
suspicions that dozens of terror suspects
have been flown to jails in Middle Eastern
countries where torture is routinely
practised, and without reference to courts of
law.
Grammy at last for Led Zeppelin
Page said he had found the
ceremony very emotional and bore...
February 14, 2005
Michigan Mayor Blacklists
Those Who Sued City
February 14, 2005
FLINT, Mich. (AP) - Mayor Don Williamson is
taking a novel tack in fighting lawsuits -
he's withholding city business from anyone
who has sued Flint within the past five
years.
Iraq's Ahmed Chalabi, once supported by the
US only to fall from favour, said today he is
vying to become his country's prime minister,
following the formal announcement of election
results there.
NSA May Be 'Traffic Cop' for U.S. Networks
February 14, 2005
Gulfsands Petroleum signed a memorandum of
understanding with the Iraqi oil ministry
last month to gather and process gas
generated by oil fields in the province of
Misan. Currently the gas is flared off, an
environmentally damaging practice that also
wastes a source of natural gas.
"I'm in fear of my life, you know," he said
to a gathering at a Baghdad restaurant, at
which a Chronicle reporter was present.

"It's not Iraqis I'm worried about, either,"
added Manelick. "It's people from my own
country."

His father, Greg Manelick, and a team of up
to 20 investigators from the Army's Criminal
Investigation Command have been trying to
figure out ever since what Manelick meant.
Michael Albert's Head Downer:
No Alberich's Cloak for
Churchill, Please
February 12, 2005
Shiites, Kurds, win Big
Bush Loses Election in Iraq
Senate May Open Inquiry Into C.I.A.'s
Handling of Suspects
February 13, 2005

The C.I.A.'s inspector general is already
conducting several reviews of the agency's
detention and interrogation practices in Iraq
and Afghanistan, including several episodes
in which prisoners have been injured or
killed in C.I.A. custody, intelligence
officials have said. However, no
C.I.A. review is known to be under way into
the renditions or the treatment of prisoners
at the secret sites, where those being held
by the agency include Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,
regarded as the mastermind of the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks.
Michael Albert's Head Downer: No Alberich's Cloak for Churchill, Please 12 February 2005
Vilified in the United States as the man who
fed exaggerated reports of Saddam's weaponry
to intelligence agencies, and often listed as
one of the most unpopular people in Iraq,
Mr. Chalabi is now all but assured a seat in
the National Assembly. Over the past several
days he has begun maneuvering to become the
country's prime minister.
Russian arms sale to Chavez irks U.S.
Ward churchill speaks at U. Colorado
(RealVideo, 66M)
'The Method' Is Being Used On You
Meanwhile: How to seek shelter
when it's raining fear
An interrogator under contract with the
Central Intelligence Agency, charged with
beating an Afghan prisoner who died the next
day, is basing his defense in part on
statements by President George W. Bush and
other officials that called for tough action
to prevent terrorist attacks and protect
American lives.
February 12, 2005
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on
Thursday a sweeping set of rules aimed at
forcing states to issue all adults federally
approved electronic ID cards, including
driver's licenses.
Measured in "real dollars" (that is,
adjusting for inflation), this year's
spending on nuclear activities is equal to
what Ronald Reagan spent at the height of the
U.S.-Soviet standoff. It exceeds by over 50
percent the average annual sum ($4.2 billion)
that the United States spent--again, in
real dollars--throughout the four and a
half decades of the Cold War.
U.S. Rejects North Korea Demand
for Direct Nuclear Talks
February 11, 2005
Critics Want Full Report of 9/11 Panel
February 11, 2005
Bush Administration Blocked The Public
Release Of A New 9/11 Report For More Than
Five Months
February 09, 2005
New Sept. 11 Report Cites Warnings About Hijackings
February 10, 2005
By REUTERS
Report: FAA Had 52 Pre - 9 / 11 Warnings
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 10, 2005
Hundreds of Arab and Turkmen protestors took
to the streets of Iraq's disputed northern
oil city of Kirkuk Friday, charging that last
month's election had been riddled with fraud
and demanding a re-run.
PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR -- PART II
"Phantom flight 11" fits the
description of a "false blip."
Russia will not allow foreign companies to
bid for some of the nations largest reserves
deposits, Natural Resources Minister Yury
Trutnev said Thursday.

Trutnev's remarks appear to end any hopes for
ExxonMobil, which together with ChevronTexaco
won a tender for Sakhalin-3, to ever develop
the project.
The New Nihilism
Of Dog Sniffs and Packet Sniffers
Feb 10, 2005
A More Powerful President
Is the Last Thing We Need
President Bush's second-term agenda would
expand not only the size of the federal
government but also its influence over the
lives of millions of Americans by imposing
new national restrictions on high schools,
court cases and marriages.
New White House Estimate Lifts
Drug Benefit Cost to $720 Billion
February 9, 2005
Following a Paper Trail
to the Roots of Torture
February 8, 2005
Bush Pays Halliburton For
Services Never Rendered
The capital of Togo's main market and other
businesses were closed Tuesday in a strike
called to peacefully protest the military's
appointment of late President Gnassingbe
Eyadema's son as his successor.
No longer do Capitol Hill legislators need a
quorum to do the people's business. Now
under a piece of hotly contested legislation
passed without media attention on Jan. 5,
only a few members of Congress are needed to
do official business in the event of a
catastrophe instead of the usual 218.
Venezuela accessing China market via Iran
February 01, 2005
US won't stay in Iraq 'a day longer
than necessary': Cheney
February 6, 2005
CIA Chiefs Quash Revealing Report Pointing
Fingers For September 11

Detailed CIA report is ordered to be kept
secret for fear that 'prying eyes' may
uncover truth
Vice President Cheney acknowledged yesterday
that the federal government would need to
borrow trillions of dollars over the next few
decades to cover the cost of the personal
retirement accounts at the heart of President
Bush's plan to restructure Social Security.
Bulletproof Cameras ready to Patrol New Orleans
$2.5 Trillion Budget Plan Cuts Many Programs
Domestic Spending Falls; Defense, Security Rise
February 7, 2005
U.S. Redesigning Atomic Weapons
February 7, 2005
Prof Refuses to Apologize for 9/11 Essay
February 5, 2005
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Russia needs to show a
commitment to a free press and other ``basics
of democracy,'' and cooperate with former
Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine
where democracy is taking hold, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
Bwaaaahaaaahaaahaaaahaaa
PNAC's Happy Warriors
February 4, 2005
Global Eye
Criminal World
By Chris Floyd
February 4, 2005
The Pentagon's chief investigator is looking
into the military's practice of paying
journalists to write articles and commentary
for a Web site aimed at influencing public
opinion in the Balkans, officials said
yesterday.
Author Now Suspects 'Deep Throat' Was --
Drumroll, Please -- George H.W. Bush

The author of the 1993 biography of Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein, "Deep
Truth," today named George H.W. Bush the
new chief suspect as famed Watergate source
Deep Throat.

The "outing" was timed to the opening
of the two reporters' Watergate archives at
the University of Texas.
February 04, 2005
State Of The Union 2005:
A Public Declaration Of War
A Culture of Secrecy
What has happened to the principle that
American democracy should be accessible
and transparent?
Gonzales has already declared to the Senate
that interrogators in the CIA's secret gulag
aren't bound by the new "restrictions"
anyway. What's more, he's also asserted --
again openly, to the Senate -- that Bush has
the right to break any law or restriction he
pleases "while acting in his capacity as
commander-in-chief." Thus whatever the Leader
orders -- even torture and murder -- cannot
be a crime.
In his inaugural address Reagan declared that
"Government is not the solution to our
problem, government is the problem." While
President Reagan's actions fell far short of
is rhetoric one might excuse Reagan by noting
that the Democrat controlled House frustrated
many of his efforts. This excuse obviously
does not apply to the current Republican
administration.
Fargo City Commissioner Linda Coates is among
more than 40 area residents included on a
list of people barred from attending
President Bush's speech today in Fargo.
February 3, 2005

In his sweeping assertion of power, King
Gyanendra suspended several key provisions of
the constitution, including freedom of the
press, speech and expression, peaceful
assembly, the right to privacy, and the right
against preventive detention.
A Minneapolis man allegedly tried to rob a
grocery store last month, but tripped himself
up when he put his gun on the counter so he
could scoop up the cash.
Canada to counter Patriot Act
Canada urged to join coastal defence

The government will revamp the wording of
future federal contracts with the aim of
countering U.S. powers, granted under
anti-terrorism laws, to tap into personal
information about Canadians.
The Justice Department has again asserted
"state-secrets privilege" in seeking to
dismiss a lawsuit by Maher Arar, a
Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was detained
in the United States in 2002 and sent against
his will to Syria, where he says he was
tortured until his release a year later.
Halliburton Doing Business With
the 'Axis of Evil'
February 3, 2005
Iran-Contra Figure to Lead
Democracy Efforts Abroad
Elliott Abrams, who pleaded guilty in 1991 to
withholding information from Congress in the
Iran-contra affair, was promoted to deputy
national security adviser to President Bush.
February 3, 2005
Nuclear Evidence Could Point To Pakistan
February 3, 2005
CIA Ordered to Turn Over Prisoner Records
February 3, 2005
The Return of the Draft
January 27, 2005
President creates a Council on Service and
Civic Participation by Executive Order
13371 of January 27, 2005
The Pentagon gassed American soldiers
and civilians in 1960s tests
British MP George Galloway: Elections in
Occupied Iraq "Flawed Beyond Redemption"
Scottish MP George Galloway has been one of
the most vocal critics of the Iraq war. He
was expelled from the ruling Labour Party in
October 2003 after he was accused of
encouraging British troops to disobey what he
called "illegal orders".
01/31/05
...this official revealed that most or all of
the earnings from new "personal" or
privatized accounts will be paid not to the
holder of the account, but to the
government. The senior official called this a
"benefit offset."
Most conservatives would be surprised to
learn that the Patriot Act and Department of
Homeland Security was the brainchild of one
William Jefferson Clinton. However, a
recalcitrant Republican Congress denied
Clinton the opportunity to implement these
plans. Of course, with the Republican,
G.W. Bush, serving as President, that same
Republican Congress was all too eager to pass
these bills into law.
Dept. of Justice Asks For Outrageous FOIA
Fees In Secret Trials For 9-11 Detention
Cases
February 2, 2005
Ashcroft Defends Tough Policies
Attorney General Says 'Expansions
of Freedom' Halted Terrorists
February 2, 2005
Tens of thousands of Iraqis - mainly Sunni
Arabs - may have been denied their right to
vote on Sunday because of insufficient
ballots and polling centres, Iraqi officials
have said.
Political machinations
The government is keen to deploy e-voting
despite evidence of ballot rigging
Michael Meacher
February 2, 2005
Having for years enjoyed greater rights than
other Middle East women, women in Iraq are
losing even their basic freedoms -- the right
to choose their clothes, the right to love or
marry whom they want.
Ending Roma exclusion
When Guardian journalist Gary Younge visited
Hungary in 2003, 54% of police officers
believed criminality to be a key part of the
Roma identity and all but 4% thought it
genetic.
Half of Bankruptcy Due to
Medical Bills -- U.S. Study
Feb 2, 2005
Infighting Cited at Homeland Security
Squabbles Blamed for Reducing Effectiveness
...
Ervin cited a report from his office last
month that DHS immigration inspectors had
continued to let dozens of people using
stolen foreign passports enter the United
States
February 2, 2005
Even seemingly moronic pigeons can categorize
objects as "human-made" vs. "natural",
discriminate between cubistic and
impressionistic styles of painting, and
communicate using visual symbols on computers
Gonzales Will Not Be Blocked
Senate Is Expected to Confirm
Attorney General Nominee
February 2, 2005
Rumsfeld Seeks to Revive
Burrowing Nuclear Bomb
Bush Budget May Fund
Program That Congress Cut
February 1, 2005
Turkey Calls for Withdrawal
of Foreign Troops from Iraq
30 January 2005
Audit: $9 Billion Unaccounted
for in Iraq --Jan 30
BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (IPS) - Voting in Baghdad was
linked with receipt of food rations, several
voters said after the Sunday poll.

Guantanamo Bay Tribunals Ruled Illegal
Trials Violate Principles of Due
Process, Federal Judge Rules
January 31, 2005
The scandal sheet
Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just
read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from
the first four years of George W. Bush's
presidency -- every one of them worse than
Whitewater.
Bringing It All Back Home:
The Emergence of the
Homeland Security State
George Bush - Top Lobbyist
For Pharmaceutical
"Two of the food dealers I know told me
personally that our food rations would be
withheld if we did not vote," said Saeed
Jodhet, a 21-year-old engineering student who
voted in the Hay al-Jihad district of
Baghdad.
...
Many Iraqis had expressed fears before the
election that their monthly food rations
would be cut if they did not vote. They said
they had to sign voter registration forms in
order to pick up their food supplies.
"In the wake of September 11, the government
quite self-consciously avoided the kinds of
harsh measures common in previous wars,"
Chertoff wrote in a December 2003 essay for
the Weekly Standard. "During the nineteenth
and well into the twentieth centuries, the
government responded to domestic violence
with a panoply of extraordinary measures,
including suppression of criticism; separate
treatment of noncitizens; arrests and
searches without warrants; and preventive
detention."
Tax revenues vanish as firms move from US to
Bermuda -- Use of tax shelters is rising,
prompting moves in Congress to keep companies
home.
Michael Chertoff, who has been picked by
President Bush to be the homeland security
secretary, advised the Central Intelligence
Agency on the legality of coercive
interrogation methods on terror suspects
under the federal anti-torture statute,
current and former administration officials
said this week.
Elections Are Not Democracy
The United States has essentially stopped
trying to build a democratic order in Iraq,
and is simply trying to gain stability and
legitimacy
With all the hoopla, it is easy to forget
that this was an extremely troubling and
flawed "election." Iraq is an armed
camp. There were troops and security
checkpoints everywhere. Vehicle traffic was
banned.
The Iraqi Ballot, Translated
January 31, 2005
The Iraqi Resistance movement has quite
possibly saved the world from WWIII, though
the end of the story has not yet been
written.
PNACers Calling for Bullet-
Stopper Conscription?
January 29, 2005
CIA Said to Rebuff Congress on Nazi Files
by Douglas Jehl
Washington, DC --
January 29, 2005
Why I Am Obsessed with War
By Harry Browne
January 28, 2005
Virginia Military Institute has asked a
student governing body to investigate and
recommend discipline against cadets who
attended a Halloween party wearing costumes
that parodied Nazis, Africans and
homosexuals.
Russian officers 'helped in
plot to seize Beslan school'
London Independent
January 28 2005
Dick Cheney, Dressing Down
Parka, Ski Cap at Odds With
Solemnity of Auschwitz Ceremony
MOVING TARGETS
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Will the counter-insurgency plan in
Iraq repeat the mistakes of Vietnam?

One step the Pentagon took was to seek active
and secret help in the war against the Iraqi
insurgency from Israel, America's closest
ally in the Middle East.
'Torture Judge' Is Rewarded By President
Judge Jay S. Bybee's Odd Views On Cruel &
Inhuman Punishment Get Him a Lifetime
Appointment
Female interrogators tried to break Muslim
detainees at the U.S. prison camp in
Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a
miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case
smearing a Saudi man's face with fake
menstrual blood, according to an insider's
written account.
A Big Mistake
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Before the US House of Representatives
January 26, 2005
Only a psychopath would stand in the midst of
thousands of security guards and speak of
"the force of human freedom."
Good Riddance, Douglas Feith
January 27, 2005
Maybe you better sit down and pop a Xanax
before reading any further, because what
I'm about to tell you should seriously
short you out: not only is the average
soldier's salary barely life-sustaining,
the combat pay of the average grunt in
Afghanistan and Iraq is only $7.50 a day or a
measly $225 a month. And to make matters
worse, the folks bringing up the rear--
hundreds of miles from the horror show--
are pulling down the same combat pay as our
heroes who daily lay their lives on the line.
SUTTER, Calif. (AP) 1.28.05, 9:50a -- Parents
of Sutter elementary students told school
officials Thursday they're concerned about
the school's new policy that requires
students to wear security badges.
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Bush Inauguration
Speech: A "Vacuous Sermon," A "Global
Crusade" Against "Defenseless States"
A suicide bomber from Saudi Arabia, who
survived a failed attempt to blow up the
Jordanian mission Baghdad in December,
alleges that Iraqi police may have captured,
and then released, the most wanted terrorist
in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, two months
ago.
Even Bybee's very narrow definition of
torture would apply in this case. Here's
another - not from Abu Ghraib:

A detainee ''had been hooded, handcuffed in
the back, and made to lie face down, on a hot
surface during transportation. This had
caused severe skin burns that required three
months' hospitalization. . . . He had to
undergo several skin grafts, the amputation
of his right index finger, and suffered
. . . extensive burns over the abdomen,
anterior aspects of the outer extremities,
the palm of his right hand and the sole of
his left foot.''
Bush's crazy talk has even upset rah-rah
Republicans. One Republican called Bush's
speech "God-drenched." It has begun to dawn
on the formerly Grand Old Party that a
bloodless coup has occurred and that
Republicans have lost their party to
Jacobins, who cloak themselves under the term
"neoconservatives."
We have arrived at a plastic moment, during
which we can jump out of the Iraqi quagmire
in a single bound and leave the Iraqis to
"make their own way," as our president put it
the other day. Whether we take it or not is a
fateful decision that will put George
W. Bush's words to the test.
Kennedy: Fascist America
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants to run for
Attorney General of New York State.
01/23/05
The Nuremberg Principles
Jan 22, 2005
Until now, most observers believed that the
U.S. was too busy and overstretched in Iraq
to contemplate new wars. But this argument is
being turned on its head. The view one now
tends to hear in Washington is that there can
be no victory in Iraq until Iran and Syria
are brought to heel.
''I wouldn't like to comment for the time
being,'' Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib
said when asked about rumors that Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi had been arrested. ''Let's
see. Maybe in the next few days we will make
a comment about it.''
Commandos Get Duty on U.S. Soil
January 23, 2005
As its overwhelming victories in Afghanistan
and Iraq have demonstrated, the U.S. military
is the most effective fighting force in human
history. It is so effective, in fact, that
many government officials are now anxious for
the military to assume a more active policing
role here at home.

Deploying troops on the home front is very
different from waging war abroad. Soldiers
are trained to kill, whereas civilian peace
officers are trained to respect
constitutional rights and to use force only
as a last resort.
'The TALON robot is used for bomb
disposal. It is operated by radio frequency
and equipped with four video cameras that
enable troops to determine which areas enemy
soldiers occupy. In addition, the TALON is
waterproof up to 100 feet, allowing it to
search for explosives off-land. The TALON
also was used to locate victims and debris at
the World Trade Center. It was developed for
the EOD Technology Directorate of the Army's
Armament Research, Development and
Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
by the engineering and technology development
firm Foster-Miller.'


TALON on the job at the World Trade Center:
If stations are fearful of airing "Saving
Private Ryan" on Veterans Day, they are
unlikely to go into much depth about war
stories involving forced group masturbation,
electric shock, rape committed with a
phosphorescent stick, the burning of
cigarettes in prisoners' ears, involuntary
enemas and beatings that end in death.
The United States government is attempting to
dismiss a lawsuit brought by Syrian-Canadian
Maher Arar, claiming the litigation would
jeopardize national security.
No Foreign Observers to Monitor Iraq Vote
Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael
Chertoff's ties to the financiers of the
Sept. 11 attacks may prevent his confirmation
as Homeland Security Chief.

According to a June 20, 2000 article in the
The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey,
Chertoff defended accused terrorist financier
Dr. Magdy Elamir.
The dangers of exporting democracy
Bush's crusade is based on a dangerous
illusion and will fail --January 22, 2005
A shiver runs round the world as Bush
bangs the drum for 'fire of freedom'
W and Dostoevsky
George W. Bush is a man possessed
International aid agencies in India have been
horrified to find, even amid the suffering
caused by the tsunami, some survivors being
refused access to basic relief because they
are considered "Untouchables".

Accounts have emerged of members of the
former Untouchable castes not being allowed
to drink clean water from a tank provided by
Unicef because other castes believed it would
pollute the water in the tank. Dalits, as the
former Untouchables are known today, have
been thrown out of government relief camps by
the other survivors staying there.
One of the most publicized incidents of the
day involved the Protest Warriors and their
gathering dubbed, "Operation Hail to the
Chief." According to the Washington Post, the
Protest Warriors' event drew out a laughable
13 supporters. Unfazed by their lack of
numbers, they moved forward with their
mission to provoke opposing groups. The group
"infiltrated" an anti-Bush rally with signs
such as "Say no to war unless a Democrat is
president" and "Not to brag, but Bush won, so
shove it!"

Police officers fire streams of pepper spray
over a crowd of protesters after
demonstrators threw objects over the fence at
police as the Bush inaugural parade passed by
on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, January
20, 2005. Anti-war chants competed with pomp
and circumstance as the inauguration of
President George W. Bush (news - web sites)
for a second term took place amid the
barricaded streets of central Washington.
"The ramifications of a military strike are
going to be all negative," according to
Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA analyst now at
the Brookings Institution, who supported the
U.S. invasion of Iraq. He said it would
likely rally the population behind the regime
and provoke serious retaliation both in Iraq
and beyond.
Four years ago, scientists in Australia
genetically modified a mousepox virus and
inadvertently created a highly virulent
strain that could not be stopped by
vaccination. But the WHO insisted the latest
proposal to engineer the human smallpox virus
was inherently safer.

NY Journalist (Brodeur) Arrested for
Harassing Mayor Bloomberg's Office
(this is the guy who interupted the 911
commision meeting right after Guiliani
testified...photo from that event)
Global Eye
American Terror
January 21, 2005
Rumsfeld Cancels Trip to Germany
Over Fears of War Crimes Prosecution
21 January 2005
Homeland Security Operations
Morning Briefs
Titan covered in liquid natural gas
January 21, 2005
Bush has renominated for judgeships "those"
already rejected by the Senate, including
William Haynes, who as the Pentagon's general
counsel advised on the policy that the
president isn't bound by laws governing
torture, and Janice Brown, who has denounced
the New Deal as a "socialist revolution" and
is

opposed to the incorporation of the Bill
of Rights in the Constitution.


20 January 2005

Michael K. Powell will step down as chairman
of the Federal Communications Commission
after nearly four often-rocky years as the
government's top media and telecommunications
regulator, the agency has confirmed.
...
More fines for indecency were proposed under
Powell than by all previous chairman
combined.
January 21, 2005
Cheney: Saddam at fault for long Iraq
recovery 'Situation tougher than I
would have thought,' VP tells Imus
Jan. 20, 2005

To the Founders, Congress was king


The nation's Founders expected Congress, not
the president, to be where the real action
was, Berkin says. The president was supposed
to be, well, more like an "errand boy" for
Congress.
January 20, 2005
"The biggest regret is that we didn't stop
9/11. And then in the wake of 9/11, instead
of redoubling what is our traditional export
of hope and optimism we exported our fear and
our anger. And presented a very intense and
angry face to the world. I regret that a
lot." -- Richard Armitage
January 20, 2005
Officers of the Central Intelligence Agency
and other nonmilitary personnel fall outside
the bounds of a 2002 directive issued by
President George W. Bush that pledged the
humane treatment of prisoners in
U.S. custody, Alberto Gonzales, the White
House counsel, said in a document.
...
At the same time, however, the president has
a clear policy opposing torture, and "the CIA
and other nonmilitary personnel are fully
bound" by it, Gonzales said.

Huh?

It's a sorry state of affairs in America when
you can trust the words of Saddam Hussein
more than those of your own President.
Judge tosses 1 Guantanamo
suit; 2nd case in the works
Leon made a distinction between the right to
file for a habeas corpus petition before a
judge and the right to obtain one.
January 20, 2005
The confirmation of Secretary of State
designate Condoleezza Rice has been postponed
to next week.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada
raised the objection, saying Democrats needed
four and a half hours to speak on the matter.
As her appointment is confirmed, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice identifies the six
miscreant states that will be the target of
American foreign policy efforts to 'spread
democracy', reports Rupert Cornwell
20 January 2005
Gonzales excludes CIA from rules on prisoners
January 20, 2005
On the eve of President Bush's second
inauguration, most Americans say they do not
expect the economy to improve or American
troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by the time
Mr. Bush leaves the White House, and many
have reservations about his signature plan to
overhaul Social Security, according to the
latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
January 20, 2005
Condi Rice/Steady
on, toward disaster
January 20, 2005
Despite Bush's furious animadversions, the
social security actuaries in their most sober
assessments report that the current system
will issue full benefits without any changes
until 2042. Only the slightest modifications
then would guarantee complete solvency beyond
that into the indefinite future. Thus the
"iceberg" melts before the facts.
The Eve of Destruction
George Bush is getting four more years to
remake the world in his image. (Too bad for
us, he already started.)
January 18th, 2005
More than half of people surveyed in a BBC
World Service poll say the re-election of US
President George W Bush has made the world
more dangerous.

... the poll was carried out in cities where
people have benefited economically from
closer trade ties with the US.
Lawsuit Filed Against George W.
Bush and Richard B. Cheney
Doug Wallace
Even as the White House decries the ominous
prospect of Iranian influence on the upcoming
Iraqi national elections, US-funded
organizations with long records of
manipulating foreign democracies in the
direction of Washington's interests are
quietly but deeply involved in essentially
every aspect of the upcoming Iraqi elections.
...according to a renowned expert on
international law, Sabah Al Mukhtar, the
London-based President of the League of Arab
Lawyers, the election is not alone fatally
flawed, it is illegal. "Under the Vienna
Convention, an occupying force has no right
to change composition of occupied territories
socially, culturally, educationally or
politically. This election was based on the
laws laid down by former 'Viceroy' American
Paul Bremer and is entirely
unconstitutional. Bremer personally appointed
the overseers for the election", says Al
Mukhtar, thus, far from 'free and fair' and
heralding Iraqi 'democracy' they are entirely
engineered by Bush's man.
A South Korean human rights group on Tuesday
revealed what it claimed to be the first
video footage of dissident activity in North
Korea.
Jan. 18, 2005
Police on Tuesday surrounded a van one block
from the White House after the driver
threatened to blow it up, but the FBI linked
the incident to a domestic dispute, not
terrorism.
"We can have this discussion in any way that
you would like, but I really hope that you
will refrain from impugning my integrity,"
Rice told Boxer. "I really hope that you will
not imply that I take the truth lightly."
-- Ms. "No One Could Ever Have Imagined"
An Iraqi-American illegally acted as an agent
for Iraq under Saddam Hussein and received
millions of dollars worth of oil from the
country's U.N. oil-for-food program,
U.S. court documents showed on Tuesday.
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee grilled Condoleezza Rice on the
situation in Iraq and the Bush
administration's international policy on
Tuesday in her confirmation hearing to
replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.
Pop goes the Bush mythology bubble
Part 4: More reasons to not investigate 9-11
By Karl W. B. Schwarz
"The sun that reaches the Earth's surface
delivers 10,000 times more energy than we
consume," said Ted Sargent, an electrical and
computer engineering professor at the
University of Toronto. Sargent is one of the
inventors of the new plastic material.

"If we could cover 0.1 percent of the Earth's
surface with [very efficient] large-area
solar cells," he said, "we could in principle
replace all of our energy habits with a
source of power which is clean and
renewable."
"One can speculate endlessly about what
really motivated George Bush and his neocon
Praetorian guards to go to war. Was their
goal to convert the Middle East into a
walking mat for Sharon and easy pickings for
Halliburton? Did they set out to appease Bin
Laden by lifting sanctions and dismantling
the bases in Saudi Arabia?"
The U.S. military freed about 80 Afghan
prisoners Sunday, and the country's most
senior judge said the government was
negotiating the release of hundreds more from
American custody.
President Bush said the public's decision to
reelect him was a ratification of his
approach toward Iraq and that there was no
reason to hold any administration officials
accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in
prewar planning or managing the violent
aftermath.

On the election Bush said he was puzzled that
he received only about 11 percent of the
black vote, according to exit polls, about a
2 percentage point increase over his 2000
total.

"I did my best to reach out, and I will
continue to do so as the president," Bush
said. "It's important for people to know that
I'm the president of everybody."
January 16, 2005
Ohio is abandoning electronic voting in favor
of lower-tech, lower-cost optical-scan
equipment, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell
announced today.

"It is just the most efficient and practical
way to proceed," Blackwell said in an
interview. "We're faced with a tight
implementation schedule, tight money and no
(electronic) machines that are certified."
January 12, 2005
"On the Road Again" means something new for
Willie Nelson these days -- a chance for
truckers to fill their tanks with
clean-burning biodiesel fuel.

Nelson and three business partners recently
formed a company called Willie Nelson's
Biodiesel that is marketing the fuel to truck
stops. The fuel is made from vegetable oils,
mainly soybeans, and can be burned without
modification to diesel engines.
'Radiation-proof' cars offered in America
Two private US companies have designs on
building the first luxury recreational
vehicle that could withstand nuclear
radiation. -- 14 January 2005
Official: Evidence Supports FBI Complaints
The bureau's response to complaints by former
translator Sibel Edmonds was "significantly
flawed," Inspector General Glenn Fine said in
a report that summarized a lengthy classified
investigation into how the FBI handled the
case. Fine said her claims "raised
substantial questions and were supported by
various pieces of evidence."
January 14, 2005
Justice Dept IG Releases Unclassified Report
Summary on Sibel Edmonds' Allegations
January 14, 2005
Did Bush's New Homeland Security
Nominee Protect Terror-Linked
Doctor from Prosecution?
Michael Chertoff and the sabotage
of the Ptech investigation
January 14, 2005
DHS Nominee Chertoff Defended
NJ Man llinked to Bin Ladin
Statements by the Bush administration before
and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003
on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs
Parts bound for Iran nuclear plant seized
January 14, 2005

WMD now in select theaters

The Huygens European space probe today
successfully sent a signal back to Earth
after landing on Saturn's moon Titan after a
seven-year, 2bn-mile voyage.
· Egypt has defended a decision to renew
"emergency" laws by referring to US
anti-terror legislation

· Malaysia justifies detention without
trial by invoking Guantánamo

· Russia cites Abu Ghraib to blame abuse
in Chechnya solely on low-ranking soldiers.
An investigation by the Washington Post last
year suggested that the US held 9,000 people
overseas in an archipelago of known prisons
(such as Abu Ghraib in Iraq) and unknown ones
run by the Pentagon, the CIA or other
organisations. But this figure does not
include others "rendered" to third-party
governments who then act as subcontractors
for Washington, enabling the US to
effectively torture detainees while
technically denying that it carries out
torture.
Washington's mayor, Anthony Williams, has
complained that the city will have to spend
$17.3m to help pay for security. The federal
government normally reimburses the city for
such costs, but this year it has told Mr
Williams to take most of the money from
Washington's homeland security budget,
draining its defences for the rest of the
year.
Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground
War Created Haven, CIA Advisers Report
January 14, 2005
The White House on Friday played down a
government report which said the war in Iraq
is providing an important training ground and
recruitment center for Islamic terrorists.
The portions of the UN report censored by the
United States identified at least twenty-four
U.S. corporations that helped Iraq build its
pre-Gulf War weapons programs and
rockets. The list includes;

* Bechtel (conventional)
* DuPont (nuclear)
* Eastman Kodak (rocket)
* Hewlett-Packard (nuclear, rocket, conventional)
* Honeywell (rocket, conventional)
* International Computer Systems (nuclear, rocket, conventional)
* Rockwell (conventional)
* Sperry Corp. (rocket, conventional)
* Tektronix (rocket, nuclear)
* Unisys (nuclear, conventional)
White House Fought New Curbs
on Interrogations, Officials say
The final report from chief U.S. weapons
inspector Charles Duelfer, due out next
month, has concluded that "the former regime
had no formal written strategy or plan for
the revival of WMD."

The Bush administration does not hold out
hopes that any weapons will ever be found.
'Bring it on' was a little blunt. I was
really speaking to our troops, but it came
out and had a different connotation,
different meanings for others," he told
Walters.
"There are some who feel like that the
conditions are such that they can attack us
there. My answer is bring them on," Bush
said. "We've got the force necessary to deal
with the security situation."
The current President George Bush, whose very
name evokes a dark era many would prefer to
forget, seems determined to resurrect the
ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A
number of his foreign policy appointments are
former Iran-contra operatives who are being
rehabilitated and rewarded with powerful
foreign policy posts.
Chertoff played key role on 9/11
January 13, 2005
Chertoff Wrote Blueprint
for Sept. 12 Crackdown
January 13, 2005
Iowa Man Charged With Sending
Nuclear Equipment To Iran
January 12, 2005
Canadian regulators announced Tuesday that an
Alberta cow had tested positive for mad-cow,
the popular name for bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE). The case comes less
than two weeks after news of another cow's
diagnosis emerged and is particularly
significant because the animal was born after
the introduction of feeding rules intended to
stamp out BSE.
PARTS of Iraq may be too unsafe to
participate in this month's elections, the
country's interim prime minister said
yesterday, as insurgents killed at least 20
people in attacks aimed at undermining the
poll.
Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said
foreign troops would be out of the country by
the end of March.

"A three-month period is enough, even the
sooner the better," Kalla said.
Bank accidentally recycles ATM
Government IDs and Identity Theft
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
The $499 price of the Mac Mini certainly
makes owning an Apple computer more
accessible.
Should the US Military Be
Allowed to Torture People?
Search for Banned Arms In
Iraq Ended Last Month
January 12, 2005
Tsunami bomb NZ's devastating war secret
30 June 2000
Canadian scientists have made a discovery
that could become a catalyst for new
generations of "battery-less" consumer
electronic devices and the long-awaited
solar-hydrogen economy.

They have created paintable plastic solar
cells that are the first to harness the sun's
invisible, infrared rays, and could deliver
up to five times the power of the most
advanced photovoltaic cells today. ...

The material dissolves into a liquid without
losing any of its performance, and may be
painted onto walls or windows, sprayed on
clothing, or printed onto rolls of paper.
Kessler pointed out that Syria has tried,
often in vain, to cooperate with the United
States, only to be either snubbed or ignored.
January 12, 2005
Testimony of Dr Carol Rosin
December 2000
"People in laboratories have told me that they
don't want to work on these technologies for
war but if they don't they won't get a
paycheck. Who is going to pay them? But what
I see is that there are not only dual uses
for these technologies but there are many
uses for the same technologies."
The annual drafting of the budget is a
reminder that the American presence in Iraq
is costing nearly $4.5 billion a month and
putting huge strains on the military.
January 10, 2005
Coble suggests pullout in Iraq
January 9, 2005
Congress passes `doomsday' plan
"Changing what constitutes a quorum in this
way would allow less than a dozen lawmakers
to declare war on another nation," Baird
said.
January 9, 2005
Members of Congress who objected to voting on
legislation without first reading it amended
the Patriot Act to include a "trigger"
which provided that, upon the request of any
member of Congress, the debate that never
took place before voting would commence
sometime afterward.

When Congress adopted the Intelligence Reform
Act, it secretly squeezed in what I refer to
as an addendum to the Patriot Act, also
without debate, by making changes to elements
of the 2001 Patriot Act.
President Bush is entering his second term
with the lowest approval ratings of any
recent two-term president, even as he talks
about an ambitious agenda of change, an
Associated Press poll finds.
THE world may be better off if Osama Bin
Laden remains at large, according to the
Central Intelligence Agency's recently
departed executive director.

If the world's most wanted terrorist is
captured or killed, a power struggle among
his Al-Qaeda subordinates may trigger a wave
of terror attacks, said AB "Buzzy"
Krongard, who stepped down six weeks ago as
the CIA's third most senior executive.
Ronson talked to Christopher Cerf, the
composer for the children's show Sesame
Street for the last 25 years. Fuelled by
reports that his songs were being used on
Iraqi prisoners, Cerf joked that he should be
getting royalties for each interrogation.
German's Claim of Kidnapping Brings
Investigation of U.S. Link

On the afternoon of Dec. 31, 2003, Khaled
el-Masri was traveling on a tourist bus
headed for the Macedonian capital, Skopje,
where he was hoping to escape the "holiday
pressures" of home life during a weeklong
vacation.
...
He attends a mosque in Ulm, Germany, that has
been closely watched by the authorities
because several suspected terrorists have
worshiped there. But those authorities say
Mr. Masri has never been a suspect.
...
After three and a half weeks, Mr. Masri said
he was told that he could return to Germany.
...
Someone injected his arm, he said, and he
fell into a deep sleep. In March, Mr. Masri
said he began a hunger strike. On the 35th
day, he said an Afghan prison guard told him,
"The Americans don't care if you live or
die."
...
Two days later, he said, he was beaten again
and forcibly fed liquid through a tube shoved
down his throat.
...
"I'm sure those men will take revenge, after
what was done to them," Mr. Masri said. "Some
said to me - we hope to get out of here and
then have the power to make something happen
against the Americans."
January 9, 2005
'The Salvador Option'
The Pentagon may put
Special-Forces-led
assassination or
kidnapping teams in Iraq
Alberto Gonzales and the
Rule of Lawlessness
January 9, 2005
Gonzales said he could not recall key details
of his involvement in the production of an
August 2002 memo that narrowly defined the
tactics that constitute torture. He also
declined repeated invitations to repudiate a
past administration assertion that the
president has the authority to ignore
anti-torture statutes on national security
grounds.
Focusing on torture as the main objection to
Alberto Gonzales' taking over as Attorney
General distracts us from his greater sin:
his attempt to give the president the power
to imprison Americans incommunicado and
indefinitely, without recourse to courts or
lawyers. Such contempt for our civil rights
shows that Gonzales cannot be trusted to
protect them.
Five Senators and Eight House
Members to Challenge Election
White House Won't Release Gonzales Papers
January 6, 2005
Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting
record), D-Calif., signed a challenge mounted
by House Democrats to Ohio's 20 electoral
votes, which put Bush over the top.
The CIA and Riggs Bank
A Wall Street Journal story that
the press gang should chase.
Jan. 7, 2005
The purported link between Riggs and the CIA
sent Riggs shares up 7 percent on Friday.
January 06, 2005
Wash. GOP Demands New Governor Election
Jan 6
Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales'
confirmation hearing this week may become
more contentious because the White House has
refused to provide copies of his memos on the
questioning of terror suspects.
Al-Zarqawi reportedly arrested in Iraq
04 January 2005
CONGRESSMAN TOO TRUTHFUL
by U.S. Congressman Ron Paul
Smuggling American GI's is a booming business
in Iraq these days. For $1,000 and his/her
weapon and uniform, any US soldier can get
him or herself out of Iraq through
Kurdistan. Last April, a female US soldier
was captured by the Kurds, allies of the US,
dressed like a Kurdish woman with a face
veil, attempting to cross into Turkey.
"I think the resistance is bigger than the
US military in Iraq. I think the resistance
is more than 200,000 people," General
Muhammad Abdullah Shahwani, director of
Iraq's new intelligence services, said.
The US occupation military forces in Iraq
recently detained Dr. Huda Sali Mahdi Ammash,
a Iraqi scientist. South End Press, the
publishers of Dr. Huda Ammash, in a press
release has suggested that "there may be
political motivation for her detention."
Baghdad Governor Slain;
5 U.S. Troops Die
January 4, 2005
Americans are closing their eyes and
letting a new form of fascism get
rolling -- Jan. 4, 2005
The laser-wielding terrorists are coming! Not
since the Dread Syrian Wedding Musicians went
to the bathroom has such idiotic hysteria
gripped America.
Listeria food poisoning increased slightly in
2003, according to a consumer group that said
the Bush administration stalled and then
changed regulations aimed at curbing the
sometimes deadly infection. --Jan. 4, 2005
The US Military and the State Department were
given advanced warning. America's Navy base
on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean was notified.

Why were fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and
Thailand not provided with the same warnings
as the US Navy and the US State Department?
A reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected
terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if
the government lacks evidence to charge them
in courts was swiftly condemned on Sunday as
a "bad idea" by a leading Republican senator.



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