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...like a new Pearl Harbor


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


"I was proved fucking right. That's what
happened. People who disagreed with me were
saying, ‘there she goes again.' But I was
proved fucking right." -Judith Miller

"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


Rare Germ Found in D.C., but No Terror Fears

Tularemia Is Highly Infectious; Can Cause
Pneumonia and Systemic Infection
September 30, 2005

Muslim Army Chaplain
Recalls Guantanamo Ordeal

October 5, 2005

God told me to invade Iraq,
Bush tells Palestinian ministers

This press release is embargoed until 2230
hours on Thursday 6 October. Before that time
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you have been sent.
October 6, 2005

Orgy may result in charges

Swedish police ended their surveillance by
raiding a hotel room where a middle-aged
Norwegian woman was entertaining eight naked
men, one of them her husband.
October 5, 2005

Orgies are the way to ease
social tensions, claims US judge

Justice Scalia surprised his audience at
Harvard University, telling them: "I even
take the position that sexual orgies
eliminate social tensions and ought to be
encouraged." -October 1, 2004

Senate votes to restrict
treatment of detainees

Bush rebuffed in 90-9 vote to bar ‘cruel,
inhuman or degrading’ treatment
....(of those in "U.S. custody")
October 5, 2005

OUTSOURCING TORTURE

The secret history of America’s
“extraordinary rendition” program.
February 7, 2005

Debit card can become
a high-tech piggy bank

October 6, 2005

C.I.A. Chief Refuses to Seek Discipline for 9/11 Officials

October 5, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/10/06/takeoff_at_logan_aborted_by_errors/

Takeoff at Logan aborted by errors

Runway incursion is 2d in just over a week
An American Airlines jet aborted its takeoff
at Logan International Airport Tuesday, after
errors by a pilot and a controller allowed
another plane to cross onto its runway,
federal officials said yesterday.
October 6, 2005
One reason there was no trace of what
happened in the Neutral Zone on those two
days were the ACEs. It stands for Armored
Combat Earth movers and they came behind the
armored burial brigade leveling the ground
and smoothing away projecting Iraqi arms,
legs and equipment.

As the ground war began, Cheney declared a
press blackout, effectively blocking
distribution of battlefield press
reports. While Cheney’s action was
challenged by Marlin Fitzwater, the White
House press secretary, the ban remained in
effect. ...

“The best-covered war ever,” Cheney
said. “The American people saw up close
with their own eyes through the magic of
television what the U.S. military was capable
of doing.”

The Butcher of New Orleans:
9-11 Insider & Director of "Homeland
Security" Michael Chertoff

Chertoff delayed federal response,
memo shows
Dow, the world's largest chemicals
corporation (a traditional corporate profile
can be found here) has one of the worst
environmental legacies of any major company,
encompassing Agent Orange, Asbestos, Dioxin,
Dursban, DDT, Nemagon and Napalm. Dow's
commitment to the environment and human
safety, a "part of everything we do and every
business decision we make" according to its
former CEO Michael Parker, is all too clear.
That's a heavy cross to bear for a
multinational company; perhaps it's no wonder
Dow can't quite face the truth. The Yes Men
decided, in November 2002, to help them do so
by explaining exactly why Dow can't do
anything for the Bhopalis: they aren't
shareholders. Dow responded in a masterfully
clumsy way, resulting in a flurry of press.

Bush Says Social Security
Overhaul Is Stalled

He cites a lack of public support for his
plan. More pressing now is the hurricane
recovery.
Asked about his record of fostering big
government with the war on terrorism and the
Hurricane Katrina cleanup, Bush insisted:
"I'm still a conservative, proudly so."
October 5, 2005
Mehlman yesterday unveiled a politically
powerful argument linking Bush’s
nomination to the war on terrorism. He said
that as a former White House counsel Miers
would know the importance of not letting the
courts or the legislative branch
“micromanage” the war on terrorism.

"Micromanage." Is that what the kids are
calling the Bill of Rights these days?
A US soldier convicted of humiliating and
abusing Iraqi prisoners has said she knew of
"worse things" happening at Abu Ghraib and
insisted military commanders were fully aware
of what was going on in Iraq’s infamous
jail. -October 3, 2005

White House Losing Ground
on Prisoner Treatment

Under White House pressure, conveyed
personally by Vice President Dick Cheney,
Frist pulled the 2006 defense authorization
bill last July to prevent a floor vote on the
amendments. -October 5, 2005

AOL Time-Warner Censors
Alex Jones Websites

Nationwide blackout a clear attempt
to shut down free speech
October 5 2005

Someone at MSNBC is a wee bit subversive

Accompanying this AP article about Miers
[were] this picture and caption
October 3, 2005
...according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class
Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell
& Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay
$22 million to settle a suit asserting that
"it aided a client in defrauding investors."

Under Miers' leadership, the firm represented
the head of a "foreign currency trading
company [that] was allegedly a Ponzi scheme."
The law-firm admitted that it "knew in March
1998 that $ 8 million in [the company's]
losses hadn't been reported to investors"
but didn't tell regulators."
Miers, Bush’s White House counsel who was
nominated Monday to take Sandra Day
O’Connor’s seat on the high court, was
honored by the ADL’s Dallas office in
1996. - October 4, 2005

Bush Brothers At Odds?

Lately, Jeb has been taking strong positions
against his brother’s policies – [on]
federalizing disaster response
October 3, 2005

Ministers 'shocked' at MI5's lack
of information

The head of MI5 will also be asked why
Britain's terror alert was downgraded
weeks before the July attacks.
October 2, 2005

White House Counsel Miers Chosen for Court

Some Question Her Lack of Experience As a Judge October 4, 2005

Scooter Libby Now Says Judy Kneepads'
Jail Time Was Unnecessary

"You went to jail in the summer. It is fall
now. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens
will already be turning. They turn in clusters,
because their roots connect them. Come back
to work -- and life." --A letter from Scooter
to his pal Judy Kneepads -October 4, 2005

Reid told Cheney to pick Miers; Relished
fact she was never a judge

Australians Win Nobel in Medicine

Two Scientists Discovered Bacterial
Cause of Peptic Ulcers in 1982
The bacterium is now known to cause 80
to 90 percent of all ulcers, which can
now be quickly cured in most cases.
October 4, 2005
"The court in particular referred to Article
4, Paragraph 4 of the UN Charter, which
classifies "every" threat and use of military
force against another nation as an act of
aggression. It specifies only two exceptions:
a formal resolution of the UN Security
Council and for self-defence purposes. Neither
of these was the case with Iraq.
Did Bush administration attack peace movement
with military grade biological bacteria?
October 4, 2005

Bush's Stay out of Jail Card

October 03, 2005

DeLay Is Indicted on Two New Charges

Money Laundering Alleged in Texas
October 4, 2005

At News Conference, Bush
Strongly Backs Court Nominee

"The president refused to comment on an issue
looming over the White House -- the
investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's
identity. With two top White House officials
a focus of the inquiry, Bush was asked
whether he would fire anybody indicted in the
probe. "I'm not going to talk about the
investigation until it's complete," he said."
October 4, 2005

Oliver North: Keeping his eyes front

'North wrote in his autobiography, "Under
Fire: An American Story," that Reagan and
Vice President George H.W. Bush "knew
everything" about Iran-Contra.'
October 4, 2005

Reid Urged Miers Selection

The expected political brawl over President
Bush’s second Supreme Court nominee
Harriet Miers might not ever take place –
because it was a powerful Democrat, Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid, who had urged her
selection. -October 3, 2005

Longtime Confidante of President
Has Never Been a Judge

October 3, 2005

Bill Would Give Cover to Pentagon Spies in U.S.

In an effort to thwart domestic terror, some
privacy protections would be rolled back.
October 1, 2005

No evidence backs up reports of
rescue helicopters being fired upon

October 2, 2005
"Let us remember that there are multiple
theories of Intelligent Design. I and many
others around the world are of the strong
belief that the universe was created by a
Flying Spaghetti Monster."

Biowatch Detects Rabbit Fever Bacteria
On Washington "War Protest" Route

October 2, 2005

Iraq war delayed Katrina
relief effort, inquiry finds

October 3, 2005

Aker river runs white

A mishap involving the delivery of paint in
downtown Oslo on Friday left the River Aker
colored an eerie shade of white.
September 30, 2005

Americans question use of force
to promote democracy, poll finds

September 29, 2005

Bush Administration Psychological
Warfare Against the U.S.?

"You may know that the United States is
the only coalition country that did not
honor its returning dead." - Sam Gardiner
September 29, 2005

Tom DeLay Indictment

House Republican power hit
with felony conspiracy rap

FCC Releases Orders for Internet
Backdoor Wiretap Access

September 29, 2005

RIAA Sues Another 750
For File Sharing

September 30, 2005

Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos

Saying the United States "does not surrender
to blackmail," a judge ruled Thursday that
pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu
Ghraib prison must be released over
government claims that they could damage
America's image. -September 29, 2005

Pentagon Analyst to Plead Guilty to Leak


September 29, 2005

Top U.S. General Says Number of
Capable Iraqi Battalions Drops to One

September 29, 2005

Top Officials Told to
Testify in Muslims' Suit

September 29, 2005

Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled

29 September 2005

PM aide: If no progress with PA,
gov't may annex part of W. Bank

September 28, 2005

Miller agrees to testify in CIA leak probe

September 29, 2005

Senators: Hurricane Aid Is Being Blocked

September 28, 2005

The Pentagon takes [over] efforts
to combat hurricanes and floods

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has finally
won a longstanding game of brinkmanship
played against Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff. -September 29, 2005

Blunt Hired Consultant Who's Also Indicted

The political committee of Rep. Roy Blunt
(news, bio, voting record), who is
temporarily replacing Rep. Tom DeLay as
House majority leader, has paid roughly
$88,000 in fees since 2003 to a consultant
under indictment in Texas with DeLay,
according to federal records.
September 28, 2005

Afghan Absurdities

by James Bovard
"Two years later, the Bush administration
admitted that the president’s statement
was false and that no nuclear-power-plant
diagrams had been discovered in Afghanistan."

Blanco Goes to D.C. to Answer Brown Charge

September 28, 2005

9/11 Suspect David Boren to Host
Bob Woodward of Washington Post

'...in the summer of 2001 Boren arranged for
top CIA spook David Edger to be appointed as
a "visiting professor" at OU. Earlier Edger
had responsibility for CIA surveillance of
the Hamburg Al Qaeda cell.'
September 28, 2005

Republicans See Signs That
Pentagon Is Evading Oversight

September 29, 2005

Number of combat-ready Iraqi battalions
drops by two-thirds: general

September 29, 2005

Foetuses found at Bogota airport

September 29, 2005

FBI And DHS Schizophrenia

September 22, 2005

Straw rules out military
action against Iran

It's not on the agenda of the
United States," he told Sky News
Sep 28, 2005

Turkish women lecture U.S. envoy

"This war is really, really bringing your
positive efforts to the level of zero"
September 29, 2005

BREAKING: Brown Falsely
Smears Blanco Under Oath

September 27, 2005

Apartheid-justice in
America; Krugal vs. Padilla

September 28, 2005

Covert ops to overthrow Iran’s gov

September 27, 2005

3 Charged in Killing Of Fla. Businessman

Boulis Slain After 2000 Abramoff Deal
"Kidan told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
that Boulis had said, "I'm not going to sue
you, I'm going to kill you."
September 28, 2005

Arrests made for murder
with ties to Abramoff

Victim was involved in business dispute
with lobbyist when he was killed
September 27, 2005

Spain's 9/11 trial
condemned as a failure

Spain delivers 9/11 conviction

Imad Yarkas received 27 years in
prison. Prosecutors had wanted 74,337 years -
25 years for each 9/11 victim
"I want to see the verdict as a success. But
the fact that they couldn't tie Yarkas
specifically to the crime... is a setback."
September 28, 2005

Moussaoui: a window on terror trials

"...Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, alleged
mastermind of the plot, has denied that
Moussaoui was part of the 9/11 team...
But Ramzi Binalshibh...said that he assumed
Moussaoui was indeed supposed to be a 9/11
pilot, according to the commission report. He
claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told him as
much. -April 22, 2005

Offer of buses fell
between the cracks

September 23, 2005
Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting
Bombs in Basra?
Suspicions Strengthened by Earlier Reports
September 25, 2005

http://truth-about-iraqis.blogspot.com

Torturous Silence on Torture

By Ray McGovern
September 27, 2005

White House shrugs off anti-war demos

September 26, 2005

Hospital Halts Organ Program

St. Vincent Medical Center, one of the
largest organ transplantation centers in the
state, has suspended its liver program after
discovering that its doctors improperly
arranged for a transplant to a Saudi national
using an organ that should have gone to a
much higher priority patient at another
hospital, officials said. -September 27, 2005

Nun Terrorized by Terror Watch

Sep. 26, 2005

NSA granted Net location-tracking patent

September 21, 2005

Brown blames 'dysfunctional' Louisiana

September 27, 2005

Spain Issues First Prison Sentence for 9/11

September 27, 2005

300,000 protest against Iraq war

September 26, 2005
It was all about preaching to the choir,
with the choir being a multiracial,
multigenerational contingent in favor of
getting U.S. troops out of Iraq.
September 26, 2005

Reports of anarchy at Superdome overstated

September 26, 2005

Military tells Bush U.S.
needs a national plan

September 25, 2005

Bush mulls lead role
for military in disasters

September 25, 2005

Bush urges larger role for military

September 25, 2005

US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

September 24, 2005

Over 200 civilians abducted
in mid-western Nepal

September 26, 2005

Photos From September 24th 2005
Anti-War Rally in Washington DC

Haroon Aswat…FBI agent threatens former
USDA federal agent, now staff reporter for
The New Criminologist. -September 25, 2005

Labor propose lock down powers

LABOR has proposed unprecedented anti-
terrorism laws which would allow police
to lock down entire neighbourhoods and stop
and search anyone without a warrant.

State and territory leaders are due to meet
Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday to
discuss tough new counter-terror measures,
including allowing suspects to be
electronically tagged for up to 12 months.
September 26, 2005
Guantánamo inmate says US
told him to spy on al-Jazeera
September 26, 2005

London Antiwar Protest Draws Thousands

Iraq Dampens Support for Blair
September 25, 2005

Iraq constitution seen
worsening insurgency-report

Fusion Center takes aim at terror

But secrecy alarms civil libertarians
September 26, 2005

Bill Would Permit DNA Collection
From All Those Arrested

September 24, 2005

New Reports Surface About Detainee Abuse
Mistreatment Was Routine, Soldiers Say

September 24, 2005

The Down Side of Pop

At the Corcoran Gallery, Andy Warhol's
Comment On a Sold-Out Society
September 24, 2005

Iraq judge seeks arrest of
freed British soldiers

September 24, 2005

Bus Carrying Elderly Storm
Evacuees Explodes Near Dallas

September 23, 2005

Report attacks 'myth'
of foreign fighters

September 23, 2005

No Regrets About Arar,
U.S. Ambassador Says

September 18, 2005
AFS Trinity Unveils 250 Mile Per Gallon
Vehicle Program at Girvan Meeting
February 2, 2005
Spurred by a new federal mandate, card
companies over the next three months plan to
raise - in some cases double - the amount
card holders must pay each month.

A consumer carrying a $10,000 balance may see
a minimum payment jump from $200 to $400.

While the federal Office of the Comptroller
of the Currency said it is giving credit card
companies some leeway in how they raise
monthly payments, all are required to do so
by the end of December. "This isn't
optional," said Comptroller spokesman Dean
DeBuck. "We will be making sure they comply."
September 18, 2005

Abramoff Probe May Threaten
Leading Republicans as It Expands

September 22, 2005

No Way Out: Many Poor Stuck in Houston

No Way Out: Tears, Anger As Some Try to Flee
and Many Poor Are Stuck in Houston
September 22, 2005

ACLU sues Homeland Security for arresting,
spying on vegans who protested ham

President coming to NorthCom for storm

September 23, 2005

Carter says Gore won 2000 election

Storm overcomes New Orleans levee

Water is pouring over a patched-up levee in
New Orleans, increasing fears that rains
brought by Hurricane Rita could flood the
city again. -September 23, 2005

JDL Leader Earl Krugel Sentenced
to 20 Years for 2001 Terrorist Plot

Assassination as a Tool of Fascism

Able Danger

Atta files destroyed by Pentagon

September 22, 2005
President Bush decided Wednesday to waive
any financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia,
Washington's closest Arab ally in the war on
terrorism, for failing to do enough to stop
the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes,
child sex workers and forced laborers.
September 21, 2005
Today, somewhere in the DC metropolitan
area, the military is conducting a highly
classified Granite Shadow "demonstration."
September 22, 2005
Historic changes possible in military's
role in domestic emergencies

Di Rita said Rumsfeld has not made
recommendations to Bush, but among the issues
he is examining is the viability of the Posse
Comitatus Act. Di Rita called it one of the
"very archaic laws" from a different era in
U.S. history that limits the Pentagon's
flexibility in responding to 21st century
domestic crises.
On September 23rd, the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will close the
public comment period on Wal-Mart's attempt
to open an "ILC" bank in Utah.
September 22, 2005
At this point, thanks to George W. Bush’s
September 2002 document entitled ‘The
National Security Strategy of the United
States of America’ (NSS), we know with
certainty that the United States intends to
rule the world. -September 20, 2005

Pentagon Blocks Testimony at
Senate Hearing on Terrorist

September 20, 2005
On the day of the storm, or perhaps the day
after, FEMA turned down the state's
suggestion to use school buses because they
are not air conditioned, Blanco said Friday
in an interview. -September 18, 2005
"Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened
fire at a police station in Basra. A police
patrol followed the attackers and captured
them to discover they were two British
soldiers," an Interior Ministry source told
Xinhua. -September 19, 2005

U.K. forces break into
Basra jail to free soldiers


Iraqi police arrested undercover troops,
handed them over to local militia

Iraqi police officers stand near debris at
the central jail in Basra, Iraq, on
Tuesday. British armored vehicles broke down
the walls of the jail to free two British
soldiers, arrested for shooting two Iraqi
policemen. The men were later found to be
held by militants in another location.
September 20, 2005

Peace Activist Sheehan Hurt at Rally

September 20, 2005

Karzai Wants End to U.S.-Led Operations

September 20, 2005

British tanks smash Iraqi
jail to free UK soldiers

September 19, 2005

Bush aide arrested on corruption charges

The complaint filed by the FBI alleges that
David Safavian, 38, a White House official
involved until last week in Hurricane Katrina
relief efforts, made repeated false
statements to government officials and
investigators about a golf trip with Abramoff
to Scotland in 2002. It also contends that he
concealed his efforts to help Abramoff
acquire control of two federally managed
properties in the Washington area.
September 20, 2005
Beyond Abramoff: Gambling lobbyist joined
with anti-gambling congressman, derailed
gambling bills
Ex-lobbyist now oversees $300 billion in
federal spending -September 20, 2005

Former White House official arrested

Sep. 19, 2005
Email from arrested White House official
suggests powerful congressman lied about trip
September 20, 2005

Topless women take on nudity law

September 19, 2005

NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan

City’s Finest pulls move even
Bush wouldn’t have tried
September 19th, 2005

Hurricane Rita lashes Florida Keys

September 20, 2005
The New York City Police Department forcibly
broke up this afternoon's rally for Cindy
Sheehan, moving in as Cindy was speaking at
about 3 p.m. in Union Square. The rally had
been underway for about an hour, and was
about to conclude as Cindy spoke following
several other speakers, including a few who
are traveling with her on her caravan.

North Korea Says It Will
Abandon Nuclear Efforts

September 19, 2005

UK soldiers 'storm' Basra prison

British forces have rescued two UK servicemen
who were arrested by Iraqi police in the
southern city of Basra. -September 19, 2005

Two Britons held in Iraq for firing at police

September 19, 2005

Iran War Clouds On The Harvest Moon

Rumsfeld: 10-12 Is Imminent
By Webster Griffin Tarpley
September 19, 2005

Pentagon May Have Doubts
on Preemptive Nuclear Moves

September 19, 2005

Covering the Tracks of the Anthrax Attacks

What, where, why – who?
September 19, 2005

Nagin's CNN Katrina Warning
Article Predicted Levee Failure

"Nagin said the storm surge would likely
topple the levy system that protects the city."

Note - CNN is replacing and revising articles
on Katrina. This first, original CNN article
disappeared and was replaced by a edtied
version which you will see after the first...
September 17, 2005

EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES

Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane
Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans
HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped
to America for starving Hurricane Katrina
survivors is to be burned. -September 19, 2005

North Korea stuns the world
as it gives up nukes

September 20, 2005
Venezuela sends cargo of 300,000 barrels
of gasoline direct to Louisiana
Britain ruled out military action to halt
Iran's nuclear programme yesterday on the eve
of a diplomatic battle by the West to take
Teheran to the United Nations Security
Council for possible political and economic
sanctions. -September 19, 2005

Former leader says Australia a US colony

September 19, 2005

Hinchey Leads Broad Congressional
Coalition Calling For Expansion
Of Plame Name Leak Investigation


Forty-One Members Of Congress Ask Special
Prosecutor Fitzgerald To Examine Bush
Administration's False Uranium Claims That
Led To Disclosure Of CIA Operative's Identity
To Determine If Additional Federal Laws Were
Broken -15 September, 2005

In 4-Year Anthrax Hunt, F.B.I.
Finds Itself Stymied, and Sued

September 17, 2005

Police Fortify Numbers for War Protests

Demonstration Will Be the First Since
the District Passed Arrest Law

D.C. police have canceled days off and are
planning to deploy several hundred officers
during an antiwar demonstration next weekend
that will include a march near the White
House, but officials said they expect no
trouble. -September 18, 2005

Sharon fears arrest if he visits London

Israeli leader snubs Blair’s invitation
after court issues warrant for general
September 17, 2005

Clinton launches withering attack
on Bush on Iraq, Katrina, budget



Former US president Bill Clinton sharply
criticised George W. Bush for the Iraq War
and the handling of Hurricane Katrina, and
voiced alarm at the swelling US budget
deficit.
September 18, 2005
A 73-year-old woman who was jailed for more
than two weeks after authorities accused her
of looting was released Friday evening.
September 16, 2005
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) penned a letter to
Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Wednesday asking why the Justice Department
was able to successfully prosecute a teenager
for hacking into Paris Hilton's cell phone,
but has yet to fully investigate two
Republican staffers who hacked into the
Senate Democratic Judiciary computer system,
RAW STORY has learned.

Bush Proposes Private School Relief Plan

The Bush administration yesterday proposed
nearly $500 million in federal funding to
help displaced private school students from
the Gulf Coast enroll in private schools
elsewhere in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina. -September 17, 2005
Some of the Uprooted Won't Go Home Again
...what may be occurring is a massive -- and,
perhaps, permanent -- transfer of a block of
poor people from one city to another.
September 16, 2005
Little Progress In FBI Probe of Anthrax
Attacks -Internal Report Compiled As Agents
Hope for a Break -September 16, 2005
Justice officials would not say if they
consulted with experts and knew that uranium
could not make a 'dirty bomb,' AP wrote.
E-mail suggests government seeking to blame
groups -September 16, 2005
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy
documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a
terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks,
a congressman said Thursday.

Thais despair over growing insurgency

"The idea that government forces have
immunity from prosecution has created real
fear," said Francesca Lawe-Davies, who is
monitoring events in southern Thailand for
the International Crisis Group.

Learn the Constitution, Or Else


Bush unsure whether he needs bathroom break.

(No Film at Eleven.)

The Danziger Bridge incidents

--xymphora--
September 15, 2005
No smiling for passport photos in Germany
Facial recognition systems match key features
on the holder's face and work best when the
face has a neutral expression with the mouth
closed. -September 15, 2005
House Republicans derailed Democratic
attempts on Wednesday to force the Bush
administration to surrender documents on
prewar intelligence and the disclosure of the
identity of a CIA operative.
September 14, 2005
Court paves way for Pinochet trial
Former leader of Chile stripped of immunity
September 15, 2005
From design to delivery, custom manufacturing
is coming soon to a desktop near you. Writer
Clive Thompson joins the fab Lab" revolution.
At U.N., Bush Links War on Terrorism to
Anti-Poverty Efforts
President Tells World Leaders That
U.S. Shares 'a Moral Duty' to Combat Root
Causes of Resentment, Violence
September 15, 2005
'Thirty years ago, President Bush was my
student at Harvard Business School. In my
class, he called former president Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, a
“socialist” and spoke against Social
Security, unemployment insurance, the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and other
New Deal innovations.'
Almost 12 million tons of radioactive waste
will be moved from the banks of the Colorado
River, the source of drinking water for more
than 25 million people across the West, the
government said Wednesday

Watch Who's Cleaning Up

Some of the same crony contractors who
cleaned up in Iraq are beginning to sign big
contracts with FEMA. -September 13, 2005

F.A.A. Alerted on Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said

September 14, 2005
Revised Sept. 11 commission report adds
classified information
Conyers Releases Non-Partisan Congressional
Research Service Report on Federal Response
to Hurricane Katrina: Report Confirms that
Louisiana Took Necessary and Timely Steps
September 13, 2005
"Bush says Iran has right to civilian nuclear
program" --"it's a right of a government to
want to have a civilian nuclear program."
September 14, 2005

FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to
firm implicated in body-dumping scandals

Dutch court loses A.Q. Khan’s files, judge
suspects CIA -September 10, 2005
"Jeb!" and the Politicization of FEMA
September 13, 2005
Rigorous Intuition
Drowning by Numbers
September 13, 2005

Bush says he may need more power in disasters

He wants Congress to look into whether
presidential authority should be expanded in
times of catastrophes like Katrina
September 13, 2005

School bus comandeered
by renegade refugees
first to arrive at Astrodome


Right-Wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked

A Monopoly on Life

by Butler Shaffer
September 12, 2005

More Join Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Detainees Demand Hearings, Allege Beatings by
Guards -September 13, 2005

Posada tries to evade extradition

Posada is wanted in Venezuela for the murder
of the 73 persons aboard Cubana Airlines
Flight 455 on Oct. 6, 1976.

Posada...told the judge that pursuing his
claim would involve divulging sensitive
information connecting the U.S. government
with violent, clandestine anti-Cuba
activities. He indicated that he was
withdrawing his asylum claim solely in order
to save the U.S. government from any undue
“embarrassment.” -September 8, 2005
'We don't have any substantiated rapes," the
New Orleans Police...told the British
newspaper...speaking of the situation at the
Superdome. Nor have any bodies of victims of
foul play turned up there. The Federal
Aviation Administration and military
officials have cast doubt on the story of the
rescue helicopter that came under fire
outside Kenner Memorial Hospital on Aug. 31.

And television reporters' tales of refugees
from New Orleans hijacking cars at gunpoint
in Baton Rouge or rioting in shelters there,
Witt wrote, turned out to be groundless
too. -September 11, 2005

Responding to Katrina

by Ron Paul
"Why does Congress assume that the best
approach is simply to write a huge check to
FEMA, the very government agency that failed
so spectacularly? This does not make sense."

Sheriff threatens to arrest FEMA officials

Countermands FEMA order that stores remain
closed -September 11, 2005 [Day 14]
FEMA contractors arrested for looting
September 8, 2005 [Day 11]
Three Texas truck drivers under contract with
the federal government to bring in storm
relief supplies for Plaquemines Parish have
been arrested for allegedly looting toys,
dolls, women’s lingerie and other
merchandise from a Belle Chasse Family
Dollar store, authorities said.

Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan


Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against
Banned Weapons -September 11, 2005
Corporations Attempting Global Police Powers
John Wilmerding

Rep McKinney Special Order Censored???

By Rep Cynthia McKinney

september 11, 2005

Informants Decide Fate of Iraqi Detainees

U.S. Military Relies on Guidance of 'Sources'
in Tall Afar -September 13, 2005

"We are all Sunnis. That is why he chose
us. He is Shia."
FEMA Chief Only Acted After Storm Hit, Gave
Volunteers Two Days to Arrive, Documents Show
September 6, 2005
FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False
Claims to Help Bush Win Fla. Votes in '04
September 09, 2005
Beauty takes a deadly turn
September 14, 2005

London: A Chinese cosmetics company is using
skin harvested from the corpses of executed
convicts to develop beauty products for sale
in Europe, an investigation has discovered.
The U.S. military on Monday denied an
accusation that American and Iraq forces used
toxic gas during an attack on the Iraqi town
of Tal Afar in which up to 200 insurgents
were killed. -September 12, 2005

Peace activist may be black-listed


September 13, 2005

Parkin detention mystery deepens

September 13, 2005
FEMA Ice Truck Convoy Sent on Twisting,
Weeklong Route to Hurricane Storage Depot
September 12, 2005
San Jose Based eBay Buys Skype
September 12, 2005
VIDEO: Earwitness tells ABC explosives blew
Industrial Canal levee -September 11, 2005
Hurricane Katrina and holocaust: Slow
response or deliberate extermination?
september 5, 2005
Embattled Brown Resigns As FEMA Chief
September 12, 2005

Regional power outage blamed on workers' error

About 2 million people across major portions
of the Los Angeles area, including San Pedro,
are affected by this afternoon's blackout.
Edison's electricity customers are spared.

Privatizing FEMA

September 12, 2005

Widespread power outage hits Los Angeles

September 12, 2005

Rev. Mykeru infiltrates
the Freedom March

About 1,500 visit Pentagon to remember
Sept. 11 -September 11, 2005
NEWSWEEK: Bush didn't know the Hurricane
damage was bad until THURSDAY AFTER IT STRUCK
September 11, 2005
http://www.bushville.org
What if you threw a wargasm and nobody came?
Now, I don't want to claim that the
Pentagon's September 11 wargasm party they
threw today, to try to help Bush's sagging
approval ratings, was a complete bust, but...
September 11, 2005

Let's Iraq and roll

In a surreal twist on the political
demonstration, the Pentagon put on a show to
mark 9/11 and honor U.S. troops serving in
the war. -September 11, 2005

We're no safer today


By KURT S. WOLZ
"MY CONNECTION with 9/11 is personal. I am a
pilot for American Airlines. In September of
2001, I had AA Flight 11 on my flying
schedule." -September 11, 2005

A Pilot Remembers


"Mr. Wolz is right; we will need a new
Congress in 2006 in order to do what is
necessary.
However, we must make impeachment an issue
now." -September 11, 2005
Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries
Deploy in New Orleans -September 10, 2005
Intolerance of teenagers is growing even
though today's adolescents are the
best-behaved in generations, said
Males. Homicides, rapes, drug use, and
suicides by teenagers are at their lowest
levels in decades, the researcher said.
In Storm's Ruins, a Rush to Rebuild and
Reopen for Business -September 10, 2005
FEMA and Katrina: REX-84 Revisited
September 8, 2005
The military told all non-US citizens to stay
together for safety, Ms Sachs added.

They later told them they would be secretly
smuggled out in groups of 10 under cover of
darkness as it had become too dangerous for
them to remain in the stadium, she told BBC
News.

"When we were leaving, people were going
'Where are you going?' and giving us looks.
Flood survivors cuffed as evacuation begins
Katrina: Authorities bar Red Cross from NOLA;
Blackwater gets carte blanche
September 9, 2005
Congressman: Hurricane 'finally cleaned out
public housing in New Orleans'
The first lady has made sport of the
president's animal husbandry deficit.

"I'm proud of George," she told the White
House Correspondents Assn. dinner in
April. "He's learned a lot about ranching
since that first year when he tried to milk
the horse.

"What's worse, it was a male horse."
Laura Bush Says Criticism of Husband 'Disgusting'
Court Rules U.S. Can Indefinitely Detain Citizens
Ruling Comes in the Case of 'Enemy Combatant'
Jose Padilla -September 9, 2005
Tight Constraints on Pentagon's Freedom Walk
Event Remembering 9/11, Troops to Be Kept
'Sterile,' Limited to Preregistered
-September 9, 2005
Hunger strikers pledge to die in
Guantánamo -September 9, 2005
Clarke: Europe must trade civil
liberties for security

Judges Question Lack of Prisoner Rights

Detainees in Cuba Want Ability to Fight
'Enemy Combatant' Claims in Court
New Orleans becomes a war zone
A dress rehearsal for martial law?
September 8, 2005
Said the senator: "How can it be that
Mr. Bill was better informed than Mr. Bush?"
Paying the Price for Katrina and America’s
Shadow Government -September 1, 2005
FEMA director Brown relieved of hurricane
responsibilities -September 9, 2005
How Reliable Is Brown's Resume?
September 8, 2005
Is FEMA Ready For Bay Area Earthquake?
On Thursday Mr Bush announced that next
Friday would be a "national day of prayer"
in response to the devastation.
FEMA Executive Orders

FEMA's Blocking Relief Efforts

An Amazing List
September 8, 2005
UN raises alarm on death squads and torture
in Iraq -September 8, 2005

The U.N. report indicated widespread and
lengthy detentions of suspected Sunni
insurgents may be counter-productive
Baghdad airport closed “until further
notice’ -September 9, 2005
Meanwhile in Iraq
Lawyer: Saddam did not confess
September 8, 2005
TWO US Navy helicopter pilots who ferried
supplies have been reprimanded as they also
rescued 110 people in New Orleans.
Space station dumps ton of trash into Pacific
September 8, 2005
New Orleans Begins Confiscating
Firearms as Water Recedes
September 8, 2005

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule
in India, history will look upon the act of
depriving a whole nation of arms, as the
blackest." - Mahatma Gandhi

Is oil money?


By: Gord and Tet
August 7, 2005
San Diego hospital closed to accommodate
Bush visit; No chemo -September 8, 2005
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., asked House
Speaker Dennis Hastert not to send federal
disaster aid to officials in Louisiana,
calling state and local government there
incompetent and corrupt. -September 8, 2005

Canadians beat U.S. Army to New Orleans suburb

A Canadian search-and-rescue team reached a
flooded New Orleans suburb to help save
trapped residents five days before the
U.S. military, a Louisiana state senator said
on Wednesday. -September 8, 2005
FEMA packed with W's pals
Houston Astrodome Blocks Emergency Radio Station
September 8th, 2005
New Orleans bus station serves as temporary jail
Facility holds dozens charged with crimes
"We had another guy here last night who was
found shooting at a helicopter," he said.
Sept. 7, 2005
Republicans block efforts to amend relief
bill, hold vote without providing copy of
bill -September 8, 2005

Governor Bush defends FEMA response


He says no amount of work by the agency could
overcome a lack of preparation.
September 7, 2005
Evacuee Arrested for Panhandling in Ga.
Evacuees not told they were going to Utah
One Republican with knowledge of the effort
said that Mr. Rove had told administration
officials not to respond to Democratic
attacks on Mr. Bush's handling of the
hurricane in the belief that the president
was in a weak moment and that the
administration should not appear to be seen
now as being blatantly political.
FEMA Chief Sent Help Only After Storm Hit
September 7, 2005

FEMA: Florida Election Management Agency

September 7, 2005
Government Intervention in Stock Market is
Detailed by New Report, GATA Says
September 6, 2005
Committee to Address Resolution of Inquiry
into Bush Lies on September 14

FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead


September 7, 2005
U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans dead
September 7, 2005
The vice president has at long last lumbered
back from a Wyoming vacation, and,
reportedly, from shopping for a $2.9 million
waterfront estate in St. Michael's, a retreat
in the Chesapeake Bay where Rummy has a
weekend home, where "Wedding Crashers" was
filmed and where rich lobbyists hunt.
"The official adoption of this definition by
the United Nations would have the effect of
making resistance to any government or any
international organization an international
crime. It would make any attempt to overthrow
a government an international causus belli
for UN military action."
Offers of Aid Immediate, but U.S. Approval
Delayed for Days -September 7, 2005
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
on New Orleans: "Americans Are Being
Brainwashed" -september 6, 2005
"Sometime around midnight, a squad of 82nd
Airborne guys accompanied by a US Marshall
busted into our Data Center with their M4-A1s
to investigate the lights and movement."
'I would like to know why I and so many other
physicians told to stay home when they
offered to provide medical care for victims
of Hurricane Katrina.' -September 7, 2005

The Einstein Emitter

Viterbi Electrical Engineers Build Minimal
Message Machine for Quantum Computing
September 2nd, 2005

Wheel, Re-invention of:

Incident Command System
September 2, 2005
After the September 11th attacks, the
Department of Homeland Security was put
together with two major goals in mind: deter
further terrorist strikes, and respond to
disasters, both natural and man-made -- since
the evacuation plans, medical responses, and
the like are largely the same in either case.
Shocking evidence is emerging that US
authorities conspired with a small group of
young, able-bodied white people in the
dangerous squalor of the New Orleans
Superdome, to prioritise a secret plan to get
them to safety, leaving behind locals
including children, elderly and the sick –
the great majority black. -September 6, 2005
U.S. Delays Planned Airlift Of Evacuees to
D.C. Armory -September 6, 2005
Four Years After 9/11, TSA Still
Wrestling With Jurassic Technology
The disaster at FEMA
September 7, 2005
Water Pollution a Concern in New Orleans
September 6, 2005
It's Not a 'Blame Game'
September 7, 2005

After Katrina: The toxic timebomb


New Orleans Mayor orders 'forecful
evacuation' as contaminated waters threaten
an environmental disaster -September 7, 2005

Storm Survivors Told To 'Expose Themselves'


September 6, 2005

Myers repeated Michael Chertoff’s debunked
claim that newpapers on Tuesday had said,
“New Orleans Dodged a Bullet.” But then
he went a step further — Myers actually
claimed that “most of the papers” had
that headline on Tuesday, and that the
Defense Department’s response to Katrina
was developed with “those words…in our
minds” -September 6, 2005
Barbara Bush: "So Many Of The People In The
Arena... Were Underprivileged Anyway, So This
Is Working Very Well For Them"...
September 5, 2005

'Wash Post' Runs A Key Katrina Correction

In its Sunday edition, the Washington Post
quoted a "senior Bush official" who said that
"as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor] Blanco
still had not declared a state of emergency."
This, of course, was meant to make the
governor look foolish and spread the blame
around for the disastrous response to the
disaster, though it was hard to imagine on
what grounds the newspaper would quote an
unnamed source in this case. -September 4, 2005
Israel Conducts 'Silent' Enlargement Plan
September 06, 2005
Murder and rape - fact or fiction?
September 6, 2005
Memo to the Media: Stop Enabling the White
House Blame Game -5 September, 2005

The Post, citing an anonymous “senior Bush
official”, reported on Sunday that, as of
Saturday, Sept. 3, Blanco “still had not
declared a state of emergency”… when,
in fact, the declaration had been made on
Friday, August 26 -- over 2 days BEFORE
Katrina made landfall in Louisiana.
Iran nuclear weapons 'years away'
September 6, 2005
Hurricane relief may cut into U.S. pullout
aid for Israel -September 4, 2005
John Breaux, the former Democratic Louisiana
senator and close Bush ally, rejected the
president's claim that nobody anticipated the
failure of the city's levees, saying he
talked to Bush about it last year.
Ex-Taleban leaders run for in Afghan elections
6 September 2005
Tragic costs of Bush’s Iraq obsession
September 5, 2005
Last night, Mayor Ray Nagin said his entire
police force would be pulled off the streets
by tomorrow and all firefighters, paramedics
and emergency dispatchers also were being
sidelined. -September 5, 2005
The U.S. Air Force's senior officer,
Gen. John Jumper, stated U.S. warplanes would
remain in Iraq to fight resistance forces and
protect the American-installed regime "more
or less indefinitely." -September 5, 2005
9-11 Panel left `swinging in the wind`
Members of the Sept. 11 commission feel they
have been left swinging in the wind by the
growing tide of revelations about a secret
Pentagon program that may have identified the
ringleader of the attacks more than a year
before they happened. -September 5, 2005
Five dead 'were army workers'
September 05, 2005
Ex-officials say weakened FEMA botched
response -September 3, 2005
Bush faked levee repair for photo op
yesterday -September 03, 2005
...for the entire time Bush was in the state,
the congressman said, a ban on helicopter
flights further stalled the delivery of food
and supplies. -September 2, 2005

Military examines 'beaming up' data, people

Critics say its extreme computing, energy
needs keep teleportation unlikely for now
Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans
chaos: police official -September 3, 2005
Sheriff Harry Lee's deputies caught FEMA
agents trying to cut the phone lines in
Jefferson Parish. On Meet the Press, Parish
President Aaron Broussard said that
"yesterday — yesterday — FEMA comes in
and cuts all of our emergency communication
lines. They cut them without notice."
In her news conference, Rice singled out Sri
Lanka for praise for making a contribution
even as it struggles to recover from the
tsunami and earthquake disaster of last
December.

And she said contributions from poor
countries were being accepted because "it is
very valuable for people being able to give
to each other and to be able to do so without
a sense of means."
FEMA Head FIRED From Horse Association in
2001 -September 3, 2005
Qatar gives 100 million dollars for US
hurricane relief -September 3, 2005
The troops, members of an elite Special
Response Team from the Louisiana Army
National Guard, were the first convoy out of
what was rapidly becoming a massive military
staging ground.

Their mission, simply, is to turn New Orleans
into a police state — to "regain the
city," 1st Sgt. John Jewell said.
Bush Suspends Posse Comitatus, Active
Military Pour into New Orleans
-September 3, 2005
Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US
August 9, 2005
Terrorism: 9/11 Revealed: Challenging the
Facts behind the War on Terror by Ian
Henshall and Rowland Morgan

NICK FIELDING

9/11 REVEALED: Challenging the Facts behind
the War on Terror
by Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan
September 04, 2005
At least five fatally shot after firing on
federal contractors 9/4/2005, 6:37 p.m. CT
'If you click on ABC News 1 hour ago, you get,
contractors were killed.

If you click on the exact same site 3 minutes
ago, you get police killed men firing on
contractors.'
Police shot eight people carrying guns on a
New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or
six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the
Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were
contractors on their way to repair a canal.

Report of a Mutiny
amongst Occupation Soldiers

"Reports are emanating from Iraqis who are
working with the Americans, (both at the
Baghdad International airport and in the
Green Zone), of a mutiny that had occurred
among the American soldiers against their
officers." -September 3, 2005
Chavez Supporters March Against Robertson
September 4, 2005
300 US airmen bound from Iraq, Afghan to
Mississippi -September 3, 2005
Bush visit halts food delivery
September 03, 2005
Ex-officials say weakened FEMA botched
response -September 3, 2005
The International Forecaster - 09-03-05
ratcat 83 12 09/04/05 07:20 AM
Banished whistle-blowers
September 2, 2005
Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans
September 02, 2005
Evacuees at Cajundome wait for first lady,
and for lunch -September 2, 2005
Daley 'shocked' as feds reject aid
September 3, 2005
Homeland Security won't let Red Cross
deliver food -September 03, 2005
U.S. gives away eight war jets to
Pakistan, valued at millions apiece
Former CIA Director Tenet Threatens
Disclosures? -September 2, 2005
Superdome Evacuations Temporarily Halted
September 03, 2005

It's a miracle: mice regrow hearts

SCIENTISTS have created "miracle mice" that
can regenerate amputated limbs or damaged
vital organs, making them able to recover
from injuries that would kill or permanently
disable normal animals. -August 29, 2005
Halliburton gets Katrina contract, hires
former FEMA director -1 September, 2005
Blackwater Joins Hurricane Katrina Relief
Effort! -September 01, 2005
Bush administration policy changes and budget
cuts, they say, are sapping FEMA's longterm
ability to cushion the blow of hurricanes,
earthquakes, floods, tornados, wildfires and
other natural disasters. -September 22, 2004

WITH each passing hour, news of the
devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina grows
more horrific, but the US embassy in Kingston
said the world's most powerful nation was not
now accepting help from outside, even as the
offers mount. -September 1, 2005
Mad cow 'linked to human remains'
September 2, 2005
U.S. military will not pull National Guard
troops from Iraq to deal with hurricane
September 1, 2005
McClellan Refuses To Answer
Questions About Levee Funding
September 2, 2005
Storm disaster fuels doubts over US terror
plans -September 2, 2005

Mayor to feds: 'Get off your asses'

Transcript of radio interview with New
Orleans' Nagin -September 2, 2005
"They're showing all these reports of people
looting and doing all that weird stuff, and
they are doing that, but people are desperate
and they're trying to find food and water,
the majority of them"
Oil, Gasoline Fall as Schroeder
Says IEA May Release Reserves
Pentagon Finds More Who Recall Atta Intel
September 2, 2005
FEMA Director Offers New Spin On Broken Levees September 2, 2005

Bush Administration Had Reason
To Know About Levee Problems

A quick review of headlines from national
and regional papers over the course of
the Bush presidency demonstrate that the
federal government was very much aware
of the problem. -September 2, 2005

'UK aid cash funds PR campaign'

UK ministers have been accused of spending
British aid money on a public relations
campaign to promote water privatisation in
Sierra Leone. -August 30, 2005
US won't let Canada help Katrina victims
August 31st, 2005

Freenet (Central Asia)

As of 2005, users of Freenet in Armenia
cannot access web pages on servers outside
of Armenia.
Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach
to NATO’s Secret Stay-Behind Armies
by Daniele Ganser (PDF, 96pp.)
EXCLUSIVE: Karl Rove Makes Surprise Visit to
Camp Casey! Greets, Thanks Bush Supporters
Opposing Cindy Sheehan Snubs, Ignores Combat
Vets, Gold Star Families Who Made Ultimate
Sacrifice for Bush's War -September 1, 2005
Bush Taps Father, Clinton for Relief Help
September 1, 2005
Scavenging just to survive
September 1, 2005

N.O. Cops liberate Wal-Mart
How New Orleans Was Lost
September 1, 2005

The "Nobody Could Have
Anticipated" Defense Returns

New Orleans Paper Warned of
the Worst -August 31, 2005
Planning for Disasters September 1, 2005
Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?
August 31, 2005
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane
striking New Orleans was one of the three
most likely disasters in the U.S. But the
Bush administration cut New Orleans flood
control funding by 44 percent to pay for the
Iraq war. -August 30, 2005
Homeland Disaster: Natl. Guard Watches
Helplessly from Afar -August 31, 2005
Don’t Tie My Hands While I Torture You
When apologist Judith Miller was sold out by
the very administration whose lies she
parroted and was sent to jail for not
revealing the administration source of those
lies, it becomes evident that there is no
safe place for a coward. Her beloved White
House left her to twist in the wind.
Twisting she remains. But not before the
lies she retold killed and maimed people.
Ex-Counterterrorism Chief Cites Rise in Attacks
August 31, 2005

Clarke took sharp issue with President Bush's
repeated statements that by fighting
terrorists abroad, the administration is
preventing attacks in this country. "That is
illogical on its face," Clarke said. Citing
bombings in Madrid and London, Clarke said
that "absolutely nothing prevents them from
coming here."
"It was a memorandum signed by Secretary of
Defense Rumsfeld, authorizing a short list,
maybe 6 or 8 techniques: use of dogs; stress
positions; loud music; deprivation of food;
keeping the lights on, those kinds of
things," Karpinski said. "And then a
handwritten message over to the side that
appeared to be the same handwriting as the
signature, and that signature was Secretary
Rumsfeld's. And it said, 'Make sure this
happens' with two exclamation points. And
that was the only thing they had. Everything
else had been confiscated."
Cadmus believes the protests of the Vietnam
era "must never ... happen again" and he will
use the influence of the 2.7 million member-
strong American Legion to make sure such
demonstrations do not happen now.
Mayor blasts failure to patch levee breaches
August 31, 2005
How Bush's policies doomed New Orleans
Nagin: White House ignores pleas to save
New Orleans; helicopters diverted
August 30, 2005
Martial law clarified
August 30, 2005
Venezuela offers fuel, food to hurricane-hit US
August 29, 2005
Saddam's desperate offers to stave off war
November 7, 2003
The case of the last-minute offer
Did a war-obsessed Bush administration ignore
urgent peace feelers from Saddam's regime?
Nov. 7, 2003
Taliban Agreed To Extradite Osama
October 11, 2001
FDA Official Resigns in Protest of
'Morning-After Pill' Decision
August 31, 2005
Officials Helpless Against Looters
August 31, 2005
Reuters cameraman to be held in Abu Ghraib
August 31, 2005
Bush: US Must Help Keep Iraq's Oil
From Terrorists -August 30, 2005
Gov.: New Orleans Needs to Be Evacuated
Governor Says Entire City of New
Orleans Needs to Be Evacuated
August 30, 2005

Ostrich takes hike on bridge


Evening commute halts, tourists gawk at bird
on the lam -August 30, 2005

This Day in History -August 30

1970 Elections held in South Vietnam

An estimated 6 million South Vietnamese cast
ballots for 30 seats at stake in the Senate
elections. While the voting was going on,
Communist forces attacked at least 14
district towns, a provincial capital, and
several polling places. Fifty-five civilians
were reported killed and 140 wounded.
Judge: Bush Plot Case Evidence Classified
August 30, 2005
CIA banned from Danish air space
August 29, 2005

Why Neoconservatives Won’t Back Down

by Karen Kwiatkowski -August 30, 2005

Weapons Sales Worldwide
Rise to Highest Level

Since 2000 -August 30, 2005

Task starts to identify 300 fetuses

Remains found in McKeesport garage
August 30, 2005

Only American Big Business Sees
Iraq Campaign As A Success

By Antonia Juhasz -October 17, 2004
UK asks Thais for Algerian forgery suspect August 30, 2005
Gen Suwat said yesterday that he was part of
the same syndicate as Mahieddine Daikh, a
Briton of Algerian origin, who was arrested
at Bangkok airport earlier this month with
448 fake passports.
Accident halts work to ship soil containing
uranium to U.S. -August 30, 2005

Virtual autopsy of Egyptian mummy

Another Storm Casualty: Oil Prices

August 30, 2005
New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers faces cuts - June 6, 2005
In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is
bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction
in federal funding.
It would be the largest single-year funding
loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps
officials said.

Gonzales Faults Senate
Version of Patriot Act

Legislation -August 30, 2005
...the Senate legislation includes tighter
restrictions on the FBI's power to seize
business records and would place a four-year
time limit on two of the law's most
controversial provisions.

Law Targets Student Aid for Drug Crimes

Provision Rescinding Financial Packages
Criticized for Affecting Only Non-Affluent
-August 30, 2005
Sunni Opposition to Iraqi Draft Constitution
Intensifies -August 30, 2005
Mr. Dulaimi cited the two issues that have
ignited the most anger: a provision that
could lead to a division of Iraq into largely
autonomous regions, and the document's
failure to assert that Iraq is part of the
Arab world.

Pat and Hugo: The Real Story

by Greg Palast
August 23, 2005

Hey, Big Spender

by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
August 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 - North Korea, declaring
its unhappiness with plans for a joint United
States-South Korea military exercise, said
Monday that it would not return this week to
negotiations in Beijing over its nuclear
program, as scheduled, but proposed to resume
the talks the week of Sept. 12.

Police union sues over ID use

Traffic form meant to track race profiling
August 30, 2005

Soldier Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Cocaine

From Colombia Using Military Aircraft
Saturday, August 13, 2005

"The idea that China has done so much, China
has liberated Tibet - it's completely bogus,"
said Kalsang Tashi, 24, of Berkeley. "This
(exhibit) is such a facade." -August 29, 2005
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has
ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals
and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with
little regard for the fragile ecology of the
Tibetan plateau. -January 6, 2004
U.S. wary of supplying heavy weapons to Iraq
If Your Home Utility Bill Is Zero, Is It
Still a Bill? -August 28, 2005
Jury out on who won, lost politically on military bases
The main disappointment was the decision on
Friday to close the Willow Grove Naval
Station north of Philadelphia, even as a
federal judge ruled that the Pentagon
couldn't shut down the Air National Guard
unit there without the state's agreement.
August 29, 2005

splitters

'In one heated moment, members of the
pro-Bush crowd turned on what they
mistakenly thought were a group of anti-war
protesters, cursing them, threatening them
and tearing down their signs. A police
officer rushed the group to safety.

Um. That would be Move America Forward
kicking The Protest Warriors' asses.
Police chief: Lockerbie evidence was faked
Aug 28, 2005
Venezuela to seek legal action against
Robertson -29 August 2005
Venezuela to Provide Discounted Heating Oil
and Free Eye Operations to U.S. Poor -August
28, 2005
Muslims in Lodi believe mystery man who spoke
of jihad was a federal mole in terror
investigation -August 27, 2005
Operation Yellow Elephant
August 27, 2005
ORDER 81: Re-engineering Iraqi agriculture
The ultimate war crime: breaking the
agricultural cycle -August 27, 2005
Iraqi activist taken up by Bush recants her
views -August 28, 2005
...it appears Ms Souhail, an anti-Saddam
activist who became Iraq's ambassador to
Egypt, may be having second thoughts about
the "success" she celebrated with a
two-fingered victory sign.

Eclipse of the Sun

Why does Wall Street continue to look
down on renewable energy?

Storm shrinks supply of oil

Prices For Crude Rise As Wells, Refineries
Close -August 29, 2005

Gas prices could soar if refineries are struck

A direct hit to the heart of Gulf Coast oil
and refinery operations could send oil and
gas prices even higher. -August 29, 2005
Drone crashes in Iran
August 27, 2005

Iraq charter a 'recipe for chaos'

Sunnis, once dominant, refused to endorse the text
Parts of the Iraqi draft constitution are a
"recipe for chaos", Arab League Secretary
General Amr Moussa has said. -August 29, 2005

Two U.S. Senators Held at Russian Airport for
Several Hours, Released

Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Barack
Obama, D-Ill., who had been visiting storage
sites for weapons of mass destruction, were
held at an airport in the Ural Mountain city
of Perm for several hours but were allowed to
leave after talks between U.S. and Russian
officials. -August 28, 2005
Sunni leaders reject Iraq's draft
constitution -29 August, 2005
In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is
bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction
in federal funding. -June 6, 2005
Who designed the Designer?
August 29, 2005
For the 15-member Tiax team, the challenge is
to develop intelligent and flexible materials
that can monitor their own condition,
diagnose punctures, and self-repair. They are
also working on advanced materials that can
fend off corrosive microbes, generate and
store power, prevent loss of oxygen, and
protect against radiation. - August 29, 2005
CDC's Redesign Eyes Security, Collegiality
August 29, 2005

Democrats waver in unifying stand against war in Iraq

Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., broke with his
party leadership this month to become the
first senator to call for all troops to be
withdrawn from Iraq by a specific deadline
August 28, 2005
Sharon's Son Indicted
on Corruption Charges
August 29, 2005
CDC's Redesign Eyes Security, Collegiality
August 29, 2005

Army Contract Official Critical of
Halliburton Pact Is Demoted -August 29, 2005
In China, it's Mongolian Cow Yogurt
Super Girl -August 29, 2005
Introduction of S. 2170, The Weather Modification
Research And Technology Transfer Authorization Act
March 4, 2004
Verizon joins Sprint in offering high-speed
service cell networks. -August 29, 2005
"You sign up to defend the Constitution and
you get Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo."
Leaked witness statement says police fired 11
times at Brazilian -August 26, 2005
The Art of Persuading Tenants to Move
August 28, 2005
9/11 Accusations Fly Within CIA
August 26, 2005
The New York Times recently revealed some
disturbing news about the U.S. Department of
Agriculture in the latest BSE saga: The cow
had tested positive for the brain-wasting
disease seven months ago, and no one said
anything. -August 27, 2005
Uzbekistan Senate Says U.S. Troops Must Leave
Vote Backs Earlier Government Action

"Wherever American bases crop up, so does a
fundamentalist mood and so do enemies of
America, and we don't want to be caught
between the two" -August 27, 2005
U.S. Again Delays Decision on Sale of
Next-Day Pill -August 27, 2005
Third Source Backs 'Able Danger' Claims About
Atta -August 27, 2005

"I am absolutely positive that he [Atta] was
on our chart among other pictures and ties
that we were doing mainly based upon [terror]
cells in New York City," Smith said.
City Questions Circumcision
Ritual After Baby Dies
August 27, 2005
Lack of detail bedevils Iraq's new
constitution -August 26, 2005

There's no mention of what's supposed to
happen if the rules of Islam and the
principles of democracy happen to contradict
each other, as seems pretty much inevitable
given the pronouncements of some of Iraq's
ruling clerics. -August 26, 2005
This Day In History | World War II
August 27

1941 Japanese prime minister requests a
summit meeting with FDR

Appointed prime minister in 1933, Konoye's
first cabinet fell apart after full-blown war
broke out between Japan and China. In 1940,
Konoye was asked to form a second
cabinet. But as he sought to contain the war
with China, relations with the United States
deteriorated, to the point where Japan was
virtually surrounded by a U.S. military
presence and threats of sanctions.

“tell those VFW assholes that I’ll
never speak to them again if they can’t
keep their members under control.”
Cindy Sheehan speaks to crowd at
Camp Casey -August 25, 2005
"7/7 Bombers" movements Physically Impossible
By: FinancialOutrage on: 26.08.2005
Who'll mind the mainframes?
Few students are learning to run decidedly
unsexy, but vital, systems -August 26, 2005
Footage of Tube shooting has gaps, says IPCC
August 25, 2005
The Battle of Athens, Tennessee
As Recently As 1946, American Citizens Were
Forced To Take Up Arms As A Last Resort
Against Corrupt Government Officials.
Time to rearrange the Pat Robertson atrocity board.
Scientists: Earth spins faster at center
August 25, 2005
The fuel behind Iran's nuclear drive
Aug 24, 2005
Army Vet Gets 'Bomber' Credit Card Offer
August 24, 2005
FDA ponders leeches, maggots, old remedies
making a comeback -August 25, 2005

Assassination a US fixation


Washington's history of trying to kill
foreign leaders is a long and controversial
hit-and-miss affair -August 26, 2005

Bus bomber phoned attackers on Tube


The July 7 bus bomber frantically phoned his
fellow suicide attackers only minutes after
they exploded their devices on three London
Tube trains, it has emerged. -25 August 2005

Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration


"And then a handwritten message over to the
side that appeared to be the same handwriting
as the signature, and that signature was
Secretary Rumsfeld's. And it said, 'Make sure
this happens' with two exclamation points.
August 24, 2005
Pakistan admits scientist gave North Korea
nuclear tools -August 25, 2005
Musharraf: Scientist Gave N. Korea Designs
August 24, 2005
Able Danger
60 Minutes Niger story that never
aired... Let's get it aired!
August 25, 2005

WAR: Special Report
The Real Power of WMDs


In the months before the invasion there were
only two National Emergencies that could be
used by the White House if they were to
engage in hostilities - even if Congress
wouldn't declare war. -July 9, 2005
The Trillion-Dollar War
August 20, 2005
An Anti-War Republican!
An Interview with
Congressman Ron Paul
January 31, 2003
Robertson lies about his Chavez comments;
claims he "didn't say 'assassination' "
August 24, 2005
NY Times, Fox News falsely reported that
second military official backed up Shaffer's
Able Danger claim -August 23, 2005
The FCC is looking into material aired on the
February 4, 2005 broadcast at approximately
8:55 a.m. in which The Stern Show was in the
midst of the Stupid Bowl, a contest that
featured women golfing with strap-on dildos
on their foreheads, followed by the
contestants attempting to sing "Amazing
Grace" with a four-inch sausage down their
throats. -August 23, 2005
Second Officer Says 9/11 Leader Was Named
Before Attacks -August 23, 2005
Cracking the Case: An Interview
With Sibel Edmonds -August 22, 2005
Iraqi leaders submitted a draft constitution
to the National Assembly just before their
self-imposed midnight deadline on Monday, but
disagreement with Sunni leaders and other,
secular Iraqis left the document incomplete,
with fundamental issues still in dispute.
August 23, 2005
Testifying Against Gotti, Sliwa Describes How
He Was Shot in a Taxi -August 23, 2005
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority
intends to announce today that it will pay up
to $200 million to a team led by the Lockheed
Martin Corporation, a major defense
contractor, to create a surveillance and
security system around major bridges, tunnels
and train and subway stations.
Utah Concertgoers attacked by "troops"

A source inside the Utah government reports
that this action was undertaken out of fear
that the Rave would be used to rally support
for the protest against Bush's Utah
visit. Also, Utah is refusing to air Cindy
Sheehan's commercial stating: "inappropriate
commercial advertisement for Salt Lake City."
Aug 20, 2005
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called
for "the biggest demonstration this state has
ever seen" to protest President Bush's
appearance Monday before a national veterans
convention. -August 20, 2005
Material in canyon blast came from Spanish
Fork plant Exploration: The explosives that
blew up on U.S. 6 on Wednesday were headed
for Oklahoma to be used in seismic
explorations for gas and oil formations
August 12, 2005
In his recent book "Steal This Vote" - a very
judicious work, despite its title - Andrew
Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British
newspaper The Independent, provides the best
overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida
vote. And he documents the simple truth: "Al
Gore won the 2000 presidential election."
Sunnis warn they may halt talks
Some Shiite leaders, who back a proposal to
join nine oil-rich southern provinces into an
autonomous region, also support the
idea. Sunnis vehemently object to it, saying
it would splinter Iraq. -August 21, 2005
'Digital birth ID' stirs privacy debate
August 13, 2005
Although information can be channeled through
fiber optics at the speed of light, it can’t
be processed at this speed because with
current technologies, light signals must be
transformed into much slower electrical
signals before they are useful.

Thevenaz’s technique would essentially allow
light to be processed with light without a
costly electrical conversion.
Police and Tube firm at odds over CCTV
footage of innocent Brazilian's shooting
August 22, 2005
Valley tech firms try to block state RFID ban
State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, has
introduced first-in-the-nation legislation
that would ban for three years the use of
government IDs that could be used to track
the movement of California residents.
August 22, 2005
Rolling Stones off to sizzling start in Boston
Not making the show's set list cut was the
Stones' controversial new song "Sweet Neo
Con," which has drawn a lot of attention for
its criticism of right-wing politics,
religious extremism and corporate scandal.
August 22, 2005
Airport with bin Laden, Bush ties to close
January 28, 2002
Police officers from the team involved in the
fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de
Menezes did not believe he posed 'an
immediate threat'.
Obituary: Dr Robert Moog
Dr Robert Moog, the inventor of the
electronic synthesiser, has died of brain
cancer aged 71.
Sheehan promises swift return to Bush protest
after leaving to visit ailing mother -20 August 2005
Cheney's 'Spoon-Benders' Pushing Nuclear
Armageddon -August 20, 2005
Army planning for four more years in Iraq
August 20, 2005
U.S. concedes ground to Islamists on Iraqi law
Sir Ian Blair publicly defended the shooting
dead of a man at a tube station
August 19, 2005
Atta's Big Gamble. Plus: Jack Abramoff's Link
To A Mysterious Saudi -- And Perhaps To Al
Qaeda -August 19, 2005
TeleAid also was able to listen to the sounds
from inside the vehicle and to relay
information indicating that the children were
unharmed, which helped the police make
decisions regarding strategy for apprehending
Jones.
SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah television station is
refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring
Cindy Sheehan, whose son's death in Iraq
prompted a vigil outside President Bush's
Texas ranch. -August 21, 2005
One of the US soldiers convicted of
mistreating prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib
prison says his superiors made it clear those
incarcerated were to be abused. - August 21, 2005
Moroccan convicted in attacks of Sept. 11
AUGUST 20, 2005
Identification of Atta was Squelched by SOCOM Lawyers
Behind-The-Scenes Story of 9/11 Hijacker
Continues To Seep Out
LTC Shaffer posts at Intel Dump
welied.jpg
Bush’s theory that “democracy”
automatically creates more moderate behavior
has always rested on dubious logic.
In 1976 Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Henry
Kissinger endorsed plans for Iran to start a
nuclear energy program. The deal with Iran
was for “reactors powered by and
regenerating fissile materials on a
self-sustaining basis,” according to
declassified documents reviewed by The
Washington Post.
West Nile cases keep climbing
Sacramento County's tally rises to 58 -
the state's count is now 265.
August 20, 2005
ProtestWarrior promotes Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan, Mother of Spc Casey Austin
Sheehan KIA 04/04/04, Sets the Record
Straight or Not? - 10 August 2005
Left unexplained is why Shiite Iran would
want to help Sunni insurgents overthrow a
Shiite-dominated Iraqi government led by
Tehran proteges (and employees) who are busy
aligning the country with, er, Tehran.
GAZA — Jewish protestors on Thursday
hurled acid at police attempting to evict
them from a Gaza Strip synagogue, in the most
violent confrontations since Israel began its
historic pullout from the territory.
August 19, 2005
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Allegations that as many as
six federal Homeland Security deportation
agents assaulted and tortured a Nigerian man
who was shackled at Oklahoma City's
Immigration and Customs Enforcement office
are being investigated by the FBI, according
to a published report. - August 16, 2005
As in the case of Iraq, the response is not
conditional on Iran actually being involved
in the act of terrorism directed against the
United States. - August 1, 2005
The American Conservative magazine
Fatal mistakes that cost de Menezes his life

When Jean Charles de Menezes left the block,
the soldier was relieving himself and unable
to turn on his camera.
Hands Off Habeas
August 19, 2005

The bill, pushed in the Senate by Jon Kyl
(R-Ariz.) and in the House by Daniel
E. Lungren (R-Calif.), would be an
unmitigated disaster.
Britain's top police officer, the Scotland
Yard commissioner Sir Ian Blair, attempted to
stop an independent external investigation
into the shooting of a young Brazilian
mistaken for a suicide bomber, it emerged
yesterday.
"Whatever else they (the police) were doing,
they clearly thought they were faced with a
suicide bomber and they were running towards
him. That is cold courage of an extraordinary
sort." There was nothing "cavalier or
capricious" about the way the police carried
out their duties which, according to him,
were "directly linked to anti-terrorist
operations".

Blair insisted that his officers had no
choice but to use "lethal force".

All lies.
http://www.meetwithcindy.org
Officer Says 2 Others Are Source of His Atta
Claims - August 19, 2005
What's in the spray, anyway?
Experts say chemicals that kill mosquitoes are mostly harmless.
August 18, 2005
Why did they second-guess our commitment to
freedom from genocide and demand that we cut
and run?
"Former" Hitler Admirer G. Gordon Liddy
Smears Cindy Sheehan As Anti-Semitic
Cindy Sheehan:
Another "big deal" today was the lie that I
had said that Casey died for Israel. I never
said that, I never wrote that. I had
supposedly said it in a letter that I wrote
to Ted Koppel's producer in March.
”Why would Iraq attack America or use
nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you
what I think the real threat (is) and
actually has been since 1990 -- it's the
threat against Israel,” Zelikow told a
crowd at the University of Virginia on
Sep. 10, 2002, speaking on a panel of foreign
policy experts assessing the impact of 9/11
and the future of the war on the al-Qaeda
terrorist organisation.
If OPEC were to switch to the euro as the
standard for oil transactions, it would have
serious ramifications for the US economy.
Are the Bush Twins AWOL?
Recent opinion surveys have found broad
public disenchantment with the war. In a
CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released this week,
54% of Americans said "no" when asked if they
thought "it was worth going to war in Iraq."
A majority has answered "no" all eight times
Gallup asked that question this year.
Situational Totalitarianism
by Anthony Gregory
Hundreds of hens spared slaughter
Rescuers team to save birds past egg-laying prime
August 16, 2005
Why I Changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation
John Colquhoun, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Published in: Perspectives in Biology and
Medicine Volume 41, page 29-44. 1997
Historically, humans utilized more than 7,000
plant species to meet their basic food needs,
Esquinas says. Today, due to the limitations
of modern large-scale, mechanized farming,
only 150 plant species are under cultivation,
and the majority of humans live on only 12
plant species, according to research by the
Food and Agriculture Organization.
Answers sought in death outside Wal-Mart
Man accused of theft begged to be let up from
hot pavement, witness says --Aug. 9, 2005
(vacation)
Do you know this man?
Preempting Cheney
Ray McGovern
August 03, 2005
Cheney protégé and newly appointed
U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is on record
warning that Iranian "deception" must not be
allowed to continue much longer: "It will be
too late. Iran will have nuclear weapons."

Not for ten more years, report sources close
to the U.S. intelligence community in
yesterday's lead story in the Post.
All 309 Survive Fiery Crash
Landing in Toronto
A third US military prosecutor has walked out
of the commissions process set up to try
Guantanamo Bay detainees because of concerns
it was unfair, the ABC has learned.
A team led by psychologist Elizabeth
F. Loftus of UC Irvine found that it could
persuade people to avoid fattening foods by
implanting unpleasant childhood memories
about them — even though the memories were
untrue.

Deliberately implanting memories ... "raises
profound ethical questions," said Stephen
Behnke, ethics director of the American
Psychological Assn.

Perhaps most importantly, the scientists have
so far failed to implant false beliefs about
two common food items, chocolate chip cookies
and potato chips.
Since Novak’s column in July 2003, the
Republican assault on Wilson has concentrated
on the strange point about his wife
supposedly arranging the fact-finding trip to
Niger, though it’s never been clear why
the Republicans consider this question so
important. -By Robert Parry -August 2, 2005
In defiance of centuries of Anglo-Saxon
common law, the Bush administration claims
that the president has the power to render
any individual an "un-person" with respect to
the protection of the law by designating him
an "enemy combatant." Those thus designated
may be imprisoned, without legal recourse of
any kind, for as long as the president sees
fit, and be treated in any manner the
president deems suitable. -August 8, 2005
A BreakForNews.com investigation has
uncovered that Peter Power of Visor
Consultants was closely involved on the scene
of two previous serious incidents on the
London Underground, before being linked to a
third -the latest attacks on 7/7, 2005.
Though Mr. Bolton is a favorite of Vice
President Dick Cheney, Congressional and
administration officials say Ms. Rice
declined to appoint him as deputy secretary
of state, in part because Senator Richard
G. Lugar, the Indiana Republican who is
chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,
told her he did not think he could be
confirmed.

Ms. Rice now says sending Mr. Bolton to the
United Nations was her idea, not anyone
else's. But administration officials say one
advantage for her was that Mr. Bolton will be
executing policy at the United Nations, not
necessarily formulating it.
Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique
4 years before 9/11, plan was set
Jan. 27, 2003
Although the White House had initially sought
authority for the president to "preempt any
future acts of terrorism" without any
limitation on those responsible for the
attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade
Center, Congress deleted the pre-emption
request and narrowed the scope of the
president's authority to attack only those
connected with September 11. "The authority
granted is focused on those responsible for
the attacks of Sept. 11," Sen. Joe Biden
stated on the Senate floor in explaining what
Congress intended to authorize. -December 18, 2004
Iranian technicians will break U.N. seals on
the Isfahan nuclear plant on Monday, allowing
uranium processing to resume, a spokesman for
Iran's Supreme National Security Council
said.

Officials from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog
agency will supervise the removal of the
seals

The work is to resume at the Isfahan plant,
which converts uranium ore concentrate, known
as yellowcake, into uranium gas, the
feedstock for enrichment.

Iranian officials made clear that Iran won't
resume the more important step of actual
enrichment - injecting uranium gas into
centrifuges used to enrich uranium - in a
separate plant in Natanz, central Iran.
Italians Say London Suspect
Lacks Wide Terrorist Ties
August 2, 2005
Anthony Lappe: Starve the Beast
July 30, 2005
Loftus: London bombing mastermind is MI6 agent
Missing Central Pa. DA's Laptop
Found in Susquehanna River
On Friday, Sept. 26, 2003, the CIA directed
the Justice Department to launch a criminal
probe into the leak. Three days later, on
Monday, Sept. 29, 2003, the WH counsel's
office was formally notified about the
investigation. And then 12 hours after that,
Gonzales told White House staff to preserve
materials. In other words, the amount of time
Bush aides were given to, perhaps, discard
and destroy relevant evidence after the DoJ
began its work wasn't just 12 hours; it was
several days.
Bush plans 50th ranch trip in five years

Making War on the American Public

...the legal doctrine Yoo helped compose is
this: The President, and those who act on his
behalf, are entitled to do anything to anyone
as long as it is done in the name of fighting
terrorism. -July 27, 2005
Leaked emails from two former prosecutors
suggested the US military commissions to try
detainees held at Guantanamo Bay are rigged,
fraudulent and thin on evidence, Australian
national radio reported.
How the Intelligence and Facts Were Fixed
Rep. John Conyers -August 1, 2005
Eleven Senate Democrats voted this past week
for the corporate-written Central American
Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) - that
constitutes about a quarter of all Senate
Democrats. These turncoats are:
Sudanese Vice President John Garang, a former
rebel leader who is a key figure in the
country's fledgling peace deal, died when the
aircraft he was traveling in crashed into a
southern Sudan mountain range in bad weather,
Sudan's government said Monday.

Garang's death would be a heavy blow to the
January peace deal that ended a 21-year civil
war between the mostly Muslim north and the
Christian and animist south in which some 2
million people died. -August 1, 2005

...Ugandan officials said Garang and the
others were flying in one of President Yoweri
Museveni's personal helicopters, but the
Sudanese statement said it was a plane.

Bomb suspect had 'no terror link'

Osman Hussain is being linked to the
Shepherd's Bush attack
One of the men suspected of trying to bomb
the London transport system on 21 July had no
links to large terrorist organisations,
Italian police believe. -1 August 2005
Bush appoints Bolton to U.N. post
President bypasses Senate, appointment
lasts until Jan. 2007 -August 1, 2005
Spy's Notes on Iraqi Aims Were Shelved, Suit Says

The Central Intelligence Agency was told by
an informant in the spring of 2001 that Iraq
had abandoned a major element of its nuclear
weapons program, but the agency did not share
the information with other agencies or with
senior policy makers, a former C.I.A. officer
has charged. -August 1, 2005
Iranian technicians will break U.N. seals on
the Isfahan nuclear plant on Monday,
allowing uranium processing to resume, a
spokesman for Iran's Supreme National
Security Council said.

Officials from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog
agency will supervise the removal of the
seals
A 13-year-old gang member and his teenaged
bodyguard have been arrested in the killing
of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
agent during an apparent bungled robbery, a
Honduran official said Sunday.

DEA Special Agent Timothy Markey was shot to
death on Friday while on vacation visiting a
popular Roman Catholic shrine in Tegucigalpa.
Israel Threatens Massive Ground Operation

Israel would launch a massive ground
operation if Palestinian militants fire on
Israeli soldiers and settlers during next
month's Gaza pullout, the deputy defense
minister said Sunday.

Israel Threatens Massive Ground Operation

Boim told Israel Radio the ground operation
would be massive, on the scale of the
Defensive Shield offensive of 2002
July 31, 2005
Suit claims CIA hindering bin Laden book
July 28, 2005
Uranium Provision to Alter U.S. Policy
Easing of Export Curbs Concerns
Nonproliferation Advocates -July 29, 2005

A provision tucked into the 1,724-page energy
bill that Congress is poised to enact today
would ease export restrictions on bomb-grade
uranium

Eminent Domania!

Justice Stephen Breyer has joined his
high-court colleague David Souter in feeling
the wrath of the public, specifically the
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, which
wants the city of Plainfield, N.H., to seize
Breyer's 167-acre vacation retreat by eminent
domain. -July 29, 2005

U.S. Evicted From Air Base In Uzbekistan

July 30, 2005


“Religion had nothing to do with this. We
watched films. We were shown videos with
images of the war in Iraq. We were told we
must do something big. That’s why we met.”

Osman, who is suspected of the Shepherd’s
Bush attack, claimed they had not meant to
kill anyone. “I didn’t want to kill, ours
was supposed to be a demonstrative act,”
he is said to have told interrogators. “We
planned to carry out an attack. We didn’t
want to kill, only to spread terror.”
Grenade Thrower Meant To Kill Bush
TBILISI, Georgia, July 26, 2005
“I will tell you why I did it.
Because Bush is a prick!”
Rumsfeld’s Visit May Only Temporarily Relieve
Pressure on US Forces In Central Asia to
Leave -7/28/05

9/11 in Historical Perspective:
Flawed Assumptions

Deep Politics: Drugs, Oil, Covert Operations
and Terrorism, A briefing for Congressional
staff --by Peter Dale Scott -July 29, 2005

Iraqi PM urges speedy withdrawal of US troops

-July 27, 2005
Questioned last week, Bush said the
U.S. would withdraw if asked by the new
government. Really?

Earlier in the week, the Pentagon
acknowledged plans and budgets to keep
120,000 troops there for at least two more
years. -Jan. 30, 2005
Withdrawal of Troops from Iraq: Forget About It
July 28, 2005

Bush: we'll leave Iraq if they ask


GEORGE W. Bush has committed the US to
pulling its troops out of Iraq if its new
leaders ask them to leave following
tomorrow's landmark democratic elections.
January 29, 2005
Scale of Iraq insurgency unforeseen, says MoD
-July 28, 2005
London, Rome Arrest Suspected 7-21 Bombers
July 29, 2005
Congress Passes Far-Reaching Energy Bill
July 29, 2005
Push on to dump prosecutor, ex-senator says
July 28, 2005

E-voting machines rejected

State says Diebold failures in massive mock
election could translate to problems at polls
"There was a failure rate of about 10
percent, and that's not good enough for the
voters of California and not good enough for
me," Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said.
7/29/2005 09:27 AM
Police Chiefs Moving to Share Terror Data
July 29, 2005

Several big-city departments, including those
in New York, Washington and Los Angeles, have
permanent seats in the Homeland Security
Operations Center, a 24-hour operation that
monitors global threats, Mr. Filler noted.

He said a new interagency network to share
data on terrorism was unnecessary. His
department already does that, he said, but
perhaps not as quickly as some local chiefs
want. He said the department was working with
local chiefs to break down some walls.

"What I understand they're asking for is
somewhat unique," Mr. Filler said. "When the
federal government puts something out, it is
vetted, finished information. They're asking
for raw, unfiltered information in real time.
Blair defends Iraq war, vows new attacks
on civil liberties and social conditions
29 July 2005
Some residents of the northern Gaza
settlement of Elei Sinai said Thursday they
planned to wear Nazi concentration camp
prisoner uniforms when security forces
evacuate them from their homes during the
disengagement.

The striped uniforms, which were to include
yellow Stars of David with the word "Jude"
sewn on to the lapels, have already arrived.
"Any president worth his salt is supposed to
try to make the citizens feel safe and
secure."
London bomber made one-day Israel visit -
official -18 Jul 2005
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Ahmed
Ressam, the "millennium bomber" convicted of
plotting to blow up Los Angeles airport, to
22 years in prison for conspiracy to commit
an international terrorist act, explosives
smuggling and other criminal counts.
Judge has some choice words during
sentencing of Ahmed Ressam.
Judge gives millennium bomber 22 years
July 27, 2005

Ressam also alerted investigators to a
previously unknown fuse technique he'd
learned at a terrorist training camp. It was
information put to the test soon after by the
so-called shoe bomber on board a
trans-Atlantic flight in December of 2001.

"It was the fuse technique that Richard Reid
used. When the F.B.I. went to look at this
case, they immediately recognized this was
the fuse because of what Ressam had told
them."
Karen Hughes refused to answer questions
about Plame outing during confirmation
hearing
Anti-terror police arrested nine more men
during dawn raids on two addresses in south
London today.

The arrests were in connection with the
investigation into last week's failed London
bombings.
Tube bomber prepares to strike
-26/07/2005
Despite the fact that by calling for attacks
on civilian targets he was advocating war
crimes, Friedman should have no fear that
he'll find himself on a State Department list
of "hatemongers."
Former Miami Official Kills Himself [sic]
at Newspaper
A spokesman for the city Fire-Rescue
Department, Ignatius Carroll, said Teele was
found with two small caliber holes in the
back of his head. Initially Teele responded
to questions by blinking his eyes on command,
he said.
'...is that how you confront a suicide bomber?
I mean the man is wearing pounds of
explosives, or must be, so is it the best
tactic to chase him into a crowded area,
throw him to the ground, and fire at his
torso five times, exactly where the
explosives must be...? We all know, now,
that Menezes was not a suicide bomber. He was
just a Brazilian electrician. So why, then,
was he so scared or as the witness says
"petrified."'
Five greying anti-war activists from a group
dubbed the "Raging Grannies" could be sent to
jail after demanding to be enlisted in the US
Army to fight in Iraq, one of them says.
Testing for depleted uranium in La. soldiers
passes into law -June 27, 2005
Case of C.I.A. Officer's Leaked Identity
Takes New Turn -July 28, 2005
The US Department of Justice has come under
fire for posting an al-Qaeda training manual
on its website.

The manual includes advice on how to go
undetected on crowded public transport, how
to communicate and avoid detection by the
security services, and how to transport
weapons and stop deterioration of explosives.
Sherman Austin was arrested over 18 months
ago. Federal officials charged that Austin
had illegally distributed information about
how to build Molotov cocktails and "Drano
bombs" on his web site.

He was charged under a 1997 law that made it
illegal to publish such instructions with the
intent that readers commit "a federal crime
of violence." - September 3, 2003
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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