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SECRECY SURROUNDS A BUSH BROTHER'S ROLE IN
9/11 SECURITY October
14, 2003 by Margie Burns A company that provided security at New
York City's World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport in Washington,
D.C., and to United Airlines between 1995 and 2001, was backed by a private
Kuwaiti-American investment firm with ties to a brother of President Bush and
the Bush family, according to records obtained by the American Reporter. Two
planes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001 were United Airlines planes, and another took
off from Dulles International Airport; two, of course, slammed into the World
Trade Center. But the Bush Administration has never disclosed the ties of a
presidential brother and the Bush family with the firm that intersected the
weapons and targets on a day of national tragedy. anderson.ath
October 14, 2003 By
Ellis Shuman The German weekly Der
Spiegel reported Saturday that the Mossad has marked six Iranian nuclear
facilities as targets for an Israeli Air Force pre-emptive strike. An unnamed
IAF pilot told the weekly that such a mission would be "complex, but
feasible." The Los Angeles Times reported that Israel has modified
U.S.-made Harpoon cruise missiles so it can launch nuclear warheads from
submarines. israelinsider.com
Ohio's
Kucinich formally announces White House bid October
14, 2003 By CARL CHANCELLOR CLEVELAND
Standing in the city council chamber where he won his greatest political
victories and suffered his most humiliating defeats, Dennis John Kucinich came
home to Cleveland on Monday to formally announce his campaign for the presidency
of the United States. tallahassee.com
Army
probes soldier suicides
October 14, 2003 By Gregg Zoroya Alarmed
by the number of suicides among soldiers in Iraq, the Army has asked a team of
doctors to determine whether the stress of combat and long deployments is
contributing to the deaths. "The number of suicides has caused the Army to
be concerned," said Lt. Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a psychiatrist at the
Army's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
Ritchie is helping to investigate the suicides in Iraq. "Is there something
different going on in Iraq that we really need to pay attention to?" In the
past seven months, at least 11 soldiers and three Marines have committed suicide
in Iraq, military officials say. usatoday.com
UN official: 2,000 Palestinians made
homeless by Rafah raid October
14, 2003 By Amos Harel, Haaretz UN official: 2,000 Palestinians
made homeless by Rafah raid Up to 2,000 Palestinians have been
made homeless in the most recent operation by the Israel Defense Forces in the
Gaza Strip, a senior United Nations official said Sunday. Peter Hansen,
the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said that "many houses
have been completely demolished" during the three-day raid by IDF troops. haaretz.com
Spoils of war
October 14, 2003 US plans to sell off Iraqi
businesses are simply the modern equivalent of pillage, says Brian Whitaker. For
centuries, pillage by invading armies was a normal part of warfare: a way in
which to reward badly-paid or unpaid troops for risking their lives in battle.
Nowadays, at least in more civilised countries, we do not let armies rampage for
booty. We leave the pillaging to men in suits, and we don't call it pillaging
any more. We call it economic development. guardian.co.uk
26 reported killed - Bolivian troops
massacre strikers October
14, 2003 By César Uco and Bill Vann Bolivian
army troops backed by tanks killed at least 26 workers and peasants and wounded
some 90 more Sunday, as the US-backed government of President Gonzalo Sanchez
Lozada unleashed murderous repressive force in an attempt to crush a month-long
rebellion against his government’s International Monetary Fund-dictated
austerity policies. wsws.org
Primate expert calls Bush's environmental
record ``terrifying'' October
14, 2003 By LISA LEFF Primatologist Jane Goodall criticized
President Bush's environmental policies Sunday, charging the White House with
leading an "onslaught" against the Endangered Species Act that could
lead to more African animals being killed or captured for profit. Goodall, famed
worldwide for her life's work studying and protecting chimpanzees in Tanzania,
said her beloved apes and other species face a threat from the Bush
Administration that could undo decades of conservation efforts. sfgate.com
Impeachment
is back
October 14, 2003 Andrew Bird
ARCATA Impeachment is on the agenda again this week. City Councilman Dave
Meserve will ask the council at Wednesday's meeting to approve his resolution
calling for the immediate impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice
President Richard Cheney. The vote in Arcata on Wednesday is likely to attract
some national attention. Last month the Santa Cruz City Council voted to send a
letter asking the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the Bush
administration. times-standard.com
ST. LOUIS MAN CLAIMS RUSH
LIMBAUGH AFFAIR October
14, 2003 St. Louis A
46 year old music store owner from the St. Louis area, Elliot Sanders, is
claiming that while a college student at Southeast Missouri University in 1971,
he had an affair with Rush Limbaugh. Sanders claims that he and Limbaugh, the
well known talk radio star, had an affair that went on for about 3 months in the
fall of 1971... sianews.com
 AF Spokesman:
"FAA Alerted
Military Immediately On 9/11" AF Prevented From Responding! October
13, 2003 U.S. Air Force spokesperson; According
to established guidelines, U.S. Air National Guard and Air Force units --
which are ALWAYS on alert to be scrambled for intercepts of either
distressed OR suspicious and possibly hostile aircraft 365/24/7 in these
United States -- WERE DEFINITELY contacted by FAA/ATC on 9.11 IMMEDIATELY
after Air Traffic Control had become aware of the developing situation with
the jets. The Air Force spokesman confirmed that AFTER the alerts and
requests for INTERCEPTS of the aircraft were received from FAA/ATC, orders
from the HIGHEST LEVEL of the executive branch of the federal government
were received, demanding that the Air Force stand down and NOT follow
through with ESTABLISHED scramble/intercept procedures that morning until
further notice! apfn.org
Studies: 383,000 Missing Votes in Recall October 12, 2003
By RACHEL KONRAD More than 380,000 ballots cast in the recall election
did not have a valid vote on whether to recall Gov. Gray Davis, and most of them
were made on punch card systems, according to two independent studies. yahoo.com
Feds Condemn Robertson for Nuke Comment
October 12, 2003 The U.S. State Department has condemned an on-air suggestion by
religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that the agency ought to be blown up with a
nuclear device. Robertson, who heads the Virginia Beach-based Christian
Broadcasting Network, made the remark while interviewing author Joel Mowbray on
"The 700 Club" television program last week. yahoo.com
The Mission October 12, 2003
By: William Rivers Pitt These Europeans know all about the Project for
The New American Century, they know all about the Office of Special Plans, they
know all about the lies that have been spoon-fed to America and the world. They
know all of this, simply, because the news media in Europe is not owned and
operated as an advertising wing for General Electric, AOL/TimeWarner, Viacom,
Disney or Ruppert Murdoch. enter.net
Many soldiers, same letter October 12, 2003
LEDYARD
KING Newspapers around U.S. get identical missives from
Iraq Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding
Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion
on the mission sours. And all the letters are the same. A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers
with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as
"The Rock," in 11 newspapers, including Snohomish, Wash. theolympian.com
US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops October 12, 2003
By Patrick Cockburn Americans accused of brutal 'punishment' tactics against
villagers, while British are condemned as too soft. US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have
uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in
central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment independent.co.uk
New push to deregulate energy,
Schwarzenegger electricity plan fuels fears of another debacle October 12, 2003
Zachary
Coile Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger is preparing a push to deregulate the
state's electricity markets -- a move embraced by business leaders and some
energy analysts but criticized by many Democrats and consumer advocates as a
return to the failed policies that sparked California's energy crisis. sfgate.com
Right reserved for pre-emptive strike if practice
spreads:
Putin October 12, 2003 MOSCOW Russia is opposed to the doctrine of using
pre-emptive strikes to prevent attacks but reserves the right to resort to it if
the practice should become widespread, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday
at a Russo-German summit. "If the practice of preventive strikes should de facto
become widespread and grow stronger, Russia reserves the right to such a
practice," Putin said on the second day of a two-day summit in the Urals
city of Yekaterinburg with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. "We are against this, but we retain the right to carry
out preventive strikes," he said, as quoted by the Interfax news agency. jang.com
UN estimate for rebuilding Iraq half that of Bush’s—where’s the money
going? October 11, 2003 By Patrick Martin
Basic reconstruction in Iraq next year would cost less than half the amount
requested by the Bush administration from the US Congress, according to a joint
report prepared by the United Nations and World Bank. The report estimates that
$9 billion are needed for reconstruction in Iraq in 2004. The report was
released the same day that an $18.6 billion reconstruction budget was approved
by the House Appropriations Committee. wsws.org
U.S.
eyes conservation law October 11, 2003 U.S.
may expand access to endangered species The
Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation policies
that would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and
import animals on the brink of extinction in other countries. msnbc.com
Typical Greenpeace Protest Leads to an Unusual Prosecution October 11, 2003
By ADAM LIPTAK Three
miles off the Florida coast in April of 2002, two Greenpeace activists clambered
from an inflatable rubber speedboat onto a cargo ship. They were detained before
they could unfurl a banner, spent the weekend in custody and two months later
were sentenced to time served for boarding the ship without permission. It was a routine act of civil disobedience until, 15 months after the
incident, federal prosecutors in Miami indicted Greenpeace itself for
authorizing the boarding. The group says the indictment represents a turning
point in the history of American dissent. "Never before has our government criminally prosecuted an entire
organization for the free speech activities of its supporters," said John
Passacantando, the executive director of Greenpeace in the United States. nytimes.com
Jane Goodall attacks Bush environmental record
October
11, 2003 Famed chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall attacked the Bush administration's
environmental record Saturday, charging it could lead to more hunting of
endangered animals. Goodall, who has spent more than 40 years researching the lives of
chimpanzees in Tanzania, gave the keynote speech at the Wildlife Conservation
Expo at Foothill College. "What the Bush administration has done over the past three years to
overturn environmental laws is unbelievable," Goodall said. "It's
shameful. We must not sit still and do nothing." sfgate.com
Adolf Hitler is reborn
October 11, 2003 Only this time, rather than a swastika armband, he is adorned
with a yarmulke. And his name is Ariel Sharon. joshua ben hinna And just as
Hitler pursued his intent of forging the master race by putting millions in
concentration camps and murdering them, so has Sharon pursued the policy of
exterminating the innocent, except this time around it is a generous supply of
tanks, Apache helicopters, and F-15s that do the dirty deed. Zionism today runs
ominously parallel to Nazism. indymedia.org
Venezuelan Intelligence Sources Warn Of
USA-CIA Backed Coup Attempt October 10, 2003 Venezuelan intelligence sources have
informed VHeadline.com
that a very much heightened state of security alert is being maintained this
weekend following multiple indications that a USA-CIA initiative is about to be
launched against the government of President Hugo Chavez Frias but that the
Venezuelan Armed Forces (FAN) believe they will, nevertheless, be able to
contain an eventual threat to Venezuela's constitutional rule. USA-backed
military-civilian infiltrators are said already to be on the ground in
Venezuelan territory but they have not yet reached key positions. informationclearinghouse.info
"Bush Has To Go" October
10, 2003 The following report is taken directly from in-house memos from a
high-level member of a major American television network; "The seasons
change and the political season is also changing, gentlemen. Corporate, not
only ours but most of the other major entities, have decided, reluctantly it
is admitted, that Bush has to go. Why reluctantly? Because of the money we
have given him for his campaigns…the President’s actions have so
unnerved corporate America, (and this includes Bush Sr.)! that the market
will never rebound until the irritant of Bush Jr’s chronic stupidity is
gone and forgotten." thetruthseeker.co.uk
Dollar Falls to Three-Year Low Against Yen, Drops Versus
Euro October 10, 2003 (Bloomberg) The dollar headed for its seventh week of declines
against the euro and fell versus the yen after a drop in U.S. exports bolstered
speculation policy makers will let the currency weaken in coming months. bloomberg.com
Greater Israel: A dream closer to
fulfillment October 10, 2003
by Abid Ullah Jan
A terrible, terrible time is ahead. Nevertheless, we are so indulged in our
personal affairs and so mesmerized by the "mainstream" media’s
onslaught and biased presentation of the international issues that we fail to
see beyond what it wants us to see. usa.mediamonitors.net
The Age Of Total Microchip
Control Is At Hand October 10, 2003 From Liz
This is just the beginning, the opening shot. I kept
telling people that this would be how they begin, by promoting safety for
children, Next thing you know it'll be a law, that all minor children will
have to have this chip, so they can be "protected." It's a hop
skip and a jump from there to military use and then criminals, and then on
to the rest of the population. rense.com
Diebold Machines Yield
Fishy CA Results October 9, 2003 MarkCrispinMiller.blogspot.com
Long-shot candidates do
startlingly well in Tulare County. I ran a number crunch of CA counties that use Diebold
machines to cast/count votes and found some weird figures that show a skim
of votes from top candidates to people who were unlikely to affect the
outcome. I did my hand calculator work on the California election results
(from the secretary of state's site) when 96% of precincts had reported. The
website showed: rense.com
Navy Sonar May Give Whales the 'Bends'
October 9, 2003 By Marc Kaufman
High-powered sonar from Navy ships appears to be giving whales and other marine
mammals a version of the bends, causing them to develop dangerous gas bubbles in
some tissues and blood vessels and to beach themselves and die, according to a
study published yesterday in the journal Nature. washingtonpost.com
Lethal
Virus from 1918 Genetically Reconstructed October
9, 2003 US Army scientists create "Spanish Flu" virus in
laboratory - medical benefit questionable The 'Spanish Flu' influenza
virus that killed 20-40 million people in 1918 is currently under
reconstruction. Several genes of the extraordinarily lethal 1918 flu virus have
been isolated and introduced into contemporary flu strains. These proved to be
lethal for mice, while virus constructs with genes from a current flu virus
types had hardly any effect. These experiments may easily be abused for military
purposes, but provide little benefit from a medical or public health point of
view. sunshine-project.org
Special Iraq Coverage: Your
Hearts and Minds, or Else October 9, 2003
Gert Van Langendonck (Balad, Iraq)
Mohammed Al-Awasari's shack was no match for the American M-113 armored personal
carrier. In a matter of minutes, the APC's powerful tracks reduced his small
shop in the village of Albu Hishma to a pile of rubble. The U.S. soldiers on
this "PSYOPS" (psychological operations) mission deep
inside Iraq's Sunni Triangle, were laughing, some were taking pictures to show
back home, while the gathered villagers stood around and looked on helplessly. guerrillanews.com
Stay in Bed
October 8, 2003 Daniel Patrick Welch California awoke one morning to find
itself governed by a giant cockroach. It's official: we are now living inside a
Kafka novel-though even Kafka couldn't have predicted the turn of events that
would bring us to this point. To be fair, Schwarzenegger is not a hyper-violent,
frozen, misogynist, monosyllabic robot. He just plays one onscreen. In reality,
he is-well, by now we all know who he is. The frightening part is that the
people of California knew, too. There is some indication that tracking polls
showed his support slipping in the wake of all last week's revelations. Polls
are tricky things, of course, but if this is true then the election happened
just in time. The republicans have become adept at cherrypicking such
opportunities and milking them for all they're worth. danielpwelch.com
As Bush Implodes, 30 Ways Desperate Right
Wingers Will Respond October 8, 2003 by
Rob Kall Like Bill Clinton, George Bush seems to have some Teflon -like
qualities. It is unlikely that the leaker of the info on Joe Wilson's wife's CIA
connection will be identified. But as Bush and his bumbling team of lying
incompetents continues to thrash, like Godzilla, through the assets and
resources of the USA, knocking them down, destroying them, and creating chaos,
the right wing is becoming and will become even more desperate. Here's a list of
some desperate acts we can expect the far right and their legislative stooges to
take: opednews.com
Rights Groups Ask Government For Proof
That Detainees in U.S. Custody Are Not Being Tortured
October 8, 2003 Citing news reports that the United States government may have
tortured detainees or subjected them to "cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment," the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for
Constitutional Rights and medical and veterans’ groups today asked Department
of Defense and other agency officials for proof that that the U.S. is honoring
its obligations under domestic and international law. aclu.org
GM 'could be another Thalidomide' October
8, 2003 By Victoria Fletcher Plans for the future of GM crops in Britain suffered a
massive blow today as insurance giants issued dire warnings about the unknown
dangers posed by the supercrops. Insurance firms are refusing to offer cover to farmers who want to plant GM
crops because they fear a public health disaster and huge compensation payouts. thisislondon.co.uk
9/11/01: Where was George? October
8, 2003 by Eric Alterman September I I is often said to be the defining moment in
the Bush presidency, even of modern history. How strange, therefore, that Bush's
behavior that moming-along with that of his Administration-is almost never
examined in any detail. This is all the more incredible when one considers the
fact that 9/11 is among the most exhaustively chronicled days in human history
and Bush among its most heavily covered individuals. No less odd has been the
media's willingness to let the many inconsistencies in White House stories pass
unexamined. They seem content instead to let Showtime tell the story, Leni
Riefenstahl-style. thirdworldtraveler.com
Enron E-mails Confirm Schwarzenegger-Ken Lay Meeting October
8, 2003 Enron E-Mails Show Arnold Met With Ken Lay During Energy Crisis Santa Monica, CA -- Internal Enron e-mails confirm that Arnold Schwarzenegger
was among a small group of executives who met with Lay at the posh Peninsula
Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001, in the midst of California's energy crisis.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which obtained the e-mails, is
calling on Schwarzenegger to acknowledge the meetings and disclose the
information that was presented and discussed. scoop.co
The
Return of the Beast, Ask yourself: Would you have stopped Adolf Hitler in 1933?
October 7, 2003 "I admired Hitler... because he came from being a little
man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such
a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people... We
can't live without authority. Because I feel that a certain amount of
people who were meant to do this and control; and larger amount, like 95% of the
people, who we have to tell what to do and how to keep order. That is why I am
all for it... I feel if you want to create a strong nation and a strong country
you cannot let everybody be an individual... In Germany there
was a lot of unity. The German soldiers were the best, and with the police force
and everything... There is one thing I don't like here and that
people go on their own little trips too much. I think it's because we don't
have a strong leader here... To speak to maybe 50,000 people at one time and
have them cheer, like Hitler in the Nuremberg Stadium, and have all those
people scream at you and just being in total agreement with whatever you say... --Arnold Schwarzenegger, from 1977 transcript of interview with George Butler. nex.net.au
'Horrifying': Computer Experts Fear Fraud
in Recall Vote October 7, 2003 SAN JOSE,
Calif. Punch-card ballots from today's historic recall election are sure to
get a going-over by political activists, but some computer scientists think
touch-screen voting machines deserve just as much scrutiny. Though punch-card
ballots caused headaches for Florida election officials with their
"hanging" and "pregnant" chads, nearly one in 10 California
voters will be using touch-screen machines, which don't produce printouts voters
can see. And no paper printouts, the scientists say, would make a legitimate
recount impossible. newsmax.com
4. Top 10 Ways to Rig a
Voting Machine October 7, 2003 Computer
and accounting experts tell us that there are not 10, not 20, but literally
hundreds of ways to rig the system. Faster than the best programmer can create
computerized safeguards, new scoundrels will pop up with ways to beat the
system. To conceptualize this, think virus: blackboxvoting.com
Slime
October 7, 2003 By: W. David Jenkins III Can you believe this? The gang
that promised to restore honesty and integrity to the White House is, once
again, going to “slime” the opposition for shedding light on the corruption
which has bloomed and flourished under George W. Bush. There will be no
apologies and no explanation because, after all, why should this little problem
be any different from all the others? That is why I refuse to get my hopes up
this time. enter.net
US Wounded Hidden In The Shadows
October 7, 2003 By David Isenberg ...hospital employees are told not to
talk about numbers or types of injuries...health care personnel can go to prison
and/or be fined astronomical amounts for even talking to other health
professionals or family members about the condition and/or treatment of anyone
in health care in the US at this time." rense.com
AWOL STATE OF MIND: CALLS
FROM SOLDIERS DESPERATE TO LEAVE IRAQ FLOOD HOTLINE
October 7, 2003 By LEONARD GREENE Morale
among some war-weary GIs in Iraq is so low that a growing number of soldiers -
including some now home on R&R - are researching the consequences of going
AWOL, according to a leading support group. The GI
Rights Hotline, a national soldiers' support service, has logged a 75 percent
increase in calls in the last 12 weeks, with more than 100 of those calls from
soldiers, or people on their behalf, asking about the penalties associated with
going AWOL - "absent without leave" - according to volunteers and
staffers who man the service nypost.com
Putin Says U.S. Faces Big Risks in Effort
in Iraq October 7, 2003 By STEVEN LEE
MYERS MOSCOW President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says the United States
now faces in Iraq the possibility of a prolonged, violent and ultimately futile
war like the one that mired the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. nytimes.com
The end of American economic supremacy? October
7, 2003 By Hussain Khan Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature
that allows guest writers to have their say. Please
click here if you are interested in contributing. It is beginning to appear
that the events of September 11, 2001 have had such an impact that it could end
American economic supremacy in the world. The peril to the US economy has been
compounded by fiscal actions taken by the administration of President George W
Bush. atimes.com
A Missing Statistic: U.S. Jobs That Went
Overseas October 7, 2003 By LOUIS
UCHITELLE The job market finally showed some life in September, but not
enough to sidetrack a growing debate over why employment has failed to rebound
nearly two years after the last recession ended. The debate intrudes
increasingly on election politics, but in all the heated back and forth, an
essential statistic is missing: the number of jobs that would exist in the
United States today if so many had not escaped abroad. nytimes.com
And now, currency wars
October 7, 2003 By Marc Erikson Complementing its strategic-military
doctrine of preemptive action against putative constructors and proliferators of
weapons of mass destruction, the administration of US President George W Bush
has turned to preemption in the financial sphere to challenge unpalatable
currency regimes and counteract their alleged ill effects on the US economy.
China, Japan, and other Asian nations are the targeted offenders ...atimes.com
Foreclosure rate on rise Valley-wide
October 7, 2003 Catherine Burrough The Arizona Republic In the midst of
the hottest housing market in Phoenix history, a record number of people are
losing their homes to foreclosure. People are caught living paycheck to
paycheck. Laid-off workers can't find jobs. First-time buyers are too deep into
debt. Homeowners are snared into bad refinancing deals. And some two-income
families with expensive dream homes can't keep up. azcentral.com
Russia, with a little help from China,
tries to outflank US in Central Asia October
7, 2003 Worried about American intentions, Moscow woos former Soviet republics
and restores military bases on their territories Things seem to be unraveling
rather badly for US President George W. Bush these days: Iraq and Saddam
Hussein’s elusive weapons of mass destruction, Arab-Israeli peace efforts,
North Korea’s nuclear posturing, the economy, credibility and authority of the
administration itself, all combining to undermine the 2004 electoral campaign.
But beyond this lies the recent emergence of an evolving alliance between
Russia, China and India, all nuclear powers, all deeply concerned about the
unilateralism of the United States and its doctrine of pre-emption. dailystar.com
Study Finds Direct Link Between
Misinformation and Public Misconception
October 7, 2003 A new study based on a series of seven nationwide polls
conducted from January through September of this year reveals that before and
after the Iraq war, a majority of Americans have had significant misperceptions
and these are highly related to support for the war with Iraq. The polling,
conducted by the Program on International Policy (PIPA) at the University of
Maryland and Knowledge Networks, also reveals that the frequency of these
misperceptions varies significantly according to individuals' primary source of
news. Those who primarily watch Fox News are significantly more likely to have
misperceptions, while those who primarily listen to NPR or watch PBS are
significantly less likely. truthout.org
US alone in standing by Israel after
attack October 7, 2003 Only the United States
stood behind Israel tonight in the face of international condemnation of the
reprisal air raid on Syria that plunged the Mideast into deeper turmoil. breakingnews.iol
Israel And US Prepare To Attack Iran
October 7, 2003 Goal is forcing capitulation or risking regional war.
"There could be very, very serious ramifications in the wake of what's
happened with this air strike by the Israelis in Syrian territory." Brent
Sadler, CNN. “It could be a race who presses the button first (to strike Iran)
– us or the Americans”. Israeli Mossad Official informationclearinghouse.info
The power to plunder
October 7, 2003 By Lily Galili The norm of taking responsibility for
actions and decisions seems to have all but disappeared from the nation's public
and political life. Meanwhile, the people's demand for accountability on the
part of its elected representatives seems to have vanished as well. haaretz.com
Did popping painkillers make Rush lose his
hearing? October 7, 2003 By Tim Grieve The
drugs Limbaugh is rumored to have abused are known to cause sudden hearing loss.
But his doctors insist there's a different diagnosis. When Rush Limbaugh
announced two years ago that he had suddenly gone deaf, he was
uncharacteristically circumspect about the possible cause. "There is a
theory as to what's happening," Limbaugh told his listeners in October
2001, "but I'm going to keep that to myself. It's not genetic. There's
something more going on than that." Was the "something more"
Limbaugh's abuse of painkillers? salon.com
Loyal Opposition, Disloyal Regent
October 6, 2003
By
Daniel Patrick Welch Remember
the hullabaloo about The End of History? There were many of us who scoffed
then at its hubris, the sheer arrogance of thinking we were “it.” Now,
of course, even the adherents of such triumphalism are back in the trenches,
forecasting their own gloom-and-obscene-profit version of Permanent War.
It’s as if the Cold War never ended—and just in the nick of time for
them, too. This gives the right the opportunity to revive that most heinous
of Cold War anachronisms, the Loyal Opposition. Now the LO can be
permanently kept toothless by the ever-present threat of the New Cold War
(remember: they have actually used these words). Some have even promised
World War IV.
thepeoplesvoice.org
National Debt Quagmire
October 6, 2003
Doug McIntosh I remember a time when the entire United States Federal
Debt was $500 billion. We are now in the age of $550 billion annual budget
deficits. As of 9-30-03 the total Federal Debt was 6 Trillion, 782 Billion, 235
million dollars and change. In less than one year, it has gone from 6 Trillion,
228 Billion, 235 million and change. Isn't it interesting that the previous
explosion of debt happened under the so called conservative Ronald Reagan? This
current explosion is happening under the so called conservative George Bush Jr.
Of course, Bubba Clinton merely faked the numbers so he doesn't really count.
Dare I say that the Democrats lie much better on economic issues than the
Republicans? gold-eagle.com
The end of vote-rigging? Not necessarily October
6, 2003 John Sutherland Touch-screen voting is being used for the
first time in the California recall. Few elections have provided such merriment
as the current California Recall circus: pornographers, meat-packers (retired),
religious fanatics, and comedians (aren't they all?). A cast of hundreds is
jockeying for leadership of the world's fifth largest economy. And who will
stride out from the campaign wreckage tomorrow? The Terminator - or
"champion of women", as he prefers to be called, now that his groping
days are behind him. Hollywood couldn't invent it. guardian.co.uk
Syria: Israel attacked civilian area October 6, 2003
Syria has said Israeli forces attacked a civilian area near
Damascus in a "grave escalation" of tensions in the Middle East.
Damascus is capable of deterring Israel but will practice restraint, Syria's
Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara said in a letter to the United Nations on
Sunday. aljazeera.net
Rush
Limbaugh May Teach Conservatives A Lesson
October 5, 2003 by Thom
Hartmann The reaction to the drug problem - and drug felonies - recently
alleged against Rush Limbaugh highlight sharply the differences between
conservative morality and liberal/progressive morality. Conservatives often
mistakenly proclaim themselves the sole holders of morality. Their error comes
when they define this word first and foremost in terms of personal behavior:
What goes on in people's bedrooms, what drugs others may be taking in their own
living rooms, whether a woman should be allowed to prevent or terminate a
pregnancy. thepeoplesvoice.org
Putin Beefs
Up ICBM Capacity
October
5, 2003 By Simon Saradzhyan
Moscow Times President Vladimir Putin told top military commanders
Thursday that Russia will put dozens of multi-warhead SS-19 intercontinental
ballistic missiles on combat duty. In a separate development, a Defense Ministry
paper released ahead of Putin's comments warned that Russia might have to revise
its plans for military reform and nuclear defense strategy if NATO did not drop
what it termed its "anti-Russian orientation." informationclearinghouse.info
British troops accused of torture
October 5, 2003 Amid allegations of torture, the British military is
investigating the death of a 26-year-old Iraqi man who died in their custody.
Baha Salim Musa was arrested in the southern Iraqi city of Basra last month. But
after being held for four days, his father was asked to identify his body.
"His face was covered in blood, his nose broken, and the skin on his face
was torn. There were bruises on his neck and all over his body," Baha's
father Dawood told Reuters news agency. aljazeera.net
We
report, you get it wrong
October
5, 2003 By
Jim Lobe The more commercial television news you watch, the more wrong you
are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq War and its aftermath, according
to a major new study released in Washington on Thursday. And the more you watch
the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News channel, in particular, the more likely it is
that your perceptions about the war are wrong, adds the report by the University
of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). informationclearinghouse.info
Davis wants criminal investigation
October 5, 2003
Robert Salladay and Zachary Coile Gov. Gray Davis, spending the final
days of the recall campaign surrounded by women and prominent Democrats,
suggested Saturday that actor Arnold Schwarzenegger committed a crime of sexual
battery and should be investigated by law enforcement. The governor's comments
were a significant escalation of his rhetoric against his chief Republican rival
in Tuesday's recall campaign. The allegations about Schwarzenegger's conduct
with women, and statements he is reported to have made about Adolf Hitler,
provided the Davis campaign with a dose of optimism -- mixed with astonishment
at the extraordinary events over the past couple of days. sfgate.com
Beaten, abused, chained. This is one
Afghan woman's 'liberation' October 5, 2003 Yola
Monakhov in Kandahar The Taliban's fall was supposed to bring freedom for
women. But for many, life is still a misery - and for one, jail is the safest
place to be. Mina rests on the earth floor of a Kandahar jail. Now eight months
pregnant by a man she says raped and tortured her for seven years, she is in the
Afghan prison for fleeing the marital home. She is 28 but wears the lined, sad
face of an old woman. Wet eyes glimmering through her burqa, she rocks gently as
she talks of her coming baby as a bleak and loathsome prospect. 'I was
abducted,' she says. 'This man [the father of her unborn child] is not my
husband. I have a family and I want to go back to them. But if my parents see I
have a new baby, they may kill me.' observer.guardian.co.uk
SWISS TO JEWS: BECOME VEGETARIANS OR
LEAVE THE COUNTRY October 5, 2003 Posted
By: RogueButterfly All the Jewish spokespersons interviewed in the following
article claim that the ritual is "humane" and "painless" and
the banning of kosher meat is anti-semitism and not concern for animal rights.
These people are truly aliens.--TRB "...the first time she [Temple Grandin]
visited a kosher slaughter house, she heard screaming cattle from a half
kilometer away and wondered what was different in this place. What she saw was
shocking. I quote from her book, Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports From My
Life With Autism: "I will never forget having nightmares after visiting the
now defunct Spencer Foods plant in Spencer, Iowa fifteen years ago. Employees
wearing football helmets attached a nose tong to the nose of a writhing beast
suspended by a chain wrapped around one back leg. Each terrified animal was
forced with an electric prod to run into a small stall which had a slick floor
on a forty-five degree angle. This caused the animal to slip and fall so that
workers could attach the chain to its rear leg [in order to raise it into the
air]. As I watched this nightmare, I thought, 'This should not be happening in a
civilized society.' In my diary I wrote, 'If hell exists, I am in it.'" rumormillnews.com
The
war on al-Jazeera The US is determined
to suppress the independent Arab media
October 4, 2003 Dima Tareq Tahboub When my husband decided to go to
Baghdad, he knew that I would protest. He told me that I was exaggerating the
risks; that there was nothing to be afraid of because he was a reporter, an
objective witness, neither on this nor that side, and because of that was
protected by world protocol. He bid us farewell, apologising for having been so
busy. He promised to make it up to me and our daughter, Fatimah, when he
returned. At first, I didn't know what had happened. I brought a chair and sat
trembling in front of the TV. The house was suddenly full of people. I couldn't
see or hear anyone. I was waiting for the film to end. I was waiting for the
hero to appear and end all evil. I was waiting for the story of my life to end
with "and they lived happily ever after". I couldn't cry, I was just
listening to the news, seeing again and again all through the day how the
Americans bombed the al-Jazeera office and killed my husband. guardian.co.uk
Schwarzenegger Admired Hitler
By ADAM NAGOURNEY "I
admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with
almost no formal education up to power. And I admire him for being such a good
public speaker." Schwarzenegger said, according to the transcript. Mr.
Butler wrote in his book proposal that in the 1970's, he considered Mr.
Schwarzenegger a "flagrant, outspoken admirer of Hitler." In the
proposal, Mr. Butler also said he had seen Mr. Schwarzenegger playing "Nazi
marching songs from long-playing records in his collection at home" and
said that the actor "frequently clicked his heels and pretended to be an
S.S. officer." nytimes.com
America
the Forgiven October
3, 2003 Reem Al-Faisal The
Americans insist that most criticism directed toward their policies stems from a
deep-seated anti-Americanism, which the entire world has been suffering from
since the founding of the US. In fact I find that the world has been more than
forgiving toward the Americans from the very beginning. If you take a quick look
at American history, you will realize instantly that the atrocities committed by
the Americans on their fellow man might be one of the worst in human history,
and that’s saying much — one, because humanity has reached levels of evil
that no other creature on earth can compete with, and two, because the very
short history of the American nation makes its crimes even more shocking when
compared with other, more ancient lands. arabnews.com
Supreme Court Term Could Bring Seismic
Shifts in American Politics, Post-9/11 Criminal Law
October 2, 2003 Steven R. Shapiro An array of cases involving
elections and post-9/11 law enforcement could bring about major shifts in the
American political and criminal justices systems by the end of the 2003 Supreme
Court Term. The docket is already heavily loaded with criminal cases that take
on a new significance in the post 9/11 era, including several that focus on the
meaning and scope of the Miranda warning against
self-incrimination. There are also looming free speech battles over the
Internet, as well the government's effort to prohibit doctors from advising
their patients about the benefits of medical marijuana. aclu.org
Job
Losses at Level of Great Depression Contradict President Bush's Wishful
Predictions October 1, 2003 Daily Mislead
Archive Instead of creating 510,000 jobs in 2003, as President Bush
predicted, the Republican-led economy has suffered a net loss of 473,000 jobs so
far this year. The Timken Company, an Ohio-based steel and bearings manufacturer
where the President launched his Jobs and Growth package in April, embarrassed
the Administration two weeks ago with an announcement it will cut 900 jobs. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that mass layoffs were the cause of 134,000
jobs lost in August. August marked the seven consecutive month of job losses, a
cold dose of reality in the face of the President's wishful rhetoric. misleader.org
Sour mood descends on Wall Street
October 1, 2003 Heather Stewart Downbeat data from the US economy
underlined doubts about the strength of economic recovery yesterday, prompting a
sell-off in equity markets on both sides of the Atlantic. After the closely
watched Conference Board index of consumer confidence slid from 81.7 in August
to 76.8 in September, its lowest level since the war in Iraq ended, the Dow
Jones fell 113 points by mid-afternoon, to 9,267. Researchers at the Conference
Board blamed the failure of the economic recovery to generate jobs for the slide
in consumer confidence. "The lack of improvement in labour market
conditions continues to dampen consumers' spirits," said Lynn Franco,
director of its consumer research center. guardian.co.uk
When you can't counter a critic, go after
his wife October 1, 2003 By Steve Duin
It's one thing to be small in politics, another to be mean. But it's a whole 'nother
thing entirely to be as petty and nasty as Bush administration officials are
accused of being in seeking revenge against former U.S. ambassador Joseph C.
Wilson IV. It is, quite literally, criminal. Wilson is the diplomat asked by the
CIA to investigate reports by British intelligence that Iraq was trying to
purchase "yellowcake" uranium in Niger. Although Wilson concluded
after visiting Niger that such a transaction was "highly doubtful,"
President Bush used the British report in his State of the Union address as one
of the justifications for his decision to invade Iraq. oregonlive.com
What Are They Hiding? Does a Felon Rove
the White House? October
1, 2003 By AMY GOODMAN and JEREMY SCAHILL
Allegations are swirling that Karl Rove, senior political adviser to President
George W. Bush, may have committed a felony by blowing the cover of a CIA
operative. CIA Director George Tenet has called on the Justice Department to
investigate but the White House said Monday that "President George W. Bush
has no plans to ask his staff members whether they played a role." And what
makes this story even more remarkable is how seriously the Bush family has
viewed outing intelligence operatives in the past. counterpunch.org
Bush White House faces criminal
investigation over Iraq smear campaign
October 1, 2003 By Patrick Martin The Bush White House has taken on
the aspect of a besieged fortress with the announcement late Monday of a formal
FBI investigation into illegal leaks of information by administration officials
attempting to intimidate a critic of Bush’s Iraq war policy. The full panoply
of a Washington scandal is unfolding: charges of conspiracy, criminal referrals,
subpoenas, orders to halt the shredding of documents and the deleting of emails,
demands for the appointment of a special or independent prosecutor to
investigate the charges. wsws.org
Chavez Blasts US for aiding and abetting
terrorists October 1, 2003 The Venezuelan
President Chavez canceled his trip to the US citing an assassination attempt by
U.S.-supported Venezuelan coup plotters and Cuban exiles living in Miami. Just
days before he was to give a speech at the U.N. President Chavez abruptly
cancelled his trip to the U.S. citing
security threats, which included a potential
attack on his airplane. http://indymedia.org
"To Die in Iraq"
October 1, 2003 by Douglas O'Rourke They had it all. For the first time ever, the neoconservatives essentially controlled the
Republicans and the entire U.S. Government. They'd dictated the Presidency,
dominated the House and Senate, and owned the future of the Supreme
Court. They didn't have a majority of the voters, but they did have a
majority of the Fox News and Talk Radio audiences and a big pile of eager
corporate money. How could they miss? They were going to show the whole world what true American patriots
could
accomplish leading a great Christian nation in the new century. And so they did...
A funny thing happened on the way to Mr. Bush's second term. In a country run by and for millionaires, the surplus got spent. The
rich
got tax cuts, and the future got hocked. The environment got screwed.
Bechtel and Halliburton got contracts. Religious schools got public funds. Big CEOs robbed and ran free. Good jobs disappeared by the
millions. Bankruptcies
and child poverty set new records. Big Oil did just fine, thank you. Ken Lay still has your money.
The rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and in the mean time, in between
time, ain't we got war? columnleft.com
9/11 used as 'excuse' for
government repression, claims UN report
October 1, 2003 The terrorist attacks against the US on 11
September 2001 have been used by many countries as an "excuse for a
crackdown on religion", especially in Central Asia, according to a new
United Nations report released today.The interim report to the General Assembly
by the Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights on freedom of
religion or belief, Abdelfattah Amor, added that the media have sometimes
incited hatred of certain religious groups, including Muslims. www.4ni.co.uk
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