Bush advisor spins a link between pro-choice and terrorism
KAREN HUGHES, PRESIDENT BUSH'S ADVISER: "I think the president gets far too little credit for what he has done for American women ... I think this president has a very strong record for women. I really believe the biggest issue for women this year is the safety and security of our families. And clearly, President Bush is leading the way to making the world safer and more peaceful. And that's the utmost important issue I think for women all across the country this year."
ON ABORTION: "I think after September 11th the American people are valuing life more and realizing that we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life. And President Bush has worked to say, let's be reasonable, let's work to value life, let's try to reduce the number of abortions, let's increase adoptions.
And I think those are the kind of policies that the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy, and really the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life. It's the founding conviction of our country, that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Friday, April 30, 2004
Thursday, April 29, 2004
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
US general suspended over Iraq prison abuse
The US Army confirmed the suspension of the general in charge of the US-run prison system in Iraq after US network CBS broadcast images of US troops mistreating Iraqi prisoners. Photographs aired by the network on 60 Minutes II include one showing a prisoner standing on a box with a hood over his head and wires coming from his hands. He was told he would be electrocuted if he fell off.
Other pictures show nude prisoners lying on each other and simulating oral sex as US troops point and laugh.
Deputy Chief of Military Operations in Iraq, General Mark Kimmitt said "we expect our soldiers to be treated well by the adversary, by the enemy... and if we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can't ask that other nations do that to our soldiers."
One of the six soldiers charged, Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Chip Frederick, posed for a photograph while sitting on top of a detainee, he was charged for striking detainees and ordering detainees to strike each other, among other things.
Frederick, a prison guard from Virginia in civilian life, blamed the problems at the prison on the atmosphere created by commanders.
The US Army confirmed the suspension of the general in charge of the US-run prison system in Iraq after US network CBS broadcast images of US troops mistreating Iraqi prisoners. Photographs aired by the network on 60 Minutes II include one showing a prisoner standing on a box with a hood over his head and wires coming from his hands. He was told he would be electrocuted if he fell off.
Other pictures show nude prisoners lying on each other and simulating oral sex as US troops point and laugh.
Deputy Chief of Military Operations in Iraq, General Mark Kimmitt said "we expect our soldiers to be treated well by the adversary, by the enemy... and if we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can't ask that other nations do that to our soldiers."
One of the six soldiers charged, Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Chip Frederick, posed for a photograph while sitting on top of a detainee, he was charged for striking detainees and ordering detainees to strike each other, among other things.
Frederick, a prison guard from Virginia in civilian life, blamed the problems at the prison on the atmosphere created by commanders.
WATCH THE SKIES
'Flying saucer' flap grips Iran, theories abound
Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the Islamic Republic?
Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days.
State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.
More colorful UFOs have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Newspapers and agencies reported people rushing out into the streets in eight towns on Tuesday night to watch a bright light dipping in and out of the clouds.
But Sa'dollah Nasiri-Qeydari, head of the Astronomical Society of Iran, told Reuters the stories were unfounded. "In my opinion, flying saucers do not exist," he said, insisting his telescopes would have picked up invaders from outer space. "The people who have seen these things are not experts - farmers, villagers and pilots," he added. He said what people reported was consistent with the planet Venus.
Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the Islamic Republic?
Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days.
State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.
More colorful UFOs have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Newspapers and agencies reported people rushing out into the streets in eight towns on Tuesday night to watch a bright light dipping in and out of the clouds.
But Sa'dollah Nasiri-Qeydari, head of the Astronomical Society of Iran, told Reuters the stories were unfounded. "In my opinion, flying saucers do not exist," he said, insisting his telescopes would have picked up invaders from outer space. "The people who have seen these things are not experts - farmers, villagers and pilots," he added. He said what people reported was consistent with the planet Venus.
CLOAK AND DAGGER
DOJ moves to prevent FBI whistelblower from giving a deposition in 911 suit
FBI whistleblower and former translator Sibel Edmonds, who has appeared on 60 MINUTES and recently been interviewed in many of the largest newspapers in the world has something to say. We know already that Senator Charles Grassley has found her credible and that she has charged the government with lying for stating that it had no knowledge of the possibility that Al Qaeda might use hijacked airliners as weapons against buildings. She was placed under a gag order restricting her from speaking with the press about that knowledge by John Ashcroft in October of 2002 and she has pushed the envelope of that order in a multitude of recent interviews. The government has just moved to keep Edmonds from giving a deposition in response to a subpoena.
White House seeks to limit damage from 911 testimony by Bush, Cheney
President George W. Bush, alongside Vice-President Dick Cheney, will meet in a private session with all 10 commission members at the White House Thursday morning, beginning at 9.30am. Members will be allowed to take notes but there will not be a stenographer present.
FBI whistleblower and former translator Sibel Edmonds, who has appeared on 60 MINUTES and recently been interviewed in many of the largest newspapers in the world has something to say. We know already that Senator Charles Grassley has found her credible and that she has charged the government with lying for stating that it had no knowledge of the possibility that Al Qaeda might use hijacked airliners as weapons against buildings. She was placed under a gag order restricting her from speaking with the press about that knowledge by John Ashcroft in October of 2002 and she has pushed the envelope of that order in a multitude of recent interviews. The government has just moved to keep Edmonds from giving a deposition in response to a subpoena.
White House seeks to limit damage from 911 testimony by Bush, Cheney
President George W. Bush, alongside Vice-President Dick Cheney, will meet in a private session with all 10 commission members at the White House Thursday morning, beginning at 9.30am. Members will be allowed to take notes but there will not be a stenographer present.
NEW WORLD ORDER
The Americans gave us the will to fight, says tribal leader
'The Americans gave us the will to fight when they showed us how barbaric they were. Fallujah does not deserve this barbarity. Where is the world community? Where is the Arab League? A thousand damnations on them. We will fight and we will die, alone if need be. This is the beginning of the end for the Americans and Israelis here.'
Other news from Falluja:
US defends its Falluja onslaught
Aircraft hammer Fallujah after dark; fighting near Najaf kills scores
Renewed assault on Iraqi city
'The Americans gave us the will to fight when they showed us how barbaric they were. Fallujah does not deserve this barbarity. Where is the world community? Where is the Arab League? A thousand damnations on them. We will fight and we will die, alone if need be. This is the beginning of the end for the Americans and Israelis here.'
Other news from Falluja:
US defends its Falluja onslaught
Aircraft hammer Fallujah after dark; fighting near Najaf kills scores
Renewed assault on Iraqi city
HEARTS AND MINDS
Burning with anger: Iraqis infuriated by new flag that was designed in London
For many Iraqis it was the final insult. Again and again they expressed outrage yesterday that Iraq's US-appointed and unelected leaders had, overnight, abolished the old Iraqi flag, seen by most Iraqis as the symbol of their nation, and chosen a new one.
'What gives these people the right to throw away our flag, to change the symbol of Iraq?' asked Salah, a building contractor of normally moderate political opinions. 'It makes me very angry because these people were appointed by the Americans. I will not regard the new flag as representing me but only traitors and collaborators.'
Fury over the flag highlights the extraordinary ability of US leaders and the Iraqi Governing Council to alienate ordinary Iraqis. And yesterday the flag was burnt in a demonstration of public anger.
Many Iraqis are convinced that their new flag is modelled on the Israeli flag. It is white with two parallel blue strips along the bottom representing the Tigris and Euphrates rivers with a yellow strip in between symbolising the Kurds. Above the stripes is a blue crescent to represent Islam.
Iraqis say the blue stripes are suspiciously like those on the Israeli flag. They also ask why the Kurds have a stripe in the new flag but not the 80 per cent of Iraqis who are Arabs. Could it be because the Kurds are the only Iraqi community fully supporting the US?
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
NEW WORLD ORDER Flashback ...
Crusade is a dirty word
President Bush talks of a 'crusade'. It's an unhappy word. All this started eight centuries ago when renascent Europe unleashed a colonialising campaign to reclaim the holy places. Venice and France were lead culprits. And this was when 'Islam' was first invented by the west as a single entity, as the face of the other which could be demonised. The security of emergent European states was consolidated by aggression and terrorism.
The Pentagon and the World Trade Centre were American holy places now desecrated. The language of a holy league comes easily to the great power, animated by a puritan sense that the world is divided between the light and the dark, between righteousness and wickedness. And that perception lies behind the instability of America's foreign policy, the violence of its oscillation in history between extremes of isolation and intervention.
Today we suffer the consequences not just of an 800-year-old crusading tradition but also an 80-year-old effect: the joint British-American dismantling of the Ottoman empire after the first world war.
President Bush talks of a 'crusade'. It's an unhappy word. All this started eight centuries ago when renascent Europe unleashed a colonialising campaign to reclaim the holy places. Venice and France were lead culprits. And this was when 'Islam' was first invented by the west as a single entity, as the face of the other which could be demonised. The security of emergent European states was consolidated by aggression and terrorism.
The Pentagon and the World Trade Centre were American holy places now desecrated. The language of a holy league comes easily to the great power, animated by a puritan sense that the world is divided between the light and the dark, between righteousness and wickedness. And that perception lies behind the instability of America's foreign policy, the violence of its oscillation in history between extremes of isolation and intervention.
Today we suffer the consequences not just of an 800-year-old crusading tradition but also an 80-year-old effect: the joint British-American dismantling of the Ottoman empire after the first world war.
OIL WARS
Drugged US troops laughing in the face of battle
Iraqi resistance fighters have noted that many of the American troops were laughing as they stormed into districts in al-Fallujah. The correspondent wrote that he saw two American soldiers laughing, such as to arouse pity for them, despite all the Resistance gunfire being poured at their position and their comrades dying around them. Both of the Americans were later killed in the battle.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent writes that the Resistance learned later from interrogations of captured American Marines that the US military medical service distributes a type of halucinogenic pill to the troops that prompts laughter and reduces the sense of fear in combat conditions.
Iraqi resistance fighters have noted that many of the American troops were laughing as they stormed into districts in al-Fallujah. The correspondent wrote that he saw two American soldiers laughing, such as to arouse pity for them, despite all the Resistance gunfire being poured at their position and their comrades dying around them. Both of the Americans were later killed in the battle.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent writes that the Resistance learned later from interrogations of captured American Marines that the US military medical service distributes a type of halucinogenic pill to the troops that prompts laughter and reduces the sense of fear in combat conditions.
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
'Weird' meteorite may be from Mars moon
A unique meteorite that fell on a Soviet military base in Yemen in 1980 may have come from one of the moons of Mars. Several meteorites from the Red Planet have been found on Earth, but this could be the only piece of Martian moon rock.
Andrei Ivanov, who is based at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry in Moscow, Russia, spent two decades puzzling over the fist-sized Kaidun meteorite before he decided that it must be a chip off Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons. "I can't find a better candidate," Ivanov told New Scientist.
A unique meteorite that fell on a Soviet military base in Yemen in 1980 may have come from one of the moons of Mars. Several meteorites from the Red Planet have been found on Earth, but this could be the only piece of Martian moon rock.
Andrei Ivanov, who is based at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry in Moscow, Russia, spent two decades puzzling over the fist-sized Kaidun meteorite before he decided that it must be a chip off Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons. "I can't find a better candidate," Ivanov told New Scientist.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
CLOAK AND DAGGER
Another 'hijacker' flight trainer crashes
Yesterday Rudi Dekkers was lucky to survive after his helicopter crashed into a river in Florida -- just 24 hours after AP reported he was about to be arrested by the State Attorney's Office on felony fraud charges. That was the second air crash involving owners of flight schools which trained 9/11 hijackers.
There is a chill wind blowing. Not just because it was the coldest day of the year in Southwest Florida on Friday, but because somebody may be cleaning up a few loose ends from the 9/11 terror attack: the man who ran Huffman Aviation -- the flight school which trained Mohammed Atta -- crashed his FH-1100 helicopter into an ice-cold Caloosahatchee River.
[On July 5, 2002 Arne Kruithof, another Dutchman and owner of Florida Flight Training had another lucky escape when a private plane nose-dived to earth after taking off from the Venice Airport. Mechanical failure was believed to be responsible. There seemed to be a great deal of haste in clearing the wreckage. "The plane was almost immediately dragged off to be compacted even though the FAA hadn't yet determined the cause for the crash," one local aviation observer said.
Kruithof's school trained Siad Al Jarrah, who was on the aircraft which crashed in Pennsylvania on 9th September 2001.]
Yesterday Rudi Dekkers was lucky to survive after his helicopter crashed into a river in Florida -- just 24 hours after AP reported he was about to be arrested by the State Attorney's Office on felony fraud charges. That was the second air crash involving owners of flight schools which trained 9/11 hijackers.
There is a chill wind blowing. Not just because it was the coldest day of the year in Southwest Florida on Friday, but because somebody may be cleaning up a few loose ends from the 9/11 terror attack: the man who ran Huffman Aviation -- the flight school which trained Mohammed Atta -- crashed his FH-1100 helicopter into an ice-cold Caloosahatchee River.
[On July 5, 2002 Arne Kruithof, another Dutchman and owner of Florida Flight Training had another lucky escape when a private plane nose-dived to earth after taking off from the Venice Airport. Mechanical failure was believed to be responsible. There seemed to be a great deal of haste in clearing the wreckage. "The plane was almost immediately dragged off to be compacted even though the FAA hadn't yet determined the cause for the crash," one local aviation observer said.
Kruithof's school trained Siad Al Jarrah, who was on the aircraft which crashed in Pennsylvania on 9th September 2001.]
NEW WORLD ORDER
Little old lady pepper-sprayed, dropped and repeatedly stun-gunned by Portland cops
She was 71 years old. She was blind. She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue.
And in the middle of the dogfight -- in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland's courageous men in blue -- the poor woman's fake right eye popped out of its socket and was bouncing around in the dirt.
Worried a city employee was hauling away a family heirloom, a 90-year-old red toy wagon, she had the nerve to feel her way toward the trailer in which her yard debris was being tossed. Enter the police. Eunice, who is hard of hearing, ignored the calls of Officers Robert Miller and Eric Zajac to leave the trailer. When she tried, unsuccessfully, to bite the hands that were laid on her, she was knocked to the ground and was pepper-sprayed in the face with such force that her prosthetic marble eye was dislodged. As she lay on her stomach, she was Tased four times with Zajac's electric stun gun.
And when Nellie Scott, Eunice's mother, tried to rinse out her daughter's eye with water from a two-quart Tupperware bowl, what does Miller do? According to Ernie Warren Jr., Eunice's lawyer, the cop pushed 94-year-old Nellie up against a fence and accused her of planning to use the water as a weapon.
Police Chief Derrick Foxworth said "This did not turn out the way we wanted it to ... But I feel we need to recognize Ms. Crowder has some responsibility. She contributed to the situation".
[This week, Portland city agreed to settle Ms. Crowder's excessive force lawsuit out of federal court. More ...]
We are not the enemy
Man sentenced to 37 months for "Burning bush" comment
She was 71 years old. She was blind. She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue.
And in the middle of the dogfight -- in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland's courageous men in blue -- the poor woman's fake right eye popped out of its socket and was bouncing around in the dirt.
Worried a city employee was hauling away a family heirloom, a 90-year-old red toy wagon, she had the nerve to feel her way toward the trailer in which her yard debris was being tossed. Enter the police. Eunice, who is hard of hearing, ignored the calls of Officers Robert Miller and Eric Zajac to leave the trailer. When she tried, unsuccessfully, to bite the hands that were laid on her, she was knocked to the ground and was pepper-sprayed in the face with such force that her prosthetic marble eye was dislodged. As she lay on her stomach, she was Tased four times with Zajac's electric stun gun.
And when Nellie Scott, Eunice's mother, tried to rinse out her daughter's eye with water from a two-quart Tupperware bowl, what does Miller do? According to Ernie Warren Jr., Eunice's lawyer, the cop pushed 94-year-old Nellie up against a fence and accused her of planning to use the water as a weapon.
Police Chief Derrick Foxworth said "This did not turn out the way we wanted it to ... But I feel we need to recognize Ms. Crowder has some responsibility. She contributed to the situation".
[This week, Portland city agreed to settle Ms. Crowder's excessive force lawsuit out of federal court. More ...]
We are not the enemy
Man sentenced to 37 months for "Burning bush" comment
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
Sacked for photo Americans weren't meant to see
Last Sunday a newspaper in Seattle, Washington, published a rare photograph of soldiers' coffins, each of them containing the body of an American who had died in Iraq. The coffins, each draped with the Stars and Stripes, had been loaded into the back of a cargo aircraft for a final journey to the US, where they would be buried. There were at least 18 of them in the picture, which was taken by a 50-year-old civilian contractor, Tami Silicio. On Wednesday Ms Silicio was sacked from her job, for taking the photograph and sharing it with news organizations.
Citizens, politicians and soldiers are squaring off over pictures of flag-draped coffins coming home from Iraq.
[The leaking of photos that "Americans were not meant to see", will prompt an unprecedented number to find such images. These arouse subtle "patriotic" emotion that help sell the rulers' control myths to the populace.]
Last Sunday a newspaper in Seattle, Washington, published a rare photograph of soldiers' coffins, each of them containing the body of an American who had died in Iraq. The coffins, each draped with the Stars and Stripes, had been loaded into the back of a cargo aircraft for a final journey to the US, where they would be buried. There were at least 18 of them in the picture, which was taken by a 50-year-old civilian contractor, Tami Silicio. On Wednesday Ms Silicio was sacked from her job, for taking the photograph and sharing it with news organizations.
Citizens, politicians and soldiers are squaring off over pictures of flag-draped coffins coming home from Iraq.
[The leaking of photos that "Americans were not meant to see", will prompt an unprecedented number to find such images. These arouse subtle "patriotic" emotion that help sell the rulers' control myths to the populace.]
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Robots may fight for the army
Robots, called small unmanned ground vehicles, or SUGVs, will detect the presence of chemical and biological weapons, identify targets for artillery and infantrymen, and ferret out snipers hiding inside urban buildings. Today, humans mainly perform these tasks, often becoming the first casualties of battle while looking for snipers or explosives.
Soldiers in the future, the Army hopes, will be able to pull SUGVs from their backpacks and drop the robots through the windows of buildings where enemies may be hiding.
Robots, called small unmanned ground vehicles, or SUGVs, will detect the presence of chemical and biological weapons, identify targets for artillery and infantrymen, and ferret out snipers hiding inside urban buildings. Today, humans mainly perform these tasks, often becoming the first casualties of battle while looking for snipers or explosives.
Soldiers in the future, the Army hopes, will be able to pull SUGVs from their backpacks and drop the robots through the windows of buildings where enemies may be hiding.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
DID YOU KNOW
Formaldehyde Facts
Formaldehyde is found virtually everywhere, indoors and out, naturally occurring and man-made.
It is a combustion product found in cigarette and wood smoke, natural gas, kerosene, exhaust from automobiles, incinerators and power plants.
It is also widely used in building materials especially glue, Urea-formaldehyde foam insulation and pressed-wood products such as plywood, particle board, paneling and wood finishes.
Many floor coverings contain formaldehyde such as carpet as well as furnishings.
Also used in paper products, cosmetics, deodorants, shampoos, fabric dyes and permanent-press fabrics, inks, and disinfectants. Another common place to find formaldehyde that seems out of place is in products that are supposed to make our homes smell better such as air and carpet deodorizers.
Mobile homes, motor homes, and travel trailers are known for high amounts of formaldehyde since so many of their components may be made from particle board or pressed-wood products.
The number of products that contain formaldehyde are as astounding as it is depressing.
Formaldehyde is found virtually everywhere, indoors and out, naturally occurring and man-made.
It is a combustion product found in cigarette and wood smoke, natural gas, kerosene, exhaust from automobiles, incinerators and power plants.
It is also widely used in building materials especially glue, Urea-formaldehyde foam insulation and pressed-wood products such as plywood, particle board, paneling and wood finishes.
Many floor coverings contain formaldehyde such as carpet as well as furnishings.
Also used in paper products, cosmetics, deodorants, shampoos, fabric dyes and permanent-press fabrics, inks, and disinfectants. Another common place to find formaldehyde that seems out of place is in products that are supposed to make our homes smell better such as air and carpet deodorizers.
Mobile homes, motor homes, and travel trailers are known for high amounts of formaldehyde since so many of their components may be made from particle board or pressed-wood products.
The number of products that contain formaldehyde are as astounding as it is depressing.
Saturday, April 24, 2004
CASHLESSNESS
Chip implant gets cash under your skin: mark of the beast?
Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, Fla., is hoping that Americans can be persuaded to implant RFID chips under their skin to identify themselves when going to a cash machine or in place of using a credit card. The surgical procedure, which is performed with local anesthetic, embeds a microchip, which some manufacturers have managed to shrink to half the size of a grain of sand.
They listen for a radio query and respond by transmitting a unique ID code, typically a 64-bit identifier yielding about 18 thousand trillion possible values. Most RFID tags have no batteries. They use the power from the initial radio signal to transmit their response.
When embedded in human bodies, RFID tags raise unique security concerns. First, because they broadcast their ID number, a thief could rig up his or her own device to intercept and then rebroadcast the signal to an automatic teller machine. Second, sufficiently dedicated thieves may try to slice the tags out of their victims.
ADS is running a special promotion urging Americans to "get chipped." The first 100,000 people to sign up will receive a $50 discount.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
OUR ALIEN MASTERS
Aboriginal woman puts curse on PM
An Aboriginal woman clad in possum skins put a traditional curse on Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday, apparently in retaliation for government plans to abolish Australia's top indigenous elected body.
Howard encountered the woman on a visit to Colac, an outback town with 500 people in the state of Victoria. Supporters turned up to greet the prime minister along with angry Aboriginal protesters and the woman, known only as Moopor.
Painted in traditional tribal makeup and wearing possum skins, Moopor stood silently and cast the curse by pointing an inch-long bone at Howard as he climbed into a waiting car. Howard smiled and waved at Moopor before leaving.
[Traditional Aborigines believe that when a tribal Gadicha Man points a bone at someone it places a curse strong enough to cause death. Such is the effect of social excommunication.]
An Aboriginal woman clad in possum skins put a traditional curse on Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday, apparently in retaliation for government plans to abolish Australia's top indigenous elected body.
Howard encountered the woman on a visit to Colac, an outback town with 500 people in the state of Victoria. Supporters turned up to greet the prime minister along with angry Aboriginal protesters and the woman, known only as Moopor.
Painted in traditional tribal makeup and wearing possum skins, Moopor stood silently and cast the curse by pointing an inch-long bone at Howard as he climbed into a waiting car. Howard smiled and waved at Moopor before leaving.
[Traditional Aborigines believe that when a tribal Gadicha Man points a bone at someone it places a curse strong enough to cause death. Such is the effect of social excommunication.]
SUFFER THE CHILDREN
Depleted uranium and Anglo-American infanticide in the wake of the Gulf War
Warning: Photographs on this link are extremely disturbing. They vividly portray the ravages of Gulf War I, 10 years on -- they show the fruits of man's inhumanity towards man -- grossly affecting infants through their DNA expression.
Dr. Siegwart Horst-Gunther, president of the International Yellow Cross, reported, "I have heard stories of visitors to Iraq who spoke with mid-wives there. These mid-wives are purported to have said they no longer look forward to births as.... "We don't know what's going to come out."
Warning: Photographs on this link are extremely disturbing. They vividly portray the ravages of Gulf War I, 10 years on -- they show the fruits of man's inhumanity towards man -- grossly affecting infants through their DNA expression.
Dr. Siegwart Horst-Gunther, president of the International Yellow Cross, reported, "I have heard stories of visitors to Iraq who spoke with mid-wives there. These mid-wives are purported to have said they no longer look forward to births as.... "We don't know what's going to come out."
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
More murmers that US will plant WMDs in Iraq ready for pre-election discovery
Bush demonstrates surprising confidence that after a year the US will 'find out the truth about the weapons'.
At an April 13 press conference Bush said: "I thought it was very interesting that Charlie Duelfer, -- he's the head of the Iraqi Survey Group -- [... said] he was amazed at how deceptive the Iraqis had been ... deceptive in hiding things. We knew they were hiding things -- a country that hides something is a country that is afraid of getting caught. And that was part of our calculation. Charlie confirmed that. He also confirmed that Saddam had a -- the ability to produce biological and chemical weapons. In other words, he was a danger.
"Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would have called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein. See, I happen to believe that we'll find out the truth on the weapons. That's why we've sent up the independent commission. I look forward to hearing the truth, exactly where they are. They could still be there. They could be hidden.
"But it will all settle out, John. We'll find out the truth about the weapons at some point in time."
[An article by Professor Ira Chernus said "Mehr News Agency has discovered, through a source in the Iraq Governing Council, that the U.S. has been secretly unloading parts for long range missiles in Southern Iraq. It seems as though "ordinary cargo ships were used to download the cargo, which consisted of weapons produced in the 1980s and 1990s." It also appears that the weapons being unloaded are weapons that the "U.S. obtained through confiscations during banned arms sales over the past two decades." According to the Mehr News Agency's source, "the parts are old ones, just like the kind the U.S. gave to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s."
Another article states that the weapons parts are being transported around Iraq in crates marked Maersk in trucks with fake Jordanian license plates. Apparently, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council discovered what was going on and contacted an Iranian news service.]
Bush demonstrates surprising confidence that after a year the US will 'find out the truth about the weapons'.
At an April 13 press conference Bush said: "I thought it was very interesting that Charlie Duelfer, -- he's the head of the Iraqi Survey Group -- [... said] he was amazed at how deceptive the Iraqis had been ... deceptive in hiding things. We knew they were hiding things -- a country that hides something is a country that is afraid of getting caught. And that was part of our calculation. Charlie confirmed that. He also confirmed that Saddam had a -- the ability to produce biological and chemical weapons. In other words, he was a danger.
"Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would have called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein. See, I happen to believe that we'll find out the truth on the weapons. That's why we've sent up the independent commission. I look forward to hearing the truth, exactly where they are. They could still be there. They could be hidden.
"But it will all settle out, John. We'll find out the truth about the weapons at some point in time."
[An article by Professor Ira Chernus said "Mehr News Agency has discovered, through a source in the Iraq Governing Council, that the U.S. has been secretly unloading parts for long range missiles in Southern Iraq. It seems as though "ordinary cargo ships were used to download the cargo, which consisted of weapons produced in the 1980s and 1990s." It also appears that the weapons being unloaded are weapons that the "U.S. obtained through confiscations during banned arms sales over the past two decades." According to the Mehr News Agency's source, "the parts are old ones, just like the kind the U.S. gave to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s."
Another article states that the weapons parts are being transported around Iraq in crates marked Maersk in trucks with fake Jordanian license plates. Apparently, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council discovered what was going on and contacted an Iranian news service.]
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
Iraq doublespeak pronouncements Orwellian in their defiance of reality
Bush's series of statements stand at almost surreal odds with the truth.
'Iraq will be free, Iraq will be independent,' he promised, just as soon as the 'transfer of sovereignty' is complete on June 30.
But look at the reality. On July 1 Iraq will still have up to to 130,000 foreign troops on its soil as well as 14 'enduring' US military bases. Every move of the new authority - with no democratic mandate whatsoever - will be subject to the approval of a 'US embassy' which will administer some $18.4 bn in reconstruction funds and be the largest such mission in the world.
Iraqi infrastructure, from the electricity grid to the courts, will be reshaped and run out of the embassy. Iraqi industry will be on sale to foreign ownership and the Iraqi military will still take its orders from the US commander.
So June 30 will not be a handover of 'sovereignty' at all, and Iraq will be neither 'free' nor 'independent', at least not according to any common-sense definition of those terms. Yet Bush and Blair continue to speak of the end of June as if it was Iraqi independence day.
And that's nothing compared with the rest of the Bush-Blair show. Behold the comedy of the president's declaration that 'our coalition has no interest in occupation'. Or the prime minister's insistence that no 'outside' forces will be allowed to determine Iraq's future - as if the US and British armies are not outside forces doing precisely that.
These are examples of doublethink to rival Bremer's exquisite remark to an American interviewer earlier this month that the Iraqi resistance is made up of people who 'think that power in Iraq should come out of the barrel of a gun. That's intolerable and we will deal with it'.
Bush's series of statements stand at almost surreal odds with the truth.
'Iraq will be free, Iraq will be independent,' he promised, just as soon as the 'transfer of sovereignty' is complete on June 30.
But look at the reality. On July 1 Iraq will still have up to to 130,000 foreign troops on its soil as well as 14 'enduring' US military bases. Every move of the new authority - with no democratic mandate whatsoever - will be subject to the approval of a 'US embassy' which will administer some $18.4 bn in reconstruction funds and be the largest such mission in the world.
Iraqi infrastructure, from the electricity grid to the courts, will be reshaped and run out of the embassy. Iraqi industry will be on sale to foreign ownership and the Iraqi military will still take its orders from the US commander.
So June 30 will not be a handover of 'sovereignty' at all, and Iraq will be neither 'free' nor 'independent', at least not according to any common-sense definition of those terms. Yet Bush and Blair continue to speak of the end of June as if it was Iraqi independence day.
And that's nothing compared with the rest of the Bush-Blair show. Behold the comedy of the president's declaration that 'our coalition has no interest in occupation'. Or the prime minister's insistence that no 'outside' forces will be allowed to determine Iraq's future - as if the US and British armies are not outside forces doing precisely that.
These are examples of doublethink to rival Bremer's exquisite remark to an American interviewer earlier this month that the Iraqi resistance is made up of people who 'think that power in Iraq should come out of the barrel of a gun. That's intolerable and we will deal with it'.
NEW WORLD ORDER
Senator says US may need military draft to boost Iraq force
A senior Republican lawmaker said that deteriorating security in Iraq may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft.
"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face".
A senior Republican lawmaker said that deteriorating security in Iraq may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft.
"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face".
FREE SPIRIT
"I am a symbol that a free spirit can survive. Nobody can destroy the will of the man who wants to be free. You cannot destroy the human spirit."
Israeli nuclear whistleblower walks free ... happy and sane
Released Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who walked out of the Shikma prison in the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Wednesday, where he was imprisoned for 18 years, said he was "proud and happy at what he had done".
He said Israel's Mossad spy agency and Shabak (domestic intelligence), also known as the Shin Bet security services, "did not succeed in breaking me … to make me crazy".
"I suffered cruel, barbaric treatment by Israeli spies Mossad, Shabak agents. The guards inside the prison were only obeying orders from Shabak, Mossad", Vanunu said.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
NEW WORLD ORDER
Richard Perle: Taliban-style leader in a suit
This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq, then we take a look around and see how things stand. This is entirely the wrong way to go about it ... If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war ... our children will sing great songs about us years from now. -- Richard Perle
Ricard Perle resigned as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, however he is still on the committee. Perle is the 'brains' behind the US policy of 'total war' and 'creative destruction', the latter which is designed to lead to complete subjugation of the Middle East.
Perle helped set up the crypto-fascist Project for the New American Century. Other founders include Vice-President Dick Cheney, the defence secretary Rumsfeld and deputy secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
Perle is managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P., registered in November, 2001, in Delaware. Trireme's main business, according to a two-page letter that one of its representatives sent to Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi (who brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales for the Saudi royal family), is to invest in companies dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defence. The letter argued that the fear of terrorism would increase the demand for such products in Europe and in countries like Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Trireme is a direct beneficiary of war with Iraq.
This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq, then we take a look around and see how things stand. This is entirely the wrong way to go about it ... If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war ... our children will sing great songs about us years from now. -- Richard Perle
Ricard Perle resigned as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, however he is still on the committee. Perle is the 'brains' behind the US policy of 'total war' and 'creative destruction', the latter which is designed to lead to complete subjugation of the Middle East.
Perle helped set up the crypto-fascist Project for the New American Century. Other founders include Vice-President Dick Cheney, the defence secretary Rumsfeld and deputy secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
Perle is managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P., registered in November, 2001, in Delaware. Trireme's main business, according to a two-page letter that one of its representatives sent to Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi (who brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales for the Saudi royal family), is to invest in companies dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defence. The letter argued that the fear of terrorism would increase the demand for such products in Europe and in countries like Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Trireme is a direct beneficiary of war with Iraq.
NEW WORLD ORDER
Children trained to accept Martial Law conditions
On Friday, March 21, 2003 schoolchildren at Milbourne Elementary School were eager to get out early for spring break. One of kid's the parents became concerned when his 10 year-old son did not arrive home on time.
His son arrived an hour and a half late and told his father he was denied food while being forced to watch 'red alert' videos for three or four hours a day -- the screenings included terrifying video of terrorist attacks and archived battle footage.
The father reported that school employees told the children that they were not going to be allowed to leave. Then men in dark blue uniforms armed with rifles locked the children and their teachers in their classrooms. The children's fear intensified when they noticed that their teachers did not know what was going on and were afraid themselves, trying in vain attempts to get out.
The children were then marched outside where flat buses were waiting. The children clearly saw 'US ARMY' on the sides of the buses.
The children were then marched back to their classrooms and the uniformed men (not local police) disappeared. The children were only then allowed to go home.
In 1999, infowars.com obtained an Associated Press report about a federal program administered by FEMA that was training schools to load children (handcuffed, in many cases) on school buses and take them to 'emergency centers.'
Charlotte Izerbyt, former Head of Policy for the Department of Education (1980-1984) provided Infowars.com ago with internal Department of Education documents announcing that public schools would be used to brainwash children into accepting a societal shift into authoritarian control.
Red alert? Stay home, await word
Military to 'assist' in event of Homeland attack
On Friday, March 21, 2003 schoolchildren at Milbourne Elementary School were eager to get out early for spring break. One of kid's the parents became concerned when his 10 year-old son did not arrive home on time.
His son arrived an hour and a half late and told his father he was denied food while being forced to watch 'red alert' videos for three or four hours a day -- the screenings included terrifying video of terrorist attacks and archived battle footage.
The father reported that school employees told the children that they were not going to be allowed to leave. Then men in dark blue uniforms armed with rifles locked the children and their teachers in their classrooms. The children's fear intensified when they noticed that their teachers did not know what was going on and were afraid themselves, trying in vain attempts to get out.
The children were then marched outside where flat buses were waiting. The children clearly saw 'US ARMY' on the sides of the buses.
The children were then marched back to their classrooms and the uniformed men (not local police) disappeared. The children were only then allowed to go home.
In 1999, infowars.com obtained an Associated Press report about a federal program administered by FEMA that was training schools to load children (handcuffed, in many cases) on school buses and take them to 'emergency centers.'
Charlotte Izerbyt, former Head of Policy for the Department of Education (1980-1984) provided Infowars.com ago with internal Department of Education documents announcing that public schools would be used to brainwash children into accepting a societal shift into authoritarian control.
Red alert? Stay home, await word
Military to 'assist' in event of Homeland attack
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
OIL WARS
Condi's Chevron connection more ...
Judge says ChevronTexaco could be liable for alleged rights abuse in Nigeria
A US federal judge says ChevronTexaco Corp. could stand trial on allegations one of its subsidiaries was linked to the deaths of nine people during oil protests. The suit was filed in 1999 following attacks on an offshore oil platform in May 1998, and on residents of two villages in January 1999.
ChevronTexaco argued the company is not liable for wrongful death and other damages to survivors, and that it cannot be sued in American courts for the actions of its subsidiary, Chevron Nigeria Ltd., known as CNL.
The survivors allege that Chevron in the United States profited from CNL's oil production which was made possible, or at least was protected by, the military's allegedly abusive force to quell unrest in Nigeria.
OIL WARS
Flashback (May 5, 2001)
Chevron gives oil tanker a new name: "Condoleezza Rice" too blatant perhaps?
Leaving a wave of controversy in its wake, one of the most visible reminders of the Bush administration's ties to big oil - the 129,000-ton Chevron tanker Condoleezza Rice - has quietly been renamed the "Altair Voyager", Chevron officials acknowledged yesterday.
Asked if Rice or the White House had specifically requested the name change, Chevron spokesman Fred Gorell said, "that's not for me to discuss."
A month prior, it was reported that the White House had faced questions over the appropriateness of the tanker's name -- particularly as California struggled with the effects of an energy crisis.
The giant vessel was part of the international fleet of the US-based multinational oil firm, christened several years ago in honor of Rice, a longtime Chevron board member. She served on Chevron's board from 1991 until Jan. 15, when she resigned after Bush named her his top national security aide.
Chevron has been sued for alleged human rights abuses in Nigeria.
Bush and big business: While both main parties have close ties to corporate America, the new president does seem particularly keen to legislate in the interests of business. What is clear, though, is that big money pulls a big punch in the new administration. Vice President Dick Cheney was, until last year, the CEO of Halliburton, the world's largest oil field services company.
Chevron gives oil tanker a new name: "Condoleezza Rice" too blatant perhaps?
Leaving a wave of controversy in its wake, one of the most visible reminders of the Bush administration's ties to big oil - the 129,000-ton Chevron tanker Condoleezza Rice - has quietly been renamed the "Altair Voyager", Chevron officials acknowledged yesterday.
Asked if Rice or the White House had specifically requested the name change, Chevron spokesman Fred Gorell said, "that's not for me to discuss."
A month prior, it was reported that the White House had faced questions over the appropriateness of the tanker's name -- particularly as California struggled with the effects of an energy crisis.
The giant vessel was part of the international fleet of the US-based multinational oil firm, christened several years ago in honor of Rice, a longtime Chevron board member. She served on Chevron's board from 1991 until Jan. 15, when she resigned after Bush named her his top national security aide.
Chevron has been sued for alleged human rights abuses in Nigeria.
Bush and big business: While both main parties have close ties to corporate America, the new president does seem particularly keen to legislate in the interests of business. What is clear, though, is that big money pulls a big punch in the new administration. Vice President Dick Cheney was, until last year, the CEO of Halliburton, the world's largest oil field services company.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
A Boeing Joint Unmanned Combat Air System X-45 aircraft releases a dummy bomb in testing.
Robot plane drops bomb in successful test
A robotic plane deliberately dropped a bomb near a truck at Edwards Air Force Base on Sunday, marking another step forward for technology the U.S. military hopes will one day replace human pilots on dangerous combat missions.
Under human supervision but without human piloting, a prototype of the Boeing Co. (BA)'s X-45 took off from the desert base, opened its bomb bay doors, dropped a 250-pound Small Smart Bomb and then landed. The inert bomb struck within inches of the truck it was supposed to hit, Boeing said, adding that had the bomb contained explosives, the target would have been destroyed.
OIL WARS
Private commandos shoot back on the Iraq firing line
Ex-military commandos armed with M4 rifles are fighting insurgents in Iraq as part of a private contracting force, many of them hired by the US-led coalition, raising some deep concerns.
About 15,000 personnel from private military firms (PMFs) were operating in Iraq, making them more numerous that even the biggest US ally, Britain, estimated Peter Singer, author of 'Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry.
Ex-military commandos armed with M4 rifles are fighting insurgents in Iraq as part of a private contracting force, many of them hired by the US-led coalition, raising some deep concerns.
About 15,000 personnel from private military firms (PMFs) were operating in Iraq, making them more numerous that even the biggest US ally, Britain, estimated Peter Singer, author of 'Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry.
Monday, April 19, 2004
OTHER PEOPLE
AIDS scare shuts down porn studios
Many major pornographic movie producers, including the industry's largest, have agreed to shut down sets for 60 days because two stars tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
At least 45 men and women were under voluntary quarantine because they had sex with the HIV-positive performers or their sex partners, said Sharon Mitchell of the nonprofit Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation.
The first performer to test positive was a male, Mitchell said.
She also confirmed that one of about a dozen women the performer had sex with in films also tested HIV-positive.
The Los Angeles Times identified the performers as actor Darren James and actress Lara Roxx.
Many major pornographic movie producers, including the industry's largest, have agreed to shut down sets for 60 days because two stars tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
At least 45 men and women were under voluntary quarantine because they had sex with the HIV-positive performers or their sex partners, said Sharon Mitchell of the nonprofit Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation.
The first performer to test positive was a male, Mitchell said.
She also confirmed that one of about a dozen women the performer had sex with in films also tested HIV-positive.
The Los Angeles Times identified the performers as actor Darren James and actress Lara Roxx.
Sunday, April 18, 2004
OIL WARS
Hired guns: military contractors run amok
The ambush and gruesome killing of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, has sparked some of the most intense combat since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime last spring.
It has also brought the actions of private military contractors—hired by the U.S. government to provide extra manpower and firepower in Iraq—into sharp focus, with reports that they are fighting their own battles with their own weapons, helicopters, and intelligence networks.
Deaths of scores of mercenaries go unreported
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Once America's friend, now forgotten
Somewhere inside a vast, sprawling U.S. prison compound near Baghdad, the man known as Prisoner No. 152333 remembers the praise that the Americans lavished on him just a few months ago. He was the first mayor of the first civilian government in postwar Iraq.
He was a crucial voice of support to the foreign invaders when they desperately needed local allies. The American army awarded him a certificate for his 'truly historic' assistance to the U.S.-led coalition. It said his 'leadership and dedication' were 'an inspiration to leaders throughout the world.'
Today, Najim Abed Mahdi is a forgotten man. He is in his fourth month of detention in a U.S. jail cell. His career as an English teacher is ruined, his family has gone without income for three months.
The respected 53-year-old educator, widely known as Teacher Najim in his hometown of Umm Qasr, is among thousands of prisoners in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. No charges have been filed against him and he appears to be the victim of a Kafkaesque ordeal that began when he was swept up in a raid by American soldiers.
Somewhere inside a vast, sprawling U.S. prison compound near Baghdad, the man known as Prisoner No. 152333 remembers the praise that the Americans lavished on him just a few months ago. He was the first mayor of the first civilian government in postwar Iraq.
He was a crucial voice of support to the foreign invaders when they desperately needed local allies. The American army awarded him a certificate for his 'truly historic' assistance to the U.S.-led coalition. It said his 'leadership and dedication' were 'an inspiration to leaders throughout the world.'
Today, Najim Abed Mahdi is a forgotten man. He is in his fourth month of detention in a U.S. jail cell. His career as an English teacher is ruined, his family has gone without income for three months.
The respected 53-year-old educator, widely known as Teacher Najim in his hometown of Umm Qasr, is among thousands of prisoners in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. No charges have been filed against him and he appears to be the victim of a Kafkaesque ordeal that began when he was swept up in a raid by American soldiers.
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
Jeddah, here 15 of the 19 terrorist hijackers obtained visas: consulate officer speaks out
Former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah is Michael Springman, says because of Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book, “The Grand Chessboard,” national security advisor for Jimmy Carter and a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, that they actually staged that Afghan war and got the Afghans to attack the Soviets, to then set up this entire nest and take control of the oil and the other little goodies that grow on top of poppies there.
MICHAEL SPRINGMAN: The American people don’t get the full story. The mainstream press doesn’t want to hear any of this stuff. And it seems to go from bad to worse. I thought that by raising hell and eventually losing my job over making the agency look bad, that all of this had stopped. But fifteen of the nineteen people who had gotten visas, who allegedly were responsible for flying airplanes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers, they came from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and got visas at the Consulate there.
Former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah is Michael Springman, says because of Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book, “The Grand Chessboard,” national security advisor for Jimmy Carter and a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, that they actually staged that Afghan war and got the Afghans to attack the Soviets, to then set up this entire nest and take control of the oil and the other little goodies that grow on top of poppies there.
MICHAEL SPRINGMAN: The American people don’t get the full story. The mainstream press doesn’t want to hear any of this stuff. And it seems to go from bad to worse. I thought that by raising hell and eventually losing my job over making the agency look bad, that all of this had stopped. But fifteen of the nineteen people who had gotten visas, who allegedly were responsible for flying airplanes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers, they came from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and got visas at the Consulate there.
Thursday, April 15, 2004
WEIRD SCIENCE
Area 51 microbiologist Dr Dan Burisch ready to talk
Dr. Dan Burisch has first-hand knowledge of the U.S. government's involvement in funding the creation of designer viruses for use in biowarfare and other applications. He is also intimately privy to other covert operations that violate normal standards of human ethics.
He is presently working on the Lotus project at Area 51 north of Las Vegas, in a secret extra-budget operation under the umbrella direction of a non-elected shadow international governing body that has covert ties to the U.S. government and with extraterrestrials.
The Lotus project involves studies of what is called a 'Ganesh particle' which is capable of repairing damages cells. The Ganesh particle itself, which gives off light, has characteristics of being a living intelligence.
Burisch is witness to human subjects being held against their will for experimentation per covert treaties between the U.S. government and extraterrestrial governing bodies. The treaty, called Tau-IX, allows for abduction, removal of blood and reproductive samples and tissue; and does not control whether humans are maimed, tortured or killed.
Dr. Dan Burisch has first-hand knowledge of the U.S. government's involvement in funding the creation of designer viruses for use in biowarfare and other applications. He is also intimately privy to other covert operations that violate normal standards of human ethics.
He is presently working on the Lotus project at Area 51 north of Las Vegas, in a secret extra-budget operation under the umbrella direction of a non-elected shadow international governing body that has covert ties to the U.S. government and with extraterrestrials.
The Lotus project involves studies of what is called a 'Ganesh particle' which is capable of repairing damages cells. The Ganesh particle itself, which gives off light, has characteristics of being a living intelligence.
Burisch is witness to human subjects being held against their will for experimentation per covert treaties between the U.S. government and extraterrestrial governing bodies. The treaty, called Tau-IX, allows for abduction, removal of blood and reproductive samples and tissue; and does not control whether humans are maimed, tortured or killed.
NEW WORLD ORDER
Defence department to 'assist' in event of Homeland attack
In a terrorist attack on America, NORTHCOM -– which defends land, air and sea approaches to the United States -- would provide support to US civil authorities, Verga noted.
This, he explained, would include "military support to civilian law enforcement agencies, military assistance for civil disturbances, and incident management operations in response" to an attack using weapons of mass destruction.
[Sounds like more preparations for the introduction of Martial Law - ed.]
In a terrorist attack on America, NORTHCOM -– which defends land, air and sea approaches to the United States -- would provide support to US civil authorities, Verga noted.
This, he explained, would include "military support to civilian law enforcement agencies, military assistance for civil disturbances, and incident management operations in response" to an attack using weapons of mass destruction.
[Sounds like more preparations for the introduction of Martial Law - ed.]
NEW WORLD ORDER
Britain's Big Brother getting bigger
Day after day, and sometimes late into the night, Felix Codrington watches the people of Wandsworth. The 48-year-old is one of three local government officials charged with monitoring the 567 cameras that scan the streets and other public areas of the London borough. Sitting on a swivel chair in a dimly lit room, Codrington scrutinizes the rows of screens on the wall in front of him, looking for suspicious behavior.
A couple of youths loiter near an ATM, and he zooms in. When they move on, he turns his attention to another screen, where shoppers are browsing in a street market. "We don't miss much," says Codrington, twiddling the joystick on his desk. "We've got cameras all over the place now".
Day after day, and sometimes late into the night, Felix Codrington watches the people of Wandsworth. The 48-year-old is one of three local government officials charged with monitoring the 567 cameras that scan the streets and other public areas of the London borough. Sitting on a swivel chair in a dimly lit room, Codrington scrutinizes the rows of screens on the wall in front of him, looking for suspicious behavior.
A couple of youths loiter near an ATM, and he zooms in. When they move on, he turns his attention to another screen, where shoppers are browsing in a street market. "We don't miss much," says Codrington, twiddling the joystick on his desk. "We've got cameras all over the place now".
WATER WARS
Nile states hold 'crisis talks'
The 10 states that share the Nile waters met in Uganda to discuss the future of the river. The talks came amid growing regional tensions over the world's longest river.
Egypt is reported to have said it would regard any attempt to alter the Nile status as an act of war.
The Nile is vitally important to the survival of 160 million people who share the basin in which it flows, but to Egypt the river is a matter of life and death, as the country has almost no other source of water.
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
Deaths of scores of mercenaries unreported
At least 18 000 mercenaries, many of them tasked to protect US troops and personnel, are now believed to be in Iraq, some of them earning $1000 a day. But their companies rarely acknowledge their losses unless - like the four American murdered and mutilated in Fallujah three weeks ago - their deaths are already public knowledge.
But although many of the heavily armed Western security men are working for the US Department of Defence - and most of them are former Special Forces soldiers - they are not listed as serving military personnel. Their losses can therefore be hidden from public view.
At least 18 000 mercenaries, many of them tasked to protect US troops and personnel, are now believed to be in Iraq, some of them earning $1000 a day. But their companies rarely acknowledge their losses unless - like the four American murdered and mutilated in Fallujah three weeks ago - their deaths are already public knowledge.
But although many of the heavily armed Western security men are working for the US Department of Defence - and most of them are former Special Forces soldiers - they are not listed as serving military personnel. Their losses can therefore be hidden from public view.
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
New reports of US planting WMD In Iraq
Sources in Iraq speculate that occupation forces are using the recent unrest in Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious shipments of WMD into the country.
An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor's Office told the MNA that new information shows that a large part of the WMD, which was secretly brought to southern and western Iraq over the past month, are in containers falsely labeled as containers of the Maeresk shipping company and some consignments bearing the labels of organizations such as the Red Cross or the USAID in order to disguise them as relief shipments.
Sources in Iraq speculate that occupation forces are using the recent unrest in Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious shipments of WMD into the country.
An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor's Office told the MNA that new information shows that a large part of the WMD, which was secretly brought to southern and western Iraq over the past month, are in containers falsely labeled as containers of the Maeresk shipping company and some consignments bearing the labels of organizations such as the Red Cross or the USAID in order to disguise them as relief shipments.
OUR ALIEN MASTERS
Bush coy about admitting mistakes
"I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have," he said. "I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."
Four times during his prime-time press conference, George W. Bush was asked whether he has made any mistakes in his presidency, whether there was anything -- his decision to invade Iraq on what turned out to be false pretenses, his failure to take decisive action in response to a memo that warned of terrorist attacks in the United States -- for which he might apologize.
Three times, Bush gave rambling responses that addressed everything but the questions presented. The fourth time, the president took a deep breath, blew it out, looked at the ground, looked at the ceiling, stalled for time, then said: "You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet."
"I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have," he said. "I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."
Four times during his prime-time press conference, George W. Bush was asked whether he has made any mistakes in his presidency, whether there was anything -- his decision to invade Iraq on what turned out to be false pretenses, his failure to take decisive action in response to a memo that warned of terrorist attacks in the United States -- for which he might apologize.
Three times, Bush gave rambling responses that addressed everything but the questions presented. The fourth time, the president took a deep breath, blew it out, looked at the ground, looked at the ceiling, stalled for time, then said: "You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet."
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
IDENTITY DISORDER
Chip implants on the path to fashion accessory
Baja Beach Club owner Conrad Chase wanted something unique to identify his VIP patrons. Other clubs had special jewelry or key chains, but he was looking for something special. After brainstorming, he came up with the idea to implant his VIP members with VeriChip's implantable microchip.
Alex has spoken many times over the years about how the making the chip 'fun' and how by giving it an elite status soon an entire of young teenagers will be arguing with their parents demanding that they let them be implanted so that they can be in the 'in' crowd. The Baja Beach Club and Chase have proved that the trend has started.
Baja Beach Club owner Conrad Chase wanted something unique to identify his VIP patrons. Other clubs had special jewelry or key chains, but he was looking for something special. After brainstorming, he came up with the idea to implant his VIP members with VeriChip's implantable microchip.
Alex has spoken many times over the years about how the making the chip 'fun' and how by giving it an elite status soon an entire of young teenagers will be arguing with their parents demanding that they let them be implanted so that they can be in the 'in' crowd. The Baja Beach Club and Chase have proved that the trend has started.
SKY IS FALLING
Australians watching for big asteroids spot three in first month
A NASA-funded project employing Australian astronomers to watch the southern skies for asteroids cutting across Earth's path has found three in its first month.
On March 29 two asteroids were spotted whizzing by the Earth. One, about 100 metres across and travelling at 10 kilometres a second, missed the Earth by 3 million kilometres. That same night, a second, 300 metres wide and travelling at 18 kilometres a second, passed at a distance of 20 million kilometres.
On Friday a third "new" asteroid, probably 100 metres across, was spotted. It is still approaching but will miss Earth by 2.25 million kilometres next Tuesday.
[Impact damage computer for when the hot rock barbecue begins.]
A NASA-funded project employing Australian astronomers to watch the southern skies for asteroids cutting across Earth's path has found three in its first month.
On March 29 two asteroids were spotted whizzing by the Earth. One, about 100 metres across and travelling at 10 kilometres a second, missed the Earth by 3 million kilometres. That same night, a second, 300 metres wide and travelling at 18 kilometres a second, passed at a distance of 20 million kilometres.
On Friday a third "new" asteroid, probably 100 metres across, was spotted. It is still approaching but will miss Earth by 2.25 million kilometres next Tuesday.
[Impact damage computer for when the hot rock barbecue begins.]
BIRD BRAINS
LA Airport power failure given the bird
Officials blamed a bird on a power line for a seconds-long power failure that disrupted air traffic at Los Angeles International Airport. The power failure caused delays of 15 minutes to 90 minutes for an estimated 80 to 100 Los Angeles-bound flights, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Donn Walker said.
Apparently, a bird came in contact with the 34.5 kilovolt supply line and at the same time touched a cross-arm or some other grounded device, the DWP said in statement. The line re-energized moments later.
"We didn't find the bird on the ground, so it might have flown away," said city Department of Water and Power spokeswoman Carol Tucker.
[A bird grounded a 34,500 volt power line, and then flew away! Like that is going to actually happen]
Officials blamed a bird on a power line for a seconds-long power failure that disrupted air traffic at Los Angeles International Airport. The power failure caused delays of 15 minutes to 90 minutes for an estimated 80 to 100 Los Angeles-bound flights, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Donn Walker said.
Apparently, a bird came in contact with the 34.5 kilovolt supply line and at the same time touched a cross-arm or some other grounded device, the DWP said in statement. The line re-energized moments later.
"We didn't find the bird on the ground, so it might have flown away," said city Department of Water and Power spokeswoman Carol Tucker.
[A bird grounded a 34,500 volt power line, and then flew away! Like that is going to actually happen]
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Americans slaughtering civilians in Falluja
An endless stream of women and children who'd been sniped by the Americans were being raced into the dirty clinic, the cars speeding over the curb out front as their wailing family members carried them in.
One woman and small child had been shot through the neck -- the woman was making breathy gurgling noises as the doctors frantically worked on her amongst her muffled moaning.
The small child, his eyes glazed and staring into space, continually vomited as the doctors raced to save his life.
More from the Falluja atrocity:
Vengeance, time, and US idiocy
No end in sight as Fallujah death toll approaches 700
Destroying a town in order to save it
US tactics condemned by British officers
An endless stream of women and children who'd been sniped by the Americans were being raced into the dirty clinic, the cars speeding over the curb out front as their wailing family members carried them in.
One woman and small child had been shot through the neck -- the woman was making breathy gurgling noises as the doctors frantically worked on her amongst her muffled moaning.
The small child, his eyes glazed and staring into space, continually vomited as the doctors raced to save his life.
More from the Falluja atrocity:
Vengeance, time, and US idiocy
No end in sight as Fallujah death toll approaches 700
Destroying a town in order to save it
US tactics condemned by British officers
NEW WORLD ORDER
Never get in the way of a perfectly good train wreck
"FBI information ... indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York. The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the United Arab Emirates in May saying that a group of bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives."
- President's Daily Brief, August 6 2001
"FBI information ... indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York. The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the United Arab Emirates in May saying that a group of bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives."
- President's Daily Brief, August 6 2001
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
SKY IS FALLING
When the hot rock barbecue begins ...
This handy program will estimate the seismic, blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced by the impact. The crater size is determined using pi-scaling.
This handy program will estimate the seismic, blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced by the impact. The crater size is determined using pi-scaling.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Uncovered: A 1935 US plan for invasion of Canada
In February 1935, the War Department arranged a Congressional appropriation of $57 million dollars to build three border air bases for the purposes of pre-emptive surprise attacks on Canadian air fields. The base in the Great Lakes region was to be camouflaged as a civilian airport and was to "be capable of dominating the industrial heart of Canada, the Ontario Peninsula" from p. 61 of the February 11-13, 1935, hearings of the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, on Air Defense Bases (H.R. 6621 and H.R. 4130). This testimony was to have been secret but was published by mistake. See the New York Times, May 1, 1935, p. 1.
In February 1935, the War Department arranged a Congressional appropriation of $57 million dollars to build three border air bases for the purposes of pre-emptive surprise attacks on Canadian air fields. The base in the Great Lakes region was to be camouflaged as a civilian airport and was to "be capable of dominating the industrial heart of Canada, the Ontario Peninsula" from p. 61 of the February 11-13, 1935, hearings of the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, on Air Defense Bases (H.R. 6621 and H.R. 4130). This testimony was to have been secret but was published by mistake. See the New York Times, May 1, 1935, p. 1.
CLOAK AND DAGGER
Whistleblower coming in cold from the FBI
As the focus of the 911 Commission's investigations zeroes in on the crucial months and weeks prior to September 11, 2001, Sibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old former translator at the National Security Agency, has her turn in the spotlight. She has been trying to direct the attention of government officials and Congress to her explosive contentions. Edmonds says that a cabal of spies, associated with Turkish intelligence, was working inside the NSA listening station, where electronic messages and other sorts of "chatter" are picked up, sifted, and translated, and that they tried to recruit her.
They wanted her to refrain from translating certain taped phone conversations and other surveillance, and threatened her when she refused. In an affidavit filed with the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ms. Edmonds testified that "investigations are being compromised, incorrect or misleading translations are being sent to agents in the field. Translations are being blocked and circumvented.
As the focus of the 911 Commission's investigations zeroes in on the crucial months and weeks prior to September 11, 2001, Sibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old former translator at the National Security Agency, has her turn in the spotlight. She has been trying to direct the attention of government officials and Congress to her explosive contentions. Edmonds says that a cabal of spies, associated with Turkish intelligence, was working inside the NSA listening station, where electronic messages and other sorts of "chatter" are picked up, sifted, and translated, and that they tried to recruit her.
They wanted her to refrain from translating certain taped phone conversations and other surveillance, and threatened her when she refused. In an affidavit filed with the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ms. Edmonds testified that "investigations are being compromised, incorrect or misleading translations are being sent to agents in the field. Translations are being blocked and circumvented.
MYSTERIOUS FIRES
Blazing mystery is straight from the ‘X-Files’
"Every time some new scientist comes to town, they arrive thinking the whole thing has been invented or that they’re going to solve the mystery in two minutes. They’ve all been wrong. Someone wrote to us saying the solution was to sacrifice a black goat and collect its blood. At some point, that’s going to start looking like a good idea.”
- Pedro Spinnato, mayor of the Sicilian town of Canneto Di Caronia, where household appliances and other inanimate objects have been bursting into flames for no apparent reason.
"Every time some new scientist comes to town, they arrive thinking the whole thing has been invented or that they’re going to solve the mystery in two minutes. They’ve all been wrong. Someone wrote to us saying the solution was to sacrifice a black goat and collect its blood. At some point, that’s going to start looking like a good idea.”
- Pedro Spinnato, mayor of the Sicilian town of Canneto Di Caronia, where household appliances and other inanimate objects have been bursting into flames for no apparent reason.
Saturday, April 10, 2004
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Rumsfeld plan to incite more terror attacks
According to a classified document prepared for US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, a new organization -- the 'Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)' -- will carry out secret missions designed to 'stimulate reactions' among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to 'counterattack' by U.S. forces.
This astonishing admission was buried deep in a Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times. There -- in an article by military analyst William Arkin, detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the .
According to a classified document prepared for US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, a new organization -- the 'Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)' -- will carry out secret missions designed to 'stimulate reactions' among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to 'counterattack' by U.S. forces.
This astonishing admission was buried deep in a Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times. There -- in an article by military analyst William Arkin, detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the .
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
Prober: I knew in days US 'wrong' on Iraqi WMD
The CIA's former weapons hunter in Iraq realized within days of arriving in Baghdad last summer that dictator Saddam Hussein was no longer stockpiling a banned arsenal, according to a new report.
David Kay, with whom the Bush administration placed its hopes of finding Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, sent a startling E-mail to CIA Director George Tenet in early July 2003.
'I wrote that it looks as though they did not produce weapons,' Kay reveals in an interview with the new Vanity Fair."
The CIA's former weapons hunter in Iraq realized within days of arriving in Baghdad last summer that dictator Saddam Hussein was no longer stockpiling a banned arsenal, according to a new report.
David Kay, with whom the Bush administration placed its hopes of finding Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, sent a startling E-mail to CIA Director George Tenet in early July 2003.
'I wrote that it looks as though they did not produce weapons,' Kay reveals in an interview with the new Vanity Fair."
NEW WORLD ORDER
Blix: Iraq worse off now than with Saddam
Iraq is worse off now, after the US-led invasion, than it was under Saddam Hussein, Hans Blix told a Danish newspaper Tuesday.
'What's positive is that Saddam and his bloody regime is gone, but when figuring out the score, the negatives weigh more,' the former chief UN weapons inspector was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper Jyllands Posten.
'That accounts for the many casualties during the war and the many people who still die because of the terrorism the war has nourished,' he said. 'The war has liberated the Iraqis from Saddam, but the costs have been too great.'
Iraq is worse off now, after the US-led invasion, than it was under Saddam Hussein, Hans Blix told a Danish newspaper Tuesday.
'What's positive is that Saddam and his bloody regime is gone, but when figuring out the score, the negatives weigh more,' the former chief UN weapons inspector was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper Jyllands Posten.
'That accounts for the many casualties during the war and the many people who still die because of the terrorism the war has nourished,' he said. 'The war has liberated the Iraqis from Saddam, but the costs have been too great.'
BODY AND SOUL
Mindfulness and happiness
Thanks to important work by Joseph LeDoux at New York University, we know that a person can be conditioned via their amygdala and thalamus to be scared of things that really aren't worth being scared of. We also know that it is extremely hard to override what the amygdala 'thinks' and 'feels' simply by conscious rational thought.
That said, there is some fascinating early work that suggests Buddhist mindfulness practice might tame the amygdala. Paul Ekman of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, a renowned researcher on basic Darwinian emotions, is, like Davidson, in the early stages of studying Buddhist practitioners. So far, he has found that experienced meditators don 't get nearly as flustered, shocked or surprised as ordinary people by unpredictable sounds, even those as loud as gunshots. And Buddhists often profess to experience less anger than most people.
Thanks to important work by Joseph LeDoux at New York University, we know that a person can be conditioned via their amygdala and thalamus to be scared of things that really aren't worth being scared of. We also know that it is extremely hard to override what the amygdala 'thinks' and 'feels' simply by conscious rational thought.
That said, there is some fascinating early work that suggests Buddhist mindfulness practice might tame the amygdala. Paul Ekman of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, a renowned researcher on basic Darwinian emotions, is, like Davidson, in the early stages of studying Buddhist practitioners. So far, he has found that experienced meditators don 't get nearly as flustered, shocked or surprised as ordinary people by unpredictable sounds, even those as loud as gunshots. And Buddhists often profess to experience less anger than most people.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
PROPAGANDA CENTRAL
Bush attacks environment 'scare stories'
UK's Observer newspaper has obtained a remarkable email sent to the press secretaries of all US Republican congressmen advising them what to say when questioned on the environment in the run-up to November's election. The advice: tell them everything's rosy.
It tells them how global warming has not been proved, air quality is 'getting better', the world's forests are 'spreading, not deadening', oil reserves are 'increasing, not decreasing', and the 'world's water is cleaner and reaching more people'.
Among the memo's assertions are 'global warming is not a fact', 'links between air quality and asthma in children remain cloudy', and the US Environment Protection Agency is exaggerating when it says that at least 40 per cent of streams, rivers and lakes are too polluted for drinking, fishing or swimming.
It gives a list of alleged facts. For instance, to back its claim that air quality is improving it cites a report from Pacific Research Institute - an organisation that has received $130,000 from Exxon Mobil since 1998.
[The memo directly contradicts assertions made in a secret report by the Pentagon to the White House that cities will be sunk beneath rising seas and that countries will be plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world, the report warned.]
UK's Observer newspaper has obtained a remarkable email sent to the press secretaries of all US Republican congressmen advising them what to say when questioned on the environment in the run-up to November's election. The advice: tell them everything's rosy.
It tells them how global warming has not been proved, air quality is 'getting better', the world's forests are 'spreading, not deadening', oil reserves are 'increasing, not decreasing', and the 'world's water is cleaner and reaching more people'.
Among the memo's assertions are 'global warming is not a fact', 'links between air quality and asthma in children remain cloudy', and the US Environment Protection Agency is exaggerating when it says that at least 40 per cent of streams, rivers and lakes are too polluted for drinking, fishing or swimming.
It gives a list of alleged facts. For instance, to back its claim that air quality is improving it cites a report from Pacific Research Institute - an organisation that has received $130,000 from Exxon Mobil since 1998.
[The memo directly contradicts assertions made in a secret report by the Pentagon to the White House that cities will be sunk beneath rising seas and that countries will be plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world, the report warned.]
BIG BROTHER
Protecting your privates
The Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department is attempting to force hospitals and clinics to turn over medical records on thousands of abortions.
Ashcroft claims these records will help him defend a new law prohibiting partial-birth abortions. Doctors are challenging the law on the ground that it prevents certain abortions even when they're medically necessary.
Fundamentally, Bush's claim is that the government can instruct doctors on the needs and treatment of their patients. One function of law is to set precedents. If the government has the right to dictate one aspect of medicine, and if that right is unchallenged and/or upheld, then a precedent has been set for government to dictate other medical priorities. But if government can dictate something so intimate and personal then what, according to that precedent, can it not dictate?
This being an election year, Bush been forced to flip-flop back slightly. Justice withdrew subpoenas from Planned Parenthood clinics, stating that "we will not move at this time" but might "renew our requests if necessary." For "if necessary" read "if re-elected." Hospitals are still being harassed.
[In 2000, Bush ran on a platform that loudly supported medical privacy. He has said, "I believe privacy is a fundamental right."]
The Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department is attempting to force hospitals and clinics to turn over medical records on thousands of abortions.
Ashcroft claims these records will help him defend a new law prohibiting partial-birth abortions. Doctors are challenging the law on the ground that it prevents certain abortions even when they're medically necessary.
Fundamentally, Bush's claim is that the government can instruct doctors on the needs and treatment of their patients. One function of law is to set precedents. If the government has the right to dictate one aspect of medicine, and if that right is unchallenged and/or upheld, then a precedent has been set for government to dictate other medical priorities. But if government can dictate something so intimate and personal then what, according to that precedent, can it not dictate?
This being an election year, Bush been forced to flip-flop back slightly. Justice withdrew subpoenas from Planned Parenthood clinics, stating that "we will not move at this time" but might "renew our requests if necessary." For "if necessary" read "if re-elected." Hospitals are still being harassed.
[In 2000, Bush ran on a platform that loudly supported medical privacy. He has said, "I believe privacy is a fundamental right."]
CRIME AND TIME
Whistleblower to be released -- into a bigger prison
After 18 years, 11 in solitary confinement, Mordechai Vanunu is due for release on April 21. The time in solitary took its toll. There were paranoid episodes when he thought the paint colours in his cell were messages from Mossad. For three years in the early 1990s the man who spilled Israel's nuclear weapons secrets made no contact with anyone outside the prison.
Security sources have said Israel would ban him from travelling abroad after his release.
After 18 years, 11 in solitary confinement, Mordechai Vanunu is due for release on April 21. The time in solitary took its toll. There were paranoid episodes when he thought the paint colours in his cell were messages from Mossad. For three years in the early 1990s the man who spilled Israel's nuclear weapons secrets made no contact with anyone outside the prison.
Security sources have said Israel would ban him from travelling abroad after his release.
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