DEJA VU...HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF AT WARP SPEED.

RUMSFELD TURNING UP THE HEAT MAKING MORE THREATS

BOLTON HAS SET UP THE PARALLEL ORGANIZATION TO TRUMP THE IAEA PROCESS ONCE AGAIN...

THE PRESS IS NOT ASKING ANY HARD QUESTION ABOUT THE ENDLESS CLAIMS BEING MADE ABOUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR CAPABILITY..A SIMPLE ONE WOULD BE
"WHERE IS THE VERIFAIBLE EVIDENCE TO BACK UP THESE CLAIMS.

THE PUBLIC IS NOT PUSHING THE PRESS

THIS FORMULA WORKS WELL FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.....

The Scotsman Mon 6 Feb 2006
Use of force against Iran is on agenda, warns bullish Rumsfeld
MARGARET NEIGHBOUR

AMERICAN military action against Iran because of its nuclear ambitions is still an option, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has warned.

With Iran remaining defiant in the face of international pressure over its atomic programme - it yesterday ended snap United Nations inspections of its atomic sites - Mr Rumsfeld upped the stakes, describing Iran as a "main sponsor" of terrorist groups.

A senior Iran defence official added to the tough talk yesterday with a senior military commander saying its forces would teach any attackers "a lesson that will be remembered throughout history".

And Iranian MPs agreed yesterday to urgently debate a parliamentary bill that would put restrictions on the sale of "unnecessary" American goods sold in the country in response to US stance on its nuclear ambitions.

Iran was reported to the UN Security Council on Saturday after failing to allay suspicions that it is seeking nuclear weapons. However, despite the rhetoric, there were signs that Iran, which insists its nuclear programme is designed only to produce energy, may be starting to look for a way out of the crisis.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman said it would discuss a proposal that Iranian uranium could be enriched in Russia to ensure it was not turned into weapons-grade material.

Mr Rumsfeld, who attended a weekend security conference in Munich, Germany, made no bones about the seriousness of the situation.

"All options - including the military one - are on the table," he told a German newspaper. "Any government that says Israel has no right to exist is making a statement about its possible behaviour in the future."

At the conference, Mr Rumsfeld accused Tehran of being behind international terrorism. "Iran is the main sponsor of terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas," he said.

His belligerent tone was echoed by Abdolrahim Moussavi, the Iranian head of the joint chiefs of staff, who told Iranian troops yesterday: "We are not seeking a military confrontation, but if that happens we will give the enemy a lesson that will be remembered throughout history.

"This nation has proved its will many times to its enemies. Why do they want to test this great nation once again?"

Iran is armed with an unknown number of Shahab-3 ballistic missiles that could reach Israel and US bases in the Gulf, and coupled with nuclear warheads would give it the ability to fulfil President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's desire to "wipe Israel off the map".

Mr Ahmadinejad said nothing could deflect Tehran's pursuit of atomic know-how.

"Our enemies cannot do a damn thing. We do not need you at all. But you are in need of the Iranian nation," he told a crowd in Tehran yesterday. Content yourself with as many resolutions as you like, you cannot prevent the will of the Iranian people."

Iran has warned that any sanctions against it would send oil prices beyond a level industrialised economies could bear.

However, there was a glimpse of a compromise yesterday. On Saturday, Iran had declared dead a proposal by Moscow that Russia could enrich Iranian uranium for use in power stations, but yesterday Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iranian officials would meet with Russian counterparts to discuss the idea.

"The situation has changed. Still, we will attend talks with Russia on 16 February," he said.

It was not clear if the change of course represented a major shift in Iran's strategy in the developing crisis over its nuclear activities.

Uranium enriched to a low degree is used as fuel for nuclear reactors. But highly enriched uranium is suitable for making atomic bombs.

THE WORLD SURE SPINS RATHER QUICKLY THESE DAYS. *

Mr. David Corn,

The old "Law of unintended consequences" - I love it!

Great update - I sure hope this whole thing blows up in their faces. If there is to be any balance in the universe it will be this or maybe something bigger. (A guy can hope)

Thanks

Kirk

Graymailing will free Libby from any criminal charges. Nobody in this Nazi regime will go to jail.

David ..Fitzgeralds response to Libby's lawyers demands for the classified material were posted at the rawstory.com website.

I think Fitzgerald has the goods...that is unless during the year they inflict the ROVIAN rope..e..dope.. one two punch on him.

That sure says a great deal about who is involved when folks like James Woolsey and Dennis Ross have donated to Libby's legal fund.

What do you know about the claims being made by some...that Plame was outed due to the "supposed" intelligence being gathered by Brewster Jennings about Perle and Feith's involvement with illegal arms being supplied to a Turkish organization? The conflict of interest by both of them, in their business dealings?

What would Woolsey and Dennis Ross's involvement be with protecting Libby from Fitzgerald getting to the bottom of this investigation?

I just hope Fitzgerald is able to stand by his words..."Truth is the engine of our judicial system."

Court filings shed more light on CIA leak investigation

Moreover, the documents reveal that no formal damage assessment has been done with regard to how the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame affected the agency’s operations worldwide. They also hint that Vice President Cheney’s former Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby may have outed Plame on the orders of his "superiors."

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"outed Plame on the orders of his "superiors.""

I might be reading too much into this but it sure sounds like his "superiors" would include Cheney?

capt

Defense team for Cheney aide demands news media materials from prosecutor

"The government should not be allowed to charge Mr. Libby with lying about statements concerning what reporters knew about Ms. Wilson's identity and at the same time deny him information that may establish one of these possible defenses," Libby's lawyers argued in a 23-page brief.

"The government has refused to produce information in its possession about what reporters learned from sources other than Mr. Libby about Ms. Wilson's employment status," Libby's legal team argued.

The prosecutor has asserted that "such documents are not relevant to a perjury and obstruction case."

"It is material to the preparation of the defense to determine the identity of all reporters who know that Ms. Wilson worked for the CIA, and to discover when they learned such information, from whom they learned it and whether they disclosed it further after learning it," Libby's legal team said.

After Libby's Oct. 28 indictment, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward disclosed that he had learned of Ms. Wilson's identity in mid-June 2003, some three weeks before her name was published by conservative columnist Robert Novak.

Libby's lawyers said they still do not know the identity of Woodward's source, although Fitzgerald does.

The indictment says Libby lied when he told investigators he learned of Ms. Wilson's identity from NBC correspondent Tim Russert; when he told Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper that reporters were telling the Bush administration that Ms. Wilson worked for the CIA; and when Libby told investigators he did not discuss Wilson's wife with New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

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I am not an attorney but it sounds reasonable that because Fitzgerald has indicted on lying about a specific fact - not the "outing" - the defense might be on very thin ice with the request for evidence not related to the lie?

Fitzgerald might be a very sly prosecutor if he saw this specific defense coming. Good for him if he did.

capt

NAME THAT SOURCE

Why are the courts leaning on journalists?

In October, Patrick Fitzgerald charged I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice-President Cheney’s chief of staff, with lying to the grand jury about his conversations with reporters, including Miller, Tim Russert, of NBC, and Matthew Cooper, of Time. (Libby immediately resigned.) As Libby’s lawyers prepare for his trial, which will probably take place this year, they are expected to ask to see the journalists’ notes, and they may subpoena other reporters who covered the investigation. At the trial, Libby’s team will try to undermine the journalists’ credibility by challenging them on everything from sloppy note-taking to evidence of bias. "This guy is on trial for his freedom, and it’s not his job to be worried about the rights of the witnesses against him," a person close to Libby’s defense team said. "There are going to be fights over access to the reporters’ notes, their prior history and credibility, and their interviews with other people. By the time this trial is over, the press is going to regret that this case was ever brought."

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"By the time this trial is over, the press is going to regret that this case was ever brought"

A not so thinly veiled threat against the "press" because the prosecutor brought this case? These neocons and their attorneys (even the liberal ones) seem to have lost their minds.

capt

Can anyone tell me how to make links. This is my real email if you dont want to post it here.

Thanks.

Kathleen,

"Truth is the engine of our judicial system."

Engine - yes - working engine or running motor - I sure hope so.

I have said it before: it is almost unfair to put it all on one mans shoulders but Fitzgerald is carrying the weight of America's character. I hope he carries through.

capt

hERE WE GO....TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE IT RIGHT..THEY MAKE IT EVEN

I really wish someone would investigate the intentions of FLEMMING ROSE the cultural editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten who first commisssioned these drawings.

Sure seems like an intenition to incite and inflame.

Times Online February 06, 2006

Iranian paper launches Holocaust cartoon competition
By Simon Freeman and aIran’≥ biggest-selling newspaper has waded into the Muhammad controversy by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust.

Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper, said that the deliberately inflammatory contest would test out how committed Europeans were to the concept freedom of expression.

"The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let’≥ see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he said.

Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said that victims of the Holocaust and their families were growing used to insults from Iran. "It's just very sad," she told Times Online.

Iran’≥ regime is supportive of Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain that the slaughter of Europe’≥ Jews during the Second World War was invented or exaggerated to justify the creation of Israel on Palestinian territory.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad courted international denunciation recently when he argued for Israel to be "wiped off the map". The President's vitriolic attacks on Israel have further soured relations with the West, already at loggerheads over the republic's nuclear research programme.

Mr Mortazavi said that tomorrow's edition of the paper would invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with gold coins as prizes for the 12 winning artists -- the same number of cartoons that appeared in the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten lighting the touchpaper for fury which has swept around the Islamic world.

Last week the Iranian Foreign Ministry invited Tony Blair to Tehran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust. Mr Blair said that such a conference was "shocking, ridiculous, stupid". The Prime Minister responded by inviting Mr Ahmadinejad to witness the evidence of the Holocaust in the countries of Europe.

Public protests against the publication of the cartoons have been relatively calm in Iran, although a crowd of about 200 smashed the windows of the Austrian Embassy in Tehran today.

The protesters, chanting "God is Greatest" and "Europe, Europe, shame on you", smashed all the diplomatic mission’≥ windows with stones and then tried to hurl petrol bombs inside.

Iran has withdrawn its ambassador to Denmark and has said it plans to review trade ties with all countries where the cartoons were published.

Mr Ahmadinejad has criticised the argument of freedom of speech employed by European newspapers to justify publication of the cartoons.

"If your newspapers are free why do not they publish anything about the innocence of the Palestinians and protest against the crimes committed by the Zionists?" the Mehr news agency quoted him as saying.

Andrew Kaufman, chairman of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), said: "We deplore this despicable initiative to trivialise the brutality of the Holocaust that will cause enormous insensitivity to all survivors of Nazism."

I posted this on the last thread. I am posting it again because I want to know how many times the Clinton administration was afforded the opportunity to speak to congress on like matters while not being asked to go under oath.

When I look at what is being discussed in Congress today as well as the story Mr. Corn has written about I have to come to the conclusion that anyone who supports this administration does not belong in Congress.

These people are crooks and anyone who supports them is supporting criminal activity.

Connect the Dots: Alberto Gonzales Should be Under Investigation, Not Overseeing Them

According to the New York Times, even right wing whacko and infamous anti-Clinton cheerleader, former Congressman Bob Barr says, ''Clearly, people know his testimony reflects the same view as the White House counsel, and that it's not so much reflecting anything approaching an independent legal analysis. He's there as a lawyer for the president, as opposed to being an advocate for the Constitution and the laws of the country. It's a fine line, and I'm not so sure in his current capacity he has a great deal of credibility.''

''Nothing in Al Gonzales's public statements, legislative proposals or anything else suggests that this is an individual who operates outside of the political gyroscope of President Bush,'' said Bruce Fein, an associate deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration, according to the Times....

...Sure, Arlen Specter is getting some press for claiming that the wiretapping was probably illegal. But Specter is a snake in the grass. He is a master at playing a public skeptic while setting up the White House for a victory for tyranny. In this case, Buzzflash suspects that Specter is setting the stage to either have Congress pass enabling legislation for Stasi like powers to be given to the White House or for the FISA Court to grant the same powers to Bush.

Then Specter will say, now that the White House is in compliance with the law, all is forgiven. (Specter is also the author of a "Patriot Act" provision that "would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any 'special event of national significance' away to jail on felony charges if they are caught breaching a security perimeter." So don't trust the dissembler for a moment.)

With the Supreme Court now packed by Busheviks, who is going to stop the continual slouching of America toward a Pinochet style state of dictatorship?

...Gonzales is the architect of the legal justification for torture -- and then claims he didn't authorize "torture," despite the disclosure of a White House Counsel document signed by him proving that he did.

Just last week, news stories re-emerged that Gonzales took no steps to prevent White House Staff from destroying e-mails and documents relating to the Valerie Plame outing until it was too late. Then he finally "warned" them to maintain all relevant documents after they had several days to shred and delete them.
Gonzales also played a likely role, as White House Counsel, in the removal of a career Department of Justice prosecutor who was close to indicting Abramoff on one of his White House connected lobbying efforts -- this one relating to Guam.

And guess what? Just a short time back the White House "promoted" the chief DOJ Abramoff prosecutor to a judgeship. It's clear that the White House wants to insulate the Abramoff prosecution from clear connections to the Bush Administration, right up to Rove, Bush and Gonzales.

36 Democratic senators politely called for a special prosecutor in the Abramoff case, because right now Gonzales is ultimately responsible for an investigation that probably includes himself. But, at the very least, Gonzales, as the Bush consigliere, is out to suppress the Abramoff illegal ties to the White House, not expose them.

We imagine that the same Bush-connection damage control is going on with the federal prosecution of Ken Lay and Tom DeLay. You know how it goes, you cut a deal with Abramoff, Lay and DeLay that if they don't rat out the White House, Gonzales will make sure that they get a lighter sentence, if not probation and a stiff fine.

Action Alert: Hearings on Illegal NSA Spying are Not Enough

Once again, President Bush has broken the law. In violation of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act, President Bush has authorized the illegal surveillance of Americans without a warrant. Today, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is testifying before Congress. Debate is good, but we need a special prosecutor to hold the Bush Administration accountable for its actions. Click here to join the Center for Constitutional Rights in writing your representative and the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to call for a special prosecutor and the release of all the Justice Department memos regarding spying on U.S. citizens.

The Bush White House has consistently worked to avoid judicial oversight and destroy the system of checks and balances upon which our country was founded. Alberto Gonzales should tell Congress all the facts regarding the Bush Administration’≥ program of spying on Americans. He should also resign. Finally we demand an investigation of the Attorney General’≥ ethical lapses for his part in this and the many other instances where he advised the President to break the law regarding torture, detention and rendition.

Hearings are not enough. Join CCR today in calling for the release of the justice department memos and the appointment of a special prosecutor. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed CCR v. Bush et al. in federal court earlier this month to fight this latest threat to Americans’†civil liberties, but we need Washington to act now.

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More keyboard activism for those inclined.

capt

Fact File on Reaction to Danish Caricatures

It is being alleged in some quarters that the controversy over the Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is somehow artificial or whipped up months later by the Saudis. This is not true. The controversy began in Denmark itself among the 180,000 Danish Muslims. It was taken up by the ambassadors of Muslim states in Copenhagen. Then the Egyptian foreign minister began making a big deal of it, as did Islamist parties in Turkey and Pakistan. The crisis has unfolded along precisely the sort of networks one would have expected, and become intertwined with all the post-colonial crises of the region, from the foreign military occupation of Iraq to the new instability in Syria and Lebanon.

Below is a press record on the controversy, drawn from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a translation service of the CIA that is later released under various commercial auspices, including BBC World Monitoring and World News Connection.

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This piece might answer some of your questions. The motivations are obviously esoteric but . . .

capt

Diebold Extends China Deal

By TSC and IRIS Staff
2/6/2006 2:20 PM EST

Diebold (DBD:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take), the maker of ATMs and electronic-voting machines, will provide nearly 300 self-service bulk cash recycle machines to the Bank of China.

The deal is in addition to a recent contract with the bank, which means Diebold will supply a total of around 1,000 units.

Burning embassies? Violent protests? Over the image of Mohammed or over the representation of Islam? Which one is it?
All they've managed to accomplish in my mind is to further cement a commonly held stereotype of Islam being a violent, hateful religion. Of course this isn't the truth necessarily. American Muslims aren't rioting in the streets. Christians didn't riot or burn buildings when the Last Temptation of Christ was released or recently when Kanye West did his picture for Rolling Stone. Why are we over there again? What makes these people so special that they deserve our time and energy and blood?

Demand REAL Voting Reform

Today we call on our town and county election officials to demonstrate that their systems allow voters to verify their choices and officials to conduct recounts. Add your name to the call for accountability:

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Hey, another petition. Keyboard activism burns calories, relieves stress and can satisfy the most delicate of touch type fingers. HA!

capt

Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... an appeal from Michael Moore

So, if you'd like me to know what you've been through with your insurance company, or what it's been like to have no insurance at all, or how the hospitals and doctors wouldn't treat you (or if they did, how they sent you into poverty trying to pay their crazy bills) ...if you have been abused in any way by this sick, greedy, grubby system and it has caused you or your loved ones great sorrow and pain, let me know.

Send me a short, factual account of what has happened to you –†and what IS happening to you right now if you have been unable to get the health care you need. Send it to michael@michaelmoore.com. I will read every single one of them (even if I can't respond to or help everyone, I will be able to bring to light a few of your stories).

Thank you in advance for sharing them with me and trusting me to try and do something about a very corrupt system that simply has to go.

Oh, and if you happen to work for an HMO or a pharmaceutical company or a profit-making hospital and you have simply seen too much abuse of your fellow human beings and can't take it any longer –†and you would like the truth to be told –†please write me at michael@michaelmoore.com. I will protect your privacy and I will tell the world what you are unable to tell. I am looking for a few heroes with a conscience. I know you are out there.

Is it me or does it seem curiouss that Libby was swamped with Life/Death issues, yet he seemed to have plenty of time to gossip with reporters. Hmm.

It is the : "I am too important and was too busy to worry about telling the truth defense."

It works on some white collar crimes but I think the sheer arrogance will insult the jury.

A guy can hope, no matter what!

capt

I hope Fitz throws him in the slammer in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion.

Espionage & Intelligence

Monday's hearing got off to a rocky start when Republicans and Democrats disagreed over whether Gonzales should be sworn in. Democrats said he should, but Specter said it wasn't necessary.

He wasn't. "My answers would be the same whether I was under oath or not," Gonzales told the panel.

yeah right. He would lie either way.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/Espionage_and_Intelligence

sorry about the first post

Thanks capt

Hurrah Paul.

Would Specter have allowed the AG in the Clinton administration to talk to Congress without being sworn in? This is a joke being played on the American people. I don't think very many of them are amused.

Question of the day on MSNBC
Do you care if the phone companies turn over your records to the governemnt without a warrant?
Yes 84% No 16%

What does that tell you? It tells me that MSNBC is too wimpy to come out and denounce the White House. They ask these questions so they can say the American people oppose it.

THE GROUND WORK FOR BOLTONS MOVE TO TRUMP THE IAEA IS MOVING RIGHT ALONG.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency to end snap inspection measures at its nuclear sites by mid-February, the IAEA said on Monday.
The move followed Iran's vow to end short-notice IAEA checks of its nuclear plants in response to a vote by the watchdog agency's governing board to report Tehran to the U.N. Security Council over concerns

Who Will Save America

I would like to say that Muslims are upset because cartoonists are not painting Islam as a religion of tolerance. Let us share a perfect example of intolerance. Saudi Arabia is that example. Christians who walk on Muslim soil offend the land of Islam. The Muslims are human beings but they are intolerant and this intolerance will not go away for many generations if at all. I doubt that you can reason with intolerance. Nazi America is another example of intolerance to any religion except bushianity and there is intolerance to the poor and the middle class.

US eavesdropping program listening to 'thousands': report

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US eavesdropping program approved by President George W. Bush has reportedly monitored the overseas phone calls of thousands of Americans, most of whom were ruled out as potential terrorist suspects.

The controversial eavesdropping program by the National Security Agency has sparked a political firestorm in the United States, particularly since it taps into Americans' communications without the use of court warrants.

President Bush claims he has the power under the US Constitution to authorize the program, but some opposition Democrats have criticized the eavesdropping and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is due to testify about the program before Congress Monday.

Two "knowledgeable sources" told The Washington Post that the NSA has eavesdropped, or monitored the communications, of thousands of Americans in the past four years. One source told the newspaper the dragnet had included about 5,000 people.

"Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under the authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat," the Post said.

"Computer-controlled systems collect and sift basic information about hundreds of thousands of faxes, e-mails and telephone calls into and out of the United States before selecting the ones for scrunity by human eyes and ears," the paper said.

However, the report said intelligence officers, who listen to fragments of the conversations recorded by the computer networks, "wash out" most of the leads within days or weeks.

The report, based on accounts from current and former government officials, said it's unknown what is done with the "non-threatening US e-mails and conversations that the NSA intercepts."

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Is it just me or does it sound like the neocons have no fear of a Democrat taking over the WH? Imagine what the neocons would be saying if Hillary or anybody from the opposition[sic] were in or had a chance of getting into the WH?

Read: Confirmation of future stolen elections.

capt

Bush says that Nazi America cannot be isolationists but his policies separate Nazi America from the rest of the countries. There is an exception. Countries who emulate us like goons and thugs love us. Birds of a feather flock together!

Lab officials excited by new H-bomb project

For the first time in more than 20 years, U.S. nuclear-weapons scientists are designing a new
H-bomb, the first of probably several new nuclear explosives on the drawing boards.

If they succeed, in perhaps 20 or 25 more years, the United States would have an entirely new nuclear arsenal, and a highly automated fac- tory capable of turning out more warheads as needed, as well as new kinds of warheads.

"We are on the verge of an exciting time," the nation's top nuclear weapons executive, Linton Brooks, said last week at Lawrence Livermore weapons design laboratory.

Teams of roughly 20 scientists and engineers at the nation's two laboratories for nuclear-explosive design —†Livermore and Los Alamos in New Mexico —†are in a head-to-head competition to offer designs for the first of the new thermonuclear explosives, termed "reliable replacement warheads" or RRWs.

Designers are aiming for bombs that will be simpler, easier to maintain over decades and, if they fell into terrorists' hands, able to be remotely destroyed or rendered useless. Once the designs are unveiled in September, the Bush administration and Congress could face a major choice in the future of the U.S. arsenal: Do they keep maintaining the existing, tested weapons or begin diverting money and manpower to developing the newly designed but untested weapons?

Administration officials see the new weapons and the plant to make them as "truly transformative," allowing the dismantlement of thousands of reserve weapons.

But within the community of nuclear weapons experts, the notion of fielding untested weapons is controversial and turns heavily on how much the new bombs would be like the well-tested weapons that the United States already has.

"I can't believe that an admiral or a general or a future president, who are putting the U.S. survival at stake, would accept an untested weapon if it didn't have a test base," said physicist and Hoover Institution fellow Sidney Drell, a longtime adviser to the government and its labs on nuclear-weapons issues.

"The question is how do you really ensure long-term reliability of the stockpile without testing?" said Hugh Gusterson, an MIT anthropologist who studies the weapons labs and their scientists. "RRW is partly an answer to that question and it's an answer to the question (by nuclear weapons scientists) of 'What do I do to keep from being bored?'"
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Bored? As my mother always said. "Find something CONSTRUCTIVE to do."

You know like a car that runs on water.

Nazi America elections are totally rigged in all 50 states!!!!!!!!!!

With rigged elections Nazi America's manifest destiny is complete. The Nazis will rule forever and ever!!!!!!!!!!

Reporter hits McClellan on taps: 'You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law'

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan got in a heated row with a White House correspondent at Monday's press briefing over President Bush's warantless domestic spying program, RAW STORY has learned.

The questioner, believed to be outspoken liberal columnist Helen Thomas, who has been covering the White House since President John F. Kennedy, asks McClellan if Bush should obey the law.

The relevant part of transcript follows. RAW STORY is trying to confirm the questioner, but is currently unable to view C-SPAN's coverage of the exchange.

Q: Does the president think he should obey the law? He put his hand on the Bible twice to uphold the Constitution. Wiretapping is not legal under the circumstances without a warrant.

MR. MCCLELLAN: Well, I guess you didn't pay attention to the attorney general's hearing earlier today, because he walked through very clearly the rationale behind this program.

Q There is no rationale --

MR. MCCLELLAN: And Helen, I think you have to ask --

Q -- (inaudible) -- the law.

MR. MCCLELLAN: I think you have ask are we -- well, he's not -- are we a nation at war.

Q That's not the question.

MR. MCCLELLAN: No, that is the issue here.

Q The question is, the point is, there are means for him to go to -- get a warrant to spy on people.

MR. MCCLELLAN: Enemy surveillance is critical to waging and winning war. It's one of the traditional tools of war.

Q But he says he doesn't have running room --

MR. MCCLELLAN: The attorney general outlined very clearly today how previous administrations have used the same authority --

Q That doesn't make it legal.

MR. MCCLELLAN: -- and cited the same -- and cited the very same authority.

Q (Inaudible) -- they broke the law, that's too bad.

MR. MCCLELLAN: And we're going to continue doing everything we can --

Q You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law.

MR. MCCLELLAN: -- within our power to protect the American people.

This is a very different circumstance, and you know that.

Q No, I don't.

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GO HELEN!!!!!

The end is near

I second that motion

War is not the way

Feingold Exposes Bush's False Claim That Previous Administrations Did The Same Thing

In his State of the Union address, President Bush claimed, "Previous Presidents have used the same constitutional authority I have, and federal courts have approved the use of that authority."
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) pressed Gonzales to determine whether there is any evidence to justify this claim:

FEINGOLD: Let me first ask, do you know of any other President who has authorized warrantless wiretaps outside of FISA, since 1978, when FISA was passed?

GONZALES: Um, none come to mind, Senator. But maybe - I would be happy to look to see whether or not that's the case.

FEINGOLD: I can take it as a no unless you submit something?

GONZALES: I can't give you an answer.

FEINGOLD: Ok.

This is why we need congressional oversight so much - it forces the administration to face up to reality.
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Thank you President Feingold

"I would be happy to look and see if that's the case."
What the hell was that? He doesn't know? Give him an F. The guy sounds like Eddy Haskell on Leave it to Beaver.

#36
Gonzales = Eddie that is. Feingold sounded like President Feingold.

I cannot help but believe that there is a better way to resolve problems than war. But, Nazi Americans love to piss away money, especially someone else's money.

Remember in Nazi America endless wars are great for the economy.

Lindsey Graham: 'The Inherent Authority Argument...seems To Have No Boundaries'

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) explains the danger of the administration's legal position:

All I'm saying is the inherent authority argument in its application to me seems to have no boundaries when it comes to executive decisions in a time of war, it deals the Congress and courts out, Mr. Attorney General.

The problem isn’¥ that the administration is monitoring communications with al Qaeda. That is not only appropriate, it's essential. The problem is that the legal underpinnings of this particular program, if accepted, would allow for unchecked executive authority.

No president should have unchecked authority, especially not this one.
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So, he's finally catching on. The congress gave away its power.

http://www.counterpunch.com/

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. 

I just read most today's editorial written by this guy, who gave a nod to that 9/11 scholars website I first learned of on here. He writes in part:

"Many patriotic readers have written to me expressing their frustration that fact and common sense cannot gain a toehold in a debate guided by hysteria and disinformation. Other readers write that 9/11 shields Bush from accountability, They challenge me to explain why three World Trade Center buildings on one day collapsed into their own footprints at free fall speed, an event outside the laws of physics except under conditions of controlled demolition. They insist that there is no stopping war and a police state as long as the government's story on 9/11 remains unchallenged.

They could be right. There are not many editors eager for writers to explore the glaring defects of the 9/11 Commission Report. One would think that if the report could stand analysis, there would not be a taboo against calling attention to the inadequacy of its explanations. We know the government lied about Iraqi WMD, but we believe the government told the truth about 9/11."

Cornposters, please, please remember that the Nazis in Congress, the WH, and the Supreme Court are masters of bait and switch. This is an election year and the Nazis will go along to be re-elected. Never, ever trust a Nazi!!!!

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

He was Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During 1981-82 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy.

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Paul Craig Roberts ROCKS! I hate labels but one could say he has some solid credentials and is no lefty or crazy person.

capt

Let's Not Forget

I am firmly convinced that Bush is the most evil low life to prowl the Earth in the history of the universe.

Jeanne, this sentence jumped out of the article posted below. The budget bill permits health care providers to deny service to those who do not have enough money to make the co-payment.

‘Tough choices’ for whom?
Congress made choices tough for everyone else

This rich Amway guy wants to run against Granholm so he can do this? Bastard!

Kirk, as lefty as I am, I find I'm always more inclined to believe dissenters from the "other" side.

"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.": Oswald Spengler - (1880-1936) Source: The Decline of the West, 1926

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"A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if by momentary discouragement, or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet even of a great man, or trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions; in all these cases they are more or less unfit for liberty: and though it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it." -- John Stuart Mill, Representative Government, 1861

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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." -- John Adams, 1772

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Thanks ICH Newsletter!

Analysis: Bush budget cuts Medicare, more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- President Bush proposed $36 billion in Medicare cuts Monday as part of a 2007 budget aimed at curbing spending of federal entitlement programs.

The cuts come amid a $2.8 trillion request for federal spending next year that increases defense spending and seeks to extend tax cuts favored by Republicans.

Administration officials acknowledged that the Medicare cuts, along with cuts to a variety of other popular domestic health programs, would be difficult. But they said they maintained that spending reductions were necessary to control deficits and the long-term growth of federal programs.

"We had to make hard choices, hard choices about very well-intentioned programs," Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told reporters.

The budget, which will have to face approval by Congress, calls for Medicare cuts totaling $36 billion over the next five years and $105 billion over 10 years. Most of the cuts come in the form of reduced payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other health providers. The plan also cuts federal spending by shifting some Medicare costs from the government to individual Medicare beneficiaries with higher incomes.

Under the plan, hospitals face cuts totaling $480 million next year and $6.6 billion by 2011. Nursing homes would also see their funding cut by more than $5 billion over the next five years, while outpatient facilities, ambulance services, and home health agencies would receive smaller cuts.

Leavitt said the cuts would serve to slow Medicare's long-term growth from a rate of 8.1 percent per year to 7.7 percent per year. He said the slowing was key to sustain the program as millions of baby boomers reach retirement.

"I want to characterize this budget as a responsible budget," he said.

Medicaid would also face some $13 billion in spending cuts over the next decade under the plan, mostly through what administration officials described as "regulatory changes" that are likely to cut payments to hospitals and cap payments to state-run medical facilities.

The plan came just days after Congress passed approximately $11 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid as part of a budget reconciliation bill.

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This is insane. Maybe it is just me but more bombs less healthcare is the problem not the answer.

capt

David. Interesting post on Greymail. I am not a lawyer, but is it possible that Fitzgerald anticipated that defense. By not indichting Libby for revealing a CIA Agent's name or even leaking classified information, it would seem to make Plame's position irrelevant and certainly any CIA Damage Assessment. It would seem to obviate any need for any classified material. He lied on several ocassions to several people and in several forums. We have transcripts and witnesses to prove it. No National Scurity, no classified information. And if nyone believes that forgetfulness and overwork caused him to remember the same lie on several ocassions, acquit.

The Betrayal of Valerie Wilson

by Larry C. Johnson

Valerie Plame was a covert intelligence officer covered by the Intelligence Officer's Identity Protection Act and Lewis "Scooter" Libby lied to the Grand Jury. These two truths emerge from the opinion written by Judge Tatel, of the US Court of Appeals, and released in February 2005. Thanks to a FOIA request by the Wall Street Journal we now have a more complete record, although key parts of his decision are still blacked out. Perhaps most of the media will now realize that they have been fed a pack of lies by the likes of Ken Mehlman, Victoria Toensing, Cliff May and others.

Tatel's opinion also is relevant to the current furor over "domestic spying" and whether reporters will have any ability to protect their sources. It certainly appears that Tatel would uphold the right of the reporters to protect sources who told them about illegal spying. Tatel's concludes his opinion that Judy Miller and Matt Cooper had to testify before the Grand Jury with the following:

Read More HERE

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So, now that we know she was covert, that contacts and agents were compromised, that she was working in the field of WMD’≥, during a time of war - no less - the person that "leaked" the information committed treason on the United States of America.

I think a firing squad is in order. Imagine Fitzgerald has the VP by the short hairs. They say Libby was told to out Plame by his superiors.

capt

A Better Job for George Bush

This is a very funny commercial starring George Bush. It was rejected from the Super Bowl!! - Its hilarious!

capt

This strategy has already backfired on Libby -- big time. See my article at Dkos today, where its on Most Recommended, then consider this exchange in the response string:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/6/12248/27290

Did you read the article a couple of months ago about the new member of the defense team? Here is one version. This happened around Thanksgiving, I'd love your take on it. Libby hires expert in criminal law on national secrets

Anyway the new lawyer, John Cline is a CA lawyer and an expert in security cases, he was Wen Ho Lee's and Oliver North's attorney. The gist of the article is that, based on this attorney's prior court appearances, the strategy is to request everything. Cast a wide net asking for any classified materials they reasonably can. Then they create a roadblock to mounting a reasonable defense when the government denies the defense certain documents. Thus denying Libby his right to a fair trial or whatever you lawyers would say.

This seems to fit in with the "I was so busy" defense. That line of reasoning begs the question "well how busy were you?" Right? Then the lawyers can argue, "we can't really show you, the jury, how busy Mr Libby was becasue the gov't won't let us." What's your take on this?

Great diary, thanks again. I always love the diaries where trained professionals chime in on the legal cottage industry that BushCo and the others are launching. People like me have no expertise and we need you guys to post views and diaries to help clarify this stuff.

by mbair on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 01:31:58 PM PDT

(My response to mblair:)
The problem with discovery is that the fruits are available to both sides. One can see how this has opened the door to Fitz, who previously was so respectful of presidential privilege that, as he points out in his response, he didn't subpoena the PDBs.

Fitz has a dry sense of humor.

Looks like Mr. Cline has done some heavy lifting for the prosecution. BTW, I don't believe that the courts of appeal often overturn on the issue of overly-restrictive discovery in national security cases. That didn't help Mr. North or Mr. Lee, anyway. Good thing for Ollie that he was granted immunity by Congress. Gawd, let's hope that Libby doesn't get called to testify by Specter before his trial ends.

by leveymg on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 02:20:04 PM PDT

Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services

Attempt to replace lost dollars after 'global gag'
70,000 died last year in backstreet operations

The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding.

Nearly 70,000 women and girls died last year because they went to back-street abortionists. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered serious injuries.

Critics of America's aid policy say some might have lived if the US had not withdrawn funding from clinics that provide safe services - or that simply tell women where to find them.

The "global gag" rule, as it has become known, was imposed by President George Bush in 2001. It requires any organisation applying for US funds to sign an undertaking not to counsel women on abortion - other than advising against it - or provide abortion services.

More HERE

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This is from a country with the facilities and the money then consider the third world countries. They cannot raise the funds to defy Bunnypants.

The numbers are staggering.

capt

ChiGal 41 -

the media ignores 911 as if it was the plague, and for good reason:: not one single aspect of the official fairytale stands up to analyses - not one aspect - I defy anyone to prove any of it

911blogger.com

Capt #53 - Nothing downloading after the main page came up. Am I supposed to click on something? I don't see what it might be.

Sorry #53 looks like they pulled it - I think I copied it - let me check.

capt

PS- could be down from too much traffic - I got it from Buzzflash

James,

I got you on this one: It did happen between 9/10 and 9/12!

Other than the date nothing is right, not even take off times. Curious that, eh?

capt

For the video at #53 try:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUc2DNqcp_Q

It loads automatically but seems very fast on my computer/line.

capt

It's loading from that site, Capt. I wrote down the start time. I love statistics. Started at 9:50EST.

#7 Capt.. "Why are the courts leaning on journalist?" Because some of them are criminals.

We have been witness to some serious personal agendas being carried out my journalist in the last several years. (or these are the ones who have been caught.)

We know that journalist are not omnipotent, that they can be working for someone other than the publics right and need to know. Judy Miller, Bob Woodward, Novak, Novak, etc etc.

Judy Miller is still pushing for federal"shield law" protection. I hope that journalist do not get any more protection than they all ready have.

I mean why would we want journalist like Miller to have even more protection under the law,especially when it comes to national security issues. She as well as so many other journalist have done harm to the american public and to their profession.

Miller is going to be called out again by Fitzgerald (she is not in the clear). Many believe that Miller is the journalist that transfered intelligence in the AIPAC scandal as well as being part of the team that outed Plame.

Kenneth Pollack, intelligence analyst, and writer of numerous articles before the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq is identified in the filings of the Aipac/Rosen investigation as USGO1. He Allegedly transferred national intelligence along with Rosen and Weisman to a Israel's intelligence operative/ambassador (Naor Gilon). Mr. Gilon has since left the country and is in Israel..( I am sure hoping never to return to the U.S.)

I want journalist access protected but certainly not when they are operating as conduits for passing on false information and handing off intelligence to foreign countries.

I hope any journalist that have abused their priviliges and committed crimes against the public and our national security...get hammered.

Graymaling, eh. Didn't know there was a term for it. I had always suggested that the trial of the century would be for the families of the 911 hijackers to sue for their share of the 911 fund, arguing that the hijackers were just ordinary citizens who happened to be on the planes. In order for the insurance companies and the US to win the case, it would have to release a load of classified information into the public view. That's not going to happen. The hijackers' families would win simply because no proof would emerge to prove they actually did it. A judge would have to rule in their favor.

Capt, that didn't take too long. Only 20 minutes. Phew.

I am still wondering if the release of the insulting cartoons in Denmark right wing paper Jllyand Posten had to do with this boycott being embraced by a district in Norway and Denmark leaning in this direction. Condaleeza Rice gave Norway a tongue lashing about this action.

WHAT A WAY TO SHUT DOWN ANY GOOD FEELINGS BETWEEN SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRIES AND MUSLIMS. Release what you know will be offensive drawings ...inciting a riot.

Entire Region of Norway to boycott Apartheid Israel!
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, December 16th, 2005

The regional council of the S?r-Tr?ndelag in Norway has passed a motion calling for a comprehensive boycott on Israeli goods to be followed up with an awareness raising campaign across the region. S?r-Tr?ndelag has a population of 270,000 out of Norway’≥ 4.6 million. Trondheim, Norway`s third largest city, forms part of the region and will participate in the boycott initiative. The council committed itself to this motion as a result of intensive work by Norwegian activists that had launched a national Boycott Israel campaign this June. The success of this motion has marked a massive move forwards for boycotts of Apartheid Israel.

Building from the region`s experience of support for the South African Anti-Apartheid struggle, the people and their representatives in S?r-Tr?ndelag have once again sided with the calls for justice and liberation.

The decision comes just weeks after a city in the Basque country, Arbizu, passed a similar motion in their solidarity with the Palestinian people. The news will give further boost to the campaigning efforts of other cities and campaigners across the globe and will help stimulate more initiatives to follow the Palestinian call for comprehensive boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign against Israel.

Full text of the motion (translation by the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign):

Boycott Israeli goods

An international boycott campaign against Israel is now being launched. Apartheid in South Africa was condemned by the entire world and this contributed to the fall of the regime. Israel`s occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights has been condemned by the UN. The Israeli settlements violate International Law. The construction of the Wall has been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the refugees still wait to return to their homes.

S?r-Tr?ndelag was the first [Norwegian] county to boycott South Africa. Upholding this good tradition, the County council, as the first in the country, has decided to boycott Israeli goods, by not buying Israeli goods and through awareness raising efforts. We call on the population to do the same.

EXPLORE THE ISSUE

Search for more about boycott on this site.

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Activist Court Case Puts Apartheid Israel On Trial (January 28th, 2006)

The Wall in a Week - Occupation Bolsters Expansion on Destroyed Palestinian Lives (January 25th, 2006)

House demolitions in Jerusalem continue unabated (January 16th, 2006)

Gaza Farmers Further Squeezed by the Occupation (January 14th, 2006)

The Wall in a Week - A New Year calls for Resistance against Siege and Expulsion (January 9th, 2006)

CONNECT THE DOTS?

Title: USA Threatens Norway After Boycott Floyd
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods.

The reaction was reportedly given to the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC, and it was made clear that the statements came from the top level of the US State Department, newspaper VG reports.

VG claims that two classified reports promised a "tougher climate" between the USA and Norway if Halvorsen's remarks represented the foreign policy of the new red-green alliance of the Labor, Socialist Left and Center parties.

Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, responded immediately with written explanations to both Israel and the USA, clarifying the government's stance, while Halvorsen distanced her party's policy from that of the government's.

#54
I knew I was glad that the trial wouldn't happen before the elections and now I know why. The Democrats won't give Libby immunity.

DUMP THE REPUBLICANS!!!!!

I died last week, but with the Winter Olympics looming, I have something to say.

10 ways to be a greener skier

* Take the train. Flying to your resort is environmental madness as the plane's CO2 emissions will directly threaten the future of your favourite resort. www.raileurope.co.uk/skitrains/

* Slash your own CO2 emissions. When you're not on the slopes help reduce global warming by making simple lifestyle changes such as switching to a renewable electricity company and improving the energy efficiency of your house. www.good-energy.co.uk; www.est.org.uk

* Choose an environmentally aware resort. By supporting resorts that take their environmental responsibilities seriously, you're sending out a powerful message to the winter sports industry. www.respectthemountain.com; www.skiareacitizens.com

* Use local public transport. Help cut local pollution and congestion in Alpine valleys by not hiring a car. Resorts often offer tourists free rides on local buses and trains.

* Keep litter off the slopes. At high altitude orange peel can take up to two years to break down and cigarette butts up to five. Use recycling facilities. If there aren't any, ask why not.

* Offset your carbon emissions. If you choose to fly then reduce the environmental damage by offsetting the CO2 emissions. www.climatecare.org

* Consider another winter sport. Ski touring, cross country skiing and snow-shoeing are all great winter activities which crucially have minimal environmental impact. www.responsibletravel.com

* Encourage environmental responsibility within the winter sports industry. Ask your tour operator if they have a written environmental policy; if they don't, ask why not.

* Respect the mountain habitat and wildlife. Off-piste skiing and boarding can cause massive disturbance to local wildlife. Find out the best places to go to minimise impact.

* Choose a small resort. Larger resorts such as those in the Trois Valles in France have the financial clout to build higher into ecologically sensitive areas. Smaller resorts such as Bad Ragaz in Switzerland cannot afford to expand up the mountain.

Otto Lang, 1908-2006: Northwest icon founded first ski school at Mount Rainier

Rest in peace, Otto.
Let the road rise up to meet you.
We have 5 boats and not one of them has a motor.

Great article over at Truthout by Ray McGovern about the escalating rhetoric and actions of the Bush administration towards Iran.

The article is called "Juggernaut gathering momentume, headed for Iran" Feb 6.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THE SAME FORMULA IS WORKING

1. MAKE CLAIMS ABOUT A COUNTRY THAT YOU CAN NOT BACK UP WITH SOLID EVIDENCE

2. CREATE A PARALLEL PATH FOR STEPS THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE. BOLTON HAS SUPPOSEDLY SET UP A "LEGAL" WAY FOR THE U.S. TO TAKE ACTION WITHOUT THE U.N'S APPROVAL. YOU KNOW JUST IN CASE THESE CRIMINALS ARE EVER HUNTED DOWN FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

BOLTON WILL TRUMP THE UN'S PROCESS AND THE IAEA ONCE AGAIN.

3. THE MAINSTREAM AND MOST OF THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS HAVE NOT EVEN ASKED THE QUESTION "WHERE IS THE HARD EVIDENCE?"

4. The press is not asking the logical questions ...the american people stay fast asleep.

deja vu

Kathleen,
I don't understand the march toward war. This administration is driven to distruction. Why? How big or small is this band of devils who take the rest of the world down the path of sorrow? It needs to end.
This is insane.

The medicare bill that was passed is another bait and switch tactic by the Nazis. How much longer are going to give the Nazis the benefit of doubt? Please don't let the Nazis screw up your mind endlessly.

Connecting the Dots

When I talk about dots, I am talking about articles that we read, life experiences, life events in our daily lives, perceptions, etc. As we connect the dots, we can give some kind of opinions.

Let me start by giving you a recent example. I read the article, "Preaching pacifism is not a crime." After reading this article you can sense that the Nazi American government wants to take away free speech. The government does not want us to be pacifists and to show love and mercy. Our government wants for us to accept and develop aggression, intolerance, and hatred. From this development we will readily accept murder, torture, and wars as a way of life.

Reflecting on the article in more detail I recalled Veronica's glimpse of hell that Our Lady revealed to her. I remember Veronica saying that the souls were falling like raindrops. As the souls were falling, they were screaming help mercy, mercy, too late, too late.

As I recalled these words, I felt that Americans were actually living under Bush and his cabal in a living, natural hell. Our bodies are in hell under Bush. Veronica's glimpse of hell is the supernatural hell that our souls enter if we are not prepared to meet our Creator.

As we connect the dots from these two examples to the numerous experiences in our lives, we will conclude that Nazi America is a living, natural hell with evil and vile people who have a depraved indifference to our lives, freedoms, and rights. We know the names in Bush's cabal but we also have to contend with political ideologues, like Dobson, Falwell, Robertson, and Franklin Graham. They profess to be religious leaders but they are really ideologues with a political agenda that is leading Americans into a supernatural hell.

As more and more dots are connected, we will see that Nazi America is a pit stop before we enter a supernatural hell because the American experiences are that we learn to hate, to murder, to torture, and to gravitate to endless wars. These learned experiences, as Americans, are the appropriate preparation for our everlasting placement in a supernatural hell.

My money is on Fitz. He's got the goods to prove the case - if he didn't he wouldn't have indicted - and he never quits. He plays to win and he's driven by a sense of responsibility rooted in principle. He believes in a nation of laws in a world where there is what's right and what's wrong.

I think Fitz tries the case and gets a conviction (and Rove may even become a defendent in the interim.) Then W will pardon them and Fitz will resign his commision silently in disgust of a corrupt administration.

American Soldiers

More American soldiers are killed in the Middle East.

2,515 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his evil lies.

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. Henry Kissinger

G.K. Chesterton said, "Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics."

Before you seek revenge, dig two graves. Confucius

When an illegal war is launched, EVERY person killed and injured, EVERY piece of property destroyed, and all environmental damage is a WAR CRIME. A war without borders and limits is a perpetual war. This war of aggression proliferates terrorism in proportion to its reckless widening, making the world ever more dangerous. TCR News

Contamination

Linda Schrock Taylor says, "When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom."

Hitler Bush and the Nazi cabal will prowl the world seeking endless wars. With endless wars and depleted uranium the Nazi States of America will contaminate people, land, air, and water. In time our entire world will become contaminated through the use of depleted uranium in fighting our endless wars.

The Nazi States of America is an evil nation.

Jeanne the most amazing thing is the american press continues to roll over and the american people are asleep...as we march once again towards air strikes in Iran.

The plans are lined up for the public to read at the PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY AND THE DOCUMENT "A CLEAN BREAK A NEW STRATEGY FOR SECURING THE REALM".

Our representatives have allowed the same individuals who "cakewalked" us into Iraq continue to beat the war drums and focused the american public's attention on Iran.

OUR ARE MEMORIES THAT SHORT...ARE WE THAT STUPID....

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US senator calls for UN sanctions on Iran

By Evelyn Leopold

New York - A leading American senator told the Security Council on Monday to impose sanctions on Iran if it does not comply with United Nations resolutions and arms pacts, warning that failure to do so would increase the chances of a military confrontation.

"If Iran does not comply with UN resolutions and arms agreements, the Security Council must apply strict and enforceable sanctions," Senator Richard Lugar, chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told the 15-member council.

"Failure to do so will severely damage the credibility of a painstaking diplomatic approach and call into question the world's commitment to controlling the spread of nuclear weapons," said the Indiana Republican.

"The precedent of inaction in this case, would greatly increase the chances of military conflict and could set off regional arms races."

Iran vowed to resume its uranium enrichment program after the International Atomic Energy Agency voted on Saturday to report it to the Security Council, which can impose sanctions.

The enrichment process can be used to make bomb-grade material but Iran says it is seeking only to enhance its electrical power generation.

The Security Council is deeply divided on the issue with China having made clear it opposes sanctions "in principle".

On Monday its UN ambassador, Wang Guangya, stressed that the dialogue with Iran needs to continue.

"I think that even with the adoption of this IAEA resolution, it is the belief of most members that a diplomatic solution is the way out within the framework of the IAEA," Wang told reporters.

Lugar, accompanied by Republican Sens. Norm Coleman of Minnesota and George Voinovich of Ohio, was invited to address the Security Council on UN reform, the world energy crisis and the dangers of arms proliferation by US Ambassador John Bolton, this month's council president.

Lugar said that last year he surveyed 85 top international proliferation and arms control experts about the prospects for averting attacks with weapons of mass destruction. The group estimated that the risk of a nuclear attack somewhere in the world in the next five years was 16 percent.

"When the time frame was extended to 10 years, the average response almost doubled to more than 29 percent," he said.

Lugar urged a decisive international response to nations that violate the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and other arms accords.

"In the field of nonproliferation, decisions delayed over the course of months and years may be as harmful as no decisions at all," Lugar said.

He was asked by reporters later about talk of possible Israeli military strikes against Iran.

"The United States does not favour Israeli strikes (and) is not speaking favourably about such an issue," he responded.

Published on the Web by IOL on 2006-02-06 23:33:01

RICHARD PERLE, one of the architects of the Iraq war, says that we cannot wait to attack Iran. He is right because if we wait the American people will come to realize that Iran is not a threat to us.

Bush wants to attack Iran so bad that he is salivating endlessly in his WH nuclear bunker.

Nazi America has many, many cold blooded murderers.

Late night prediction...

Warrantless "Terrorist Tracking" Finds Yemeni Al CIA-duh escapees...PROGRAM VINDICATED!!!

Something big goes BOOM! Spineless Dems and RINO's take a beating for being "soft on terror" just to preserve a few "precious civil liberties"!

Yemen's been CIA controlled since Bubba was bombing aspirin factories. Do we REALLY believe those PRISNR's 'R US were left to tunnel out undetected? Bang the war drums, bang out the fear, bring out the gieger counters, Desert (Nuclear) Winter is NEAR!!!

One other note regarding the Tijuanna/Chulavista "Chunnel"...

I thought (us) dopers were supposed to be worthless as workers...I was envisioning Cheech and Chong just diggin' away with those little, pink plastic "free sample" spoons from Baskin-Robbins! Raise the FEAR flags and bang on the War Drums! Mamhoud Atta's little brother is cummin' to GETCHA and he's crawlin' his way through a DOPE tunnel to do it!

And its ONE TWO THREE...what're they DYIN' FOR? Don't ask ME I don't give a DAMN! It is YOUR sons and daughters are war-slaves of UNCLE SAM!!!

And then we'll start some Muslim riots to show what inhuman beasts these "diaper heads" who can't take a joke be. Why next them "sand niggers'll" be be burnin' down the embassies in the sacred slimy heart of Washington, DC!

Maybe somewhere, someday soon, something really BIG'll go BOOM! and there'll be a rising cloudy mushroom.

And then they'll say...Einstein begat Oppenheimer begat Truman begat Enola Gay begat more and bigger and better babies are on the way, Boys!

(The Missles are Flyin' Boys! Halleluia!, Boys, Hallelujah!)

A crazy chain-reaction on a crazy train with a crazy conductor's unseen hand switchin' the tracks, clickity clacks like a million rifles locked and loaded and pointed at child holding a dove in the center of circle...."PULL!"

THE REASON WHY BUSH DOES NOT LISTEN TO AMERICANS IS BECAUSE OUR ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED AND HE HAS NO FEAR OF EVER LOSING THE WH, CONGRESS, AND THE SUPREME COURT.

The Sins of the Father

Whew! I'm glad I got that out of my system...

So how's everybody doin? And ATTENTION WEB WIZARDS!!! Somebody's started up that postin' porno links at the end of old threads, again, only a couple daze after I mentioned it!

I'm sorry if I gave an old pervert Troll a reason to start it up again, but hell, with the words "make a dead man cum" all over it, half of half of half of half the country thinks it was all pornographic to begin with!

WhiteHorse Scotch, ice, fireplace book, fire...

G'nite!

-T

The Nuclear War with Iran Is Imminent

This war is a prelude for Bush to suspend the 2006 elections. He is preparing for the big suspension in 2008. Finally, the world will know Nazi America as a murdering nation, a Godless nation.

Follwing Orders

Colin Powell is still a Nazi.

FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft's list.
The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.

Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:...

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990

allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995

allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997

allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998

allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999

allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000

allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001

allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
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Orders issued for the past 30 years. There are 12 more I didn't list. This is not a sudden developement, this has been in the works since Carter was president. While we are busy worrying about Plame and abramoff, they are busy preparing to end all dissent.

U.S. Preparing to Start WW III

It's time for a nuclear holocaust!

When will we realize that we are enslaved to endless murders in Nazi America and throughout the world?

GLORIOUS ARMAGEDDON WILL SOON BE UPON US!!!

THE END TIME AND THE RAPTURE ARE NEAR!!!

BUSH CAVES INTO THE FUNDIES AND THE EVANS TO END THE WORLD THROUGH A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!!!

Excitement builds as to the possibility of dismemberment of human body parts all over the world!!!

Pajamaline

Quite the nice group you've thrown in with, David. Your mother would be proud. Is the pay worth it, Mr. Colmes?

In order to provide you with your daily recommended allowance of Reactionary baloney, I've decided to take the issues on from their side of the fence today.
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Judas Priest! i have had it up to here with all your liberal caterwauling. You guys have no new ideas, no spine and no understanding of the inner workings of the genius that is George W. Bush. In case you didn't know, the 11th Amendment to the Constitution says that if you cross your fingers when you authorize a wiretap, you really aren't breaking the law. And if the Attorney Gennral sez that it's Okely-dokely to tap the phones of every member of congress, then it ain't against the law. His statement allows the President to Pardon himself!

Just ask Rich Lowry. He's a REAL Republican. He believes that you cheese eaters are trying to have it both ways. You want the Government to spy on the terrorists AND do it Legally. That sounds like a French proposition if ever I heard one.

And speaking of the Euroweenie French, Pat Buchanan allows us a peek at his inner-Frenchman when he says:
"Having plunged us into an unnecessary war, Bush now confronts the real possibility of strategic defeat and a failed presidency. His victory in Iraq, like the wars of Wilson and FDR, has turned to ashes in our mouths. And like Truman's war in Korea and Kennedy's war in Vietnam, Bush's war has left America divided and her people regretting he ever led us in. But unlike the world wars, Korea and Vietnam, Bush cannot claim the enemy attacked us and we had no choice. Iraq is Bush's war. Isolationists had nothing to do with it. To a man and woman, they opposed it.

"Now, with an army bogged down in Afghanistan and another slowly exiting Iraq, and no end in sight to either, Bush seeks to counter critics who warned him not to go in by associating them with the demonized and supposedly discredited patriots of the America First movement of 1940-41. His assault is not only non-credible, it borders on the desperate and pathetic.

Not to worry. Conservative hero WIlliam F. Buckley has the President's back. Talking about Hamas the terrorists now in power and the democratization of the Middle East in general, he says:
It's wrong to assume that the mere creation of democracy will bring reasonable conduct. But it is always correct that the burden of ruling imposes restraints."

Yeah, we all know how that worked out for the Taliban, right? It settled 'em right down into the kind of Jeffersonian Democracists that we all know and love.

We Conservatives need all the backing we can get because the NSA hearings on Terrorist spying is getting me all down and shit. First, I hear that Meskin Alberto Gonzales say that he don't know about any other President who has spied on AMericans without a warrant. I always heard that President Clinton (ptew) and President CArter (aaaach-ptew) broke the law, er, I mean spied on folks without a warrant.

Then Lindsay Graham gets all uppity and shit and tells the Attorney Gennral:
"All I’m saying is the inherent authority argument in its application to me seems to have no boundaries when it comes to executive decisions in a time of war, it deals the Congress and courts out, Mr. Attorney General."

Well, shuh, of course the President has absolute power in times of war. WEll, unless he's a Democrat.

And all these armchair cowboys from previous administrations just need to STFU, seriously. Reagan Justice Department veteran Bruce Fein says:
“[I]f the president is unwilling to delineate anything that is out of bounds no matter what Congress says, you are establishing a principle of ‘trust me’ as a measure of our civil liberties – and at that point you do have to start talking about impeachment.”

As if my Republican congressman is going to impeach Dear Leader.

I just wish we had a real AG like John Ashcroft who would defend the spy program ... because Alberto Gonzales just ain't cutting it:
SPECTER: I don’t think you can use principle of avoiding a tough constitutional conflict by disagreeing with the plain words of the statute. Attorney General Gonzales, when members of Congress heard about your contention that the resolution authorizing the use of force amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act there was general shock.
GONZALES: We’ve never asserted that FISA has been amended. We’ve always asserted that our interpretation of FISA, which contemplates another statute and we have that here in the authorization to use force, those complement each other. this is not a situation where FISA has been overwritten or FISA has been amended. That’s never been our position.
SPECTER: That just defies logic and plain English.

We need help, and soon.

Bush's I-Spy Lie

What's at stake in this week's congressional hearings on spying is nothing less than whether Congress has any meaningful role to play in our system of government.

In June 2002 -- months after the president ordered eavesdropping to be conducted without FISA warrants -- senators from both parties introduced legislation to liberalize FISA and expand the administration's eavesdropping powers. Sens. Michael DeWine, R-Ohio, Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. and John Kyl, R-Ariz., introduced FISA amendments and, in hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee, they repeatedly expressed the belief that amendments to FISA were necessary for fighting terrorism.

The fact that the Senate Intelligence Committee held the 2002 hearings on possible FISA amendments proves that the committee members were unaware that the administration was not complying with that law. Senators would not have engaged in the pointless act of introducing amendments to expand surveillance powers if they had known President Bush had already decided he was above the rule of law.

As the Senate Intelligence Committee debated whether to amend FISA, the administration never once advised the committee that such amendments were a waste of time. Instead, President Bush allowed the Senate to go through the absurd spectacle of debating changes to a law which his administration had already secretly circumvented.

Worse still, the administration actively and repeatedly misled the Intelligence Committee, sending representatives of the Justice Department, FBI and CIA to the 2002 hearings in order to support the proposed, bipartisan amendments to FISA and to make statements which clearly (and falsely) conveyed to the senators that the administration was still obtaining warrants before eavesdropping.

But as we now know, all of these congressional proceedings regarding FISA were a complete sham. Months earlier, the administration had decided it could engage in warrantless eavesdropping, despite FISA making it a criminal offense to do so. The Bush Justice Department concluded that the president's eavesdropping powers -- even as they pertained to American citizens inside the United States -- could not be limited, even by congressional laws.

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If the congress and the senate do not stand up and fight for the coequal power given them by the constitution they will be empowering king Dumya the dictator.

Why have laws if the law does not matter?

capt

It is "Love a Mensch" day!

Hugs and love all around, you are all mensches in my book - love ya all!

Pande, you are too smart - you cannot sounds dumb enough but . . GOOD POST! HA!

capt

Ex-President Carter: Eavesdropping Illegal

HENDERSON, Nev. - Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program Monday and said he believes the president has broken the law.

"Under the Bush administration, there's been a disgraceful and illegal decision —†we're not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we're spying on the American people," Carter told reporters. "And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act."

Carter made the remarks at a union hall near Las Vegas, where his oldest son, Jack Carter, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

The former president also rebuked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for telling Congress that the spying program is authorized under Article 2 of the Constitution and does not violate the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act passed during Carter's administration. Gonzales made the assertions in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which began investigating the eavesdropping program Monday.

"It's a ridiculous argument, not only bad, it's ridiculous. Obviously, the attorney general who said it's all right to torture prisoners and so forth is going to support the person who put him in office. But he's a very partisan attorney general and there's no doubt that he would say that," Carter said. "I hope that eventually the case will go to the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that when it's over, the Supreme Court will rule that Bush has violated the law."

The former president said he would testify before the Judiciary Committee if asked.

"If my voice is important to point of the intent of the law that was passed when I was president, I know all about that because it was one of the most important decisions I had to make."

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I would actually watch a hearing with Jimmy Carter. I have a feeling he would let them have it with both barrels in his kind soft-spoken truthful way.

capt

BTW - it is "Love a Mensch" WEEK not day. So now I have to love you all - all week!

CHECK OUT THIS TIMELINE OF THE CARTOONS....

Just insert THE DATE IN MID DECEMBER WHEN A NORWEGIAN DISTRICT VOTED TO BOYCOTT ISRAEI PRODUCTS BETWEEN OCTOBER 20TH 2005 AND JAN. 10TH 2006 WHEN A NORWEGIAN PUBLICATION REPRINTED THE CARTOONS.

DANIEL PIPES (AN ISRAELI FIRSTER IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CULTURAL EDITOR FLEMMING ROSE OF THE DANISH NEWSPAPER JYLLAND-POSTEN THE PAPER THAT ORIGINALLY COMMISSIONED THE CARTOONS.

THE QUESTION IS WHO AT THE NORWEGIAN PAPER DECIDE TO PRINT THESE CARTOONS.

WHAT A CLEVER WAY TO INCITE AND IGNITE THE MUSLIM POPULATION...AND NIP THIS GROWING BOYCOTT IN SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRIES. I DO NOT THINK I AM FAR OFF HERE.

HAARETZ - A Norwegian county's decision to boycott Israeli products because of its occupation of Palestinian territories has outraged Jewish groups. Soer-Trondelag became the first province in Norway to bar the purchase of Israeli goods when the provincial board voted on December 16 to impose the boycott. Torill Skaerseth, a board representative from the far-left Red Electoral Alliance, said she hopes the boycott will spread to other Norwegian provinces. "We see Israel as an occupying force that could be compared with the apartheid regime in South Africa," she told the regional newspaper Adresseavisen. "We also want to campaign for the people of Soer Trondelag to also boycott."

CHECK OUT THIS TIME LINE OF THE CARTOON'S PUBLICATION. WHAT AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO SHUT DOWN A BOYCOTT OF ISRAELI PRODUCTS..TURN THE MUSLIM POPULATION AGAINST SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRIES TO THE POINT WHERE THEY ARE BOYCOTTING THEIR PRODUCTS.

WHO MADE THE DECISION AT THE NORWEGIAN PAPER TO PRINT THOSE CARTOONS..ON JAN. 10TH 2006

CARTOON ROW
30 Sept 2005: Danish paper publishes cartoons
20 Oct: Muslim ambassadors complain to Danish PM

INSERT DEC 16TH VOTE OF NORWEGIAN DISTRICT BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCTS.

ISRAELS RESPONSE

CONDALEEZA RICE'S RESPONSE TO THIS BOYCOTT

THEN

10 Jan 2006: Norwegian publication reprints cartoons
26 Jan: Saudi Arabia recalls its ambassador
30 Jan: Gunmen raid EU's Gaza office demanding apology
31 Jan: Danish paper apologises
1 Feb: Papers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain reprint cartoons
4 Feb: Syrians attack Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus
5 Feb: Protesters sack Danish embassy in Beirut

Re: Capitol Hill Blue and Doug Thompson

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AND, IN RESPONSE TO MANY REQUESTS BY READERS...Doug Thompson has agreed to start writing "The Rant" again. He will take this week off and return next week.

Topping today's Blue...

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This is about the fourth or fifth time he has done this. I just hope he always comes back!

capt

CARTER, Again? As I've said before, he's possibly the worst President we've suffered under in modern times. What a MORON! He ought to take up residence in Fidel's palace he loves him so much.

Anyway, he doesn't have a clue when it comes to foreign policy, terrorism or anything else in that realm for that matter.

Ask yourselves this question. "Did the United States Congress give President Bush the power to capture, detain and kill members of Al Qaida, but didn't want him to authorize listening in on their phone calls???" Do any of you honestly think Congress intended to inhibit the President's ability to gather intelligence and monitor the activities of our enemies??? Give me a major break!

And as for "Leaky Leahy", he would have the most top secret, sensitive intelligence shared with ALL members of the Senate Judiciary committee where he could make sure it got leaked at the proper time for political advantage. Small wonder the President only shared information on the NSA program with only eight of their body!

Like I said, the former President and peanut farmer should STFU!!!

Kathleen,

So what are you saying exactly?

Iran paper seeks cartoon revenge

An Iranian paper is holding a contest for cartoons about the Holocaust, to retaliate against the publication of images of the Prophet Muhammad.

Hamshahri says it wants to test the boundaries of free speech, echoing the reasons European papers gave for publishing the caricatures.

There have been protests about the images across the Muslim world, where they are seen as insulting and racist.

One showed Muhammad, whose image is banned in Islam, as a terrorist bomber.

"Does the West's freedom of expression extend to... an event such as the Holocaust or is this freedom of expression only for the desecration of the sanctities of divine religions?" the best-selling paper said in its announcement.

It also asks for cartoons covering "America and Israel's crimes and plundering".

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I do not think the Iranians (and other Muslims that are all offended) get it. They can run a contest holocaust or whatever, in countries that respect art for arts sake and believe in freedom of expression there will be no riots against the art or cartoons they publish.

Irreverent art is funny because the reverent take it so seriously. It is a cartoon for pity sake.

I hope they come up with some very offensive cartoons. They will just prove how wrong they are for being so un-funny.

If they are trying to incite riots against them or Islam - THAT will be even funnier because I do not think it will work (I sure hope not).

capt

Capt,

You said, "Why have laws if the law does not matter?"

Good question. Why did Congress grant the President such broad power to conduct the fight against Terrorism? Is FISA superceded by the more recent mandate?

Bush Is Sounding Like Jimmy Carter

Was it a time warp, or did George Bush actually morph into Jimmy Carter last week? How did wood chips and switch grass ever make it into a final State of the Union speech?

On April 18, 1977, in a televised speech to the nation, President Carter announced that by the end of the 1980s the world would us up all the proven resources "of the entire world." Carter predicted that by the end of the 1980s we would "not be able to import enough oil -- from any country, at any acceptable price." Simply put, he was wrong.

Conservation was Carter's solution to the perceived crisis that we were running out of oil. A classic liberal, Carter decided to blame Americans for their profligate ways. "Conservation is the quickest, cheapest, most practical source of energy," Carter proclaimed. "It is no program simply to say 'use less energy,'" Ronald Reagan wisely pointed out in 1979.

Today, R&D is President Bush’s solution. Having failed to manage profitably a string of Texas oil companies, President Bush now wants us to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy." Is it possible that George Bush has really bought the political Left's position on oil, or was last week's SOTU simply his "energy malaise" speech?

Economist Julian Simon liked to point out that "peak production" hoaxes associate with energy conventional wisdom just as Malthusian doom-and-gloom are inherent to Ehrlich-like population predictions. Recasting one of Julian Simon's most famous questions, we might ask this: "Why does President Bush believe so much false bad news about energy?"

Since 1970 the world oil marketplace has grown from producing 49 million barrels of oil a day to somewhere around 86 million today. In response to claims that Saudi Arabia was "running out of oil," Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi contended that the Kingdom’s proven oil reserves are under-estimated. "Saudi Arabia now has 1.2 trillion barrels of estimated reserve," Al-Naimi told an international conference in April 2004, four times what is usually estimated. "We are continuing to discover new resources, and we are using new technologies to extract even more oil from existing reserves," Al-Naimi continued, proving the Saudis also like R&D, but they use it to produce more oil.

Last month, Clive Mather, chief of Shell Oil Canada told the CBS 60 Minutes television show that there might be as much as 2 trillion barrels of oil recoverable in the oil tar of Alberta with advances in technology. Again, the Canadians know that the real point of oil R&D is to find more economically recoverable oil. With the oil tar resources stretching down into the oil shale of the Rocky Mountains, we probably have more oil right on this continent than is in all of Saudi Arabia, even with the Saudis upping their reserve estimates. Maybe while we’re waiting for nuclear batteries to power our cars, we should just use more oil and natural gas.

R&D is a great solution for the future, but a realistic energy policy needs to address the here and now. Yes, scientists probably can make fuel out of peanut oil, but is President Bush really getting ready to invite Jimmy Carter back to the White House for a chat? America still has abundant hydrocarbon energy resources that we already know about -- in Alaska, in the Gulf, offshore on both coasts, and in the Rocky Mountains. Let's stop dealing with make-believe. Dependence on foreign oil is a problem we can solve without the help of Jules Verne.

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Still nursing that empty brain cavity, eh?

capt

Capt,

Good post on the Iranians. In fact, they and many other Muslim countries in the Middle East have been doing this for quite some time.

If you would like to read translations of their newspapers, etc., go to http://www.memri.org/

"When democracy granted democratic methods for us in the times of opposition, this could only happen in a democratic system. However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used democratic methods only in order to gain the power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries, without any consideration, the means which were granted to us in the times of opposition."

Joseph Goebbels
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Gosh, that sure sounds familiar.

UK pledges £3m for safe abortions

The UK is to give £3m to organisations denied US aid for providing safe abortions in developing countries.

International Development Minister Gareth Thomas said he hoped the move would persuade other nations to step in and help prevent thousands of deaths.

The World Health Organisation estimates backstreet abortionists cause 70,000 "agonising" deaths every year.

But to receive US aid, health clinics must pledge neither to provide abortion services nor advise women to have one.

Since US President George W Bush imposed this so-called "global gag" rule in 2001, the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) has had to close dozens of clinics.

But with Britain's £3m it will set up the Global Safe Abortion Programme to improve access to safe abortion services and "support other partners that have had to cut back on reproductive health services because of the impact of the gag rule".

The IPPF says 19 million women can be spared serious injury, illness or death if safe and legal abortions are accessible alongside other health services.

At present, 13% of maternal deaths worldwide are due to unsafe abortions - 60% in some countries.

More HERE

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70,000 is a mighty big number, eh?

Culture of life my left butt cheek! Bush runs a culture of death and every one of his blind supporters has blood on their hands.

No more excuses, if you support the murderer in the WH you are too fucking stupid to entertain. period.

capt

Capt, there is an invisible hand behind this cartoon uproar. All this upset is just too convenient. Some Muslims are as gullible as some Americans, I am sorry to see them falling into this trap. Once again it is time to follow the money.

Time to admit defeat on Social Security

Holy Methuselah, Mr. President, not another bipartisan commission to study the impact of aging baby boomers on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid!

Well, of course not. But one has to propose something when faced with giving a State of the Union message that demands inclusion of at least a passing reference to the nation's most serious domestic problem, the skyrocketing cost of entitlements. It's a good, old Oval Office gambit. When the eventuality of solving a dilemma shows little or no promise of success, call for another cross-party panel to find solutions and issue recommendations that more than likely will go unheeded, giving you enough ammunition to blame your critics for their failure.

So President Bush did exactly that with the complete understanding that reforms in these politically volatile programs just aren't going to happen. Despite what his Democratic detractors say, he isn't stupid. After nearly a year of trying in vain to use his bully pulpit to engender enough support for reforming Social Security, he seems to have gotten the message: Congress, for a lame-duck chief executive at least _ and probably no one else, either, isn't budging on this issue in any meaningful way.

More HERE

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I am more convinced, day by day, that Busheney is too stupid to realize he only knows how to screw the pooch. You would think it might have dawned on him by now, he has the fecal touch (opposite to the Midas touch).

capt

"there is an invisible hand behind this cartoon uproar"

No doubt!

Like Homer J Simpsons says:

"Coincidence doesn't just happen"

capt

Bush's Tyranny For
A Bankrupt Nation

President Bush has consistently defended his massive $500 billion tax cuts. He has insisted that deficit spending be a "permanent" part of the national budget. His economic plan has eroded the confidence of central banks around the world and increased the federal debt by a whopping $3 trillion. Still, he persists in his claim that deficits should be an enduring function of government.

Doesn't this confirm that bankrupting the country is an integral part of the Bush grand strategy?

What more proof do we need?

And, what is the relationship between the ocean of debt produced by the Bush team and their strengthening of police-state apparatus like unlimited spying on Americans, the NSS (Bush's new Secret Police), the uniform Federal ID program, the Patriot Act, and Halliburton's $385 million contract from Homeland Security to construct new detention and processing facilities within the United States?

Is the ascendancy of the police-state intended to balance the catastrophic effects of economic destruction? Or, do the new instruments of repression anticipate the "political turmoil" (Warren Buffet's words) that naturally results from financial collapse?

The Bush master-plan is no different than the economic shock-therapy the United States has directed at the third world for decades. The strategy is simple and straightforward, but virtually foolproof in achieving its objectives; the crushing of the middle class and the subsequent shifting of the nation's wealth to the "oligarchy of racketeers" who run the system.
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Everything is nearly in place. It's too late to raise interest rates to stop this train wreck, it won't work this time. Instead, that will be the tool to finally take out the middle class.

I am tempted to print copies of these to leave on the windshields of SUVs. But I know it'll just end up on the ground.

Published on Monday, February 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org

An Open Letter to Bubba

by Charlie Anderson

 
I’ve seen you around. I’ve seen you driving your gas guzzling SUV with the “Support Our Troops” ribbon on the back. I’ve seen you wearing your pro-war/pro-bush t-shirts as you walk right past me in my Iraq Veterans Against the War t-shirt as if I don’t exist. And I’ve seen you at anti-war rallies and meetings where I often speak, as you wave your American flag and call me a traitor. In this country we have freedom of speech. But you owe me and every other veteran of this war the respect of listening to our experience.

Your magnet says “support our troops,” but what have you done for us? Not a penny of the proceeds go to us, instead they go to sweatshops in China. You say that I am not supporting the troops when I say that they should come home. But I am, because I know that there was no threat to our nation from Saddam Hussein, I know that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and I know that we were not welcomed in Iraq as liberators. I know that the Iraq war was not worth fighting. I know, because I fought there. You say I’m confused. But what do you know about Iraq? You’ve never been there.

You have the audacity to claim that by not supporting the president, I don’t support the troops. Yet, the president chose to send over 160,000 of us to Iraq unprepared and without a defined mission. We had no body armor, no vehicle armor, and poor supplies of ammunition. Our families spent thousands of dollars that they did not have to supply us, while President Bush did nothing. In fact he didn’t even scold his Offensive Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, when he told our forward deployed troops, “you go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.” Moreover, the mission was originally about weapons of mass destruction, but there were none. Then it was making Iraq a democracy, but yet the “insurgency” worsens. Now the president has decided that in order to honor those who died for nothing, more must die for nothing.

At present, 2,241 of my brothers and sisters in arms have died. In some way, they may be the lucky ones. Over sixteen thousand others have been wounded in this war, thousands more than planned. The term wounded sounds sterile, bland, and inoffensive. But, in reality, many of them have been so horribly damaged that medical science had to create a new word to describe their wounds: polytrauma. These people would have died in earlier wars, but because of the gallant efforts of brave doctors and medics, they get to live. They get to live with teams of ten or more doctors just trying to get their broken, mangled bodies through another day, as their families look on in horror. They get to live in a physical and emotional hell, not able to recover and not able to voice the pain they feel or the psychological demons they face. All the while suffering with a Veterans Administration under funded by nearly three billion dollars and unable to care for them in the manner they deserve.

So which one of us supports the troops? You, who has never set foot in Iraq and wants to leave my brothers and sisters there until they complete whatever the undefined mission of the week is, or me, the veteran of this war who has seen the carnage of battle, the rampant indifference of my countrymen, and just wants to bring my brothers and sisters home alive and care for them when they get here?

Keep coming to the rallies. Maybe I’ll get through your thick skull eventually. But remember I waved my flag in Baghdad, so you can sit down, shut up, and listen to me.

Charlie Anderson served in Iraq with the Marine Corps’ Second Tank Battalion. He is the Southeast Regional Coordinator of Iraq Veterans Against the War. He can be contacted at iraqvet4peace@yahoo.com

Jimmy Carter is a saint

Now, by saying that, I don't mean to assert that Jimmy Carter is perfect, or that he is a total stranger to base motives, or that he is one of the elite of God's elect--though for all I know that third item, at least, may well be true.

Nor am I referring strictly to Mr. Carter's post-presidential career. It is now the conventional wisdom to say that Mr. Carter is a far better ex-President than he was a President. And in this instance the conventional wisdom has got it right. No historian would place Carter among the three or four greatest presidents of our history, and not even his most fervent admirers would place him in the top ten. But as an ex-President, he has only a tiny handful of rivals.....

Carter put his post-presidential ambitions this way in the opening sentence of his farewell address from the Oval Office. He said (and I should note that while I may have typed this line, Mr. Carter, by virtue of his character, was its true author), "In a few days I will lay down my official duties in this office, to take up once more the only title in our democracy superior to that of President, the title of citizen." In the fourteen years he has held that title, he has brought honor to it. He hasn't just talked about housing the homeless, he has built houses for them with his own hands and has inspired and organized others to do likewise. He hasn't just talked about comforting the afflicted, he has mounted a little known program through the Carter Center that is well on its way to eradicating Guinea worm disease, a painful, crippling parasite that has inflicted suffering on millions of Africans. He hasn't just talked about extending democracy, he has put his reputation and sometimes his very life on the line in country after country often with little or no publicity, to promote free elections and expose rigged ones. And, of course, most controversially, he hasn't just talked about peace, he has made peace, or made peace possible, by using his moral prestige and his willingness to take risks and his persistence and his patience and his stubbornness to bring hostile parties that extra little distance that sometimes makes the difference between war and not-war.....

More HERE

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War is too easy. Any poor excuse for a failed politician can start a war. It takes a man of courage and conviction to not start a war. Keeping the peace is a test upon which Busheney have failed miserably.

It is always the petty nimrod chicken-hawks, once drunk on the delusion of power that start illegal and unnecessary war.

Jimmny Carter, Navy veteran, man of peace.

James 3:17-19

17But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

Matthew 5:8-10

8Blessed are the pure in heart,for they will see God. 9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. 10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

It seems to me the demons and demon-possessed will always try to persecute and belittle "sons of God" and rally behind the warmongers and murderers - no surprises - as usual.

capt

The Myth of the Math and Science Shortage

So why does government continually badger us about the impending shortage of mathematicians and scientists? Maybe it is just a big excuse for getting and spending our money, and one excuse is as good as another. But maybe there is something more sinister at work. Perhaps government would like to create a glut of mathematicians and scientists who cannot find work in the private sector, and so these people would have no alternative but to go to work for the Pentagon and other warfare state agencies. Here, politicians imagine, they would create great gizmos to spy on people, centrally plan, and create smart bombs and other toys for politicians to play with.

Sound crazy? I'm open to any explanation, and perhaps this "conspiracy" view supposes the political class to be smarter than it really is. Regardless of the real reason, let us not suppose that the real reason is the one they give: that we face an imminent shortage. We don't. And if we did, the political class would be the last to know about it. To the extent they succeed, they will end up wasting people's time and money, and the person repainting your house might just have a PhD in mathematics.

More HERE

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Just the last two of a pretty good article.

capt

Muslim Riots Aid Neo-Con Global Agenda
"Clash of Civilizations" Advanced by Naive and Controlled Groups

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | February 7 2006

The riots that are currently sweeping across Europe and the Middle East in response to caricatures of Mohammed that were originally printed in Danish newspapers are staged managed and are helping the Neo-Cons advance the "clash of civilizations" that they need to impose world order and imperial hegemony.

Images of Muslims with signs that read "freedom go to hell" and "Europe, take some lessons from 9/11" are playing right into the hands of the Globalists by enabling them to hold up examples of how the Muslims are dangerous barbarians who wish to take away our liberties and need to be dealt with.

As Kurt Nimmo points out, the three most offensive cartoons that caused the outrage were not even printed in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper but were added in and handed out by Danish imams who “£irculated the images to brethren in Muslim countries, according to the London Telegraph.

It also appears highly suspicious that Muslims in Gaza City and other places had gained access to a plentiful supply of Danish flags to burn in front of the waiting world media as soon as the controversy broke out.

This racial warfare only benefits a smug elite who are content to sit back and watch all the chaos unfold, leaving a terrified middle class to beg for a choking police state to be instituted as the only solution to the problem, a problem manufactured by elite control of so-called minority groups in the first place.

Violent Muslim demonstrators need to take a step back and consider what is important in the long term. The ability of western media to exercise freedom of speech and print cartoons, or unwittingly greasing the skids for a giant engineered backlash against the Muslim world that will see all Muslim nations subjugated and dominated under a tyrannical world government, along with every other race, color and creed.
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Is this the beginning of the end? We know what they are planning for Iran and Syria, it is critical to fan the flames as much as possible before lighting the nuclear fuse. I hope everyone who has valuables in safe deposit boxes gets them out ASAP. Something wicked is coming, I don't know exactly when, but I think soon. Take action to protect yourself and your family the best way you can.

Bush is the real problem. Once he is impeached arrested charged jailed and executed for not only war crimes against humanity causing massive death and destruction but also decieving the taxpayers into trillions more debt with his elitist tax cuts while doubling gas prices for his big oil pals and allowing bin Laden to escape justice due to complex business dealings the bush family has with these Saudis, maybe then can America and the world get back some sense of normalcy as otherwise it will be held hostage the world jewry puppeting this freak ex cokehead alcoholic silver spooner.
We need to behead Bush publically on TV in front of the the world he has destroyed and we will see peace come to the planet after the celebration recedes.

billsmall, if only it were that simple.

The Voice of the White House

February 6, 2006: I am going to present here a study of the growing uproar over the sacrilegious cartoons that has achieved real legs and seriously threatens to start a genuine jihad, or holy war, between Muslims and the rest of the world. I am sending on copies of the Danish cartoons in spite of the hypocritical warnings by our Department of State to the American media not to publish them because the President considers them to be offensive.

This statement, like almost any other one coming from any government agency controlled by Bush, is a bald-faced lie. Bush, his Jewish advisers and his fanatic evangelical Christian core supporters have been loudely clamoring for a holy war against all Muslims for years now and Bush is in full agreement with their avowed aims.

However, the totally unexpected and very violent reaction who what are really not that offensive satires, has caused him to don the garments of a pious leader and protest out of one side of his lopsided mouth while out of the other, he is trying to find a way to obliterate the Iranians, the Syrians and even the non-Moslim Russians

The days of civilized behavior are long gone, regretfully.
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You can see all 12 cartoons here. The story behind this uproar is also presented by The UK Independent.

Call a spade a spade seems to be the theme here. I wish more people would chime in and show disgust for the "New Fascist Regime", STFU Gonzo!

Pusface turning up the heat on Repugs HERE. Ya gotta love it, tow the party line or everybody finds out what you did last summer. STFU Pusface!

New thread.

While I myself do not pay income taxes. (My income is far too low.) I am surprised that so many people continue to dutifully pay their taxes every April 15th. Maybe no body wants to go to prison or have their possessions ceased by the IRS. Maybe citizens believe more can be gained by paying their taxes and believing taxes fund a representative democracy lead by elected officials that are accountable to voters. As the activities of lobbist become more widely known maybe citizens will no longer recognize our government as a legitimate representative democracy and instead recognize our government as a plutocratic dictatorship lead by officials selected by lobbists that are accountable to a mercenary plutocratic predatory few. Maybe a mercenary plutocratic predatory few profit from the manufacture and sale of the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex. Maybe a beast of a military industrial complex both terrorizes the many and offers protection in exchange for gold in a global shakedown of epic proportions that some call the war on terror. Maybe in the minds of the citizens of this nation paying taxes will come to be thought of as paying off the demands of an extortionist that throughout history has used both terror and offers of protection in exchange for gold to concentrate the wealth of the global culture into the hands of a mercenary plutocratic predatory few. Maybe there will come a day when the citizens of this nation will declare once again that there will be no taxation without representation and the great experiment that is the American government will have to seek other sources of funding.

Feingold rocks. He's gonna get Wellstoned.

He has a great letter right now on Rawstory.com, if you've not peeped it yet. Too long to post.

Will the pattern of the Intelligence Community be repeated, again?
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id120.html

Libby..

All of this about Libby's criminal acts is just concern over "the last war".. our attention needs to focus on March 20th (or 28th, take your pick). The first date is the proposed opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse, which will trade oil in euros. On the 28th they hold elections. In either case, action will start by the end of March. With Iraq we conducted our first unprovoked attack on an independent nation; Iran might be the first use of nukes since Japan. Note: Saddam started selling oil under the Oil for Food Program for euros in 2000.

I saw an article which included the comment that
"a few Democrats" contributed to the Libby defense
fund. If the are public politicians, I believe
the public has a right to know who are these
Republicians who call themselves Democrats?