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“NOTABLES”
Conflicts' costs may exceed $700 billion
New Jewish homes planned in Jerusalem Muslim sector
U.S.-Israel Crisis Deepens Over Defense Exports to
China
Iran allocates $1 bln to Iraq reconstruction
Cheney Makes Plans to Nuke Iran
U.S. Gains Continued Access in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
US blocks Chinese oil bid
Anti-Terror War Pushed
to Africa
'Sasquatch' hair belonged to bison
Demand for flu shots rises, Canada's supply shrinks
Black Box Voting Board Member Arrested in San Diego
for Viewing Vote-Tallying
Russia: Outbreak of
Bird Flu Confirmed In Siberia
West Nile Found in 41%
of Mosquitoes in Louisiana Tests
Food crisis in North Korea worsens, refugees in China
swell
“HUMOR
/ ODDITIES”
Scientists Examine 'Bigfoot'
Hair
The
test results are expected later this week.
Russia
Offers $100m Trip To The Moon
Iraq Pullout
U.S. General George Casey says American
troops could begin to pull out of Iraq by next spring. By then
our mission to protect the nation's civilians will be completed
because all of Iraq's civilians will already be dead.
Shuttle Damage
NASA says it won't launch any more shuttle missions until it
figures out what caused some debris to hit Discovery just after
the launch. Gee, if the Bush administration adopted that kind of
policy, we'd never get to fight any wars!
“UNITED
STATES”
U.S. Officials Retool Slogan for Terror War
Rumsfeld
and the nation's senior military officer have spoken of "a
global struggle against violent extremism" rather than
"the global war on terror," which had been the
catchphrase of choice.
FLASHBACK: This war on terrorism is bogus Sept
6/03
We
now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax
Americana was drawn up for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Jeb
Bush. The document, entitled "REBUILDING AMERICA'S DEFENSES" (summary
and full text) , was written
in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project for
the New American Century (PNAC). The
plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military
control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was
in power. It says "while the unresolved conflict with
AUTHOR: Michael Meacher - Wikipedia
RECALL:
US 'planned attack on Taleban' SEPT 18/01 BBC
Niaz
Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior
American officials in mid-July that military action
against
$41 Billion Cost Projected To Remove Illegal Entrants
A new study by a liberal Washington think tank
puts the cost of forcibly removing most of the nation's estimated
10 million illegal immigrants at $41 billion a year, a sum that
exceeds the annual budget of the Department of Homeland
Security.-Washington Post
THE FUSING OF
CAFTA: Ideology vs. National Interests
Today, "free trade" is about something
other than the simple exchange of goods. Henry Kissinger
tipped the Trilateralists' hand in 1993 when he wrote that NAFTA
was the "architecture of a new international system,"
a great "step forward toward the new world order."-Pat
Buchanan/WorldNetDaily
Conflicts' costs may exceed $700 billion
War
in
US Falling Behind Across the Board
AUTHOR:
Paul Craig Roberts
Gonzales Says He'll Review
FOIA Guidelines
Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he would reconsider his
predecessor's guidance that has restricted public access to
government information since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks.
MOLDS FESTER IN THE DARK
White House To Withhold Nominee's Tax Returns
The
Bush administration will not give Senate investigators access to
the federal tax returns of Supreme Court nominee John G.
Roberts Jr., a
break with precedent that could exacerbate a growing conflict
over document disclosure in the confirmation process.
Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here's
Why
Rumsfeld:
"I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to
believe.” They show acts "that can only be described as
blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," he added.
Pentagon Defies Order to Release Photos; 2,000
Veterans Call for Independent Investigation
Sen. Pat Roberts
(R-Kan.) intends to interfere in Fitzgerald probe.
this
may indicate that the White House is looking to give Fitzgerald's
targets (Karl Rove, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and others) congressional
general immunity from prosecution in return for their
testimony before Roberts' committee. This was the method by which
John Poindexter and Oliver North were able to avoid jail time for
their roles in Iran-contra, their convictions being overturned by
a federal appeals court because of their previously granted
congressional immunity.
IN A LAWFUL SOCIETY THOSE GUILTY
OF CRIMES …
Condoleezza Rice at the
Center of the Plame Scandal
The
evidence of Rice's complicity is increasingly damning as it
gathers over a six-year twisting chronology of the Nigerien
uranium-Wilson-Plame affair, particularly when set beside what we
also know very well about the inside operations of the NSC and
Rice's unique closeness to Bush, her tight grip on her staff, and
the power and reach that went with it all.
AUTHOR:
ROGER MORRIS - Former NSC staffer
Ex-Aide on Periphery of Leak Inquiry
Ari
Fleischer, the former White House press secretary, has been
caught up in the investigation of who leaked the name of a C.I.A.
operative.
No jail time for jailer who admitted years of raping
adolescent relative
Louisiana DU Testing For Vets
Now Law
FLASHBACK: Pentagon ponders disinformation campaign
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New Jewish homes planned in Jerusalem Muslim sector
U.S.-Israel Crisis Deepens Over Defense Exports to
China
The U.S. administration has refused to rescind
sanctions against
Opposition in
RECALL: American
taxpayers will be paying about $227,000 per Jewish settler.
Bush nominates Richard Jones as next ambassador to
Israel
Israelis' $7.4bn buy creates world's biggest generic
drug firm
Intel backs off new plant in
Israel
So
why did Chipzilla abandon plans for
“MIDDLE
EAST”
House
Republicans passed a resolution on July 21 THAT "Calls
for an early withdrawal embolden the terrorists," the bill
states, adding that the
BLUSTER AND BOMBAST
Iran allocates $1 bln to Iraq reconstruction
Iraqi Official Demands Timetable for Withdrawal
RECALL: Shots
to the Heart of Iraq people
who are considered vital to building democracy, are increasingly
being killed by
Cheney Makes Plans to Nuke Iran
The plan includes a large-scale air assault on
IT IS REASSURING TO SEE
THE COOL HEAD OF OBJECTIVE REASON
CONTROLING THE GREATEST MILITARY POWER
HUMANS HAVE EVER CREATED
Iran oil bourse wins authorization
US WILL BE “DISPLEASED”
Blowback in Iraq JUSTIN
RAIMONDO
The
FLASHBACK: Halliburton says radioactive material was stolen
FLASHBACK: U.S. Sneaks Uranium Out of Iraq
“FOREIGN
AFFAIRS”
US backs away from another
regime change
The
US Congress plans to assign
$85 million to fund political organizations in Russia
Rice's unfortunate choice
The recent decision by Condoleezza Rice to skip
the annual Southeast Asian Nations Forum (ministerial-level)
represents a setback for US efforts to persuade Southeast Asians
that
IMPERIAL ARROGANCE
U.S. Gains Continued Access in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Two Central Asian countries pledged Tuesday to
continue U.S. military basing and access rights granted in 2001
for the Afghanistan war, dropping calls for a deadline for
American troops' withdrawal from the region.The public assurances
of continued U.S. access came amid separate meetings Tuesday
between visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and
leaders of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -Washington Post
IMPERIAL POWER
US blocks Chinese oil bid
Washington moved yesterday to block the
$18.5bn (£10.6bn) bid by a Chinese energy firm for Unocal, underlining
growing anxiety about Beijing's nascent economic might. A House
and Senate panel has called for a 120-day study by government
departments to assess the impact on the United States of China's
growing thirst for energy -Guardian UK
U.S. moves to defuse Afghan
tension
50 killed in Afghanistan
clashes
Around
50 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in clashes with US and
Afghan forces in central
Anti-Terror War Pushed to
Africa
Under
Long-Term Program, Pentagon to Train Soldiers of 9 Nations The
U.S. military is embarking on a long-term push into Africa
to counter what it considers growing inroads of al Qaeda and
other terrorist networks in poor, lawless and predominantly
Muslim expanses of the continent.
The Invasion of Panama: "There was something
else going on." BLOG
REPORT
We
had some target buildings we were given to destroy. The buildings
weren't any type of military threat to us and we kind of looked
around at each other and said 'What the hell is this all about?',
but we followed orders and blew the buildings up. I really think
that grabbing Noriega was a secondary reason for the invasion.
THE
Shooting to kill needs no
warning
Police
have been given permission to shoot dead suspected suicide
bombers without any verbal warning, the Guardian has learned.
POLICE HAVE IMMUNITY FROM: MANSLAUGHTER
XYMPHORA: The more they tell us, the less we know
As
the Official Story of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
develops, it gets weirder and weirder:
As
usual, the more they tell us the less we know.
“ECONOMICS”
French Protectionism
French President Jacques Chirac is calling
for measures to defend French companies from foreign takeover.
Experts say this is a foolhardy move, not because it will feed
into ruinous protectionism, but because it's crazy to think
anyone would actually want to buy a French company.
China-Mart Takes Over
U.S. Energy Industry's Lobbying Pays Off With $11.6 Bln in Aid
Oil and utility companies spent $367 million over the last two years pushing the U.S. Congress to pass energy legislation. The money was a good investment: lawmakers are poised to pass a measure providing about $11.6 billion in taxpayer subsidies.
TAXPAYER AID DURING RECORD PROFITS …
WHAT A SYSTEM !
AFL-CIO
lawyer Damon A. Silvers told reporters in a conference call,
urging senators to question Cox aggressively. "A majority of
the commission that's bent on deregulating the markets could do
enormous damage."
Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, called Cox's record
"atrocious from an investor point of view."
RECALL: Wall Street’s Trade
Settlement Dilemma SEPT
2/04
SEC Regulation SHO allows the industry to fail on the
delivery of purchased shares as “
Today, the SEC identifies that 4% of all publicly traded securities have abusive settlement failures and at times those failures will exceed the entire public float of companies. The North American Securities Administrators Association provided direction to the SEC when they stated “If the Commission continues to allow settlement failures, it may well facilitate the harm that the proposal is designed to remedy.” Again the SEC ignored the insight when they drafted Regulation SHO.
IT’S JUST OUR PENSIONS AND
LIFE SAVINGS AT RISK
Ron Paul’s Great Question
Ron Paul was the only member of either his
committee or Senate Banking to ask Alan Greenspan about gold.
Ron reminded him that with this floating dollar, tied to nothing
real, we have a system that is "a convenient way to default
on our debt -- to liquidate our debt after the inflationary
scheme."
Jude Wanniski was shocked by Greenspan’s answer: “I think central banking, has learned the dangers of fiat money, and I think, as a consequence of that, we've behaved as though there are, indeed, real reserves underneath the system.
'In the absence of the gold standard there is no way
to protect savings from the confiscation through inflation. There
is no safe store of value without gold. This is the shabby secret
of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending
is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold
stands in the way of this insidious process that stands as a
protector of property rights.'
BACKGROUND: GOLD OF
At the end of WW II,
Where did American's gold in
In fact, there was a very infamous case where the
Firestone family set up a string of dummy corporations to
purchase
Finally by 1971, all the pure gold has been secretly
removed from
SOURCE:
MONEY MASTERS VIDEO
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'Sasquatch' hair belonged to bison
Geneticists stomped on the legend of Big Foot Thursday.
just
north of
Demand for flu shots rises, Canada's supply shrinks
For
the upcoming flu season, the two Canadian companies that supply
the vaccine have decided to sell the shots only to the
government and not to private clinics. The
companies said since demand for the vaccine is booming worldwide,
they can only supply 11 million shots in
COINCIDENCE: BOTH COMPANIES ANNOUNCED
THIS ON THE SAME DAY
AND FROM LE DEVOIR …
Grippe: ne sera pas vacciné qui veut
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Only
the people at the risk will have access to the vaccine, those
which are not on government approval lists will not be able to
get vaccinations from private sources, admits the Agency of
public health of Canada.
At
ID Biomédical, decreased availability is a result of production
facility expansion. At Sanofi-Pasteur, reduced
availability is explained by shipments to other countires.
The
Public Health Agency of Canada does not have the capacity to
oblige the manufacturers to reserve a share of their production
at the private market. So, the agency will advocate
vaccinating those people at highest risk with everyone else being
outside the agency’s mandate (according to Dr. Arlene
King, Director of the Immunization and Respiratory Infections
Division, Public Health Agency of Canada.)
“ELECTIONS”
Black Box Voting Board Member Arrested in San Diego
for Viewing Vote-Tallying
Jim
March, a member of the Black Box Voting board of directors, was
arrested Tuesday evening for trying to observe the Diebold
central tabulator (vote tallying machine) as the votes were being
counted in San Diego's mayoral election (July 26).
IN A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC NATION
…
“DEMOCRACY
/ FREEDOM”
Is Your
Printer Spying On You?
every
time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret
code that could be used to identify the printer -- and
potentially, the person who used it. Unfortunately,
the scenario isn't fictional.
“HEALTH
/ SCIENCE / TECH”
Detailed Listing Of
Acid/Alkaline Forming Foods
Big
Brother Wants To Be Diet Cop
At
least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes, officials
here propose a similar system to monitor people with diabetes, a
non-contagious foe.
Impotence
Drugs Linked To Vision Problems
Pesticides May Be Sickening School Kids
2,500
children and school employees over a five-year period, and though
most illnesses were mild, Sources include chemicals to kill
insects and weeds on school grounds, disinfectants, and farming
pesticides that drift over nearby schools,
Contamination
hits 2nd flu vaccine supply
Already
plagued by production cutting contamination problems, Chiron
Corp. now says it will not be able to make or sell flu vaccine at
all this year. The flu vaccine
involved was earmarked for European and other non-U.S. markets,
the Wall Street Journal said Thursday. It was the second such
incident for Chiron.
US
Child Vaccination Rate Hits New Record High
Suicide
Blights China's Young Adults
Increasing
stress, loneliness and a lack of medical support for depression
are thought to have contributed to an annual suicide toll that is
estimated at 250,000 people a year.
Microsoft cracks down on software piracy
“INFECTIOUS
- DISEASES”
Russia: Outbreak of Bird Flu
Confirmed In Siberia
LIKELY ARRIVED WITH MIGRATING BIRDS
FROM
'Trojan' ducks could trigger global Asian flu
pandemic, say scientists
An
analysis of H5N1 influenza in ducks in
JUST NOTICING THIS
China
Closes Lab Isolating, Sequencing H5N1 Bird Flu
A
laboratory jointly run by universities in Hong and
PREVENTING DETECTION PRECLUDES ADMITTING PROBLEMS
China Halts Pork Exports From Two Cities Amid Disease
West Nile Found in 41% of
Mosquitoes in Louisiana Tests
COINCIDENCE: THIS IS THE ISRAELI STRAIN
After bird flu, pig bug human
toll rises to 24
The
death toll from infection with a bacteria commonly found in pigs
has reportedly risen to at least 24, with 21 people in critical
condition and nearly 40 new cases in south western China's
Sichuan province.
“ENVIRONMENT
/ EARTH”
“WEATHER”
Spain says drought could last years
Environment
Minister Cristina Narbona said the government was working on the
assumption that this year was not a one-off.
Food crisis in North Korea worsens, refugees in China
swell
Heat and drought bringing crisis to US Midwest farms
Heat Wave Prompts Summer
School 'Snow Day'
A
blistering heat wave gave
Australian Government Warns Citizens That Severe
Climate Change To Hit In 30 Years
You
see things and say ‘why’?
But
I dream of things that never were and I say: ‘why not’?
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part 1, Act 1
Part of the Ministry of Doug Bracewell