September 9, 2006

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committedby his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not evenhearing about them: George Orwell


GOP Senators' Bid to Confirm Bolton Is Called Off
Republican efforts to formally confirm John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations hit an unexpected snag yesterday when a Republican senator in a tough reelection bid said he could not support the diplomat until the Bush administration answers his questions on Middle East policy.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090906Y.shtml


We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security:
Dwight David Eisenhower : 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969


Army general says Rumsfeld refused to plan for post-war Iraq
Long before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists to develop plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday. In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said "he would fire the next person" who talked about the need for a post-war plan.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15474438.htm


US generals criticize Bush plan on terrorism trials
The U.S. military's top legal officers on Thursday criticized a White House plan for military tribunals to try foreign terrorism suspects because it would allow convictions based on evidence never seen by the defendants.
http://reuters.excite.com//article/20060907/2006-09-07T185049Z_01_N07352722_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-SECURITY-DETAINEES-TRIALS-DC.html


Polls: More Than 4 in 10 Americans Still Think Saddam Involved in 9/11 Attacks "An Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN released today on numerous issues surrounding the Iraq war, asked whether Hussein was personally involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Fifty-two percent said he was not, but 43% said they believe he was….. This comes despite wide media debunking of this notion for years. At a news conference this past August 21, President Bush was asked if Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and he said it had "nothing" to do with the attacks. Yet polls show that a majority of Republicans continue to state that Hussein was involved."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003118176

Bush Caught Lying about Saddam-Al-Qaeda Relationship in 2004
"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting. "Were there contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq? Yes," Thomas H. Kean (R), the panel's chairman, said at a news conference. "What our staff statement found is there is no credible evidence that we can discover, after a long investigation, that Iraq and Saddam Hussein in any way were part of the attack on the United States."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50679-2004Jun17.html


Half Ton of Bomb Material Stored a Few Miles from the White House
With virtually no questions asked, an undercover ABC News team was able to purchase a half ton of one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials and move it into a storage shed only a few miles from the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/half_ton_of_bom.html


Halliburton Fraud Lawsuit Details Super Bowl Party
Halliburton Co. executives ordered a big-screen television and 10 large tubs of tacos, chicken wings and cheese sticks delivered to Iraq for it's own last year's Super Bowl, then billed US taxpayers for their party, according to a lawsuit unsealed Friday, thanks
to a federal whistle-blower.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090906Z.shtml


U.S. Wants to Collect More Passenger and Fingerprint Data
Chertoff said that U.S. officials would be pushing European allies to provide greater amounts of airline passenger data in efforts to screen for potential terrorists who may not be on various watchlists maintained by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2412345&page=1


Fear always springs from ignorance: Ralph Waldo Emerson :
American lecturer, poet, and essayist, 1803-1882


EPA wants pollution rules eased for oil refineries, plants
The Bush administration proposed easing environmental rules Friday to allow oil refineries and other industries to change how they calculate whether they need pollution control equipment.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4173822.html
(Right!!! We wouldn't want to cost them ANY MONEY!!!!)

Foreclosures Up Sharply In Maine
Times are so tight for many Mainers. They are losing the money battle and their homes with it. Len Morley, an attorney who specializes in foreclosures, says cases are up 400% from this time last year.
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=41286


U.S. market cooling in `very significant way'
Rising interest rates, fewer investor purchases and greater house inventories were cited as reasons for the slowdown in home values….A spike in housing construction has created a glut, said OFHEO chief economist Patrick Lawler, "and these inventories will continue to constrain future appreciation rates."….Massachusetts, which had ranked in the top 10 for price appreciation between mid-1997 and mid-2003, now ranks 48th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1157580610137&call_pageid=970599119419


Tension Escalates Over HP Scandal Board Calls Emergency Meeting Sunday
"Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors yesterday called an emergency meeting for Sunday as a scandal involving spying on board members and journalists escalated and prompted Chairman Patricia C. Dunn to say she would step down if asked."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801857.html


Indications add up to government conspiracy
In the words of David Ray Griffin, world-renowned theologian and truth advocate, the agenda and events surrounding 9/11 reveal a "deeply perverted value system" at odds with that of the American people. For the sake of the common welfare, the truth behind 9/11 must be exposed….. The case for complicity begins with motive and benefit. In his 1997 book "The Grand Chessboard," Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the key to global dominance in the 21st century lies in control of Central Asian oil and gas reserves. Establishing a U.S. presence there would require the kind of military deployment that only "a direct external threat" could justify.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/284273_conspire08.html


28-Year Career CIA Official Says 9/11 An Inside Job
"A 28-year CIA career man and a former skeptic of alternative 9/11 explanations has gone further than ever before in voicing his convictions that the attacks bore the hallmarks of an inside job and the three buildings in the WTC complex were brought down by controlled demolition……Bill Christison is a former senior official of the CIA. He was a National Intelligence Officer and the Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis before his retirement in 1979. Since then he has written numerous articles on U.S. foreign policies
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/070906insidejob.htm


9-11 5 years later: The Pod People And The Plane That Crashed Into the Pentagon This is an old intelligence trick called "Poisoning the well", the intentional promotion of lies to blend with an embarrassing truth to discredit it. The government shills are trying to conceal real news stories such as the Israeli Spy Ring and its connections to the attacks on the World Trade Towers. So, we get hoax stories poured onto the net by government propagandists, to be used by the media to attack the credibility of anyone who dares doubt the official story.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/odigo_9-11_warning.html


We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men: George Orwell


9-11 5 years later: SUPPRESSED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA'S HIGHEST RANKS
Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
On Sept. 6, 2001, the Thursday before the tragedy, 2,075 put options were made on United Airlines and on Sept. 10, the day before the attacks, 2,282 put options were recorded for American Airlines. Given the prices at the time, this could have yielded speculators between $2 million and $4 million in profit.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/illegaltades.html


THE 9/11 ANTHRAX FRAME-UP
The anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of a U.S. biological warfare program, the magazine of environment pressure group Greenpeace Germany reported Wednesday. .. "The U.S. delegation believe it is an inside job. ... Their members also have more information than has been made public," Kirsten Brodde, a reporter for the magazine, told Reuters. The magazine said: "It seems the attacker ... wanted to force through an increase in the budget for U.S. research on biological weapons." [Discovery Channel]
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/frameup.html


9-11 5 years later: The OEM Issued a WTC Collapse Warning
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/oem_wtc.html
How Giuliani new ahead of the disaster that a disaster was coming
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_giuliani.html
FEMA was in NY the night before
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fematape.html

The 9/11 conspiracy plots thicken
If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess. There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the extent of belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept. 11 to spark an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003250424_911conspire09.html

Bill Moyers Returns to Investigative Reporting With Moyers on America Airing in October on PBS
Journalist Bill Moyers returns to investigative reporting in October with three documentaries taking on important issues facing the nation in the upcoming elections for control of Congress.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-08-2006/0004429256&EDATE=


Reporter Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges
It appears the complaint is about filming a sensitive national security site owned by Exxon petroleum. It seems that photographing major Bush donors is now a federal offense.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/8/1652/27710
"Yes, the rumor's true. Greg Palast is facing a criminal complaint from the Department of Homeland Security stemming from his filming the Hurricane Katrina investigation for Link TV and Democracy Now. The film's producer, Matt Pascarella, is also facing the legal wrath of Big Brother."


At least 10 Miami journalists take U.S. pay
At least 10 South Florida journalists, including three from El Nuevo Herald, received regular payments from the U.S. government for programs on Radio Martí and TV Martí, two broadcasters aimed at undermining the communist government of Fidel Castro. The payments totaled thousands of dollars over several years.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15465622.htm


The day Blair accused his chancellor of blackmail
An all-out power struggle between the chancellor and the prime minister, culminating with allegations of blackmail by Tony Blair and a ferocious shouting match between the two men, appeared last night to have forced Mr Blair to publicly declare as early as
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourleadership/story/0,,1866401,00.html


6 British officials quit in Blair revolt
Six junior members of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government resigned Wednesday to protest his refusal to set a date to leave office amid a growing Labour Party revolt.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060906/ap_on_re_eu/britain_blair


Blair's 48 bloody hours
After a second day of frenzied political manoeuvring and plotting in Westminster, Tony Blair appears to have accepted the inevitable and is expected to finally announce a timetable for his resignation within hours.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5322314.stm


The day Blair accused his chancellor of blackmail
An all-out power struggle between the chancellor and the prime minister, culminating with allegations of blackmail by Tony Blair and a ferocious shouting match between the two men, appeared last night to have forced Mr Blair to publicly declare as early as
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourleadership/story/0,,1866401,00.html


Michael Moore speaks out on Iraq, health care
"Maverick U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore steered the Toronto International Film Festival firmly toward politics with a scathing denunciation of the Iraq war and a preview of his next film, "Sicko," which slams a patchwork U.S. health care system….. "Here we are 3 1/2 years (into the war) and we are not able to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous," he said, describing the war as a distraction to keep Americans scared."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090900388.html


Taking the 'Docu' Out of 'Docudrama'; "ABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11" has elicited a firestorm of criticism for being ... inaccurate and deeply-biased" 9/9
"…the film claims to be based on the bipartisan 9/11 Commission report, despite containing numerous factual inaccuracies that have no basis in the Commission's work."
"In recent days, the film's writers and consultants have begun distancing themselves from the factual inaccuracies contained in the film. Nowrasteh has said that a key scene falsely in the movie -- which alleges that former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger failed to pull the trigger on a surefire opportunity to kill Osama bin Laden -- was "improvised" by the actors on the set."…."…. complaints have reigned down from all circles, including from conservatives, former Bush officials, and 9/11 Commission members. Conservative author Richard Miniter, who wrote a book blasting President Clinton's counterterrorism policies, has acknowledged that there is "zero factual basis" for the "idea that someone had bin Laden in his sights in 1998 or any other time and Sandy Berger refused to pull the trigger."
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053
Berger, Albright and Clinton send additional letters demanding 9/11 show be canceled
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/berger-albright-and-clinton-send.html
(My, My – and boy did CBS get it for the Swift Boat crap which was
very accurate, in fact the entire story about Bush and his sleazy existence
regarding his "COMBAT" effort was never put out there for all to see.)



'Values' We Have to Hide Abroad;
"If the secret prisons where U.S. agents interrogated "high-value" terrorism suspects with "alternative" techniques are so legitimate and legal, if they're so fully consistent with American values and traditions, then why are they overseas?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701617_pf.html


In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave: John James Ingalls