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It's a regular sham sandwich.
Ok, lets see. Ramsey Clark, US Attorney General during the Johnson Administration (or should I say coup?) is now' defending' Saddam Hussein, and complaining that the trial is theater to justify the US invasion and occupation. Guess he learned a thing or two about US invasion and occupation during that whole Vietnam fracas.
Clark has a unparalleled history defending genocidal war criminals, most recently the late Slobodan Milosovich.
What a lucky coincidence that Clark's schedule opened up due to the 'passing' of his most recent high profile war criminal client, just as Saddam was shopping for new defense attorneys.
Seems two of his previous attorneys have been murdered. Along with the judge.
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Unfortunately, reports of refugee abuse (mostly sexual abuse of minors) at the hands of 'UN Peacekeepers' has more than doubled in the last year.
I wonder what the background check is like for a 'volunteer UN peacekeeper'... if there is one. |
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Just in case you didn't know that FOX news is in bed with the Bush cabal. |
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More conspicuously bad timing for the 'Truth Movement', as Charlie Sheen's celebrity ex-wife files a restraining order against him after he allegedly threatens to kill her.
I hope being publicized as a violent, drug addicted, wife beating sexual deviant doesn't undermine the man's credibility as a respected researcher of global politics. |
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A full page ad in yesterday's USA Today is causing a stir. It implies the government caused a huge increase in the rate of autism by giving vaccinations that contained mercury, then covered it up. The ad says, "If you caused a 6,000 percent increase in autism, wouldn't you try to cover it up too?" |
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Julissa Vargas, 17, has a minimum-wage job in the fast-food industry — but hers has an unusual geographic reach. She is at a McDonald's in Honolulu. And within a two-minute span Ms. Vargas taks orders from drive-through windows in California, Gulfport, Miss., and Gillette, Wyo. She and as many as 35 others take orders remotely from 40 McDonald's outlets around the country. |
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Unfortunately, they both work for Homeland Security. |
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As recently as 2004, around 75% of elementary and middle school children aspired to be President of the US. Now 80% DON'T want to be Prez!
Smart kids. |
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Is Iraq in a state of civil war? by Amir Taheri
My notes show that, since the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003m the question has risen once every two months. Having made the cover of almost every major news magazine, it has also been the theme of countless television and radio programmes in Europe and the United States. |
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The families of four young soldiers found shot at an Army camp vowed to continue their campaign for a public inquiry after a review of the deaths said there was no evidence that the cadets had been bullied to death or murdered. |
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Reporter Jill Carroll was freed Thursday morning and is healthy.
Carroll, a freelancer with the Christian Science Monitor, was taken by militants on Jan. 7 in Baghdad. Her captors had threatened to kill her unless the United States released all Iraqi female prisoners. Carroll was handed over to the Iraqi Islamic Party office in Amiriya, western Baghdad, by "an unknown group."
Leaving the question: Who exactly kidnapped her? |
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Well. Here we go.
9/11 is now officially entering the mainstream. On a tabloid showbiz bulls**t
show; with tabloid showbiz hosts; featuring a tabloid showbiz star with a
coke 'n hookers tabloid past; backed up by a tabloid conspiracy-theorist
radio host.
Whew!
Exactly as planned by the CIA. |
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How are we supposed to react when faced with these two little back to back news bytes - both ticking away as part of the same CNET news banner.
Certainly my next thought was, "Well, how long till they're installing the Laser Cannons into the Unmanned Spy Planes?
Perhaps that's the purpose of this little 'tech update?' |
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MAHER ARAR TESTIFIES TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Innocent Canadian Describes Detainment in New York and Rendition to Syria
Urges Committee to Understand the “Implications of Torturing a Human Being”
On March 23, 2006, in Brussels, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained by the U.S. government without charges in New York and sent to Syria for torture, testified at a public hearing of the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on the Transportation and Illegal Detention of Prisoners. Excerpts from his official testimony are below.
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A British Army found that four deaths in a training center, between 1995 and 2002, were suicides but the victims' families claim that the dead soldiers were either pushed into taking their own lives by "a culture of bullying" or might even have been killed. |
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At least 30 people were killed in a bomb blast inside a joint U.S.-Iraq base in Mosul on Monday, possibly revenge for the shooting dead yesterday of 20 people in Sadr City, Baghdad by U.S. troops after a clash with Shi'ite militia men. |
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"There is little value in conducting further research into the causes"
--Professor Simon Wessely, Institute of Psychiatry
That piece of spin above sums up the prime intent of this latest compilation of research papers into Gulf War Symdrome published in Britain. By the way, Institute of Psychiatry played a key role in covering up the cause of Mad Cow disease -organophosphate pesticides. --Fintan |
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Sounds like a tough job Tony, but somebody's gotta play number one Neopublican Stooge over there across the pond.In an interview with The Australian in Melbourne yesterday, Mr Blair championed close ties with the US, saying: "When I look at the problems of the world today, none of them can be solved without America." Uh, thanks to the fact that we caused them all."The important thing is to be alongside America on the security agenda because that affects all of us," he said. "Who else are we going to have a major alliance with? I've always said to people that for us in Europe we should build out from the trans-Atlantic alliance."
Mr Blair said September 11 was not only an attack on America, but was also an attack on the Western way of life. "America was attacked because it was the most powerful repository of the values we believe in," he said.
"That's why my whole thinking changed - this was an attack on all of us. People should be under no doubt: if we end up saying to America - when an attack like that happens, we're not with you, we're not standing with you - then why should America stand with us?
Jeez. We may have a smirking chimp, but you guys got a real piece o' work too.
He said that one of the "most difficult things to explain in modern politics to a domestic audience" was that foreign policy was now domestic policy.
Oh. So now the people are the enemy. Well, that explains a lot. |
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Long term media conditioning apparent in this widely circulated non-news story. Let's see, I wonder how many feel good fluff stories I'll read in the next two years that explore the 'concept' of a female president, and then mention the name Senator Hillary Clinton?
Will Laura continue to pester Rice until she changes her mind? Could they possibly be setting 08' up to be a huge cat fight?
This small story has terrifying implications. God help this country if Condi manages to seize control of the NFL! |
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Great to have a bit of good news to report for a change. According to documents released by the Smoking Gun, VP Dick Cheney regularly requests four cans of aspartame-loaded diet soda in his hotel rooms.
Now, four cans daily is enough to develop metabolic addiction (ask Michael J. Fox). And four cans a day is about enough to ensure significant physical damage.
Let's help the VP out. Send him diet soda. Meet and greet him with diet soda. Offer it to him at every opportunity. Gulp away dude. Considering Cheney's role in getting aspartame approved by the FDA, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy! |
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The FCC chief expressed his support yesterday in favor of Big Telecom's ability to create a 'tiered' system to control user bandwith. This would also allow them to control bandwith access to sites the Telecom companies found 'objectionable'. The internet 'as we know it' continues to be a target of Big Business. |
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"We should have been fighting the enemies that attacked us at home on 9/11," she said in December when she announced her candidacy. "We should have been out there trying to catch Osama bin Laden."
With a shovel, presumably.
This "safe" war vet was engineered into place by the Democratic leadership, to boost their street cred on Iraq --without the downside of having a vet who might disagree with the official Democratic "phased withdrawal" bullshit. -Fintan |
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Two new studies help explain why human-to-human transmission of the bird flu virus has so far not happened -- and might not happen in the future.
Both reports found the H5N1 virus prefers to settle in cells deep within the lungs, rather than in the upper respiratory tract, as happens with human flu strains. |
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Who officially sent out the thugs to pay a visit to my colleague? That "conversation" was clearly meant to serve two purposes: to add to Professor Tinker Salas's ongoing file in a fishing expedition to uncover something incriminating against him; and to let him know that THEY are watching, a not-so-subtle warning to intimidate in order to curb his speech.
We should be outraged. This is an abuse of power, a latter-day domestic enemy's list -- it goes well beyond due diligence in the war against terror. |
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The mainstream have had it in for the Atkins Diet ever since it was shown that it had advantages over conventional theory. Now, they are hyping the case of one woman treated in intensive care after cutting out carbs. For a month before she fell ill, the woman had lived on meat, cheese and salads, say doctors.
Hardly any mainstream media bothered to get a response from the Atkins Foundation. But Dr Abby Bloch, vice president for programs and research at the foundation, told FoodNavigator-USA.com: "Clearly this issue of ketoacidosis is a clinical problem and doesn't occur from dietary issues unless a person has abnormal clinical or metabolic issues." |
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Up to a half million students have blockaded universities across France in revolt against the Government's controversial new youth employment law.
"This is not 1968 all over again," said a Sorbonne University student, referring to the tumultuous Paris spring riots. Elodie, 21, a sociology student, said: "We don't want the Anglo-Saxon economic model here. We are marching for the right to proper jobs." |
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There are "about even odds at this time for the virus to learn how to transmit human to human," Robert G. Webster, bird flu expert told ABC's World News Tonight. "Society just can't accept the idea that 50 percent of the population could die. And I think we have to face that possibility."
Most Revelaing Comment: "I'm sorry if I'm making people a little frightened, but I feel it's my role."
Yeah, I feel it's his role too. Let the PsyOp Begin. |
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 I'd perhaps call it more of a 'circus', however undeniable the comedic element.
It would be downright hilarious if they'd actually get Saddam in the court room, rather than this melodramatic character actor.
At least the matinee schedule isn't too grueling for the old thespian.
The trial was later adjourned for three weeks to April 5. |
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The worldwide child porn probe called Operation Snowball had led to many cases of false allegations, presumptions of guilty unless proven innocent, shattered lives due to identity theft and even suicides.
Was any witchhunt ever different? |
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With 133,000 American troops already in Iraq, an armored battalion of about 700 soldiers kept on standby in Kuwait is beginning to move north toward Baghdad. U.S. officials say Gen. George Casey asked for more troops because of a convergence of events, and danger, surrounding the third anniversary of the American invasion. |
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