Billions of dollars missing from Iraq

From Yahoo News:

Billions of dollars belonging to Iraq is not accounted for by the Coalition Provisional Authority, which was given responsibility by the United Nations for the country's finances, British lawmakers and aid activists said Monday.

Gee, is anyone surprised?

New George Bush commercial makes you wanna vote Kerry

I don't know what was going through Karl Rove's head when they decided this. The latest Bush ad says: "This is not a time for pessimism and rage", and then proceeds to show clips of Kerry, Gore, Michael Moore raving about Bush.

I'm glad they did it. I just don't understand how they think it will help them.

Silence! King George has spoken!

If the U.N. won't give immunity, George will. He is the law, after all, you know....

From the Washington Post

The Bush administration has decided to take the unusual step of bestowing on its own troops and personnel immunity from prosecution by Iraqi courts for killing Iraqis or destroying local property after the occupation ends and political power is transferred to an interim Iraqi government, U.S. officials said.

"The sancity of the Senate must be preserved."

Secret neo christian new age cult gatherings in the US Senate?
Nahhh, couldn't happen.

This is just too fucking weird. If these guys took themselves seriously we might actually live in a world in which we wouldn't have to fight for the most basic kinds of rights and against the most corrupt, most pathetic buncha losers ever to have had the honor to be called President or Prime Minister.

Right on the border between Iraq and Vietnam

That's a good one from Austin, TX: "Man removed from bus after threatening passengers". It seems Texans are so terrified by Arabs, they'll name anything that scares them Arab.

From the article:

The DPS said passengers told officers Bui was speaking in Vietnamese and Arabic and spoke of genocide.

Gee, I don't know what you think about it, but Arabic is not a second language of choice in Vietnam. And I suppose if I talk about the Holocaust on a bus that would make me suspect.

Right on the border between Iraq and Vietnam

That's a good one from Austin, TX: "Man removed from bus after threatening passengers". It seems Texans are so terrified by Arabs, they'll name anything that scares them Arab.

From the article:

The DPS said passengers told officers Bui was speaking in Vietnamese and Arabic and spoke of genocide.

Gee, I don't know what you think about it, but Arabic is not a second language of choice in Vietnam. And I suppose if I talk about the Holocaust on a bus that would make me suspect.

Newdutch by email

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Bill O'Reilly's Final Solution

The man is a racist and advocates war crimes:

O’Reilly’s bloodlust also extended to Afghanistan. A few days after 9/11 he declared “the U.S. should bomb the Afghan infrastructure to rubble—the airport, the power plants, their water facilities, and the roads” if the Afghan government did not extradite Osama bin Laden. O’Reilly continued: “This is a very primitive country. And taking out their ability to exist day to day will not be hard. Remember, the people of any country are ultimately responsible for the government they have. The Germans were responsible for Hitler. The Afghans are responsible for the Taliban. We should not target civilians. But if they don't rise up against this criminal government, they starve, period."

The Geneva Convention states that destroying infrastructure essential to the survival of civilian populations is a war crime and the “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited.” Besides being an obvious racist, O’Reilly is an advocate of targeting and killing civilians (non-white folks, of course) that clearly constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.

They play their games we play ours.

Radical Islamic Terrorism is a major threat to America!! A couple buildings go the way of the pancake and a debrisless 767 crashes into the only part of the pentagon reinforced for a potential missile attack and it's off to take care of the Taliban (aka clearing the way for a pipeline from those oh so gushy Caspian sea oil fields to the Arabian sea) and getting rid of that rabidly secular brutal police state breading ground of radical Fundamentalist Islamic Terrorism for entirely altruistic reasons.
Chechnya? Bah, the Russians will always find something to bitch about. I mean after all this fall of communism fiasco they pretty much have to use whatever they can to get any kind of attention.
Either way they need things to keep ppl interested while they setup Putin's cult o' personality, plunder whatever the reds weren't rich enough to get their hands on and create some kind of reliable prison labor system too.

Evidence of controlled demolition explosives in the South WTC tower

One reader comments:

"In the end it really does come down to this: do you believe the laws of physics, or do you believe the US Govt? One of these two things is lying. In my humble 35 years of existance I can tell you one thing for sure...people lie more often than physics. So to those who believe that everything on Sept 11 occurred exactly as the govt states it did, remind yourself of one thing: If you believe the govt, then the laws of physics don't apply to Sept 11. Then live with your own lie...."

See the evidence for yourself at

http://tinyurl.com/3gkww (cached on Google)

The fatal flaws of the September 11 plot

Xymphora couldn't put it clearer: if the September 11 attacks were indeed planned by Al Qaeda, they made some pretty stupid mistakes - like assuming the FAA and NORAD would not react on time.

Read it at http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/06/fatal-flaw-of-september-11-plans.html

9/11 and Iraq not connected

George: "This administration never said that the 9-11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al-Qaida," Bush said Thursday after meeting with his Cabinet at the White House.

No matter how much you say you didn't link the two, George, your own website makes it clear you did. You wrote so on the eve of war:

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Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)

Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on information available to me, including that in the enclosed document, I determine that:

(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and

(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

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Uh oh.... Whippings ahead for UK generals

Article


"British military commanders have insisted that the role of their troops must be seen in the overall strategic, political, and economic situation in Iraq. Their concerns were reflected in a leaked Foreign Office memo last month. In the event of Britain agreeing to send reinforcements, it said, "we must ensure that ... we can prevent US action, either at the strategic or operational levels, which would jeopardize our objectives".

Looks like the brits are not very happy with the way the US are waging
this one. Sounds to me like they're just not interested in letting it happen anymore either. Big problems are coming out of that. Will Blair be
able to whip his military into obeying US orders? Will he compromise and attempt to segregate their commands. Will he succeed? Either way, this is already undermining his authority with them. Will it be further lessened once he starts negotiating? Only if he decides not to let them attempt to obstruct their allies conduct in Iraq. And that most probably will not happen. Problem with militaries is that a leader is pretty much entirely fuct if they stop taking orders from him or her. They're kinda hard to scare off when they are what's ultimatly used to give threats any kind of credibility.


"The US-led coalition force in Iraq received a much-needed boost yesterday when South Korea announced it is to deploy more than 3,000 troops. They will be based in Arbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, a relatively peaceful region."

Koreans are baaaadasss. Baaaaaadaasssss. Fierce bastards. Watch those for upcoming atrocities. My Lai might have been an exception to the Americans but to the South Koreans there it was more of a routine. I remember
speaking with a Korean man and he basically said, sorta "Well, we're Mongols. Ya know, Kubelai Khan kinda Mongols. We have very hot tempers."

"The original plan in April was to base them in Kirkuk, an area disputed between Iraqi Kurds and Iraqi Arabs and the scene of several bombings. But the South Korea government, under pressure from domestic opposition to sending troops to Iraq, insists that it can only participate in peace-keeping rather than take a combat role."

At least their hands are tied, unfortunately for those soldiers. Kinda
hard to deal with getting killed when you're not allowed to fight back.
They shoulnd't be there at all. Then again it's as if they weren't since they're not being sent where they need to be to keep any kind of peace. Ya know, there isn't much war to stop in 'a relatively peaceful region'.


"There are 20,000 foreign, mainly US, troops in Afghanistan in addition to the Canadian-led 6,400-strong International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), whose troops come from NATO and other countries and are concentrated in Kabul."

Isaf. Security, like mall cops. Assistance, like say "we're just here
to help". Force cause it is after all a military unit.
Canadian Imperial Expeditiously Force? Naw, we'd have to be doing something legitimate for that kinda name to be used in all honesty. Ya know, like say in ww2.
Then again Imperial does still stick. But honesty about that doesn't really inspire confidence since the creation of the UN.

Question

Jean how do you explain the presence of Dutch troups in Iraq?

Backlash to Backfire

Looks like the US is having a bit of an image problem in the KSA. Ya know, images of troops opening fire on rock throwing Iraqis. Images of tomahawk missles pounding the crap outta god knows what. Images of a beautiful Jerusalem inspired flag for one of the most Arab of Arab nations. Images of theives, liars, and traitors coming to power. Soon it's going to be images of riots and insurgencythe House of Saud won't be able to handle.

Saudis are pissed off to begin with. And those issues always revolve around the Monarchy. I guess it's about time that one was finally done away with.

"The war was being run by 4 star clowns..."

Once again it's in the junior ranks of the military that cooler heads prevail. Generals?? They'd set Nuclear missile launch codes to 00000000 so they'd never have to say "god damn button's broke!!". Test Ban treaties? Unenforceable, even with 24 hour all weather satellite surveillance. Where would they test them then? It's called the dark side of the moon dumbass. Ok ok, I'm going a bit too far. Some generals out there actually do think about things. Like football and porn and books about war...

Let's play 'Spot the difference'

A picture worth 1000 words: http://www.buzzflash.com/anderson/04/06/and04027.html

Fahrenheit 9/11 turns up the heat

Now that George W. Bush is disappointed to learn that the rah-rah Ronald Reagan funeral coverage won't be extended until the November election — or the capture of Osama bin Laden, whichever comes first — it is time to look back at his least Reaganesque moment.

See the Toronto Star article at http://tinyurl.com/yw8q4

Liberal media

Damn the liberal media!

http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=17070

Tired man attempts headline

story thing.
Cynical argument proporting purposeful ignorance of crucial evidence and valid tips indicating something worth being investigated being overlooked to encourage a favorable electoral outcome.

9/11 tour series...

What? Support from crucial administrative infrastructure? If they're not with us they're against us!

Buncha freggin morons.
I mean what the hell. When they're being attacked by the people who were the happiest to see them there how on earth can they even begin to form any kind of sound policy?

Odd little thing. I've watched too much TV. And one little show that seems to pop up from yon deep dungeons of teenagehood was one about satanists. Apparently a US Army chaplain resigned because satanism had been accpeted under the first ammendment as cannonical to US army clergy. And apparently there was a practitioner of the 'religion'. A colonel, with a Hispanic name. Possibly Ricardo, probably Sanchez. I shit you not.

Bush disses Reagan

From Americablog:

You can always count on George W. Bush to say a stupid thing at the wrong time. The man who spent the weekend showing up late for the Pope and late for his D-Day ceremony, took time off today to diss Reagan in an interview with Tom Brokaw:

"Bush refused Brokaw's invitation to label himself a 'Ronald Reagan Republican.' Bush said he thinks of himself as 'a George W. Republican.'"

It's a small slight that you could easily have overlooked (I did, until my friend Joe pointed it out), but it's an important and telling one.

What could Bush have possibly been thinking? His response is arrogant (is he somehow better than Reagan, or at the very least ashamed or angered by being compared to Reagan?), and downright rude (considering the man just died 12 hours before). As my friend Joe pointed out, there were lots of possible correct answers to the question, including:

1. We are all Ronald Reagan republicans.

2. I like to think there's a bit of Ronald Reagan republican in us all.

Or my suggestions:

3. I should be so lucky as to have the honor of calling myself a Ronald Reagan republican.

4. There is only one Ronald Reagan.

You get the picture.

But for Bush to take a softball question that's intended to give him an easy chance to praise Reagan, say "no," and then turn the question around and making it all about himself? Whatever you personally think of Ronald Reagan, for the current Republican president to respond that way, that's just fucked up. So why did he do it?

1. Because he's a moron. And I mean that seriously. Bush can't think on his feet and probably had no clue he was being fed a softball question, let alone did he have a clue how "normal" people respond to such questions.

2. Because he's an arrogant ass. For all of his failings, Bush thinks pretty highly of himself, and I get the impression he bristles at any suggestion that he's not "the man." Thus, it's quite probable Bush found the question insulting, since HE'S the president and NOT Ronald Reagan. Who is Brokaw, he must have asked himself, to diminish Bush's importance by suggesting he's just copy-catting Reagan, especially after Bush just met with the Pope and then a big ole bunch of European leaders in Normandy? Did Reagan just meet the Pope? Did Reagan catch Saddam? I don't think so.

In the end, this could all be explained by a big case of presidential pique. Bush plans his big adventure to Europe, he's waiting for the big photo op at Normandy where all of America will see him standing side-by-side with all the other big boy leaders of the world (remember: this guy thinks he's another Churchill or Roosevel), and Reagan goes ahead and steals all Bush's thunder by dying and hogging all the news. So rather than being asked about how presidential he looked in Europe, Bush is being asked how he stands up to Ronald Reagan, a "real" Republican God. Big surprise that the boy-who-would-be-president would stomp his feet and respond "me, me, me!"

What a loser.

Does Bush have to murder someone on TV?

Does Bush have to murder someone on TV before Congress wakes up and prosecutes the man?

From Whatreallyhappened.com and Buzzflash:

International and US Federal Law make Bush's authorization for the use of torture not only grounds for impeachment they are grounds for arrest and jail. Title 18 Part I Chapter 113C Sec. 2340A makes it clear. The people who actually committed the torture resulting in deaths are looking at a death sentence themselves. Everyone who approved or supported the use of torture falls under the conspiracy provisions, and could be sentanced to jail for a minimum of ten years, or life. This includes Bush himself, and if it fails to act, the US Congress.

Read the article at http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/06/con04260.html

New Evidence Prison Torture Was Approved at Top Levels

A classified Pentagon report, providing a series of legal arguments apparently intended to justify abuses and torture against detainees, appears to undermine public assurances by senior U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, that the military would never resort to such practices in the ''war on terrorism'':

http://tinyurl.com/288ts

More on e-voting

More disturbing news reports on e-voting. At some point TV news will have to open their eyes and report this to the 85% of Americans who only have TV as their news source.

The California incident: http://tinyurl.com/2aljd
and Indiana: http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/print.php?sid=767

Beware of U.S. employment figure

Most of the 'new jobs created last month' figures are an estimation, not actual jobs:

http://tinyurl.com/3ct3s

Now here's an easy way to make Americans think the economy is recovering. But hey, the government wouldn't lie about things like that now, would they?

We're all gonna die.

Sream all you want. Iraq, Global Warming, Bush&Co.'s shinanigans, the world wide sale of water... services, GM insanity, etc.. does not lend much confidence that anyone able to do it will be able to stop this. So yeah, like I've said before we're all gonna die.

The Gipper

KILLER, COWARD, CONMAN -
GOOD RIDDANCE, RONNIE REAGAN
MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
Sunday, June 6, 2004
by Greg Palast


You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But
in this case, someone's got to.

Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.

In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua
named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for
one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.

People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan,
big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to
Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there
had elected.

Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled
up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while
they buried the mother of three.

And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American
marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a
whipped dog ... then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club Med
war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for gunning
down Cubans building an airport.

I remember Nancy, a skull and crossbones prancing around in designer
dresses, some of the "gifts" that flowed to the Reagans -- from hats to
million-dollar homes -- from cronies well compensated with government
loot. It used to be called bribery.

And all the while, Grandpa grinned, the grandfather who bleated on
about "family values" but didn't bother to see his own grandchildren.

The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that Reagan
projected, "faith in small town America" and "old-time values." "Values" my
ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone
who couldn't buy designer dresses. It was the New Meanness, bringing
starvation back to America so that every millionaire could get another
million.

"Small town" values? From the movie star of the Pacific Palisades, the
Malibu mogul? I want to throw up.

And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled
away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our
elected Congress. Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger
with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the Monster
of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.

Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter
wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla. Reagan, with that film-fantasy
tough-guy con in front of cameras, went begging like a coward cockroach
to Khomeini pleading on bended knee for the release of our hostages.

Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah
-- no kidding --in the shape of a key. The key to Ronnie's heart.

Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash
from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners
of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.

I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the
bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby
orders this demonstration to disburse" ... and then came the teargas
and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the
Gipper.

In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their
kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers weren't
even Sandinistas, those 'Commies' that our cracked-brained President
told us were 'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.' What the hell would they
want with Texas, anyway?

Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie's targets.

In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared. Weirdly, it was
that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.

Well, my friends, you can rest easier tonight: the Rat is dead.

Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.



Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy. www.GregPalast.com

Bush music video

See Georgie sing! A bit of light entertainment -- and not a bad tune, either:

http://amurka.com/en/gall_clips.htm

Israel isolates itself

Not only is Israel intentionally isolating itself, aka the Jerusalem Wall. Its indirectly doing so by infuriating its closest regional allies. And god knows that there aren't that many.

U.S. Told Saudis to Let Al-Qaida Gunmen Escape

What the hell is going on here?

THE United States advised Saudi authorities to give safe passage to three suspected al-Qaeda gunmen after they killed ten of the hostages they were holding at a hotel in the oil hub of Khobar, a senior Saudi security official has claimed.

The official said that on hearing hostages had been killed during the standoff last weekend, US officials advised the Saudis that letting the militants go would avert a bigger catastrophe.

Remember the gunmen were 'disguised' as Saudi military. Read the entire article from The Scotsman at http://tinyurl.com/3bcls

I am MAAAADDDD!!

These guys are hoping to form the next government in after these elections.

ARE THEY FUCKING NUTS!! HAVE THEY LOST THEIR GODDAMN MINDS!! FUCK!. If I were to jump into bed with anyone it would be a tall blonde Dutch chick who thinks giving head is a manner of greeting. Not this 300 pound pistol packing, bible thumping couch wart who's more likely to bite my cock off them suck it in.
Sorry but if the guy is taking the EU as a model I don't think he's looking at it's human rights and social program side of things. Especially if he's talking about the US 'mounting' Canada in union. He's more looking at the seamless economic and political systems. When you're talking about France, Germany, the UK and a good dozen other states that does mean integration. But when you're talking only about the USA and Canada it's fucking annexation. HOW CAN THEY BE THAT FUCKING STUPID!....
Ok... ingest... chill... pill...

Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer now online

See it at http://www.fahrenheit911.com/ . Film opens in the US on June 25.

Inside politics.

Finally a great source of what goes on behind those senate office doors. Actually it's not. It's all about how ppl try and get inside her.

E-voting getting a bloody nose

Who does the California Secretary of State think he is to give Diebold a bloody nose? What possesses him to think that votes really matter?

Texas populist Jim Hightower reports on Diebold's fight with integrity in the most populous state:

http://www.jimhightower.com/air/read.asp?id=11375

"A subsequent investigation by a state panel of experts on electronic voting found that this company – the second largest purveyor of touch-screen voting machines in the country – had violated state law by installing untested and uncertified software in its machines... then lied about it."

Read this carefully, then join the fight at http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ so that the 2004 election doesn't get stolen like the last one.

Taking care of business

Well looks like the US finally found themselves a "Free... minded President" as Condi sez, to take care of their new annex. After all it is a 'caretaker' government. As if to say "Well, we got outselves a new, nice little country here, mind if you take care of it for us will ya? What did you say? Oh, well it might have -been- yours but what can you do?"
After their first pick went the way of the car bomb I really wonder what could bring stability to Iraq? Al Sadr a minister in the government? Nah, someone with massive popular support and an army behind him being forced to give the army for some real power? Considering that if Saddam counldn't follow CIA directives could you imagine what would it would be like if an Iraqi who lived during his reign would do if he got his hands on power? The fact that someone still has an insurgent army running around does not bode well for a 'free and independent' nation. Let alone it's brand new government.
Somebody out there is laughing. And it's not me.

US Bank gains control of Chinese Bank

Let's see how well China can teach the new dog old tricks.