Saturday, November 29, 2003

For Today, a Little Irony

News from Iraq - Irony, or should I say "spin"? Provided by Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez and Reuters:


Seven Spaniards, Two Japanese Die in Iraq Attacks
By Luke Baker

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed in Iraq on Saturday in an attack on their unmarked vehicles south of Baghdad, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo said, the latest assault on a close American ally.

In Japan, the Foreign Ministry said two Japanese diplomats were also killed in an apparent ambush near Tikrit, hometown of Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein about 110 miles north of the capital.

Reports of the killings came hours after the top military commander in Iraq said attacks against U.S. forces had fallen sharply in recent weeks, despite figures showing November to be the deadliest month for U.S. troops since the war began in March.

Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez said anti-American insurgents had struck fewer times in the past seven days than in the previous week and put the reduction down to more aggressive tactics by U.S. forces. ...

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Iran nuclear report

From The BBC: Wednesday, 26 November, 2003, 20:25 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3241662.stm
US welcomes Iran nuclear report
The United States has voiced its support for a resolution by the United Nations nuclear watchdog censuring Iran for concealing its nuclear programme. But Iran also welcomed the resolution, saying the decision not to refer its nuclear programme to the UN Security Council represented a victory. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution stops short of recommending sanctions against Iran. It follows a compromise deal between the US and Europe. Britain, France and Germany had opposed a move by Washington to have Tehran face possible sanctions over its nuclear programme. The US accuses Iran of trying secretly to develop nuclear weapons - an allegation strongly denied by Tehran. White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan told reporters: "We welcome that resolution and believe that it underscores the international community's serious concerns with Iran's nuclear activities and the urgent requirement of Iran to come into full compliance with nuclear non-proliferation obligations". ...
The head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, warned that any further Iranian failure to co-operate would not be tolerated. ... Mr ElBaradei said he would report early next year on Iran's compliance. ... "It's a good day for peace, a good day for multilateralism and a good day for non-proliferation," he told a news conference after the vote. ... Although the IAEA says Tehran has breached nuclear safeguards for almost two decades, it also said there was no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme.

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IF what Joe Vialls says in this article is true, Iran may not at this time be in need of developing their own nuclear warheads:

http://www.joevialls.co.uk/myahudi/sunburn.html
Russia Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State
And then kick America out of the Eastern Hemisphere’s oilfields
Copyright Joe Vialls, 28 October 2003
" ... About one month ago, Russia discreetly invoked MAD again, but this time in the Middle East in direct response to hysterical Israeli threats to nuke Iran with submarine-launched American Harpoon missiles. Quietly and with the minimum of fuss, Russia deployed its most advanced tactical nuclear missiles and crews to both Syria and Iran, thereby sending an unmistakable diplomatic signal that if Israel attacked Tehran or Damascus with nuclear weapons, Russia would in return instantly and anonymously vaporize the Jewish State. ... "

I still haven't heard any confirmation of this claim.

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Iraqis Want UN Resolution to End U.S. Occupation

November 24, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-un.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Iraqis Want UN Resolution to End U.S. Occupation
By REUTERS

Filed at 6:47 p.m. ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq's interim authority on Monday submitted a timetable for self-rule and asked the U.N. Security Council for a new resolution that would end the U.S.-led occupation in June.

The timetable, worked out with U.S. and British officials, was due on Dec. 15 and arrived three weeks early. It was requested in an Oct. 16 Security Council resolution, which created a multinational force in Iraq.

Jalal Talabani, the current president of the Iraqi Governing Council, in a letter pledged respect for human rights and promised to establish the ``principle of civilian control over the Iraqi armed and security forces.''

The 24-member U.S.-appointed council said it would select a ``provisional legislative body'' no later than May 31, 2004.

This assembly would elect a provisional government by the end of June 2004 at which time ``the Coalition Provisional Authority will be dissolved and the occupation ... will end,'' the letter said. ...

Talabani's letter did not mention continued deployment of U.S. and other foreign troops. But it is assumed that a new provisional government in June will request that they stay. ...

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What are they talking about? This occupation isn't planned to end. George W. Bush's corporate America has taken over their country and their oil, and I doubt he's going to give it back now, not even if they have to nuke every city in Iraq. He's already told them the troops aren't leaving until his brand of "freedom" reigns.

If America can't gid rid of the Bush cartel, how can the Iraqis expect to? Maybe they can get Iran and China to help. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Monday, November 24, 2003

The Real America

JFK, 911 & The Real America -
Tying US History Together
By John Phelan 11-23-3
http://www.rense.com/general45/usus.htm
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=82574&group=webcast

I hope you take the time to read this entire article.

Yesterday in Mosul ...


November 24, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/24/international/middleeast/24IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print&position=
2 G.I.'s, Throats Slashed, Found Dead in Iraq

By IAN FISHER and DEXTER FILKINS
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 23 — Three American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday, including two whose throats were slashed after they came under attack in the northern city of Mosul with rocks and gunfire, a military official said. In Baquba, a city north of Baghdad where at least five people were killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday, a soldier from the Fourth Infantry Division was killed Sunday by a roadside bomb, the American military reported. Two other soldiers were injured. In Mosul, the soldiers' car crashed after they were attacked with rocks, the military official said, and it was uncertain if they were killed by the accident, the later gunfire or by knife wounds. Witnesses in Mosul — where attacks on American soldiers have risen in recent weeks — were quoted by news services as saying that crowds also pummeled the soldiers' bodies and looted their car. ...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20031123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Sun Nov 23, 6:35 PM ET
By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer
MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi teenagers dragged two bloodied U.S. soldiers from a wrecked vehicle and pummeled them with concrete blocks Sunday, witnesses said, describing the killings as a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans. ...


Just one more example of those grateful, happy Iraqis continuing to celebrate their "liberation" with flowers, kisses, and dancing in the streets. Don't ya just feel the love? (Please excuse my sarcasm.)

Saturday, November 22, 2003

Other News Today


From The NYT: November 23, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/national/23FBI.html?pagewanted=print&position=
F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected extensive information on the tactics, training and organization of antiwar demonstrators and has advised local law enforcement officials to report any suspicious activity at protests to its counterterrorism squads, according to interviews and a confidential bureau memorandum. ...

From The Independent: 23 November 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=466424
Sweeping new emergency laws to counter UK terror By Andy McSmith, Political Editor
Sweeping measures to deal with terrorist attacks and other emergencies are to be announced this week, giving the Government power to over-ride civil liberties in times of crisis, and evacuate threatened areas, restrict people's movements and confiscate property. The Civil Contingencies Bill, which covers every kind of disaster from terrorism to the weather, will be the biggest shake-up of emergency laws since the early part of the last century, replacing legislation which saw the UK through a world war and the IRA bombing campaign. Some of the proposals in the draft version of the Bill, drawn up in the summer, have alarmed civil rights activists, notably a clause that gives the Government the power to suspend parts or all of the Human Rights Act without a vote by MPs. Once an emergency has been proclaimed by the Queen, the Government can order the destruction of property, order people to evacuate an area or ban them from travelling, and "prohibit assemblies of specified kinds" and "other specified activities". ...

I'm not going to comment on these stories. The FBI might be listening. Shhh. Don't make a sound.

Forty Years Ago Today

John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the means of a vast conspiracy including the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military, the CIA, the Mafia, and LBJ (to name a few). The entire nation was guilty of complicity in the cover-up and by their silence acquiesced to the coup d'etat and the rule of a secret elite government over the people of the USA. And still the cover-up continues, but today they rule almost openly. People as a rule of investigation say, "follow the money," though most of that is hidden too. But, President Kennedy was driven into a killing zone and the fatal shot came from a different direction than the first one.

Friday, November 21, 2003

Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml
John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com Friday, Nov. 21, 2003
"Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. ... "

Is this the plan in store for Amerika and the world?

Crimes Against Nature

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1120-01.htm
Published by the December 11, 2003 issue of Rolling Stone
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife. Cloaked in meticulously crafted language designed to deceive the public, the administration intends to eliminate the nation's most important environmental laws by the end of the year. ... "

Bush's assaults on the environment can only be stopped by the combined efforts of the people of this planet, the planet we all share and which is the only home most of us have in this lifetime. The citizens of America need to help in stopping the degradation of our environment by the elite few and join together to confront the polluters of our air, water, and land. Together we can accomplish what as individuals is nigh impossible. If we can turn from the war and greed (which is planned to control us and garner power over us), we stand a chance of living together in a better world. We need to turn back the corrupt corporations and their political lackies or the world will end in ruin.

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