From Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org Sat May 1 12:58:24 2004 From: Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org (Poacnewsletter@oldamericancentury.org) Date: Sat May 1 12:59:40 2004 Subject: [POAC newsletter] 5-1-04 daily newsletter program related activity Message-ID: <410-22004561165824700@earthlink.net> He employed the republican guard to kill their own people. He killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. He tortured prisoners. His name: George W Bush the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and raising draft age to 34 But no plans on the books to actually enact the draft. Really. We promise. The government wouldn't lie to you. Especially regarding war http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.html President and vice president testify before 9-11 commission. Bush family friend, Iran-Contra insider, and committee co-chairman has better things to do than attend http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040430.whamil1/BNStory/Front/ Facts show that despite Bush's pledge, the September 11 commission had to fight for access to key information, and even President George W Bush's private appearance http://www.nzherald.co.nz//storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3563686&thesection=news&thesubsection=world&thesecondsubsection= two Japanese who were kidnapped in Iraq expressed sympathy for their captors Friday, calling them "soldiers" and "resistance" fighters http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040430/ap_on_re_as/japan_hostages_1 Not to be outdone by their co-conspirators across the pond A probe has been launched into allegations British soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14199634&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=shame-of-abuse-by-brit-troops-name_page.html wasn't freeing the iraqis from a torturing dictator the second excuse after no WMDs were found? Excerpts from writings of accused soldier who helped run Baghdad prison http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6108.htm Siege of Fallujah provokes second mutiny: A second unit of the Iraqi armed forces has mutinied at Fallujah after being involved in heavy fighting with insurgents Ali Allawi, the Iraqi Defence Minister, said http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=516306 Thou shalt be like Bush: Bush-approved robots being churned out by Patrick Henry College What makes this recently established, right-wing Christian college unique are the increasingly close - critics say alarmingly close - links it has with the Bush administration and the Republican establishment. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3563816&thesection=news&thesubsection=world&thesecondsubsection= August 17, 1996: David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group, was arrested this week in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_atrios_archive.html#108335351404593578 fair voting advocate harrassed by US government Thanks 'Bina http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/1692786.php Police in Macedonia said yesterday that the killing of seven alleged terrorists two years ago was staged to win US support and that the victims were simply illegal immigrants. http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=517023 MI5 tells British public to trim bushes to avoid terrorist attacks Just duct tape them http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=517059 Permit denied for anti-war protest at GOP convention because the crowd would be too large for Central Park to accomodate http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4862641/ Only state sanctioned protests are allowed in this USA BTW, participating in an a protest without a permit and blocking traffic fits the definition of a terrorist under the PATRIOT ACT http://truthout.com/docs_02/04.06D.JVB.Patriot.htm Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act : The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI's methods of obtaining many business records, but the group was barred from revealing even the existence of the case until now. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51423-2004Apr28?language=printer Foiling millennium attack was mostly luck It's almost become an article of faith at the 9/11 commission hearings that high-level meetings in Washington helped stop a terrorist attack at the Los Angeles airport just before the turn of the millennium. But the inside-the-Beltway gospel just isn't true. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4864792/ 72 poor families will be turned out on the streets June 30th due to a HUD law change approved by Bush http://www.thnt.com/thnt/story/0,21282,955255,00.html Macedonian police admit they murdered innocent Pakistani immigrants to curry favor with Bush administration http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=517023 Police in Macedonia said yesterday that the killing of seven alleged terrorists two years ago was staged to win US support and that the victims were simply illegal immigrants. California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is banning electronic touch screen voting machines in four counties for the November election. He may extend the ban to machines in 10 other counties if they do not meet specifications. http://www.kfwb.com/content.asp?table1tabCount=6&table1tabOn=1&table2tabCount=6&table2tabOn=1&displayOption=&contentGUID={BC760BDC-CB1C-4BB7-8D0E-5052D01F0408}&groupName=KFWB%20News%20Local%20Headlines&siteGUID={3B62BF55-4A93-48E6-A45D-6A4 11 questions for Bush http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/04/30/notes043004.DTL US Defense Dept. paying Ahmed Chalabi $350,000 per month (YES, PER MONTH) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4865948/ In Bushworld It's their reality. We just live and die in it. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46985 US military in torture scandal : According to lawyers for some of the soldiers, they claimed to be acting in part under the instruction of mercenary interrogators hired by the Pentagon. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1206725,00.html Amnesty International: Iraq: 'Torture' : “Our extensive research in Iraq suggests that this is not an isolated incident. It is not enough for the USA to react only once images have hit the television screens.” http://www.amnesty.org.uk/deliver/document/15339.html In case youmissed it: War Crimes: The Evidence File http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3450.htm In case youmissed it: Take No Prisoners : Another proud moment in U.S. Military History http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5365.htm US soldiers are seen as 'uncaring, dangerous and lacking in respect.': An overwhelming majority of Iraqis, 71 percent (and that figure rises to 81 percent if the Kurdish areas in the north are excluded), see the US-led coalition as an occupying force and not as liberators. http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0429/dailyUpdate.html 'Americans don't know how to be peacekeepers': Fear that ruthless United States tactics could lead to disaster in Iraq has caused Washington's most loyal ally Britain to waver in its support as never before. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=123&art_id=qw1083243241981B262&set_id=1 US TROOPS ADMIT SHOOTING IRAQI CIVILIANS American troops today admitted they routinely gun down Iraqi civilians - some of whom are entirely innocent. http://tinyurl.com/er7l Eight In Ten Canadians (82%): Bush No Friend Of Canada http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=2196 Where US snipers fire at ambulances : Four-year-old Ali is lying in a cot, the mattress matted with dried blood. He is bleeding from a horrific groin wound and his left leg has been amputated above the knee. His left arm is bandaged and bleeding, his face badly cut. His father brushes away the flies buzzing around Ali's wounds. It is a scene of almost utter hopelessness. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6101.htm In Pictures: Falluja besieged http://tinyurl.com/2hs2k US planes hit Falluja after pullback deal: The warplanes roared low over the city after pounding Golan and the An-Nawwab al-Dhubbat and Nazzal districts in Falluja, some 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=501877§ion=news America's Ayatollah: Like a kid who has been told otherwise, Bush persists in believing in his own version of Santa Claus. The weapons are there, somewhere -- in a North Pole of his mind. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6102.htm U.S. support for Iraq war down sharply: poll: Fewer than one-half, 47 per cent, said taking military action in Iraq was the right thing to do and about the same number, 46 per cent, said the United States should have stayed out of the country. http://tinyurl.com/28rxx Congress Prepares for New Iraq Spending -Sources: Key U.S. congressional committees are drawing up plans that could provide the Pentagon with up to $50 billion in emergency money for military operations in Iraq before the November election, congressional officials said on Wednesday. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040428_565.html Pulp fictions triumph over truth: For those who backed Bush over war in Iraq, the idea of proof has shifted from fact to fervour http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1205669,00.html Iranian court orders US to pay $600 million compensation: An Iranian court has ruled the United States should pay US$600 million in compensation for supplying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3563396&thesection=news&thesubsection=world Remember Falluja : During the first two weeks of this month, the American army committed war crimes in Falluja on a scale unprecedented for this war.: The sight of decapitated children, the rows of dead women and the shocking pictures of the soccer stadium that was turned into a temporary grave for hundreds of the slain - all were broadcast to the world only by the Al Jazeera network. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/421014.html “They are shooting at us ... they are terrorists — they dress like the local population.” The quote is from an American Marine interviewed on CNN during the US assault on Fallujah. Obviously, before CNN set up the camera scene the Marine's superiors had drilled the script into him. In parrot fashion, the young Marine dutifully repeated the mantra. http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion3.htm THE 9/11 Commission Avoids the Hard Questions Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0426-03.htm Bush Cheney Fraud in Iraq: Paying a Small Price http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=1203 Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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"As a result, there are no longer torture chambers or mass graves or rape rooms in Iraq," the president said. " http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040430/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_1 oops! Janis Karpinski The woman in the photos giving the thumbs up to the torture: “living conditions now are better in prison than at home. At one point we were concerned that they wouldn’t want to leave.” http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact UK apparently not to sure Bush has made us any safer The government has extended its supply of anti-radiation pills to cover 50 per cent of the population because of the increased risk of a terrorist attack http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$2L5HG52C3L5JBQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2004/05/02/npillz02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/02/ixportal.html Company creates and sells bobble head dolls of public figures to benefit cancer research for children. Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter are pleased and sens autographs and praise. Schwarzenegger demands that the company discontinue distribution of the dolls and make "a substantial payment" him http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/ca/story/9134294p-10059949c.html Iraqis hail Falluja "victory": Cries of "victory over the Americans" echoed from minarets on Saturday and guerrilla gunmen celebrated in the streets under the green banner of Islam and Saddam-era Iraqi flags. http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=4907447 ** SINCLAIR'S OWN 'POLITICAL AGENDA' PLAYS PART IN NIGHTLINE SNUB Sinclair Broadcast Group ordered its ABC affiliates to pre-empt Friday's Nightline broadcast, saying that by reading the names of US dead in Iraq, ABC is "motivated by a political agenda." MediaChannel has learned that the only "political agenda" in play is that of Sinclair executives who have funneled 98 percent of their political contributions this year to the GOP. (MediaChannel.org) http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert187.shtml Meet the Press Transcript Guests: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Ambassador Joseph Wilson http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4880116/ SHAME OF ABUSE BY BRIT TROOPS http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14199634&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=shame-of-abuse-by-brit-troops-name_page.html 1,361 Iraqis Killed in April : Volunteers hunting for bodies in Fallujah find a woman and her daughter in their home, killed in the siege but undiscovered for days. Chanting mourners bury two boys caught in the crossfire of a Baghdad gunfight. A morgue in Basra overflows with torn and burned bodies from a suicide bombing. http://www.620ktar.com/news/article.aspx?id=364860 Editorial: Sheer Depravity: What is no less shocking about the degrading photos from Abu Gharib prison is that not a single US newspaper yesterday led its front page with news of them. That is a further demonstration of the appallingly limited comprehension of the Middle East that runs from the White House down to the humblest New York burger stall. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6117.htm What the US papers don't say : Michael Hann examines the air of secrecy and silence surrounding the US media's treatment of George Bush's 'war on terror' http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6114.htm Andrew Greeley : How We Got Into This Unjust War: The administration sold the public -- and perhaps the president sold himself -- on the Iraq invasion as part of the ''war on terrorism.'' It was a deception, perhaps even a lie, from beginning to end. The real reason is that ''all the president's men'' wanted the war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6113.htm Riverbend: Iraqi Girl Blog: Seeing those naked, helpless, hooded men was like being slapped in the face with an ice cold hand. I felt ashamed looking at them- like I was seeing something I shouldn’t be seeing and all I could think was, “I might know one of those faceless men...” http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ ELECTRONIC voting may be unplugged Napa Valley Register http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=AE2A151B-18B2-4E5A-979B-9B361FF116D5 GOODBYE chad, new touch-screen voting likely by November Lorain Morning Journal - Lorain,OH http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1699&dept_id=46368&newsid=11422889&PAG=461&rfi=9 The Ohio Senate has approved a measure that will allow 31 counties to use new, more-accurate electronic voting systems DECISION next week on Caricom's call for Aristide probe Trinidad & Tobago Express http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_politics?id=22960434 TERRORISM expert Clarke: We're losing wars philly.com (subscription) http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/8564850.htm George W. Bush has said he hasn't made any mistakes. I can think of lots of mistakes he's made. http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=2452 US Iraq Ambassador has a Dark History Congress Ignores 'Dirty War' Past of New Iraq Envoy http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=9449&TagID=2 ASHCROFT'S 2000 Senate bid probed Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001917525_cdig01.html Attorney General John Ashcroft's own Justice Department is looking at allegations he may have violated campaign laws when he unsuccessfully ran in 2000 MASSACHUSETTS Town Becomes 300th Jurisdiction to Denounce Patriot Act http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/84971/1/ BUSH Cheney Fraud in Iraq: Paying a Small Price Conspiracy Planet http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=1203 Francis Fukuyama, of "End of History" renown, speaks to Ezzat Ibrahim, in Washington, of his views on the Bush administration's Middle East policy and the American tendency to confuse universalism with self-interest http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/688/intrvw.htm AHMED Chalabi and the " liberation " of Iraq http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/chal-a30.shtml REMARKS of Senator John Kerry at Westminster College U.S. Newswire http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=145-04302004 RUMSFELD says Iraq hostility has been a surprise MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4871859/ Al-Jazeera: Blaming the Messenger? Fallujah and Baghdad -- Eyewitness Accounts Voters don't care if kerry tossed his medals or not, but the media won't drop it. If they did, they'd have to discuss pertinent issues facing us all http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000479.asp CHENEY PRAISES FOX NEWS CHANNEL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53974-2004Apr29.html EX-MSNBC STAFFER REVEALS NETWORK'S BIAS TOWARDS PRO-WAR EXPERTS Former MSNBC staffer Jeff Cohen tells a panel on the media's coverage of the war that as the war neared, higher-ups mandated that for every "expert" with an "anti-war" perspective, the show would have to air the opinions of two people taking a pro-war stance. (Doylestown Patriot) http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1685&dept_id=45280&newsid=11413469&PAG=461&rfi=9 FCC'S FREE RIDE FOR OPRAH The government is not going to pursue action against Oprah Winfrey for "indecent" talk because she is "beloved," while indecency target Howard Stern is "a lightening rod," says an aide at the FCC. (New York Post) http://www.nypost.com/gossip/16658.htm ITALY PASSES CONTROVERSIAL MEDIA LAW Italy's parliament Thursday passed a controversial media law which opponents argue would strengthen Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's hold over the media. Opponents of the law say it secures Berlusconi's control over 90 percent of Italy's television broadcasts, and gives him freedom to acquire more newspapers and radio stations. (UPI) http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040429-093709-7160r.htm Driller vs. Community Conflicts Rising As Bush Opens Rocky Mountain Lands http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/ GREENS call for Independent 9/11 Probe led by Family Members Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0428-09.htm Halliburton plans to bill the U.S. military $141 million for meals served to U.S. forces in Iraq, even though the charges had previously been questioned by Pentagon auditors http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/29/news/international/iraq_halliburton/ THE Spin Doctor Is In : Examining Corporate PR at Bechtel CorpWatch.com http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=10748 Hull-based telecoms group Kingston Communications has completed the sale of its satellite and broadcasting unit Kingston Inmedia to The Carlyle Group http://business.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2856946 PRIVATIZATION of warfare Axis of Logic http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_7101.shtml Kansas senate follows evolutionary theory ban with gay marriage ban http://www.ljworld.com/section/gaymarriage/story/168974 David Dreier Congressman & GOP Spin Doctor www.evilGOPbastards.com Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=palast 6 months before9-11 Paul Bremer was saying that the Bush administration seemed to be ignoring the problem of terrorism and would "stagger along" until a major incident. Now he's busted http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5009783 oh man this is so creepy Pictures from crowning of the Washington Times publisher http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog//2004_05_01_barchive.html U.S. Congressmen ushered Sun Myung Moon into the Dirksen Senate Office Building Mar. 23 where he crowned himself the Messiah the Moon Primer Democracy NOW! speaks with Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh about a classified internal U.S. army report he obtained that reveals systematic torture of at least 20 Iraqi prisoners who were subjected to "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses" by their U.S. jailers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/03/1411207 Bremer 'knew of abuse in November': FORMER Iraqi human rights minister Abdel Basset Turki said today US overseer Paul Bremer knew in November that Iraqi prisoners were being abused in US detention centres. http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9465475%255E1702,00.html 30 More Torture Scandals Probed: The dossier of terror includes : Claims that POWs were thrown to their deaths from a bridge. A videotape of the killings is said to have been destroyed. http://tinyurl.com/2jmjn UH OH Iraqi general refuses to give up Falluja fighters : The Iraqi general chosen to run a new security force in Falluja yesterday distanced himself from the US military by refusing American demands to give up foreign fighters supposedly hiding in the city. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6128.htm oh crap 'Chalabi gave Iran information on US occupation of Iraq': Ahmed Chalabi, and some of his top aides supplied Iran with sensitive information on American occupation of Iraq which could "get people killed," a media report said on Monday quoting top Bush administration officials. http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?msid=655150 Sharon: "Israel Will Keep its Nuclear Blackout": The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that Israel will maintain ambiguity about its nuclear capacity despite of the international requests of subjecting it to international inspection. http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/April/week4/043004/nuclear.htm Israeli forces seal off Yasser Arafat's compound and begin preparations for his assasination http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&u=/afp/20040503/ts_afp/mideast_arafat_040503231030&printer=1 Report: Republicans Lied to Congress on Medicare In a report made public Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said efforts to keep Richard Foster, the chief Medicare actuary, from giving Democratic lawmakers his projections of the bill's cost — $100 billion more than the president and other officials were acknowledging — probably violated federal law. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040503/ap_on_go_co/medicare_cost_2 Office of National Drug Control Policy to use tax dollars to fund the campaigns of the "right" candidates. GAO Green-Lights White House Interference in Elections http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/forbes1.html Events in Iraq have been spinning out of control - and out of control of the spinners - so fast on so many fronts that the W word - withdrawal - is now being mentioned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3681289.stm Sure, they got their contracts Kerry Tells of Flying a Jet Over Israel, Bush was still AWOL John Kerry wasn't kidding when he told the Anti-Defamation League that he had a different perspective on Israel. Probably no one else in the room has seen the country upside down from an Israeli Air Force jet. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-elect/2004/may/03/050301910.html U.S. Deletes, Alters Gender Issue Web Data -Report The Bush administration has stripped information on a range of women's issues from government Web sites, apparently in pursuit of a political agenda, researchers reported on Wednesday. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=14&u=/nm/bush_internet_women_dc http://mediamatters.org/ Wherever Dick Cheney travels, deluxe hospital rooms are prepared, just in case At least in Florida http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3264007/detail.html What kind of absurd political twilight zone is it where George Bush and Dick Cheney can make John Kerry look like an unpatriotic chicken by focusing attention on his combat duty in Vietnam? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/30/opinion/meyer/main614915.shtml Groups gear up for big RNC protests >From satire to civil disobedience, a variety of tactics likely http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4871127/ Buffett signs on as Kerry's economic advisor. http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=5010365 IRAQI force to provide security for first convoy to Fallujah Xinhua http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/01/content_1450781.htm Bush moves to reheat cold war with Cuba http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/040502/w050272.html WAR turns Fallujah from an active town into a ghost city Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/dailynews/122/world/War_turns_Fallujah_from_an_act:.shtml Bush campaigning to show that he is a regular guy. A regular guy, whose owned 3 oil companies, a baseball team, had a father who was head of the CIA, and had his election fixed by his brother http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0503/p01s01-uspo.html?and Fun with White House Search Results http://www.brianstorms.com/archives/000342.html HOUSE OF BUSH, HOUSE OF SAUD: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties, by Craig Unger. Scribner, 356 pp., $26. BUY IT http://www.nynewsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkunger0502,0,1038406.story?coll=nyc-bookreview-headlines Television Nation New ABC poll. Bush wins most "likeable, friendly, and compassionate" catagories. Kerry wins most boring. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/US/bush_kerry_likeability_poll_040502.html USDA prohibits cattle farmer from testing his cows for Mad Cow Disease. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Business/mad_cow_040502-1.html BUSH rejects dialogue with N Korea over nuclear issue Hi Pakistan http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en63246&F_catID=&f_type=source Americans Urged to Leave Saudi Arabia http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040503/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_attack Iraqis quit Pentagon-funded newspaper, claiming "They are trying to control us. We are being suffocated." http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1083580688682&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037 U.S. torture worse than Saddam's, prisoner says Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards, he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press. http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/05/03/nation_world/news03.txt Bush Says He'll Use `All Assets' to Fight Terror http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aGcdS8Y1GmiQ&refer=us Troops 'Swapped Hundreds of Abuse Pictures' : The potentially explosive claims, if proven, would contradict Prime Minister Tony Blair’s assurance that any misconduct in British ranks was “exceptional” and limited to a handful of servicemen. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6129.htm Angry ex-detainees tell of abuse: Iraqis say they endured physical, psychological hardship in U.S. custody http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6130.htm HALLIBURTON: a hand in every pocket The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040501/BKHALL01/TPEntertainment/Books A year on from 'Mission Accomplished': An army in disgrace, a policy in tatters and the real prospect of defeat http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6133.htm “These colors don't run,”: France Invades U.S. (Part 4): Safely ensconced in a bunker in an undisclosed location, Cheney exhorted his Republican God resisters to fight on. When asked if he would leave the bunker and join his forces to defeat the French, Cheney claimed his pacemaker might be picked up by the enemy radar and besides he has other priorities at the moment. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6136.htm God save America ... : The race for the White House will be decided by fundagelicals. That's good news for twice-born George Bush http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6131.htm The Jesus Factor: George W. Bush : "I believe that God wants me to be president." Video and text http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/view/ Juan Cole on our Photo Wars: When you incarcerate large numbers of people beyond the reach of any court and under conditions lacking legality or oversight, it's hardly surprising that an attitude of impunity develops among the imprisoners from which abuse and torture follow all too naturally. http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/ Just a massive fix to justify Bush's revenge': All the fancy charts, the briefings, the spin, the secret, secret intelligence was all a big fix to justify George W Bush's revenge on a nasty but pathetic Middle Eastern dictator whose regime was sinking into the sands of the Iraqi desert. Bush's War on Terror was a load of baloney. http://tinyurl.com/34xlp KERRY Must Be Tough on Patriot Act Pacific News Service http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=d3b960e31c076427643c51e0e93d996b In case you missed it: US finds strange bedfellows in UN vote on torture: The United States has aligned itself with some of its fiercest and least democratic enemies in opposing efforts to strengthen an international treaty that outlaws torture, according to diplomatic sources. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1019.htm More on this topic http://tinyurl.com/35rrn US military torture is old history: Buried Secrets http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6127.htm FRANKEN PLANS SENATE RUN Comedian and liberal talk show host Al Franken put the odds of a challenge against Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., in 2008 at better than 50-50, and said he would make a decision by late next year. (Associated Press) http://www.usatoday.com/life/2004-05-02-franken-senate_x.htm Sharon Aide: Gaza Plan 'Unstoppable' Despite Vote : Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's U.S.-backed Gaza withdrawal plan is "unstoppable" despite being resoundingly rejected by his own right-wing party, his deputy said Monday. http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=858668 How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People: I have some very uncomfortable news to report, or rather, non-news to confirm: There is rising anti-Americanism in Europe. The sentiment was confirmed by the comments of diplomats, journalists, and academics, the reportage I saw on television and in print, and the casual conversations I had in restaurants, on trains, and at parties. http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=87 KOPPEL MADE A POLITICAL STATEMENT. SO WHAT? "Despite what he said about it, Ted Koppel and Nightline were making a political statement [Friday] night by reading the names of 'the fallen' in Iraq," writes Jay Rosen. "And there is nothing wrong with that-- although it is risky because many will object." (PressThink) http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ Lots Of Mistakes: He alienated our most important allies — France, Germany and Russia — and had to put together a comic coalition of the bribed and the browbeaten. http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040503/index.php if it's not on TV, it's not happening. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE04Ak03.html India orders probe into Iraq mercenaries: The Indian government is parrying allegations that it is allowing ex-soldiers to work as mercenaries in Iraq following pressure from the United States. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2369D4E0-B683-42AA-BF06-06A01B795A4F.htm What you think you know about Al Qaeda: Think Again: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2536&print=1 Seven Iraqis die in British custody. How many soldiers are charged? None: This is not the first incident to involve the Queen's Lancashire Regiment and allegations of brutality. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=517303 US IS LOSING WAR OF PHOTOGRAPHS "The Bush administration, despite the savvy of its spinmeisters and Hollywood-trained publicists, has lost the war of images abroad," writes Juan Cole. "Although it has had more success in managing war images at home, cracks have increasingly opened up on the domestic front as well." (TomDispatch) http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1416 UK ARMY RAISES DOUBTS OVER TORTURE PHOTOS Doubts were raised yesterday about the authenticity of shocking photographs published in The Daily Mirror that purported to show British troops apparently mistreating prisoners in Iraq. Sources within the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, the regiment implicated in the scandal, argue that the photographs may not have been taken in Iraq. (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=517641 Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. Please consider donating to help offset hosting and bandwidth costs. http://www.oldamericancentury.org/support.htm To subscribe/unsubscribe from Poacnewsletter, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options: http://oldamericancentury.org/mailman/listinfo/poacnewsletter_oldamericancentury.org (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Falluja farce as Iraqi officer is removed: The former Republican Guard general, who effectively took over on Friday, was summarily removed from the post that America's top soldier said he had never had. His replacement will be a general once exiled by Saddam Hussein, said US officials. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/15290.html Bush Labor Secretary pushes for overtime cuts for workers http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040504/D82BEQ500.html Dole Rises to Kerry's Defense Over Vietnam http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040502/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_dole Childhood Asthma Epidemic Worsened by Air Pollution, Global Climate Change http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000107.php Bush tours auto-manufacturing states on Canadian-made tour bus emblazoned "Yes, America can." http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/05/04/447088-ap.html still outsourcing fundraising calls to India http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34323 Cheney emerges from secure undisclosed location, praises Wal-Mart for selling consumer goods produced under communism http://www.nwanews.com/dailyrecord/story_News.php?storyid=22921 Schwarzenegger Pulls a Cheney Aides Refuse to Identify People Who Helped Governor Draft California Energy Plan http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0503-09.htm US walks out of UN vote reinstating Sudan on Human Rights Commission. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/05/04/international1217EDT0547.DTL FCC Commissioner Blasts FCC For "Clear Channelization" Of Radio http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=24262 Five Killed in Najaf Firing by US Troops: A father and his two sons and a policeman were among the killed and 20 were wounded outside the walls of the US base, local medics said. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=44311&d=4&m=5&y=2004 U.S. report lists 'egregious acts' against Iraq prisoners: U.S. Army soldiers have committed "egregious acts" and "grave breaches of international law" at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, according to a classified report by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba http://www.fox11az.com/news/other/stories/KMSB_20040504_prison_cnnbp.18bd76424.html Tortured Souls: It was last January when I came upon the horrendous story of Sadiq Zoman. In short, he was detained by U.S. soldiers last July from his home in Kirkuk. While in U.S. military custody, he was beaten, tortured with electric shock, whipped, one of his hands was broken, his head was bludgeoned. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6137.htm Iraqi torture was devised by CIA: The torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners, captured on camera in a US run Baghdad prison, was controlled and devised by US agencies including the CIA, a lawyer claimed today. http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=44090792&p=44x9yx94 Troops have been abusing Iraqis for a year: Amnesty: Amnesty issued a disturbing report on Iraq last month detailing allegations of torture and ill-treatment by US and British forces in Iraq that are remarkably similar to the evidence that has now surfaced. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/04/1083635134533.html Abu Ghraib prisoners speak of 'torture': Former inmates of the US-occupation run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad still find it difficult to relate their experiences of torture and humiliation, as more pictures of abuse come to light. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E4D19123-9DD3-11D1-B44E-006097071264.htm U.S. eyes proposal to draft women: The proposal, which the agency's acting director Lewis Brodsky presented to senior Pentagon officials just before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, also seeks to extend the age of draft registration to 34, up from 25. http://tinyurl.com/ysvts East Texas man faces sentencing for WMD cache: William Krar is scheduled to be sentenced in a federal court Tuesday after acknowledging that he possessed enough sodium cyanide to fatally gas everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building, such as a civic center or high school basketball arena. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2546438 Kerry Really Could Produce 10 Million New Jobs. (So Could Bush.) http://www.factcheck.org/specialreports.aspx?docid=178 HUNDREDS Protest President Bush WILX-TV for every one bush supporter there were approximately 30 demonstrating against him http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/742972.html Staff Of U.S.-Funded Iraqi Paper Quits, Cites U.S. Control: In a front-page editorial, the editor-in-chief of Al-Sabah cites what he claims is American interference in the newspaper's publication. http://www.channel3000.com/news/3266699/detail.html The Truth About Depleted Uranium Weaponry: Ever notice how crafty the inventors of modern weaponry working for the Pentagon are -- giving their weapons misleading names that deliberately give the opposite impression of the actual intended use? None is more Orwellian, nor more ghoulish, than "Depleted Uranium." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6143.htm Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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Bush. Unless it's him, his administration, or his organization Bush angry that evidence of torture shown to the public. http://www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?pid=1422 Bush Supports Defense Department Exemption From Environmental, Health Protections http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000110.php one would almost be led to believe that the energy industry and the defense industry are running the country The Walt Disney Co. has barred its Miramax Films unit from releasing a controversial documentary about the Sept. 11 attacks by director Michael Moore http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20040505/en_nm/media_disney_dc Michael Moore has commented, "At some point the question has to be asked, 'Should this be happening in a free and open society where the monied interests essentially call the shots regarding the information that the public is allowed to see?' " Tell 'Michael Eisner what you think: Chairman and CEO The Walt Disney Company Phone: (818) 560-5151 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth a bunch of complete liars http://www.mattgunn.com/#swiftboat50504 Hundreds of Iraqis march on Abu Ghraib to demand release of prisoners http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/401483|top|05-05-2004::05:46|reuters.html 50 million Americans are going to use a electronic voting method that is highly vulnerable and flawed this November http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/8592184.htm Kerry Tour Bus Made in Canada Too http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=8&u=/ap/20040505/ap_on_el_pr/bush_bus Pranksters infiltrate Heritage Foundation convention, call Iraq war "corporate welfare," nominate Ed Meese for President. http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/bush/heritage.shtml Who is John O'Neill? CNN's Blitzer failed to probe partisan ties of Kerry critic http://mediamatters.org/items/200405040004 http://mediamatters.org/ 135,000 Troops To Remain In Iraq CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/05/iraq/main615669.shtml The "Year Zero" Strategy: Bush's Mission in Iraq Remains Unaccomplished http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=5463 WAS 9/11 Good for Bush? Tehran Times http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=5/6/2004&Cat=15&Num=001 Media Matters for America today released a new report analyzing six weeks of systematic monitoring of The Rush Limbaugh Show http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0504-01.htm The olive-green uniform of Saddam Hussein's army is making a comeback http://www.boston.com/dailynews/126/world/Saddam_era_uniforms_make_a_com:.shtml UN wants inquiry into human rights abuses in Fallujah ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1101573.htm The Bush administration will ask Congress for an additional $25 billion for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20040505-1210-iraq-spending.html sale of Iraqi oil to fund war was just a joke Oil Prices Hold Strong Near 13-Year High http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=5046498§ion=news Yesterday’s War Crimes are Today’s Reprimands http://stephenvandyke.com/2004/05/05/yesterdays-war-crimes-are-todays-reprimands/ AMERICAS envoy to quit, join Bush's campaign Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA Otto Reich, the White House special envoy to the Americas, announced on Tuesday that he will leave his post in June to rejoin the private sector http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/8595343.htm KEY ITALIAN TV FIGURE QUITS OVER GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE Silvio Berlusconi's control over Italian media drew fresh criticism yesterday when the president of the state RAI broadcaster quit in protest over becoming what she described as a "mailbox" for demands from Mr Berlusconi's government. (The Guardian) http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1209597,00.html FOX NAMES NEW NETWORK PRESIDENT Fox Broadcasting Co. on Tuesday named longtime television executive Ed Wilson as network president - less than two weeks after Wilson waved goodbye to NBC. The announcement comes on the same day that Twentieth Century Fox Television said it would create a new studio to try to better control the escalating economic costs of producing shows. (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fox5may05,1,3027229.story OUT OF BOUNDS "The story of Rene Gonzalez, a contributor for UMass-Amherst's Daily Collegian who criticized Pat Tillman and paid for it, served as a classic example of what happens in this country when you think bad thoughts out loud," writes Matt Taibbi. "We have developed a rapid-response system in the national media that guarantees that certain inviolable cliches are never questioned or threatened." (The New York Press) http://www.nypress.com/17/18/news&columns/taibbi.cfm You Should NOT Vote If........... http://tvnewslies.org/html/you_should_not_vote_if___.html http://tvnewslies.org/index.html Super-Wealthy pay less in taxes then the Middle Class http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/11/INGV560VO41.DTL Google Goes Public...Bans Free Speech http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040429TshirtCompanyDeniedGoogleAdWordsCampaign.html Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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"They're all animals." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-detainees5may05,1,7261036.story?coll=la-home-headlines We're Looking For a Few Good Homosexual Rapists: Now it's official: American troops occupying Iraq have become virtually indistinguishable from the SS. Like the Germans during World War II http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=%2Fuclicktext%2F20040504%2Fcm_ucru%2Fanarmyofscum Labourers claim U.S. held them captive on base: Four Indians who claimed to have escaped from a U.S. army camp in Iraq have returned to southern India, telling harrowing tales of their nine-month stay. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1083751685739&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037 Tin foil hats ready?: 9/11 air traffic controllers' tapes destroyed http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-sept-11-controllers,0,6336834,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines Powell just wasn't told about the $25 billion for Iraq http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-05-06-powell-funding_x.htm Powell aides go public on rift with Bush: Chief of staff says secretary of state is fed up with apologising for the administration and is disdainful of 'ideological' hawks http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1210391,00.html UN Veto Reveals Bush Administration's Contempt for Human Rights : The United States was the only country to vote against the resolution. http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0404-03.htm U.S. Must Leave Falluja, Iraq General Says : The Iraqi former general entrusted with pacifying volatile Falluja said on Thursday U.S. Marines must withdraw quickly from around the troubled town and go home so stability can be restored. http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=860436&tw=wn_wire_story Here we go again: IRAQ Inspector Cites Halliburton Cost Problems Reuters The United States' chief inspector in Iraq said on Thursday his audits had found problems with prices charged by Halliburton http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5063526 Fierce Clashes Erupt in Iraqi City of Najaf: Plumes of smoke were seen rising from a cemetery on the fringes of the city, as U.S. helicopters swooped low over the area. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5061350 Iraqi captors obtained medical care for U.S. hostage: Former hostage Thomas Hamill's kidnappers treated the American truck driver relatively well during his three-week captivity in Iraq. http://tinyurl.com/2a4s9 July 1, 2003: U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries: The United States on Tuesday suspended military assistance to nearly 50 countries, because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3978.htm Outsourcing Torture: Contractors act as interrogators: Defense Department turned to private sources to question prisoners for intelligence gathering. http://tinyurl.com/2t8ew U.S. Sweeps Into Holy Cities, Pound Iraqi Militia http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5065035 Colin Powell: the cause of a 2002 dispute between Spain and Morocco that nearly erupted into war was a "stupid little island." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=5&u=/afp/20040505/od_afp/us_powell_spain_morocco_040505205146 hybrid cars are in heaviest demand ever http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:64624 EPA: No Change in US Fuel Economy in 2004 SolarAccess.com http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=6679 Iraqi cameraman recounts ordeal in US detention: The US interrogator yanked the 24-year-old Iraqi male’s hair and peeled back his eyelids. http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en63530&F_catID=&f_type=source Bush promises new get-tough-on-Cuba measures, which should please Cuban-American community, which is largely in Florida, which was so important to Bush in the past...just in time for the elections http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=5066195 Religious networks broadcasting Bush's White House prayer event http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap05-06-145056.asp?t=apnew&vts=5620041556 Donald Rumsfeld to appear before the Senate this Friday http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/mayo/jue6/20donald-i.html Outrage at murder of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel : TWO Iraqi prisoners were murdered by American citizens and 23 other deaths are being investigated in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States revealed last night http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=510312004 Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=518901 Kerry Pledges $30B to Boost Teacher Pay http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040506/D82D5I780.html Resign, Rumsfeld >From The Economist print edition http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=2647493 Bush: Rumsfeld 'Will Stay in My Cabinet' http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4061516,00.html Rush Limbaugh: Torturing MPs Just 'Blowing Off Steam- - having a good time' http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/06/opinion/meyer/main616021.shtml Joseph Wilson blasts the secretive neoconservative cabal that plunged America into a disastrous war, in this excerpt from his new book. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/salon9.html Haiti's Disappeared Returning to Haiti last month, I found a US. occupation not unlike that in Iraq,, Haiti is in worse turmoil, with far more political repression than it has seen since the junta of 1991-1994. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=5467 FBI file on Kerry's 1970's antiwar behavior: "Kerry was glib, cool, and displayed just what the moderate elements wanted to reflect," the summary says. Kerry is accused in the file of little more than charisma. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1083794591831&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968705899037 JOHN Kerry Says Venezuela's Chavez is Becoming a Dictator Venezuelanalysis.com http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=21015 Venezuela: The government of Hugo Chávez gives funds to the Republicans http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200405060548 MPS criticise Guantanamo Bay detentions Reuters http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=506062§ion=news yet another Computer expert says "E-voting flawed". 'We are sitting at terrible' http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/05/05/electronicvoting.ap/index.html FDA goes against their own science advisors in rejecting over-the-counter sales of Morning-After pill http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/06/morning.afterpill.ap/index.html TORTURING Hearts and Minds Iraq Occupation Watch http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=4579 Military threatens to cut off humanitarian aid for Afghans http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0506-01.htm Jeb Bush's "keep brain-dead people alive" law deemed unconstitutional http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAG55KAXTD.html U.S. Energy Department writes bill that would let them leave nuclear waste behind, but gets caught red-handed http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/172158_doe06.html What is happening in Iraq? After the Fallujah siege, as insurgency continues and the June deadline for transfer of sovereignty approaches, Caspar Henderson of openDemocracy interviews the civil society researcher Yahia Said over a line between London and Baghdad. http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1886.jsp The Real Butchers of Baghdad: G. W. Bush and His Corporate Mercenaries http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6159.htm A pro-military Democratic congressman's description of the war in Iraq as "unwinnable" unless changes are made sparked anger in House Republicans Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/06/murtha.iraq/index.html truth hurts. obvious truth very painful New Prison Images Emerge: "It is clear that the intelligence community dictated that these photographs be taken," said Guy L. Womack, a Houston lawyer representing Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., 35, one of the soldiers charged. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6153.htm New Pictures Of American Military Torturing Iraqi Prisoners http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6155.htm THE PRISON PRESS TOUR THAT WENT AWRY U.S. authorities invited the media Wednesday for the outside world's first look at Abu Ghraib since the devastating scandal broke. But the situation quickly spun out of military control as prisoners abandoned their outdoor tents in the midday sun and approached journalists. (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-fg-prison6may06,1,7101298.story?coll=la-home-headlinesd Robert Fisk: Pictures of wounded men being shot censored by TV: British and most European television stations censored the tape off the air last night on the grounds that the pictures were too terrible to show. But deliberately shooting a wounded man is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6156.htm Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave : ”We couldn't give her a proper burial,” the house owner told IPS, ”because every time we would go outside, American snipers would shoot at us. They even shot at us when we retrieved her body from the car after the Americans bombed it.” http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23567 Rape Rooms: A Chronology: What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded. "Iraq is free of rape rooms and torture chambers."—President Bush, remarks to 2003 Republican National Committee Presidential Gala, Oct. 8, 2003 http://slate.msn.com/id/2100014/ A look at life for the hundreds held in Abu Ghraib prison The Herald http://www.theherald.co.uk/15514.shtml October 22, 2001: FBI Considers Torture as Suspects Stay Silent : AMERICAN investigators are considering resorting to harsher interrogation techniques, including torture http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1022-01.htm July 25, 2002: U.S. fails to block U.N. anti-torture vote: The United States failed to block a U.N. vote Wednesday on a plan to strengthen a treaty on torture, and was widely criticized by allies for trying to do so. http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=224232 27 December, 2002: Campaigners demand US 'torture' probe : Human rights campaigners have urged the United States to investigate allegations that suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban detainees are being tortured. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2607629.stm Evidence Grows Against Depleted Uranium Weapons : Washington's insistence that depleted uranium (DU) munitions are not toxic has been undermined by revelations that four U.S. soldiers recently home from Iraq are suffering from radiation poisoning. http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23515 AFGHANISTAN Starting to Look Like Iraq, Say Experts Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23618 SECURITY problem obstructing development in Afghanistan: ADB Channel News Asia - Singapore WASHINGTON : Security concerns, fueled by a booming narcotics industry, are hampering reconstruction of war-torn Afghanistan http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/83440/1/.html UN envoy warns Afghanistan's disarmament programme in 'serious jeopardy' http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=10645&Cr=afghan&Cr1= Bush Raises Record $200 Million for Election Campaign : Bush, who's tally in 2000 set the previous record for presidential campaign fundraising, raised at least $200 million through April 28 for this year's election bid, according to records released on his campaign Web site. Kerry, a Senator from Massachusetts, raised at least $112 million http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aUXUMX1nKv7g&refer=us Confidentiality has its place, but the Bush administration has been secretive and misleading on too many issues. It gives one the impression they are hiding something. For example, why doesn't Cheney release the records of the meetings he held with various individuals prior to making energy policy? Is it because Enron or Ken Lay's name would be involved? http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2004/05/06/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter01.txt 'Torture' picture soldiers face Iraq death charges : SOLDIERS from the regiment at the heart of the furore over the torture of Iraqi prisoners are facing charges in connection with the death of a waiter in the southern city of Basra. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=510762004 This torture started at the very top : A profound racism infects the US and British establishments http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1209555,00.html COUNTY resolution takes aim at US Patriot Act Helena Independent Record http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/05/06/helena_top/a01050604_04.txt The Computer Ate My Vote: Over the past year e-voting's flaws have been glaringly highlighted, with critics pointing to glitches that have occurred in elections, insufficient security of the machines and their data, questionable conduct by some e-voting vendors, and clear violations of federal and state certification guidelines http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115948,00.asp Hail To The Thief: Greg Palast: BBC Investigation Into How Voter Data Was Used To Prevent Democrats From Voting In The Last Presidential Elections. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3187.htm SAFE Act counters some PATRIOT Act 'flaws' UW Badger Herald http://www.badgerherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/05/06/4099b651908fe Build a Web site, go to jail: Links to Terrorism : http://www.reason.com/sullum/043004.shtml BUSH Push for Patriot Act Provokes Unease Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23632 FBI agent who sounded pre-9/11 warning honored Arizona Republic http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0506williams06.html French TV screens images 'of US helicopter crew killing Iraqis' : The French cable television station Canal Plus on Tuesday will broadcast images, stolen in Iraq, of a US army helicopter killing three Iraqis, one of them wounded, who do not appear to be posing any threat. http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=7214 Bush's 9-11 testimony displays faults of media http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/05/06/409a733c5ff10 "Electrical burn marks all over his body.": The alleged mistreatment of Sadiq Zoman while in US custody came as no surprise to his friends and neighbors. Some of them had returned after having been abducted by US forces with their own stories of terrifying and heartbreaking ordeals. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6144.htm EXPERTS REPORTEDLY STUMPED BY UK ABUSE PHOTOS Military investigators are finding it "impossible" to establish if the photographs published in the Daily Mirror purporting to show British soldiers torturing an Iraqi prisoner are authentic, defense sources said yesterday. (The Guardian) http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1210649,00.html SOME CBS AFFILIATES COULD DROP LIVE NEWS CBS affiliates are telling the Federal Communications Commission that unless it changes its ruling about profanities on-air, many will have to stop doing news outside of the 10 p.m.-6 a.m. safe harbor for indecent speech. (Broadcasting & Cable via Free Press) http://www.freepress.net/news/article.php?id=3402 Bush Hands Million-Dollar Public Land to Mining Company for $875 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000111.php CBC documentary alleging mass executions of Taliban POW's by American troops: http://www.chocolatesalty.com/AfghanPOWsKilled.mov Iraqi Imam Imprisoned and Tortured Under Saddam Blasts U.S. Abuse of Prisoners http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/06/149243 Bushes decline twin daughters' graduation ceremonies http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/06/bush.twins.graduations/index.html Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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Hooah!: 07/19/2002 President Bush " As we prepare our military for action, we will protect our military from international courts" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6162.htm Soldiers Back in U.S. Tell of More Iraqi Abuses: "It was not just these six people," "Yes, the beatings happen, yes, all the time." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5068071 Bush blames Iraq situation on "wrongdoing of a few", fails to see himself as one of those few http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5080369 The US military has said it will investigate claims by a former inmate of Abu Ghraib prison that a girl as young as 12 was stripped and beaten by military personnel He said: "They brought a 12-year-old girl into our cellblock late at night. Her brother was a prisoner in the other cells. "She was naked and screaming and calling out to him as they beat her. Her brother was helpless and could only hear her cries. This affected all of us because she was just a child. http://www.itv.com/news/623337.html David Kay, says he warned U.S. officials of Iraqi prisoner abuse: "I was there and I kept saying the interrogation process is broken. The prison process is broken. And no one wanted to deal with it," Kay said. "It was too, too distasteful. This is a known problem, and the military refuses to deal with it." http://www.morningnewsonline.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=FMN/MGArticle/FMN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031775300094&path=!news Pentagon claims it hasn't known who its private contractors are for 2 years or more http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040507/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_contractors&cid=540&ncid=716 and these this administration wouldn't lie, wouold it British soldier gives new details of abuse of jailed Iraqis: Evidence: Prisoners were beaten till faces 'like haggises' http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1211509,00.html Cong. Rangel Calls On Congress to Impeach Rumsfeld: “I think America and the world want us to show the outrage not with rhetoric but with action! And, if the President does not fire Secretary Rumsfeld, or if he does not resign, I think it is the responsibility of this Congress to file articles of impeachment and force him to out of office. http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny15_rangel/CBRRumsfeld050604.html 'Cooks and drivers were working as interrogators' : Private contractor lifts the lid on systematic failures at Abu Ghraib jail. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1211374,00.html Freedom Rider: White Supremacy in Iraq: It is easy to first demonize and then torture people who have been labeled as crazy followers of an evil religion. http://www.blackcommentator.com/89/89_freedom_rider_iraq.html Shame at the front line: "I never thought American people could do something of this nature," Sabbar says, after detailing the torture and forced simulated sodomy that he says his US guards imposed upon him. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/06/1083635279507.html Iraqi inmate: 'Treated like dogs': They tortured me after I had a fight with an Iraqi working in the camp who was having a relationship with a female soldier. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3689371.stm "I am your God.”: After laughing at the detainees for praying, Abdel said, a soldier standing over them asked, “Do you want to pray? Pray to me. I am your God.” http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000332.html "The torture inside this camp leads you sometimes to wish you were dead." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/841A9F40-0DA5-4174-89D5-C8A70C3DAC15.htm Senate OKs Negroponte as ambassador to Iraq: The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved John Negroponte, currently U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to be the first U.S. ambassador to postwar Iraq. The Senate approved Negroponte's appointment by a vote of 95 to 3. http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=297591 Necroponte: Not suitable for Iraq: Democracy and human rights are not on Negroponte preferred menu. Negroponte will be serving the interests of U.S. tyranny and U.S. Corporations in Iraq. Negroponte will bring to Iraq the economic disasters inflicted on the people of Latin America by the U.S. and U.S-backed corporations. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6157.htm My friends page regarding depleted urtanium this page will be updated with new articles as they are discovered - check back often http://www.missouri.edu/~quinnl/news/du.html US Forces Move in on Sadr HQ in Baghdad Suburb Reuters http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5080637 IMAGES of US abuse of Iraqi prisoners seeping into Baghdad's art ... Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/dailynews/129/world/Images_of_U_S_abuse_of_Iraqi_p:.shtml "What the country needs is a leader who speaks clearly," -G W Bush http://www.freep.com/news/mich/bush4_20040504.htm Jerry Falwell wonders if "secularists" would strike the phrase "endowed by their creator" from the U.S. Constitution. The phrase is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38289 TV News Is Bad For Your Brain Study: The less informed you are about the truth, the more likely you are to vote for Bush http://americanassembler.com/issues/media/index.html Alaskan finds live crawfish in swamp near Anchorage. http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/050604/new_050604new001001.shtml US troops crossed border to make a raid inside Pakistan http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/05/07/2003154449 Having It Their Way How the Bush Gang Exploited 9/11 http://www.counterpunch.org/dixon05082004.html Florida wants felons purged from voter list: Florida elections officials have told local supervisors to begin purging their voter rolls of felons - an election-year directive that some say would disenfranchise up to 40,000 people. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040506/APN/405060754 In case you missed it?: Video: Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5278.htm "America has no right to talk about human rights — or even animal rights" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040507.wliby7/BNStory/Front/ >From Abu Ghraib to Latin America: Map of U.S. Pattern of Abuse Grows Torture of Iraqi Soldiers Indicative of Ongoing Policy of Systematic and Illegal Abuse http://www.soaw.org/new/ In the wake of revelations of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners, John Kerry has launched an important petition calling for President Bush to fire Donald Rumsfeld. Getting rid of Secretary Rumsfeld would be a huge step forward for all of us who oppose the Bush war policy, and Kerry needs to hear our support. To sign on to the petition, go to: http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rumsfeld.php David Brock's Media Matters aims to identify and correct conservative misinformation in the media. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18633 Amy Goodman, Democratic Diva Aria Seligmann, Eugene Weekly The host of 'Democracy Now' goes on tour to promote her new book which is being dubbed 'hotter than Harry Potter.' http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18625 BUSH may seek more than $50 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan for ... Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/dailynews/127/wash/Bush_may_seek_more_than_50_bil:.shtml American Atrocities Due To Rapacious Privatization and Asymmetric Military Tactical Failure; The Solution; Patriotic Republicans must cut from Corporatist Sellouts and Rescue America. Blaming a handful of soldiers is a red herring. By Rob Kall Bush’s Re-election Is A Terrorists’ Best Friend by Allen Snyder HOW the White House went after US diplomat and his CIA operative ... Fort Wayne News Sentinel http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/8612603.htm THE Reich Stuff ... Wilson claims that Abrams, who still works with the administration, may have helped reveal to columnist Robert Novak that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a ... http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18627 Speaker decries Patriot Act http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/050704/new_speakerpat.shtml DEMOCRATIC women plan discussion on Patriot Act Reno Gazette Journal http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/05/07/70192.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news The Coalition Provisional Authority's inspector general is raising questions about the bills that Houston-based Halliburton Co. has racked up at a five-star beachfront hotel near Kuwait City. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2555422 OLD Iraqi army reborn in Fallujah MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4919114/ Torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq? It's no different than fraternity hazing. Or so declares the king of reactionary radio, Rush Limbaugh. http://www.pressaction.com/2004/002193.html ONE Year Later: An Iraqi Speaks From Baghdad LAI - France ... You get somebody from Bechtel, the best engineer from Bechtel, and it takes him ages to understand what the problem is with the Iraqi oil, the Iraqi factory or ... http://www.anti-imperialism.net/lai/texte.php?section=BDZA&language_id=3&object_id=22631 LIMBAUGH: PRISONER ABUSE "BRILLIANT" On his May 6 radio show, talk show host Rush Limbaugh continued to defend U.S. military personnel accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners, comparing the abuse photos to "good old American pornography" (Media Matters) http://mediamatters.org/items/200405070002 MURDOCH PLANS NEW FOX CABLE CHANNEL Get ready for ''Fair and Balanced'' business, entertainment or sports news. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that the media giant will launch a new Fox cable channel by the end of 2004 and is studying additional spinoffs for 2005 and beyond. (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040507/6183752s.htm For the first time, Bin Laden is identifying the US media as an enemy in his latest vow to continue his war on America. I was intrigued to find "big media institutions" called a "fatal danger" to the world. http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/ Study Finds Top Air Polluters Closely Tied to Bush Administration http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000112.php UN Veto Reveals Bush Administration's Contempt for Human Rights : The United States was the only country to vote against the resolution. July 1, 2003: U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries: The United States on Tuesday suspended military assistance to nearly 50 countries, because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution. July 25, 2002: U.S. fails to block U.N. anti-torture vote: The United States failed to block a U.N. vote Wednesday on a plan to strengthen a treaty on torture, and was widely criticized by allies for trying to do so. October 22, 2001: FBI Considers Torture as Suspects Stay Silent : AMERICAN investigators are considering resorting to harsher interrogation techniques, including torture 27 December, 2002: Campaigners demand US 'torture' probe : Human rights campaigners have urged the United States to investigate allegations that suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban detainees are being tortured Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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No outside inspections from human rights organisations, no independent medical examinations, no family access and, overwhelmingly, no independent lawyers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1212102,00.html BOMB Rips Apart Baghdad Market Radio Free Europe http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/05/e1be3087-c68d-4981-b8af-f0d7e24f4e77.html 434 leave infamous Afghan prison: Shackled and under guard, 434 alleged Taliban and al-Qaida fighters shuffled out of Afghanistan's most notorious prison Thursday, winning transfer to a Kabul jail after a weeklong hunger strike to protest being held without charges for nearly 2 1/2 years. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-aafghan07may07,0,2346951.story?coll=sfla-news-nationworld http://evildave.airamericaplace.com/phpBB2/index.php The legal double standards of Bush's war: A"war on terror" that strangely professes to be both governed by and yet exempt from the law of war and international humanitarian law. http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180306397&p=1012571727169 Torture as Normalcy: As American as Apple Pie: In recent years the United States has been charged by the UN and also by human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International with tolerating torture in US prisons http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn05082004.html ADMINISTRATION accused of exploiting US secrets San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/09/MNG766H9EN1.DTL Rumsfeld under fire : Mr Rumsfeld has been an exceptionally difficult US defence secretary for the rest of the world to live with these past four years. Part of it is that he plainly has so little respect for lesser nations - an outlook to which he has often given blunt and provocative voice http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1212095,00.html The brave new world of touch-screen voting http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=246249&category=OPINION&BCCode=&newsdate=5/9/2004 You have the right to be misinformed : News media are now a large part of big business. They are more concerned with how much profit they make, not with how to best fulfill their role." Because these corporations invariably resort to "propaganda techniques to shape mass opinion", the "distrust of news media is at a dangerously high level" http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE08Aa02.html Iraqi Girl Aged 12 was stripped and beaten by military personnel: The US military has said it will investigate claims by a former inmate of Abu Ghraib prison that a girl as young as 12 was stripped and beaten by military personnel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6163.htm HEROIN trade booms in Afghanistan San Jose Mercury News http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8625804.htm Let the blame, and the punishment, start at the top St. Petersburg Times http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/09/Columns/Let_the_blame__and_th.shtml POLL: President Bush Losing Ground Boston Channel.com http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/3279193/detail.html Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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"We have now entered a second phase of resistance and our patience is over with the occupation forces," http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAT039906.htm President Bush is resolved not to repeat what he thinks were the two fundamental blunders of his father's one-term presidency: abandoning Iraq and failing to vanquish the Democrats. Vanquish the democrats? Like creating a one party system? Isn't a one party system called totalitarianism http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040510-122703-4851r.htm PNAC has their front-man praise one of their own publicly in the face of some of their worst scandals yet Bush to Rumsfield: "You are doing a superb job" http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040510/D82FR9OO0.html Army told Red Cross that prisoner abuse "just part of the program." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040510/ts_nm/iraq_abuse_dc The Army Times, an influential military newspaper read by 250,000 U.S. servicemen, calls for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation. http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2903288.php Bin Laden Group to build world's tallest building http://www.arabnews.com/?article=44659 maybe they should build two of them right next to eachother for added insult to the injury Saudi Arabia concerned over Bush re-election chances, urges OPEC to increase production http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/10/markets/oil.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes The U.S. Marshals Service has been accused of violating two Mississippi journalists' Constitutional rights by seizing the reporters' tape recorders last month during a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000507312 Torture justification: "The feeling among US soldiers I've spoken to in the last week is also that 'the gloves are off'. Many of them still think they are dealing with people responsible for 9/11" http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1212197,00.html you're gonna be disappointed Iraqi police and masked insurgents shot off rounds and people flooded the streets, waving Iraqi national flags and honking their car horns in jubilation over what they mistakenly believed was a deal between the marines and the city's leaders to scale back the US presence in Fallujah. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040510/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_fallujah_convoy&cid=1514&ncid=1480 Is Capitalism the New Fascism? http://reedyriverreview.blogspot.com/ Detroiter installed as governor of Najaf, Iraq. http://www.freep.com/news/locway/adnan10_20040510.htm fact that he was jailed and tortured under Saddam's regime to overshadow fact that he's installed by torturing occupying force The U.S. Army said it will seek bullets from commercial and foreign producers because its biggest ammunition supplier, Alliant Techsystems Inc., can't keep up with demand. http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/21194.php Majority of Iraqis want troops to leave now http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/nation/8623441.htm Now, if we brought democracy and the majority wants us out of there... War tab swamps Bush’s estimate Spending projection: $150 billion by 2005 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/09/MNGOU6IK1J1.DTL&type=printable Seventy-to-ninety percent of Iraqi detainees were probably arrested by mistake. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040510/D82FRB680.html Stocks tank, fall under 10,000 for the first time since December. http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/10/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?cnn=yes crickets heard at conservative underground. little else Bush will impose sanctions on Syria this week http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040510/pl_nm/syria_usa_dc Family of MP who blew the whistle on abuse at Abu Gharib praise him as a hero, now fear for his wellbeing http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1213480,00.html WHY MEDIA STOOD SILENT WHEN ABU GHRAIB FIRST CAME TO LIGHT Military failures, intelligence failures and 9-11 policy failures are all being probed to some small degree, but where is the investigation of mainstream media's failure to report on the torture of Iraqis when it became known months ago? (MediaChannel.org) http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert192.shtml Unless the Federal Communications Commission makes some exceptions in its crackdown on punishing adults for using naughty words, live news coverage may be an endangered species, CBS-affiliated TV stations claim http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/8627016.htm POAC galleries are now available to the public http://www.oldamericancentury.org/galleries.htm BUSH BECOMES THE FOCUS OF MEDIA'S UNSPARING EYE In the wake of intense publicity over new books critical of Bush, increased U.S. deaths in Fallujah and the uproar over the scandal involving Iraqi prisoners, experts predict coverage will continue to focus on this administration's misses, not hits. This could set off renewed animosity between an administration known for secrecy and the media that have chafed under it. (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2004-05-09-media-mix_x.htm Stop Slaughtering the Iraqi People Abu Ghraib is among the least of US war crimes, says Robert Higgs. Insurgents Treat US Prisoner Well Funny, isn’t it? Article by Charley Reese. DISNEY AND MR. MOORE "Anyone who has seen Michael Moore in action knows the U.S. filmmaker is as much publicity hound as leftist polemicist. So it was no surprise that Mr. Moore's dispute with Walt Disney Co. over the release of his latest movie grabbed world headlines just a week before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival," writes the Globe and Mail editorial board. (The Globe and Mail) http://tinyurl.com/3f8jw Bush Torture Chamber Court-Martials Are Distractions From What They Want You to Ignore http://www.opednews.com/kall051004_torture_distractions.htm Conservatives Restive About Bush Policies After three years of sweeping actions in both foreign and domestic affairs, the Bush administration is facing complaints from the conservative intelligentsia that it has lost its ability to produce fresh policies. RUSH LIMBAUGH PRAISES TORTURE WITH A 'LITE' TOUCH To the drug-addled radio host, it's morally acceptable to stick bags over people's heads, strip them, freeze them, hang them by their wrists and attach electrodes to their genitals when you're only pretending you'll turn on the juice -- because US soldiers "are having a good time" and need their "emotional release." (MediaChannel.org) http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert191.shtml Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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Hollings: Bush's failed Mideast policy is creating more terrorism: With Iraq no threat, why invade a sovereign country? The answer: President Bush's policy to secure Israel. http://hollings.senate.gov/~hollings/opinion/2004506A17.html Invading Iraq makes terror attacks worse Islamic terrorist threats on the rise worldwide http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8623725.htm An al Qaeda-linked Web site showed video Tuesday of a man who identified himself as an American and then was beheaded. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/11/iraq.main/index.html Somebody fire this pathetic wuss http://usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-05-10-daschle-meanness_x.htm Early warnings about Iraqi prisoner abuse given second priority http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20040510/ts_usatoday/earlysignsweregivensecondarypriority Exposed: President Bush's Torture and Rape Room's Seymour M. Hersh: Chain Of Command The man, an Iraqi prisoner, is naked. His hands are clasped behind his neck and he is leaning against the door to a cell, contorted with terror, as the dogs bark a few feet away. Other photographs show the dogs straining at their leashes and snarling at the prisoner. In another, taken a few minutes later, the Iraqi is lying on the ground, writhing in pain, with a soldier sitting on top of him, knee pressed to his back. Blood is streaming from the inmate’s leg. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6164.htm Boy, 16, 'was subjected to mock execution by US interrogators': American soldiers subjected a 16-year-old Iraqi prisoner to a mock execution inside an American detention centre and made his brothers watch, one of the brothers alleged yesterday. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=519718 THE PENTAGON PUTS THE KIBOSH ON ITS OWN NEWSPAPER Despite the $87 billion in emergency cash appropriated by Congress for the occupation, Secretary Rumsfeld's office decided that Stars & Stripes was too big a drain on the budget, and that some belt-tightening would be needed at the paper. This following series by the newspaper that found nearly one third of all Army troops in the Iraqi Theatre rated their unit's morale as "low" or "very low." (Washington Monthly) http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.schlesinger.html Wisconsin newspaper, shocked at the number of anti-Bush letters it has been receiving, asks for some positive ones Lets help out http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_patriotboy_archive.html Bush turned down plan to kill Abu Musab Zarqawi in 2002 And as a result, at least 700 have paid the ultimate price. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/ the companies making the most off the new Medicare contracts also donated the most to the GOP http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=716&e=6&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_el_pr/medicare_card_politics Bush approval ratings hit an all time low. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5097658 The average $300 refund that Bush said Americans would get from his tax cuts was actually $98 http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/10/pf/taxes/tax_return.reut/index.htm ** POST' PUBLISHES ONLY A FEW OF ITS MANY IRAQ-PRISON PHOTOS Despite having more than 1,000 photos taken by American soldiers of life in and around the abuse-filled Abu Ghraib prison, The Washington Post has published just 10 depicting alleged mistreatment of prisoners due to concerns over incomplete information about the pictures and the "dignity of those in the photos," said Executive Editor Leonard Downie, Jr. (Editor & Publisher) http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000507649 Soldier: Foul photos of inmates were prized: Brutality was also in the air. Sindar recalled a 14-year-old Iraqi with a broken arm being hurled to the ground and then mocked by U.S. soldiers as the boy wept and wet himself in the prison intake center. http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/nation/8629607.htm Poll: 27 percent of Americans are complete sick bastards http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/10/poll.iraq.abuse/index.html Red Cross says up to 90% of Iraqi prisoners were arrested "by mistake." http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-abuse11.html Eric Margolis: Sadism in war old habit: Americans should not be surprised their soldiers and intelligence agents are using torture and sexual humiliations to break the will of Iraqis to resist American occupation. That is the nature of colonial warfare and so-called "war of terror." http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/05/09/452554.html Outside the law : Mr Rumsfeld, like his president, does not much care for truth. Truth undermines his own portrayal of himself, his administration and his nation as victims. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1213194,00.html Halliburton employees in 5 star accomodations. And all on our tax dollars http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2555422 Captain obvious reports: The Iraq prison photos are doing the most damage to the hearts and minds of Iraqis http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=168&language_id=1 Sometimes They Pretended to Kill Me : Read this article to understand the facts behind why the Bush Administration continually attacks Al-Jazeera TV News: http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1718 CIA passed on prisoners 'for torture' : "We don’t kick the **** out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the **** out of them," the official is reported to have said. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1433692002 A Kerry republican begins fundraising http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?040517ta_talk_konigsberg Even Conservative thinkers are starting to think that the Bush Whitehouse is more interested in politics than policies http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1803&e=4&u=/washpost/a13027_2004may9 October 17 2002 'Too nice' jail commander is fired: The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp - who was criticised in the United States press for being too soft on the inmates - has been dismissed. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/16/1034561210959.html How Do You Tell a Democrat from a Republican? http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Columns/?Article=democratrepublicanmain 16 May, 2003: Coalition 'tortured Iraqi POWs': "In one case we are talking about electric shocks being used against a man and in others people are being beaten for the whole night and are still being kicked and their teeth broken. I think you would call that torture," he said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3034031.stm Toxic well water at Marine base may have caused cancer and birth defects in children. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/camp_lejeune_water_040509-2.html The Israeli Torture Template Rape, Feces and Urine-Dipped Cloth Sacks http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen05102004.html I believed In This War.. I was So Wrong: STOP me if I am missing something here, but if former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic can end up on trial for war crimes committed under his leadership, then why can't Tony Blair? http://tinyurl.com/27knp 'BRIT TRAINED FOR 9/11' : The FBI ignored his warnings that the attacks were imminent. http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13084544,00.html NEWS MEDIA QUANDARY OVER SHOWING GRAPHIC IMAGES OF ABUSE "As the images of American soldiers torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners inflame public opinion about the war, news organizations increasingly find themselves part of the debate," writes David Carr. (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/politics/11PHOT.html ** NEW YORKER HAS WORSE IRAQ PIX "We have additional photos we chose not to run," New Yorker spokeswoman Perri Dorset tells New York Daily News following the publication of an image of a naked Iraqi prisoner cowering between two attack dogs. As Seymour Hersh told CNN on Sunday, the sequence -shows the dogs "getting closer and closer" with a final image of "the man on the ground with a gaping wound in his legs." (New York Daily News) http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/192107p-166073c.html ** A FOREIGN REPORTER TELLS A STORY OF U.S. PARANOIA Elena Lappin writes of her 26 hours as a detainee courtesy of the US Department of Homeland Security: "The United States had begun to regard journalists from friendly countries as hostile aliens. Our intentions must be closely scrutinized before we are allowed to do our jobs." Lappin adds, "Only countries like Cuba, Syria, Iran and North Korea demand that journalists apply for special visas." (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-oe-lappin11may11.story ** CNN PRODUCER IN PAKISTAN UNDER HOUSE ARREST CNN regional producer Syed Mohsin Naqvi was detained at his residence in Lahore on Monday evening. The police personnel managed their entry into the house of Syed while giving a pretext that somebody had planted a bomb somewhere inside the premises. (HiPakistan) http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en64242&F_catID=&f_type=source BUSTING BIG FAT LIARS David Brock talks about why the media seems embarrassed to report on Bush's failures, why TV pundit shows are stacked to the right -- and his new media watchdog group. (Salon.com - free day pass required) http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/05/11/right/index.html Bush Giving Away Wilderness to Oil and Gas Industry http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000114.php American Conservatism, RIP It's braindead, says Paul Craig Roberts. Passing the Buck in Iraq Are pfc's really the culprits? Article by Ron Paul. Did Saudi Investors Pressure Disney To Drop Michael Moore's New Film on 9/11? * Disney has been widely criticized for barring its subsidiary Miramax from distributing Fahrenheit 911, Moore's new documentary examining 9/11 and the ties between the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. Peter Hart from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) reveals that a powerful member of the House of Saud, Al-Walid bin Talal, owns a major stake in Eurodisney. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/11/1341206 Shhh. Do you hear that? It's Tommy Jefferson rolling over in his grave. http://www.pressaction.com/2004/002198.html Thanks Jim The Humane Society The leashes belonged on our own soldiers—no matter how you spin it http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0419/mondo1.php President Bush Intends to Appoint Raytheon's Chairman and CEO Swanson to NSTAC http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/May/1040114.htm LOYAL RIGHT WING TRIPS OVER ITS OWN MORALITY TO JUSTIFY TORTURE http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher164.html Rumsfeld and the 'beastly' Boykin By Ramtanu Maitra http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE11Aa04.html AN American tragedy Asia Times Online - Hong Kong ... Another crucial example is what happened to Jamal al-Harith, 37, a British citizen from Manchester released from Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE11Aa05.html Florida state's Governor Jeb Bush called the international community to take actions to isolate Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez. http://www.eluniversal.com/2004/05/10/10A460071.shtml The Truth About Depleted Uranium Weaponry: The Only Thing Depleting is Human Life http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/6650/ Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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He served as director of the National Security Agency under President Reagan. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/12/1420241 Torture in Brooklyn Detention Camp, USA http://www.counterpunch.org/brauchli05122004.html redistricting allows 4 Florida Republican Congressmen be re-elected without the fuss and expense of an election. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/03AreaEASTCOL051204.htm Nick Berg's father on Freerepublic enemies list http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092851/posts Any question now if they are indeed wanna-be brownshirts? Newspaper Editor denies his appeal for pro-Bush letters has anything to do with supporting president Bush http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=17&u=/ap/bush_newspaper_letters You can read the "pro-Bush" articles from the POAc here http://oldamericancentury.org/POACforum/viewtopic.php?t=5964 WHEN AN EDITOR CHASES "BALANCE" OVER A CLIFF When Columbia Journalism Review sampled letters-to-the-editor at newspapers around the country in March and April of last year, it found that letter writers who opposed the war in Iraq dominated. Despite that, editors of three out of ten newspapers studied chose to publish an equal number of pro-war and anti-war letters. (CampaignDesk.org) http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000534.asp Rumsfeld testifies Geneva Convention doesn't apply to "terrorists" The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel included torture, humiliation and forced sex beyond what has been seen in public, http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=13&u=/ap/us_prisoner_abuse US arranges to detain and interrogate terror suspects in secret Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001926465_detain12.html GAO investigation turns up hundreds of federal employees with phony college degrees, including 28 "high ranking officials" and 200 defense employees. Tax dollars even used to pay for some http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0510/web-diploma-05-11-04.asp Nick Berg’s Murderer Given 3 Passes by Bush http://hammeroftruth.com/2004/05/12/nick-bergs-murderer-given-3-passes-by-bush/ The US now facing prisoner abuse complaints in Afghanistan http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040512/ts_nm/afghan_usa_abuses_dc Ex-official in Afghanistan says he also was abused: A former Afghan police colonel gave a graphic account this week of being subjected to beating, kicking, sleep deprivation, taunts and sexual abuse during about 40 days he spent in U.S. custody last summer. He also said he was repeatedly photographed, often while naked. http://www.oregonlive.com/metro/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/exclude/108436322859910.xml Bush bans most exports to Syria President Bush is tightening the U.S. economic squeeze on Syria with a ban on all American exports to the Arab country except food and medicine. http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/world/story/1361818p-8577178c.html Kerry first choice for Secretary of Defense: John McCain http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&u=/nm/20040512/us_nm/campaign_kerry_dc_18&printer=1 Fact-Free News don't watch Fox News. The more you watch, the more you'll get things wrong. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27061-2003Oct14?language=printer Matt Drudge, Republican gossip and rumor outlet, slams "liberal media" (specifically the New Yorker0 for not posting positive iraq photos. Problem is, New Yorker HAD posted them http://hammeroftruth.com/2004/05/12/gasp-drudge-slams-liberal-media/ Rumsfeld approved 'harsh' interrogation: Including stripping detainees naked, making them hold "stress" positions and depriving them of sleep, a Pentagon official has confirmed. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/12/1084289748000.html "GM will not advertise on any Air America affiliates." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/192372p-166266c.html Take a listen to Air American and see if you think they are right in pulling their ads http://www.airamericaradio.com General Who Made Anti-Islam Remark Tied to POW Case: The U.S. Army general under investigation for anti-Islamic remarks has been linked by U.S. officials to the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, which experts warned could touch off new outrage overseas. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5109973 The wisdom of Ann Coulter. http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=666 Rush Limbaugh: more of the same http://mediamatters.org/items/200405110002 Soldier's video diary of abuse to be broadcast: A US soldier's video diary showing her disdain for Iraqi detainees who died in her charge is to be broadcast by a US network tomorrow in a further escalation of the prisoner abuse scandal that has shaken the Bush administration and provoked world outrage. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/12/1084289738928.html Republican Senator says Iraqis deserved it : Uber-Conservative Republican Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) just said on CNN that the Iraqi prisoners basically deserved what they got: http://americablog.blogspot.com/2004/05/video-republican-senator-says-iraqis.html US members of congress urge Uruguay's senators not to legalize abortion and family planning bill. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=16&u=/ap/congress_uruguay "The Jesus Factor" chronicles Bush's efforts in Texas to allow faith-based groups to access state funding for social service programs -- a policy he would later advance following his election to the White House In case you didn't get a chance to see it, PBS will be re-airing Frontline's special The Jesus Factor on May 20th. You can also go here to watch the entire episode online. Ex-Iraq Official Says U.S. Forces Covered Up Abuses: Iraq's Governing Council long suspected abuses at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison but American soldiers covered them up each time Iraqi officials went to investigate, the former interior minister said Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5119919 GOP leaders oppose release of more abuse images, continued press coverage. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/12/congress.abuse/index.html Fact Sheet: Implementing the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040511-7.html Genital Torture For Dummies : Hey, it's a war -- what did you expect? And, really, what Bush-votin' flag-wavin' God-numbed patriot wants to hear that the U.S. is a world-class hypocrite, committing many of the same crimes and tortures, rapes and humiliations that Saddam himself did, in the very same prison http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fgate%2Farchive%2F2004%2F05%2F12%2Fnotes051204.DTL Arab media condemns beheading : Arab media reacted cautiously to the beheading of an American civilian on a video issued by an associate of Osama bin Laden, with some newspapers conspicuously playing it down or even ignoring it. http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/05/12/story147215.html Senator Kerry campaigning, the effort to increase Unemployment Benefits fails by one vote http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040511-1439-unemploymentbenefits.html Ex-right wing journalist describes how right-wing journalism is destroying democracy http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/05/11/noise/index_np.html free pass required U.S. attacks mosque in holy city: The U.S. military attacked a mosque in this holy city late Tuesday in its largest assault against the forces of the young rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/special_packages/iraq/8647446.htm?1c Some suggest post-Sept. 11 quest for vengeance created atmosphere conducive to abuse of Iraqis: ``Let's Roll'' was a common battle cry, evoking the defiant passengers aboard one of the planes hijacked in those attacks. Soldiers displayed flags from Ground Zero and images of the World Center's twin towers. http://wcco.com/national/PrisonerAbuse-Sept11-aa/resources_news_html BUSH DISTORTS EDUCATION RECORD IN 3-STATE TOUR Bush ad claims "dramatic results" in Texas schools, but fails to mention data-manipulation scandal. http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=181 THE COMING BACKLASH AGAINST THE MESSENGER Major American news organizations will increasingly come under attack as the next rounds of visual documentation emerge from U.S. prison facilities in Iraq. Messengers will be charged with relishing the awful graphic evidence. When the bad news gets bad enough, appreciable political energy will go into fueling an anti-media backlash. (MediaChannel.org) http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert194.shtml BIRTH OF A CONGLOMERATE: NBC, UNIVERSAL CLOSE DEAL As the merger of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment officially closed Wednesday, the new NBC Universal joined the exclusive ranks of media and entertainment titans. The new company now ranks as the fifth-largest media conglomerate. (The Hollywood Reporter) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000508482 THE NEWS DISSECTOR: Now we have the gruesome new killing of an American to permit the government and the media to change the subject away from US abuses. http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/ U.S. Fish & Wildlife Biologist Charges Manipulation of Science on Florida Panther http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000115.php Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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But the FBI says Iraqi police detained Nick Berg, and the Iraqi police say they did not. http://wfrv.com/topstories/topstories_story_134101951.html If "It is War", Why Has the U.S. Congress Not Declared War on Iraq? http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/6797/ Today I've taken action to protect the vote in Ohio, where electronic voting machines are set to be in place in 31 counties without a paper trail verification of each votes. The 2004 election is going to be very close - and could come down to just a handful of votes in this key state. Please join me in signing the “Paper Trail Petition” today and pass it on to everyone you know. http://actforvictory.org/act.php/home/petitions/diebold_ohio US Pushes World Court Immunity Amid Iraq Scandal FEC LETS POLITICAL ADS FLOW FREELY Nonprofit groups can continue pouring tens of millions of dollars into political advertising, at least through this fall's presidential election. That's after federal campaign regulators Thursday decided not to act on complaints about the practice for at least three months. (Broadcasting & Cable) http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA417397?display=Breaking+News&promocode=SUPP Pentagon bans Berg's parents from witnessing coffin arrival in U.S. That'll teach 'em to criticize the king http://cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Was+Berg+in+U.S.+custody?+Answers+conflict+-+May+14,+2004&expire=&urlID=10251404&fb=Y&url=http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD Oil prices highest ever. Here comes the inflation http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&u=/ap/20040514/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices_3&printer=1 Bush again tries to make a case for why watching the news and readings newspapers (except the sports section) is not worth his time http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040514/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_bush_news&cid=1506&ncid=1963&sid=96378801 The committee investigating Hollinger International, is considering filing civil lawsuits against directors of the media group, charging them with neglecting their duties Sources close to the investigation expect committee head Richard Breeden to sue former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger; former assistant defense secretary Richard Perle; and Marie-Josee Kravis, a former director, member of the audit committee and wife of Henry Kravis, the billionaire venture capitalist. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/427438.html INSIDE Fallujah: An Independent Journalist Returns To US After ... Democracy Now - USA DemocracyNOW! talks to David Martinez, one of the few American civilians who were inside Fallujah during the siege of the Iraqi city http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/14/143203 Abu Ghraib: the rule, not the exception Americans are no novices to inflicting pain and humiliation, says torture expert MILES SCHUMAN. U.S.-sanctioned torment has a long and diverse pedigree http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040514/COTORTURE14/TPComment/TopStories Bremer says the U.S. would leave Iraq if the new government asks http://www.boston.com/dailynews/135/world/Bremer_tells_Iraqi_leaders_US_:.shtml Over 300 Prisoners Released from Abu Ghraib, Complain of Torture http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=1214 WHERE WAS PRESS WHEN ABUSE ALLEGATIONS FIRST EMERGED? E&P Editor Greg Mitchell asks: "Is the press trying to make up for lost time once again? The media is now bursting with accounts of prison abuse at Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons, but where were they last fall when evidence of wrongdoing started to emerge?" (Editor & Publisher) http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000510856 MORE Allegations From Guantánamo Link Abuses to Abu Ghraib Village Voice - New York,NY,USA ... have said that they were either subjected to or witnessed some of the same methods of harsh interrogation seen in pictures taken at the Abu Ghraib prison in ... http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0419/fahim2.php is George W. Bush a conservative at all? http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040531&s=press AL QAEDA WEB After the shocking video of the murder of Nick Berg emerged on the Internet, some experts are saying it will be possible to track down the location where it was posted. (National Public Radio) http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1894853 For the first time in public, a somber Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld raised the possibility Wednesday that the U.S. mission in Iraq could fail. http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/13/build/nation/40-could-fail.inc Joseph Wilson: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/14/143211 FBI official guilty of lying about 20 year affair with Chinese informant. http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05132004/nation_w/166141.asp Article fails to mention that she was also a fundraiser for the Republican Party http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EE27Ad02.html U.S. jobless claims post highest numbers since 2000, Dow drops below 10,000, and Iraq achieves new level of chaos http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={8D0382C8-31F6-410B-A709-0B1BC489A457}&siteid=google&dist=google 2005 request for war funds to top $50 billion Bush administration officials predicted Thursday that new spending requests for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will total more than $50 billion in the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4970228/ America's military coup: Donald Rumsfeld has a new war on his hands - the US officer corps has turned on the government http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1215562,00.html Abuse troops in X-rated movie: Private Lynndie England, was seen engaged in graphic sex acts with other soldiers in front of Iraqi prisoners, Pentagon officials said. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9556450%255E401,00.html Abuse began at another jail in Iraq : Some of the U.S. soldiers who were photographed sexually humiliating prisoners at deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's most notorious prison were also at Camp Bucca last year, when the facility was rocked by allegations that detainees were beaten. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/191682p-165691c.html DISNEY TO SELL MOORE'S 9/11 FILM TO WEINSTEINS In an unusual move, Disney will allow Harvey and Bob Weinstein, co-chairmen of its subsidiary Miramax Films, which financed Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" — to buy the project for up to $6 million, about the amount Miramax has spent on the property. (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-miramax13may13,1,374837.story Former prisoner calls U.S. center a ‘torture camp’ : Widespread mistreatment by soldiers in Camp Bucca detention center in southern Iraq was as inhumane as that depicted in recent photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. http://www.columbiatribune.com/2004/May/20040508News026.asp Secret US jails hold 10,000 : Almost 10,000 prisoners from President George W. Bush's so-called war on terror are being held around the world in secretive American-run jails and interrogation centres similar to the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison. http://tinyurl.com/2y5pc FILESHARING IS NOT THE ENEMY The Recording Industry Association of America would have you believe that downloading is single-handedly destroying the music business. A new study refutes the claim, saying that filesharing has no negative effect on CD sales. (AlterNet) http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18698 Federally Sanctioned Mining Abuses Even Worse Under Bush Rule Changes http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000117.php Ted Rall: Behold The Torture Apologists Incredible as it seems, these "Americans" actually approve of torture. http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/ Abuse included rape : The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops went beyond the photos seen by most Americans, shaken lawmakers said Wednesday after viewing fresh pictures and video that they said depicted forced sex, brutality and dogs snarling at cowed prisoners. http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1028158&t=Nation+%2F+World&c=26,1028158 America's gulag : Stephen Grey uncovers a secret global network of prisons and planes that allows the US to hand over its enemies for interrogation, and sometimes torture, by the agents of its more unsavoury allies http://tinyurl.com/5w5a Muslim Authorities Condemn Berg Killing: These scholars are major voices of the Muslim mainstream. They should be listened to on such matters. http://www.juancole.com/2004_05_01_juancole_archive.html#108442400579177434 THE NEWS DISSECTOR: Why does CNN rely on unnamed CIA officials for information? Why do I have to go to the BBC to find out more about what's happening in my own country? http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/ Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda Interrogations: Growing concerns inside the agency about abuses, according to current and former counterterrorism officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/politics/13DETA.html?position=&ei=5062&en=f4df7ec51a3252e0&ex=1085025600&adxnnl=1&partner=GOOGLE RED Cross Criticizes Guantanamo Treatment Aljazeerah.info http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/May/14%20N/Red%20Cross%20Criticizes%20Guantanamo%20Treatment.htm Germans Say They Warned Powell's Data On Iraq Arms Was Tainted: German government officials claim the CIA disregarded their warnings about the unreliability of a key piece of Iraqi weapons intelligence that was featured prominently in last year's landmark address to the United Nations by Secretary of State Colin Powell. http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20040512819 RUMSFELD: LAWYERS SAY NIX ABUSE PIX The government lawyers argue that releasing such materials would violate a Geneva Convention stricture against presenting images of prisoners that could be construed as degrading, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said en route to Baghdad. (CBS/AP) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/14/iraq/main617396.shtml Strategist: Invasion of Iraq was a mistake: President Bush's pre-emptive war on Iraq was ill-conceived “and may have set the United States on a course of open-ended and gratuitous conflict with states and nonstate entities that pose no serious threat to the United States,” http://128.242.151.55/index.php?progreso=Invasion&otherweek=1077602400 GOP gay group to air same-sex union ads http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0513gaycampaign13.html DONALD RUMSFELD PROTESTED AT HOME in Iraq Torture Scandal PHXNews http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/97066/index.php Flaws in the American way of life : Why we expect so much of America is a puzzle. What misleads us about the US is its commitment to many liberal values: free speech, a free press, a robust legal system and lots of voting, for example. But this is also a country that incarcerates two million (about one in every 140) of its residents - the world's highest rate of imprisonment. http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_People&newDisplayURN=200405170001 ANOTHER Reason For Donald Rumsfeld to Resign: Findlaw.com - Mountain View,CA,USA ... Reportedly, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was aware of the prisoner abuse reports as early as January of this year. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20040514.html GIVING AS GOOD AS THEY GET Media Matters launched a television ad campaign this week that targets conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for his remarks likening the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib to a college fraternity prank. (Tapped -- The American Prospect) http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2004/05/index.html#002997 ** KERRY KEEPS LOW PROFILE Sen. John Kerry "aims for low profile on Iraq as scandal dogs Bush team," The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reports. Says one Democrat: "It's delicate and sensitive. We have to modulate the response." (Political Wire) http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/05/14/kerry_keeps_low_profile.html Numbers, History Don't Bode Well for Bush Six months before the November election, President Bush has slipped into a politically fragile position that has put his reelection at risk, with the public clearly disaffected by his handling of the two biggest issues facing the country: Iraq and the economy. Private global investment firm The Carlyle Group is nearing an agreement to buy the Hawaii telephone operations of Verizon Communications Inc http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2004/05/10/daily62.html?jst=b_ln_hl AREA group seeks stronger action against Patriot Act The News-Review http://www.newsreview.info/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040513/NEWS/105130029 CARBONDALE rejects Patriot Act Vail Daily News http://www.vaildaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040513/NEWS/105130016 HALLIBURTON haunted by a murky past Financial Times - London,England,UK Dan Briody has picked a good moment to publish a history of Halliburton, the company http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180468797 MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Titan's Translators in Trouble http://www.warprofiteers.com Titan corporation of San Diego, California, one of the two companies accused of complicity in the prison abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, is currently facing numerous federal investigations for work done in Iraq and around the world. IN SPANISH, BUSH AD TAKES NEGATIVE TURN When President Bush's aides released a television ad Tuesday saying that "no child in America should be left behind," it looked to be the first positive spot the campaign had rolled out in weeks. But, when translated into Spanish, the Kerry campaign says, that message packs a vituperative punch. (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22397-2004May12.html JUST SAY NO Rather than broadcast charges by Senator Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) that the Kerry campaign was using the Abu Ghraib prison scandal to raise campaign funds, NBC Nightly News should have ignored the allegations, writes Zachary Roth. (CampaignDesk) http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000538.asp International Brotherhood of Police Officers dump Bush, support Kerry http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=41&u=/ap/20040514/ap_on_el_pr/kerry Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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White House turned down 3 changes to kill Abu Musab Zarqawi in 2002 because it would weaken the case for war in Iraq http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601 Now do you think that they may have allowed a terrorist attack on the US to facilitate an excuse to invade Iraq? Just like their PNAC document called for? American Free Press asked Christopher Maletz, asst. director of the PNAC about what was meant by the "need for a new Pearl Harbor": "They needed more money to up the defense budget for raises, new arms, and future capabilities," Maletz said. "Without some disaster or catastrophic event," neither the politicians nor the military would have approved. Bush cites Berg beheading as proof of Saddam, al Qaeda link. Those running the camp were Zarqawi lieutenants operating in northern Kurdish areas outside Saddam Hussein-controlled Iraq. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040514/pl_nm/campaign_bush_dc Jail tactics broke rules: Wolfowitz: Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has admitted that US interrogation techniques approved for use in Iraq could violate the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289883288.html Moderate House Republicans are beating back a proposal from East Valley legislative leaders to cut the state child care subsidy program and leave more than 16,000 children of the working poor without care. Already, 6,700 children who qualify for the program are on a waiting list. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=21636 Rumsfeld Approved Iraq Interrogation Plan. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5154643&src=rss/topNews§ion=news No information on whether or not he suggested the glowsticking LaCrosse, Wisconsin to bill $50,000 for Bush campaign visit http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2004/05/14/news/00lead.txt Republicans tour state in caravan of SUVs to criticize Kerry's plan to increase gas mileage standards of passenger vehicles http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1084615565118170.xml US' Ashcroft launches national anti-terror, crime matrix http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=10&u=/afp/20040514/pl_afp/us_attacks_ashcroft_040514162440 A scared populace is a comliant populace Terrorists are likely planning U.S. attacks, a U.S. Homeland Security official said Friday. http://portal.tds.net/newsreader.php?id=36575 Republicans' arguments for tax cuts: WRONG Conservatives have succeeded in framing the argument as one of support of taxes vs. opposition to taxes. Successfully arguing requires reframing this argument. http://gadflyer.com/ammodump/index.php?AmmoDumpID=5 Republican Rep. Steve King says the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers was little more than "hazing." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040514/ap_on_go_co/prisoner_abuse_congressman&e=1 free speech is not protected Man fights citation for carrying anti-Bush sign http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/news/local/8664932.htm media publishes then pulls article containing picture of prisoner abuse with ranking officers present http://truthout.org/docs_04/051504B.shtml Diplomat's E-Mails Show Berg in Custody: A U.S. diplomatic official in Iraq told the family of slain American Nicholas Berg in early April that he was being detained by the U.S. military, according to e-mails provided by the family Thursday. http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/8658713.htm Could N. Berg's execution be fake? : Air America Live feed http://play.rbn.com/?url=airam/airam/live/live.rm US forces were taught torture techniques: Soldiers' accounts reveal widespread use of sleep deprivation and mock executions http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4923779-103550,00.html A systematic process learned from Cold War: "The idea of it being 'a few bad apples' won't wash. It looks increasingly like a systematic process. And there have clearly been conscious attempts by psychologists to make the techniques culturally relative to a Muslim population," http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=521074 Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past: Cheney Warned in 1992: CIA interrogation manuals written in the 1960s and 1980s described "coercive techniques" such as those used to mistreat detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, according to the declassified documents http://www.counterpunch.org/blanton05122004.html Holiest Shi'ite Shrine Seen Damaged After Battle: Aides to militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr blamed U.S. tank fire on Friday for three small holes that appeared in the vast gilded dome of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrine, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5149195 Balkans Soldiers Find Fortune in Baghdad : Fighting gets into your veins, said men who fought in former Yugoslavia. And so now that peace has come to their homeland, many have moved to Iraq. http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23707 82percent of Iraqis oppose U.S. occupation http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001927572_iraqpoll13.html The Wolf in Reporter's Clothing: The Rise of Pseudo-Journalism in America: All across America, there are offices that resemble newsrooms, and in those offices there are people who resemble journalists, but they are not engaged in journalism. To the contrary, it regards its audience with a cold cynicism. In this realm of pseudo-journalism, the audience is something to be manipulated. And when the audience is misled, no one in the pseudo-newsroom ever offers a peep of protest. http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/alum/ruhl/ Donald Rumsfeld has a new war on his hands - the US officer corps has turned on the government http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1215613,00.html FBI and CIA Protected Nazis After World War II, Wash. Post Says : The FBI and Central Intelligence Agency offered former Nazi leaders protection and aid after World War II, the Washington Post reported, citing a new book written from declassified government documents. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=aOwA6kC9gMQ8&refer=germany The mistreatment and abuse by US military and intelligence personnel of detainees in Afghanistan are systemic and routine, according to Human Rights Watch http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0513-10.htm JOHN Kerry says US needs "plan to win the peace" in Iraq KSTP http://www.kstp.com/article/view/143562/ Two Britons freed from Guantanamo Bay have written an open letter to President George W. Bush alleging they were tortured http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_15-5-2004_pg4_4 Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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URL: http://gettysburg.hostforweb.net/pipermail/poacnewsletter_oldamericancentury.org/attachments/20040515/685aa6a3/attachment.htm From Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org Mon May 17 03:05:30 2004 From: Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org (Poacnewsletter@oldamericancentury.org) Date: Mon May 17 03:05:41 2004 Subject: [POAC newsletter] 5-17-04 daily newsletter program related activity Message-ID: <410-2200451177528520@earthlink.net> >From my spider hole to yours... Sent to me by a helpful reader, Ed... 17 Anomalies Surrounding Death Of Nick Berg 1.Arab linguists have said the man posing as the Jordanian Zaraqawi did not speak with a Jordanian dialect. Others have suggested the man reading the written statement may not have been a native speaker of Arabic. 2.Zaraqawi was missing one leg and had been outfitted with an artificial leg that did not fit or function properly. He was unable to walk or stand normally with his ill-fitting limb. No man in the group showed evidence of such an infirmity. 3.Numerous indigenous sources have said Zaraqawi was killed by a US helicopter attack months ago when he was unable to move quickly enough to escape the targeted house. While others managed to exit the house in time to survive, he died in the collapsed building. 4.As any surgeon will testify, the alleged beheading was a fake. A beheading would result in a tremendous amount of spurting blood. There would have been blood everywhere had an actual beheading taken place. When the executioner holds up Berg's head immediately following what is represented as an actual decapitation of a living person, there is no significant blood flow from the neck or blood splatters showing anywhere on the executioner. Furthermore, the cut was simply too neat to have been done crudely and with such amazing speed by a man wielding a knife. Anybody who has ever carved a turkey knows there is something wrong with the supposed beheading. The suspended head looks more like Berg had been neatly beheaded by a guillotine. 5.The orange jumpsuit was standard US military issue to men in custody. It is unlikely Berg would have continuing wearing a US custodial uniform if he had been released by the military as they claim. The fact he was still wearing the suit is both anomalous and suggestive. One is forced to speculate as to whether there was an immediate transfer of Berg from the US military to unknown persons, thusly preventing Berg from discarding his US prison garb. 6.Several of the men in the film were fat by Iraqi standards. If they were Feyadeen or mujahadeen, they probably have been living underground since the first days of the occupation. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been shown on news stories as they have marched and demonstrated. One would be hard pressed to point out a single fat man among these thousands. 7.Some men had what can only be described as pasty-white hands. Once again, one would be hard pressed to find Arab men with pasty-white hands. 8.The lack of spurting blood suggests Berg was already dead at the time of the alleged decapitation. It is possible Berg's dead body was displayed with his head already partially or totally severed. In any case, he almost certainly was killed before the staged beheading. If so, it suggests the captors had no stomach for an actual beheading of a living person, and they opted to fulfill their assignment quietly and with the least amount of gore. 9.The scream that is heard has been interpreted as a woman's scream by many viewers. Videotape cognoscenti have further said the scream was amateurishly added to the tape. 10.The U.S. government translation of one statement made on the film is: "Does al Qaeda need any further excuses?" This is a falsification. The actual statement urged fellow insurgents to get off their hind ends and do something. One assumes the translator being used by the US military is a native speaker of Arabic, so this cannot be explained as an innocent flub. This suggests the US government wanted to inject an alleged al- Qaeda group into the murder of Nick Berg. 11.Iraqis who have seen the videotape on Arabic news broadcasts are universally saying the men in the film are not Iraqis. Are they saying this partly because the speaker does not employ an Iraqi dialect? Where does their certainty come from? 12.Firearms experts have stated the AK-47 carried by one man was a "Gilal." This actually is an Israeli-made weapon that improves on the famous AK- 47. Feyadeen and other insurgents almost universally use AK-47s. 13.The man in the videotape who is purported to be Zarqawi is wearing a gold ring. This is absolutely proscribed by Islamic law. 14.The US military has stated that Berg was never in US custody and that he had been in custody of the Iraqi police. The Iraqi police adamantly deny he was ever in their custody. On April 1, an e-mail from Beth A. Payne, the U.S. consular officer in Iraq, was sent to the family of Nick Berg. It stated that Ms. Payne had located Nick, and he was currently in custody of the US military. We have to conclude that either the email was bogus or the US military has been lying. 15.The chair that Berg was seated in during the filming was a standard issue military chair of the exact same kind as seen in a color photo taken at the Abu Ghraib Prison. The chances a terrorist cell would be using this same chair are minimal at best. 16. The man on the far left standing at Parade Rest? This seems further evidence the raises suspicions that these men were NOT Arab faction Terrorists! Parade Rest is also - and would be a REFLEX action - that is TRAINED into Military personnel and becomes a HABIT! 17. The Time set on the Video is indicative to 24 hourtime and most Videos have a 2 stage setting one in regular standard time, ie: am-pm and one for 24 hr. time or MILITARYTIME! Why would Terrorists find it relevant to set their time to Military Time? Would it be more likely that a US intel or military person or officer would have their video camera set to Military Time out of reflex of training? My answer is YES! I'm not saying that I agree with all of those, but they are worth considering. In the name of God and Freedom Most of this information will be news to 99 per cent of Americans. Many of them will simply not believe it. Between their authoritarian Administration and their compliant, cowardly Press, they have been protected from the truth and inoculated against reality. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/html/20040516T010000-0500_59917_OBS_IN_THE_NAME_OF_GOD_AND_FREEDOM_.asp US Torture: the Exception or the Rule? International Action Center The following are just a few examples that have recently received sporadic media coverage. http://www.iacenter.org/torture_0504.htm Allegations of abuse have raised wider questions about the role - and accountability - of civilian contractors (private mercenaries) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1218370,00.html Christianist Ayatollahs Bring America To Shame By Rob Kall they are a worse threat to the nation than communism ever was. Steps to Confront Them http://www.opednews.com/kall051704_christianist_ayatollahs.htm An early tip-off to the nature of the "Iraqi democracy" sham was the creation of the "Iraqi Governing Council,". Allusions to the "Jewish councils" and "kapos" established by the German government in ghettoes and concentration camps to help govern Jews – under German direction – come to mind. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer71.html Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet Charley Reese on Kerry. http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese74.html Under the cover of the war on terrorism, President Bush wants to spend $10 billion on Star Wars this year. That's enough to provide health insurance to all uninsured kids in our country. http://action.truemajority.com/action/index.asp?step=2&item=10171&ms=stw1&ref=274087 Georgia beauty spot chosen by President to showcase his "environmental stewardship" lies along one of America's most polluted stretches of coast http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=521752 U.S. Denies Rumsfeld Approved Iraq Interrogations Methods : The denial was made in response to an article on the New Yorker magazine Web site, which said Rumsfeld had approved expanding an interrogation program, which had been used in Afghanistan to hunt for al-Qaeda. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aQW2Wz0HMv3Q&refer=us Ex-head of TDCJ set up Iraq jail: A civilian charged with preparing Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison for U.S. military use headed the Texas prison system during one of its most controversial periods and later resigned as director of Utah prisons after an inmate died while shackled naked to a chair. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2572688 US guards 'filmed beatings' at Guantanamo: Dozens of videotapes of American guards allegedly engaged in brutal attacks on Guantanamo Bay detainees have been stored and catalogued at the camp, an investigation by The Observer has revealed http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1217973,00.html 'They tied me up like a beast and began kicking me' : As America struggles to come to terms with military abuse in Iraq, similar stories are emerging from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Tarek Dergoul, a Briton released from the camp in March, talks here for the first time about his two-year ordeal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6196.htm US Pushes World Court Immunity Amid Iraq Scandal: U.S. law prohibits military aid to countries that do not sign immunity accords and Washington has used this lever to exert "enormous pressure" on countries to sign, he said. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6192.htm Pilger film wins top award: London-based, Australian journalist John Pilger's latest documentary film, Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror, has won the gold award in the political category at the prestigious 2004 WorldMedia Festival. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/582/582p25c.htm Breaking The Silence: A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror" Award winning journalist John Pilger: Watch it on-line http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4847.htm As many as 22,000 Iraq, Afghan war veterans already seek care from VA system : Nearly 18,000 soldiers who have returned from Iraq have sought care at VA health facilities, officials reported at the end of March. A separate report in mid-April said 4,000 troops from the war in Afghanistan sought care, although there is some overlap from those who served in both conflicts. http://www.boston.com/dailynews/137/wash/As_many_as_22_000_Iraq_Afghan_:.shtml Tell us what this war is about: Can someone in the Bush administration please tell us what this is all about? Are we at war because Saddam tortured his own? Because Saddam possessed WMD and posed an immediate threat to the United States? Because Saddam had something to do with 9/11, even though the Bush administration has already said otherwise? http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1084687122221790.xml Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President : A blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm Cease Fire Now, Mr. "War President": It doesn`t get much worse than this folks, especially if you are a soldier in our "war president's" army. What is the plan, George? We ALL want to know ASAP! http://baltimorechronicle.com/051304OLtoBush.shtml Enraging Sunni Muslims : "They say they are searching for a killer in the mosque," said Hassam Aziz Abdul, while glaring at soldiers who walked dogs into the mosque. "But they want to destroy every holy place in my country." http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=347 Iran leader condemns US 'stupidity': He said the abuse of prisoners in Iraq showed that the US had merely taken the place of Saddam Hussein, and that it was time for them to leave the "bog of their own making". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3719095.stm Riverbend: Iraqi Girl Blog: The assumption that Al Zarqawi himself was doing the beheading seems a little far-fetched. So now the heads of terrorism in the world seem to be Ossama Bin Ladin, Aimen Al Dhawahiri and Abu Mussa'ab Al Zarqawi. Here's some food for thought- Ossama is from Saudi Arabia, Al Dhawahiri is Egyptian and Al Zarqawi is Jordanian. Which countries in the region are America's best allies? Let's see now… http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#108456635171437189 "Sorry's" hollow ring: The best damage control is impeachment: : A picture may turn out to be worth, oh, $87 billion. Pick your favorite. A naked Iraqi in a dog collar, a hooded guy on a box wired to electrodes, naked men in a heap, and then they get worse. http://www.commonwonders.com/ Where Are You Heading, America?: Taking a Closer Look at the Patriot Act: The parallels with 1930s Germany are ominous http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley05152004.html Picture: Torturing Liberty http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/pclarge/statue_of_liberty.htm Venezuela evicts US military: Gen Garcia asked the US military personnel to leave Fuerte Tiuna days before Venezuela's security forces announced they captured a large force of Colombian paramilitaries. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1107158.htm Titan corporation of San Diego, California, one of the two companies accused of complicity in the prison abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, is currently facing numerous federal investigations for work done in Iraq and around the world. http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=11284 http://www.warprofiteers.com President Bush has hit the campaign trail to save the Patriot Act, which will expire in 2005. ... We who love American liberty have great fear of the Patriot Act. ... http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_3666.shtml The Army last year awarded an Iraq reconstruction contract worth up to $8.2 billion to a Halliburton Co. subsidiary, despite warnings from Pentagon auditors that the Houston-based company had a shoddy billing system that could lead to overcharges. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2572529 'ATTACKS on prisoners were filmed' Lincolnshire Echo - Lincoln,England,UK Attacks on detainees at Guantanamo Bay were filmed, a Briton held at the United States camp on Cuba claims. http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=116154&command=displayContent&sourceNode=116153&contentPK=9977578 In the issue hitting newsstands tomorrow, Maclean's contributing editor Adnan R. Khan tells the chilling story of how he managed to obtain three letters from a prisoner held captive in Abu Ghraib prison - and the contents of those letters. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040516/to113_1.html Anti-Bush books by Al Franken, Molly Ivins and other liberal pundits were best sellers in the fall, but the current accounts are coming from people who actually worked for the president. http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/8673557.htm?1c James a Baker III http://www.bakerbotts.com/attorneys/bio.asp?id=627&groupid=&areaid= and look what they do in the Middle east http://www.bakerbotts.com/practice/practicegroup.asp?groupid=58 HOW come John Kerry isn't clobbering this guy? Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/05/16/how_come_john_kerry_isnt_clobbering_this_guy President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday released their financial disclosure forms for 2003, offering up two illustrations of what the portfolios of the well-to-do look like. http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/16/build/nation/55-bush-cheney.inc Carlyle Group of US interested in buying control of Bezeq The Carlyle Group deals mostly in the acquisition of high-tech and defense companies. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=796827&fid=942 UGLY America: Wolfie, Hannity & Rent-A-Union Basher Dissident Voice http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Hughes0516.htm Land of the free “A study mapping the prisons built in the boom of the last two decades has found that some counties in the United States now have more than 30 percent of their residents behind bars.” — New York Times, April 30. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/582/582p6e.htm U.S. prosecution of Greenpeace sets court fight over dissent Greenpeace, charged with the obscure crime of "sailor mongering" that was last prosecuted 114 years ago, goes on trial on Monday in the first U.S. criminal prosecution of an advocacy group for civil disobedience. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/8681511.htm?1c Drug Traffickers Find Haiti a Hospitable Port Here comes that Afghani heroin! http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/international/americas/16hait.html?amp=&pagewanted=print&position= Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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And, he added, "it will happen here." http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040524/whispers/24whisplead.htm Ohio factory that Bush visited last year and used as example of how his economic policies were working announces it will shut down and lay off all 1300 employees http://counterspin.blogspot.com/2004/05/bush-league-ohio-manufacturing-plant.html Rumsfeld says it wasn't necessarily sarin : Don't jump to any conclusions just yet. That warning comes from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, after the U-S military in Iraq announced that a roadside bomb containing sarin nerve gas had exploded near a U-S military convoy. http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=1873574&nav=0oa8AfMQ Powell Admits False WMD Claim: Appearing on Meet the Press, Powell acknowledged--finally!--that he and the Bush administration misled the nation about the WMD threat posed by Iraq before the war. http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1442 Colin Powell's Intreview On Meet The Press 05/6/04 : Transcript http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4992558/ Italians forced to flee base : Fighters loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr drove Italian forces from a base in the southern city of Nasiriyah and attacked coalition headquarters there with grenade and mortar fire as tensions in the Shi'ite region escalated. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/10787827?source=Evening%20Standard Coalition Evacuates HQ in Nasiriyah : Most of the civilian staff of the U.S.-led coalition was evacuated from their headquarters in the southern city of Nasiriyah because of growing threats from Muqtada al-Sadr's militiamen, a coalition official said Sunday. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_italians Allies accused of breaking Geneva Conventions on civilian losses: 11,005, Iraqi civilians killed.This does not include about 800 reportedly killed recently in Fallujah and 235 in Baghdad, or about 20 reported to have died in the British-controlled Basra region http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=522048 Kerry Says Bush Needs 'Some Space' on Iraq http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5172103 100 Iraqis Held Outside Control of Top General: The conditions have been described by the Red Cross as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, the international treaty that the Bush administration has said it regards as "fully applicable" to all prisoners held by the United States in Iraq. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/international/middleeast/17ABUS.html?ex=1085772646&ei=1&en=b6d3c9ef9425eef7 S.Korea Says U.S. Plans to Shift Some Troops to Iraq: The United States plans to shift a brigade of about 4,000 troops stationed in South Korea to deter North Korean aggression and redeploy them in Iraq, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Monday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5163720 President Bush's uncle didn't report suspicious transactions by Saudi al Queda financiers Prison abuse resulted from a memo signed by Bush: Newsweek: While there is no telling where the scandal will bottom out, it said US soldiers and CIA operatives could be accused of war crimes and of charges which could include homicide involving deaths during interrogations. http://tinyurl.com/yqgzx In a single 24 hour period, President Bush pays lip service to the end of racial discrimination in schools and calls for an amendment to enshrine sexual discrimination in the US constitution http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/17/bush.gay/index.html Powell says Bush was 'informed' of Red Cross concerns: Officials advised president 'in general terms' about reports of abuse, he says http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.powell12may12,0,2804533.story?coll=bal-news-nation Geneva Convention Applies to Taliban, not Al Qaeda: Feb. 7, 2002 -- President Bush said the United States would regard the Geneva Conventions as applying to Taliban detainees under U.S. control -- but not Al Qaeda detainees. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2002/n02072002_200202074.html U.S. ignorance: Regarding the torture of Iraqi prisoners, sadly this news is not news for most of the world. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6198.htm Iraq Latest: Soldiers Swap Sick DVDs of Iraqi Killings: US troops copy the video footage onto DVDs and pass them to Coalition troops, including the British. http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14246653&method=full&siteid=86024&headline=iraq-latest--soldiers-swap-sick-dvds-of-iraqi-killings-name_page.html Pointless apology: The US system has nurtured a chain of command capable of such crimes, keeping it carefully hidden from view, unaccountable, untouchable. This chain of command has refused to submit to the Geneva Conventions and any other legal instruments concerning the treatment of prisoners. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/op4.htm Privacy's mine fields The name alone was creepy: Total Information Awareness. Creepier still was that the Pentagon had created TIA to sweepingly mine information on individuals, store it in databases and build dossiers. Creepiest of all was that TIA was administered by John Poindexter, once Ronald Reagan's national security adviser who lied and schemed his way to the center of the Iran-Contras, arms-for-hostages scandal of 1987. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN53051804.htm Prison Abuse Investigators Question Hiring of Former Utah Prison Boss: U.S. Justice Department officials have come under fire for hiring a former Utah prison boss with a history of human rights complaints to oversee prisons in Iraq. http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=94232 Bush Campaign Lies http://bushcampaignlies.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_bushcampaignlies_archive.html Far From Ready for More War: A third of the Army is 'unfit to fight' but preparing to return. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/latimes149.htm Republican apologist Zell Miller (D-GA) equates Iraqi torture with showering at the gym http://www.patridiots.com/000231.html Berg Met With Shady Iraqi: There's another strange new twist to the saga of Nick Berg and his final days of Iraq before his savage videotaped beheading. http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/8684646.htm?1c Vote Bush. He Won't lie anymore http://bush.shafted.us/smokinggun.swf Director Moore Launches Anti-Bush Tirade at Cannes: American film-maker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a savage critique of President Bush's handling of Iraq and the war on terror, was warmly applauded by critics at its first press showing on Monday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=5163201 Rumsfeld Knew: Iraq Prison Abuse Part of Pentagon-Approved Black Ops Program In a major expose in the New Yorker, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reveals that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved using harsh interrogation methods as part of a top-secret program against Al Qaeda and in Iraq. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/1431219 IRAN to submit report to UN nuclear watchdog in coming days: ... SpaceDaily http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040516135005.kidexex3.html US gives $35 million Iraqi contract to gun dealer who happened to supply David Koresh http://www.nydailynews.com/05-16-2004/news/story/193869p-167551c.html FCC LEAVES FIRST AMENDMENT ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR Peggy Charren and Jonathan Rintels explain how an FCC hell-bent against broadcast indecency has done more harm than good to the children it claims to protect. http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert197.shtml About 100 high-ranking Iraqi prisoners held for months at a time in spartan conditions on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport are being detained under a special chain of command, under conditions not subject to approval by the top American commander in Iraq, according to military officials http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/international/middleeast/17ABUS.html?ex=1085772646&ei=1&en=b6d3c9ef9425eef7 Republican Governor Schwarzenegger distancing himself from Bush, may endorse Democrat Kerry for Presidency http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=3&u=/latimests/20040517/ts_latimes/govkeepsdistancefrombushcampaign The right wing pundits still at it: Oliver North: Iraqi prisoner abuse "the kind of thing that you might find on any college campus nowadays" http://mediamatters.org/items/200405120005 US Vows to Pursue Prison Abusers in Afghanistan Reuters http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5165992 "Safeguarding Privacy in the Fight Against Terrorism" is not stamped secret — and because it is intended to prevent a future body blow to our system rather than expose a past scandal — the 119-page document commissioned by the Department of Defense has not surfaced until now. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/opinion/17XSAFI.html?ex=1085371200&en=9119801835e4272d&ei=5062 VIDEOTAPES of Torture at Guantanamo Surface http://www.zaman.org/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20040517&hn=8643 Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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Some fans are outraged, others are just glad to know the legendary comic is alive. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prwebxml127003.php ‘Definitely a Cover-Up’ Former Abu Ghraib Intel Staffer Says Army Concealed Involvement in Abuse Scandal http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/abu_ghraib_cover_up_040518-1.html US bombs Iraqi wedding. 40 killed including 15 children and 10 women. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_attack_4 US SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF ABUSING REUTERS JOURNALISTS The top US general in Iraq, Ricardo Sanchez, was last night facing serious embarrassment after exonerating soldiers who apparently abused and sexually humiliated three staff working for the international news agency Reuters. (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1220032,00.html Sarin Dated From 1980's: A senior coalition source has told the BBC the round dated back to the Iran-Iraq war and coalition officials were not sure whether the fighters even knew what it contained. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3722255.stm .pdf format Overview of Voting Equipment Usage in United States, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) Voting (.pdf format) (New as of May 5, 2004) Pennsylvania was redrawn so that a state with nearly 500,000 more Democrats than Republicans has a congressional delegation with 12 Republicans and just seven Democrats. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51482-2004Apr28.html In four states that are almost precisely evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats - Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan - Republican legislators drew district lines so that 51 of the 77 seats are Republican, a nearly two-to-one edge. http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Gerrymandering 'I killed innocent people for our government': When I talked with Massey last week, he expressed his remorse at the civilian loss of life in incidents in which he himself was involved. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6201.htm Texas denies tax-exempt status to Unitarians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7303-Texas_official_says_Unitarian_church_not_a_tax-exempt_religion.html Kerry Faults Bush for High Gas Prices http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GAS_PRICE_POLITICS?SITE=TXADT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT White House promoting programs it tried to cut http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040519/ZNYT02/405190381/1004/LOCAL Bush's War on the Middle Class http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=War+on+Middle+Class "The Governator" is slashing education http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2143152,00.html Bush EPA Let Factory Farm Industry Draft Their Own Air Pollution Rules http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000121.php I told you this would happen http://www.oldamericancentury.org/cronyism.htm Texas executes mentally ill man Despite Parole Board Recommendation http://keyetv.com/localnews/local_story_139185051.html The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war. A NEWSWEEK investigation Prison torture used old hat methods. Rumsfeld, other high-up servicemen under suspicion. Bush clear, because he "wouldn't have that kind of knowledge" http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4989481/ Congress calls for investigation into corrupt electronic voting http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5214440.html President Bush and the Constitutional Contractors http://anon.newmediamill.speedera.net/anon.newmediamill/pledge_acc/index.html Dem Party Chairman on Bush and Cheney regarding gas prices: "They're so deep in the pocket of big oil we'll need to drill down to find them," http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=1278&e=3&u=/ap/20040518/ap_on_go_co/mcauliffe_bush Look who's raising taxes: Republican-run states http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&ncid=742&e=1&u=/usatoday/20040517/cm_usatoday/lookwhosraisingtaxesrepublicanrunstates ON COURT MARTIALS, IRAQI PRESS MAY NOT GET STORY The Iraqi news media do not fully understand the US military court martial process and seminars intended to help them learn about the court-martial system do little to help. Meanwhile, six of Baghdad's most widely distributed newspapers are focusing on new allegations of prisoner abuse, and opting to give barely a mention to the courts-martial. (The Baltimore Sun) http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.journal19may19,0,5251253.column THE DRUDGE REPORT: THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING The rumor about Kerry's infidelity seemed to have faded into the ether, but, maddeningly, the claim that Wesley Clark spread the rumor has endured . . . as a story in yesterday's Boston Globe displayed. (Campaign Desk) http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000556.asp Temporary Setback for Bush Plan for Roadbuilding Across Wilderness http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000120.php Testimony Details Last Hours of Iraqi Prisoner's Life: When CIA officers brought the Iraqi detainee to Abu Ghraib prison, his head was covered with an empty sandbag and Army guards were ordered to take him directly to a shower room that served as a makeshift interrogation center at the overcrowded, shell-damaged facility outside Baghdad. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/lat-testimony.html Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings: Could Bush administration officials be prosecuted for 'war crimes' as a result of new measures used in the war on terror? The White House's top lawyer thought so. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999734/ British Fury at US 'Kill and Kill Again' Policy - Report: The British military was said to be increasingly upset at the willingness of US troops to “kill, kill and kill again”, according to a former British officer. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2940176 Chaos in Washington: "I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass." President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 (quoted by Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies) http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1441 April 03, 2003: U.S., Iraq use different techniques to interrogate: Army says calm questioning after capture works: U.S. interrogators feel little need to break the rules of the Geneva Convention, much less stoop to the painful torture that years of Hollywood cliches have forever linked to the word "interrogation." http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030403-interrogation01.htm The dark side of America : The sickening pictures of American troops humiliating Iraqi prisoners have led inevitably to questions about the standards of treatment in the corrections system in the United States, which has grown tenfold over the last 30 years and now imprisons people at eight times the rate of France and six times the rate of Canada. http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=520368.html Amnesty charges Israel guilty of war crimes : The human rights group Amnesty International has charged that Israel is guilty of war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention in its destruction of large numbers of Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=428773&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0 The Bushes and the Bin Ladens: Passionate anti-war film is a tale of two families: Peter Bradshaw on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1219237,00.html U.S. was given a heads-upon Holocaust, scholars say: U.S. intelligence officials learned in the opening months of World War II that Nazi Germany planned mass killings to eliminate Jews, scholars reviewing newly declassified reports said http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05142004/nation_w/166407.asp In case you missed it?: Convoy of Death: In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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And seriously, you could spend all day with the news otter and never get bored. scroll to the bottom world news http://oldamericancentury.org/POACforum/viewforum.php?f=21 progressive news http://oldamericancentury.org/POACforum/viewforum.php?f=22 Science & Technology News Miscellany Stew The news otter was the brainchild of my great friend and POAC genius Dave Ward. Dave is also the creator of Idiosyncrasy http://idiosyncrasy.daveward.net/ He has a forum there, too. It's young, and still has that fresh forum smell. Well worth getting into. http://idiosyncrasy.daveward.net/forums/ The feds want to know who’s been visiting the Web site of voting watchdog Bev Harris, and they’re likely to get what they want. http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0420/040519_news_blackboxvoting.php Smile! You're standing over the corpse of a murdered Iraqi prisoner! http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/Investigation/abu_ghraib_photos_040519.html Showing its resolve in fighting terror, Republican-controlled Congress plans to cut NYC homeland security funding by 50 percent, making it one of the least funded states per capita in counterterrorism http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20040519-1351-sept11commission.html GOP passes 2.4 billion dollar budget. Dems are now the party of smaller government http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41105-2004May19?language=printer Kerry says he will nominate anti-choice judges http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=961515&location=http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040519/D82LTSIG0.html NC Republicans tell gays they're not welcome at GOP state convention http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/05/051904ncGOP.htm What John Kerry Should Be Saying if He Wants to Win http://www.thestranger.com/2004-05-13/city4.html President George W. Bush still enjoys the overall support of nearly half of the American people. He does not, however, fare nearly so well among professional historians. http://hnn.us/articles/5019.html Five people were arrested as hundreds of protesters chanting "war profiteers" converged on Iraq contractor Halliburton Co.'s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday. http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/19/news/fortune500/halliburton.reut/index.htm Draft to return? Running to Canada no longer an option Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005 The Draft will Start in June 2005 http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=5834001&content_dir=ua_congressorg Ann Coulter takes the high road and belittles Al Franken for being short http://www.wonkette.com/archives/what-a-difference-two-years-make-004172.php Giuliani testifies at stormy 9/11 panel hearing Hecklers disrupt session, call on commission to ask ‘real questions’ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5012645/ Leader of British conservative party calls on Blair to distance himself from Bush http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=523029 How India funds Bush's campaign http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FE19Df04.html Iraq: Contractors Implicated in Prison Abuse Remain on the Job http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11282 Top 10 Conspiracy Theories of 2003-2004 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18735 BUSH PRETENDS HE NEVER GAVE SECRET PRISON ORDER http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1349796&l=36187 ''Afghanistan's Growing Security Concerns'' http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=132 Link TV: Mosaic: World News From The Middle East: Compilation of daily news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East including, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, and Iran, among others. These broadcasts, watched by over 280 million people all over the Middle East, provide American viewers with rare insight into the diversity of Middle East perspectives. Quick Time Video Report http://tinyurl.com/2rtq9 http://linktv.org Accused US Army deserter says he saw Iraqi prisoner mistreatment: A US Army soldier to be tried on charges of deserting from the Iraq war claimed Tuesday that he saw civilians die and Iraqi prisoners mistreated. http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040518194613.j301xkje.html UK: Straw tells of 10,000 dead: As many as 10,000 Iraqis have been killed since the start of the invasion, Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, said yesterday. But Mr Straw said the coalition had not kept records of casualties. http://tinyurl.com/3c7gn Torture 101: “We’re going to ask you some questions. If you give an answer we like, we’ll let you smoke. If we don’t like the answer, we’ll burn you. The anticipation was worse than the burns.” - A CIA agent and his goon squad torturing an American nun Diana Ortiz, by burning her 75 times with a cigarette. http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc4492.html Where an Assassination Is Celebrated : Motorists honked in celebration in this western Iraqi town as news spread of the assassination of the president of the Iraqi Governing Council Ezzidin Salim Monday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6210.htm Fallujah: In The Hands Of Insurgents: One of the gunmen wears a suicide belt. Over tea and kebabs, they explain why they're waging their jihad. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4988506/ U.S. Faces Growing Fears of Failure : The Bush administration is struggling to counter growing sentiment -- among U.S. lawmakers, Iraqis and even some of its own officials -- that the occupation of Iraq is verging on failure, forcing a top Pentagon official yesterday to concede serious mistakes over the past year. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6212.htm Molly Ivins: Killing people for their own good: Time to cut our losses; time for the UN and NATO to take over Iraq. It's quite difficult to convince people you are killing them for their own good. That's our basic problem in Iraq. http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16966 Ted Rall: Fire The War Pimps: Zero Tolerance for Iraq War Pundits http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6213.htm The Jesus Landing Pad: Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move. It was an e-mail we weren't meant to see.We're not supposed to know the National Security Council's top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0420/perlstein.php Powell Distances Himself From President : With President Bush’s approval rating hitting record lows and worries about the U.S. occupation of Iraq growing, Secretary of State Colin Powell has been carefully distancing himself from the administration. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/17/211348.shtml Defector lied to U.S. about weapons: Officials used claims to build war support : The Bush administration helped rally public and congressional support for an Iraq invasion by publicizing the claims of an Iraqi defector, although a lie-detector test indicated he was lying and U.S. intelligence agencies had rejected him as unreliable months earlier. http://www.freep.com/news/nw/snitch18_20040518.htm The Stanford Prison Experiment revisited: It was one of the most controversial psychological experiments ever done. The infamous Stanford Prison Experiment took only a few days to turn 12 regular men into sadistic prison guards. In fact, the experiment was so shocking, that the leading psychologist asked it never be repeated again. http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/asithappens/STEAM/prison_050702.htm Fake Iraqi Sovereignty: The US-appointed “Iraqis” will have to ask the occupying powers to remain in Iraq to protect them from the Iraqi masses. Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell and his State Department “anticipate” such request. Most Iraqis consider those appointees as irrelevant traitors serving U.S. interests. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6216.htm COMMENTARY: Abu Ghraib and the Dark Side of Humanity NPR (audio) http://npr.streamsage.com/google/programlist/feature.php?wfid=1901919 VICTIM awaits justice after Abu Ghraib horror Aljazeerah.info ... with disbelief when he recalls the screams of a girl he says was raped by US soldiers, and the shame of being urinated on when he was imprisoned at Abu Ghraib. http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/May/19n/Victim%20awaits%20justice%20after%20Abu%20Ghraib%20horror.htm CUBAN Americans Come Together in Miami to Protest President ... Hispanic PR Wire http://www.hispanicprwire.com/news_in.php?id=2359&cha=10 Police Break Up Pro-Aristide March in Haiti http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=A338D430-DBB6-43D3-B2CF365CFEAE5A02 America's laziest fascist Inside Michael Savage's hatefest. I can't tell if this is offensive or just sadly pathetic. Salon An Iraqi poll to be released next week shows a surge in the popularity of Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical young Shia cleric fighting coalition forces, and suggests nearly nine out of 10 Iraqis see US troops as occupiers and not liberators or peacekeepers. http://financialtimes.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Iraq%27s+rebel+cleric+gains+surge+in+popularity&expire=&urlID=10302622&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ft.com%2Fs01%2Fservlet%2FCont Bush Propaganda: Bringing 1984 Back to the Future http://www.angryfinger.org/archives/000257.html best blog evar! http://youwillanyway.blogspot.com/ Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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But what of the five women held in the jail, and the scores elsewhere in Iraq? http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,1220673,00.html A new torture scandal in Iraq -- just when you think it can't possibly get any worse http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5024068/ Delta Force now under investigation for alleged abuse in 'Secret' prison definately a wedding, not a terrorist safe-house 'US soldiers started to shoot us, one by one' Survivors describe wedding massacre as generals refuse to apologise http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221658,00.html US sticks to story regarding wedding party even though wedding singer, one of the most famous singers in iraq and a few babies were among the dead http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=523356 Spanish police trace bomb bag fingerprints to actual Algerian terrorist . FBI continues to hold innocent Oregon lawyer without charges, since he still won't confess http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=23195A0F-D1B2-4FA8-B8C4828976DA4ED2 Before helping to launch the criminal information project known as Matrix, a database contractor gave U.S. and Florida authorities the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists — sparking some investigations and arrests. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&e=15&u=/ap/terror_database TIA Comes Back as MATRIX http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/20/132920/258 more on TIA, MATRIX and the couple of criminals running it http://www.oldamericancentury.org/oh_republicans.htm How Christian fundamentalists are shaping Mideast policy http://www.monbiot.co.uk/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=649 What was George W. Bush’s response when Bob Woodward asked how he thought history would judge the Iraq war? “We won’t know. We’ll all be dead.” http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040524sh_shouts President Bush asked fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday to "keep the faith" as he sought to ease their jitters about Iraq and his lowest approval ratings ever. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5208669 Apocalypse Now in the White House: Rick Perlstein of the Village Voice acquired a damning memo demonstrating the hold the looney Christian far Right has on Bush Middle East policy. http://www.juancole.com/2004_05_01_juancole_archive.html#108495214839380743 Massing troops on Canada's border? Oh you gotta be fricken kidding me The U.S. House on Wednesday passed an amendment to a defense bill that would place soldiers along the nation’s borders. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=P59367_0_10_0_C The amendment, submitted by U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., is part of the National Defense Authorization Act designed to bolster national security by providing more aircraft, missiles, missile defense systems and personnel. Mini Nukes: A new generation of nuclear weapons – mini nukes is being planned by America. According to the US military, they need miniature nukes in the war against terrorism. http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1112492.htm The Pentagon wants us to believe that same Seymour Hersh whose revelations the previous two weeks in the New Yorker Magazine combined with images carried on CBS's "60 Minutes" are credited with smashing open the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in a way that it's dominated Congressional inquiry and global opinion is now, suddenly, completely incredible and off the wall. http://www.fcnp.com/411/whitehouse.htm House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi calls Bush "incompetent" with "no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/20/MNGK36OR7L1.DTL?! FactCheck.org clarifies voting record used in Bush ads; then compares them to voting records of Bush's comrades http://factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=177 MEDIA ADVISORY: Campaign Double Standards: Kerry ''Missteps'' Get Lavish Media Attention, While Bush Falsehoods Ignored http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kerry-bush.html Hastert, who avoided military service, lectures veteran and war hero McCain on War, Sacrifice http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_go_co/hastert_mccain_2&printer=1 'They made us break law' : A US army infantryman who grew morally opposed to the war after six months of fierce combat in Iraq was brought before a court martial for desertion yesterday, in a case that has become a talisman for America's peace movement. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1220721,00.html Shocking Details on Abuse of Reuters Staffers in Iraq : "It should be noted that the bulk of their mistreatment -- including their humiliating interrogations and the mental and physical torment of the first night which all agreed was the worst part of their ordeal -- occurred several hours AFTER I had informed the 82nd Airborne Division that they were Reuters staff. I have e-mail proof of this." http://tinyurl.com/2udz4 The women prisoners: The scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was first exposed not by a digital photograph but by a letter. In December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the jail west of Baghdad managed to smuggle out a note. Its contents were so shocking that, at first, Amal Kadham Swadi and the other Iraqi women lawyers who had been trying to gain access to the US jail found them hard to believe. http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,1220673,00.html Amnesty: International Criminal Court: Security Council renewal of unlawful Resolution 1487 providing impunity for peace-keepers would be a further set-back for international justice. : The unlawful attempt by the Security Council to give US citizens permanent impunity from international justice. http://tinyurl.com/34pob In case you missed it?: U.S. Charged With War Crimes: The Evidence File: WARNING: The video and pictures in this report contain images and descriptions, depicting the reality and horror of the U.S. - UK invasion of Iraq http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3450.htm Sidney Blumenthal: The religious warrior of Abu Ghraib: Saving General Boykin seemed like a strange sideshow last October. After it was revealed that the deputy undersecretary of defence for intelligence had been regularly appearing at evangelical revivals preaching that the US was in a holy war as a "Christian nation" battling "Satan", the furore was quickly calmed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6220.htm Poll: US are occupiers, not liberators: Nearly nine out of 10 Iraqis see US forces as occupiers rather than liberators or peacekeepers http://tinyurl.com/3gau8 The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi: Why the US Turned Against Their Former Golden Boy -- He was Preparing a Coup! What He Did as a Catspaw for Tehran: How He Nearly Bankrupted Jordan; the Billions He Stands to Make Out of the New Iraq http://www.counterpunch.com/chalabi05202004.html The diseases of a troubled nation: America's problems are structural. Even if Kerry replaces Bush in January 2005, America will still have one child in six living in poverty; America will still have two million people in jail; America will still have military installations in 50 countries. It's time we looked at the structure behind America's problems. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/20/1084917702632.html STONEWALLING ON BIN LADEN/SAUDI FLIGHTS AFTER 9/11 http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1349796&l=36308 Bush Campaign Spending Hits $126 Million http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=2&u=/ap/20040521/ap_on_el_pr/presidential_money Has the Republican right hijacked politics in the U.S.? David Brock's new book claims conservatives are setting the political agenda by dominating the media. Read an excerpt. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5000518/ Not only was Ahmed Chalabi feeding the U.S. dubious intel on Saddam Hussein, but he may have been passing secrets to Iran http://cbs11tv.com/localnews/topstories_story_141111031.html Portland lawyer held in secret and without charges in Madrid bombing is released - oops wrong fingerprints or something http://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1884127 FBI warns of suicide attacks inside the United States. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/20/fbi.suicide.attacks/ Limbaugh Station WBAP Refuses Ad Using Limbaugh's Own Words; Disney-Owned Dallas Station Rejects Ad http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=158-05202004 FACTORY farms get sweetheart deal on air pollution from EPA Grist Magazine http://www.gristmagazine.com/muck/muck051904.asp Rush Limbaugh and Private England Gary North on the death of Republican politics. FREE SPEECH AND ASSEMBLY ON THE LINE Steven Stycos asks: "Will Americans be able to exercise their fundamental right to protest at the major-party conventions in Boston and New York this summer?" Already, anti-war activists in New York City have been told they cannot hold a rally in Central Park during the Republican convention, and their legal requests for marches have gone unanswered so far. (Boston Phoenix) http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/03849737.asp WHAT THE POLLS REALLY SAY The Gadflyer's "Poll Miner" sifts through the onslaught of recent political polling data to determine just how bad things are for incumbent Bush. Their conclusion: "It's bad. Real bad." But, according to Gadflyer, "many people who are dissatisfied with Bush haven't yet been convinced that Kerry is their guy." (The Gadflyer) http://gadflyer.com/pollminer/?PollMinerID=7 ** DOWD'S BUSH BOOK WELL_TIMED FOR THE ELECTIONS Maureen Dowd, the acerbic, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has timed the release of her latest book -- about favorite targets President Bush - for a pre-election, August release. (Associated Press) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040519/ap_en_ot/publishing_maureen_dowd_2 MILITARY SAT ON, MOST MEDIA MISSED IRAQ ABUSE STORY "Professor News" advises the news media to refrain from self-congratulation on its Abu Ghraib reporting. "Early indications that prisoners were being mistreated were not given the attention they deserved. It was those photographs, first shown on CBS's "60 Minutes II," that put the story at the top of America's news agenda." (The Hartford Courant - reg req'd)) http://www.ctnow.com/entertainment/tv/hc-janensch0520.artmay20,1,1845579.column?coll=hc-headlines-tv Federal Judge Tosses Out Ashcroft Effort to Stifle Greenpeace, Peaceful Protest http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000122.php Fire Rumsfeld: Help launch a hard-hitting TV ad https://www.moveon.org/hooded/ National Park Service employees muzzled on budget shortfalls and other problems When dealing with the press and the public, "Superintendents are now required to refer to budget cuts as 'service-level adjustments,' and they're advised to avoid the topic when possible," http://www.gristmagazine.com/muck/muck051204.asp Library of Alexandria discovered http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3707641.stm Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims and Video Anomalies http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/15/22827/0477 CARLYLE to bid for Dutch Petroplus AltAssets - USA The Carlyle Group is leading a bid to take Dutch oil refiner Petroplus off the stock market. http://www.altassets.com/news/arc/2004/nz4867.php Arab news channel al-Jazeera said on Friday one of its employees was killed overnight in clashes between U.S. forces and militiamen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040521/wl_nm/iraq_jazeera_death_dc Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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Who let bin Ladens leave U.S.?: The Bush administration has refused to answer repeated requests from the Sept. 11 commission about who authorized flights of Saudi Arabian citizens, including members of Osama bin Laden’s family, from the United States immediately after the attacks of 2001. http://www.thehill.com/news/051804/binladen.aspx Video From Abu Ghraib Prison : Images in this video may be disturbing because of their violent or graphic nature. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6223.htm Abu Ghraib abuse upgraded to homicides. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2584475 Halliburton charged us to haul NOTHING back and forth across Iraq. Charging American tax-payers and putting workers lives at risk http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/8726436.htm US apparently duped by Iran, through Chalabi, into attacking Iraq, in "one of the most sophisticated and successful intelligence operations in history." http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/21/iraq.chalabi/index.html Here's our scapegoat Denied Entrance to Bush Event in Dubuque: On May 7, George W. Bush came to Dubuque to speak at the convention center. It was billed as a public event, but it was anything but. Only self-proclaimed Bush supporters could get in. Republican organizers excluded even a World War II vet and the former commander of the local American Legion chapter. http://www.progressive.org/mcwatch04/mc051904.html Molly Ivins: How fascism starts: It's pretty easy to get to the point where you don't want to hear any more about Abu Ghraib prison and what went on there. But there are some really good reasons why Americans should take a look at why this happened. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6227.htm U.S. Congress tries to give itself power to reverse Supreme Court decisions. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.3920:/ Your papers, please? . Prepare to be randomly stopped and ID now in Boston. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/05/22/mbta_set_to_begin_passenger_id_stops/ Patriot Act II is moving through Congress piecemeal in several bills. http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/8730968.htm White House guilty of breaking propaganda law THE Bush administration was guilty of spreading "covert propaganda" through a series of ready-made television "news" packages it sent to broadcasters, a US government watchdog has concluded. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=578732004 freedom and accountability according to Sean Hannity's web forum http://www.oldamericancentury.org/sean_hannity_forum.htm Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth Bush Says U.S. Job Engine 'Running Strong' http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=SZOCLFX0RED2SCRBAEKSFFA?type=politicsNews&storyID=5225781 The US govt will thinks turning away gays from donating sperm will stop diseases from spreading. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040520/hl_afp/us_health_homosexuals_040520172443 “The Libertarians will impact Republicans more than Nader will impact Democrats" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/21/politics/main619019.shtml Bush to lay out Iraq strategy about one year and 800 soldiers too late http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&u=/afp/20040521/pl_afp/iraq_us_vote_bush_040521181205&printer=1 American soldiers demonstrate how to start a holy war. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5222155 "How will it be done?" is heard in the Nicholas Berg decapitation video http://www.aztlan.net/nick_berg_how_done.htm US admits 10 detainees in Afghanistan died of "homicide" while in custody http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3737787.stm by TChris NBC's Tim Russert and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper were subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the White House's disclosure to selected journalists that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA agent http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006592.html Al Jazeera Newsman among 10 killed in Clashes in Iraq: Al Jazeera said on Friday one of its employees was killed overnight in clashes between U.S. forces and militiamen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The Qatar-based news network also demanded the U.S. Army conduct a full and quick investigation into the death of 38-year-old Rashid Hamid Wali. http://tinyurl.com/yr77p Videos Amplify Picture of Violence : The new pictures and videos go beyond the photos previously released to the public in several ways, amplifying the overt violence against detainees and displaying a variety of abusive techniques previously unseen. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6224.htm Photo Gallery: Images obtained by The Washington Post reveal more about treatment of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. http://tinyurl.com/29sl7 Bush: Dumb Like A Bullet: Is Dubya both a bumbling simpleton *and* a shrewd manipulator who smirked at tortures in Iraq? http://tinyurl.com/2z9w6 Scott Ritter: Iraq sarin shell is not part of a secret cache http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0521/p09s01-coop.html Reuters death 'due' to U.S. military flaws: In an extensive report on the death of cameraman Mazen Dana, Reuters said the tragedy was preventable and rejected the findings of a U.S. Army investigation that the shooting was justified. http://tinyurl.com/2bubd GI: Boy mistreated to get dad to talk: A military intelligence analyst who recently completed duty at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq said Wednesday that the 16-year-old son of a detainee there was abused by U.S. soldiers to break his father's resistance to interrogators. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6222.htm George W. Bush and his millionaire supporters don't know the meaning of the word shame: If, say, the Chinese came in to rescue us--Operation American Freedom--how long would any of us, left-wing or right, put up with an occupying army teaching us Chinese-style democracy? http://www.indyweek.com/durham/current/news.html More U.S. troops will likely be required in Iraq after handover : For months, U.S. officials have warned that the insurgency in Iraq would grow deadliest as the June 30 political transition drew near. Now, they're warning the violence might get even worse once the handover is completed. http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2004/05/20/news/news07.txt The Half-Assed Fascists http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/05/21_fascists.html U.S. RADIO'S HATE RHETORIC SOUNDS A TROUBLING ECHO For observers familiar with the rhetoric that dominated Balkan and Rwandan airwaves during the hate and war crimes in those two regions, the strident, accusatory language of America's radio show hosts sounds a troubling echo. (MediaChannel.org) http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert202.shtml BLAME THE MESSENGER Blogger Matthew Yglesias points to conservative media efforts to discredit Seymour Hersh, the New Yorker reporter who is largely credited with bringing the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal to light: "At this point, though, reports to this effect have surfaced in so many outlets besides The New Yorker that Hersh's credibility isn't what's at issue here, unless every other magazine and newspaper in the country is also staffed entirely by writers who just make things up." (The American Prospect) http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2004/05/index.html#003022 DON'T TORTURE ENGLISH TO SOFT-PEDAL ABUSE American press has been circumspect about using the word torture to describe U.S. soldiers treatment of Iraqi prisoners, sticking with vaguer terms such as "abuse" and "mistreatment." In that, they may have been taking a cue from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Asked about torture in the prison, he said, "What has been charged so far is abuse, which is different from torture. I'm not going to address the 'torture' word." (New York Newsday) http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpnun203809742may20,0,4554136.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines CLOSE SCRUTINY PUTS MEDIA CHIEFS IN HOT SEAT It's not easy being a media mogul these days. The chiefs of Disney, Time Warner and Viacom all find themselves on the hot seat this week, as shareholder activists and institutional shareholders question their strategies and demand information on succession. (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2004-05-20-moguls_x.htm US says no evidence of wedding found at Iraq bombing site http://us.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/22/iraq.main/index.html dead musicians and children must have been overlooked Bush firm on June 30 handover deadline which is easy to do when you aren't really handing anything over http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120121661.html Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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URL: http://gettysburg.hostforweb.net/pipermail/poacnewsletter_oldamericancentury.org/attachments/20040522/54c2bfa6/attachment.htm From Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org Sun May 23 15:47:52 2004 From: Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org (Poacnewsletter@oldamericancentury.org) Date: Sun May 23 15:47:56 2004 Subject: [POAC newsletter] 5-23-04 daily newsletter program related activity Message-ID: <410-220045023194752510@earthlink.net> OKay, let me get this straight... The UN inspectors said that Iraq was no threat to us. The CIA said Iraq was no threat to us. Iraq's neighbors said that Iraq was no threat. US military commanders said Iraq was no threat. But Bush and his PNAC handlers based their decision to go to war on Iraq solely on the information provided by Ahmed Chalabi. Who now is found to be a spy for Iran? Iran being a part of Bush's "Axis of evil"? http://www.opednews.com/kall052204_bush_suckered_by_Iran.htm THE Rise and Fall of Chalabi: Bushs Mr. Wrong Newsweek http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5042327/ Hollings Sponsors Bill to Reinstate Military Draft The Hollings legislation is the Senate companion to a bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). http://hollings.senate.gov/~hollings/press/2003108C06.html 2,000 of 6,000 pages missing from prison abuse report http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040531-641078,00.html Resolved, That Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate: (Introduced in House) HRES 629 IH http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.RES.629: Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed Up' Accusing top Pentagon officials of "dereliction of duty," retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni says staying the course in Iraq isn't a reasonable option. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/21/60minutes/main618896.shtml GOP Senator rips Bush a new one; criticizes him on Iraq and terrorism http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040523/ap_on_go_co/iraq_lugar&cid=512&ncid=716 Top US military general was present during some prisoner abuse http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120683,00.html "Iraqis lose right to sue troops over war crimes" - how can they lose something they never had? http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1222998,00.html Iran said Sunday it had sent a formal message of warning to the United States about its actions in neighboring Iraq. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ET0VLC5UXNKTUCRBAEKSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=5227031 If you don't have a tinfoil hat, you may want to get one http://letsroll911.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=887 Republican attempting to oust Tom Daschle illegally lobbied Congress last year http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/05/20/ex_congressmans_filing_suggests_he_broke_lobby_law/ Feds subpeona Tim Russert and Matthew Cooper in CIA link, because calling in Bob Novak would actually net results http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/22/journalists.subpoena/index.html 2 out of 3 Texans disapprove of Bush's handling of Iraq http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2586049 Soldier lays down his freedom for another noble cause, is jailed for desertion http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/052104/2178275.shtml Bush hits the ground like the economy http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3739515.stm The Covert Kingdom Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Texas http://dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Bageant0518.htm PENTAGON suspends more payments to Halliburton Bizjournals.com http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2004/05/17/daily20.html ExxonMobil Breaks Ground on New Baytown Refinery Coker Project http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Newsroom/Newsreleases/Corp_xom_nr_290200_2.asp Yosef Lapid says picture of woman in rubble of Rafah refugee camp reminded him of his grandmother's wartime suffering. Yosef Lapid is Jewish, a Holocaust survivor, and he's Israel's Justice Minister http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3740649.stm Nuclear weapons lab loses hard disks, again http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63553,00.html Bush doesn’t play fair; His tactics are not consistent with democracy. by Paul Willett A crackdown on government opponents is under way in Uzbekistan. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/5/9E2EF727-ABDB-4C68-89A4-4B3217181081.html CONCERN over Iraq detainees Lincolnshire Echo - Lincoln,England,UK ... The ICRC also had concerns over conditions in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta, where around 600 suspects have been detained without charge for up to two years, as ... http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=116154&command=displayContent&sourceNode=116153&contentPK=10012781 ANOTHER deal expected in Enron prosecution Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2579382 USA: Amnesty International calls for a commission of inquiry into 'war on terror' detentions http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510872004 Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song. "Here’s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge… It’s a new song, it’s dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars." http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/ The low-ranking U.S. soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib have lined up almost uniformly behind a single defense strategy, one that military law experts say typically is no defense at all. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.defense19may19,0,7020340.story?coll=bal-home-headlines Black Box Backlash Bev Harris of Renton created a firestorm with her national Internet campaign against electronic voting. Now she's trying to persuade people in the real world that their democracy is on the line. http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0410/040310_news_blackbox.php GREENPEACE Fights Landmark Prosecution The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... Greenpeace supporters around the world have sent nearly 70,000 letters of protest to the White House and the US attorney general John Ashcroft http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2945388 To: Republican Minority Leader Dick Day From: A former Republican Re: Your statement about schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul Did you actually say what I heard you say? On the Senate floor? In session? Do you really believe the schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul "suck"? http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4789395.html FORMER Guantánamo chief clashed with army interrogators Guardian The commander of Guantánamo Bay, sacked amid charges from the Pentagon that he was too soft on detainees, said he faced constant tension from military ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1219887,00.html HICKS 'tied up and beaten' The Australian - Australia ... Then the beating started, according to a Taliban supporter who was Hicks's cellmate in Afghanistan and in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9610612%255E601,00.html SHOCKING Details on Abuse of Reuters Staffers in Iraq Editor & Publisher (subscription) - USA ... and another Iraqi journalist working for NBC News, were seized for no reason in early January by the US military and taken to a prison near Fallujah http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000513625 EPA mercury proposal moves nation in the wrong direction Pioneer Press http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/8726197.htm County rethinks electronic voting http://www.dailyrepublic.com/articles/2004/05/23/news/news5.txt Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. 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Video released showing before and after events of bombed wedding in Iraq http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3741223.stm Bush to Spell Out Iraq Plan, Major Fighting Flares http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040524/ts_nm/iraq_dc Here's our holy war: One fighter, a 23-year-old driver, said: "My mother praises me for fighting the Americans. If we are killed, our wives and mothers will rejoice that we died defending the freedom of our country. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/24/wirq124.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/24/ixnewstop.html Iraqi Doctor beaten to death while in US custody http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1223358,00.html Ordinary Iraqis killed: 11,500 and not counting: America and Britain have not only declined to count the number of civilians killed, but have obstructed any attempts to discover the total. The Iraqi Health Ministry tried to collect data on deaths several months ago, but was ordered to stop. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=523991 Morgue records show 5,500 Iraqis killed More than 5,500 Iraqis died violently in just Baghdad and three provinces in the first 12 months of the occupation http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040524/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violent_deaths Bush Outsources his Campaign Operations, Plays Up Patriotism at Home **he Bush Administration has taken its strong support for outsourcing even further than once thought, opting to move its key political operations offshore. Specifically, the Hindustan Times of India reports that over a 14 month period in 2002 and 2003 when the Republican Party was playing up patriotism, the fund-raising and vote-seeking campaign for the Republican Party was done, in part, by two call centers located in India. http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0521-05.htm Skipped autopsies in Iraq revealed: Autopsies were not performed on at least five Iraqi prisoners who died of mysterious causes at Abu Ghraib prison and other detention camps, according to Pentagon records. And the lack of forensic investigations may conflict with international standards, including the Geneva Conventions, for the handling of war-detainee deaths. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~6439~2162097,00.html Double Standards? A Justice Department memo proposes that the United States hold others accountable for international laws on detainees—but that Washington did not have to follow them itself http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5032094/site/newsweek/ NASA can't find $565 billion http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/16/nasa.finances.reut/index.html UK seeks troops' continued immunity from Iraqi law http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=589532004 RUMSFIELD SOLVES THE TORTURE PROBLEM... it turns out IT WAS THE CAMERAS THAT DID IT!!! "you notice that since we have banned the cameras there are a lot less pictures of torture" http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040523/tc_afp/iraq_britain_us_rumsfeld_040523111731 Noam Chomsky Interview: If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. Video and transcript http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6235.htm When War is Swell: Bush's Crusades and the Carlyle Group: Amid the wreckage, there remain opportunities for profit and plunder. Halliburton and Bechtel's triumphs in Iraq have been chewed over for months. Less well chronicled is the profiteering of the Carlyle Group, a company with ties that extend directly into the Oval Office itself. http://www.counterpunch.com/stclair05222004.html In case you missed it: Exposed: The Carlyle Group: A Must Watch Documentary. I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government and the first family. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm Truckers say the Pentagon is paying a Halliburton subsidiary to drive empty trucks across Iraq hundreds of times for no reason http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/8726436.htm Marines admit abuse at second prison : While world attention was focused on the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, two Marines were court-martialed May 14 for abusing an Iraqi prisoner with electricity, it was disclosed yesterday. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040522-9999-1n22marines1.html Prisoner was beaten and left to die: A military investigator has concluded that low-ranking Marines repeatedly struck two defenseless Iraqis at a makeshift prison camp last June, and one of the detainees died after he was left disabled and naked under a scorching sun. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/marines-death.html 'Spray and slay': are American troops out of control in Iraq?: 'The Independent on Sunday' has uncovered proof of US troops deliberately and indiscriminately shooting civilians. Here we examine new evidence that suggests the lawlessness in the American military was never confined to the prison camps and torture rooms but extended to the streets and homes of Iraq http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6237.htm The Marine's tale: 'We killed 30 civilians in six weeks. I felt we were committing genocide': During 12 years in the US Marines, including three years putting new recruits through boot camp, Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey hardly questioned his role. But what he saw in Iraq changed that. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6239.htm Saudis agree to pump up the volume dance dance http://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/05/23/opec/index.html UK: Bush is a war criminal, Livingstone tells rally: Ken Livingstone yesterday demanded that President Bush be prosecuted for war crimes over Iraq in an outburst bound to embarrass Tony Blair. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/elections2004/story/0,14549,1222834,00.html Bill Clinton said yesterday that the UN, not America, should be taking Iraq towards democracy, and that George Bush erred in forcing out UN weapons inspectors and going to war without UN support. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=524022 In Iraq, the Job Opportunity of a Lifetime: No Experience Required. Managing a $13 Billion Budget With No Experience: Six of the new young hires found themselves managing the country's $13 billion budget, making decisions affecting millions of Iraqis. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48543-2004May22?language=printer Where Did Chalabi Get His Secrets? http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006617.html Nuclear Experiment Planned in Nevada Government scientists plan to conduct an underground nuclear experiment http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?photoid=20040511VGX807&idq=/ff/story/0001/20040524/1231586459.htm&sc=1501 Here comes the fundies Politics and religion are co-mingling on a massive scale this year, setting up what increasingly looks like a November referendum on changing American morality. http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0405/23/a01-160992.htm Bush's ratings at an all time low. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/24/opinion/polls/main619122.shtml Fox"news" fans still thinking everything is peachy FIRE THE WAR PIMPS http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/ucru/20040520/cm_ucru/firethewarpimps Historic filmmaker Ken Burns denounces war in Iraq while giving speech at Yale festivities which include Bush's daughter's graduation http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20040524/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_daughter DID THE WASHINGTON POST CREATE AHMED CHALABI? When Iraqi and US agents sift through documents and computer files from Thursday's raid of Ahmed Chalabi's home and Iraqi National Congress office in Baghdad, it's likely that they will find plenty of communications with The Washington Post and New York Times. (The Washingtonian) http://www.washingtonian.com/inwashington/buzz/052104.html REUTERS REVEALS DETAILS OF ABUSE Reuters has released details of the full extent of the brutal treatment it claims was meted out to three of its journalists by US soldiers in Iraq. The news agency made available a transcript of interviews it had conducted with three of its employees who accused US forces of subjecting them to prolonged beatings and degrading sexual abuse, after the Pentagon rejected claims it had failed to conduct an adequate investigation in the incident and declared the case "closed". (The Guardian) http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,1223409,00.html BLOGGER TO BAGHDAD Christopher Allbritton, the blogger who reported the invasion of Iraq unembedded and with the support of online donations, is back in Baghdad again. "We're heading into a weirder, crazier chapter, and maybe a smaller operation like myself will be more nimble, and can get stories the bigger guys can't," said Allbritton. (New York Metro) http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/9194/ AIR AMERICA CALLS FOR ITS CASH LIFELINE Air America, the progressive talk network, says it has a new infusion of cash from a group that includes Sheldon Drobney, the Chicago entrepreneur who first conceived the idea of a new radio network to counter the conservatives. (The New York Daily News) http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/196256p-169526c.html Bush Officials Weaken Organic Food Standards: Public Shut Out http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000123.php Hank Asher information: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/003333.html Asher has donated more than $735,000 to political parties and candidates in the past five years, including $505,000 to Democrats. http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030803/northwest/67537_ARC.shtml really good information http://www.subliminalnews.com/archives/000079.php Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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Chalabi gets what comes to any non-Saudi who does business with the Bush family http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1224075,00.html Fascism "can't happen here": Americans labor under the delusion that fascism "can't happen here" because of the nation's history as an open, democratic society. http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_05_16_dneiwert_archive.html#108529693168032263 Revisited - The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War With Iraq: Although completely unreported by the U.S. media and government, the answer to the Iraq enigma is simple yet shocking -- it is in large part an oil currency war. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html Iraqis fail to regain control of oil revenue: The latest Iraqi attempts to recover control of the country's oil revenues from the United States appear to have hit a dead end with a special delegation being rebuffed in its bid to secure UN help. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9E21D088-7317-45DF-BE62-7CE8BEB830B1.htm Senior Iraqi Politician Assassinated in Kirkuk: A senior politician representing Iraq's minority Turkmen population was assassinated by gunmen late on Monday as he left his office in the tense Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5245412 Iraq: No ‘Sovereignty Lite’: "There is no such thing as ‘sovereignty lite.’ If the new Iraqi government doesn’t have ultimate authority and responsibility for the security of the Iraqi people, then it is not truly sovereign." http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/24/iraq8613.htm Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq: Ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey talks about his time in Iraq where he admitted the U.S. treatment of Iraqi civilians is fueling the Iraqi resistance. In a recent interview he said "I felt like we were committing genocide in Iraq." Audio and transcript http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/24/148212 JEB Bush - - BFEE Kingmaker & Big-Time Crook http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1647117 http://youwillanyway.blogspot.com/ Soldier claims he was beaten as part of training at Guantanamo: A former military police officer said in a television interview broadcast Monday that he was severely beaten while posing as a detainee during a January 2003 training exercise at Guantanamo Bay. http://cbs11tv.com/national/Soldier-Guantanamo-aa/resources_news_html Al-Qaeda "has been galvanised by the war in Iraq" and "has fully reconstituted itself after the loss of its base in Afghanistan" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3746205.stm Exit Chalabi: The diplomatic art of dumping friends : The fall from grace of Ahmad Chalabi, is being described as an error of judgment belatedly corrected. But this is not an isolated incident of the United States making a mistake in its choice of overseas friend, nor of deserting him. http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=521681.html FBI held Oregon lawyer without charges because of mistaken fingerprints and "spanish documents" found in his home. They were his son's spanish homework http://www.nylawyer.com/news/04/05/052504n.html Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Haiti. It IS standard operating procedure http://www.blackcommentator.com/90/90_cover_haiti.html The troops covered the heads of 11 Haitians with black hoods and then forced them to lay face down on the ground while binding their wrists with plastic manacles behind their backs. The victims of this terrifying U.S. military invasion included five-year-old Chamyr Samedi, 10-year-old Kerlande Philippe, 12-year-old Loubahida Augustine, 14-year-old Luckman Augustine, and seven adults. Ms. Auguste is being held incommunicado at a U.S. military-controlled “special section” of the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. Spreading democracy around the world indeed. And if this administration will OK this kind of thing abroad, how long until they bring it home? Our Darkest Days Are Here http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/20/60minutes/rooney/main618783.shtml Audio of Bill Clinton's speech in Lawrence, KS on Friday, I'd like to see Bush try speaking like this http://kpr.ku.edu/dole_clinton.shtml Marines used electric shocks to torture prisoners at another prison in Iraq http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040522-9999-1n22marines1.html Dubya raised $10 million using outsourced call centers in India. http://www.southasianmedia.net/cnn.cfm?id=111628&category=Science&Technology&Country=INDIA Iraqis don't like Bush's plan for transferring power. The U.S.-British blueprint for Iraq now before the U.N. Security Council was met Tuesday with concerns from other governments and even the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, whose chairman said the proposal fell short by not granting greater control over Iraq's own security forces. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5046836/site/3000001/ Bush's speech - Blatent Lies - Some simple math http://tvnewslies.org/html/blatant_lies.html Two rehearsals for his prime-time speech were not enough to keep George Bush from mangling the name of the prison outside Baghdad that has brought shame to the US mission in Iraq. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/25/1085461759881.html “Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2 The Bush administration is muzzling national park superintendents by ordering them not to stray in public comments from a list of rosy stances on budget matters, an advocacy group says http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=15&u=/ap/20040524/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/park_service_media_2 Bush vows to occupy Iraq until it is free. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040525/D82PDIFO0.html Bush plans on turning power over to Iraqis by sending more troops http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=1&u=/ap/20040525/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq After couple of months on the job, Bank of Ameria exec getting $25 million severance as he resigns to pursue 'other interests' http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/industries/8752344.htm?1c Prison Torture Scam Is Tipping Point In The Anglo- American Occupation Of Iraq: The dramatic collapse of the Bush Administration’s moral authority, as illustrated by the hideous treatment of the Iraqi detainees, coincided with the failure of its military machine to impose its will on the Sunni city of Falluja, or to capture or kill al Sadr. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/aarticle6244.htm New Report Finds Unprecedented Special Interest Access Under Bush http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000125.php BUSH AD 'DOUBLESPEAK' LEAVES OUT SOME CONTEXT A Bush ad that's been running heavily quotes various newspapers as saying Kerry engaged in "doublespeak" on Iraq, advocates tax increases that would "kill the recovery" and "waffled" on education reforms. Not mentioned is that those quoted statements were made in editorials -- not news reports. In other words they are opinions, not facts. (Factcheck.org) http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=186 POWELL PIMPED SCUDS, WOODWARD SPUN THEM The Daily Howler continues its "look back" series on how the press corps conducted itself in the months before the War in Iraq. (The Daily Howler) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh052404.shtml 'RETHINKING' THE NEWS WEEKLY Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker on why newsweeklies are needed now more than ever, what's really going on in Iraq, and how his magazine plans to exploit the cracks in the Bush Administration's media strategy. (MediaBistro) http://mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1648.asp JOURNALIST'S DETENTION TESTS MUSHARRAF'S FAITH IN DEMOCRACY Pakistan is moving toward greater democracy -- a trend that President Musharraf says he will cement by stepping down from his post as chief of the military by the end of this year. But try telling that to Sami Yousifzai, the latest journalist to fall afoul of Musharraf's government and who has been locked in legal limbo for more than a month. (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/25/MNGIV6R5C21.DTL America's brutal culture of unseen oppression: The maltreatment of Iraqi detainees and Muslim "terrorists" dehumanises not just those who man the cages and take the callous photos, but also the society in whose name the cages were built and the guards recruited. The moral values of governments bear directly on the reputations of all citizens. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6249.htm Her Son Was Told by the Recruiter He Wouldn't See Combat; Now He's Dead: Seth, who had no training with explosives, was assigned to find enemy remote-controlled bombs. He would then call in experts to deactivate them. http://www.counterpunch.org/weill05222004.html Afghanistan, the war the world forgot: Three years after the overthrow of the Taliban and George Bush's declaration of victory in the first conflict in the war on terror, Afghanistan is a nation on the edge of anarchy. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=524675 On a day when bodies of children were being stuffed into a big refrigerator used to store potatoes, and when thousands of homeless people were fleeing for their lives, life in Israel went on as usual, as though what was happening in Rafah was not being done in the name of the country's citizens. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/430575.html Of Rats and Men: For some time, right-wing commentators have been watching troubled waters slop over the gunwale of our foundering ship of state. They are finally deserting. Their collective retreat to safety and sanity began like all nervous stampedes: just a few scurrying tails, rapidly swelling to a me-too swarm. http://hnn.us/articles/5287.html UN troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp: Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their suffering http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=524674 BUSH IGNORES SICK 9/11 FIREFIGHTERS & COPS http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1349796&l=37089 Bush Ad Falsely Implies Kerry Would Repeal Wiretaps of Terrorists http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=187 Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry launched his new campaign plane Tuesday and poked fun at himself, joking that “in the event of an emergency, my hair can be used as a flotation device.” http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5059360/ The only thing worse than committing war crimes is a sneaky, underhanded effort to cover them up: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/politics/21MEMO.html A series of Justice Department memorandums written in late 2001 and the first few months of 2002 were crucial in building a legal framework for United States officials to avoid complying with international laws and treaties on handling prisoners, lawyers and former officials say. BUSH must disclose interrogation procedures Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA ... But the Bush administration has classified the procedures it has approved for the Guantanamo Bay prison, Afghanistan and Iraq http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/8754572.htm Al Quaeda is prospering thanks largely to the war in Iraq, according to the ISS. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=6&u=/ap/20040526/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida A Review of "The New Pearl Harbor" http://www.counterpunch.org/estrin05252004.html jut as Hitler followed the road map he laid down in Mein Kampf, Bush is following the road plan laid out in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). ... http://www.cmaq.net/fr/node.php?id=16912 BUSH Sr.'s Iraq-Iran Secrets Consortium News http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/052504.html Abu Ghraib destruction dismissed >From correspondents in Baghdad IRAQI officials today dismissed a plan by US President George W Bush to demolish the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and said those running it should be made more accountable. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9666737%255E1702,00.html Warning about a summer terrorist attack based on old information http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040526/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_threat&cid=542&ncid=716 The US-led "war on terror" is behind a surge of human rights abuses around the world, according to a report by Amnesty International. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3749363.stm Sarin nerve gas in Iraqi artillery shell confirmed. The shell was 20 years old and the people who used it may not have known that it was packing sarin. No comment if it still had the american price tag on it http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040525/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_sarin_2 Hit the Campaign Trail Turn Dubya into political roadkill this year with a swing-state road trip. http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0421/040526_sg_campaigntrail.php FORMER MP says he was beaten at Guantanamo Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA ... A former military police officer said Monday that he was severely beaten while posing as a detainee during a January 2003 training exercise at Guantanamo Bay. ... http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8750926.htm The UN's top 10 stories the world should hear about http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/ Magical History Tour Bush can't learn from the past if he can't see it http://slate.msn.com/id/2101011/ Anne Coulter If You Can't Say Something Nice... http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/05/25_nice.html Views Of the War / Situation in Iraq http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Polls/iraqi_emotions_poll_040525.html Bush and his father amass more than 790 presidential vacation days in fewer than two terms. http://www.counterbias.com/017.html SAN FRANCISCO Enough evidence for trial of CIA drugging http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/25/BAGMH6R8OU1.DTL More on the Bush-nazi connection http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0421/indiana.php and apparently those family ties stayed until 1951 http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2 U.S. Seeks to Rid World of 'Dirty Bombs' and other boogie men http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&e=3&u=/ap/20040526/ap_on_re_eu/dirty_bombs New Report Finds Unprecedented Special Interest Access Under Bush http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000125.php BUILDING THE COUNTERMOVEMENT Laurie Spivak, AlterNet The majority of Americans are more closely aligned with Democrats than they are with Republicans. Yet today, twice as many Americans identify themselves as conservatives than as progressives. One of the big problems? Marketing. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18786 UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU ANYWAY Dan Frosch, AlterNet Did the Justice Department intentionally contract the roughest, toughest prison officials -- regardless of their histories -- to reform Iraqi jails? http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18778 ABU Ghraib unit also probed for deaths in Afghanistan Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA An Army intelligence unit based at Fort Bragg participated in interrogations at a detention center in Afghanistan where two prisoners died http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040525/APN/405250712&cachetime=5 If everyone who got this newsletter pledged 5 bucks a month, I'd be 1/2 way to being able to do this full-time and bring back the categorized archives and special reports/research http://www.oldamericancentury.org/support.htm expect a rigged electionin FLA again A federal judge Monday threw out a Democratic congressman's lawsuit demanding that Florida's new touchscreen voting machines issue a paper receipt. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/05/24/fl.voting.machines.ap/ MOORE Film Provokes Disney Boycott WBEX am 1490 http://www.wbex.com/script/headline_newsmanager.php?id=297161&pagecontent=entertainment&feed_id=44 anotheer misleading Bush ad http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/25/politics1419EDT0595.DTL COURT bars meeting at Guantanamo Oakland Tribune - Oakland,CA,USA ... Lawyer Stephen Yagman had said he wanted to make sure Falen Gherebi, a Libyan captured in Afghanistan, was not abused at Guantanamo Bay. ... http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2170365,00.html Venezuela security forces will train civilians to gather intelligence on potentially subversive activities in their communities - part of President Hugo Chavez's plan to involve citizens in defending the nation, the defence minister said. http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0700world/tm_objectid=14273134&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=civilian-spies-name_page.html The Carlyle Group says it will sell Horizon Lines to Castle Harlan for 650 (m) million dollars, more than double the amount it paid for the shipping company in February of last year. http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=2222 US arrests popular Haitian singer New York Newsday http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/brooklyn/nyc-haiti0525,0,3640267.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-brooklyn Tom Clancy new book criticises Iraq war http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/25/1085461759852.html almost had to kick Richard Perle's ass ZINNI: US Viewed As "Modern Crusader" Islam Online http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-05/25/article05.shtml republicans bloggers are losing it. calling for the murder of demonstrators http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001904.html Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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URL: http://gettysburg.hostforweb.net/pipermail/poacnewsletter_oldamericancentury.org/attachments/20040526/530d2588/attachment.htm From Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org Thu May 27 11:04:24 2004 From: Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org (Poacnewsletter@oldamericancentury.org) Date: Thu May 27 11:04:33 2004 Subject: [POAC newsletter] 5-27-04 daily newsletter program related activity Message-ID: <410-22004542715424610@earthlink.net> todays newsletter follows this message: well-written reminder for all of us from Sec State Colin Powell on Memorial Day, May 2004: Every Memorial Day, my sister, Marilyn, and I would put on our Sunday best and accompany our parents to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx to visit the graves of family members. Like all kids, my sister and I were happy to have the day off from school, and I can't say we were in a solemn frame of mind. But taking part in that annual rite of remembrance gave me my first sense of the importance of honoring those who have gone before. I grew up and chose a soldier's life. I lost close friends in war. Later, I commanded young men and women who went willingly into harm's way for our country, some never to return. A day doesn't pass that I don't think of them. Paying homage to the fallen holds a deeply personal meaning for me and for anyone who ever wore a uniform. In 1990, when I was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I took my Soviet counterpart, Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev, around the United States. I wanted to give him a better understanding of what America is all about. We started in Washington, D.C. I especially wanted to take him to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. But I didn't take him there directly. First, I took him to the Jefferson Memorial. I pointed out a passage from the Declaration of Independence carved into its curved wall. All who have served in our armed forces share its sentiment. "And for the support of this Declaration," Jefferson wrote, "... we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour." Then I asked the general to look up. Above the statue of Jefferson, in 2-foot-high letters on the base of the monument's dome, is this inscription: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Here, I said, you see the foundation of America, a nation where "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." I told the general that like Washington, Jefferson and all our Founding Fathers, Americans of every generation are ready to fight and die for those unalienable rights. Then, to show Gen. Moiseyev the kind of sacrifices Americans are willing to make, I took him to the Lincoln Memorial, where Lincoln's words at Gettysburg are engraved. There, Lincoln said we had fought the bloodiest war in our history so our nation "shall have a new birth of freedom" and so "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." I wanted Gen. Moiseyev to see how sacred those words are to Americans. I showed the general the final lines of Lincoln's second inaugural address: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan..." I then walked the general part of the way down the Lincoln Memorial's steps to the place from which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. I explained that the unfinished work of which Lincoln spoke was still unfinished a century later, so from the very spot on which we stood, King challenged his fellow Americans to make the promise of our Founding Fathers come true for all Americans. Only now was I ready to take Gen. Moiseyev to the Vietnam memorial. We walked the short distance from the Lincoln Memorial to the Wall. I showed the general how to find someone's name on it. I looked up Maj. Tony Mavroudis. Tony and I had grown up together on the streets of New York. We went to college together. We became infantrymen together. And in 1967, on his second tour of duty in Vietnam, Tony was killed. The memorial book directed us to Panel 28 East, and there we found ANTONIO M MAVROUDIS carved into the black granite. It was an emotional moment for me, and not just for me. Gen. Moiseyev reached out gently and touched the Wall. The infantryman in him understood. Thankfully, our forces no longer face the prospect of war with the Soviet Union. Today, we are cooperating with Russia's evolving democracy and with other former foes against 21st-century dangers common to us all. Today's deadly threats come from rogue powers and stateless networks of extremists who have nothing but contempt for the sanctity of human life and for the principles civilized nations hold dear. I do not know or care what terrorists and tyrants make of our monuments to democracy and the memorials we dedicate to our dead. What's important is what the monuments and memorials say to us. They can teach us much about the ideas that unite us in our diversity, the values that sustain us in times of trial, and the dream that inspires generation after generation of ordinary Americans to perform extraordinary acts of service. In short, our monuments and memorials tell us a great deal about America's commitment to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. The haunting symbolism of the 168 empty chairs at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the heartbreaking piles of shoes in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the carefully tended headstones bearing crosses, crescents and Stars of David standing row-on-row in Arlington and our other national cemeteries - all speak to the value we place on human life. The Vietnam Women's Memorial of the three servicewomen and the wounded GI; the Korean War Veterans Memorial's haggard, windblown patrol trudging up the rugged terrain; and the memorial of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima do not glorify war - they testify to the glory of the human spirit. The Civil War battlefields and the monument in Boston to Robert Gould Shaw and his 54th Massachusetts Regiment of Negro soldiers who rode together into the jaws of death for the cause of justice tell us of the price past generations have paid so we might live in a more perfect union. They remind us also of the work our generation must do. This Memorial Day weekend, we will join in celebrating the opening of the National World War II Memorial honoring the great generation of Americans who saved the world from fascist aggression and secured the blessings of liberty for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Today, their descendants are fighting the global war against terrorism, serving and sacrificing in Afghanistan and Iraq and at other outposts on the front lines of freedom. The life of each and every one of them is precious to their loved ones and to our nation. And each life given in the name of liberty is a life that has not been lost in vain. In time, lasting memorials will stand where the Twin Towers once etched New York City's skyline, near the west side of the Pentagon, and in the Pennsylvania field where doomed heroes died on Sept. 11, 2001, using their last moments to save the lives of others and most probably the Capitol or the White House - symbols of our living democracy. All of us lead busy lives. We have little time to pause and reflect. But I ask of you: Do not hasten through Memorial Day. Take the time to remember the good souls whose memories are a blessing to you and your family. Take your children to our memorial parks and monuments. Teach them the values that lend meaning to our lives and to the life of our nation. Above all, take the time to honor our fellow Americans who have given their last full measure of devotion to our country, and for the freedoms we cherish. misleading headline of the year and a study in taking statements out of context: Clarke claims responsibility Ex-counterterrorism czar approved post-9-11 flights for bin Laden family “The request came to me, and I refused to approve it,” Clarke testified. “I suggested that it be routed to the FBI and that the FBI look at the names of the individuals who were going to be on the passenger manifest and that they approve it or not. I spoke with the — at the time — No. 2 person in the FBI, Dale Watson, and asked him to deal with this issue. The FBI then approved … the flight.” “I just don’t think that the questions are resolved, and we need to dig deeper,” Roemer added. “Clarke sure didn’t seem to say that he was the final decisionmaker. I believe we need to continue to look for some more answers.” http://www.thehill.com/news/052604/clarke.aspx Bush to cut funding in 2006 for domestic programs including education and homeland security http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5070943/ Moqtada al-Sadr offers truce, pulls militia from strongholds in Najaf http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5274173 U.S. Command Silent New York Times: we were wrong on Iraq : The New York Times today issued an extraordinary mea culpa over its coverage of Iraq, admitting it had been misled about the presence of weapons of mass destruction by sources including the controversial Iraqi leader Ahmad Chalabi. http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1225090,00.html?=ticker Details of a Florida drug case may well shed light on the claims of an FBI translator who says the agency covered up evidence warning of the 9-11 attack. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0421/mondo1.php Treasury Secretary John Snow's portfolio has $10.87 million dollar investment error http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SNOW_MISTAKE?SITE=NNCO&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT more on Snow http://www.oldamericancentury.org/cronyism.htm U.S. dismisses report on human-rights abuses http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040527/WORLD27-1/TPInternational/Americas Not happy making only Middle-Eastern Muslims angry, United States calls for extradition of British Cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri arrested in UK for extradition to US Mr Abu Hamza, who preaches outside the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, is wanted for questioning in the US in connection with terrorism allegations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3752257.stm New Zogby poll shows Kerry would beat Bush by 102 electoral votes Kerry surges ahead in 12 crucial swing states as Bush poll ratings plummet http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=525272 Americans kidnapping iraqis Iraqi woman says U.S. imprisoned her husband - and said he'd go free when her father surrenders http://tinyurl.com/2by3z WMDs found, had been released on native population. Govt denies wrongdoing http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040527/ap_on_go_ot/chemical_weapons_fine_1 Transcript of speech made by Al Gore. must read http://209.66.102.10/goreremarks052604.html/ George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. President Bush ``has exposed Americans abroad and Americans in every town and city to a greater danger of attacks by terrorists because of his arrogance, willfulness and bungling at stirring up hornets' nests that pose no threat whatsoever to us.'' Kerry to Accept Nomination at Convention http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040526/D82QINBG0.html John Ashcroft’s warning was just another bunch of smoke from the ministry of fear designed to cover their back in case anything happens http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5266532 effectively manages to keep Al Gore's (legitimate president) public condemnation out of the headlines War to stop WMD from getting into terroists' hands may have caused WMD to get in terroists' hands http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/26/iraq.duelfer/ Bush's Uncle busted for money laundering http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=14&u=/ap/riggs_bank_fined Outrageous Bush Executive Order on Iraq Oil Must Be Investigated http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/7-31-03/discussion.cgi.29.html here's the order in pdf format http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/pdf/03-13412.pdf Radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger encourages high school students to watch the Berg beheading in its entirety to "better understand the war" http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0526/p02s01-usgn.html New Transcripts Point to U.S. Role in Chile Coup http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=10&u=/nm/chile_kissinger_dc Little gleaned from Iraqi prison interrogations http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/175181_abuse27.html Robert Fisk: Follow torture trail at Abu Ghraib: The re-writing of Iraqi history is now going on at supersonic speed http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6251.htm US general overseeing prisons says she was 'set up,' suspended: Karpinski said she was notified in an e-mail yesterday that she was being suspended from duty, but has not yet been given a formal explanation. http://tinyurl.com/2uq8h Army kept whistle-blower in locked psychiatric ward : The Army kept a soldier whistle-blower in a locked psychiatric ward at its top medical center for nearly two weeks despite concern from some medical staff that he be released, according to medical records. The Army then charged him nearly $6,000 for the stay at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, billing records show. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040525-111343-1697r Al-Qaeda has more than 18,000 potential terrorist around the world, think tank warns : Far from being crippled by the U.S.-led war on terror, al-Qaeda has more than 18,000 potential terrorists scattered around the world and the war in Iraq is swelling its ranks, a report said Tuesday. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20040525-1410-al-qaida.html Occupation made world less safe, pro-war institute says: The US and British occupation of Iraq has accelerated recruitment to the ranks of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and made the world a less safe place, according to a leading London-based think-tank. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=524939 Mehdi Army Grows as Tempers Rage Over ‘Wedding Massacre’ : Men in the Sadr City area of Baghdad rushed yesterday to join the Mehdi Army, a militia force loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr. The recruitment surge followed bloody overnight fighting here that left many Iraqis dead. http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=406 Poland to cut Iraq troops presence early next year: minister: Poland wants to "significantly reduce" its military presence in Iraq after next January http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040525103235.vffgcxk7.html Democrats dodge anti-war bullets: The majority of Colorado Democrats at the party's state convention over the weekend rejected a resolution to bring American soldiers home from Iraq now. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~417~2169307,00.html Spanish police told the FBI all along that they doubted the fingerprints on a plastic bag containing detonators like those used in the Madrid train bombing belonged to the Oregon lawyer wrongly arrested in the case, an official said today. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001939067_webmayfield26.html BUSH CONTINUES MISLEADING ON PRISON ABUSE SCANDAL http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1349796&l=37572 A little-noticed provision of the Internal Revenue Code permits so-called 527 groups spending millions of dollars on this year’s elections to withhold information about their donors. http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID=126 Homeland Security Funds For Big Oil. Last night, CBS Evening News broke an important story about how the Department of Homeland Security has granted scarce taxpayer dollars to multi-billion dollar oil companies while states and municipalities go under-funded in protecting against terrorist attacks. Today, POGO wrote Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to demand that the Department stop awarding the grants to big oil. To learn more, read the transcript or view the segment at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/25/eveningnews/main619558.shtml * The New Pearl Harbor: A Debate On A New Book That Alleges The Bush Administration Was Behind The 9/11 Attacks * In a new book, well known theologian David Ray Griffin, alleges the Pentagon may have been hit by a missile on Sept. 11 and that the Twin Towers collapsed from a controlled explosion. The book has been hailed by many who question the official record of what happened on Sept. 11. But Chip Berlet of the Public Research Associates, who has studied conspiracy theory movements, charges Griffin's book doesn't hold up because it is based on faulty premises and unreliable sources. Today we have a debate on the book and what happened on 9/11. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/150221 THANKS TO ABU GHRAIB, AL-JAZEERA HAS GAINED BREATHING SPACE It was a fortunate coincidence, or at least a stroke of luck for AL Jazeera, that the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison broke only two days after the Bush administration began a public relations attack on the Arab news satellite station. (Lebanon Daily Star) http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=4324 WASHINGTON URGES MEDIA FREEDOM -- BUT NOT FOR AL JAZEERA When the U.S. state department shyly released a human rights report two weeks ago amidst an international outcry over U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi prisoners, it slipped in some tough talk on media freedom -- against the practice, not for it as would be expected. (Inter Press Service) http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23905 POWELL A NO-SHOW AT LOCALISM HEARING Media reform activists were making hay Tuesday out of Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell's sudden withdrawl from the FCC's May 26 localism hearing in Rapid City, S.D. (Broadcasting & Cable) http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA420948?display=Breaking+News&promocode=SUPP HOW PUBLIC IS PUBLIC RADIO? Is the public really heard on public radio? And is NPR truly an alternative to its commercial competition? A new FAIR study of NPR¹s guestlist shows the radio service relies on the same elite and influential sources that dominate mainstream commercial news, and falls short of reflecting the diversity of the American public. (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) http://www.fair.org/extra/0405/npr-study.html NEWS DISSECTOR: One of the more problematic questions in politics revolves around what words mean. We all remember Bill Clinton splitting hairs over what sex is and isn't. Now the debate is over what the word CONTROL means when it comes to post-June-30 Iraq. http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/ Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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Thank you to all of you who've written) Assessing the Threat http://www.oldamericancentury.org/kirwan0009.htm Bush plans to cut the budget of just about every single domestic program if he gets re-elected http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58762-2004May26?language=printer The White House put government agencies on notice this month that if President Bush is reelected, his budget for 2006 may include spending cuts for virtually all agencies in charge of domestic programs, including education, homeland security and others that the president backed in this campaign year. say it with me...tax cuts=service cuts The Price of Starving the Beast But what really happens when you cut taxes? Known internationally as starve the beast Congressional Research Service report shows al-qaeda attacks have increased since 9/11. .pdf format http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/033104.pdf Kerry: Bush 'made America less safe' GOP says Democrat is 'playing politics' http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/27/kerry.security/index.html speaking of playing politics: critics have said the recent terror warning was overblown and created needless concern. The criticism even comes from within the Bush administration, with officials saying they are unhappy over how the matter was handled. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/05/28/terror.threat.sync/index.html The Homeland Security Department was surprised by the announcement Wednesday by Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller that a terrorist attack was increasingly likely in the coming months, officials said. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uswarn283821917may28,0,2458454,print.story and in other playing politics news: Ashcroft: A vote for Kerry is a vote for Bin Laden http://slate.msn.com//Default.aspx?id=2101319&MSID=E0D17814A3254D94A1528AD2B351D051 Terrorism now a growth industry: Unfazed, the Bush administration forges ahead with its "war on terrorism", and its master terror watch list has swollen to 5 million names. Yet the real terrorist threat has been mostly fueled by US policies. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE28Ak03.html Kerry Calls for More Troops in Iraq, Bolstering U.S. Military http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a3ixw0UrP_u4&refer=us The Iraqi Governing Council on Friday nominated one of its members — Iyad Allawi, a Shiite Muslim who was prominent in the exiled opposition against Saddam Hussein — to become prime minister in the new government taking power June 30, members said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5084420/ UN fury over Bush attempts to install PM: The Bush administration was accused yesterday of undermining the work of the UN envoy attempting to put together an interim Iraqi government http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=525308 Arab hearts and minds not won yet 'Death to America' chanted again in Iran The slogan was back in use in the first session of the new Iranian legislature. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/05/28/476115.html Dubya forgot to tell the Penagon about plans to destroy Abu Grhiab and build a new prison http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&art_id=qw1085646780770I622&click_id=2813&set_id=1 Mosaic: World News Reports FromThe Middle East TV For 05/26/04: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East http://tinyurl.com/2trst Sarin Shells Made Before 1991 War: The 155-mm shells containing sarin gas that exploded in Iraq May 17 were manufactured before 1991, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. http://www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=83E2BD4A-5F1C-4E84-9166-4E3A8E847643 An Iraq War Refresher Course http://www.leanleft.com/archives/003036.html Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says: If it seems that there have been quite a few rationales for going to war in Iraq, that’s because there have been quite a few – 27, in fact, all floated between Sept. 12, 2001, and Oct. 11, 2002, according to a new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0510war.html Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress, and the Media from September 12, 2001 to October 11, 2002” http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/news/largio.htm http://www.leanleft.com Man accused of plotting liberal killing spree released just in time for the Democratic Convention http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040525/NEWS0107/405250334/1004/NEWS The Total Information Awareness program lives. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39155962,00.htm $191B for Wars: President Bush and Congress have so far provided $191 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and defensive military operations at home, and about two-thirds of the money has been spent or is owed, White House figures show. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/breaking_news/8767404.htm Moore interviewed Nick Berg for Fahrenheit 911 http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/05/27/fahrenheit_911/index_np.html www.ruthgroup.org Richard Perle: U.S. war policy 'grave error': This public criticism of U.S. policy from one of the leading advocates of the war — and a firm political ally of U.S. President George W. Bush — indicates just how much Bush's political fortunes are being damaged by post-war chaos. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6254.htm The Bush orthodoxy is in shreds: At a conservative thinktank in downtown Washington, and across the Potomac at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed Chalabi classified information about the plans of the US government and military? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6255.htm Iraqi dissidents: Down, far from out: US friend-to-foe Ahmad Chalabi is now being blamed for Washington's poor intelligence leading up to the Iraq war. This overlooks the fact that the leading candidate for Iraq's premiership, Hussain al-Shahristani, should also shoulder some blame. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE28Ak02.html Al-Sadr army pullout from Najaf on hold: Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's offer to withdraw his troops from the holy city of Najaf is on hold until US occupation authorities agree to truce terms. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3A281A63-CA34-4258-8E22-3C175AEFE5BE.htm New photos show Abu Ghraib tactics: Naked Iraqis interrogated aggressively in images: In one of the photos, a U.S. soldier can be seen pressing his knee into the neck of one of the three prisoners, who have been forced to huddle together on the floor. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5032107/ Rape at Abu Ghraib: Practically ignored in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal are the Iraqi female prisoners who have told their attorneys they were raped by U.S. soldiers. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0421/mondo2.php December 2003: Bush calls for Saddam execution: "I mean, he is a torturer, a murderer, they had rape rooms. This is a disgusting tyrant who deserves justice, the ultimate justice." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3326311.stm Kissinger records offer parallels to war in Iraq: Transcripts reveal effort to suppress atrocities by U.S.: News had just broken of an unimaginable atrocity committed by U.S. soldiers, and the secretary of defense and the national security adviser debated whether there was any way to stop newspapers and TV news programs from showing graphic photos of the victims. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2594306 America Has Put Us All In Danger: GEORGE Bush's war on terror has caused the worst human rights abuses in 50 years, campaigners claimed yesterday. http://tinyurl.com/35q4d if everyone who recieves this newsletter donated a thousand dollars, I could get an airplane! http://www.oldamericancentury.org/support.htm Soldier left brain damaged after playing unruly prisoner at Guant?namo A UNITED States soldier claims he was left brain damaged by a beating he received while posing as an un-cooperative prisoner at the Guant?namo Bay detention camp in Cuba. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=602732004 Background information On Ashcrofts summer "suspect" list: http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=290 The New Draft U.N. Resolution Allows for Perpetual Occupation: Fox to Guard Henhouse - Subject to Periodic Review by Fox http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0526-09.htm 'From Mistake to Mistake': A leading Shiite cleric discusses Iraq, suicide bombers, U.S. elections—and why he thinks George W. Bush should see a psychiatrist http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4961854/ Bush's Iraq: almost unrecognizable : The Iraq that bleeds all over our newspapers and TV screens all day is a place of bitter, brutal divisions that go back hundreds of years and seem to be getting deeper daily. But in the country the president talked about, "Iraqis are united in a broad and deep conviction. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Feditorial%2F1085572918161311.xml Bush and Sharon: The Oil Connection: On its face, President George Bush's recent endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's land grab in the occupied territories makes little sense. http://www.counterpunch.com/hallinan05262004.html Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes: President George W. Bush knew for over two years that his administration has been promoting policies that qualify as war crimes under the 1996 federal War Crimes Act, the international Third Geneva Convention, and the Torture Convention. http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=750 US finds strange bedfellows in UN vote on torture: April 19, 2002 : -- PARIS - The United States has aligned itself with some of its fiercest and least democratic enemies in opposing efforts to strengthen an international treaty that outlaws torture, according to diplomatic sources. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1019.htm National Guard living in unprotected tents at Iraq base: Regular Army soldiers in Iraq sleep in fortified accommodations while National Guard troops are in unprotected tents and using filthy showers, according to e-mail messages from several North Carolina soldiers. http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040526/APN/405260687&cachetime=5 Bush's health care scam: IF THE MESS in Iraq and the high price of oil were not crowding out other election year issues, health care would top the list. Premium costs keep increasing, out-of-pocket charges keep being shifted onto consumers, and the number of uninsured is at an all-time high. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/05/27/bushs_health_care_scam/ ISRAEL EXPELS JOURNALIST OVER WHISTLEBLOWER INTERVIEW Israel decided yesterday to expel a journalist working on a documentary for the British Broadcasting Corp. on Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician who spent 18 years in prison for revealing secrets about the Jewish state's atomic arsenal, a top security official said. (The Boston Globe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/149/nation/Israel_expels_BBC_journalist_over_whistleblower_interview+.shtml BBC PREPARES TO PUT TV ARCHIVE ON WEB The BBC's decision to let British surfers download TV footage and share it between friends could help to drive broadband and the take-up of new, faster PCs (ZDNet) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39156023,00.htm HOWARD DEAN TO BECOME SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has signed a deal with a California firm to become a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, starting next week. "This will give Governor Dean a chance to talk about political issues that are important to him," said Laura Gross, communications secretary for Dean's grassroots group Democracy for America. (Burlington Free Press) http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/news/thursday/4000h.htm THE NEWS DISSECTOR: A recent "pre-interview" between the Dissector and Fox's O'Reilly Factor showed that media miscoverage of the war is not a subject that goes down too well in Murdochland. http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/ Lawsuit Alleges EPA Allowing Ohio to Ignore Clean Air Laws http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000128.php "A Shadow on the Land" http://columnleft.com/LEFT040524.htm Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. Templeton, admin. Project for the OLD American Century projectforanoldamericancentury@earthlink.net http://www.oldamericancentury.org This website and newsletter represent the work of one person. 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" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43783-2004May20_3.html HUMAN rights groups: Iraqi women raped at Abu Ghraib jail Middle East Online http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=10096 Several U.S. guards allege they witnessed military intelligence operatives encouraging the abuse of Iraqi prison inmates at four prisons other than Abu Ghraib, investigative documents show. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040530/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_intelligence_abuse&cid=542&ncid=716 Australian Senator refused access to Guantanamo bay http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1118737.htm 24 Jan 2004 Mr Allawi, a member of Iraq's interim council with long ties to the CIA is undertaking an expensive, carefully crafted strategy to spread his views to influential Americans, an example of how those seeking power in Iraq continue to curry favor in the U.S. http://framehosting.dowjonesnews.com/sample/samplestory.asp?StoryID=2004012400040000&Take=1 New Iraqi PM named: Iyad Allawi, a member of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council with long-time links to the CIA, has been chosen as prime minister in Iraq's interim government. "There was a meeting of the Governing Council and Dr. Allawi was unanimously chosen as prime minister," Hani Adris said on Friday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6260.htm Colin Powell declined to confirm whether Iyad Allawi will be Iraq's new prime minister: Other U.S. officials said there was no consensus yet on who would be the prime minister, the key role in a caretaker government that is expected to rule only until elections due by January 2005. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5289225 Berg beheading video is getting a lot of conspiracy accusations http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/may2004/051104beheadsuscivilian.htm Pat Tillman killed by friendly fire http://cbs5.com/news/local/2004/05/29/Friendly_Fire_Killed_NFL_Player_Pat_Tillman.html US wants open-ended Iraq commitment: The US says it will oppose attempts by other members of the United Nations Security Council to set a date for coalition forces to leave Iraq. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1118552.htm San Francisco Gallery Owner Beaten over Painting Depicting Iraqi Torture http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/05/29/state2010EDT0090.DTL Anti-war activists ordered away from school: Mills High School officials on Wednesday morning ordered an anti-war organization urging high school students to say "no" to military recruiters to leave the sidewalk in front of the school, where the group was passing out flyers to teens. http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~2175412,00.html Al Qaeda Kills 16, Holds 50 Hostage in Saudi Arabia http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=NW_1-T&oldflok=FF-RTO-rontz&idq=/ff/story/0002/20040529/1822819068.htm&sc=rontz&photoid=20040529LON502 Sunblock that is 2x better then what we get in the states has been around for 7 years and is totally illegal in the U.S. http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Living/illegal_suncreens_040528-1.html Bush tries to equate Iraq to WWII http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=G1Q4JV5X3M2TGCRBAEZSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=5293449 Suspicion Surrounds Death of Iraqi Scientist in U.S. Custody: Dr. Qaiss Hassan, who performed the autopsy at Iraq's Forensic Medical Institute, noted in his report that Alazmirli had a massive amount of blood under his scalp. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-dead28may28,1,1174224.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage http://www.sickofthiscrap.com Crime Against Peace: A basic provision of the Charter is that to plan, prepare, initiate or wage a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, and assurances, or to conspire or participate in a common plan to do so is a crime: Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocJac14.htm Two Japanese reporters 'killed' in Iraqi ambush: Two Japanese journalists have been killed today by militants who ambushed their car with rocket-propelled grenades near Baghdad, according to witnesses. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1126264,00.html Abuses in liberty’s name: The fight against terrorism is being carried out purportedly in defense of liberty and democracy. Unfortunately, the biggest victims of this war on terror have turned out to be liberty and democracy. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Opinion&OID=52001 'The American military violence must stop': A leading Iraqi politician who survived an ambush by gunmen that may have killed her son blamed American troops on Friday for spiralling violence gripping the country. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&click_id=2813&art_id=qw1085747760271B262&set_id=6 Poland denies troop abuse claims: Records of interviews by US army criminal investigation division agents, obtained by AP, include allegations that forces, including Polish personnel, had beaten prisoners before turning them over to US authorities. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1226972,00.html The arrest of Abu Hamza: So is he a dangerous terrorist - or just a political pawn? Downing Street was forced to correct a comment made yesterday by Mr Ashcroft, who said that if the cleric was convicted of the hostage-taking charge he could be executed. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=525677 Don't give up 1967 lands, DeLay tells Israel lobby: House Majority Whip Tom DeLay suggested that Israel should not withdraw from territory captured in the 1967 war, and he equated Israel's struggle against the Palestinians with the U.S. war on terrorism. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/04/24/aipac.htm Briton says he was held in Israeli dungeon : A British journalist released from Israeli custody yesterday said that he had been held in a dungeon with excrement on the walls following his arrest on suspicion of espionage. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1226520,00.html Pinochet stripped of immunity: A Chilean court stripped the country's former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, of his immunity from prosecution today, paving the way for his trial on human rights charges. http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4935099-111580,00.html Italy warns of Bush unrest threat: Italy has warned of "serious threats" when US President George W Bush visits Rome next week. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3757625.stm Bush shifting terror alarm onto Iraq: TWO DAYS after President Bush declared Iraq "the central front in the war on terror," Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that major terrorist attacks are possible this summer -- not from Iraq but from operatives of Al Qaeda who are already inside the United States. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/05/28/bush_shifting_terror_alarm_onto_iraq/ Some Republicans fear Iraq will color campaigns: Conn. congressman not afraid to put distance between himself, president http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040528/6243868s.htm Govt Computer Surveillance Rings Alarm Bells: Nine months after Congress shut down a controversial Pentagon computer-surveillance program, the U.S. government continues to comb private records to sniff out suspicious activity, according to a congressional report obtained by Reuters. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&u=/nm/20040527/tc_nm/tech_surveillance_dc&printer=1 Report: 1 of Every 75 U.S. Men in Prison : America's inmate population grew by 2.9 percent last year, to almost 2.1 million people, with one of every 75 men living in prison or jail. http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/Wire/040528i.asp US retreats after failing to capture militia chief: United States forces agreed to withdraw from the Shia holy city of Najaf and end fighting with the militia of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. In a climbdown by the Americans, who had vowed to kill or capture Sadr, it now appears he will be allowed to remain free. His Army of Mehdi militia will also withdraw under the deal. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=525673 Drug causing GIs permanent brain damage : Six U.S. soldiers have been diagnosed by the military with permanent brain damage from an anti-malaria drug used in Iraq and Afghanistan, and health officials must reassess its safety, a U.S. senator said. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040526-105156-8460r Reserve recruiters' tactic may skirt edge of deception: Bryan Martinez thought his military service was over when he left the Army Reserves in 2000. But on Monday, the 26-year-old boat rigger from Fort Walton Beach got a phone call that threatened to shatter the life he and his wife had built together. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/27/State/Reserve_recruiters__t.shtml Some Question Florida National Guard's Recruiting Methods: Some Florida National Guard recruiters are warning inactive reservists that they risk being reactivated and sent to Iraq unless they enlist in their local Guard unit, a controversial tactic also being reported in other states trying to bolster their enlistment numbers. http://www.news4jax.com/news/3354532/detail.html Expanding the Cracks in and Crashing Down the Right Wing, Republican Wall by Rob Kall US troops in Afghanistan endangering aid workers: EU PakTribune.com http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=66363 MANY complaints against US in Afghanistan ‘ unspoken ’ Daily Times - Pakistan KABUL: Many complaints against US soldiers in Afghanistan remain unspoken, with illiterate and isolated citizens unwilling or unable to lodge their protests http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-5-2004_pg4_10 TERRORISM, factionalism rife in Afghanistan: UN official Deepika http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?ccode=ENG4&newscode=54808 IT’S BEEN seven months since Florida prosecutor Barry Krischer opened his investigation into Rush Limbaugh's pain-pill addiction, and still no charges have been brought. It's not for lack of trying. http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=38328 ARISTIDE set to arrive in SA http://www.news24.com/City_Press/City_Press_News/0,,186-187_1534800,00.html B.C. to probe Patriot Act Privacy commissioner launches study. Union complains law could force U.S. firms to hand over private info on Canadians http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=828560e8-6526-45c9-aec3-310a9c15abbb IDAHO terror case puts the Patriot Act to the test Arizona Daily Sun http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=88055 ISP Fights PATRIOT Act Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/orig/azulay.php?articleid=2690 PATRIOT Act Besieged AlterNet - USA The objective of the Patriot Act [is to make] the population visible and the Justice Department invisible http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18823 MARINES try to monitor Fallujah in truce MLive.com http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/lateststories/index.ssf?/base/international-14/1085858651121360.xml Ashcroft, Ridge Seen at Odds over Level of Terror Threat http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1915146 Ashcroft oversteps his authority Throughout his political career Attorney General John Ashcroft has been on a campaign to impose his own moral code on states whose voters see things differently than he does. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/29/Opinion/Ashcroft_oversteps_hi.shtml Guantanamo Interrogators Played Major Role at Abu Ghraib Voice of America http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B829FDAC-2536-41DB-B2DC8283891FB60F Iraq sites plundered for valuable `scrap' As the United States spends billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq's civil and military infrastructure, there is increasing evidence that parts of sensitive military equipment, seemingly brand-new components for oil rigs and water plants and whole complexes of older buildings, are leaving the country on the backs of flatbed trucks http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1085782210990&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724 Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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URL: http://gettysburg.hostforweb.net/pipermail/poacnewsletter_oldamericancentury.org/attachments/20040530/72dcb356/attachment-0001.htm From Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org Mon May 31 23:23:57 2004 From: Poacnewsletter at oldamericancentury.org (Poacnewsletter@oldamericancentury.org) Date: Mon May 31 23:23:37 2004 Subject: [POAC newsletter] 6-1-04 daily newsletter program related activity Message-ID: <410-220046213235750@earthlink.net> I am sure that many of you reading this (and I, likely) have the government in our computers. http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel05292004.html US teaches Iraqis the importance of democracy by blocking their two first choices for Prime Minister http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=5&u=/nm/20040531/wl_nm/iraq_dc While all media eeyes were on Ashcroft's bogus terror warning...draft bill set in place Draft Bill in place, little media coverage so far http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1228330,00.html Oil companies are leasing more land than allowed by federal law - Your Bush appointed commerce secretary is one of the CEOs A single New Mexico family and a dozen big oil companies, including one once headed by Commerce Secretary Don Evans, now control one-quarter of all federal lands leased for oil and gas development in the continental United States despite a law intended to prevent such concentration, federal records show. http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/front/story/1959819p-2268725c.html Tensions between the civilian leaders of the Pentagon, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the U.S. military's top brass have deepened amid the deteriorating situation in Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=2&u=/nm/20040530/ts_nm/iraq_rumsfeld_pentagon_dc_1 Anti-war activist wrongly accused of the arson attack on 100 SUV's get police apology and $20,000 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040529-0526-ca-suvarsons-apology.html A list of Washington's mistakes in Iraq http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=174 CBS carries opinion piece from PNAC owned and operated neoconservative Weekly Standard claiming liberal bias in media http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/28/opinion/main620207.shtml The Memory Hole, source of leaks, FOIA requests, general thorn in the side of the government, has been blocked in Iraq for 'political extremism' http://www.thememoryhole.org/memoryblog/archives/000156.html Cheney's Office 'Coordinated' Halliburton Deal. Vice President Dick Cheney was a guest on NBC's Meet the Press last September when host Tim Russert brought up Halliburton. Citing the company's role in rebuilding Iraq as well as Cheney's prior service as Halliburton's CEO, Russert asked, "Were you involved in any way in the awarding of those contracts?" Cheney's reply: "Of course not, Tim ... And as Vice President, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the [Army] Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the Federal Government." OOPS http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RB5WCCEEFVY2GCRBAEOCFEY?type=politicsNews&storyID=5296199 CHENEY Denies Role in Halliburton Contract Voice of America http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=27C1BE19-3EB1-4B3C-A6B045F424095F36 August 2002 Enron, Haliburton And Harken White House Corporate Responsibility Conflicts Of Interest http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0208/S00007.htm Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defence, conceded at the weekend that America needs help from other countries to end the bloodshed in Iraq and defeat terrorism around the world. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=526650 another chapter of Karl Rove's Secret Playbook. www.evilGOPbastards.com. North Pole ice pack dwindles http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/31/eveningnews/main620417.shtml Bush has used Air Force One more than any other president in history for campaigning and taking weekly trips to Texas and makes the taxpayers pick up the bill http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/31/bush.travelcosts.ap/index.html Al Qaeda winning the war against terror: Asian analysts http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-6-2004_pg4_5 “The response cannot be a military one. This is fundamentally a US error,” he said, adding that the US-led war on Iraq and subsequent occupation had driven Islamic militants to wage jihad, or holy war, against Washington. As Florida county election boards review a list of thousands of potentially ineligible voters -- including some who may be felons -- CNN is suing the state, claiming the public and media should also be able to review the list. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/28/fla.vote/index.html Bush eyes plan to cut funding on education, veteran's benefits, and Homeland Security -- but only after the elections http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4139732,00.html Four Afghans killed in raid by Taliban guerrillas: Taliban guerrillas riding in a fleet of vehicles shot up a government office in southern Afghanistan, killing four Afghan soldiers, an official said yesterday. One gunman also was killed. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/attack/bal-te.afghan31may31,0,7181630.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines Iraqi Leader Killed in Baghdad: Mohsen Abdel Hamid, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council and Secretary General of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), has been killed on Monday in an attack in Baghdad. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=35270 More Than 200 Troops Killed in April, May: Death Toll of American Troops in Iraq for April and May Moves Past 200; More Than 2 Killed a Day http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040531_303.html Saudi security forces 'allowed kidnappers to flee': One employee of the Oasis compound said today that a hostage heard the gunmen shouting that they would release their captives if the security forces let them go. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1129544,,00.html British oil executive was among the first to die: Victim Body was dragged behind car, reports say http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,1228336,00.html Crisis hits Saudi oil industry : Traders warned that oil prices were likely to rise this week in response to the latest attack in the kingdom, the second in a month. Prices have slipped in the past fortnight from a 13-year high of $41.85 a barrel, but a renewed surge is expected when markets reopen tomorrow http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=526647 Saudi attacks weaken dollar's footing : In Europe, safe-haven flows out of the dollar were much in evidence although thin trading conditions given the public holiday in Britain and the US were also having an impact, analysts said. http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2096271 On Their Way To Abu Ghraib: "How could this happen?" nearly everyone asks these days. But as the U.S. now releases hundreds of men from Abu Ghraib prison, another question, "why were so many Iraqis locked up there in the first place?" is likely to become part of the debate. http://vitw.org/archives/000071.html Jailed - for showing dislike of US invaders: General Ryder, the army's provost marshal, reported that some Iraqis had been held for months for nothing more than expressing "displeasure or ill will" towards the US occupying forces. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/30/1085855439930.html Iraqi doctors forced into exile: IRAQ's top surgeons, neurologists and other doctors are fleeing Baghdad, bullied into exile by a growing gang of kidnappers seeking hefty ransoms from the country's affluent elite. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9700132^1702,00.html Zbigniew Brzezinski : Face Reality: America's Iraq policy requires a fundamental strategic reappraisal. The present policy - justified by falsehoods, pursued with unilateral arrogance, blinded by self-delusion, and stained by sadistic excesses - cannot be corrected with a few hasty palliatives. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6265.htm The New Documentary 'Preventive Warriors': The film examines a bold new foreign policy paper introduced by the White House in September 2002 entitled: “The National Security Strategy of the United States.” A must watch video: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6268.htm We Want Our Country Back: Flash presentation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1056.htm Meet The New Zionist's: The members of the Christian Coalition of America are some of the most passionate defenders of Israel in the United States. There's just one catch: they want to convert all Jews to Christianity. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1057.htm N. Korea Accuses U.S. of War Pretext Plot : North Korea on Monday accused the Bush administration of making up reports about the North's nuclear weapons program as a pretext for war, saying it echoed similar allegations Washington made about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4152196,00.html Experts: Job market dismal for teens this summer: Only 37 percent of teens are likely to find a summer job, according to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2600284 the "liberal Hollywood" label on a movie distributed by 20th Century Fox, a company owned by Rupert Murdoch http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05302004/arts/170871.asp CRITICS Say Clean-Air Plan May Be a Setback for Parks New York Times Environmentalists say the approach proposed by the EPA is a regulatory bait-and-switch http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/31/national/31smokey.html?ex=1086580800&en=dbb1d878b5aea35e&ei=5062 The faculty at Lehigh University have passed a nonbinding resolution expressing concerns about the USA Patriot Act http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/8804883.htm Attorney General John Ashcroft had a constitutional defeat handed to him last week, when a federal appeals panel ruled that he had no authority to block Oregon's assisted suicide law http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/31/editorial_ed1b.html Has John Ashcroft fallen out of favor at the White House? The question may not be whether but how far. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/31/ashcroft.tm/ WILL Haiti be forgotten again so soon? International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/522602.htm TERROR'S next target IAGS Energy Security - USA ... Nigeria, half of which is under Islamic Sharia law, is home to the largest part of Africa's oil reserves, and is the fifth largest oil supplier to the US http://www.iags.org/n053004a.htm KERRY to pay more attention to nuclear issues in ties with Russia ITAR-TASS http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=885053&PageNum=0 TORTURES in 4 camps outside Abu Ghraib Pakistan News Service http://www.paknews.com/headingNews.php?id=2821&date1=2004-05-31 Two Palestinian diplomats have been released after being held for a year in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, a Palestinian official said here on Sunday. ... http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en66447&F_catID=&f_type=source ANTI-AMERICAN Sentiment Grows in Iraq Holy City Reuters http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=5302298 Have you seen this online petition to remove Rush Limbaugh from the American Forces Radio and Television Service? http://radio.about.com/b/a/2004_05_31.htm Total Information Awareness II? http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/31/Opinion/Total_Information_Awa.shtml Remember, friends don't let friends vote republican T.J. 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