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Counting Iraq’s dead civilians
By Jackson Thoreau

Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially
not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb.
bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on
Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to
acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullah’s
eight-year-old son.

Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bush’s and Cheney’s Blood for Oil, Inc.
war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care
less. Welcome to the New World Order.

U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts,
especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bush’s claim to
the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian
casualties, unless they are so large that even our
corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them.

But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old.
He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book.

He’s number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs
continues to rise.

Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and
continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I
have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call
themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again
about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage
Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood
crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war
remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that
there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed.
Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the
way the Bush administration wants them painted.

I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from
London’s Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the
Wilderness’ Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to
protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the
United Kingdom’s Independent Media Centre.

And I’m here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and
others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians – many of them children, as
almost half of Baghdad’s population is under age 14 - have been killed by
the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more
will probably soon die in hospitals.

At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do
this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team.
Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two
daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside
Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers.

Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student at a high school for girls, is among those
with deep wounds who must suffer in anguish without basic medicines that
could at least give her some temporary relief from the pain. Cheney’s oil
company, Dallas-based Halliburton, could make millions supplying Iraq with
oil equipment after the 1991 Gulf War. But relief workers could not ship
basic medicines to Iraq because that violated the economic sanctions imposed
by the UN on Hussein’s regime. To repeat: Cheney’s company can make millions
in oil deals, but Iraqi kids like Nada cannot get basic medicines.

Want to talk precision bombing? Talk to Nahla Harbi, a passenger driving
away from Baghdad with her two-year-old when a military school for boys was
struck, causing her car to roll. She escaped with fractures in both legs.
Her toddler suffered head injuries.

Talk to the families of the five Syrians who died when a U.S. missile struck
a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border. Ten other passengers, most of
whom were laborers working in Iraqi oil fields, were injured.
One of the more ludicrous aspects of this war is how U.S. officials are
crying foul when Iraq pulls a few tricks like pretend surrenders and putting
POWs on television. Iraq is violating the Geneva Convention, U.S.
officials say. These are the same officials who ignore international laws
such as the UN charter that states one country cannot invade another without
provocation or the blessing of the UN Security Council. These are the same
officials who ignore international treaties like those governing nuclear
weapons and global warming.

So it’s unfair for Iraq to put prisoners on television or use civilians as
soldiers or women and kids as shields? Tell me, what’s fair about one side
spending $400 billion annually on nuclear weapons, high-tech weapons, etc.
and the other spending some $1.4 billion on scud missiles and other low-tech
weapons after years of economic sanctions 

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Iraqi resistance shatters US propaganda of liberation war

By Patrick Martin
25 March 2003

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The battles which erupted Sunday and Monday in southern and central
Iraq have exploded Bush administration claims that the invasion of Iraq
would lead to a speedy collapse of the Iraqi government. Instead of US and
British troops being hailed as liberators, they have encountered fierce
resistance in towns such as Umm Qasr, Nasiriya and Karbala.

The first encounter between US forces and the Republican Guard, the
best-trained and best- equipped Iraqi military units, took place Monday
morning near the city of Karbala in central Iraq, about 60 miles south of
Baghdad. The 32 Apache helicopters of the 11th Attack Helicopter
Regiment, US Army V Corps, attacked an armored brigade of 90 tanks.

The helicopters received what CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul called a
heavy, heavy barrage of anti-aircraft fire, which shot down two of the
helicopters and forced the others to withdraw. Penhaul described the
pilots as somewhat dazed, somewhat stunned by the level of Iraqi
resistance. One pilot called the attack zone a hornets nest in which
Iraqi fire came from all sides.

The attack force was compelled to abandon its mission and every single
helicopter received some damage, mainly from small arms fire, with as many
as 15 or 20 bullet holes in each machine. Iraqi state television later
broadcast film of one of the helicopters on the ground, with armed Iraqi
soldiers dancing around it in jubilation.

Sunday saw the bloodiest battle of the five-day war, with hundreds of Iraqi
soldiers and militiamen attacking Marines in Nasiriya, a city 230 miles
southeast of Baghdad and 100 miles from the Iraq-Kuwait border. As many
as two dozen US soldiers were killed and over 50 wounded, the largest US
combat losses in a single day since the Vietnam War. Press reports cited
claims by US soldiers that some civilians had taken up arms to join in the
fighting, ambushing the Marines as they sought to enter the city.

US and British forces faced a counterattack by Iraqi soldiers in Umm Qasr,
the southernmost town in Iraq and its only Persian Gulf port. The port
itself was seized in the first two days fighting, but Iraqi forces hid in the
town and reemerged Sunday. Despite huge superiority in firepowerthe
US and British forces have unrestricted control of the air, as well as
artillery, tanks and naval gunfirethey were unable to dislodge Iraqi
soldiers armed only with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.

The first days of the war have also seen a series of misfires and
malfunctions in the high- tech US arsenal. US bombs and missiles have
landed on the territory of Iran and Turkey, destroyed at least one British
warplane, and came close to hitting an American naval vessel in the Persian
Gulf. While there is no question that the US military has a huge
technological advantage over the Iraqi forces, these incidents undermine
the claims of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the
unprecedented precision of American bomb and missile attacks.

The aerial bombardment of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities continues
unabated since it began Friday night. Iraqi officials have provided few
details of the resulting casualties, releasing figures for the death toll which
appear to be deliberately minimized, perhaps to avoid panicking the
population. The sheer tonnage of bombs being dropped is
staggeringroughly the equivalent of a Hiroshima atomic bomb in the first
four days.

There is a growing danger that having failed to subdue Iraq with the first
wave of attacks, the Bush administration will escalate to saturation
bombing, with the potential of leveling Iraqi cities and killing tens if not
hundreds of thousands. The dispatch of B-52 bombers from their bases in
Great Britainthe deadliest weapon of the Vietnam Warsuggests that
attacks of even greater brutality will soon be under way.

The first week of the war has refuted many of the complacent predictions
of the Bush administration and its US media apologists. There has been no
collapse of the Iraqi regime. There has been no mass surrender of Iraqi
troops, even among the regular army soldiers who were thought to be less
reliable than the Republican Guard troops. There have been no scenes of
mass rejoicing at the prospect of US-British military rule replacing the
dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. There have been no reports of chemical
and biological weapons, either used in battle or discovered by US and
British troops. There have been no Scud missiles fired, either at the
invading forces or at Israel. And there has been no systematic attempt to
sabotage or destroy the oilfields, either in southern or northern Iraq.

The heroism and determination of the outgunned Iraqi soldiers has

[CTRL] Streicher's Legators

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Media lies and war crimes: the instructive case of Julius Streicher

By Bill Vann
25 March 2003

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Eleven leading members of Hitlers Third Reich were sentenced to death
for their role in instigating a world war that claimed the lives of tens of
millions of people as a result of military slaughter and death camps.

The lead defendant, Hermann Goring, cheated the hangmans noose by
taking a cyanide capsule that he had concealed under a dental crown. He
and nine others condemned to hang had been convicted of the
Nuremberg indictments principal charge: conspiracy to wage a war of
aggression. The other charges, which encompassed the mass murder of
Jews, gypsies, communists and socialists, and other civilians in Germany
and its occupied territories, flowed from the first.

There was one man sent to the scaffold, however, who was acquitted on
this first and paramount charge. His name was Julius Streicher, a Nazi party
member since 1921. The judges at the Nuremberg tribunal found: There is
no evidence that he was ever within Hitlers inner circle of advisers, nor
during his career was he closely connected with the formulation of
policies that led to war...

Rather, Streicher was convicted for promoting aggressive war and
atrocities against the Jews in his newspapersthe vile anti-Semitic weekly
Der Strmer, and later a daily, Frnkische Tageszeitung.

The court found that this propaganda for war and genocide made the
newspaper publisher more culpable than many of those defendants who
were more directly involved in the workings of the Nazi regime. The
historic crimes of that regime, the tribunal found, could never have been
carried out without the preparatory work he and others like him did in
warping the public consciousness of the German people with a relentless
barrage of anti- Semitic and militarist propaganda. As the prosecution
stated at Nuremberg: Without him the Kaltenbrunners, the Himmlers, the
General Stroops would have had nobody to carry out their orders.

All over the world, experts in international law have come forward to
accuse the Bush administration of the same principal crime for which the
Nuremberg defendants were sentenced to death 57 years ago. And not a
few have raised the prospect of a new war crimes indictment resulting
from Washingtons unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq.

Political leaders in due course could be taken to a national court for an
act of aggression, said Louise Doswald-Beck, secretary-general of the
Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, which has condemned
the invasion of Iraq as a gross violation of international law.

What of those who play an analogous role to that of Julius Streicher today?
The American media has worked as an essential instrument of the Bush
administration in deceiving and terrorizing the American people in
preparation for war. In many casesFox News, the Wall Street Journal
editorial pages and countless barking commentators on both network and
cable talk showsthey have approached the degraded level of Der Strmer
in promoting an invasion of Iraq and justifying mass murder.

The media as a whole, with very few exceptions, has obediently turned
itself into an extension of the Pentagons propaganda machine, serving as a
conduit for psychological warfare against both Iraqis and Americans. The
scoundrels who control what passes for news in the US have parroted all
of the administrations lying justifications for war, celebrated its onset,
and censored the images of carnage and suffering that are being seen
throughout the rest of the world. They share a major portion of guilt for
this illegal act.

How and when those who are responsible for this war of aggression will be
made to pay for their crimes remains to be seen. But there can be no
doubt there are many candidates to fill the place in the dock that was
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Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2003. Page 1

Sparks Fly Over U.S. Claims of Sales to Iraq

By Simon Saradzhyan

Staff Writer
Washington and Moscow traded barbs over Iraq on Monday, with U.S.
President George W. Bush complaining that Russian companies were selling
defense equipment to Baghdad and President Vladimir Putin warning that
steps must be taken to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq.

In a telephone call initiated by Washington, Bush told Putin he was
concerned that a Russian company was helping Iraq jam navigation signals
used by U.S. warplanes and cruise missiles, White House spokesman Ari
Fleischer said.

Fleischer said at an earlier briefing that the United States has credible
evidence that Russian companies have provided assistance and prohibited
hardware to the Iraqi regime, including night vision goggles, GPS jammers
and anti-tank guided missiles.

These actions are disturbing, and we have made our concerns clear to
the Russian government. We've asked the Russian government that any
such ongoing assistance cease immediately, he said.

Putin used the phone call to warn Bush about a looming humanitarian
catastrophe brought about by war.

Putin confirmed Russia's stated position on an Iraq settlement and
stressed the need to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in the region, the
Kremlin press service said in a statement.

The Kremlin gave no indication of how Putin responded to Bush's
complaint, but a number of government and defense industry officials
indignantly denied that Russian companies have supplied defense
equipment to the Iraqi regime in violation of UN sanctions.

Russia rigorously observes all its international obligations and has not
supplied Iraq with any equipment, including military, in breach of the
sanctions regime, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said, responding to a Sunday
report in The Washington Post.

The newspaper quoted Bush administration sources as saying that the
Instrument Design Bureau of Tula, or KBP, and Aviakonversia in Moscow
have supplied Iraq with anti-tank missiles and jamming equipment,
respectively. The report said Aviakonversia staff were in Iraq training
specialists how to operate the 3-kilogram devices.

While dismissing the report, Ivanov said that if violations of the sanctions
regime are found, the guilty parties will be punished in accordance with
Russian law.

Ivanov's denial was echoed by Putin aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky and the
government's deputy chief of staff, Alexei Volin.

Iraq's ambassador to Russia, Abbas Kunfuth, dismissed the Washington Post
report as propaganda.

Aviakonversia and KBP officials also denied selling any equipment.

KBP's foreign trade chief, Leonid Roshal, told Itar-Tass that no Kornet anti-
tank missiles had been sold to Iraq. The company's first deputy director,
Alexei Butenko, said nothing ever had been sent to Iraq. The United
States slapped sanctions on KBP in 1999 after it sent Kornets to Syria.

Aviakonversia director general Oleg Antonov described the report as
another CIA provocation.

Antonov, speaking in a telephone interview, said his company has not
supplied Iraq with any jammers or sent any personnel to train Iraqi troops.

He said Russian law enforcers checked and cleared his company after the
U.S. State Department summoned Russia's ambassador to the United States,
Yury Ushakov, in September to protest the alleged sales.

Antonov noted, however, that Aviakonversia's jamming devices cannot be
regulated under Russian law because they are assembled outside Russia.
He confirmed his company has an office in Moscow but would not
elaborate on where the devices are assembled.

Aviakonversia has had to deal with accusations of dealing with Iraq before.
Kuwait's Al-Qabas newspaper reported in 2000 that Iraq had used two
Aviakonversia jamming devices to force U.S. fighters to abort a patrol of a
no-fly zone.

Russian officials and Antonov denied the report.

The Defense Ministry and Rosoboronexport, the state-owned company
that accounts for most of Russia's arms exports, also rejected the
Washington Post report.

The White House's claims are far from a sign that a major crisis is brewing
in U.S.-Russian ties, said Ivan Safranchuk, a researcher at the Moscow
office of the Center of Defense Information.

There is a cloud, but it is not raining, he said.

Safranchuk noted that Kremlin officials have been careful not to
antagonize the Bush administration in their criticism of the U.S.-led
campaign in Iraq.

Putin, who condemned the war as a big political mistake last week, made
what might have been a conciliatory gesture Monday and urged Iraq to
obey international conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.

We are aware of the conditions in which POWs ... are being held by the
U.S. side, Putin told Cabinet members. I hope that the Iraqi side will also
meet all the requirements of international law on keeping POWs.

Putin spoke after hearing a report by 

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A 'Tough Fight' Indeed

By Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
From the International Desk
Published 3/24/2003 10:56 AM
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WASHINGTON, March 24 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush acknowledged
reality on a day when the drive to
Baghdad suddenly no longer looked like a walk in the desert park.

It is evident that it's going to take awhile to achieve our objective, the
president said on his return to the White House Sunday from a weekend at
Camp David. And then he added that he could assure the American people
that this is just the beginning of a tough fight.

Yes indeed.

Yet the war on Iraq was not sold to the American people as a tough fight.
It was sold to them as a combination of a walk in the park, an essential
operation to destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and, most of all,
as a crusade to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of President Saddam
Hussein.

The curious thing is, almost none of them appear to be want to be saved.

For the past year and a half, the civilian war hawks running the
Department of Defense have repeatedly and, according to Pentagon
sources, even contemptuously overridden the concerns of regular senior
Army and Marine officers about the difficulty of conquering Iraq by relying
upon the flood of intelligence provided to them by Ahmed Chalabi and his
Iraqi National Congress. For Chalabi and the INC had assured them that Iraq
was straining at the seams and ready to bust apart acclaiming U.S. forces
as liberators as soon as they walked in.

As UPI has repeatedly reported and noted, so highly did Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz think of this intelligence
that they repeatedly injected it into the proceedings of Principals' and
Deputies' Committees meetings that coordinated the highest policymaking
of the United States government without filtering it past the CIA, the State
Department or any other organ of government first.

Yet now the drive into Iraq is well underway, what are U.S. policymakers --
and their brave, embattled troops in the field finding?

First, the Shiite Muslim majority of Iraqis have not risen up in the south to
rally around their American liberators. They have not risen up at all. And
they are not raising a finger to oppose Saddam or help the United States.

Instead, as we noted on Saturday, Mohammed Baqir Hakim, head of the
Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the main Shiite
opposition movement in Iraq issued a statement quite specifically telling
the Shiites not to aid the United States in any way. And his admonition,
broadcast on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television network, is being
heeded.

In the north, the situation is equally unexpectedly dire and disappointing
for the DoD civilian war planners and their loud cheering section among
neo-conservative intellectuals.

First Turkey, favored above all Middle East nations by the DoD planners,
refused to let the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division even to deploy in its
territory, let alone launch an invasion through Northern Iraq from there.
Instead, the Turks have been moving across the border and look set to try
and seize the oil-rich, Kurdish-majority areas around Kirkuk and Mosul for
themselves.

Nor are the Kurds of northern Iraq rising up to take advantage of the U.S.
invasion to eagerly throw Saddam out as war planners and their media
Greek chorus had also repeatedly predicted and expected. Instead, they
are turning to fight the Turks, their historic enemies with far greater
enthusiasm and ferocity than anything they have shown towards Saddam
and the Iraqi army.

Where does that leave the already embattled U.S. forces as they drive
towards Baghdad? It leaves them on their own.

There have been no TV reports this time showing huge crowds cheering
their liberation as happened in the capitals of Eastern Europe following the
collapse of communism, or in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan after the Taliban
were routed there in 2001, or, for that matter in Kuwait City after U.S.
forces liberated it in 1991 after the first Gulf War.

Instead, Iraqi forces are faking surrenders and then turning their weapons
on U.S. troops. They are abandoning their uniforms and striking from
behind. They are melting away in the face of heavily armed U.S. armored
columns but ambushing supply convoys as soon as they take wrong turns in
unfamiliar territory.

On Sunday alone, U.S. casualties were reported to be at least 20 missing or
dead. If no more than that die per day in the next week or two and then
Baghdad falls, the war will still be one of the cheapest in casualties the
United States has ever fought. But if the war should drag on at that level
even after all of Iraq should be occupied, within a mere 100 days, 2,000
Americans would have died -- the greatest U.S. death toll in war in more
than 30 years since Vietnam.

In fact, it could yet turn out to be far, far worse. As UPI 

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U.S. steps up secret surveillance


FBI, Justice Dept. increase use of wiretaps, records searches

By Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON, March 24  Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice
Department and FBI have dramatically increased the use of two little-
known powers that allow authorities to tap telephones, seize bank and
telephone records and obtain other information in counterterrorism
investigations with no immediate court oversight, according to officials and
newly disclosed documents.





















THE FBI, for example, has issued scores of national
security letters that require businesses to turn over electronic records
about finances, telephone calls, e-mail and other personal information,
according to officials and documents. The letters, a type of administrative
subpoena, may be issued independently by FBI field offices and are not
subject to judicial review unless a case comes to court, officials said.
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft has also personally signed more than
170 emergency foreign intelligence warrants, three times the number
authorized in the preceding 23 years, according to recent congressional
testimony.
Federal law allows the attorney general to issue unilaterally these
classified warrants for wiretaps and physical searches of suspected
terrorists and other national security threats under certain
circumstances. They can be enforced for 72 hours before they are
subject to review and approval by the ultra-secret Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court.
Government officials describe both measures as crucial tools in the war
on terrorism that allow authorities to act rapidly in the pursuit of potential
threats without the delays that can result from seeking a judges
signature. Authorities also stress that the tactics are perfectly legal.

SOME GROUPS TROUBLED BY TACTICS
But some civil liberties and privacy advocates say they are troubled by
the increasing use of the tactics, primarily because there is little or no
oversight by courts or other outside parties. In both cases, the target of
the investigation never has to be informed that the government has
obtained his personal records or put him under surveillance.




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power is used in the regular criminal justice system, there are some built-
in checks and balances, said David Sobel, general counsel of the
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which is suing the Justice
Department for information about its secretive anti-terrorism strategies.
The intelligence context provides no such protection. Thats the main
problem with these kinds of secretive procedures.
The use of national security letters has been accelerated in part
because Congress made it easier to use and apply them. The USA Patriot
Act, a package of sweeping anti-terrorism legislation passed after the Sept.
11 attacks, loosened the standard for targeting individuals by national
security letters and allowed FBI field offices, rather than a senior official
at headquarters, to issue them, officials said.
The records that can be obtained through the letters include
telephone logs, e-mail logs, certain financial and bank records and credit
reports, a Justice official said.
The Patriot Act also significantly increased the amount of intelligence
information that can be shared with criminal prosecutors and federal
grand juries, giving authorities new powers in the war on terrorism.
National security letters can be used as part of criminal investigations and
preliminary inquiries involving terrorism and espionage, according to
officials and internal FBI guidelines on the letters.

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According to documents given to EPIC and the
American Civil Liberties Union as part of their lawsuit, the FBI has issued
enough national security letters since October 2001 to fill more than five
pages of logs. There is no way to determine exactly how many times the
documents have been employed because the logs were almost entirely
blacked out, according to a copy provided to The Washington Post by the
ACLU.
The Justice Department and FBI refuse to provide summary data about
how often the letters are used. Several lawmakers have proposed
legislation that would require the department to provide that kind of data.
In our view, the public is entitled to these statistics, said Jameel
Jaffer, staff attorney for the ACLUs national legal department. We have
no idea how those are being used.
FBI spokesman John Iannarelli said its safe to say that anybody who is
going to conduct a terrorism investigation is probably going to use them at
some point. ... Its a way to expedite information, and theres nothing that
needs expediting more than a terrorism investigation.
But a November 2001 memorandum prepared by FBI attorneys 

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March 25, 2003

The battle for Baghdad begins
By David Charter in Qatar, Roland Watson in Washington and Philip Webster


THE crucial push for Baghdad began last night as allied warplanes
bombarded the Republican Guard to clear the way for troops to zero in on
President Saddam Hussein.

The American vanguard was within 20 miles of 30,000 Republican Guards
defending a city blanketed in black smoke from pyres of burning oil.
Thousands more allied troops were rushing north to form a front line for
the battle that will decide the war.

Yesterday the Republican Guards Medina Division was pummelled
continuously by bombers working on information from SAS, SBS and Delta
forces close to Iraqi positions.

American generals said that the air raids, involving B52s, Apache helicopter
gunships, Harriers and A10 tankbusters, had significantly degraded the
division, but one helicopter was lost. Iraq claimed to have shot it down and
state television broadcast pictures of the helicopter in a field and the two
men said to be its crew. They appeared confused but unharmed.

The softening up of the Republican Guard is expected to continue for
days, but air operations could be disrupted by violent sandstorms, which
halted American infantry divisions near Karbala yesterday. Military planners
have been told that the shamal desert winds are likely to whip up
further sandstorms.

Tony Blair told MPs yesterday that the forces gathering at Karbala were
preparing for the crucial moment when they would confront the Medina
Division. Brushing aside concerns that supply lines were becoming
dangerously stretched, he said: The vital goal is to reach Baghdad as
swiftly as possible, thus bringing the end of the regime closer.

It may, however, be necessary for more troops to be sent to the Gulf if
the forces there become bogged down in urban warfare, and the
possibility of sending reinforcements will almost certainly be considered
when Mr Blair and President Bush meet in Washington on Thursday for a
summit arranged to discuss the administration of a post-Saddam Iraq.

The Iraqi leadership remained insistent yesterday that there would be no
such thing. Saddam appeared on television promising victory and Tariq Aziz,
the Deputy Prime Minister, countered Washingtons claims that the
dictators grip on power was slipping by saying that Saddam was in full
control of the army and the country.

If America and Britain want to change that, their forces will first have to
overcome the three Republican Guard divisions that are dug-in 30 miles to
the east, south and west of the centre of Baghdad. They are those
closest to Saddam and they will resist strongly, Mr Blair said. A British
military source said: These people have got to capitulate or be
destroyed. This is the real start of the push for Baghdad.

The coalition strategy is to establish a front line stretching eastwards from
Karbala across the two main highways into the capital. The line will remain
fixed as waves of air and ground-launched missiles pound the Republican
Guard while the heavy artillery and tanks of V Corps rumble up for an
eventual land assault. By the time that is launched the coalition aims to
have 60,000 combat troops, 400 Abrams M1 tanks and 100 Apache attack
helicopters massed on the front. The Republican Guard divisions have 500
tanks.

To help the push northwards, American forces pounded the strategic
town of al-Nasariyah with heavy artillery yesterday and moved a light
armoured battalion through the town and across the Euphrates, opening a
second route to Baghdad. US engineers were also working to finish a new
desert airstrip near Najaf in central Iraq, which would allow unmanned
Predator drones to patrol the skies over Baghdad and gather vital
information about Iraqi forces.

The thrust towards Baghdad came despite continued Iraqi resistance in
the south, sparking warnings that coalition supply lines were becoming
vulnerable to attack from marauding bands of Fedayin militia.There was
fierce fighting around Basra, where the allies secured an airport and an
important bridge. Coalition forces are, however, banned from storming
residential areas.

Elsewhere in the south, groups of militia used civilian pick-up trucks to
launch mortars and rocket-propelled grenades attacks on supply convoys.
US Marines, chastened by the ambushes and trickery that led to the
deaths and capture of American forces near al-Nasariyah on Sunday, were
forcing men from vehicles, questioning them and slashing their tyres so
that they could not harass convoys.

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Mood Changes as America Finds War is Not a Video Game
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Independent

Monday 25 March 2003

All of a sudden, brutal reality is kicking in. Before the Iraq invasion started,
many Americans imagined the campaign in terms of Hollywood movies or
the video-game abstraction of the television coverage of the first Gulf War
 that virtual reality in which we drop bombs and only the enemy dies, and
off-camera at that.

But after the setbacks, guerrilla-style ambushes, downed helicopters and
disturbing images of US soldiers dying or being taken prisoner over the past
two days, the mood has changed abruptly,

My God, this is getting much messier than I thought, was the reaction of
one young Californian nursery school teacher yesterday. Her colleagues all
concurred.

Across Los Angeles, the mood was overwhelmingly one of consternation
and just a little dread. I have a sick feeling about where this is all heading.
They made us believe this would be a cakewalk, and now look what is
happening, another woman, a writer married to an entertainment lawyer,
said. This can only make the world hate us Americans more. In what is
perhaps a sign of the times, she did not want to be identified by name.

It is hard to know exactly how representative such views are, especially
since southern California has been a bastion of anti-war sentiment. At least
some people who believe in the war were quoted yesterday saying that
casualties and setbacks were to be expected as part of the mission.

But it is also true that the Bush administration massively raised
expectations regarding the speed and ease of the military operation to
topple Saddam Hussein. Before the war started last week, the President
himself talked  in his televised statements, in his 6 March news
conference and in his weekly radio addresses  as though the fighting was
already over and the reconstruction of Iraq had begun.

Earlier this month, with war already looking inevitable and dominating the
news, 43 per cent of respondents in a New York Times/CBS poll said they
expected a quick and successful campaign. By the end of last week, with
the first bombs raining down on Baghdad and ground forces racing to
secure the oilfields in the south, that number had risen to 63 per cent.
More than half said they thought the war would end in a matter of weeks.

Now, however, the trend has been reversed. In another poll published in
yesterday's Washington Post, 54 per cent now believe the United States
will sustain significant casualties in Iraq, up from 37 per cent in a similar
poll taken on the first day of the war last Thursday. One respondent in the
new Washington Post/ABC poll, Daphne Nugent, 40, from New York,
commented: I didn't expect there to be this much trouble. And I'm a little
upset by what I'm hearing in terms of the casualties and the prisoners of
war. I thought it would end pretty easily and quickly, the war part of it
anyway, not the occupation part.

Other New Yorkers, including those who survived the destruction of the
World Trade Centre, have also described their mixed feelings at seeing
similar scenes of buildings under aerial bombardment in Baghdad.

Financial markets are also reacting. After eight straight days of gains, the
Dow Jones index plunged 300 points by lunchtime yesterday, although it
later recovered slightly. Crude oil prices are also rising in response to the
prospect of a longer war.

Several things make this war very different from other recent US military
campaigns. It is much less dependent on air power alone, which has made
the fighting and the dying much more immediate. And it is much more
overtly about taking territory. This is no quick in and out, as were the
Nato campaigns in Bosnia in 1995 and Kosovo in 1999. As several soldiers at
the front have come to appreciate, this is very different from 1991, when
the US-led coalition concentrated on kicking Iraqi forces out of a country,
Kuwait, that had invited it in to do so.

People thought the Iraqis would be waving little American flags like it was
occupied France in World War Two, Vincent Cannistraro, a retired CIA
counter-terrorism expert, commented. This is not an occupied country. It
is Iraq and it is run by Iraqis, and for better or worse they are not
welcoming Americans as liberators.

Both pro-war and anti-war voices agree, in fact, that this is likely to turn
into the most in- your-face conflict that American troops  and, just as
significantly, American public opinion  have faced since Vietnam.

This kind of thing has not been seen on US television screens for more
than 30 years, Sandy Cate, an anthropology professor from San Francisco,
said. You've got one, perhaps two, generations who have grown up with
no idea of what war is really like, other than the cartoon violence they
see at the movies. Well, now they are learning.

Part of the change in attitude is due to the media. Unlike the first Gulf
War, 

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Baghdad Gets Scarier
Nate Thayer
Slate.com

Sunday 23 March 2003

BAGHDAD, Sunday eveningToday, for the first time, the bombs fell and
the missiles struck in daylight. The assault lasted all day. And it came not
only from long-range missiles but from coalition planes that are flying over
our heads and dropping their payloads in the neighborhood of the
Palestine Hotel, where most of the foreign journalists remaining in Baghdad
are staying.

Today is also the first time that I am truly frightened. It is not the
American bombs I am primarily afraid of. What frightens me and Marythe
name I'll give a photographer with whom I've become inseparableis the
mood of the people. The city is thick with anger and defiance, and we are
Americans.

Every day since Mary and I arrived by road from Jordan, we have been
threatened with expulsion. This morning, once again, we were ordered
out. You have two choicesyou can be a human shield or you can leave
the country, said my government minder. He offered this without his usual
smarmy smile.

But what about my visa? I asked.

Your visa is now to heaven, he said, forcing a laugh.

I talked my way out of it once again. My minder said we could obtain visa
extensions provided we take HIV tests. I brought my own syringes, and I
swabbed Mary's arm and extracted a vial of blood in my room. She did the
same for me. We then went to the so- called HIV center together, with
bombs dropping around us, to submit our blood to the Iraqi government.
Of course, they insisted on taking their own samples. Cruise missiles
launched 900 miles away exploded around us, incinerating government
buildings as we partook in this ridiculous charade.

This absurdity over, we returned to the Palestine, where we are as
prepared as we can be for whatever may come next. We have 300 bottles
of the water and have filled the bathtubs in each of several rooms for
reserve. We've stockpiled enough food for weeks. Should the power fail,
we have a generator and jerry cans filled with petrol purchased on the
black market. If a bomb blows out our window, the duct tape we've
covered it with should protect us from flying glass. All of our
electronicscomputers, cameras, communications devicesare wrapped in
aluminum foil against so-called e-bombs that will destroy all the data of
electronic devices.

At 4 p.m. Baghdad time, an American fighter jet dropped its payload so
close that the concussion sucked the air out of our lungs. Mary and I got
in our car and drove toward the site of the explosion.

As we crossed one of the four Tigris bridges, there was an enormous
traffic jam. Hundreds of armed men and civilians were looking down to the
river below. Scores of cars had stopped in the middle of the bridge. We
grabbed our gear and got out.

The rumor was that an allied plane had been shot down. Word spread
through the crowd that two pilots had parachuted from the downed plane
and were floating down the river. One had supposedly already been
captured. Whether there were any pilots in the river, I don't know.

Small boats with heavily armed soldiers searched among the reeds. From
the banks, people took pot shots at objects in the river. Under the
impression that the airman had been captured, thousands of cheering
Iraqis chanted and clapped, shooting AK-47s in the air for joy. People in
both uniform and civilian clothes eyed us with hostility during this
celebration.

Where are you from? demanded an armed Iraqi, looking at me.

Germany, interjected my government guide, abruptly grabbing me by the
arm and yanking me away.

Do not tell them you are American, he whispered as he rushed me to the
car. We must leave. It is very dangerous here.

Then we were on the western side of the Tigris, where the coalition
bombardment has struck hardest. The sounds of imams on speakers
reverberated through the streets calls for the people to kill all the
Americans. We raced through Baghdad's most dangerous area, passing
Saddam's palaces, now piles of burnt rubble. The Foreign Ministry was a
concrete shell with no windows and only sullen soldiers at the entrance.
Apartment buildings recently filled with civilians were charred, burnt,
collapsed, and empty. Hundreds of apartments and no peoplewhere did
they all go? Western medical sources have reported some 300 civilian
injuries in Baghdad but very few killed.

The Iraqi military had now closed all the Tigris River bridges. Mary and I
were stuck. We had to drive north for an hour as bombs continued
dropping around us. This is the road to Babylon, said our government
minder. It felt like Babylon. We then took another road the road to
Kuwait, our guide said. We had to drive north of the city, then east, and
then south to enter Baghdad on the east bank of the Tigris and return to
our hotel.

Explosions are rocking my computer as I write. For the first time, small-
arms fire can be heard throughout the city. Anti-aircraft emplacements
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Bush, You Are Disgracing America: Resign or Be
Impeached



By Bernard Weiner
25 March 2003

Dear George W. Bush: Congratulations! With your decision to bomb and
invade Iraq, you have made yourself

both an enemy of the state and an international war criminal. Everyone has
been telling you not to do it, that attacking Iraq -absent an overt
provocation, and without domestic and international consensus behind
you- is neither in America's best interests, nor in the best interests of
world order and the global economy.

That everyone includes your father, the former President, along with his
security advisors; your top military brass; your longtime allies; the Security
Council of the United Nations; the world's major religious leaders; millions
of ordinary citizens marching for peace across the world; leaders of Arab
and other Muslim countries; an increasing number of conservative and
moderate Republicans; etc. etc.

The fact that even with your threat-and-bribe machine working overtime,
you couldn't even round up a majority on the Security Council to give
some cover to your desire to shock-and-awe your way into war should
have told you something. Clearly, people are afraid of America's military
power, but you wield absolutely no moral authority -zilch, nada, none. Few
wish to follow you into the maw of immorality; few wish to wind up with
you in the war-crimes dock at The Hague.

After the terrorist attack on 9/11, America owned the sympathy of the
world; now the US is a pariah nation, a rogue state. At the time of the
terrorist attack of 9/11, America was solvent; now the American economy
is in tatters (and still you want to cut taxes again, plunging the country
into further debt). In September of 2001, America was a country devoted
to the Constitutional protections of due process of law; now, using
national security as a cover, the US is lurching into a neo-fascist, Big
Brother police state.

In short, Mr. Bush, you and your policies are destined to bring ruin not
only to yourself but to our beloved country as well, and to much of the
world. It is time for you to resign the office into which you've been placed
-I was about to say resign for the good of the country, but clearly that
concept has little meaning for you. If you choose not to resign, rest
assured that you will be impeached.

All your policies seem designed with other agendas in mind: For the good
of your financial backers and corporate supporters; for the good of your
ideological friends; for the good of your re-election campaign. Even if we
were to believe your professed motivations -that, in the end, we will come
to see that your policies were initiated for the good of the country- the
way you're going about it demonstrates appalling ignorance, gross
incompetence, and an insulting manipulation of the American people.

You seem consumed by self-righteousness -believing that you, and you
alone, are the servant of God in this desperate march to violence (leading
to the obvious question: How are you different from Osama bin Laden and
other such fundamentalist terrorists?)- and by your stubborn adherence to
a worldview presented to you by right-wing extremists.

For more than 10 years, these Project for the New American Century
thinkers -whom you have appointed to positions of great power in your
Administration, who now are your Administration- have been urging
American leaders to grab-and-take in the world, since the US is the lone
world Superpower.

Somehow, they think only of how easy it will be to conquer militarily, and
thus to control the world's natural resources and to keep any other
competitor-states from arising. But these rightwing ideologues have no
sense of what is moral, or even what the consequences of their theories
will be, once put into action.

Once before, in Vietnam, an arrogant United States thought itself
unbeatable in a war with a smaller, weaker nation. It possessed all the
napalm, all the high-tech bombs, all the B-52s. But it lacked some
essentials: a sense of what was right, a deep understanding of the culture
it was attacking, a supportive citizenry at home. The US was humiliated and
forced to withdraw, and, to this day, its brave soldiers never knew why
they were supposed to be there.

The US may well win the Iraqi battle you're unleashing. But, once again,
America will lose the war. The world will unite in its hatred and disdain for
your policies. The already shaky US and global economies could well dive
into a deep Depression. Terrorism will flower. Friendly governments will be
overthrown. Domestic dissent will be tenacious. The United Nations may
well falter as an institution.

In short, there is little good that will come of this, even if you are gone
and Saddam Hussein and his tyrannical, dangerous reign are ended and his
weapons 

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Five PoWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries foul. What about
Guantanamo Bay?

George Monbiot
Tuesday March 25, 2003
The Guardian

Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues
of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign
state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its
attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were
paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras on Sunday, Donald
Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, immediately complained that it is
against the Geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in
a manner that is humiliating for them.

He is, of course, quite right. Article 13 of the third convention,
concerning the treatment of prisoners, insists that they must at all times
be protected... against insults and public curiosity. This may number
among the less heinous of the possible infringements of the laws of war,
but the conventions, ratified by Iraq in 1956, are non- negotiable. If you
break them, you should expect to be prosecuted for war crimes.

This being so, Rumsfeld had better watch his back. For this enthusiastic
convert to the cause of legal warfare is, as head of the defence
department, responsible for a series of crimes sufficient, were he ever to
be tried, to put him away for the rest of his natural life.

His prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men (nine of whom
are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles of the
third convention. The US government broke the first of these (article 13)
as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have
done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to
address the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied
behind their backs, wearing blacked-out goggles and earphones. In breach
of article 18, they had been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of
their possessions. They were then interned in a penitentiary (against
article 22), where they were denied proper mess facilities (26), canteens
(28), religious premises (34), opportunities for physical exercise (38),
access to the text of the convention (41), freedom to write to their
families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and books (72).

They were not released and repatriated without delay after the cessation
of active hostilities (118), because, the US authorities say, their
interrogation might, one day, reveal interesting information about al-Qaida.
Article 17 rules that captives are obliged to give only their name, rank,
number and date of birth. No coercion may be inflicted on prisoners of
war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. In the hope of
breaking them, however, the authorities have confined them to solitary
cells and subjected them to what is now known as torture lite: sleep
deprivation and constant exposure to bright light. Unsurprisingly, several
of the prisoners have sought to kill themselves, by smashing their heads
against the walls or trying to slash their wrists with plastic cutlery.

The US government claims that these men are not subject to the Geneva
conventions, as they are not prisoners of war, but unlawful combatants.
The same claim could be made, with rather more justice, by the Iraqis
holding the US soldiers who illegally invaded their country. But this
redefinition is itself a breach of article 4 of the third convention, under
which people detained as suspected members of a militia (the Taliban) or a
volunteer corps (al-Qaida) must be regarded as prisoners of war.

Even if there is doubt about how such people should be classified, article
5 insists that they shall enjoy the protection of the present convention
until such time as their status has been determined by a competent
tribunal. But when, earlier this month, lawyers representing 16 of them
demanded a court hearing, the US court of appeals ruled that as
Guantanamo Bay is not sovereign US territory, the men have no
constitutional rights. Many of these prisoners appear to have been working
in Afghanistan as teachers, engineers or aid workers. If the US government
either tried or released them, its embarrassing lack of evidence would be
brought to light.

You would hesitate to describe these prisoners as lucky, unless you knew
what had happened to some of the other men captured by the Americans
and their allies in Afghanistan. On November 21 2001, around 8,000 Taliban
soldiers and Pashtun civilians surrendered at Konduz to the Northern
Alliance commander, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. Many of them have
never been seen again.

As Jamie Doran's film Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death records, some
hundreds, possibly thousands, of them were loaded into container lorries
at Qala-i-Zeini, near the town of Mazar-i-Sharif, on November 26 and 27.
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Deadly militia poses unexpected threat

March 25 2003

The Fedayeen have emerged as a new and unexpected threat to United
States forces.

The Fedayeen is a militia commanded by Saddam Hussein's son Uday. Its
members are recruited from Iraq's intelligence agencies and its Republican
Guard. There are an estimated 60,000 members and as many as 1000 in
southern Iraq opposing US forces.

The Fedayeen is one of several security agencies and intelligence services
in Iraq. Its function is to ensure the survival of Saddam's government
against internal and external threats.

US officials are well aware of the Fedayeen and thought members of it
might be confronted in Baghdad or in some southern cities. But they did
not expect them to be so aggressive.

The Fedayeen is equipped with four-wheel-drive vehicles, trucks, machine-
guns, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. Members of the militia do
not wear uniforms but are dressed in civilian clothes, US officials said.

They may not be the only irregular forces operating in the south. Some of
the other fighters who have
ambushed US troops may include hard-core Baath Party officials and
members of Iraq's intelligence organisation.

Saddam has set up multiple security organisations to ensure that his
survival does not depend on a single agency and to establish a system in
which the organisations watch each other.

The most dedicated Fedayeen members are organised in the Golden
Company, described as a group of militants prepared to fight to the
death.

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National Review Isnt Right
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dmccarthy/dmccarthy47.html
by Daniel McCarthy



A few weeks ago on this very site Jeffrey Tucker wrote what a lot of us
have long known to be true but didnt want to admit: that conservatisms
problems predate the rise of neoconservatism by about two decades, or
maybe even more  after all, before there was Bill Buckley and National
Review there was Germanys Bismarck and Britains hapless Tories. They
were conservatives too, and thats what they called themselves, unlike
Americas traditional anti-statists who generally refused the label. The late
Frank Chodorov was known to threaten anyone who called him a
conservative with a punch in the nose.

One must not speak ill of the dead, but it is worth saying that not
everyone who calls himself a conservative is one, and not everyone who
doesnt isnt. This isnt unreasonable: most so- called liberals arent liberal,
and nowadays there are libertarians who dont give a damn about liberty.
Once any political designation has become popular among anti-statists its
only a matter of time before the other side tries to steal it, and usually
succeeds. If it were just the name it wouldnt matter, but along with the
word itself come institutions, misguided individuals, and even whole
movements. Once upon a time The Nation magazine really was liberal, in
the classical sense, under editors like E.L. Godkin and Oswald Garrison
Villard. But the socialists who co-opted the liberal name and implausibly
claimed the liberal tradition for their own also took over The Nation.
Thats the way it works.

Thats the way it worked with conservatism too, albeit with a twist.
National Review, unlike The Nation, was never co- opted. Instead it had
been designed from day one as a vehicle though which to redefine the
American Right, and to this day that continues to be its mission. Thats
why at the same time that a shooting war got under way in Iraq, National
Review launched an assault of a different kind closer to home, against the
wars critics on the Right. For months and even years, National Review had
ignored the anti-war Right, but with LewRockwell.coms readership
surpassing that of National Review Online and dwarfing that of the print
edition of National Review  and with a battalion of other unapproved
conservatives rising up, from the American Conservative to VDARE  Bill
Buckleys magazine could no longer afford to remain silent. The gang at
National Review had to act, or else National Review would not be the
flagship of the American Right for very much longer.

From the very beginning National Review was an imposture  and even back
then a lot of conservative knew it, as some of the Goldwaterites and pre-
Goldwaterites can attest  but as long as the magazine was the only game
in town and by far the best known conservative outlet it could get away
with the fraud. But the Internet made that impossible; now anyone who
looks for it can find real conservatism on the web, and given the choice
between the real thing and what National Review is selling... well, the
numbers speak for themselves.

LewRockwell.com is conservative and National Review isnt because if
conservatism is to mean anything other than mindless defense of the status
quo, it has to mean something like this:



...a conservative is a realist, who believes that there is a structure of
reality independent of his own will and desire. He believes that there is a
creation which was here before him, which exists now not by just his
sufferance, and which will be here after hes gone. This structure consists
not merely of the great physical world but also of many laws, principles,
and regulations which control human behavior. Though this reality is
independent of the individual, it is not hostile to him. It is in fact amenable
by him in many ways, but it cannot be changed radically and arbitrarily.
This is the cardinal point. The conservative holds that man in this world
cannot make his will his law without any regard to limits and to the fixed
nature of things.

The words (and the italics) belong to Richard M. Weaver, and are taken
from his essay Conservatism and Libertarianism: The Common Ground, as
reproduced in In Defense of Tradition: the Collected Shorter Writings of
Richard M. Weaver, 19291963. Lest there be any doubt, Weaver specifies
in the same essay what some of those laws, principles and regulations
which control human behavior are: There is a concept expressed by
some economists today in the word praxeology. Praxeology, briefly
defined, is the science of how things work because of their essential
natures.

You wont find any mention of praxeology at National Review Online, but
you most certainly will at LewRockwell.com. Praxeological laws are only
one kind of law, however, and only one facet of reality. Unfortunately
National Review Online is no better at discussing any other kind of natural
law in a systematic fashion. If Weavers definition of conservatism is

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Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards

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By Joel Bleifuss | Mar 24, 03
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Michael Moore: Im an American, and you
dont leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak
Theatre. ... I dont stop being who I am when I come to this ceremony,
and Im extremely grateful for this response.



On Day 5 of the war, it was supremely ironic that network television
viewers had to tune into the 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony to
hear voices that questioned the wisdom of the Bush Administration.

Rumblings of protest began on Saturday. At the Independent Spirit Awards
(the award ceremony for independent films) in Santa Monica, California,
Maggie Gyllenhaal, the starred in Secretary, said the country was in the
middle of a war about oil and imperialism and I hope for peace as soon as
we can possibly find it. That same afternoon at the Miramax party,.it was
reported that crooner Michael Feinstein couldnt rouse the guest to sing
God Bless America no matter how hard he tried.

Then there was ABCs presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday
night. It started off on a good note with Steve Martin, saying, I am really
glad they cut back on the red carpet, thatll send them a message.
Minutes later he followed up with with, A movie star is many things: they
can be tall, short, thin or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny.

The political statements ranged from the subdued to angry. Susan
Sarandon, wearing the Dove of Peace pins designed by Henry Dunay for
Global vision for Peace, flashed a peace sign. Chris Cooper, winner of the
best supporting actor for his role in Adaptation, quietly said, In light of all
the troubles in this world, I wish us peace.

Gael Garcia Bernal, the hunky star of Y Tu Mama Tambien, introducing the
nominated best song from Frida, said to loud applause: The necessity for
peace in the world is not a dream, it is a reality. And we are not alone. If
Frida was alive, she would be on our side, against war.

Pedro Almodovar, accepting the Oscar for best original screenplay for Talk
to Her, read a statement: I also want to dedicate this award to all the
people who are raising their voices in favor of peace, respect of human
rights, democracy and international legality, all of which are essential
qualities [for life.]

And the audience cheered as Adrien Brody, who won best actor for The
Pianist, admonished the orchestra to stop so he could say, Whether you
believe in Allah or God, may he watch over you, and pray for a peaceful
and swift resolution to this war.

And then there was Michael Moore. He received a standing ovation when
Bowling for Columbine was announced the winner of best documentary.
The Chicago Tribunes Mark Caro reported that the pressroom also
erupted in applause when it was announced that Moore had won.

Taking the stage, flanked by documentary filmmakers, Moore said:

Ive invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us. They
are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like
nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time when we have
fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time
where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it is
the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this
war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. And any time that
you have the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

John Horn of the L.A. Times reported that as Moores speech reached its
crescendo Oscar producer Gil Cates and director Louis Horvitz, who were
in the production truck, decided to cut him off. Music! Music! Horvitz
yelled. The orchestra quickly drowned out the rest of Moores speech.
And his microphone receded into the floor.

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it. The teamsters are
helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo, quipped Steve Martin.

Most of the Hollywood audience smiled and applauded, but stagehands,
who were close to the microphones, booed loudly, making it appear to a
television listener that Moores criticism of President Bush was not well
received.

Back stage, Moore kept up his criticism. These remarks were well reported
by the Tribunes Mark Caro and the Chicago Sun-Times Bill Zwecker, but
most of the national media ignored them.

Reporter: Why did you do what you did?
Moore: Im an American
Reporter: Thats it?
Moore: Well thats a lot. Im an American, and you dont leave your
citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theatre. ... I dont
stop being who I am when I come to this ceremony, and Im extremely
grateful for this response.

Moore wanted it made clear that despite the loud boos from the
stagehands, the Hollywood audience was behind him: Dont report that
there was a split decision in the hall because five people booed, he said.
I did not hear that. I saw the entire place stand up and applaud, 

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Analysis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,921369,00.html


The Republican Guard: outgunned and outnumbered, but they never
surrender

As US and British troops meet with fierce resistance, an expert on the
Iraqi army profiles Saddam Hussein's elite security forces and warns they
have the potential to be formidable opponents

Amatzia Baram
Tuesday March 25, 2003
The Guardian

The Republican Guard consists of three armoured, one mechanised and
two infantry divisions, with between 65,000 and 70,000 soldiers. Almost all
of Iraq's top-of-the-line Soviet made and also Iraqi-assembled T-72 main
battle tanks, some 600-700 of them, are to be found in the guard divisions.
The regular army has to settle for the relatively antiquated T-55 and T-62
tanks.

The guard remains a viable force although it has been eroded since the
Gulf war. In recent years Saddam Hussein has begun to turn it into his
private army. Since the late 1980s the guard has been the regime's means
of dealing with two problems presented by the regular army and especially
its officer corps: the army's diminishing capability and fighting spirit, and its
doubtful support for the regime.

There have been sporadic reports of dissent within the guard, but in
essence it remains loyal to the regime and leader. The guard has invariably
proved more able at fighting than regular army units, and unlike many army
units, has never surrendered or fled from the battlefield in the face of a
superior enemy.

Many officers in the guard hail from Tikrit, from President Saddam's clan,
Albu Nasir, and from other friendly tribes, mostly Sunni muslim. Since 1988
the guard, under the direct command of the presidential palace rather
than the general staff, has been granted special perks, transforming its
officers into a relatively privileged class.

As of late 2002, its commander was an experienced field commander,
Lieutenant General Sayf al-Din Fulayyih al-Rawi, a Sunni muslim whose family
hails from Rawa, west of the capital. Its secretary general was Major
General Kamal Mustafa abd Allah Sultan, President Saddam's paternal
relative, and, according to one source, also his son-in-law. He is a far less
experienced field officer, as his main expertise is internal security (he is
former commander of the Special Republican Guard), but his loyalty to
President Saddam is solid.

Armoured units of the guard, notably the Hammurabi and Madina divisions,
will begin the defensive battle outside Baghdad, possibly from Karbala, the
Shia holy city south of the capital. Their job will be to defend essential
crossing points and slowdown the American forces. The more loyal units
will eventually be ordered to withdraw into the city, and fight while using
civilians as shields.

How will they fight?

The guard's armoured divisions' fighting against the American forces in 1991
may serve as an illustration. They
were usually well placed and dug in but they were badly outgunned. The
American M-1s could penetrate the Soviet-made T-72s' armour from over
two miles; the T- 72s could penetrate the frontal armour of the M-1 only
at a very close range. With far-superior night vision equipment, the US
tanks could destroy an Iraqi tank at night from a distance of a mile. The
tanks thus became death traps for the Iraqi crews.

On the other hand, the guard demonstrated impressive tenacity and no
unit withdrew without authorisation, in contrast to the regular army units,
many of whose tank crews deserted. The tactical shortfalls of the guard
officers are substantial, but tenacity can go some way to make up for lack
of professionalism, especially when Iraqi soldiers are shootiusing civilians as
a shield. This is already constraining British and US forces in Nassiriya, Umm
Qasr and Basra.

Special Republican Guard

The SRG is divided into four brigades and 14 battalions, and numbers
around 20,000-25,000. It is a commando
force armed mostly with light and medium weapons but it also has two tank
battalions (70-90 T-72 tanks), three artillery batteries and three air
defence batteries. Its main task is to maintain calm in the capital and put
down any revolt or coup attempt. It also has security duties in four
presidential palaces in Tikrit.

It is equipped with a large number of anti-tank weapons. The SRG
command falls under the office of the special security organization,
President Saddam's personal protection unit.

Most officers and soldiers in the SRG hail from President Saddam's clan and
from his hometown of Tikrit, as well as some neighbouring and friendly
clans and towns, like Dur and Beiji. Most officers know President Saddam
personally; in their bar racks, posted by their beds, they have photographs
of themselves and their families standing proudly beside the president. So
far there have been no reports of coup attempts hatched within the SRG,
a distinction that sets it apart from the regular army, air force and guard.

In battle, even when the advantage of the American forces 

[CTRL] Y'all come to Texas, now...

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http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24220
Arab News
SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY

Arabs Dont Take Kindly to Those Who Hurt Their Pride
Saeed Haider, Arab News Staff
Published on 25 March 2003

DAMMAM, 25 March 2003  It is proving to be a war of miscalculations for
the United
States and Britain. The increasing lines on the faces of President Bush and
Prime Minister Tony Blair clearly show a mounting uneasiness within
themselves.

Their post-invasion statements, such as it will be a long and hard war,
are contradicting previous assertions that Iraq will fall to the so-called
allied forces within days.

It is now openly admitted in the corridors of Pentagon that the attack was
not slated for Thursday, May 20. After the first round of bombing and
missile attacks on Baghdad, the Pentagon said that it was not the
beginning of A-Day and that the attack was launched after receiving
intelligence information that the regime leadership was in a meeting in a
place in Baghdad.

The first attack was aimed at decapitating the regime leadership. But just
three hours after the first barrage, America and Britain saw the results of
their miscalculations when Saddam Hussein popped up on TV screens
addressing his nation and the world  affirming that he was very much
alive. The rest of the argument put by US Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and his British counterpart Geoff Hoon, that he was injured and
carried away in an ambulance, was nothing but beating around the bush!

Certainly Saddams appearance on TV was the first taste of humiliation for
the invading forces of Bush and Blair.

It was this humiliation which prompted the Pentagon to go ahead with
their Shock and Awe attack, and once again their calculations failed. Al-
Jazeera channel, as well as SKY TV, showed Iraqis unfazed by the raining
down of cruise missiles and Tomahawks and the bombardment by B-52 and
Stealth bombers.

It is now crystal clear that when President Bush planned his attack on
Iraq, he counted much on gaining support from within Iraq  especially in
the south where Shiites had rebelled in 1991 war. This theory was evident
in initial Pentagon predictions that they will secure Basra within 24
hours.

SKY TV and CNN reported capture of Umm Qasr and Safwan, and even
showed footage of Iraqis welcoming American forces. President Bush was
so confident of capturing Umm Qasr that he even said on TV that
humanitarian aid will reach Umm Qasr Port within 36 hours. Generals are
now saying it is not safe for ships to berth at Umm Qasr.

Millions of pamphlets were air- dropped in southern Iraq, especially in
Basra, with a hope the disgruntled population of southern Iraq, mainly
Shiites, will lend a complete support to American forces. SKY TV showed
a Safwan resident, Khalifa, who bluntly told Americans: We dont trust
you. Where is the aid? You promised us help 12 years ago, and it has not
yet arrived.

It was a very clear indication of anger among the Iraqis against America and
the United Kingdom.

What shocked invading forces most was the scene in Basra, where Iraqi
Shiite women were putting Iraqi national flag in bombed buildings and
chanting slogans in praise of Saddam Hussein.

What Bush and Blair failed to realize is that their actions has consolidated
Saddams position both at home and abroad. Whatever political opposition
Saddam had evaporated when the invasion commenced. Bush failed to
understand Arab pride. It was not question of Saddam Hussein and his
dictatorial regime, but the pride and honor of Arabs which was being
defaced and defied by America and its partner. No Arab could ever
tolerate foreign forces on their land. Bush Senior did realize this
psychology and, as a result, refused to enter Baghdad in 1991. The then
Defense Secretary and current US vice President Dick Cheney supported
going all the way to Baghdad; but the then president vetoed the idea.
Bush has to accept the simple reality that Arabs resent the presence of
Americans troops on their land.





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Posted on Mon, Mar. 24, 2003

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/5472430.htm



Rumsfeld's strategy under fire as war risks become increasingly apparent

By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Five days into the war, the optimistic assumptions of the
Pentagon's civilian
war planners have yet to be realized, the risks of the campaign are
becoming increasingly apparent and some current and retired military
officials are warning that there may be a mismatch between Secretary of
Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's strategy and the force he's sent to carry it
out.

The outcome of the war isn't in doubt: Iraq's forces are no match for
America and its allies. But, so far, defeating them is proving to be harder,
and it could prove to be longer and costlier in American and Iraqi lives
than the architects of the American war plan expected.

And if weather, Iraqi resistance, chemical weapons or anything else turned
things suddenly and unexpectedly sour, the backup force, the Army's 4th
Infantry Division, is still in Texas with its equipment sailing around the
Arabian peninsula.

Despite the aerial pounding they've taken, it's not clear that Saddam
Hussein, his lieutenants or their praetorian guard are either shocked or
awed. Instead of capitulating, some regular Iraqi army units are harassing
American supply lines. Contrary to American hopes - and some officials'
expectations - no top commander of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard
has capitulated. Even some ordinary Iraqis are greeting advancing American
and British forces as invaders, not as liberators.

This is the ground war that was not going to happen in (Rumsfeld's) plan,
said a Pentagon official. Because the Pentagon didn't commit overwhelming
force, now we have three divisions strung out over 300-plus miles and the
follow-on division, our reserve, is probably three weeks away from landing.

Asked Monday about concerns that the coalition force isn't big enough,
Defense Department spokesperson Victoria Clarke replied: ... most people
with real information are saying we have the right mix of forces. We also
have a plan that allows it to adapt and to scale up and down as needed.

Knowledgeable defense and administration officials say Rumsfeld and his
civilian aides at first wanted to commit no more than 60,000 American
troops to the war on the assumption that the Iraqis would capitulate in
two days.

Intelligence officials say Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and other
Pentagon civilians ignored much of the advice of the Central Intelligence
Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency in favor of reports from the
Iraqi opposition and from Israeli sources that predicted an immediate
uprising against Saddam once the Americans attacked.

The officials said Rumsfeld also made his disdain for the Army's heavy
divisions very clear when he argued about the war plan with Army Gen.
Tommy Franks, the allied commander. Franks wanted more and more
heavily armed forces, said one senior administration official; Rumsfeld kept
pressing for smaller, lighter and more agile ones, with much bigger roles
for air power and special forces.

Our force package is very light, said a retired senior general. If things
don't happen exactly as you assumed, you get into a tangle, a mismatch of
your strategy and your force. Things like the pockets (of Iraqi resistance)
in Basra, Umm Qasr and Nasariyah need to be dealt with forcefully, but we
don't have the forces to do it.

The Secretary of Defense cut off the flow of Army units, saying this thing
would be over in two days, said a retired senior general who has followed
the evolution of the war plan. He shut down movement of the 1st Cavalry
Division and the1st Armored Division. Now we don't even have a nominal
ground force.

He added ruefully: As in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, we are using
concepts and methods that are entirely unproved. If your strategy and
assumptions are flawed, there is nothing in the well to draw from.

In addition, said senior administration officials, speaking on the condition
of anonymity, Rumsfeld and his civilian aides rewrote parts of the military
services' plans for shipping U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf, which they said
resulted in a number of mistakes and delays, and also changed plans for
calling up some reserve and National Guard units.

There was nothing too small for them to meddle with, said one senior
official. It's caused no end of problems, but I think we've managed to
overcome them all.

Robin Dorff, the director of national security strategy at the U.S. Army War
College in Carlisle, Pa., said three things have gone wrong in the campaign:

_A mismatch between expectations and reality.

_The threat posed by irregular troops, especially the 60,000 strong Saddam
Fedayeen, who are harassing the 300-mile-long supply lines crucial to
fueling and resupplying the armor units barreling toward Baghdad.

_The Turks threatening to move more troops into northern Iraq, 

[CTRL] British troops withdraw

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-622543,00.html

March 24, 2003

British troops withdraw from Basra
By afp and Martin Bentham in BASRA


Fierce resistance has forced British troops to withdraw from Basra to
regroup, British military officials said this afternoon, as the Red Cross
warned of a potential humanitarian crisis in the city.

Elements of Britain's Seventh Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats, withdrew
from the southern Iraqi city - the nation's second largest. They had come
under attack, as they blocked the main routes into the city from the
north and south, from mortar fire and from guerrillas disguised in civilian
clothes.

Military officials also said that irregular forces pretended to surrender and
used women and children as decoys.

British commanders said this evening that they were considering calling in
Royal Marine Commandos and the 16th Air Assault Brigade, the parachute
regiment.

Both forces specialise in urban warfare and peacekeeping and are
considered far better suited to street combat than the Challenger 2 tanks
and Warrior armoured personnel carriers of the Desert Rats.

It looks like being a lot tougher than we thought. We are now looking at
using the Queens and the paras. Basra is a divisional operation now, not
just 7th Armoured Brigade, said one officer.

Some of the strongest resistance today came from the Fedayin militia and
security services armed with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.

Members of the Fedayin, a militia controlled by Saddam's son Uday, have
taken to disguising themselves in civilian clothes, mixing with families and
then emerging from crowds to fire on the coalition forces, military officials
said.

They said they were also concerned that the Iraqis might use a captured
British vehicle as a car bomb.

The Desert Rats had at one point surrounded the city and Tony Blair told
the House of Commons today that Basra had been made secure. But
military officials later admitted that they had vastly underestimated the
strength of Iraqi resistance and the loyalty of Basra's population to
Saddam.

We're currently taking stock of the situation. We were expecting a lot of
hands up from Iraqi soldiers and for the humanitarian operation in Basra to
begin fairly quickly behind us, with aid organisations providing food and
water to the locals, Captain Patrick Trueman said. But it hasn't quite
worked out that way.

There are significant elements in Basra who are hugely loyal to the
regime. Their loyalty is rewarded with a better standard of living than
most, so they don't want to give it up easily.

British artillery shells were later fired into the city, where 1,000 Iraqi
fighters are believed to be sheltering, some using civilian buildings as
bases.

Serious pockets of resistance were also uncovered in al Zubayr, a town
about 15 miles west of Basra.

Meanwhile the International Committee of the Red Cross said that Basra's
population of around 2 million was facing a potential humanitarian crisis.

The main water treatment plant on the northern edge of Basra, scene of
fierce fighting, has been out of action since Friday due to a power cut.

If we do not manage to re-establish the water system in Basra very rapidly
to a sufficient level, we will have a major humanitarian crisis, Balthasar
Staehelin, ICRC Director General of the Middle East and North Africa told a
news conference.

Although other plants were able to supply 40 per cent of usual needs, the
quality of the water was poor, the ICRC said.

Daytime temperatures in Basra can reach 40 degrees Celsius (104
Fahrenheit).

Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General called for urgent
measures to help restore water and electricity.

A city of that size cannot afford to go without electricity or water for
long. Apart from the water aspect, you can imagine what it does for
sanitation, he said.

Al-Jazeera television reported bombing in Basra today, showing columns of
smoke rising from the city.
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All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We are
going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein
that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage war to preserve
the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle is that the UN's word
must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to guarantee that
it is, then by gum, we will.

Peace is too important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right?

Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the
democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that too,
because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped by a little
thing like democracy as they define it.

Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot afford
dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against Saddam
Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard.

We are sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that
might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does. And we are
twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us oust a regime
that twists the arms of the opposition.

We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our
people, and people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we
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http://www.allhatnocattle.net/3-19-03-liberty-shield.htm
Not only did the French give us the Statue of Liberty but they gave us the
word liberty by introducing it to the English language before the English
did.

Main Entry: liberty
Pronunciation: 'li-br-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French libert, from Latin libertat-,
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Date: 14th century

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Interesting that the word liberal is derived from the word liberty. Geez,
ever notice how the right wing has tried to change the definition of
liberal?sarcasm  No wonder they are so confused.

The Golden Gate bridge is depicted in a scene from the new sci-fi film 'The
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about the Earth's core. Geophysicist Dr. J. Marvin Herndon published his
theory that the Earth's nuclear furnace could die in as little as 100 years
or as long as one billion years, and if it did it's possible that the planet's
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Re: [CTRL] GOOD NEWS - FW: It is unravelling!

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In a message dated 3/25/2003 1:24:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Here, in CH, heard from Ex and someone else
that it is all over TV and the media now, the entire
Bush family business interests in this war,
everything behind-the-scenes is coming out
and being openly discussed in Swiss, Austrian
and German media now.

You don't have to go that far. Just take a look at the March 2003 issue of The Jim Hightower Lowdown. There is a column "Dirty Dealings in Data" that gives a tip of the hat to ChoicePoint, Inc (the firm used by Katherine Harris to negate 57,000 folks from the Florida voter rolls) and another called Sybase that is selling a PATRIOT-compliant software patch (the lucky big investor? Winston Partners, founded by Dubya's brother, Marvin. Forbes reports them to be part of "a few winners" emerging from the war on terror. Prudy
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Re: [CTRL] Making a mess

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In a message dated 3/24/2003 3:39:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

The perception of 'war gone wrong' reveals as much about America's
cautious military

strategy as it does about events on the ground. Having launched a war
with the aim of doing as little as possible to achieve its ends - and a
military strategy that stressed avoiding risky action and hand-to-hand
combat - military commanders now seem surprised that they may actually
have to fight. It is the wishful-thinking element of the military strategy, and
America and Britain's own defensiveness, that makes the current situation
seem so very 'shaky'.


I will say that I've never seen a less effective (in fact down right dumb) military plan of action. Even the logistics have not been well thought out. The series of mistake after mistake in operations is another eye opener. I can't figure out who is planning what. As for the mechanics who took a wrong turn. Why were they alone and unguided? Does anyone over there know where they're going and why? And the plunge toward Baghdad, they're leaving a lot of uncontrolled open space behind them. That defeated Napoleon and Hitler in Russia. I'd be a mite more careful there too. What a fiasco. Prudy
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Re: [CTRL] Hostages to fortune

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But the Iraqi prisoners of war who were shown being searched,

handcuffed, and walking in lines with their hands above their heads could
also be said to have been shown in a humiliating light for the purpose of
public curiosity. 'There's been a little violation on each side', concludes
Dentley F Vagts, a specialist on the laws of war at Harvard University Law
School (5).


I too found this interesting. If we expect our prisoners to be treated in total compliance with the Geneva Conventions, then what about all those guys we're holding in Cuba. I guess we don't have to, but they have to--or something? Maybe there's been a lot of violation on each side. And in Afghanistan even before they were aware that Walker was an American, he was being very roughly interrogated by our CIA agents. I know that the one agent's family totally blame Walker for his death, but just how an unarmed man in handcuffs with two bullet wounds could have killed anyone has always been a mystery to me. It's always been true that nations at war cheat on the Geneva Conventions. Still since we are doing what we do, it might be a good idea not to fuss too loudly about the behavior of others. Prudy 
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[CTRL] 65 Billion Dollars

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What did I wake up to this morning, when I turned on the 
radio news? Get this, George W. Bush is going to petition the American Congress 
today for ... get this 65 Billion dollars in an aid request package, to pay for 
this genocidal invasion of iraq.

Hmmm... that is interesting, 65 billion dollars huh? So in 
other words this invasion (not war) has not even been paid for by taxpayers of 
america as of yet, but is a campaign being fought on borrowed time and 
money.

One can only wonder if that is the case, how long George 
W. Bush can continue this charade of mock freedom fighting, which is nothing 
more than re-buttressing of the chickhawk republican zionist right wing guard in 
Washington. 

My question though is specifically directed towards the 
American Taxpayer. Is this invasion worth that type of price tag? Ask yourself? 
I mean, I am a practical guy, and find it interesting how confusing issues such 
as war propoganda proliferation etc etc, confuses even the wise amongst us, but 
when the accountant sits down to tally the count in dollars and cents, things 
become crystal clear in such situations.

65 Billion dollars 
America

... no not million, billion we are talking about here 


you don't have to be Michael Moore, or for that matter 
from Hollywood to figure out this one out. It doesn't take a genius to figure 
out this one. Comon America, wake up and smell the coffee, are you not tired of 
being taken for a ride by the chickhawk express???



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Re: [CTRL] Saddam's son beats 12-year-olds who say no to sex: defectors

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While Sutherland and I would probably not agree on what is Greenwich
Mean Time, (he making it up and my going to the website), there is
corroboration for this information in the book Circle of Fear by Hussein
Samaida.  Samaida is the son of one of Saddam Hussein's principal
lieutenants and was a member of the Iraqi elite.  The book came out in
1991.  While the book is full of inside information on the political and
military doings of the elite there, there is also information on the
culture of the elite.  He left and took asylum in Canada.

New Year's Day 1987 I was invited to a birthday party for one of the
Mukhabaret men.  The party was to be held in a special neighborhood on
Umm al-Khanazir, an island in the Tigris, located where the river bends
at the southern edge of Baghdad.  On the surface it looks like any
well-to-do neighborhood:  large homes with tended gardens, guarded by
armed sentries.

The whole island is owned by the Ba'thist Party, and the houses are
used for the entertainment of the elite.  I learned that to have a party
in Umm-al-Khanazir, one needed special permission from the office of the
Ba'thist Party headquarters, Internal Affairs--a horribly apt title as
it turned out.

Inside each house is comfortable, but in order to leave room for
dancing, the L-shaped salons are sparcely furnished.  Our birthday party
was an ordinary-enough affair, with twenty or so agents and as many
girls.  I played deejay while everyone ate, drank and danced to western
pop music.

That night, I learned more about this neighborhood and what went on
behind its closed doors.  The person who told me was an officer in one
of the Amn security departments.  After a few drinks, he entertained the
group --sickened might be more accurate--with stories about other
parties that went on in these houses, affairs attended by party
higher-ups.  Like everything else in this Iraqi-Arabian nightmare, sex
is deformed, perverted and full of terror.  The story I heard wasn't a
tale filled with romantic clichés about dark-eyed desert sheikhs and
pampered harem beauties who drift about in gauzy silk, eating figs until
summoned to the royal cushions.  Many of Saddam's men have quite
different tastes.

A party bigwig reserves the houses, has the furniture moved out of the
salon leaving only the cushions.  When the host arrives, he brings with
him his own privately sponsored musical group.  The party bigwigs all
have groups who cater to their individual taste in entertainment.
There is usually a singer, backed up by a small band, who has a
repertoire of old Bedouin and modern Iraqi members.  Such musical groups
are bought and paid for, and preferably its members are all blind.

The Ba'th has been a bonanza for blind musicians.  They're preferred
because the feature attraction at these soirees is erotic dancing by
young Egyptian boys.  They bend and writhe, stripping off scanty
costumes down to their smooth young skin.  As the nude dancing boys
excite them, the men begin to beat the boys with special batons and
whips brought for the occasion.  Most of the boys are male prostitutes
of sixteen or seventeen.  Some never grow older.

The climax of the evening is the rape of the boys by these Iraqi rulers
who profess such an abhorrence of homosexuals.  Grunting and yelling
obscenities, they brutalize their lovers, competing to see who can
make his victim scream the loudest in agony.  Many of the boys end up in
hospital, presumably to be mended for further use.  Others, it is said,
die of their injuries.

I know that prisoners in Iraqi jails are often subjected to the same
sadism, a hideous form of hypocrisy and cruelty that says more about
these men than any other single fact.  Worse, there is nothing new about
this intimate horror.  It's not unique to Iraq or to the Ba'th Party.
Others have written of the same tortures in Iranian, Turkish and Greek
prisons.  Sexual sadism seems to be a common denominator of male
tyrants.  I won't even pretend to understand what it means, but it's
dark and evil.

Iraqi sadists prefer to act out their perversions on Egyptians because
they can never be sure if an Iraqi victim might turn out to be an agent
for one of the other security branches, or might have powerful family
relatives.  Moreover, Iraqis are renowned for pride and arrogance.  The
Egyptians are considered inferior, and they are submissive and available
in large numbers.  Iraqis like to say the Egyptians are easy to jump
over, like a low wall.

Egyptians have always been present in Iraq, where they are employed in
menial jobs that Iraqis refused to do.  Many more Egyptians arrived
after the war with Iran began to deplete the work force.  They soon
filled posts left vacant by the military draft.  After a few years of
conflict, it was hard to find an Iraqi in any of the businesses along
Rashid Street.  Egyptians literally became the lifeblood of the
community.  Those who weren't drug addicts were forced to donate blood
to the 

[CTRL] Killing 2 Million Civilians With Thirst - over half of them children under 15

[Jei]

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http://truthout.org/docs_03/032603A.shtml

 Annan Seeks Urgent Steps to Get Water to Basra
 Reuters

 Monday 24 March 2003

 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on
 Monday called for urgent measures to help the people of Basra in
 southern Iraq obtain adequate water supplies amid heavy fighting
 between U.S. and British forces and Iraqi defenders.

 I have heard a report from the (International) Red Cross that the
 people in Basra may be facing a humanitarian disaster in that they
 have no water and they have no electricity, Annan told reporters
 at U.N. headquarters.

 I think urgent measures should be taken to restore electricity and
 water to that population, he said. A city of that size cannot
 afford to go without electricity or water for long. Apart from the
 water aspect, you can imagine what it does for sanitation.

 Basra's main Wafa al-Qaed water treatment plant on the northern
 edge of the city has been out of action due to a power outage since
 Friday and although other plants are able to supply some 40 percent
 of usual needs, the quality of the water is poor, the International
 Committee of the Red Cross said in Geneva.

 This is an emergency situation. We need to restore the full
 supply, Red Cross spokeswoman Nada Doumani said. She said she did
 not know the reason for the power cut.

 Adequate drinking water is vital for the local population because
 day time temperatures in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, can
 soar toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), she said. Basra
 has a population of around 2 million.

 Tamara al-Rifai, ICRC spokesperson in Kuwait, told Reuters the ICRC
 was waiting for guarantees of safe passage from the combatants in
 order to be able to repair Wafa al-Qaed.

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[CTRL] EU and Iraq

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We need some public examination of the
roles of the EU and the US in regard to Iraq.  Here is starter
information which was passed on to me.  



http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25523153.htm



http://www.globalprogress.org/ingles/Washington/gardner.html



http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?sid=9
  (Re Solana and the UN)










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[CTRL] Why do you do this to us?

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Counting Iraq's dead civilians
By Jackson Thoreau

Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially
not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb.
bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on
Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to
acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullah’s
eight-year-old son.

Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bush’s and Cheney’s Blood for Oil, Inc.
war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care
less. Welcome to the New World Order.

U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts,
especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bush’s claim to
the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian
casualties, unless they are so large that even our
corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them.

But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old.
He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book.

He’s number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs
continues to rise.

Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and
continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I
have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call
themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again
about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage
Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood
crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war
remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that
there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed.
Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the
way the Bush administration wants them painted.

I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from
London’s Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the
Wilderness’ Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to
protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the
United Kingdom’s Independent Media Centre.

And I’m here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and
others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians – many of them children, as
almost half of Baghdad’s population is under age 14 - have been killed by
the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more
will probably soon die in hospitals.

At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do
this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team.
Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two
daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside
Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers.

Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student at a high school for girls, is among those
with deep wounds who must suffer in anguish without basic medicines that
could at least give her some temporary relief from the pain. Cheney’s oil
company, Dallas-based Halliburton, could make millions supplying Iraq with
oil equipment after the 1991 Gulf War. But relief workers could not ship
basic medicines to Iraq because that violated the economic sanctions imposed
by the UN on Hussein’s regime. To repeat: Cheney’s company can make millions
in oil deals, but Iraqi kids like Nada cannot get basic medicines.

Want to talk precision bombing? Talk to Nahla Harbi, a passenger driving
away from Baghdad with her two-year-old when a military school for boys was
struck, causing her car to roll. She escaped with fractures in both legs.
Her toddler suffered head injuries.

Talk to the families of the five Syrians who died when a U.S. missile struck
a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border. Ten other passengers, most of
whom were laborers working in Iraqi oil fields, were injured.
One of the more ludicrous aspects of this war is how U.S. officials are
crying foul when Iraq pulls a few tricks like pretend surrenders and putting
POWs on television. Iraq is violating the Geneva Convention, U.S.
officials say. These are the same officials who ignore international laws
such as the UN charter that states one country cannot invade another without
provocation or the blessing of the UN Security Council. These are the same
officials who ignore international treaties like those governing nuclear
weapons and global warming.

So it’s unfair for Iraq to put prisoners on television or use civilians as
soldiers or women and kids as shields? Tell me, what’s fair about one side
spending $400 billion annually on nuclear weapons, high-tech weapons, etc.
and the other spending some $1.4 billion on scud missiles and other low-tech
weapons after years of economic sanctions that has wracked its strength?
That’s like 

Re: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us?

[Zuukie]

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A serious question.  The Iraqi leadership has brutalized its people for
many years.  Now it appeared to be on the verge of brutalizing the
western world in connection with other powerful leaders outside of the
Arab world.  If the US had not taken the action did, what do you think
the world and US situation would look like ten years from now and please
justify your answer with some factual information.

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From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jei
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:37 AM
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Subject: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us?

-Caveat Lector-

Counting Iraq's dead civilians
By Jackson Thoreau

Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her.
Especially
not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining
2,000-lb.
bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact,
on
Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to
acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullah’s
eight-year-old son.

Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bush’s and Cheney’s Blood for Oil,
Inc.
war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could
care
less. Welcome to the New World Order.

U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts,
especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bush’s
claim to
the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian
casualties, unless they are so large that even our
corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them.

But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years
old.
He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book.

He’s number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs
continues to rise.

Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and
continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept
much. I
have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call
themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once
again
about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar
stage
Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the
Hollywood
crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war
remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that
there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed.
Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures
the
way the Bush administration wants them painted.

I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from
London’s Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in
the
Wilderness’ Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to
protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like
the
United Kingdom’s Independent Media Centre.

And I’m here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC
and
others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians – many of them children,
as
almost half of Baghdad’s population is under age 14 - have been killed
by
the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many
more
will probably soon die in hospitals.

At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you
do
this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace
Team.
Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two
daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside
Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers.

Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student at a high school for girls, is among
those
with deep wounds who must suffer in anguish without basic medicines that
could at least give her some temporary relief from the pain. Cheney’s
oil
company, Dallas-based Halliburton, could make millions supplying Iraq
with
oil equipment after the 1991 Gulf War. But relief workers could not ship
basic medicines to Iraq because that violated the economic sanctions
imposed
by the UN on Hussein’s regime. To repeat: Cheney’s company can make
millions
in oil deals, but Iraqi kids like Nada cannot get basic medicines.

Want to talk precision bombing? Talk to Nahla Harbi, a passenger driving
away from Baghdad with her two-year-old when a military school for boys
was
struck, causing her car to roll. She escaped with fractures in both
legs.
Her toddler suffered head injuries.

Talk to the families of the five Syrians who died when a U.S. missile
struck
a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border. Ten other passengers, most
of
whom were laborers working in Iraqi oil fields, were injured.
One of the more ludicrous aspects of this war is how U.S. officials are
crying foul when Iraq pulls a few tricks like pretend surrenders and
putting
POWs on television. Iraq is violating the Geneva Convention, U.S.
officials say. These are the same officials who ignore international
laws
such as 

Re: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us?

[Jei]

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You ask us to predict a hypothetical future for 10 years to
come and justify it with facts? You don't ask for much, do you?

But for one thing, maybe International Law and sovereignity of nations
would still be respected. Now, we can only rely on the force of arms
and weapons of mass destructions to protect the people and nations on
this planet from brutal business warriors and nutcases in charge of
armies. As for the facts to support this conclusion, the US handling
of North Korea vs US handling of Iraq are an excellent example. One
is getting silk gloved treatment, while the other is going to be raped
for all it's worth.

I bet no WMDs will be found in Iraq, lest it says Made in USA
or Israel, painted over with crosses and Irag stamped in place.

As for the future we will experience, it is one of proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction and unlimited warfare for the reasons
of business and making money, with total disregard for any treaties
and laws. Anarchy, some might call it. But, it is explicitly clear
that US and Bush  co are keen on pissing on any and all treaties
they don't like, and will keep on doing so if and when they can make
fast profits for small numbers of people by doing so.

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Zuukie wrote:

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 A serious question.  The Iraqi leadership has brutalized its people for
 many years.  Now it appeared to be on the verge of brutalizing the
 western world in connection with other powerful leaders outside of the
 Arab world.  If the US had not taken the action did, what do you think
 the world and US situation would look like ten years from now and please
 justify your answer with some factual information.

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 Counting Iraq's dead civilians
 By Jackson Thoreau

 Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her.
 Especially not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been
 raining 2,000-lb. bombs, which obliterate everything within a football
 field upon impact, on Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S.
 generals who refuse to acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah
 Abdullah, Fatima Abdullah’s eight-year-old son.

 Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bush’s and Cheney’s Blood for Oil,
 Inc. war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre
 could care less. Welcome to the New World Order.

 U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts,
 especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bush’s
 claim to the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on
 civilian casualties, unless they are so large that even our
 corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them.

 But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years
 old. He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book.

 He’s number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs
 continues to rise.

 Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and
 continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept
 much. I have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like
 to call themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators
 lied once again about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed
 off the Oscar stage Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported,
 many in the Hollywood crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued
 his anti-Bush, anti-war remarks. Moore himself had this to say to
 reporters: Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall
 because five loud people booed. Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in
 the U.S. media to paint pictures the way the Bush administration wants
 them painted.

 I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from
 London’s Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in
 the Wilderness’ Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try
 to protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media
 like the United Kingdom’s Independent Media Centre.

 And I’m here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC
 and others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians – many of them
 children, as almost half of Baghdad’s population is under age 14 - have
 been killed by the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early
 Tuesday. Many more will probably soon die in hospitals.

 At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you
 do this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq
 Peace Team. Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy
 and two daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home
 outside Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers.

 Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student 

Re: [CTRL] Hostages to fortune

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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Prudy L wrote:

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 In a message dated 3/24/2003 3:39:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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  But the Iraqi prisoners of war who were shown being searched,
  handcuffed, and walking in lines with their hands above their heads could
  also be said to have been shown in a humiliating light for the purpose of
  public curiosity. 'There's been a little violation on each side', concludes
  Dentley F Vagts, a specialist on the laws of war at Harvard University Law
  School (5).

 I too found this interesting.  If we expect our prisoners to be treated
 in total compliance with the Geneva Conventions, then what about all
 those guys we're holding in Cuba.  I guess we don't have to, but they
 have to--or something?  Maybe there's been a lot of violation on each
 side.  And in Afghanistan even before they were aware that Walker was an
 American, he was being very roughly interrogated by our CIA agents.  I
 know that the one agent's family totally blame Walker for his death, but
 just how an unarmed man in handcuffs with two bullet wounds could have
 killed anyone has always been a mystery to me.  It's always been true
 that nations at war cheat on the Geneva Conventions.  Still since we are
 doing what we do, it might be a good idea not to fuss too loudly about
 the behavior of others.  Prudy

Hey! Beware!

That is exactly what is called being un-american.
If you can't accept the double standard, stay out
of America, as the saying goes here.

Do onto others, but don't let them do it to you.
- has been the New American Motto of foreign policy
for the last Bush years and is exactly the reason
why so many Arabs are pissed at you. Fucking others
as much as you can, sooner or later has that effect.

What you sow is what you reap as the saying goes.

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[CTRL] FW: Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago

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Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago

Oakland Township man says he later lived in fear
http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0303/25/a05-118470.htm
By Jennifer Brooks / The Detroit News

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP -- Gazi George is certain that Iraq is hiding weapons
of mass destruction, because he used to be one of the people hiding
them.

Two decades ago, while he was employed by the Iraqi Atomic Energy
Commission, George says he hid 39 rods of enriched uranium -- enough
to build two nuclear bombs -- in a hastily converted swimming pool
near the grounds of the Osirak nuclear power plants at Tuweitha.

Israeli fighter jets destroyed the plants in 1981. But to his
knowledge, no one ever discovered or destroyed the uranium.

Instead, when an international inspector came to visit the ruined
site, George said he was ordered to contaminate the grounds with alpha
emitters, materials that mimic a uranium spill. The inspector, he
said, went away satisfied that the plant's nuclear material had been
destroyed.

We faked the whole thing, said George, who fled the country soon
afterward.

Today, he runs a chemical and environmental consulting company and
lives comfortably in Oakland Township. But he has not forgotten the
five years he spent in the Iraqi nuclear program and has never stopped
looking over his shoulder, for fear Iraqi agents might appear to carry
out his sentence.

The former nuclear scientist, who was in charge of health and safety
programs at the Osirak plants, recalls harrowing years with his
country's fledgling nuclear plant. Perhaps the worst experience was a
secret bunker he visited -- hidden beneath a government agriculture
building -- where he was asked to test for radiation levels. He found
radioactive residue in syringes surrounded by bloody swabs and in
cages too small for a person to stand up.

He says political prisoners were locked up in those cages, injected
with radiation and exposed to an external bombardment of cobalt 60
radiation until their mouths bled, their skin blistered and they died.

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[CTRL] Neo-cons Enlist Dems For Post-War Goals.

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Neoconservatives Enlist Democrats for Post-War Goals

By Jim Lobe
March 24, 2003

With the war underway, new battle lines to shape the parameters of U.S. policy toward post-war Iraq have moved out of the shadows and into public view. Neoconservatives who allied themselves with traditional right-wing Republicans to push for war in Iraq are now trying to enlist veterans of the Democratic administration of former President Bill Clinton to realize their post-war plans for transforming Iraq.

In a new letter released earlier this week, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative front group that often speaks for neoconservative hawks in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office, said that the "successful disarming, rebuilding, and democratic reform of Iraq can contribute decisively to the democratization of the wider Middle East," which, the group stressed, should be considered "an objective of overriding strategic importance to the United States."

And, in an implicit swipe at forces, including right-wing administration hawks who have argued for withdrawing U.S. forces as quickly as possible after the ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the destruction of any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) found in the country, the letter emphasized that Washington should be engaged for the long haul. "Everyone--those who have joined the coalition, those who have stood aside, those who opposed military action, and, most of all, the Iraqi people and their neighbors--must understand that we are committed to the rebuilding of Iraq and will provide the necessary resources and will remain for as long as it takes."

"Any early fixation on exit strategies and departure deadlines will undercut American credibility and greatly diminish the prospects for success," the letter, which was signed by 23 prominent neoconservatives and former Clinton advisers, asserts. The letter must be considered significant if only because previous PNAC letters have anticipated the trajectory of the Bush administration's policy in fighting its war on terrorism since the publication of its first missive on the war nine days after the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

On September 20, the group sent a letter signed by 40 individuals--almost all of whom were neoconservatives, traditional Republican right-wingers, or members of the Christian Right--that called for Bush to extend the war on terrorism beyond al Qaeda and Afghanistan by cutting off aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), pressing Syria and Iran to cease aiding Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, and removing Hussein from power in Iraq "even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the (Sept. 11) attack." Six months later, the group called for Washington to break ties with the PA's Yassir Arafat and to provide the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with Washington's "full support" in his efforts to suppress Palestinian "terrorism." Bush adopted all those positions fully by the end of June.

There is little question about the source of PNAC's influence. When it was founded in 1997 by two prominent neoconservatives, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, its charter, which called for a U.S. strategy of global pre-eminence based on military power, was signed by men who would become the most influential hawks in the Bush administration, including Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, and Cheney's influential national security adviser, I. Lewis Libby.

But while Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bolton are traditional right-wing Republicans, most of PNAC's backers are neoconservatives--mostly former Democrats, or even Trotskyites, who moved to the right in reaction to the anti-Vietnam War movement and the UN's denunciations of Israel in the late 1960s and 1970s. While they share the unilateralism of Republican right-wingers, they tend to be much more committed to the idea that the United States has a global mission to fulfill, and that the U.S. political and economic "model" should be exported to the rest of the world, by force if necessary.

During the 1990s, for example, they excoriated right-wing Republican lawmakers who opposed Clinton's interventions in the Balkans and even in Haiti for neo-isolationism and for betraying Washington's mission to export democracy and protect vulnerable minorities. And, despite their influence within the Bush administration, they have loudly criticized it for failing to devote more resources--particularly in security and reconstruction aid--to Afghanistan after ousting the Taliban regime in late 2001.

Those same criticisms have been voiced by Democrats in Congress who continue to complain that the administration's reliance on military power in the conduct of foreign affairs has been far too narrow. The 

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Much media disinfo about Michael Moore speech after his Oscar for best documentary. 
Google News search shortcut for Michael Moore. http://news.google.com/news?q=michael+moore
But for the truth, and a good laugh, check out the audio link for the press conferencethat occured after the Michael Moore speech. Mike was in good form at the press conference. If just clicking the URL below does not work, then launch Windows Media Player. Click "Open URL" in the file menu. Copy and paste the URL below into the form. Click OK. It will buffer and then play. Add the URL to the Media Library to access it again quickly later. http://mfile.akamai.com/8629/asf/clips.download.akamai.com/8629/DocumentaryFeature_300k.asx 
Best article I have seen so far on the Michael Moore speech at the Oscars is below:
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Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards




By Joel Bleifuss | Mar 24, 03
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Michael Moore: “I’m an American, and you don’t leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theatre. ... I don’t stop being who I am when I come to this ceremony, and I’m extremely grateful for this response.”


On Day 5 of the war, it was supremely ironic that network television viewers had to tune into the 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony to hear voices that questioned the wisdom of the Bush Administration.Rumblings of protest began on Saturday. At the Independent Spirit Awards (the award ceremony for independent films) in Santa Monica, California, Maggie Gyllenhaal, the starred in Secretary, said the country was “in the middle of a war about oil and imperialism and I hope for peace as soon as we can possibly find it.” That same afternoon at the Miramax party,.it was reported that crooner Michael Feinstein couldn’t rouse the guest to sing “God Bless America” no matter how hard he tried.Then there was ABC’s presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday night. It started off on a good note with Steve Martin, saying, “I am really glad they cut back on the red carpet, that’ll send them a message.” Minutes later he followed up with with, “A movie star is many things: they can be tall, short, thin or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny.”The political statements ranged from the subdued to angry. Susan Sarandon, wearing the Dove of Peace pins designed by Henry Dunay for Global vision for Peace, flashed a peace sign. Chris Cooper, winner of the best supporting actor for his role in Adaptation, quietly said, “In light of all the troubles in this world, I wish us peace.”Gael Garcia Bernal, the hunky star of Y Tu Mama Tambien, introducing the nominated best song from Frida, said to loud applause: “The necessity for peace in the world is not a dream, it is a reality. And we are not alone. If Frida was alive, she would be on our side, against war.”Pedro Almodovar, accepting the Oscar for best original screenplay for Talk to Her, read a statement: “I also want to dedicate this award to all the people who are raising their voices in favor of peace, respect of human rights, democracy and international legality, all of which are essential qualities [for life.]”And the audience cheered as Adrien Brody, who won best actor for The Pianist, admonished the orchestra to stop so he could say, “Whether you believe in Allah or God, may he watch over you, and pray for a peaceful and swift resolution to this war.”And then there was Michael Moore. He received a standing ovation when Bowling for Columbine was announced the winner of best documentary. The Chicago Tribune’s Mark Caro reported that the pressroom also erupted in applause when it was announced that Moore had 

[CTRL] Haliburton Stocks Up

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noon day stock report... Dick Chaney I am sure is not 
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[CTRL] Mind Control Ops At Stanford Research Institute

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Mind Control Operations at Stanford Research Institute
by Alex Constantine

[related articles and photos:
Photos of "Captain" Al Hubbard and allies

Smoking Gun on MK-ULTRA and ''Captain'' Al Hubbard

British Columbia's "Acid Flashback"] 

Concrete evidence that electronic mind control was an object of study at SRI was exposed by the Washington Post in 1977: "When the Navy awarded a contract to the Institute, the scientific assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Sam Koslov, received a routine briefing on various research projects, including SRIs. As the briefer flashed his chart onto the screen and began to speak, Koslov stormily interrupted, What the hell is that about? Among the glowing words on the projected chart, the section describing SRIs work was labelled, ELF AND MIND CONTROL. 

ELF stands for extremely [low] frequency electromagnetic waves, from the very slow brain frequencies up to about 100 cycles per second But the Mind Control label really upset Koslov. He ordered the SRI investigations for the Navy stopped, and cancelled another $35,000 in Navy funds slated for more remote viewing work." 

Contrary to Koslov's order to kill the research, the Navy quietly continued to fork out $100,000 for a two-year project directed by a bionics specialist. 

Mind control is not a humanitarian pastime: the project was military, and if SRI was a source of covert EMR brain experimentation, test subjects were subjected to torture plied with the same thorough disregard for human rights as the radiation tests conducted at the height of the Cold War. To be sure, the treatment subjects have received at the hands of their own government would be considered atrocities if practiced in wartime. 

Mind control was also used in domestic covert operations designed to further the CIAs heady geopolitical ambitions, and during the Vietnam War period SRI was a hive of covert political subterfuge. The Symbionese Liberation Army, like the People's Temple, was a creation of the CIA. The SLA had at its core a clique of black ex-convicts from Vacaville Prison. Donald DeFreeze, otherwise known as Cinque, led the SLA. He was formerly an informant for the LAPDs Criminal Conspiracy Section and the director of Vacaville's Black Cultural Association (BCA), a covert mind control unit with funding from the CIA channelled through SRI. The Menlo Park behaviour modification specialists experimented with psychoactive drugs administered to members of the BCA. Black prisoners were programmed to murder selected black leaders once on the outside. 

The CIA/SRI zombie killer hit list included Oakland school superintendent Dr. Marcus Foster, and Panthers Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, among others. DeFreeze stated that at Vacaville in 1971-72, he was the subject of a CIA mind control experiment. He described his incarceration on the prisons third floor, where he was corralled by CIA agents who drugged him and said he would become the leader of a radical movement and kidnap a wealthy person. After his escape from Vacaville (an exit door was left unlocked for him), that's exactly what he did. 

EM mind control machines were championed at Stanford University by Dr. Karl Pribram, director of the Neuropsychology Research Laboratory: "I certainly could educate a child by putting an electrode in the lateral hypothalamus and then selecting the situations at which I stimulate it. In this was I can grossly change his behaviour."

Psychology Today touted Pribram as The Magellan of Brain Science. He obtained his B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Chicago, and at SRI studied how the brain processes and stores sensory imagery. He is credited with discovering that mental imaging bears a close resemblance to hologram projection (the basis for transmitting images to the brains of test subjects under the misnomer "remote viewing?"). 

The Institute is bonded incestuously to corporate sponsors. Former SRI Chairman E. Hornsby Wasson, for example, was a director of several major companies, including Standard Oil of California, and he went on to become chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and CEO of Pacific Telephone  Telegraph and Bell Telephone of Nevada. 

The SRI/SAIC psi experiments were supervised at Langley by John McMahon, second in command under William Casey, succeeding Bobby Ray Inman, the SAIC director. McMahon has, according to Philip Agee, the CIA whistle-blowing exile, an affinity for technological exotics for CIA covert actions. He was recruited by the Agency after his graduation from Holy Cross College (the alma mater of CIA contractees Edward Bennett Williams, attorney, and Robert Maheu, hit man). He is a former director of the Technical Services Division, deputy director for Operations, and in 1982 McMahon was appointed deputy director of Central Intelligence. He left the Agency six years later to take the position of president of the 

[CTRL] Bush's Jihad - Marching On Babylon

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Is this war really about the oil? Or are Bush and his core support block of rightwing religious fanatics turning the world into a stage for acting out an elaborate "Armageddon" fantasy? 


Marching on Bablyon: Are Bush and the Religious Right Forcing the World to Act Out their Religious Fantasies?
By Cheryl Seal
Mt. Vernon, Baltimore


Bush's obsession with attacking Iraq has been attributed to oil, to family vendetta due to his father's confrontation with Saddam, and with over-zealous terrorist-fighting efforts. However, what really lies beneath this obsession is a religious delusion, one shared, alas by many of his government appointees, including John Ashcroft, a devout Pentecostal. Bush, like Ashcroft, believes (and in fact is trying to insure) that the world is in the "end times" called for by the biblical book of Revelation - at least as interpreted by the doomsdayers, who are generally barely functional clinically classical paranoid schizophrenics (Pat Robertson being a prime example). Bily Graham, Bush's much-touted mentor, believes Armaggedon is at hand and has helped to fuel Bush's messianic complex as the "blessed" leader of the righteous in the end times. You can see that messianic complex so clearly in Bush's often inappropriately "rapturous" expression and grandiose body language. 

In this fantasy scenario, following a mighty battle in a region the "faithful" have pinpointed as Iraq, about 144,000 "good Christians" will be sucked up into Heaven, while the rest are left to fry in a horrific conflagration. The support Bush has shown Israel isn't because of his pro-Jewish sentiments, it is because the "end times prescription" calls for Jews to be in complete control of all of Israel at the time of the big event. But, according to the fanatics' nasty little scenario, the joke will be on the Jews, who will be left to burn with everyone else, aside from a few perhaps a few last-minute converts to Christianity. Sharon, plainly fully aware of Bush's obsession, is taking full advantage of it. He just asked for - and is expected to be granted, up to $10 BILLION more dollars to help secure Israel and to buy war planes to help secure "Babylon." 

In the fanatic's scenario, Iraq plays a special central role as "Babylon," embodying in the fundy's dark fantasies the "false religion" and the empire of the the "anti-Christ" in the end times. Here's a blurb for a book plugged by the "Bible Prophecy and the Rapture Report: "The Two Babylons. Authored by the late Rev. Alexander Hislop. An excellent source of information regarding the beliefs and rituals of the ancient babylonian cult that will dominate the empire of the Antichrist just as it dominated the major world empires and the Roman Catholic Church. "

The Roman Catholic Church, by the way is targeted for the wrath and villification of the righteous rapturists, who condemn it as "a false religion." I doubt if it is any coincidence that since Bush has been in office, the media has aggressively and relentlessly gone after the Catholic Church, fanning the pedophile priest stories into a modern witch hunt, while failing to investigate or expose similar allegations chronically being made by members of other religions, where such abuse may be just as rampant or even worse.

Bush's mentor, Billy Graham, as he grew in international fame, became very adept at appearing far more non-fanatical than he truly is in order to draw a bigger audience, a bigger bank account. Yet Graham attended Bob Jones University for some time, is on record making anti-Semitic comments in phone conversations with Richard Nixon, and, in 1948 declared, "The three gravest menaces faced by orthodox Christianity are communism, Roman Catholicism, and Mohammedanism." 

In reality, Graham is still very much a fanatic, promoting the end times zealously. Here's a quote from his website:

"The Bible plainly forecasts the coming of yet another great war. It will be a war to eclipse anything the world has ever seen. It will embrace most of the nations of the world; and its focal point will be in the Middle East, where the armies of the world will some day deploy themselves, centering at Mount Megiddo. This great war has been called the battle of Armageddon. In the midst of this terrifying war that could destroy civilization the Lord Jesus Christ will return to this earth in glory and power to judge the nations of the world and set up His own glorious kingdom.

"The Scripture describes this great battle in the sixteenth chapter of the book of Revelation. The sixth angel will pour out his vial upon the great river Euphrates. We are told that the waters of the Euphrates River will be 'dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.' The dry riverbed will permit unhindered passage of the great armies of the East to the scene of the battle. Unclean spirits, demons, will go out into the world to the kings of 

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From: "Brook" 
To: "Hans Kammler Jr."
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:09 PM
Subject:

 Well, let me know when the group is more 
about zionists, israel, the current war on terrorism, world 
domination, etc. I don't want to read about nazis anymore.

Whelp
The problem with that, 
darling
Is that the current 'war 
on terrorism'/world domination thing
that you'd like to read 
more about
is intricately tied in 
with the Nazi's and their occultist brethren
A compilation of excerpts 
from posts you way have missed
or not viewed properly 
because you've subscribed to the Digest which limits HTML 
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  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NeuschwabenlandTimes/message/237
  
  "In the wake of Sept. 11, 
  new light is thrown on the international ties increasingly linking Muslim and neo-Nazi extremists 
  "
  
  "As Germany's defeat loomed during the finals 
  months of World War II, Adolf Hitler increasingly lapsed into delusional fits 
  of fantasy. Albert Speer, in his prison writings, recounts an episode in which 
  a maniacal Hitler "pictured for himself and for us 
  the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire." The Nazi 
  fuehrer described skyscrapers turning into "gigantic burning torches, collapsing 
  upon one another, the glow of the exploding city illuminating the dark 
  sky."" An approximation of 
  Hitler's hellish vision came true on Sept. 11, when 
  terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, killing 
  nearly 3,000 people. But it was not Nazis or even neo-Nazis who carried out 
  the attack, which allegedly came at the hands of foreign Muslim extremists. 
  Still, in the aftermath of the slaughter, white supremacists in 
  America and Europe applauded the suicide attacks and praised Osama bin 
  Laden, the mastermind of the massacre. An official of America's 
  premier neo-Nazi group, the 
  National Alliance, said he wished 
  his own members had "half as much testicular fortitude." The awestruck leader 
  of another U.S. Nazi group called 
  the terrorists "VERY BRAVE PEOPLE." Neofascist youth in 
  France celebrated the event that evening with champagne at the headquarters of 
  the extreme right Front National. 
  Jan Kopal, head of the Czech National Social Bloc, declared at a rally in 
  Prague that bin Laden was "an example for our children." German 
  neo-Nazis, some wearing checkered Palestinian headscarves, 
  rejoiced at street demonstrations while burning an American flag. 
  Horst Mahler, a former left-wing terrorist and prominent member of 
  the neo-Nazi National 
  Democratic Party (NPD) in Germany 
  proclaimed his solidarity with the terrorists and said America had gotten what 
  it deserved. What's going on 
  here? "


Indeed...



  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NeuschwabenlandTimes/message/255
  
  "AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI: 
  Born into an affluent family, al-Zawahiri became active in 
  militant Islam at an early age. At 15 he was arrested for membership in 
  the Muslim 
  Brotherhood, which sought to remove foreign influence from 
  Egyptian society. Al-Zawahiri graduated from medical school in 1974. In the 
  1970s he joined the Egyptian Islamist movement, and served three years in 
  prison, where he was tortured, in connection to the assassination of President 
  Anwar Sadat. After 
  his release he went to Saudi Arabia and the Pakistan, finally moving to 
  Afghanistan, where he became Osama Bin Laden's chief 
  advisor. As aformer psychiatrist and 
  surgeon, Al-Zawahiri studied behavior, psychology 
  and pharmacology as part of his medical degree at Cairo University. 
  His father was a pharmacologist. According to Vincent Cannistraro, former top 
  CIA counterterrorist official, 

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The Merovingian 
Mythos:Its 
Symbolic Significance and its Roots in the Ancient Kingdom of Atlantisby 
Tracy R. Twyman 

  
  The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian 
  dynasty from which he came, have been romantically mythologized in 
  the annals of both local legend and modern mystical pseudo-history, but few 
  have understood the true meaning and origins of their alluring mystery. The 
  mystique that surrounds them includes attributions of saintliness, magical 
  powers (derived from their long red hair), and even divine origin, 
  stemming from their supposed descent from the one and only Jesus 
  Christ. However, the importance of the divine origin of the 
  Merovingians, and the antiquity from whence it comes, has never to 
  this author's knowledge been fully explored by any writer or historian. As Boyd Rice and I will explain in more detail 
  in our forthcoming book, we have uncovered mountains of evidence which 
  indicates that the origins of the Merovingian race, and the 
  mystery that surrounds them, lies ultimately with a race of beings, 
  "Nephilim," or "Fallen Angels," who created mankind as we know him 
  today, and with a civilization, far more ancient than recorded history, from 
  which came all of the major arts and sciences that are basic to civilizations 
  everywhere, even unto today. As we intend to show, all of the myths and 
  symbolism that are associated with this dynasty can, in fact, be traced back 
  to this earlier civilization. It is known, in some cultures, as Atlantis, 
  although there are many names for it, and it is the birthplace of agriculture, 
  astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, navigation, architecture, language, 
  writing, and religion. It was also the source of the first government on Earth 
  - monarchy. And the first kings on Earth were the gods. 
  Their race was known by various names. In Greece, the Annodoti. In Sumeria, 
  the Annunaki. In the Celtic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. In the Semetic 
  scriptures (Torah, Talmud, Old Testament, and other Apocryphal texts like the 
  Book of Enoch), they are called The Nephilim, "The Sons of God," or the 
  Watchers. They are described as having attachments such as wings, horns, and 
  even fish scales, but from the depictions it is clear that these are clothes 
  or costumes worn for their symbolic value, for these symbols indicated divine 
  power and royal blood. The gods themselves had their own monarchy, with laws 
  of succession similar to our own, and they built a global empire upon the 
  Earth, with great cities, temples and monuments, and mighty nations 
  established on several continents. They created mankind as a slave race to 
  work on their farms and in their gold mines, among other things. The Sumerian 
  legends are very clear: man was made to "bear the yoke of the gods." Man was 
  separate from the gods, like a domesticated animal, and there was a great 
  cultural taboo amongst the gods against sharing any of their sacred 
  information with humanity, even things such as writing and mathematics. These 
  gods ruled directly over Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, and their 
  rule is recorded in the histories of all three civilizations.
  This global monarchy was the crowning glory of the Ages, and the period of 
  their rule came to be called the Golden Age or, as the Egyptians called it, 
  "The First Time," when the gods watched over man directly, like a shepherd his 
  flock. In fact, they were often called "The Shepherd Kings." One of the 
  symbols of this world monarchy was an eye hovering over a throne, and this eye 
  now adorns our dollar bill, presented as the missing capstone of the Great 
  Pyramid of 

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The Frederick the Great 
Association
One of the more twisted myths being propagated by 
'Regular' Anglo-American Freemasonry of late is that the Nazi's persecuted 
'regular' Freemasonry in Germany during it's reign. 
'Regular' Freemasonry plays the recognition game if 
it wants to deny that a particular infamous individual was a Freemason. Usually 
this is carried out in regard to Grand Orient Freemasons, which it does not 
recognize as being legitimate Masons because it has it's own operation called 
'Grand Lodges' set up in their countries, France being the largest 
instance. 
Thus it is with a particular sense of 
accomplishment that we have uncovered one of 'regular' American and British 
Grand Lodge Freemasonry's most noxious official lies; it's record and actions in 
Nazi Germany. A lie that their favorite recognition game dodge won't work 
on. 
In Germany at the time the Nazi's came to power 
(with the aid of numerous Freemason High Financiers like Henry Ford) there 
existed nine Grand Lodges and Orients. 
Three Grand Lodges were were known as 'Old Prussian 
Grand Lodges', which were large, well organized, and contained the bulk of all 
Freemasons in Germany. Six were called 'Modern Grand Lodges', which were small, 
isolated, with only a few thousand members each. 
One of the groupings had always banned Jews from 
joining and was fiercely nationalistic and reactionary in it's politics. One of 
the groupings had always allowed Jews to join and was international and liberal 
in it's politics. 
Guess which Grand Lodge group American and British 
Freemasonry recognized as being 'regular' Freemasonry and which group it branded 
as 'irregular' and 'clandestine' Freemasonry? 
You guessed right. It was the 'Old Prussian Grand 
Lodges', which contained the High Command Officers, Industrialists, and Royal 
Houses who had always banned Jews from joining and which was fiercely 
nationalistic and reactionary in it's politics that the American and British 
Grand Lodges recognized as being 'regular'. The 'Moderns', the ones that allowed 
Jews to join? 'Regular' Freemasonry said they were 'irregular' and 
'clandestine'. In other words they did not recognize the Grand Lodges that 
allowed Jews to join as being Freemasons or Freemasonry what so ever. 'Regular' 
Freemasonry is trying to hoodwink their recognition of the anti-semitic National 
Grand Lodges and their non recognition of the non anti-semitic International 
Grand Lodges. 
The Nazi's shut down the 'Modern' Grand Lodges 
whose membership was heavily jewish, liberal, and 'international', but allowed 
the 'national' Old Prussian Grand Lodges to carry on after their Grand Master's 
sent formal written oaths of alliegence to 'Mein Furher', changed their name to 
'The Frederick the Great Association'(Frederick the Great being German 'Regular' 
Freemasonry's founder and principal patron.), and removed any obvious Hebraic 
wording from it's rituals. When the war was over 'regular' Freemasonry operating 
under the guise of 'The Frederick the Great Association' changed their name back 
to what it was before Crystal Nacht. You won't see any of this mentioned on any 
of those 'Is it true what they say about Freemasonry?' or 'Difficult Questions 
about Freemasonry' web sites that 'regular' Freemasonry has mirrored all over 
the net. 

  The Scottish Rite had its 
  beginning in France, when in 1754, the Chevalier de Bonneville established in 
  Paris, a chapter of twenty-five so-called High Degrees which, including the 
  three symbolic Degrees, these High Degrees were called the Rite of Perfection. 
  In 1758 these Degrees were taken to Berlin and placed under a body called the 
  Council of Emperors of the East and West, 

[CTRL] Michael Moore disinfo. Press conference audio! His Oscar at Academy Awards.

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Much media disinfo about Michael Moore speech after his Oscar for best documentary.

Google News search shortcut for Michael Moore.
http://news.google.com/news?q=michael+moore

But for the truth, and a good laugh, check out the audio link for the press conference
that occured after the Michael Moore speech. Mike was in good form at the press
conference. If just clicking the URL below does not work, then launch Windows Media
Player. Click Open URL in the file menu. Copy and paste the URL below into the form.
Click OK. It will buffer and then play. Add the URL to the Media Library to access it
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Best article I have seen so far on the Michael Moore speech at the Oscars is below:

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Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards

By Joel Bleifuss | Mar 24, 03print | email | comment
 Michael Moore: “I’m an American, and you don’t leave your citizenship when you enter 
the
doors of the Kodak Theatre. ... I don’t stop being who I am when I come to this 
ceremony,
and I’m extremely grateful for this response.” On Day 5 of the war, it was supremely
ironic that network television viewers had to tune into the 75th Annual Academy Awards
ceremony to hear voices that questioned the wisdom of the Bush Administration.

Rumblings of protest began on Saturday. At the Independent Spirit Awards (the award
ceremony for independent films) in Santa Monica, California, Maggie Gyllenhaal, the
starred in Secretary, said the country was “in the middle of a war about oil and
imperialism and I hope for peace as soon as we can possibly find it.” That same 
afternoon
at the Miramax party,.it was reported that crooner Michael Feinstein couldn’t rouse the
guest to sing “God Bless America” no matter how hard he tried.

Then there was ABC’s presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday night. It started off
on a good note with Steve Martin, saying, “I am really glad they cut back on the red
carpet, that’ll send them a message.” Minutes later he followed up with with, “A movie
star is many things: they can be tall, short, thin or skinny. They can be Democrats ...
or skinny.”

The political statements ranged from the subdued to angry. Susan Sarandon, wearing the
Dove of Peace pins designed by Henry Dunay for Global vision for Peace, flashed a peace
sign. Chris Cooper, winner of the best supporting actor for his role in Adaptation,
quietly said, “In light of all the troubles in this world, I wish us peace.”

Gael Garcia Bernal, the hunky star of Y Tu Mama Tambien, introducing the nominated best
song from Frida, said to loud applause: “The necessity for peace in the world is not a
dream, it is a reality. And we are not alone. If Frida was alive, she would be on our
side, against war.”

Pedro Almodovar, accepting the Oscar for best original screenplay for Talk to Her, 
read a
statement: “I also want to dedicate this award to all the people who are raising their
voices in favor of peace, respect of human rights, democracy and international 
legality,
all of which are essential qualities [for life.]”

And the audience cheered as Adrien Brody, who won best actor for The Pianist, 
admonished
the orchestra to stop so he could say, “Whether you believe in Allah or God, may he 
watch
over you, and pray for a peaceful and swift resolution to this war.”

And then there was Michael Moore. He received a standing ovation when Bowling for
Columbine was announced the winner of best documentary. The Chicago Tribune’s Mark Caro
reported that the pressroom also erupted in applause when it was announced that Moore 
had
won.

Taking the stage, flanked by documentary filmmakers, Moore said: “I’ve invited my 
fellow
documentary nominees on the stage with us. They are here in solidarity with me because 
we
like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the 
time
when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in 
a
time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it is the
fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this war, Mr. 
Bush.
Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. And any time that you have the Pope and the Dixie
Chicks against you, your time is up.”
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"Hans Kammler Jr." wrote:


Descent
into Hell
The city is in turmoil. The Kaiser's
republic has collapsed with the defeat of Germany in the First World War,
and the whole country is up for grabs. It appears as if Germany is about
to fall apart into the warring city-states from which it had been assembled
nearly fifty years ago. The victorious Allies are demanding enormous concessions
from Germany.The
Russian Revolution has been in full swing for a year, and German soldiers
returning from the front are being cajoled into helping midwife the same
type of Communist regime amid the ashes of the Second ReichKurt
Eisner--an intellectual and a Jew, a defender of the League of Nations--takes
the initiative and proclaims a Socialst Republic in Munich on the seventh
of November, 1918. It looks as if there is going to be a Communist regime
in Germany-- or, at least, a Socialist one in Bavaria--after all. Hysteria
grows among the nationalists, and with it despair that their nation is
on the verge of realizing the dreams of Marx and Engels as codified in
their famous Manifesto. Germans are bewildered, shocked... stunned into
a kind of nervous stupefaction. They have lost the war, their country may
be broken up once again into many seperate bickering pieces, and there
will soon be Communists calling the shots in Berlin and in the capitol
of Bavaria: MunichWithin
forty-eight hours there is a meeting of the Thule
Gesselshaft. The Thule, a mystical society based in part
on the theosophical writings of Guido von
List and Lanz von Liebenfels--which is to say, an amalgam of
Eastern religion, theosophy, anti-semitism, Grail romance, Runic mystification,
and Nordic paganism--meets every Saturday in spacious rooms at the elegant
Four Seasons Hotel in Munich. There are roughly 250 members of the Thule
in Munich... and over fifteen hundred in Bavaria. On that day, November
9, a bizarre individual, an occultist, an initiate of the Eastern mysteries
in Turkey as well as of Freemasonry, and the leader and founder of
the Thule--the self-styled Baron Rudolf
von Sebottendorff--makes an impassioned plea to the assembled
cultists for armed resistance to the Reds. This plea eventually degenerates
into a monologue on runes, German racial theory, Nordic mythology, and
other arcane lore. No matter. Most of his listeners know what to expect.
They are, in fact, members of the supersecret, superracist, and superoccult
"German Order Walvater of the Holy Grail," or Germanenorden,
which is using the name Thule Gesellshaft--or Thule Society,
a "literary-cultural society"--as a cover to confuse Munich's fledgling
Red Army, which is on the lookout for right-wing extremists. Sebotendorff
himself is Master of the anti-Semitic Germanenorden's Bavarian division
under its leader and founder, Hermann Pohl.The
Thule cultists--whose symbol is a long dagger superimposed on a swastika--need
no encouragement. They begin stockpiling weapons in secret supply dumps
in and around Munich, anticipating a counterstrike against the new Socialist
Republic. They make alliances with other nationalist groups, such as the
Pan-Germans under editor Julius Lehmann, the German School Bund,
the Hammerbund... and an organized resistance movement is born. All the
mystical and clandestine labors of the past twenty years involving a series
of secret occult organizations with elaborate initiation ceremonies
and complex magical rituals, from the List Society's inner HAO (Higher
Armanen Order) to the Order of the New Templars,
will soon culminate in a pitched battle in the streets of Munich between
the neo-pagan Thule Society and the "godless Communists".February
21, 1919. The 

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March 25, 2003 -- Reporting from a Marine helicopter base in the Kuwaiti desert

THE Marines at this chopper base near the Iraqi border are seething with rage and 
talking
revenge over the treatment of American POWs - paraded on TV and some possibly executed.

OK, they want to play that way. We can play that way, vowed one enraged pilot.

Marine after Marine had the same message - many of them warning that there would be no
second chances for those Iraqis now.

Virtually every conversation here touched on the POW's treatment and possible 
executions
yesterday. It was discussed on chow lines, in the bomb shelters, outside the latrines.

Robert Doc Davenport, a Marine medic trained to both save people and kill them, was
among those struggling to digest the appalling news.

It makes it harder to do my job, he said, explaining he'll now think twice about
dressing the wounds of injured Iraqis.

If we run across one of them and he needs my help, it will be harder for me to do it,
he added.

Many Marines on this desert base - affectionately known as Snakepit - said they 
believe
they were sent to Iraq not to hurt people, but to free them from Saddam Hussein's
ruthless grip.

We want to help these people and look what they're doing to us, said more than one
shocked Marine.

What we should do is go in there and kill every last soul, growled Sgt. Mike Brady.

If they realize that we are going to kill them like that, they'll be like 'OK, OK, we
surrender,'  said the 28-year-old Texas native.

Brady, who mans the twin 50-caliber machineguns aboard a Sea Stallion chopper, said 
he'll
be much more wary now when he's flying over Iraqi positions.

He'll no longer give enemy soldiers the benefit of the doubt when they start waving 
white
flags.

I'm going to be a lot quicker to pull that trigger if I think they're up to 
something,
he said.

During an air raid yesterday - when everyone rushed into the bomb shelters with their 
gas
masks and chemical and biological gear - one Marine's muffled swearing was heard above
the din.

Repeating the sneering nickname used for Saddam Hussein, he kept saying,  'So damn'
insane, 'so damn' insane. I'm going to come up there myself and kill you.

Of course, not everyone on the base is calling for blood - yet.

Cpl. Joseph Michinki said he's not convinced the executions actually took place.

They can fake all kinds of things with video, noted Michinki, 21, of Georgia.

But if that really was Americans being killed, I'd be pretty pissed, he added.


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[CTRL] Court stiff-arms privacy challenge

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Secondly, civil libertarians also object to the closed-door legal hearings on FISA.
Since these intelligence probes must be kept secret, the Justice Department was
authorized to seek warrants in secret hearings within its building.

When one FISA judge said Ashcroft was exceeding his legal authority, a special appeals
court met to review the dispute and to rule on the matter. Outside attorneys, including
the ACLU, were barred.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/5476128.htm

Court stiff-arms privacy challenge By David G. Savage LOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a preliminary challenge to the
government's expanded powers to wiretap and search people who are suspected of having
links to foreign terrorists.

The justices refused to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to appeal on behalf of
Arab Americans and others who believe they may be being secretly monitored.

Monday's dismissal leaves open a possible future legal challenge brought by someone who
says he was wrongly wiretapped and had his house searched.

But the move nonetheless left ACLU lawyers disappointed and frustrated.

This is a strange situation where you have a broad ruling and no one can appeal it,
said Ann Beeson, an ACLU lawyer who represented the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee.

Last year, in an unusual court hearing behind closed doors at the Justice Department,
Attorney General John Ashcroft won the legal authority to merge the FBI's 
crime-fighting
and spying units to track suspected terrorists.

It is vitally important that the government's intelligence and law enforcement 
officials
coordinate their efforts to protect America from foreign threats to national security,
Ashcroft said Monday.

Before last year, the FBI had maintained a wall between spying and criminal probes, a
legacy of the Watergate era.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, allowed the attorney general to
obtain secret warrants to spy on suspected foreign agents or international terrorists.

The warrants were authorized by a judge inside the Justice Department. But until last
year, the government said, it kept these spying operations separate from ordinary
criminal probes.

Ashcroft said that the separation was outdated and hampered the FBI in its pursuit of
terrorists operating in the United States. He argued, and the special FISA review court
agreed, that the new USA Patriot Act authorized closer coordination between the
government's crime fighters and intelligence agents.

Civil libertarians protested the move on two counts.

First, they said, the government may be violating the Constitution's ban on 
unreasonable
searches and seizures. Normally, the police and federal agents can obtain a search
warrant to enter a home or tap a phone only when they have evidence of criminal
wrongdoing.

Federal agents do not need such evidence to obtain a search warrant under FISA. They 
need
only show evidence indicating the target is linked to a foreign terrorist group. FISA
was supposed to apply to a narrow category of intelligence investigations. Under
Ashcroft's interpretation, they can use FISA in ordinary criminal cases, said Beeson.

Justice Department lawyers deny that charge. They say they use FISA warrants only 
against
foreigners who are believed to have ties to terrorist organizations.

Secondly, civil libertarians also object to the closed-door legal hearings on FISA. 
Since
these intelligence probes must be kept secret, the Justice Department was authorized to
seek warrants in secret hearings within its building.

When one FISA judge said Ashcroft was exceeding his legal authority, a special appeals
court met to review the dispute and to rule on the matter. Outside attorneys, including
the ACLU, were barred.

Still, the civil liberties advocates believe they will have a chance to challenge the
sweep of Ashcroft's order in a future case.

At some point, the government will introduce evidence in a criminal case that came 
from
a FISA wiretap. The lawyers can challenge that as illegal, and the issue can be
appealed, Beeson said.

But that will offer a remedy only for people who are indicted for crimes, she noted.

We are most concerned about innocent victims of this surveillance, Beeson said. 
Since
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[CTRL] (Fwd) NM- Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese

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Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese Connection
Charles R. Smith
Tuesday March 25, 2003

There is one Iraqi weapon system with U.S.A. stamped on it; the NATO
code-named Tiger Song air defense system. Much of Tiger Song is U.S.
made fiber-optic network systems sold to China by the Clinton
administration.

The fiber-optic Tiger Song air defense network was installed in Iraq
during the 1990s by China in violation of the U.N. ban on weapons
sales to Baghdad. Tiger Song is a distributed network and it is
similar to the Internet, allowing Iraqi mobile radars and missile
units to link into the network from pre-positioned fiber optic sites.

Ironically, the Bush administration has so far denied an even greater
sale of sensitive U.S. fiber-optic systems to China. The Defense
Department opposes the sale of Global Crossing to Chinese billionaire
Li Ka-Shing and his Hutcheson Whampoa company for obvious national
security reasons.

Although, the U.S. Defense Department opposes the sale of the
fiber-optic giant Global Crossing to Hutcheson Whampoa, Li Ka-Shing is
fighting back.

Bush defense advisor Richard Perle, who was hired to advise Global
Crossing on security to satisfy the U.S. government's concerns,
conceded that the Chinese Army is in business with Hutcheson Whampoa
providing military communications for the PRC and that China has
provided fiber-optic systems to Iraq.

I am not surprised, he stated. I do not trust the Chinese
government on these matters. They have sold dangerous things to Iraq
and other nations.

It was very clear that the previous Global Crossing proposal was not
going to meet U.S. government requirements. The U.S. government is
concerned that the Hutcheson ownership will give them the ability to
do injury to U.S. national security. Hutcheson Whampoa will now end up
with 20% ownership. I have been retained to help Global Crossing find
a structure to protect U.S. national security, said Mr. Perle.

LI KA-SHING

As this reporter has previously written, Li Ka-Shing has a history of
helping the Chinese military erect communications networks using U.S.
made equipment. For example, in 1989 Li Ka-Shing raised $120 million
to buy a HUGHES built communications satellite for AsiaSat.

AsiaSat is also a front company for the People's Liberation Army
(PLA). According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, AsiaSat is
part owned by the Chinese Army unit COSTIND or the Commission on
Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The AsiaSat
Hughes satellite regularly carries military communications traffic
for PLA units and Chinese military owned companies.

A 1996 report written by then U.S. Ambassador to China James Sasser
alleges that the Chinese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
(MPT) and Chinese billionaire Li Ka Shing were both directly involved
with the PLA in financing the communications networks for the Chinese
army.

The report also states that the PLA was directly involved in the
so-called civilian Chinese fiber optic communication systems.
Sasser's report noted that the PLA actively worked on a Ministry of
Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) fiber optic network that the
Clinton administration stated was civil for the House National
Security Committee.

For example, wrote Sasser, in laying long distance fiber optic
lines for the MPT's telephones and digital data network, the PLA has
provided soldiers to do much of the work. The PLA cadres are
considered disciplined and hard working. Once the cable has been laid,
the MPT typically allocates some of the bandwidth to the PLA.

In 1997, the Rand Corporation wrote a secret report on the Chinese
Defense Industry and it also included a section on billionaire Li Ka
Shing and his business with the Chinese Army. The Rand report was
obtained in a successful federal lawsuit against the Commerce
Department.

The Rand Corporation report highlights Li Ka-Shing's direct
connections to the Chinese military. According the Rand report,
Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire
Li Ka Shing, is also negotiating for PLA wireless system contracts,
which would build upon his equity interest in [Chinese army]
Poly-owned Yangpu Land Development Company, which is building
infrastructure on China's Hainan Island.

U.S. and allied forces are now fighting a Clinton-era mistake made in
1994 allowing the fiber-optic systems to be sold to China. The same
Tiger Song fiber optic system is now sending the commands of the Iraqi
military to fight our soldiers.

The Chinese Army would love to get its hands on Global Crossing. It is
clear from previous sales of such U.S. made systems to Li Ka-Shing
that the Chinese Army will benefit from that technology. It is just as
clear that - if given the opportunity - the Chinese Army will use
Global Crossing technology and assets against the national 

[CTRL] Fw: Non-Partisan Judicial Watch Demands New Inquiry of Perle Role of Li Ka-Shing

[Jim Rarey]

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From: Judicial 
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To: Judicial Watch Infonet 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: Non-Partisan Judicial Watch Demands New Inquiry of Perle 
 Role of Li Ka-Shing


  
  
For Immediate ReleaseMar 25, 2003
Contact: Press 
  Office202-646-5172
  

  HYPOCRITICAL CONYERS SEEKS INQUIRY OF PERLE’S 
  APPARENT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST WHILE IGNORING ROLES OF CLINTON, MCAULIFFE 
  AND COHEN IN GLOBAL CROSSING SCANDALNon-Partisan Judicial Watch Demands New Inquiry of Perle  
  Role of Li Ka-ShingGlobal Crossing 
  Shareholder Lawsuit Filed By Judicial Watch in May 
  2002(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the 
  public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government 
  corruption and abuse, said today that it was disappointed by the 
  hypocritical and politically opportunistic requests of Congressman John 
  Conyers of Michigan for a Defense Department investigation of possible 
  conflicts of interest by Defense Advisory Board Chairman Richard Perle in 
  his actions as an advisor to the telecommunications firm Global Crossing. 
  Congressman Conyers has remained mute concerning Democratic National 
  Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s allegedly conspiring with Global 
  Crossing directors and officers to inflate and artificially enhance Global 
  Crossing’s income and market price of its stock, while allegedly arranging 
  and participating in a political payoff scheme to former President Bill 
  Clinton in exchange for political favors and favorable official actions. 
  Congressman Conyers seems also to have ignored former Clinton 
  administration Defense Secretary, and Global Crossing board member, 
  William S. Cohen’s alleged conspiracy to “pump and dump” Global Crossing 
  stock, and alleged corrupt awarding of government 
  contracts.Judicial Watch filed suit on behalf of shareholders of 
  Global Crossing against directors and officers of the corporation, and 
  others, on May 7, 2002. Global Crossing is up for sale to Hutchison 
  Whampoa, a powerful conglomerate controlled by Hong Kong billionaire and 
  Chinese government agent Li Ka-Shing. In 1999, Hutchison Whampoa – against 
  U.S. security interests – took control of the ports on both ends of the 
  Panama Canal.Judicial Watch is filing formal ethics complaints and 
  requests for investigation with the Office of Government Ethics and the 
  Inspectors General of several government departments concerning Mr. 
  Perle’s apparent conflicts of interest in the Global Crossing matter, as 
  well as his activities on behalf of software company, Autonomy, and a 
  venture capital firm, Trireme Partners. Judicial Watch encourages 
  Congressman Conyers to seek a full investigation of his Democratic 
  colleagues and their ethically questionable practices as 
  well.“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Turning a 
  blind eye to ethical questions within one’s own party only furthers the 
  dishonesty and corruption that’s rampant in Washington, DC. Judicial Watch 
  seeks the whole, unvarnished truth in these matters,” stated Judicial 
  Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
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[CTRL] Leave After War

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNewsstoryID=
2443643
Leave After War, Iraqi Opposition Group Tells U.S.
Tue March 25, 2003 08:13 AM ET


TEHRAN (Reuters) - The leader of Iraq's main Shi'ite opposition group
warned Washington on Tuesday
that U.S. troops would face armed resistance if they stayed in Iraq once
President Saddam Hussein was toppled.

Iraqis are against foreign dominance, and if they (the Americans) don't
want to leave Iraq, the nation will resist, said Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir
Hakim, head of the Tehran-based Supreme Council of the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).

One of the legitimate ways of resistance against occupiers is force and
weapons, he told a news conference.

The gray-bearded, black-turbaned Hakim said SCIRI, which draws its
support from Iraq's Muslim Shi'ite majority, said he had tens of thousands of
troops stationed inside and outside Iraq, ready to resist any foreign
occupation.

The group's armed wing, known as the Badr Brigade, has paraded hundreds
of lightly armed fighters in Kurdish- ruled northern Iraq. But it has tended
to keep the size and whereabouts of its other forces a closely guarded
secret.

Iran, which fought an eight-year war against Iraq in the 1980s, has given aid
and shelter to the group for more than two decades due to their shared
Shi'ite Muslim beliefs and enmity for Saddam. But Tehran has said it will not
allow its soil to be used as a launch pad for an attack on Iraq.

Hakim said Badr had no military or operational contacts with Washington,
and no decision had been taken yet for his forces to confront the Iraqi
government.

His men would respect international rules and regulations on crossing the
Iranian border, he added.

The United States is thought to be wary of Hakim's group because of its
strong ties to Iran.

Hakim, a 62-year-old cleric who fled to Iran in 1979, said Washington had
told some Iraqi opposition groups to stay out of the current conflict.

But he said it was for Iraqis to shape the future -- a hint to Washington to
stay out of post-Saddam politics.

We believe the best way is to establish a national government instead of
an appointed or imposed one from outside Iraq, he said.

Iraq's divided opposition has been trying to patch up feuds to form a
transitional government should Saddam be defeated, but Washington
doubts their ability to fill a post-war power vacuum.

The Shi'ite leader also warned U.S.-led forces to avoid any attack on Iraq's
holy Shi'ite cities of Najaf and Karbala.
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[CTRL] Stiff resistance

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA/PFVersion.jsp?
article=http://10.81.141.122/news/181_220337,001300180012.htm
Stiff resistance slows allies' drive in Iraq
Agence France-Presse
Nasiriya (Iraq), March 24

Aiming for Saddam Hussein's seat of power, US-led warplanes and
helicopters attacked Republican Guard units defending Baghdad while
ground troops advanced to within 80 kilometres of the Iraqi capital.
President George W Bush put a $75 billion price tag on a down payment for
the war.

The helicopter assault marked the first known engagement between forces
in central Iraq, and many of the American craft were hit by Iraqi ground
fire. One went down behind enemy lines the cause was unknown and the
Pentagon said the two-person crew had been taken prisoner.

Five days into Operation Iraqi Freedom, resistance prevented American and
British forces from securing the southern cities of Basra and An Nasiriyah
and thwarted efforts to extinguish burning oil wells.

These things are never easy, conceded British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
on the day his country suffered its first combat casualty of the war.
There will be some difficult times ahead but (the war) is going to plan
despite the tragedies.

Saddam sought to rally his own country in a televised appearance. Be
patient, brothers, because God's victory will be ours soon, he said,
appearing in full military garb and seeming more composed than in a taped
appearance broadcast last week.

Coalition forces are closing in on Baghdad, Maj Gen Stanley McChrystal
told reporters at the Pentagon.

The US Air Force flew more than 1,500 sorties over Iraq on Monday. So far,
80 per cent of the bombs and missiles used by the Air Force have been
guided by lasers, radar, satellites or video cameras, a defence official said.

The Pentagon says the munitions are highly accurate, but Iraq claimed that
252 civilians had been killed Sunday, including 194 in Baghdad. It did not
give any figures for military deaths.

Asked about ground forces, McChrystal said, We have not gotten into
direct firefights with Republican Guard forces. That seemed a matter of
not much time, though.

Iraqi television showed pictures of one American helicopter in a grassy
field, men in Arab headdresses brandishing automatic rifles as they did a
victory dance around the aircraft. Hours later, Iraqi television showed two
men it said made up the crew. he US War commander Gen. Tommy Franks
confirmed a two-man crew was missing.

Franks told reporters that 3,000 Iraqi prisoners had been taken.

In London, the Ministry of Defence announced the first British combat
death, a soldier who fell in fighting near Al Zubayr in southern Iraq, near
the city of Basra.

BRITISH TROOPS WITHDRAW FROM BASRA

Stiff resistance forced British troops to withdraw today from Basra to
regroup, British military officials said.

Elements of Britain's Seventh Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats, withdrew
from the southern Iraqi city  the nation's second largest  after coming
under attack by mortars and guerrillas disguised in civilian clothes.

The brigade had at one point surrounded the city.

BASRA LOYAL TO SADDAM

Military officials admitted they had vastly underestimated the strength of
Iraqi resistance and the loyalty of Basra's population to the regime of Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein.

We're currently taking stock of the situation. We were expecting a lot of
hands up from Iraqi soldiers and for the humanitarian operation in Basra to
begin fairly quickly behind us, with aid organisations providing food and
water to the locals, Captain Patrick Trueman said.

But it hasn't quite worked out that way.

There are significant elements in Basra who are hugely loyal to the
regime.

US and British forces were having a tough time taming Iraqi resistance in
the country's southeast, outside Basra and the key deep-water port of
Umm Qasr.

Military planners had expected little resistance in the region because they
thought the Shiite Muslim majority long repressed by the Sunnis from the
north would be glad to be rid of Saddam.

We always had the idea that everyone in this area hated Saddam. Clearly,
there are a number who don't, Trueman said.

The decision to withdraw came after British units came under fierce
mortar fire as they blocked the main routes into the city from the north
and south.US-led forces battled stubborn Iraqi fighters for control of key
towns in southeast Iraq Monday, as a defiant President Saddam Hussein
vowed he would win the war aimed at ousting him.

US OFFENSIVE

US troops backed by Abrams tanks and Cobra helicopters launched a fresh
assault on the town of Nasiriyah, a key crossing point over the Euphrates
river that has escaped coalition capture due to dogged resistance from
the Iraqis.

A US Marine officer said between 4,000 and 5,000 troops were involved in
the offensive, which he pledged would be an all-out blitz, saying: We're
going straight through this city. It will be a Hail Mary with guns 

[CTRL] Boycott of America

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XXJPPYMQPPU0WCR
BAELCFEY?type=focusIraqNewsstoryID=2446136
Boycott of American Goods Over Iraq War Gains
Tue March 25, 2003 12:43 PM ET


By Erik
Kirschbaum

BERLIN (Reuters) - No more Coca-Cola or Budweiser, no Marlboro, no
American whiskey or even American Express cards -- a growing number of
restaurants in Germany are taking everything American off their menus to
protest the war in Iraq.

Although the protests are mainly symbolic, waiters in dozens of bars and
restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bonn and other German cities are
telling patrons, Sorry, Coca-Cola is not available any more due to the
current political situation.

The boycotts appear to be part of a nascent worldwide movement. One
Web site, www.consumers-against-war.de, calls for boycotts of 27 top
American firms from Microsoft to Kodak while another, www.adbusters.org,
urges the millions of people against the war to Boycott Brand America.

Consumer fury seems to be on the rise. Demonstrators in Paris smashed
the windows of a McDonald's restaurant last week, forcing police in riot
gear to move in to protect staff and customers of the American fast-food
outlet. The attackers sprayed obscenities and boycott on the windows.

In Indonesia, Iraq war opponents have pasted signs on McDonald's and
other American food outlets, trying to force them shut by sealing them
and urging Indonesians to avoid them.

In the Swiss city of Basel, 50 students recently staged a sit-down strike in
front of a McDonald's to block customers' entry, waved peace signs and
urged people to eat pretzels instead of hamburgers.

Anti-American sentiment has even reached provinces in Russia, where
some rural eateries put up signs telling Americans they were unwelcome,
according to an Izvestia newspaper report.

A German bicycle manufacturer, Riese und Mueller GmbH, canceled all
business deals with its American suppliers.

Americans only pay attention when money is on the line, director Heiko
Mueller told Reuters, whose firm buys $300,000 worth of supplies from half
a dozen American firms each year.

We wanted to make a statement against this war and told our American
partners that unless they renounce what their government is doing we
won't do any business with them anymore.

SMALL BUT SYMBOLIC ACTS

The German restaurant boycotts of American products started small but
spread rapidly after the Iraq war began on Thursday. The conflict has
struck a raw nerve in a country that became decidedly anti-war after the
devastation of World War II, which it initiated.

If people all around the world boycott American products it might
influence their policies, said Jean-Yves Mabileau, owner of L'Auberge
Francaise which joined 10 Hamburg restaurants in banning Coca Cola,
Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes, whiskey and other American goods.

This started as a light-hearted reaction to Americans dumping French
wine in the gutter and renaming 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries', he said.
But it feels good to take a stand against this war. It is just a small gesture,
but a good one.

Diners at the Osteria restaurant in Berlin are finding that things go better
without Coke and are ordering Germany's long overshadowed imitation of
the real thing -- the slightly sweeter Afri-Cola -- to express their
outrage.

We wanted to do something to express our annoyance, Osteria owner
Fabio Angile told Reuters. We want to hit America where it hurts -- in
their wallets. None of the customers have complained. On the contrary,
most thought it was a great idea.

Herve Keroureda, owner of a French restaurant in Hamburg known as Ti
Breizh, said he was astonished by the massive media coverage of their
small-scale anti-American protest.

It was only intended as a small gesture but has turned into a gigantic
issue, he said. And the reaction from the patrons has been tremendous.
Most have called it a brilliant idea.

In Bonn, bartender Bruno Kessler said he was refusing to sell American
whiskey or American beer such as Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser at his
Eifeler Stuben.

I asked myself 'What can I possibly do to show my anger over this
barbary?', he told Germany's N-24 television network.

STARBUCKS, BIG MACS AVOIDED

Sarah Stolz, a 22-year-old German student of American studies, was headed
for a Starbucks, coffee shop in central Berlin when her anti-war
conscience got the best of her.

I was thinking about going into Starbucks which I love, when I realized it
was wrong, she said. I'm backing the boycott because the war is totally
unjustified.

Rita Marschall was avoiding McDonald's and Burger King.

I'm boycotting American products because their policy on Iraq is totally
wrong, said Marschall, 26, in front of a Berlin McDonald's. It's just one of
many ways we can take a stand.

Some German bakeries have renamed a local cake known as Amerikaner --
a disk- shaped pastry with icing on top -- as Peace-ies, bearing a peace
sign piped in chocolate 

[CTRL] Today's Doonesbury

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[CTRL] Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit

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Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit
Source: DJI - Dow Jones International News

Mar 25 07:25
JERUSALEM (AP)--International donors have frozen funding for a
leading Palestinian human rights group after an independent audit
raised suspicion that millions of dollars in grants has been
mismanaged, the European Union said Tuesday.

The group under scrutiny is called Law Society. Which has been
monitoring Israeli and Palestinian human rights abuses in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip since 1990.

An audit by the accounting firm Ernst  Young indicated that Law
Society funneled at least $1.5 million in donor money into a savings
account without the donors´ knowledge. The group did this by
overstating wages and other expenses and by falsifying annual
budget statements and audits, according to an initial report.

Israel´s Haaretz newspaper, citing the audit report, said Tuesday
that $4 million is unaccounted for. A partial copy of the report
obtained by The Associated Press makes note of about $2 million
that was apparently mismanaged.

The audit spans the period from September 1997 through August
2002, a time when LAW received nearly $10 million in grants.

The report names LAW´s former director, Khader Shkirat, as being
involved in the mismanagement of funds.

In a telephone interview Tuesday, Shkirat acknowledged setting up
savings accounts without the donors´ knowledge, but denied any
money disappeared.

The accounts were set up to make sure the group would have
money in the future, should donors decide one day to stop the
funding, Shkirat said.

'We wanted to secure the future,' Shkirat said. 'The donors would
not have agreed to allow us to save money for the future which is
why we didn´t tell them.'

The European Union said in a statement that the audit´s initial
findings 'indicate considerable mismanagement within LAW.' It said
it was continuing to examine the legal and financial implications of
the audit and 'in the meantime, the donors have decided to freeze all
contributions' to the group.

The audit said LAW´s 'accounting records and the accounting
system were not reliable.'

In addition to setting up the savings account, the audit says LAW
misused donor money to give no-interest loans to one of Shkirat´s
relatives and to buy cars that members of the group weren´t eligible
for.

The audit said it has been unable to account for all the grant money.
'It cannot be ruled out that assets have been disposed of,' the report
said.

In September 2002, LAW informed the donors that some $1.5
million had been set aside in savings accounts without the donors´
knowledge. Shkirat said all the money was found intact in the bank.

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[CTRL] ANOTHER BAD RUSSIAN TRANSLATION

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Notice reference to US's use of dolphins to clear the mines. ;-(

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Military USA and the Great Britain supervise ???- 25.03.2003 [21:15] City of 
Umm-Kasr
in the south of Iraq is supervised by the American and British militarians. Messages on
it were confirmed taking place on a place of events with the correspondent ?? a
satellite telechannel ???-???. As he said, militarians have arranged to 
journalists
trip on old and new port Umm-Kasr. Representatives of MASS-MEDIA have seen, that
Americans and  freely move on both areas. Meanwhile, representatives of a
coalition mark, that have collided(faced) unwillingness of the Iraq party(side) to
cooperate with them. All employees of port have left(abandoned) it(him), and now the
American and British parties(sides) consider(examine) an opportunity of attraction of
experts from abroad for his(its) use. ??? have started mine clearing a waterway
of port Umm-Kasr in the south of Iraq after the British military command has declared
that all city is under the control of a coalition. As has informed on Tuesday the 
Kuwaiti
news agency KUNA, according to the Australian militarians, mine trawlers already have
cleared away a part of water area of port through which coalition forces are going to
deliver the foodstuffs and medicines to local population. As it was informed earlier, 
for
detection of the Iraq mines, including benthonic, the fleet of USA is going to use
specially trained dolphins. In Iraq port Umm-Kasr arrival of military transport with
dolphins onboard expect. Dolphins have trained to not concern the found out mines, and 
to
expose near them special markers, informs ??? 'News'. The officer of fleet of USA 
? has informed journalists, that at transportation sea animals address 
extremely
delicately, them carry in the special tanks filled with water. During works of dolphins
will feed  as at restaurant , and for them reservoirs - sediment bowls are prepared,
the officer has noted. Till now divers American - British ??? have not achieved 
however -
nibud' serious successes in searches of mines in muddy water at the Iraq peninsula of
Fao. A little bit established mines it was possible to find out, however benthonic 
mines
at all have not found. Without mine clearing to city of Umm-Kasr it is impossible to
lead(carry out) court with the humanitarian help.

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[CTRL] Probe of Pentagon Adviser

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNewsstoryID=
2446538
Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Pentagon Adviser Perle
Tue March 25, 2003 01:51 PM ET
By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Democrat called for an investigation of
Richard Perle, an influential architect of the war on Iraq, for possible
conflicts of interest in his roles as corporate adviser and Pentagon
consultant.

Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee, asked the Pentagon's inspector general to probe
Perle's work as a paid adviser to bankrupt telecommunications company
Global Crossing Ltd. and guide to companies on investment opportunities
resulting from the Iraq conflict.

Perle was not available for comment on Tuesday but has said he has always
followed ethics rules. A spokesman for the Defense Department was not
available for comment on the issue.

I am aware of several potential conflicts that warrant your immediate
review, Conyers said on Monday in a letter to the Defense Department's
Inspector General Joseph Schmitz. The letter was made available on
Tuesday.

Mr. Perle is considered a 'special government employee' and is subject to
government ethics prohibition -- both regulatory and criminal -- on using
public office for private gain, Conyers' letter said.

Perle chairs the Defense Policy Board, created in 2001 to advise the
Pentagon, but has no official policymaking role and is not paid. A leading
Washington hawk, he has played an influential role in developing the Bush
administration's blueprint for ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Critics have questioned Perle's activities when not advising Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

GLOBAL CROSSING REVIEW

Perle signed on to help Global Crossing, a bankrupt operator of an
international fiber- optic network, win U.S. approval to sell a 61.5 percent
stake to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Singapore Technologies Telemedia
Pte.

The plan has run into trouble with a little-known panel called the
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The panel, made up
of Rumsfeld and other top national security officials, examines mergers and
acquisitions for potential harm to U.S. interests and can block such deals.

Global Crossing began talks to restructure its deal after the panel raised
concern that its network would be controlled by a company with strong
ties to China. Hutchison is majority owned by Hong Kong's richest man, Li
Ka-shing.

Perle has said he would be paid $125,000 for his advice and another
$600,000 if the government approves the deal.

Conyers noted a New York Times article citing a March 7 affidavit in which
Perle discussed his unique perspective on national defense and security
issues and said he had contacted a government official on Global Crossing's
behalf.

The fact that Mr. Perle may be reconsidering filing the affidavit does not
alter the existence of the alleged conflict, Conyers said.

Conyers also asked the Pentagon to probe reports that Perle participated
in a conference call sponsored by Goldman Sachs to discuss investment
opportunities emerging from the war in Iraq and that he received stock
options from a company that does business with the U.S. military.

I would submit that it is a conflict of interest for a high-ranking
government official to be proffering advice on how to profit from the
war, Conyers said.

A Goldman Sachs spokesman had no immediate comment.

Conyers also pointed out that Perle sits on the board of Autonomy Corp.,
which lists the U.S. Army and military as customers, and received stock
options.
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[CTRL] Bush: take a breather

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Saudis tell Bush: take a breather, give UN another try

March 24 2003

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, has urged the United
States to have a breather in its invasion of Iraq and give the United
Nations another chance to disarm the country peacefully.

Stop the war, let's sit down, let's have a breather after what we have seen
of the destruction, Prince Saud told Western journalists in the Saudi
capital of Riyadh.

The 61-year-old prince also called on Saddam Hussein to start to think of
the sacrifices he can make for his country, implying that the Iraqi leader
should seek exile rather than see his country destroyed.

While Saudi Arabia has not offered sanctuary to Saddam, Prince Saud said
the Iraqi leader and his family would be allowed safe passage through the
kingdom to reach a third country. Neighbouring Bahrain has offered to
shelter Saddam. Saudi Arabia has been a vocal critic of Washington's war
plans since they were first discussed a year ago.

Like many countries in the region, it fears the conflict could destabilise its
own society, which is struggling with a volatile mix of high unemployment
and religious extremism among its youth.

Saudi Arabia's position is particularly sensitive because the US Air Force
commander in charge of the bombing
campaign in Iraq is stationed at a Saudi Air Force base just south of the
capital - a fact not discussed by the local press or widely known to Saudi
citizens.

Prince Saud condemned the invasion's aim of destroying the Iraqi
Government as outside of the framework of international legality, and
warned that rebuilding what has been destroyed will be a dangerous,
difficult task.

Bringing it back again is going to be a job I don't envy those who are going
to be handed it, he said.

He said he was worried about talk of a military occupation government,
and that he doubted the ability of US and British officials to finesse the
web of tribal and ethnic relationships that any government in Iraq must
handle to maintain peace.

We don't think that is advisable at all, the prince said. The government
we would like to see in Iraq after the war is the government that is formed
by the Iraqi people.

He called on the UN Security Council to take up the Iraq issue again
without delay, both to try and stop the fighting and to decide how to
manage Iraq after the conflict.

It just seems to me it will be a very tough situation to handle unless the
United Nations comes to the fore in this and gets whoever is there from
the present government to co-operate with them for the process of what
they call democratisation, he said.

The Saudi Government has said it will not send troops to Iraq, but the
prince said it would consider contributing peacekeeping forces if asked by
the United Nations and Iraq.

Prince Saud also repeated his Government's long-standing plea for the US
to help solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been at the heart
of the problems and the troubles in the region.

If there is stability, if there is peace in the Middle East, that is the way
that will bring about a democratisation and an opening of society, the
prince said, not through war.

The New York Times

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[CTRL] You can too!

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op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=61mode=threadorder=0
thold=0
Veterans from throughout the nation converged in  Washington to
demonstarate near the White House, attend a teach-in, and lobby
Congress.
By Jan Barry

Taking a petition to Washington signed by more than 2,000 veterans
opposed to a preemptive war in Iraq is one thing. Getting someone to
accept it is much more difficult.

We cannot accept anything, said a police officer at the White House.
Put it in the mail.

As bombs exploded in Baghdad and battles erupted across Iraq, more than
400 military veterans and family members demonstrated Sunday in the
nations capital demanding the safe return of our troops. Months of effort
to collect signatures on an internet petition and deliver the message to
the Bush administration and Congress seemed undone by the abrupt
military assault launched just days before.

Nonetheless, a determined group of veterans and family members gathered
near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at noon to deliver a sobering
message. Wearing black armbands in mourning for casualties of this brand-
new war, attired in military hats and shirts adorned with military ribbons
and medals, and carrying American flags and protest signs, the veterans
group was nearly encircled by television camera crews and mounted
police.

To a mournful tune on a bagpipe and haunting beat of a drum, a five-
veteran delegation marched with a wreath to the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial. This scene was repeated at the construction site of the World
War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, and the Veterans
Administration headquarters.

Gathering on the Ellipse by the south lawn of the White House, the
marchers sent a five-person delegation to deliver the Veterans Against Iraq
War petition to President Bush. Two Vietnam veterans, a Gulf War vet, and
a woman veteran, accompanied by Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers
fame, approached the security fence and spoke to a police officer on duty
in front of a gate.

We would like to deliver this petition to the president, Stewart
Nusbaumer, a Marine veteran who lost a leg in Vietnam, said, leaning on a
cane. The lone officer gently but firmly declined to accept the red folder
containing the petition with 49 pages of signatures.

Is there anyone here who can accept it? a television cameraman
interjected. No, we cannot accept anything, the officer replied. If you
want to, you can mail it.

Thats the way Operation Dire Distress went. The White House refused to
accept the petition. Congress was out of town. Squadrons of armed cops,
many in SWAT team flak jackets, others on horseback and motorcycles,
surrounded the veterans as they marched through the streets of
Washington near the White House.

But when a heckler taunted the demonstrators with obscenities and
provocatively charged the line of marchers, mounted police quickly moved
in and pushed the young man back onto the sidewalk and warned him to
desist. He called me a faggot, said Jaime Vazquez, who was wearing a
Marine sergeants coat bedecked with combat medals. Thats verbal
assault. Then Vazquez shook off his anger and resumed his peacemaking
duties as a parade marshal.

After a silent procession through the war memorials on the mall, the
marchers broke out into cadence calls as they marched up 17th Street
towards the White House.

VETERANS ARE HERE TO SAY
BRING THE TROOPS HOME TODAY
WE DONT WANT THE IRAQ WAR
PEACE IS WHAT WERE MARCHING FOR

Next to the Executive Office Building, a spontaneous chant erupted and
echoed among the government buildings, surely reaching the adjacent
White House.

BUSH WENT AWOL
YOU CAN TOO

BUSH WENT AWOL
YOU CAN TOO

Among the forest of signs: I served in Vietnam, my son served in the
Persian Gulf, Bush serves the oil industry. Another one said: Our son is a
Marine, dont send him to war for oil. A third said: We are patriots, we
served, did you?

A large banner near the head of the march said: Support our troops,
bring them home. A small home- made placard said: Honor vets, stop this
war.

Veterans came from as far away as California. One man drove from
Cleveland after hearing about the march on C-Span, which broadcast a
teach-in at American University on Saturday that kicked off the weekend
of protest. A woman veteran flew in from Atlanta. A Gulf War vet flew in
from Utah. A bus full of veterans came from New York City. A vanload of
vets arrived from St. Louis. Many wore combat insignia from World War II,
Korea, Vietnam, and the first Gulf War.

The theme of the Operation Dire Distress march was that the highest
patriotism means speaking out against misuse of the men and women in our
military to conduct an illegal, unnecessary war. Addressing the assembly on
the Ellipse, Vasquez, director of veterans affairs for Jersey City, NJ,
pointed out that Americas Founding Fathers challenged the government of
their day. Patriotism means challenging our government today, he said.

At a teach-in at 

[CTRL] Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Pentagon Adviser Perle

[William Shannon]

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNewsstoryID=2446538



Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Pentagon Adviser Perle

Tue March 25, 2003 01:51 PM ET

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Democrat called for an investigation of
Richard Perle, an influential architect of the war on Iraq, for possible
conflicts of interest in his roles as corporate adviser and Pentagon
consultant.

Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee, asked the Pentagon's inspector general to probe
Perle's
work as a paid adviser to bankrupt telecommunications company Global
Crossing
Ltd. and guide to companies on investment opportunities resulting from the
Iraq conflict.

Perle was not available for comment on Tuesday but has said he has always
followed ethics rules. A spokesman for the Defense Department was not
available for comment on the issue.

"I am aware of several potential conflicts that warrant your immediate
review," Conyers said on Monday in a letter to the Defense Department's
Inspector General Joseph Schmitz. The letter was made available on
Tuesday.

"Mr. Perle is considered a 'special government employee' and is subject to
government ethics prohibition -- both regulatory and criminal -- on using
public office for private gain," Conyers' letter said.

Perle chairs the Defense Policy Board, created in 2001 to advise the
Pentagon, but has no official policymaking role and is not paid. A leading
Washington hawk, he has played an influential role in developing the Bush
administration's blueprint for ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Critics have questioned Perle's activities when not advising Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

GLOBAL CROSSING REVIEW

Perle signed on to help Global Crossing, a bankrupt operator of an
international fiber-optic network, win U.S. approval to sell a 61.5
percent
stake to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte.

The plan has run into trouble with a little-known panel called the
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The panel, made up
of
Rumsfeld and other top national security officials, examines mergers and
acquisitions for potential harm to U.S. interests and can block such
deals.

Global Crossing began talks to restructure its deal after the panel raised
concern that its network would be controlled by a company with strong ties
to
China. Hutchison is majority owned by Hong Kong's richest man, Li
Ka-shing.

Perle has said he would be paid $125,000 for his advice and another
$600,000 if the government approves the deal.

Conyers noted a New York Times article citing a March 7 affidavit in which
Perle discussed his "unique perspective" on national defense and security
issues and said he had contacted a government official on Global
Crossing's
behalf.

"The fact that Mr. Perle may be reconsidering filing the affidavit does
not
alter the existence of the alleged conflict," Conyers said.

Conyers also asked the Pentagon to probe reports that Perle participated
in
a conference call sponsored by Goldman Sachs to discuss investment
opportunities emerging from the war in Iraq and that he received stock
options
from a company that does business with the U.S. military.

"I would submit that it is a conflict of interest for a high-ranking
government official to be proffering advice on how to profit from the
war,"
Conyers said.

A Goldman Sachs spokesman had no immediate comment.

Conyers also pointed out that Perle sits on the board of Autonomy Corp.,
which lists the U.S. Army and military as customers, and received stock
options.

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[CTRL] Fwd: In Wartime, Rights Can Be Reduced to Minimum says Supreme Ct Justice

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Justice Bans Media
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Wednesday March 19, 2003 2:50 PM

CLEVELAND (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for supporting free speech. The City Club usually tapes speakers for later broadcast on public television, but Scalia insisted on banning television and radio coverage, the club said. Scalia is being given the organization's Citadel of Free Speech Award. 

``I might wish it were otherwise, but that was one of the criteria that he had for acceptance,'' said James Foster, the club's executive director. 

The ban on broadcast media, ``begs disbelief and seems to be in conflict with the award itself,'' C-SPAN vice president and executive producer Terry Murphy wrote in a letter last week to the City Club. ``How free is speech if there are limits to its distribution?'' 

The City Club selected Scalia because he has ``consistently, across the board, had opinions or led the charge in support of free speech,'' Foster said. Cameras and recording devices are banned from the Supreme Court chamber, and Scalia prefers not to have camera coverage in other settings, said Kathleen Arberg, spokeswoman for the court. Scalia made the same demand on John Carroll University, where he spoke Tuesday night. 

He talked mostly about the constitutional protection of religions, but also said that government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. 

``The Constitution just sets minimums,'' Scalia said. ``Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.'' 




War Means Rights May Be Scaled Back

Associated Press

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio - The government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday.

"The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said after a speech at John Carroll University in suburban Cleveland. "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."

Scalia, one of the court's most conservative judges, was responding to a question about the Justice Department's pursuit of terrorism suspects and whether their rights are being violated.

Scalia did not discuss what rights he believed are constitutionally protected, but said that in wartime, one can expect "the protections will be ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum. I won't let it go beyond the constitutional minimum."

Scalia was interrupted once briefly by a protester who shouted an anti-war statement. The protester was taken from the room by security officers but was not arrested. Scalia stopped speaking during the scuffle, then joked that the protest probably was more interesting than his topic, which was the constitutional protection of religions. 













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[CTRL] Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII

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Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII
Americans To Take The Fall This Time

By: Henry Makow

Something very worrisome is happening. Some of Rockefeller's best toadies oppose the 
Iraq war. But Rockefeller and his ilk are responsible for this war. What gives?

It appears the global elite is dividing its minions into two house teams again. The 
last time this happened we had the Fascist-Communist slugfest called World War Two. 
The same satanic cabal controlled both sides and picked Germany to take the fall.


This time, the U.S., Britain and the coalition of the willing are on one side. On 
the other are France, Germany, Russia and China. The centre of global power is moving 
to China, Europe and Russia. I see a world war over Korea, or more likely Iran and 
control of Middle East oil. The U.S., overextended from Kuwait to Korea, will come up 
short.

My guess is that the US will find itself increasingly isolated and vilified as a 
result of the Iraq war. I suspect the hidden agenda is to bring down the world's last 
superpower; to replace the UN with a new instrument of world government; to kill a 
lot of people, and to wean Americans off democracy and their high standard of living.

GLOBALISTS AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR?

Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, George Soros, Mikail Gorbachev and Walter Cronkite are 
all globalist elder statesmen-for-hire. Curiously, they all oppose the Iraq war.

Jimmy Carter, a creation of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission publicly supported 
more UN inspections. Mikhail Gorbachev said the war is a big mistake. Nelson Mandela 
called it a tragedy and warned Bush was plunging the world into a holocaust.

Financial maven George Soros said: The Bush doctrine is grounded in power; legality 
and legitimacy are decorations. Finally, Walter Cronkite, who is linked to 
Rockefeller's CFR warned:

We are going to be in such a fix when this war is over, or before this war is over. 
Our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for this war. I look at our 
future as, I'm sorry, being very dark.

The leaders of Russia, France, Germany and China also voiced opposition with 
uncharacteristic bluntness. They must have the OK of the global money masters. 
Military action ... is a big mistake, Vladimir Putin said.  Iraq has presented no 
danger... China urged the US and Britain to halt their military actions.

France, Russia and Germany all refused a U.S. request to close their Iraqi embassies. 
North Korea apparently is preparing for war.

Even in England, major newspapers like The Mirror have been scathing in their 
criticism of Tony Blair. British newspapers belong to the same clan. I suspect England 
will defect to Europe's side before this fiasco is over.

PARALLELS TO WORLD WAR TWO

Before World War Two, a faction of the British elite built up Hitler. This was known 
as the policy of appeasement. After Hitler fell into the trap of attacking Poland, 
they did a sleight of hand and replaced the accommodating Chamberlain with the 
defiant Churchill.

Iraq is a similar trap. The United States has squandered the sympathy and good will it 
earned on Sept 11. The images of the World Trade Centre have been replaced in the 
world's mind by the spectacular explosions in Baghdad.

The US comes across as a bully too cowardly to pick on anyone its own side. Notch this 
victory up beside its thrashings of Grenada, Panama and Serbia. The gloating by US TV 
commentators is particularly distasteful to the outside world

The damage to America's moral authority is incalculable. After this war, who will have 
sympathy for Americans if Chinese atomic bombs rain down on Los Angeles and New York? 
The devil degrades his victims before he destroys them.

ELITE TREASON

For almost 100 years, the American leadership class has belonged to an international 
cabal that is determined to dissolve all human loyalties, including the nation state, 
and establish a global tyranny. George Bush, who is part of this cabal, has led the 
American people into a trap.

Who in their right mind would deliberately alienate 1.3 billion Muslims? Of course 
Hussein is a bad man but this is not the motive. The U.S. is acting as gofer for the 
Zionists and the oil cartels, two leading parts of the cabal. They will come out ahead 
while Americans will foot the bill and take the brunt of Muslim indignation.

Can the U.S. even count on Israel? At his trial, Israeli Spy Jonathon Pollard was 
called the greatest traitor in the history of the United States (Gordon Thomas, 
Seeds of Fire, p.31-32). In the words of CIA Director George Tenet, Pollard, an 
American Jew, stole every worthwhile intelligence secret we have. In the year prior 
to his arrest in Nov. 1986, Pollard transmitted over 360 cubic feet of top secret 
paper to Israel, his trial was told.

According to Thomas, Israel's Mossad routinely trades information and technology with 
China's Secret Intelligence Service. (482) Pollard's information could have commanded 
a 

[CTRL] Fw: [anti-imperialiste] DICTATURE EN SERBIE ! URGENT: Censorship imposed on Yugoslav media! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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Over 4,000 people have been detained

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 Date:3/18/03 9:05:10 PM Eastern Standard Time
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 Media ban amid Djindjic probe

 Serbian authorities have closed down three publications as part of the e=
 mergency regulations imposed after the assassination of Prime Minister
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  were publishing information that hampered the police investigation into
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 The move came as the Serbian parliament voted to replace Djindjic with his
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 He knew what the connections were between the old paramilitary apparatu=
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 Those arrested include Serbia's most famous folk pop singer, Ceca, the
wido=
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 In parliament, Mr Zivkovic said the assassination of Djindjic had a clear
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Zivkov=
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 Published: 2003/03/18 23:41:27

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[CTRL] Who's Watching the Watch Lists?

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Who's Watching the Watch 
Lists?
By Joanna Glasner
Mar. 25, 2003

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- The head of the venture 
capital firm formed by the CIA to identify technologies for improving national 
security said he opposes government agencies' growing reliance on watch 
lists.

Speaking Monday at the PC Forum technology 
conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, Gilman Louie, CEO of the CIA-backed In-Q-Tel, said he 
believes agencies should not rely merely on automated filtering tools to 
identify potential terrorists based on characteristics like travel patterns or 
citizenship status. One reason is the difficulty in removing your name from a 
list once the information has been shared with multiple parties.

"I think watch lists are a bad thing," Louie 
said, "Because they don't define how you get on and how you get off (the 
list)."

Louie's comments were in response to a 
question regarding the effectiveness of the Transportation Security 
Administration's latest screening initiative, a system known as the Computer 
Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening Program II, or CAPPS II. Under the program, 
which is under development, the TSA will screen names, addresses, birth dates 
and other data regarding passengers as a way to root out potential 
terrorists.

For individuals "deemed to pose a possible 
risk to transportation security," according to a January Federal Register 
notice, 
screenings will include additional records, including financial transaction 
histories and information from law enforcement and intelligence 
agencies.

Cory Doctorow, a sci-fi writer and staffer at 
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, questioned whether individuals flagged as 
suspicious in the TSA's database would have the "opportunity to rebut the 
conclusion of an algorithm."

Louie, a former 
video-game developer who left an executive post at Hasbro Interactive to join 
In-Q-Tel, said he believes agencies need to perform more detailed analysis of 
data tagged by filtering tools. Although machine-generated data can provide 
leads, well-trained human analysts are required to investigate links between 
isolated pieces of information.

In its current form, Louie said, the 
watch-list system shares many of the faults associated with credit scoring 
services, whose standardized formulas are often criticized for producing 
unreliable indicators of creditworthiness.

"We all know how good credit-card companies 
are at scoring us," he said. "Do we want to have those kinds of systems 
determine whether or not you can fly?"

That said, Mike Hunter, CEO of Anacubis, a 
company that provides tools for linking data, said watch lists are a reasonable 
option, if their use is limited.

"When you're tackling a large problem, 
sometimes it's the only way to do it," he said.

As a U.K. citizen, Hunter has had personal 
experience with watch lists. On several occasions, when entering the United 
States, he was briefly detained and questioned. The reason, he said, was that a 
criminal on the loose shared his name and looked somewhat like him.

Hunter said he doesn't oppose watch lists as a 
means to identify potential suspects for further questioning. However, he 
believes the data they provide is not sufficient for more heavy-handed law 
enforcement actions, such as detaining someone for an extended period of 
time.

Although it may be tempting for agencies to 
screen for potential suspects using simple filtering that looks for 
characteristics like ethnicity or overseas travel history, Louie contended that 
the price paid in terms of civil liberties is too great.

"This great national debate between security 
and civil rights isn't a tradeoff," he said.

Scaled-up screening efforts at airports come 
as federal agencies are intensifying security measures in response to heightened 
fears of a domestic terrorist attack as the war in Iraq rages on. The U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security continues to maintain an orange level alert, its 
second highest, indicating a high threat of a potential attack.

While In-Q-Tel is backed by the CIA, it is not 
a government agency and functions as a private nonprofit. The fund invests 
primarily in companies that develop technologies in security and privacy, 
geospatial applications, data collection and knowledge management.

Recent recipients of funding include ArcSight, 
a security software developer, and MetaCarta, which makes applications for 
connecting text documents to geographic maps.

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[CTRL] Fw: Leading leftwing activist lies about US intentions toward Iraq

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Leading leftwing activist lies about US 
intentions toward Iraq 
Dr Aaron 
OakleyThursday 13 March 2003 
Professional idiot and the Australian Conservation 
Foundation's head honcho Peter Garrett has decided to speak out against toppling 
Saddam's sadistic regime. In doing so he revealed the moral and intellectual 
bankruptcy of the left. 
He argued that America has no right to "carpet bomb 
Baghdad". Who said Baghdad was going to be carpet bombed? In fact, who said any 
part of Iraq would be carpet bombed? It is just vicious smear mongering to 
state, as Garrett did, that America intends to "carpet bomb Baghdad" or any 
other part of Iraq. 
To justify his defence of Saddam's murderous 
regime, and that is what it amounted to, Garrett raised the non-issue of 
depleted uranium: 
"There has already been use of weapons with 
depleted uranium in the first Gulf War, raising anxiety about the long-term 
consequences to human health and groundwater systems. A "bunker busting" bomb 
made with DU was first detonated on a site in Kandahar in Afghanistan, where 
preliminary medical tests revealed uranium contamination on human populations 
100 times the normal level. Any use of nuclear weapons as contemplated by the 
new US doctrine would seriously magnify this kind of damage." 
This guy knows nothing and understands even less. 
Depleted Uranium is called depleted for a reason. The most radioactive 
portion (U-235) has been removed. What is left (mostly U-238) has an extremely 
long half life 4.5- billion years. This means that the danger from radioactivity 
is minimal. 
Mr Garrett tells us that contamination by DU is 
"100 times the normal level". So what? Is 100 times the "normal level (whatever 
that is) actually dangerous? 
Perhaps Garrett should read the DU study in the 
Lancet that showed no correlation between service in the Balkans and 
cancer or other illnesses. Or another one that found no evidence of widespread 
radioactive contamination in Kosovo. 
Garrett says "Any use of nuclear weapons as 
contemplated by the new US doctrine would seriously magnify this kind of 
damage". The implication is that he is so dumb he thinks DU constitutes a 
"nuclear" weapon. 
According to one correspondent: "DU was used as 
paperweights on desks of engineers in Los Alamos in the 50s before the 
regulatory world went nuts. It is used in military shells not because if it very 
weak radioactivity, but because of its very high density (about 19gm/cc). As 
such it has high penetrating power." 
The truth is that DU is more of a hazard as a heavy 
metal rather than for its radioactivity. 
What really made Garrett's article morally 
offensive was its refusal to not only acknowledge the need to remove this Arab 
Pol Pot but its insinuation that this murderous thug's regime has the same moral 
right to self-defence as any democracy. 
It is time that the leftwing likes of Garrett were 
held to account for their hypocrisy and made to explain why the people of Iraq 
are less deserving of liberty than themselves. 
Perhaps that is why our leftwingers remain silent 
while Saddam's thugs crucify children, publicly behead women, set people on fire 
and torture children in front of their parents. And that is just Saddam's entre 
to his smorgasbord of mass murder and torture. 
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[CTRL] Fw: 'See men shredded, then say you don't back war'

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'See men shredded, then say you don't back 
war' By Ann Clwyd (UK Labour M.P. for Cynon Valley) The Times, March 18, 2003. 
The Times 
March 18, 2003 
See men shredded, then say you don't back war By 
Ann Clwyd There was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were 
dropped into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head 
first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It 
was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their remains would be placed in 
plastic bags and we were told they would be used as fish food . . . on one 
occasion, I saw Qusay [President Saddam Husseins youngest son] personally 
supervise these murders. 
This is one of the many witness statements that 
were taken by researchers from Indict  the organisation I chair  to provide 
evidence for legal cases against specific Iraqi individuals for war crimes, 
crimes against humanity and genocide. This account was taken in the past two 
weeks. 
Another witness told us about practices of the 
security services towards women: Women were suspended by their hair as 
their families watched; men were forced to watch as their wives were raped . . . 
women were suspended by their legs while they were menstruating until their 
periods were over, a procedure designed to cause humiliation. 
The accounts Indict has heard over the past six 
years are disgusting and horrifying. Our task is not merely passively to record 
what we are told but to challenge it as well, so that the evidence we produce is 
of the highest quality. All witnesses swear that their statements are true and 
sign them. 
For these humanitarian reasons alone, it is 
essential to liberate the people of Iraq from the regime of Saddam. The 17 UN 
resolutions passed since 1991 on Iraq include Resolution 688, which calls for an 
end to repression of Iraqi civilians. It has been ignored. Torture, execution 
and ethnic-cleansing are everyday life in Saddams Iraq. 
Were it not for the no-fly zones in the south 
and north of Iraq  which some people still claim are illegal  the Kurds and 
the Shia would no doubt still be attacked by Iraqi helicopter gunships. 
For more than 20 years, senior Iraqi officials 
have committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This list 
includes far more than the gassing of 5,000 in Halabja and other villages in 
1988. It includes serial war crimes during the Iran-Iraq war; the genocidal 
Anfal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds in 1987-88; the invasion of Kuwait and 
the killing of more than 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians; the violent suppression, which 
I witnessed, of the 1991 Kurdish uprising that led to 30,000 or more civilian 
deaths; the draining of the Southern Marshes during the 1990s, which ethnically 
cleansed thousands of Shias; and the summary executions of thousands of 
political opponents. 
Many Iraqis wonder why the world applauded the 
military intervention that eventually rescued the Cambodians from Pol Pot and 
the Ugandans from Idi Amin when these took place without UN help. They ask why 
the world has ignored the crimes against them? 
All these crimes have been recorded in detail by 
the UN, the US, Kuwaiti, British, Iranian and other Governments and groups such 
as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Indict. Yet the Security Council has failed 
to set up a war crimes tribunal on Iraq because of opposition from France, China 
and Russia. As a result, no Iraqi official has ever been indicted for some of 
the worst crimes of the 20th century. I have said incessantly that I would have 
preferred such a tribunal to war. But the time for offering Saddam incentives 
and more time is over. 
I do not have a monopoly on wisdom or morality. 
But I know one thing. This evil, fascist regime must come to an end. With or 
without the help of the Security Council, and with or without the backing of the 
Labour Party in the House of Commons tonight. 

The author is Labour MP for Cynon 
Valley.
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[CTRL] Fw: Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush

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Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush
Addison RossNew 
York Wednesday 12 March 2003 
The Oscar-winning Jessica Lange has 
joined, along with a number of Hollywood lefty activists, the Bush-hating WWW 
(Win Without War) organisation whose intention is to subvert the war against 
Saddam's murderous regime. 
Tom Andrews is WWW spokesman and a 
former Democratic congressman from Vermont. He is also every bit as partisan as 
the hateful Lange. WWW is closely collaborating with MoveOn.Org, another 
leftwing anti-Bush group that was set up 1998 by another bunch of partisan 
Democrats. 
MoveOn recently publicized an 
anti-Bush speech by Dem Sen. Robert Byrd, the same Byrd who was a Ku Klux Klan 
recruiter and who is still being coy about his activities while a member of that 
terrorist organisation. (This is the guy who called blacks "race mongrels" and 
who sponsored a bill to name the Senate's main office building after the 
notorious Georgia Democrat Richard Russell: the man who derailed anti-lynching 
legislation in the 1930s). 
What MoveOn also concealed about 
Byrd's past is that this hypocrite vote for the September 14 war resolution that 
he is now attacking Bush for implementing. He is also making the sort of war 
demands of Bush that he never made of LBJ or Jefferson Clinton. Partisan 
politics at their very worst by a race-baiting bigot. And this is the kind of 
joker that Bush-hating Hollywood airheads like Lange and Ethan Hawke support. 
These ever so patriotic organizations 
are linked to the IAC (International Action Center). The anti-American Ramsey 
Clark, who is also a friend of Saddam's, collaborated with the Stalinist WWW 
(Workers World Party) in setting up the IAC, an organisation that also fronts 
for the sadistic Saddam and the loony Kim Jong-il. 
So why do the likes of Lange join 
with America's enemies? Lange's motivation is pure hate. She claims to be a 
patriot but what kind of patriot would tell a foreign audience: "It makes me 
feel ashamed to come from the United States  it is humiliating"[?] Fanatically 
toeing the lefty line on Iraq she stated that the Bush administration's policy 
of overthrowing the murderous Saddam is "unconstitutional, immoral and illegal." 

This brilliant constitutional lawyer, 
political analyst and historian has overlooked several facts. Firstly, the legal 
foundations for overthrowing Saddam were laid down at the end of Gulf War. 
Secondly, the policy of bringing about a regime change in Iraq, by whatever 
means, was signed into law by Clinton. This was the Liberation Act of 1998 for 
which the Senate unanimously voted. Let me spell this out for Lange and her 
Hollywood comrades: UNANIMOUSLY VOTED. That means Democrats voted for it too. 
None of this fazes Lange and the rest 
of Hollywood's celluloid intellectuals, to whom lying, intimidation and hate 
seem to be second nature. In Lange's fantasy world Bush has turned America into 
a fascist state that is "intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing". 
Yet it is the intolerant likes of 
Lange of who have driven the vast majority of Hollywood conservatives 
underground. When Bette Midler publicly called Bush an Bush an "a-- h---" while 
Julia Roberts described Republicans as "reptiles" and Ted Danson sneeringly 
compared them to "lower primates" they are engaging in hate speech that is meant 
to inimtidate conservative-minded members of the Hollywood community into 
silence. For these actors tolerance is a one-way street. 
Having publicly maligned President 
Bush and her country, impugned his motives and lied about White House policy on 
Saddaam Lange wraps herself in Old Glory and solemnly declares, as did Ethan 
Hawke, that "we are patriots". An American patriot who supports the 
America-hating Saddam Hussein? 
Dr Johnson was right when he said 
that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." What Johnson, whose 
patriotism was second to none, meant is that the crooked and the treasonous will 
not hesitate to wave the flag if it protects them or serves their nefarious 
purposes. 
Nevertheless, genuine patriots owe 
Lange a debt of gratitude. She has helped reveal the totalitarian thinking that 
lurks beneath the surface of Hollywood's leftwing fronts. Their hatred of 
alternative views and their unspoken belief that all Republican administrations 
are illegitimate and do not have a genuine moral or legal right to exist. This 
is Lange's real message and it is one we should never forget. 

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Robert Parry
January 3, 2001
The Consortium (consortiumnews.com) 

Bush family benefactor Sun Myung Moon 
funneled millions of dollars into North Korea 
when developing its nuclear weapons program

In 1998, Rumsfeld headed a special commission, appointed by the Republican-controlled Congress, that warned that North Korea had made substantial progress during the decade in building missiles that could pose a potential nuclear threat to Japan and parts of the United States."The extraordinary level of resources North Korea and Iran are now devoting to developing their own ballistic missile capabilities poses a substantial and immediate danger to the U.S., its vital interests and its allies," said the report by Rumsfeld's Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States."North Korea maintains an active WMD [weapons of mass destruction] program, including a nuclear weapon program. It is known that North Korea diverted material in the late 1980s for at least one or possibly two weapons," the report said.Rumsfelds alarming assessment of North Koreas war-making capabilities now is being cited by Republicans as a justification for investing billions of taxpayer dollars in an anti-missile defense system favored by Bush and Rumsfeld.Yet, during the early-to-mid 1990s, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency was monitoring a series of clandestine payments from Sun Myung Moon's organization to the North Korean communist leaders who were overseeing the country's military strategies.According to DIA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Moons payments to North Korean leaders included a $3 million birthday present to current communist leader Kim Jong Il and offshore payments amounting to several tens of million dollars to the previous communist dictator, Kim Il Sung.The alleged payments  and broader Moon-North Korean business deals reported by the DIA  came at a time of a strict U.S. government ban on financial transactions between North Korea and any U.S. person or entity, to keep hard currency out of North Korea's hands. Legal experts say that ban would have applied to Moon given his status as a permanent U.S. resident, even though he maintains South Korean citizenship.

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While negotiating those business deals with North Korea in the 1990s, Moons organization also hired former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush to give speeches at Moon-sponsored events.During one speech inaugurating a new Moon-sponsored newspaper in Argentina in November 1996, former President Bush declared, I want to salute Reverend Moon, whom Bush praised as the man with the vision.The father of the incoming U.S. president has refused to divulge how much Moons organization paid for these speeches which were delivered in the United States, Asia and South America. Some press estimates have put the fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, though one former leader of Moons Unification Church told me that the organization had earmarked $10 million for the former president.Ex-President Bushs pro-Moon speeches came at a time, too, when Moon  now 80  was expressing intensely anti-American views. In the mid-1990s, Moon denounced the United States as Satans harvest and condemned American women as having descended from a line of prostitutes. In a speech to his followers on Aug. 4, 1996, Moon vowed to liquidate American individuality, declaring that his movement would swallow entire America. Moon said Americans who insisted on their privacy and extreme individualism  will be digested. Beyond these anti-Americanism diatribes, other questions have arisen about how Moon finances his religious-business-political empire. Evidence has existed 

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Missing U.S.-Iraq History

By Robert Parry
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February 27, 2003


 Before George W. Bush gives the final order to invade Iraq -- a nation that has not threatened the United States -- the American people might want a few facts about the real history of U.S.-Iraq relations. Missing chapters from 1980 to the present would be crucial in judging Bushs case for war.

But Americans dont have those facts because Bush and his predecessors in the White House have kept this history hidden from the American people. When parts of the story have emerged, administrations of both parties have taken steps to suppress or discredit the disclosures. So instead of knowing the truth, Americans have been fed a steady diet of distortions, simplifications and outright lies.This missing history also is not just about minor details. It goes to the heart of the case against Saddam Hussein, including whether he is an especially aggressive and unpredictable dictator who must be removed from power even at the risk of Americas standing in the world and the chance that a war will lead to more terrorism against U.S. targets.For instance, George W. Bush has frequently cited Saddam Husseins invasions of neighbors, Iran and Kuwait, as justification for the looming U.S. invasion of Iraq. By defeating this threat, we will show other dictators that the path of aggression will lead to their own ruin, Bush declared during a speech in Atlanta on Feb. 20.Leaving aside whether Bushs formulation is Orwellian double-speak  aggression to discourage aggression  there is the historical question of whether Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush actually encouraged Saddams aggressions for geopolitical reasons or out of diplomatic incompetence.Carter's 'Green Light'?
This intersection of Saddams wars and U.S. foreign policy dates back at least to 1980 when Irans radical Islamic government held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran and the sheiks of the oil-rich Persian Gulf feared that Ruhollah Khomeini's radical breed of Islam might sweep them from power just as it had the Shah of Iran a year earlier.The Iranian government began its expansionist drive by putting pressure on the secular government of Iraq, instigating border clashes and encouraging Iraqs Shiite and Kurdish populations to rise up. Iranian operatives sought to destabilize Saddams government by assassinating Iraqi leaders. [For details, see An Unnecessary War, Foreign Policy, January/February 2003.]On Aug. 5, 1980, as tensions mounted on the Iran-Iraq border, Saudi rulers welcomed Saddam to Riyadh for the first state visit ever by an Iraqi president to Saudi Arabia. During meetings at the kingdoms ornate palaces, the Saudis feted Saddam whose formidable Soviet-supplied army was viewed as a bulwark against Iran.Saudi leaders also say they urged Saddam to take the fight to Irans fundamentalist regime, advice that they say included a green light for the invasion from President Carter.Less than two months after Saddams trip, with Carter still frustrated by his inability to win release of the 52 Americans imprisoned in Iran, Saddam invaded Iran on Sept. 22, 1980. The war would rage for eight years and kill an estimated one million people.The claim of Carters green light for the invasion was made by senior Arab leaders, including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, to President Reagans first secretary of state, Alexander Haig, when Haig traveled to the Middle East in April 1981, according to top secret talking points that Haig prepared for a post-trip briefing of Reagan.Haig wrote that he was impressed with bits of useful intelligence that he had learned. Both [Egypts Anwar] Sadat and [Saudi then-Prince] Fahd [explained that] Iran is 

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THE MISCALCULATION
By Serge July

Translated from Libration (Paris), Mar. 25:

Editorial

The United States is waging war without an international mandate, in
unfriendly solitude. Even some of the pillars of its alliances, like Turkey,
have defected. The Turkish case is all the more dramatic in that it upset
the
American military's plans by depriving it of an important contingent of GIs,
who today were supposed to be on the battlefield to the north of
Baghdad.

After this diplomatic fiasco, it was hoped that the American war would be
all
the shorter, all the more surgical, all the less deadly to GIs and Iraqi
civilians, all the less destructive to Iraq, as is seen in the decision to
ostentatiously incorporate journalists in combat units. In other words, it
was supposed to be a large-scale police operation designed to arrest a
small
number of people linked to the dictatorship, not a war of annihilation on
large Iraqi cities.

This war, unlike the 1991 war, was based on a political calculation. Military
pressure was supposed to provoke the collapse of Saddam Hussein's
regime.
This was the scenario the American leaders dreamed about: a house-to-
house
battle for control of Baghdad, politically fatal in the Western and Arab
worlds, was not anticipated.

This strategic vision is in trouble after the first five days of the war. The
manipulation of the media is certainly intense, but given what American
expectations were, what they're not showing us -- and what Gen. Franks's
headquarters would like very much to have us see -- must not exist.

We are not seeing refugees on the roads, fleeing the combat zone, as in
1991.
The camps established on the frontiers are empty. There is even
something of
a movement in the opposite direction in progress: more than 5000 Iraqis
living
in Jordan have returned to Iraq since the beginning of hostilities.

Surrenders have been very few. On the fifth day of the war, the
Anglo-American armies have, according to Gen. Franks, taken 3000
prisoners.
In 1991, the ground campaign only lasted four days, but tens of thousands
of
soldiers were taken prisoner. In those days there was a sort of
renunciation
in the face of the coalition armies. There's nothing of the sort taking place
today. The negotiations with Iraqi officers in the big cities of the southern
Iraq are not living up to expectations. Not one city is open. And the
fighting is continuing. There are no images showing Iraqis celebrating the
Anglo-American troops as liberators.

The American war has not, so far, caused the collapse of the dictatorship,
which is still quite active, including in the South.

To the contrary, the American military full-court press, after twelve years
of
UN embargoes with dramatic effects, has provoked a patriotic reflex in the
face of a military operation whose goals are, for the Iraqis too, unclear. It
would top everything if this resistance, over time, turned Saddam Hussein
into
a national hero.

In addition, there is still the awful memory of the bloody repression of the
1991 uprisings, when the Shiite South, the Kurdish North, and even some
regiments of the Republican Guard took up arms against Saddam's
dictatorship
after the rout in Kuwait. Saddam had several hundreds of thousands of
people
massacred after the Western forces left. This abandonment has made the
population particularly mistrustful with regard to the Marines.

The nationalist reaction on the one hand and the horrific memory of the
repression carried out by Saddam's cronies on the other explain the
reactions
of the people living in the zones through which the American army has
passed.
The policing war, the war of liberation, whose screenplay was written by
the
hawks in Washington, will no doubt not take place. If the war becomes
simply
warlike, that is, murderous, destructive, and painful, even an American
military victory will in the end sound like yet another political defeat for
the United States.

A specter is now haunting Washington -- the specter of being condemned
to
undertake the military conquest of Baghdad. It amounts to a terrible
miscalculation.

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CounterPunch
Cold Fronts
War is Golden for the Bush Administration

By CHRIS FLOYD

The opening of a long-delayed civil suit in a London courtroom; a brief, buried article on a judicial nomination; a fluctuation in the commodities market: three mundane, seemingly-unrelated items in the news last week that combined to give a fleeting glimpse of the ugly reality behind the frantic, diversionary façade of the "civilized world."

The London case involves our old friends, BCCI, the international bank that served as the front for a global crime ring involving top officials and Establishment worthies in dozens of "civilized" nations. BCCI ran guns to Saddam and other heavies, funded Pakistan's illegal nuclear weapons program, laundered drug profits, peddled prostitutes, doled out bribes, served as a conduit for covert CIA operations -- and, through its connections to the bin Laden family, gave George W. Bush a sweetheart loan of $25 million to bail out one of his many business failures.

One of the respectable organizations tainted by the ring was the Bank of England, which was the financial regulator for BCCI when the front finally collapsed in 1991 -- leaving its legitimate creditors some $11 billion in the hole. Not surprisingly, some of these victims filed suit against ye olde B of E, claiming that its oversight of BCCI left something to be desired. But successive British governments --including the plagiaristic poodle-led pack currently in power-- have fought for years to quash the lawsuit, the Observer reports. 

That's because the trial could open a can of particularly grubby worms concerning the UK government's extensive canoodling with BCCI. A host of worthies are expected to be grilled in the dock, including John Major, former UK prime minister and current business partner of George Bush I in yet another secretive international front that profits from war, weapons, violence, repression and the greasing of highly-placed palms: the Carlyle Group.

Even as the trial finally gets underway, British PM Tony "Bow-Wow" Blair is withholding crucial BCCI evidence, claiming it's top secret. In fact, says Blair, the hidden juice is so red hot that even the law under which it has been declared secret must remain secret. 

An overreaction? Probably not -- not when you consider the fact that BCCI was one of the chief conduits by which Western governments secretly armed Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction throughout the 1980s. This is not the kind of dirty laundry you want aired at the very moment you are waving the bloody shirt of war at, er, Saddam Hussein for, er, possessing weapons of mass destruction that, er, you and your allies sold to him in the first place.

The Italian bank BNL was one of BCCI's main tentacles. BNL's Atlanta branch was the primary funnel used by the first Bush Administration to send millions of secret dollars to Saddam for arms purchases, including deadly chemicals and other WMD materials supplied by the Chilean arms dealer Cardoen and various politically-connected operators in the United States like, weapons merchant Matrix Churchill. (As always with the Busha Nostra, geopolitics --in this case, helping Saddam wage aggressive war against Iran-- and crony profits go hand in hand. Once the war was over and Iran was left a shattered hulk, with millions dead and displaced, the useful idiot Saddam was expendable, swiftly morphing from good buddy into budding Hitler.)

As soon as the BNL case broke, President Bush I moved to throttle the investigation. He appointed lawyers from both Cardoen and Matrix to top Justice Department posts -- where they supervised the officials investigating their old companies. 

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Associated Press

A Palestinian professor accused of leading a terrorist group's U.S. operations visited the White House and donated nearly $8,000 to members of Congress, including former Georgia congresswoman [Cynthia McKinney]. 

Sami Al-Arian, indicted last week for alleged ties to Islamic Jihad, was part of a 160-person group from the American Muslim Council that went to a June 2000 meeting at the White House under the Clinton administration [and] in June 2001 .

Al-Arian, a tenured professor of computer engineering at the University of South Florida, was arrested Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges. Three other people, including another instructor at the school, were also arrested. They could face life terms if convicted. 

Four other men named in the federal indictment are overseas and have not been arrested.

Al-Arian and his wife, Nahla, gave $7,700 to five political candidates -- three Democrats and two Republicans -- between 1998 and 2000, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. 

The indictment alleges that Al-Arian, 45, used the school as a cover to bring Islamic Jihad members to the United States on the pretext of attending academic conferences. 

Of the congressional members who received money from the Al-Arians, former Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., received the most -- $3,200 -- and their eldest son, Abdullah, served as an intern in Bonior's office. Bonior, who is now a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, did not immediately return a call Monday. 

The five U.S. politicians who received money from the couple did so before Sami Al-Arian's alleged terrorist ties surfaced publicly in September of 2001. [Among them is] Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who was given $1,000 and passed the money on to charity once the allegations surfaced, said Jennifer Palmer, a spokeswoman.




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I agree, this is looking more and more like Vietnam, with the Vietcong hiding among the
civilians. Hussein has apparently learned much from Americas loss in Vietnam. --SW

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US WILL LOOSE
THE IRAQ WAR
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25th March, 2003
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 Thorn in the side of the American administration, and former UN weapons
inspector Scott Ritter, has warned that America will loose the Iraq war and
the American military: will leave Iraq with its tail between its legs.

  In an interview with Irish radio, Mr. Ritter said that the conflict would
become an absolute quagmire, and the US-UK advance would stall outside
Bhagdad and fail to capture the city.
  We find ourselves... facing a nation of 23 million, with armed elements
numbering around 7 million --who are concentrated at urban areas. We will
not win this fight. America will loose this war, said Mr. Ritter.
  According to Mr. Ritter, too many in the Pentagon have listened to: the
blithering of Iraqi expatriates, whose agenda coincides with
neo-conservatives in the White House.
  We're in Iraq --carrying out the right-wing neo-conservative motives of a
handful of people. The Richard Perle's, Paul Wolfowitz's; the Dick Cheney's.
And we've allowed them to hijack our foreign policy, he told Irish
broadcaster, Vincent Browne on the RTE1 radio Tonight Show.
  He warned that Shia Muslims in the South were not fighting because of
intimidation by the Iraqi government, but because of nationalistic and
religious reasons.
 They're doing it because, the American Crusader Infidel has invaded and
violated Holy Iraq, and they will resist us, and they will resist us
strongly, said Mr. Ritter. We are not liberating Iraq, we are destroying
Iraq, he added later in the interview.
  Scott Ritter, is a former U.N. weapons inspector and author of the book
Endgame. Ritter, a ballistic missile technology expert, worked in military
intelligence during his 12-year career in the U.S. armed forces. In 1998,
Ritter resigned from the U.N. Special Commissions team to protest Clinton
Administration policies that he said subverted the weapons inspection
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Vincent Browne:
  Scott Ritter...
are you surprised by how
the assault in Iraq is going?
Scott Ritter:
  No actually, I wrote a paper that was published last Fall, that predicted
just this. And i'm a little disturbed in listening to some of the analysis
going along here.

I think that one of the reasons the American find themselves in such
difficulties in Iraq, is that so many in the Pentagon have listened to
the... blithering of Iraqi expatriots who have spoken out --rightly so--
against Saddam Hussein, and who think that it's a) the role of the United
States to liberate Iraq; and b) think that the Iraqi people want us to
liberate them from Saddam.

And I think that the harsh reality is that in buying off on the expectations
of being greeted in the streets of Iraq with song and flowers... we now find
we are being greeted with bullets and bombs.

And it's the Shia in the south who are fighting us. They're not doing it
because Chemical Ali is down there with his death squads threatening to
execute 'em.

They're doing it because, the American Crusader Infidel has invaded and
violated Holy Iraq, and they will resist us, and they will resist us
strongly.

And no matter how many Iraqi's we kill and slaughter, I predict that America
will loose this war and ultimately the American military will leave Iraq
with its tail between its legs.

Unfortunately, we're going to inflict a tremenduous amount of death and
destruction on the people of Iraq; the American soldiers and Marines will
also pay a price.

And all those who sit outside of Iraq and courageously encourage Americans
to go in and slaughter Iraqi's should be ashamed of themselves.

Vincent Browne:...You think the Americans will loose this war? 
Scott Ritter:
  We lost Vietnam

Remember we can kill many, many Iraqui's and we will do so. But I am telling
you right now, that we do not have sufficient combat power in Iraq --as we
speak-- to win this battle. So we will have to reinforce considerably.

The current posture, in terms of American deployment, is predicated on a
presumption that the Iraqi Army would surrender; that the Iraqi people would
welcome; that the internsational community would support.

The exact opposite is happening.

And now we find ourselves with fewer than 120,000 boots on the ground;
facing a nation of 23 million, with armed elements numbering around 7
million --who are concentrated at urban areas.

We will not win this fight. America will loose this war.

Saddam Hussein may die... But you know what?

I'm betting that Saddam's 

[CTRL] Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush

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Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush
Addison RossNew 
York Wednesday 12 March 2003 
The Oscar-winning Jessica Lange has 
joined, along with a number of Hollywood lefty activists, the Bush-hating WWW 
(Win Without War) organisation whose intention is to subvert the war against 
Saddam's murderous regime. 
Tom Andrews is WWW spokesman and a 
former Democratic congressman from Vermont. He is also every bit as partisan as 
the hateful Lange. WWW is closely collaborating with MoveOn.Org, another 
leftwing anti-Bush group that was set up 1998 by another bunch of partisan 
Democrats. 
MoveOn recently publicized an 
anti-Bush speech by Dem Sen. Robert Byrd, the same Byrd who was a Ku Klux Klan 
recruiter and who is still being coy about his activities while a member of that 
terrorist organisation. (This is the guy who called blacks "race mongrels" and 
who sponsored a bill to name the Senate's main office building after the 
notorious Georgia Democrat Richard Russell: the man who derailed anti-lynching 
legislation in the 1930s). 
What MoveOn also concealed about 
Byrd's past is that this hypocrite vote for the September 14 war resolution that 
he is now attacking Bush for implementing. He is also making the sort of war 
demands of Bush that he never made of LBJ or Jefferson Clinton. Partisan 
politics at their very worst by a race-baiting bigot. And this is the kind of 
joker that Bush-hating Hollywood airheads like Lange and Ethan Hawke support. 
These ever so patriotic organizations 
are linked to the IAC (International Action Center). The anti-American Ramsey 
Clark, who is also a friend of Saddam's, collaborated with the Stalinist WWW 
(Workers World Party) in setting up the IAC, an organisation that also fronts 
for the sadistic Saddam and the loony Kim Jong-il. 
So why do the likes of Lange join 
with America's enemies? Lange's motivation is pure hate. She claims to be a 
patriot but what kind of patriot would tell a foreign audience: "It makes me 
feel ashamed to come from the United States  it is humiliating"[?] Fanatically 
toeing the lefty line on Iraq she stated that the Bush administration's policy 
of overthrowing the murderous Saddam is "unconstitutional, immoral and illegal." 

This brilliant constitutional lawyer, 
political analyst and historian has overlooked several facts. Firstly, the legal 
foundations for overthrowing Saddam were laid down at the end of Gulf War. 
Secondly, the policy of bringing about a regime change in Iraq, by whatever 
means, was signed into law by Clinton. This was the Liberation Act of 1998 for 
which the Senate unanimously voted. Let me spell this out for Lange and her 
Hollywood comrades: UNANIMOUSLY VOTED. That means Democrats voted for it too. 
None of this fazes Lange and the rest 
of Hollywood's celluloid intellectuals, to whom lying, intimidation and hate 
seem to be second nature. In Lange's fantasy world Bush has turned America into 
a fascist state that is "intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing". 
Yet it is the intolerant likes of 
Lange of who have driven the vast majority of Hollywood conservatives 
underground. When Bette Midler publicly called Bush an Bush an "a-- h---" while 
Julia Roberts described Republicans as "reptiles" and Ted Danson sneeringly 
compared them to "lower primates" they are engaging in hate speech that is meant 
to inimtidate conservative-minded members of the Hollywood community into 
silence. For these actors tolerance is a one-way street. 
Having publicly maligned President 
Bush and her country, impugned his motives and lied about White House policy on 
Saddaam Lange wraps herself in Old Glory and solemnly declares, as did Ethan 
Hawke, that "we are patriots". An American patriot who supports the 
America-hating Saddam Hussein? 
Dr Johnson was right when he said 
that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." What Johnson, whose 
patriotism was second to none, meant is that the crooked and the treasonous will 
not hesitate to wave the flag if it protects them or serves their nefarious 
purposes. 
Nevertheless, genuine patriots owe 
Lange a debt of gratitude. She has helped reveal the totalitarian thinking that 
lurks beneath the surface of Hollywood's leftwing fronts. Their hatred of 
alternative views and their unspoken belief that all Republican administrations 
are illegitimate and do not have a genuine moral or legal right to exist. This 
is Lange's real message and it is one we should never forget. 

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[CTRL] U.S. Lifts FBI Criminal Database Checks

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By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Writer 
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 
Justice Department lifted a requirement Monday that the FBI ensure 
the accuracy and timeliness of information about criminals and crime 
victims before adding it to the country's most comprehensive law 
enforcement database.
The system, run by the FBI's National Crime Information Center, 
includes data about terrorists, fugitives, warrants, people missing, 
gang members and stolen vehicles, guns or boats.
Records are queried increasingly by the nation's law enforcement 
agencies to help decide whether to monitor, detain or arrest 
someone. The records are inaccessible to the public, and police have 
been prosecuted in U.S. courts for misusing the system to find, for 
example, personal information about girlfriends or former 
spouses.
Officials said the change, which immediately drew criticism from 
civil-liberties advocates, is necessary to ensure investigators have 
access to information that can't be confirmed but could take on new 
significance later, FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said.
The change to the 1974 U.S. Privacy Act was disclosed with an 
announcement published in the Federal Register.
The Privacy Act previously required the FBI to ensure information 
was "accurate, relevant, timely and complete" before it could be 
added to the system.
"It's a pretty big job to be accurate and complete," said Stewart 
Baker, a Washington lawyer who specializes in technology and 
surveillance issues. "On the other hand, these are potentially very 
significant records for people, and if it's not accurate and 
complete, it can mean trouble."
Critics urged Congress to review the change, arguing that 
information in the computer files was especially important because 
it can affect many aspects of a person's life.
"This is information that has always been stigmatizing, the type 
of data that can prevent someone from getting a job," said Marc 
Rotenberg of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information 
Center. "When you remove the accuracy obligations, you open the door 
to the use of unreliable information."
Critics have noted complaints for years about wrong information 
in the computer files that disrupted the lives of innocent citizens, 
and the FBI has acknowledged problems. In one case, a Phoenix 
resident was arrested for minor traffic violations that had been 
quashed weeks earlier; in another, a civilian was misidentified as a 
Navy deserter.
The system "is replete with inaccurate, untimely information, but 
everybody does their best to keep it up to date," said Beryl Howell, 
former general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "That's a 
goal we shouldn't just throw out."
In the change, the Justice Department said earlier restrictions 
on information "would limit the ability of trained investigators and 
intelligence analysts to exercise their judgment in reporting on 
investigations and impede the development of criminal intelligence 
necessary for effective law enforcement."
It added that, because the system collects its data from so many 
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Does anyone else wonder why the Iraqis don't turn 
off the lights when Baghdad is being bombed? Isn't a blackout SOP during aerial 
bombardment? And besides, how do the lights STAY on -- dosn't the havoc disrupt 
power grids?

Questions...
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[CTRL] Fw: [anti-imperialiste] Total war? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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 I'm picking up an alarming trend in news coverage/government
 propaganda about the war. Whereas during the first few days there was
 some attempt to portray the people of Iraq as human beings awaiting
 US liberation, now that the US is meeting massive resistance I'm
 beginning to see photos and stories intending to portray the Iraqi
 people as armed, hostile, predatory  Evil Ones.

 See, e.g., the photo at:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/iraq/082701iraqplanea=tmpl=sle=
38

 Here, and in the story someone posted earlier about the coming UK
 attack on Basra, I'm sensing the deliberate blurring of distinctions
 among unarmed civilians, militia, and regular army. The Vietnam
 parallel is obvious.

 I suspect this is laying the groundwork for total war against the
 people of Iraq -- i.e., mercilessly bombing Baghdad and Basra in an
 attempt o subdue the populace. An early indication of this new tactic
 was the destruction of Umm Qasr, which reportedly was literally
 flattened yesterday after armed resistance prevented the US from
 securing the town.  We had to destroy the village in order to save
 it.

  From a coldly tactical point of view, complete disregard for civilian
 life is probably the US's best chance of fighting and winning the war
 quickly. Yesterday's Wall Street swoon reinforces the need for a
 quick decision.

 IMO we need to prepare ourselves for a war of unprecedented
 brutality, one in which the US essentially embraces its status as
 'rogue superpower,' and consider our strategy in that light. The
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[CTRL] MRC Alert: TimesWatch.org Launched DisHonors in 2 Days (fwd)

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Director of the MRC's Times Watch project to document and expose
the liberal political agenda of the New York Times. For the Times
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Posted on Tuesday, March 25:

-- Paul Krugman's Fascist Fantasy
Bush-bashing columnist Paul Krugman caught a whiff of fascism
at a pro-war rally: To those familiar with 20th-century European
history it seemed eerily reminiscent ofBut as Sinclair Lewis
said, it can't happen here. See:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0325.asp

-- Media Companies Doing Political Advocacy? The Times Is
Horrified
The Times can't take criticism of its political advocacy, but
it can sure dish it out. Douglas Jehl's story on a pro-war rally
spent six paragraphs on Clear Channel Communications, which has
helped organize pro-war rallies. Jehl termed it an arrangement
that has been criticized by those who contend that media companies
should not engage in political advocacy. See:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0325.asp#2


Posted on Monday, March 24:

-- President Bush, Con Man? That's Rich
New Times associate editor Frank Rich compared President Bush
to a con-man movie character in the movie Chicago. After
accusing the president of moral arrogance concerning the Iraq
war, Rich described Bush's prime-time news conference: Like their
?Chicago' counterparts, the Washington press corps were more than
willing to buy fictions if instructed to do so by the puppeteer.
See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp

-- 9/11, Baghdad: Same Thing?
Baghdad Bombing Brings Back Memories of 9/11 by David Chen
likened the World Trade Center terrorist attack to the U.S.
bombing of Baghdad. [Some] could not help thinking about Sept.
11, and how New York, too, was once under assault from the skies.
See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp#2

-- Even Bush's Allies Hate Him
Reporter Richard Stevenson argued, Frustration with the lack
of information from the administration has bubbled up in recent
weeks even among some of the administration's strongest allies.
As an example, Stevenson quoted?Sen. Chuck Hagel? See:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp#3

-- Pleading Democrats Try To Halt Record Republican Deficits
Times reporters Carl Hulse and David Firestone implied it was
unseemly for Congressional Republicans to promote Republican
legislation during wartime. Though Democrats pleaded for a halt
after the war began, the Republican leaders of the House and
Senate chose not to stop their march toward tax cuts and record
deficits... See:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp#4

-- Colin Powell, Non-Frightening Bushie
Bill Keller pleaded for Secretary of State Colin Powell to
resign, admitting: I can't count the number of times in the past
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observation that the Bush administration would be a much scarier
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[CTRL] An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy

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An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy - James Randall Noblitt, Ph.D. "Michael Newton (cited in Noblitt, 1998a) accumulated data on criminal convictions in the U.S. where allegations of ritual abuse of children were made. He found cases of 145 defendants who were sentenced." " Pamela Hudson (1991) assessed 24 children in a case of alleged ritual abuse at Fort Bragg day care center in California. Hudson found five symptoms to be present among many of the children." "Susan Kelley (1993) compared three groups of children in day care: 35 allegedly ritualistically abused children, 32 children reportedly sexually, not ritualistically abuse, and 67 children without any claims of sexual abuse. She collected data from the abused children's parents and compared the results of the children with non-ritualistic sexual abuse with ritualistic sexual abuse. She found that ritualistically abused children were more likely to report more incidents, types and severity of abuse relative to the non-ritual sexual abuse victims. She also found that ritualistic abuse was more often associated with multiple victim, multiple perpetrator situations." ""Jill Waterman, Robert Kelley, Mary Kay Olivieri, and Jane McCord (1993) did a six year longitudinal study of 82 children who had made allegations of ritualistic sexual abuse (RSA) in the Manhattan Beach, California area in comparison with 37 non-abused (NA) children and 15 non-ritualistically sexually abused (SA) children. A variety of standardized and non-standardized questionnaires and interview instruments were employed. They found that both the RSA and SA group reported intrusive and highly intrusive sexual abuse. Additionally the RSA group but not the SA group reported "terrorizing acts..." "Recantations occurred in 25% of the RSA and 23% of the SA children. This was the case even though the perpetrator in the SA group had given a detailed confession. However, 88% of the RSA group that recanted, later redisclosed abuse." ""Snow and Sorenson (1990) saw 39 children who described abuse in five neighbor-based cults in Utah. In four of the five cults there were alleged incidents of intrafamilial incest, perpetration by adolescents, and features of an adult sex ring. No adolescent perpetration was found in the fifth groupAt least two-thirds of the children described multiple locations of abuse, pornography, ingestion or other use of excrement, the espousal of Satanic beliefs, magical spells and use of occult paraphernalia, animal mutilation or killing, and the use of drugs. The abusers were generally viewed as respected members of the community and many were religious leaders. Two of the accused adult perpetrators were convicted and two adolescents pled guilty."   "Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991,1997) reported a case of the ritual abuse of children in the Netherlands. The authors describe the allegations and their observations regarding this case in Oude Pekela." "Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991,1997) reported a case of the ritual abuse of children in the Netherlands. The authors describe the allegations and their observations regarding this case in Oude Pekela." http://www.mkzine.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=6mode=threadorder=0thold=0POSTNUKESID=a5f4bfbe3c863270e6ff3cc39bd87b5b
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[CTRL] Russians volunteer to defend Iraq - 100,000 children are at risk of disease

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http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/03/06/44067.html
Thousands of Russians volunteer to defend Iraq
Around ten thousand Russian citizens have applied for entry visas into Iraq to defend this country against the planned aggression by the warmongering USA and UK, according to the Iraqi Embassy in Moscow. Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow, Abbas Khalaf, declared last week that the Embassy had received around 3,500 requests, a number which has multiplied in the last few days, according to sources in the same Embassy. 

The requests come from young males, some with combat experience, who describe themselves as (volunteers) who are willing to defend Iraq against the illegal armed aggression of the USA and the United Kingdom, two countries which continue to follow a belligerent stance on crisis management, wholly outside the generally accepted concepts of a New World Order based upon multilateralist approaches to problem solving, based upon the United Nations Organisation, a position championed by president Putin's Russian Federation. 

http://electronicIraq.net/news
Fighting in Basra intensifies as fears of a crisis grow
Report, Oxfam International (25 March 2003)
Fighting in Basra intensifies as fears of a crisis grow. The United Nations (UN) warns that less than half the city, home to 1.5 million people, is receiving clean water and there is no power. Some 100,000 children are at risk of disease as fighting has continued for four days, disrupting supplies of drinking water.

UN hampered by Annan's weak leadership
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Iraq (25 March 2003)
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has betrayed the Charter and legacy of the United Nations by failing to declare the US attack on Iraq illegal, and by not calling for an immediate ceasefire. As the UN becomes more and more relevant, its role is threatened by Annan's weak leadership, writes Electronic Iraq's Ali Abunimah. 
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[CTRL] COMET PHOTO/STORY UPDATE

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DANGER-- COMET PHOTO/STORY UPDATE

THIS IS NOT A HOAX...THIS IS A WARNING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SENSE...

Below are the actual orbiting photographs of the sun taken by the Solar and 
Heliospheric
Observatory SOHO satellite. These photo's show the passage of the comet nicknamed 
NEAT
C/2002 V1 which is reported to be as large as a planet (2x the size of Pluto) and its
story was briefly picked-up by the BBC news. I have made some comments underneath each
photo to give you a feel of what is going on...

(There is a picture - not displayed in this email - between each of the following
paragraphs at the website, http://www.free-minds.org/comet_story.htm which is worth a
look)

The comet approaches the sun and can be seen clearly in the top part of the satellite
photo dated 17/2/2003. It was unknown at this point whether the comet would fly out of
the sun and back into space, or whether it would be pulled into the gravity of the sun
and explode or melt due to the nuclear fusion with the sun... However, some reports 
(see
BBC story) placed the comet as a 'recurring' phenomena every 37,000 years which meant
that it would 'fly-past'.

The comet continues its approach a few hours later into February 18th as
expected...nothing special is happening, and it is still unknown if the comet will
survive the pass-by with the sun.

As the comet comes close to the sun, a solar flame starts shooting out from the sun
towards the area of the comet. Flames shooting out from the sun are a common occurrence
and this was perhaps due to the gravitational pull of both the sun and this planet-size
comet...

An hour later the solar flame is getting higher and higher into space and seems to be
heading straight for the comet (this is not usual or typical).

Another hour goes by and the solar flame is truly 'lashing-out'. It is unknown how 
close
to the comet the flame is getting, but according to one science website article the 
comet
is at least 5 million miles away from the sun at its nearest point.

Another hour goes by and the flame looks set to strike the comet (though this is not
certain as the images related are in 2-D, while space is in 3-D). It is now estimated
that this solar flame will make a distance of close to 5 million miles.

This is one of the climax photos where it seems that the solar flame has scorched the
comet (though no assessment could yet be made as to the damage to the comet)...What is
also very 'eerier' is that the solar flame draws the picture of a massive 'eye' looking
out towards the left! (AMAZING AND TRUE!)

An hour later the flame and comet seem to be in close proximity... the comet is still
moving closer to the sun (and that eye drawn in space from the flames is now looking
forward!).

This is when everything strange began to happen...the SOHO images went OFF-LINE for 
about
7-hours, and when they came back, the image of the comet continuing its pass unaffected
was being displayed... However, you can clearly see a 'cutpaste' image of part of the
comet in the mid right section which indicates that photo manipulation is taking place.

For the next 12 or so hours we saw the 'faked' comet just making its way smoothly away
from the sun as per the pre-planned trajectory with its exit point being the exact same
location where the 'photo-shop' error placed it in the picture before this!. This day
also say a very bizarre 'Home Land' security alert which asked people to have 3-days
supply of water and food, as well as first aid kits, flashlights, blankets and to 
assume
that in case of an 'attack' that even telephone and services will be out! Here is a 
quote
from their statement: Some of the things you can do to prepare for the unexpected, 
such
as assembling a supply kit and developing a family communications plan, are the same 
for
both a natural or man-made emergency... If you see large amounts of debris in the
air (read their site here).

Many hours pass before the 'faked' comet starts to leave the photo shots...Though what 
is
worth noting is that a solar eruption in the SAME PLACE that the comet was struck now
begins and will last for nearly 36 hours before its dies down!.

Note that once the comet is now gone, the solar activity is going on in the SAME 
VICINITY
where the comet seemed to be struck or hovered nearly 36 hours before! (this flare has
been up for a number of hours prior to this photo). This is not a normal phenomena as
solar flares in one spot do not last more than a few hours...the only conclusion that 
has
been drawn is that part of the comet has broken off and combusted with the sun causing
the excess 

[CTRL] Back from the 9-11 Roundie-Round

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http://www.theonion.com/onion3911/bush_bravely_leads.html
IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDERAs the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division began its
ground assault on Iraq Monday, President Bush marched alongside the
front-line soldiers, bravely putting his own life on the line for his country
by personally participating in the attack.

http://graphics.theonion.com/pics_3911/bush_bravely_leads.jpg
Above: A weary Bush marches through enemy territory near the Iraq-
Kuwait border. Bush is the real deal, and when he talks about fighting for
freedom, he means it, said Pvt. Tom Scharpling, 21. He'd never ask one of
us grunts to take any risks for our country that he wasn't willing to take
himself. According to reports from the front, many of the soldiers were
initially suspicious of the president, doubtful that an Ivy Leaguer who once
used powerful family connections to avoid service in Vietnam had what it
took to face enemy fire head-on. However, Bushor, as his fellow soldiers
nicknamed him in a spirit of battlefield camaraderie, 'Big Tex'quickly
overcame the platoon's reluctance to having a fancy-pants Yalie in its
ranks. Bush is the best soldier I've ever had the honor of fighting
alongside, said Pvt. Jon Benjamin, 23. I'd take a bullet for that man,
because I know he'd take one for me if he had to. Proving himself a
worthy foot soldier, Bush has earned the respect of his fellow front-line
combatants with acts of courage and heroism that one soldier called a
truly inspiring example of one man's commitment to the cause of liberty.
Just yesterday, George stormed an Iraqi machine-gun nest when our
sergeant took one in the belly, Pvt. Scott Lumpy Fellers, 20, told
reporters. We were pinned down, cut off from our division, and it looked
like curtains for us all. Thankfully, George was there. He ran through heavy
artillery fire and lobbed a grenade right into their bunker. If it hadn't been
for him, God knows how many of us would've been coming home in body
bags. It's not just any president who would risk his life like the nation's
men in uniform do, Fellers added. God bless him and everything he stands
for. Bush's courage, sources say, was evident from the earliest stages of
the war's planning. Though the Pentagon initially wanted an air war with
minimal ground combat, Bush quickly dismissed this strategy, insisting that
the only way a true and lasting victory could be achieved was to go in and
fightdune by dune, village by villageuntil Iraq was finally free. White
House sources say Bush's decision to place his own life on the line for his
country met with resistance from top military leaders. The Joint Chiefs of
Staff kept telling him, 'Mr. President, we beg youstay here in Washington,
where it's safe.' But George was having none of it, said Maj. Gen. Buford
Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry. He was adamant that if our boys
overseas were going to risk their lives for liberty, he was going to do the
same. And, by God, he proved himself a man of his word. The president
has only been in battle for less than a week, but he has already proven
himself more than willing to put himself in the line of fire. The president
carried me through an enemy minefield after my arm had been blown off
by a mortar shell, blazing away with his pistol as he delivered me to
safety, Pvt. Chris Adair said. Then, after he'd gotten me to a medic, he
went all the way back through that same minefield carrying a 40-pound
bag of ice the whole wayto retrieve my severed arm so the doctors could
sew it back on. Now, thanks to President Bush, I'll still be able to play
piano for the church choir back home in Appleton, just like I promised
Grandma. He is truly an American hero. Adair's comments were echoed by
many of the soldiers fighting alongside Bush. I used to be cynical about
politicians who are born into privilege and wealth. I thought, 'Sure, they
talk a good game about our duty to protect democracy, but when push
comes to shove, they'd rather send off the nation's poor, uneducated, and
underprivileged to do the fighting for them,' said Pvt. Frank Elkins, 19. I
always figured they'd rather see somebody else die in some foreign land
than make that sacrifice themselves. But now I know I was wrong. There
may be some folks out there, born silver spoon in hand, who'd act that
way, but that ain't Bush. No, that ain't Bush, Elkins said. He ain't no
fortunate son.









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[CTRL] Fwd: PEPIS #48 - Bilderberg 2003 set for Versailles

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Leaks from last May's Bilderberg meeting were one of the first indications in the 
world that Iraq had been selected for the transatlantic alliance's next military 
outing.

Bilderberg appears to be where plans for U.S. imperial adventurism are run past the 
handful of people powerful enough to stop them. As the illegal Iraq invasion crawls 
on, what will be the next staging post in the global crisis being engineered by the 
governments of Britain, The United States and Israel? Judging by last year's leaks, a 
fly on the wall in Versailles might well discover the answer.

The lower echelons of the ruling class are being told right now that the world is 
facing total financial meltdown. The only way to save their hard earned investments, 
they are told, is to throw their weight behind this global crisis  centred around the 
Middle East to replace the time-expired East-West cold war crisis.

In fact, one other way out is to abandon global capitalism altogether (apologies for 
starting it in the English Civil War by-the-way) and introduce state-sanctioned local 
money systems controlled and owned by the people of all nations. Instead we (in 
Europe) are being railroaded into the Eurodollar. If you were ever under an illusion 
that the Euro was different to the dollar then look on the back of each note - it 
shows a bridge stretching out from Europe across the Atlantic.

One can never be 100% certain about a venue and dates for Bilderberg but it does seem 
pretty likely that this is the spot:

The Trianon Palace Hotel - 1, Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles, Paris, France. May 
15-18 2003. Kenneth Clarke, in a letter to a Scottish anti-Bilderberg   campaigner, 
has confirmed the venue.

The Trianon Palace Hotel 
http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/cgi-bin/www.s-h-systems.co.uk/brochure.pl?id=129705t=versailless=c=FR

American Free Press  http://www.americanfreepress.net  will be covering developments 
in the run-up and during the conference. The annual task remains to break Bilderberg's 
wall of secrecy at Versailles this May.

And see  http://www.bilderberg.org/2003.htm  for the latest Bilderberg gossip.

On a personal note I intend to suspend new postings to this website to concentrate on 
making sure the Bilderberg site stays up there for you. This list will revert to only 
2 postings a year. One to announce the venue when it's discovered and one to announce 
the official participant list. You'll find links to many honest and well-informed news 
sites such as Online Journal, What Really Happened and Common Dreams on my War on 
Freedom page at http://www.bilderberg.org/usglobal.htm.

Where will the global crisis end? It seems likely a 'Christian'/'Jewish' vs. 'Moslem' 
conflict will emerge from this Middle East crisis which is ironic, since the political 
leaders of all sides, Bin Laden, Bush, Sharon, Saddam etc. appear to be secular, with 
little love for God, the poor, or for their fellow man. Misguided marionettes Bush and 
Blair certainly show contempt for the ten commandments which indicates their professed 
Christianity may be nothing more than a cover story.

Keep a close eye too on Zionist attempts to rebuild Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, to 
expand Israel's borders and to wipe out the Palestinian people. The Zionist eye is 
firmly on the main chance: feeding the fire of interreligious hatred amongst the 

[CTRL] Michael Moore And The Mysterious Microphone Ploy

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http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3290/index.php



THE "MYSTERIOUS MICROPHONE" PLOY

Although we have all now witnessed the wonders of visual "movie magic" in the editing of news footage (remember the missing protestors in the footage of the presidential inauguration?), a new, more insidious bit of "magic" is gaining favor with propagandists. I like to call this technique the "mysterious microphone" ploy, because it is a mystery how what the ear hears live and the network microphones transmit up can be so different! During the speeches given during the massive protest in Washington, D.C. before the war was declared, to hear C-SPAN 's audio coverage, there was often barely a ripple of response by the audience to the speakers. Of course, those present know that the applause and cheering from the crowd that punctuated the speeches was thunderous. But the audience at home, unaware of the live reality, would swear that the activists were playing to a subdued and/or small crowd. 

When Michael Moore delivered his blast of the Bush Reich at the Oscars, he was, in reality, given a standing ovation and hearty applause. But, to hear the soundbyte presented on the network news, you'd never know it. All you can hear are boos...which, in fact, came from about five people, from eyewitness accounts. 

Conversely, when Bush so much as smirks at a public affair, to hear the "mysterious microphones" tell it, every person in the place thunderously cheers and applauds. So when you combine the mysterious microphone effect with skillful editng you can, quite effectively, lie through your teeth.

Example: The network coverage of Moore (all 3 seconds of it) shows Moore briefly, then, while cutting to a handful of stony-faced people, cranks up the volumne on the five booers. The result: a totally false statement: Moore's speech was met by boos and grim silence, not by enthusiasm and a standing ovation 


Michael Moore's statement at Oscars

"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president," Moore said. "We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts."Applause gave way to some boos, as the orchestra began playing to cue the filmmaker to leave the stage."We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you," Moore shouted. 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/23/state2309EST0088.DTL 

While Moore received a STANDING OVATION, only a few booed probably Charlton Heston, Bruce "Please send me to Iraq, Mr. Bush" Willis, and Arnold "testosterone-challenged" Swharzenneger.

'When asked by reporters why he made the remarks, he answered: "I'm an American."
"Is that all?" 
"Oh, that's a lot," Moore responded. He dismissed the jeers he received, telling reporters: "Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed."




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[CTRL] Skolnick: Great Storms Big Lies Of History

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The Overthrow Of The 
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Great Storms And Big Lies Of History
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Throughout the events of the world, there were happenings that, on occasion, changed the course of history. Later generations often failed to remember or note the same or see an evil omen of these past occurrences. Some later called them acts of Mother Nature, others preferring to be spiritual, called them Divine Intervention. And then there were the Big Lies of foreign invaders.   

>From about the 15th Century on, Spain emassed great wealth from plundering countries in the New World. Such as, early in the 16th Century, Spain conquered Peru and Mexico. Perhaps at the time, Spain denied invading those lands to steal their gold and silver. For a time, the Spanish Hapsburg royalty became the most powerful in the world.   

In 1588, Philip II of Spain ordered his huge Spanish Armada, considered invincible, to set sail to conquer England. Call it Mother Nature, call it a Judgment from Heaven, but a terrible storm blew them off course. What was left of the shipwrecked fleet ended up on the shores of Ireland. The surviving sailors/killers later intermarried with the inhabitants, thus resulting in the Dark Irish.   

Following the French Revolution late in the 18th Century, what survived of the French Aristocracy that had not met their fate at the guillotine---a machine invented for beheading condemned prisoners---in a form of counter-revolution, installed a brilliant military conniver, Napoleon Bonaparte, of Corsica. As the dictator of France, acceptable to the monied class, he sought to restore their "glory", hurling the best of the French youth, some to their deaths, to conquer with his clever strategies, Germany, Austria, and other places.   

Eventually Napoleon conquered Russia and briefly set up his headquarters in Moscow. In the winter of 1813, retreating from Moscow, his armed forces were hit with the worst winter ever, 80 degrees below zero. Most of his army of 600,000 were lost. Some were frozen deep in ice and their corpses did not thaw out until many months later.   

After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, he was sent to be exiled in an island in the mid-South Atlantic Ocean, St. Helena. Some now contend that there is proof from surviving strands of his hair, that Napoleon was murdered, bit by bit, by being poisoned with arsenic.   

After Adolf Hitler's armies invaded Russia in 1941, the two winters that followed, were, like what hit Napoleon's army in 1813, some of the worst low temperatures ever. Many German soldiers considered being sent to the Russian front as a death warrant. Was it a dark omen of what was to be the great Nazi military disaster at Stalingrad?   

Perhaps over the last two centuries, foreign invaders and would-be foreign invaders of the Mid-East, did not learn from previous events. Failure to understand the region, rather than Mother Nature or Divine Intervention, brought them eventually to ruin. Each such foreign invader started with bombarding the targetted nation, and others, with the Big Lie that the invaders were coming, not to steal their land and treasures, but for the good of the populace.   

As one publication quoted George W. Bush, comparing him to Napoleon, Bush was invading Iraq for spreading " 'God's gift' of liberty 'to each and every person', and of how 'Iraqi lives and freedom matter greatly to us' "   

Wall Street Journal, 3/19/2003, "Past Mideast Invasions Faced Unexpected Perils".   

What follows are excerpts from the same newspaper:   

"Napoleon proclaimed a similar era of equality and respect for 'true Muslims' as he marched into Cairo in 1798, killing a thousand members of Eqypt's ruling caste'Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion', said Napoleon as he entered Cairo. 'Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights.' Napoleon's real goals involved France's colonial rivalry with Britain."   

(Note, several times before George W. Bush invaded Iraq, the head of British Petroleum warned the Bush White House that British Pete, as they are called, will demand a piece of the Iraq post-war oil treasure. Guardian newspaper, London, 10/30/2002.)   

More excerpts from the Wall Street Journal:   

"British troops landed in what's now Iraq in 1914, as part of Britain's campaign against the Ottoman Turks, allies of Germany in World War I. 'Britain was bursting with confidence in an easy and early victory', wrote British officer T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of ArabiaCapturing Baghdad after the first three years, they offered almost the same salutation as Napoleon had in Cairo, 'Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators,' trumpeted Gen.F.S. Maude, commander of the British forces in Iraq. 'Your wealth has been 

[CTRL] War on the War

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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0313/hoberman2.php



Oscar Declares War on the War


When Doves Cry
by J. Hoberman
March 26 - April 1, 2003


The big one: Best Documentary winner Michael Moore takes aim at the
fictitious president.
(photo: Staci Schwartz)
 cast of Bill Clinton's cronies, a vaunted billion viewers in 150 countries:
There were some who imagined that, four days into the Iraq war, Oscar
Night '03 might be the most widely seen peace demonstration ever beamed
into the universe.

As the Desert Storm sequel drew nigh, the right-wing media shifted their
enemies of choice from cheese-eating surrender monkeys to bigmouth
movie stars. Could Shock and Awe really be upstaged by Stupefaction and
Narcissism? The New York Post suggested that the Academy Awards be
canceled. Meanwhile, the Internet crackled with reports that activists like
Susan Sarandon and Martin Sheen were on a blacklist and that acceptance
speeches would be monitored for political content. Insiders warned a U.K.
daily that failure to award Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine the
Oscar for Best Documentary Feature would be proof that Hollywood had
reverted to the witch-hunting 1950s.

What was appropriateand what should people wear? The group Artists
United to Win Without War was handing out green peace buttons; other
members of the Academy sported a more abstract silver squiggle
apparently meant to represent a dove. Monitoring the stars' entrance on
the foreshortened red carpet from her E! aerie, fashion arbiter Joan Rivers
wondered what they meant. Peace, her daughter explained. Every idiot
in the world wants peace, Joan snorted, suggesting that the morning
after, the pins will wind up for sale on eBay. But what the buttons and
squiggles really meant was that, for those of us who cared, the stars were
making a statementor not.

The Hollywood left had devolved to this. But then, the movies encourage
semiotic readings. The green semaphore seemed more radical, if less chic,
than the silver squiggle. It was less surprising to spot a green button
affixed to the lapel of Michael Moore's tuxedo than Harvey Weinstein's.
Salma Hayek, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Adrien Brody all wore the squiggle but
not their fellow nominees Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep (although it
had been reported they would). Presenter Richard Gere was besquiggled,
surprise loser Martin Scorsese not. Susan Sarandon sauntered confidently
out with her pin and held up two fingers in a goddessy peace sign. A shell-
shocked-looking Barbra Streisand was unsquiggled, although she did make a
statement in praise of protest music. There were some who devised other
accessories Matthew McConaughey's lapel had sprouted a peculiar
mlange of red, white, and blue flowersbut only Jon Voight seemed to be
wearing an American flag pin.

Where were movieland's macho men? Who would defend Bush's war? Mel
Gibson, Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Bruce Willis, and
Arnold Schwarzenegger all seemed conspicuous by their absence. Had
they driven their Humvees into lockdown? Were they stockpiling Poland
Spring and boycotting the hippie love-in? Was it the hall? The Kodak
Theater's outsize, quasi-pagan Oscar statues and the Babylonian deco
splendor had the look of an Iraqi presidential palace. Had the terrorists
won? There was an elephant in the room, but it wasn't Republican.



Based as they are on the pleasure principle, the movies needed only to
exist to come under political attack. In 1920, not long after the U.S.
replaced France as the world's greatest movie producer, the vice-
crusading Reverend Wilbur Fisk Crafts appealed to Congress and the
Catholic Church to rescue America's motion picture industry from the
hands of the Devil and 500 un-Christian Jews.

Hollywood got the message and has been playing defense ever since. By
1922, the studio heads established a self-regulating body, the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), and hired
Postmaster General Will Haysan upstanding Indiana Republican and
Presbyterian church elderto be its president. When the muckraker
Upton Sinclair ran for California governor in 1934, the studios rallied behind
his Republican opponent, Frank Merriam, and even tithed employees to
support Merriam's campaign. Some credit this with radicalizing
screenwriterscertainly it contributed to the creation of their guild. The
industry's political consciousness was further raised by the rise of
European fascism and the late-'30s influx of Jewish and political migrs.

Writers and refugees joined forces in 1936 to found the Hollywood Anti-
Nazi League, attracting a fair number of stars and creating a prototype for
glamorous activism. Eddie Cantor, Paul Muni, Gloria Stuart, and Sylvia
Sidney were among HANL's celebrity sponsors. Almost overnight, HANL
fundraising played a key role in the Hollywood social whirl, Paul Buhle and
Dave Wagner write in their recent history, Radical Hollywood.

HANL was attacked as a Communist front 

[CTRL] Another Perle Harbor?

[William Shannon]

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25-3-2003
another PERLE HARBOR?   
   
I've been trying for weeks to get a bead on Richard Perle, as his name kept leaping out at me, piquing my curiosity. Not having been in the states since Clinton, I'm not too hip on who's who, but the stuff I've dug up on this guy has me agreeing with those who are calling him the Prince of Darkness or Bush's Svengali. That appears to be right on the money. 

I've hit on conservative columnist Jude Wanniski for an insight, as he seems to know the most about the Perle. " A word about Richard Perle: I've known him since 1969 and have for many years considered him a friend and ally in our fight against the Communists in Moscow and Beijing. He has a high IQ, but I have not heard him say anything about foreign policy that struck me as being thought through. Colin Powell privately refers to him and Wolfowitz as "the bombers." The reason, I think, is that Perle's mentor and father-in-law, Albert Wohlstetter, was the brains in the family, and when Albert died, Richard inherited his global network of political supporters. I have likened Richard to the Sorcerer's Apprentice, a Mickey Mouse who thinks he can do magic by using the Sorcerer's wand. If you scratch Perle, you will find a mediocre strategist, a checker player at best." 

Also, just a week after 9-11, Wanniski sent a memo to Henry Kissinger. "I was surprised to see you on television last night making arguments I associate with the worlds No. 1 hawk, Richard Perle, who has been the chief architect of our policy toward the Arab/Islamic world. There is no single American more responsible for inciting outrage among Muslims globally than Richard, whose maniacal prescriptions led inexorably to last weeks cataclysm. It was no surprise to me to see Richard on CNNs EvansNovak, Hunt Shields program on Sunday, calling for all-out war against the Arab world with a coalition entirely composed of western Europeans. If he were just an ordinary maniac, we could live with him, Henry, but he is chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, and which gives him total access to all military secrets. Do you have any doubt that he is now in constant communication with Ariel Sharon and Binjamin Netanyahu, the leaders of the coo-coo wing of the Likud Party in Israel." 

This info is quite revealing if you take it from a psychological profile angle. "A little-known fact about Richard Perle, the leading advocate of hardline policies at the Pentagon, is that he once wrote a political thriller. The book, appropriately called Hard Line, is set in the days of the cold war with the Soviet Union. Its hero is a male senior official at the Pentagon, working late into the night and battling almost single-handedly to rescue the US from liberal wimps at the state department who want to sign away America's nuclear deterrent in a disarmament deal with the Russians. Ten years on Mr Perle finds himself cast in the real-life role of his fictional hero - except that the Russians are no longer a threat, so he has to make do with the Iraqis, the Saudis and terrorism in general."

Seven months ago this was said of him. 

"Anyone who has listened to a single political speech knows that Washington, D.C., is a swampy morass controlled by pencil pushers, experts in bureaucratic intrigue. Richard Perle is one of these men. By dint of his mastery of the dark arts of memos and news leaks, Perle has become a Washington eminence, appearing on TV shows, publishing op-eds in the national dailies, and getting quoted (by name!) in news stories. He's something you don't hear about in politicians' speeches: the faceful bureaucrat. 

Forward to November 2002.

"George Bush's top security adviser last night admitted the US would attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons. Dr Richard Perle stunned MPs by insisting a "clean bill of health" from UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix would not halt America's war machine. 

December. This guy is too much. One of George W Bush's "thinkers" is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about "total war", I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

George Paine of warblogging.com had this to say last month. "Perle is the Department of Defense's most senior civilian advisor. He is not technically a member of the Bush Administration, but he is certainly a mouthpiece for Bush. He is, if nothing else, a 

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Bush's War Spending Feeds Corporate Interests
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/business/23REBU.html?th=pagewanted=print
position=top

DIANA B. HENRIQUES - War began last week. Reconstruction starts this
week.That, at least, is how it looks to government contract officers, who
in
the coming days plan to give American companies the first contracts to
rebuild
Iraq, a task that experts say could eventually cost $25 billion to $100
billion. It would be the largest postwar rebuilding since the Marshall Plan
in Europe after World War II. . .

The companies that have been invited to bid on the work include some of the
nation's largest and most politically connected construction businesses.
Among them are Halliburton, where Vice President Dick Cheney served as
chief
executive from 1995 until mid-2000; the Bechtel Group, whose ranks have
included several Republican cabinet alumni; and Fluor, which has ties to
several former top government intelligence and Pentagon procurement
officials.

Others bidding on reconstruction business are the Parsons Corporation, the
Louis Berger Group and the Washington Group International, which absorbed
Morrison-Knudsen in 1996. . .

No company has firmer political connections than Kellogg Brown  Root, the
engineering and construction arm of Halliburton. Besides its links to Mr.
Cheney, the company has been a major military contractor since World War
II.
Most recently, it handled the high-speed construction of the Guantnamo
prison compound for terror suspects .

But since last May, the company has also come under scrutiny by the
Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating how the company
has accounted for cost overruns on its construction and engineering work
since 1998. And this spring, its shareholders will vote on a proposal,
sponsored by two giant New York City pension funds, calling for a review of
Halliburton's previous business ties to Iran.

Louis Berger, based in East Orange, N.J., could be a dark-horse contender
in
the Iraq reconstruction sweepstakes. Besides its work on an ambitious
pipeline to carry oil from Tengiz, Kazakhstan, to a deep-water port on the
Black Sea in Russia, the privately held firm has been an important
government contractor in the Balkans for years. More recently, it won a
contract to oversee extensive infrastructure development in postwar
Afghanistan. The centerpiece of the $300 million contract was the
rebuilding
of a shattered 600-mile highway from Kabul to Herat. . .

Bechtel is considered the largest contractor in the country, and one of the
largest in the world. Its board includes a former secretary of state,
George
P. Shultz, and its ranks once included a former defense secretary, Caspar
W.
Weinberger. . . It is facing a political meltdown of its own in
Massachusetts, where it is under severe criticism by the state's inspector
general for more than $1 billion in cost overruns on the tunnel and highway
construction project in Boston, the so-called big dig. Governor Mitt Romney
of Massachusetts has ordered an independent review of the project, which
was
managed for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority by Bechtel and its joint
venture partner, Parsons Brinckerhoff - which is not related to the Parsons
Corporation that is bidding on the Iraqi work. . .

Fluor, based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., is not currently working on any Agency
for International Development projects, but it has extensive experience
building petroleum facilities in difficult places. It is building an
enormous plant on Sakhalin Island, off Russia's Pacific coast, for an
international consortium that includes Exxon Mobil, and is developing oil
and gas fields in Kazakhstan for a consortium whose largest member is
ChevronTexaco.

Last April, Fluor hired Kenneth J. Oscar, who as acting assistant secretary
of the Army oversaw the Pentagon's $35 billion-a-year procurement budget.
Its board includes Bobby R. Inman, a retired admiral who was also former
director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the Central
Intelligence Agency.

Fluor is currently in arbitration to untangle a dispute with Anaconda
Nickel
in Australia over Fluor's work on a $615 million nickel-cobalt processing
plant in western Australia. Fluor has disputed the accusations of poor
workmanship, but Anaconda has collected millions of dollars in compensation
in the first phase of the arbitration.

A spokesman for Fluor, Jerry Holloway, confirmed that it had been invited
to
bid on the work in Iraq but said he could not comment on the scale or scope
of the contracts.

Parsons, an employee-owned company based in Pasadena, Calif., is one of
Bechel's most formidable rivals in the construction market. . . It does not
have the prominent political connections that Bechtel and Fluor have,
though
the labor secretary, Elaine Chao, served on its board for about a year
before joining the cabinet in January 2001.

In 1998, Parsons won a contract to take over the vehicle inspection program
in 

[CTRL] RUBY ALERT: Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII

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Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII
Americans To Take The Fall This Time

By: Henry Makow

Something very worrisome is happening. Some of Rockefeller's best toadies oppose the 
Iraq
war. But Rockefeller and his ilk are responsible for this war. What gives?

It appears the global elite is dividing its minions into two house teams again. The
last time this happened we had the Fascist-Communist slugfest called World War Two. The
same satanic cabal controlled both sides and picked Germany to take the fall.

This time, the U.S., Britain and the coalition of the willingare on one side. On the
other are France, Germany, Russia and China. The centre of global power is moving to
China, Europe and Russia.I see a world war over Korea, or more likely Iran and control 
of
Middle East oil. The U.S., overextended from Kuwait to Korea, will come up short.

My guess is that the US will find itself increasingly isolated and vilified as a result
of the Iraq war. I suspect the hidden agenda is to bring down the world's last
superpower; to replace the UN with a new instrument of world government; to kill a 
lot
of people, and to wean Americans off democracy and their high standard of living.

GLOBALISTS AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR?

Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, George Soros, Mikail Gorbachev and Walter Cronkite are 
all
globalist elder statesmen-for-hire. Curiously, they all oppose the Iraq war.

Jimmy Carter, a creation of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission publicly supported 
more
UN inspections. Mikhail Gorbachev said the war is a big mistake. Nelson Mandela called 
it
a tragedy and warned Bush was plunging the world into a holocaust.

Financial maven George Soros said: The Bush doctrine is grounded in power; legality 
and
legitimacy are decorations. Finally, Walter Cronkite, who is linked to Rockefeller's
CFR warned:

We are going to be in such a fix when this war is over, or before this war is over. 
Our
grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for this war. I look at our future
as, I'm sorry, being very dark.

The leaders of Russia, France, Germany and China also voiced opposition with
uncharacteristic bluntness. They must have the OK of the global money masters. 
Military
action ... is a big mistake, Vladimir Putin said.  Iraq has presented no danger...
China urged the US and Britain to halt their military actions.

France, Russia and Germany all refused a U.S. request to close their Iraqi embassies.
North Korea apparently is preparing for war.

Even in England, major newspapers like The Mirror have been scathing in their criticism
of Tony Blair. British newspapers belong to the same clan. I suspect England will 
defect
to Europe's side before this fiasco is over.

PARALLELS TO WORLD WAR TWO

Before World War Two, a faction of the British elite built up Hitler. This was known as
the policy of appeasement. After Hitler fell into the trap of attacking Poland, they
did a sleight of hand and replaced the accommodating Chamberlain with the defiant
Churchill.

Iraq is a similar trap. The United States has squandered the sympathy and good will it
earned on Sept 11. The images of the World Trade Centre have been replaced in the 
world's
mind by the spectacular explosions in Baghdad.

The US comes across as a bully too cowardly to pick on anyone its own side. Notch this
victory up beside its thrashings of Grenada, Panama and Serbia. The gloating by US TV
commentators is particularly distasteful to the outside world.

The damage to America's moral authority is incalculable. After this war, who will have
sympathy for Americans if Chinese atomic bombs rain down on Los Angeles and New York? 
The
devil degrades his victims before he destroys them. [In the eyes of the world, the U.S.
has lost it's moral imperative and seen as an arrogant Empire. -CR]

ELITE TREASON

For almost 100 years, the American leadership class has belonged to an international
cabal that is determined to dissolve all human loyalties, including the nation state, 
and
establish a global tyranny. George Bush, who is part of this cabal, has led the 
American
people into a trap.

Who in their right mind would deliberately alienate 1.3 billion Muslims? Of course
Hussein is a bad man but this is not the motive. The U.S. is acting as gofer for the
Zionists and the oil cartels, two leading parts of the cabal. They will come out ahead
while Americans will foot the bill and take the brunt of Muslim indignation.

Can the U.S. even count on Israel? At his trial, Israeli Spy Jonathon Pollard was 
called
the greatest traitor in the history of the United States (Gordon Thomas, Seeds of 
Fire,
p.31-32). In the words of CIA Director George Tenet, Pollard, an American Jew, stole
every 

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CARLYLE GROUP CASHING IN AS TANKS ROLL
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,919897,00.html

Jamie Doward, OBSERVER - It is the sort of thing they really could have
done
without. For 15 years one of America's most powerful venture capital groups
has tried to play down suggestions that its multi-billion dollar funds get
fat on the back of global conflict. But now, with the invasion of Iraq
under
way, a new book chronicling the relatively short history of the Carlyle
Group threatens to draw attention to the company's close links with the
Pentagon. Dan Briody, author of the Iron Triangle, Inside the Secret World
of the Carlyle Group, alleges the company's executives were so worried
about
his book they told staff not to talk to him. The Carlyle Group rejects this
and argues the book is little more than a cuttings job based around some of
the more crazy conspiracy theories found on the internet. It also points
out
that only around 7 per cent of its funds are invested in defense companies,
far less than several other venture capital groups. . .

But Briody's account of how an upstart venture capital firm went from
nothing to managing funds of nearly $14 billion in just 15 years, earning
investors returns of around 36 per cent, is likely to reinforce the
controversial image of the Carlyle Group and raise concerns about its
influence in Washington and beyond.

Sometimes called the Ex-Presidents Club, Carlyle has a glittering array of
ex-politicians and big league bankers on its board. Former secretary of
state James Baker is managing director while ex-secretary of defense Frank
Carlucci is chairman. George Bush senior is an adviser. John Major heads up
its European operations. To give the conspiracy theorists plenty of
ammunition, US newspapers have also highlighted the fact that current
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a wrestling partner of Carlucci's at
Princeton and the two have remained close friends ever since.

Perhaps Carlyle's most famous acquisition was United Defense in 1997. The
company had developed a huge 40-ton howitzer, the Crusader, which, despite
widespread opposition from the army, was commissioned by the Pentagon. The
$665m contract was signed just two weeks after the attacks on the twin
towers and less than a month later Carlyle decided to take the company
public in a move that was to earn the group nearly $240m. Months later the
Crusader program was scrapped while United Defense was handed a new
contract
to build a lighter gun. . .

In the wake of 11 September came a fear of anthrax attack. One company that
benefited was Pittsburgh- based IT Group, which won a number of contracts
to
clean up anthrax-infected buildings, including the Hart Senate Office
Building. Carlyle owned 25 per cent of the firm, which it subsequently sold
on. Likewise its investment in US Investigation Services, a company that
specializes in checking the background of employees, saw business improve
dramatically. . .

Last month it bought CSX Lines, an ocean carrier firm that specializes in
shipping heavy equipment. One of its biggest customers is the US military.
Late last year it bought Firth Rixson, a specialist engineering firm that
makes aerospace parts. It also has a 33 per cent stake in Qinetiq, the
government's Defense Evaluation and Research Agency. Whatever Carlyle says,
its image as being at the apex of what Eisenhower termed the 'military
industrial complex' endures.

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[CTRL] Israelis Execute 10 Yr Old Girl 14 Yr Old Boy Terrorists

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Print Edition  Haaretz

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Adar2 22, 5763
Israel Time:  04:57  (GMT+2)

2 children, 3 others killed in W. Bank

By Arnon Regular and Agencies

Five Palestinians, including a 10-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, were
killed by the IDF in the West Bank yesterday, Palestinian sources said.
Also yesterday, the IDF apprehended a Fatah-Tanzim leader suspected of
involvement in multiple terror attacks.

Four Palestinians, including the 10-year-old girl, were killed by IDF fire
in Bethlehem, Palestinian residents reported. Apparently, the incident
occurred when a special IDF force was trying to assassinate two wanted
terrorists. The force opened fire at the car with the terrorists, but also
killed a passerby, Muwafat Badran, and a girl in the car in front,
Christine Sa'ada.

According to the Palestinians, the force snatched two of the bodies and
disappeared. The child's father, George Sa'ada, and her mother and sister,
have apparently sustained moderate to serious injuries and were taken to
Hadassah Hospital.

In Jenin, a 14-year-old boy was shot dead and a 12-year-old boy was
seriously wounded by fire from an Israeli tank, doctors said. The Israeli
military said they were shot while climbing on an armored vehicle.

Yesterday was the fourth day of the army operation in Jenin, and the IDF
yesterday captured Nidal Narnariya, who is suspected of being involved in
several terror attacks, including last week's shooting on the road between
Mevo Dotan and Shaked, and the deadly attack in Beit She'an at the Likud's
internal elections a few months ago, in which four Israelis were killed.

Narnariya is also said to have been involved in recruiting and distributing
arms to Tanzim members. Sources in Israel's defense establishment said
Narnariya was planning two suicide bombings inside Israel in the next two
days.

In the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, the IDF apprehended Fahed Abu
Khamed, who was apparently planning to carry out a suicide bombing.

In Ramallah, the IDF arrested two Fatah activists who were reportedly
driving a car with fake EU plates.

Curfew in Jenin continued, but no curfew was imposed anywhere else in the
West Bank.

The military court sentenced three Palestinians to consecutive life terms
after convicting them of involvement in fatal attacks against Israelis, the
military said.

In a statement from the military court near the West Bank Jewish settlement
of Beit El, the military said the three were members of an Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades cell in Jenin. The group is affiliated with Fatah, the movement
headed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

The military said the three carried out shooting attacks on West Bank roads
and Jerusalem. The commander of the cell, Mohammed Mazlah, was sentenced to
nine consecutive life terms. Among the incidents in which the military said
he was involved was the attack on two unarmed Israeli reserve soldiers who
lost their way and entered the West Bank Palestinian town of Ramallah in
October, 2000. A mob stormed the police station where they were taken, beat
them to death and threw their bodies out a second-story window.

Another member of the cell received 16 consecutive life terms, and the
third was sentenced to four consecutive life terms and an additional 15
years in prison.

The defense establishment now has knowledge of 60 terror attacks planned
for the near future.



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[CTRL] GI's returning from Afg.

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Subject:[cia-drugs] GI's returning from Afg.

There was a short news blip on the radio this weekend that the 4th returning
GiI that killed his wife after returning from Afg. had been found dead in his
cell.
All four were found dead in there cell.
None went on trial!

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(I believe they were probably victim of mind control or implants experiments. They 
could
not be allowed to tell what they knew in a public trial. --SW)


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[CTRL] U.S. Army Documents Warn of Occupation Hazards

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U.S. Army Documents Warn of Occupation Hazards
The War After the War
by Jason Vest
March 19 - 25, 2003

After a victory in Iraq, the transition from soldier to cop may be
harrowing for
the U.S. military.

Despite the sanguine way George W. Bush and his chamberlains talk about a
post-war Iraq, senior military officers are worried.

According to recent unpublicized U.S. Army War College studies being read
with increasing interest by some Pentagon planners, The possibility of the
United
States winning the war and losing the peace in Iraq is real and serious.

And that's especially true if occupation force soldiers are not retrained
to be something similar to a constabulary force and imbued with the
understanding
that force is often the last resort of the occupation soldier. The War
College studies explore in detail a troubling paradox: While all experts
agree that
stabilizing post-Saddam Iraq would be a protracted endeavor, the longer a
U.S. occupation of Iraq continues, one of the studies notes, the more
danger
exists that elements of the Iraqi population will become impatient and take
violent measures to hasten the departure of U.S. forces.

One study broaches the subject of suicide attacks against U.S. soldiers.
The impact of suicide bombing attacks in Israel goes beyond their
numbers, it says, and this fact will also capture the imagination of
would-be Iraqi terrorists.

Yet Bush and some of his top advisers have consistently preached that
laying the foundation for post-blood-and-sand Iraq really won't be that
much of a chore. In a recent speech to the American Enterprise Institute,
Dubya's tone was upbeat as he rattled off a succinct post-Saddam checklist
for the U.S. Army: Deliver medicine to ailing Iraqis, hand out emergency
rations, destroy weapons, secure Iraq from those who would spread chaos
internally, and mind the oil fields-but not for a day more than
necessary.

Indeed, after the speech, a senior administration official told one
reporter that a transition from U.S. military to U.S. civilian control over
Iraq would take only a few months. Testifying before the House Budget
Committee earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
dismissed Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's suggestion that a U.S.
occupation force might run to the hundreds of thousands; in a recent
interview with the Voice, a senior Pentagon official dismissed General
Shinseki's comments as bullshit from a Clintonite enamored of using the
army for peacekeeping and nation-building and not winning wars.

But at a time when the U.S. Army is a case study in multitasking-fighting
the Global War on Terrorism (or GWOT, in Milspeak), keeping watch on the
Korean peninsula, peacekeeping in the Balkans, chasing Islamic rebels in
the Philippines, saddling up for more action in Colombia, to name but a few
chores-a number of military professionals are quietly venting spleen about
how disingenuous they believe the Bush administration is being with the
public about post-war Iraq.

Some are merely angry at what they see as a gap between optimistic policy
pronouncements and the hard realities of a by-the-numbers post-war
reconstruction. But perhaps more importantly, others are angry at what they
see as the administration's neoconservative ideologues' playing fast and
loose with soldiers' lives in an effort to realize a dubious vision for the
Middle East. Because what the neocons dream of-either an instantly
democratic Iraq that begins a domino effect of democratic revolution and
renewal across the Middle East, or an Iraq whose defining aspect of
democracy is a volatility that destabilizes the Arab world-is at odds with
the lessons the army has learned about modern post-conflict stabilization.
The situation has the potential to produce a slew of unintended or
unforeseen consequences beyond the U.S.'s ability to handle them.

According to The Day After: The Army in a Post-Conflict Iraq, a December
2002 paper produced by the War College's Center for Strategic Leadership,
army studies have concluded that even with United Nations support, a
post-conflict Iraq requirement of 65,000 to 80,000 U.S. Army personnel is
the low-end manpower requirement for a military occupation expected to last
not a matter of months, but a minimum of five years and possibly as many
as ten.

Read on and you have to wonder whether the White House is just ignoring
unpleasant possibilities, or reveling in a Roveian-Rumsfeldian
cloud-cuckoo-land: While the paper reports that experts disagree as to the
required time frame needed to accomplish the post-conflict strategic
requirements, particularly the governance and justice aspects, all agree
that it won't be measured in months, but years. Part of the reason, the
study explains, is that the past decade of army post-conflict stabilization
operations has revealed that transitioning from immediate post-war
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PEPIS #48 - 25Mar03 - Bilderberg 2003 set for Versailles

Leaks from last May's Bilderberg meeting were one of the first indications in the 
world that Iraq had been selected for the transatlantic alliance's next military 
outing.

Bilderberg appears to be where plans for U.S. imperial adventurism are run past the 
handful of people powerful enough to stop them. As the illegal Iraq invasion crawls 
on, what will be the next staging post in the global crisis being engineered by the 
governments of Britain, The United States and Israel? Judging by last year's leaks, a 
fly on the wall in Versailles might well discover the answer.

The lower echelons of the ruling class are being told right now that the world is 
facing total financial meltdown. The only way to save their hard earned investments, 
they are told, is to throw their weight behind this global crisis  centred around the 
Middle East to replace the time-expired East-West cold war crisis.

In fact, one other way out is to abandon global capitalism altogether (apologies for 
starting it in the English Civil War by-the-way) and introduce state-sanctioned local 
money systems controlled and owned by the people of all nations. Instead we (in 
Europe) are being railroaded into the Eurodollar. If you were ever under an illusion 
that the Euro was different to the dollar then look on the back of each note - it 
shows a bridge stretching out from Europe across the Atlantic.

One can never be 100% certain about a venue and dates for Bilderberg but it does seem 
pretty likely that this is the spot:

The Trianon Palace Hotel - 1, Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles, Paris, France. May 
15-18 2003. Kenneth Clarke, in a letter to a Scottish anti-Bilderberg   campaigner, 
has confirmed the venue.

The Trianon Palace Hotel 
http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/cgi-bin/www.s-h-systems.co.uk/brochure.pl?id=129705t=versailless=c=FR

American Free Press  http://www.americanfreepress.net  will be covering developments 
in the run-up and during the conference. The annual task remains to break Bilderberg's 
wall of secrecy at Versailles this May.

And see  http://www.bilderberg.org/2003.htm  for the latest Bilderberg gossip.

On a personal note I intend to suspend new postings to this website to concentrate on 
making sure the Bilderberg site stays up there for you. This list will revert to only 
2 postings a year. One to announce the venue when it's discovered and one to announce 
the official participant list. You'll find links to many honest and well-informed news 
sites such as Online Journal, What Really Happened and Common Dreams on my War on 
Freedom page at http://www.bilderberg.org/usglobal.htm.

Where will the global crisis end? It seems likely a 'Christian'/'Jewish' vs. 'Moslem' 
conflict will emerge from this Middle East crisis which is ironic, since the political 
leaders of all sides, Bin Laden, Bush, Sharon, Saddam etc. appear to be secular, with 
little love for God, the poor, or for their fellow man. Misguided marionettes Bush and 
Blair certainly show contempt for the ten commandments which indicates their professed 
Christianity may be nothing more than a cover story.

Keep a close eye too on Zionist attempts to rebuild Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, to 
expand Israel's borders and to wipe out the Palestinian people. The Zionist eye is 
firmly on the main chance: feeding the fire of interreligious hatred amongst the 
worlds three monotheistic religions.

Oh, and if you are despairing, like I am, at what passes for film or 

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Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The guru picks story in Forbes is headlined, Top
Fund Managers Buy Gold. You can find it here:

http://www.forbes.com/2003/03/25/cz_rt_0325gurupicks.html?
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[CTRL] Something Suspicious Is in the Air

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16791-2003Mar23.html

Something Suspicious Is in the Air

By Courtland Milloy Monday, March 24, 2003; Page B01


The sign above the highway leading into the nation's capital advised motorists to 
Report
Suspicious Activity and gave an 800 number for the Office of Homeland Security. As a
reporter, I figured this was right up my alley and set out yesterday to report on 
things
that struck me as suspicious.

For instance, near the Jefferson Memorial, I saw a five-foot-tall metal box that was
hooked up to an electrical outlet and equipped with a high-tech antenna and chrome-dome
receptor. What was it?

I asked a couple of National Park Service workers and some Cherry Blossom Festival
organizers whose tent was set up next to the thing if they knew. Little did I know that
my inquiry would become a suspicious activity in itself.

We hear you've been asking curious questions, U.S. Park Police officer Michael 
Ramirez
said as he and fellow officer Karl Spilde approached me from behind a blossomless 
cherry
tree. Why are you doing that?

Both officers carried 9mm semiautomatic pistols, Mace and batons. Perhaps because I had
just left the Jefferson Memorial, where I'd read a few lines about life, liberty and 
the
pursuit of happiness and all men are created equal, I felt bold enough to pose a
question of my own: Why are you asking me that?

What I really wanted to know was why my questions about the box had made me suspect. Or
was it that an African American -- whom someone may have mistaken for a Middle 
Easterner -
- was asking them?

The only way to get to the bottom of this, I thought, was to ask more questions.

Let me see your ID, Spilde said.

Why? I asked.

Wrong response.

Call for backup, Spilde eventually told Ramirez as he seized my notebook and pen and
began to search me. Was I being arrested, I asked before turning over my driver's
license.

Eight officers responded to the call for backup. One told me that, legally, I was not
being arrested, just subject to investigative detention.

Said Sgt. R.J. Steinheimer, There have been reports of suspicious activity regarding
you.

By whom? I asked.

Can't tell you that, he replied.

What kind of suspicious activity? I asked.

Apparently you have been showing interest in equipment on the grounds, making notes,
that sort of thing, he said. Are you interested in talking to us about what you're
doing?

I could have told him right then that I was a journalist. But I figured that any 
citizen
should be able to ask a couple of questions without being detained as a suspicious
person. I told him that I simply wanted to know what kind of machine it was.

Are you aware of the current threat level? Officer J. Keyser asked.

I told him I was. The United States had, after all, just launched an attack on Iraq
knowing that it would increase the chances of terrorist attacks at home. But that 
didn't
explain why I was being associated with Code Orange.

Officer E. Sinkeldam asked if I'd seen the ABC-TV piece on 20/20 about how al Qaeda
operatives had posed as tourists and had used their video cameras for surveillance 
before
9/11. In this heightened state of alert, he explained, if anyone shows a particular
interest in something, we get suspicious.

I pointed out that people all around us were using video cameras and cameras of all 
kinds
to photograph who knows what. Even knowing I'd never get a straight answer, I pointedly
asked whether I had been detained because I was African American or whether I looked
Middle Eastern. The officers just smiled wryly. A Park Police detective would later say
that a tourist had reported me to police. As soon as I heard that, I knew which one 
it
was. I recalled that as I began photographing the metal box, a woman pulled out her 
cell
phone and began keeping a not-so-discreet eye on me.

After an hour and a half, when word finally got around that I was a writer for The
Washington Post, the atmosphere lightened up considerably. The officers even answered 
my
question about that contraption: It was simply an air quality testing device.

And as if to let me know that we were all on the same side now, Officer Keyser asked,
Have you noticed any suspicious activity in the area?

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[CTRL] Awakening World Says ENOUGH! of War

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 Awakening World Says ENOUGH! of War

   When things are this perverted, warned the Hopi, you are entering the End Time.

From: http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/6271.php

   EXCERPTS:
Despite images censored by military minders and nervous networks, a rattled 
Rumsfeld
has acknowledged, We're having a conflict at a time in our history when we have 
24-hours-
a-day television, radio, media and Internet, and more people in the world have 
access to
what is taking place.

But this unrestricted access to myriad straight-from-the-source footage and 
commentary is
skewering White House spin controllers, who are whirling like dizzied dervishes 
in a
desperate bid to make sure Americans do not see the images jolting the central 
nervous
system of an increasingly appalled and angry world. (...)

Even as allied forces close in on an ancient city that could become an Arab 
Stalingrad,
satellite television and a worldwide web threaten to enmesh Earth's most powerful 
army in
the immobilizing embrace of an even bigger Superpower:public opinion.

In two short years since Sept. 11, a global network of dedicated Lilliputians is 
learning
how to throw an Internet over a gluttonous Gulliver brandishing fearsome weapons 
of mass
destruction.

G. W. Bush has seized this moment to unite the world against him and an obsolete 
power
paradigm as no leader has since his granddad financed Hitler.

Even as the Bushwhackers trumpet their triumph over yet another monster of their 
own
creation, the moral and financial bankruptcy they exemplify and exacerbate is 
speeding
the downfall of this seemingly invincible police state in a collapse that will 
come as
suddenly and completely as the former Soviet Union.

It might be an opportune time -- right now! -- to turn off all brainwashing boxes 
before
sophisticated media mesmerizers drag us by the scruff of our emotions into a 
bottomless
pit of confusion, helplessness and fear.

It's time to bring in the angels and focus on peace.

 WALKING AWAY FROM WAR
   by William Thomas

 Commentary - Lifeboatnews.com

 March 19, 2003

As the glaciers balancing this planet on its axis melt like sherbet on an endless 
summer
day, and Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix compliments Iraq's proactive compliance
in a quickening process of disarmament that will not take years, nor weeks, but 
months -
- a sociopath who used to stuff firecrackers into the mouths of frogs before tossing 
them
   into the air to watch them explode is about to send thousands of radioactive high
  explosives into a city the size of Toronto, where this story was reported.

When things are this perverted, warned the Hopi, you are entering the End Time.

  CLIP - Read the whole article at http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/6271.php

   WELCOME TO A NEW BEGINNING

  Two nights ago, after robotically reciting a dizzyingly dissonant pastiche of gross
  distortions and outright lies coupled to a crude cowboy deadline, Bush II raised his
 middle finger to international law and the world community with a trademark little-boy
 smirk -- partly fearful, partly defiant -- that asked, Will you let me get away with
 this? Around the word, the resounding response is, HECK NO!

 We have had enough of Americans' willful denial and spoiled brat behavior that renames
 French fries so they can be gobbled without dwelling on the prickly questions of law
 and morality raised by that longtime American ally while watching Baghdad get blown up
   like a televised sports event sandwiched between commercials urging more mindless
   consumption that drives these massacres for oil.

  As oil author Thom Hartmann observes, a transportation infrastructure based on 6,000-
  pound SUVs carrying single individuals, cheap forced-labor Chinese goods sold at Wal-
Mart's unpaid overtime gulags, and cut-rate Mexican produce plastered with pesticides 
--
are propelling a conquest that is really about the survival of the American lifestyle,
which, in their world-view, is both non-negotiable and based almost entirely on access 
to
  cheap oil.

But even if Bush's forces seize Iraq's 20 oilfields intact, an oilgarchy's last grab 
for
Iraq's cheap crude will not stop a steepening planetary slide into prohibitively
expensive go-juice. Observing that world 

[CTRL] Arab Cartoons Reflect on Politics

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[CTRL] More Arab Cartoons

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[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Russian Billionaire Is Arrested in London

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Russian Billionaire Is Arrested in London

March 25, 2003
By ALAN COWELL






LONDON, March 25 - The British police said today that they
had arrested the self-exiled Russian billionaire Boris
Berezovsky to start legal proceedings possibly leading to
his extradition on fraud charges.

The arrest illuminated the change in Mr. Berezovsky's
fortunes since the 1990's, when he ranked among the most
influential of so-called oligarchs at the Kremlin,
engineering the destiny of presidents.

A police statement said Mr. Berezovsky was arrested on
Monday together with Yuly Dubov, a former chief executive
of the Logovaz car company.

The charge alleges that between January 1, 1994, and
December 31, 1995, they defrauded the administration of the
Samara region of 60 billion rubles whilst being directors
of Logovaz, the police said. At today's exchange rate 60
billion rubles is equivalent to $1.9 billion.

Mr. Berezovksy, 57, and Mr. Dubov, 54, were released on
bail and ordered to appear in court for preliminary
hearings on April 2. Mr. Berezovsky's lawyer, Andrew
Stephenson, said the arrests had taken place at a
pre-arranged meeting with the police.

Russia asked for Mr. Berezovsky's extradition last
November, a year after he arrived in Britain seeking
permanent residence, and two years after he fled Russia
claiming that fraud charges against him were part of a plot
by President Vladimir V. Putin to silence him.

Mr. Berezovsky has accused Mr. Putin of knowing that the
security services in Russia carried out bombings of
apartment buildings in Moscow, contrary to official
allegations that Chechen serparatists were responsible.

Mr. Berezovsky has told visitors that, while his case might
be influenced by the international relationship between
Britain and Russia, he believes the British court system
will vindicate him in protesting his innocence.

At the time that Mr. Berezovsky arrived in Britain, Prime
Minister Tony Blair boasted of close ties to President
Putin, but the relationship between Moscow and London has
soured over the war in Iraq. Russia has been one of the
most bitter foes of Britain's alliance with the United
States in the conflict.

While in Britain, Mr. Berezovsky has angered Mr. Putin by
seeking to organize an opposition political party and a
human rights organization and has openly called for the
Russian president's electoral defeat. He has also funded
the legal fees of Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen leader held in
Britain and also facing extradition proceedings.

Alan Hamerman, a spokesman for Mr. Berezovsky, said the
businessman regarded the fraud charges as an open and shut
case of political muscle from the Kremlin to shut him up
and insisted that the allegations by the Russian
authorities are false.

He is confident, upbeat and has faith in the British
justice system, Mr. Hamerman said. He says there is no
case against him, no crime, no valid reason to extradite.

Mr. Berezovsky's arrest signaled the start of extradition
proceedings that, in Britain, can take years.

The sequence from the initial request for extradition from
a foreign state to actual handover of a suspect runs
through six separate stages, and, at four of them, the case
may be dismissed. The British Home Secretary must also rule
on whether to initiate proceedings and, finally, whether to
surrender the suspect.

Earlier this month, Mr. Berezovsky won a major high court
ruling in his favor in a libel suit against Forbes
magazine.

The case related to his days as a tycoon in the 1990's as
Russia emerged from the Soviet command economy into a
freewheeling, robber-baron capitalism that enabled a small
number of businessmen - the so-called oligarchs - to win
great influence at the Kremlin and amass fortunes from the
break-up and sale of huge state monopolies.

Mr. Berezovsky made his first fortune through the Logovaz
car dealership and went on to build an empire spanning the
news media, the Aeroflot airline, oil and aluminum. In the
process, his control of broadcasting outlets enabled him to
campaign for the 1996 re-election of President Boris
Yeltsin and the election of Mr. Putin in 2000.

Later that year, though, the two men fell out and Mr.
Berezovsky left Russia for a relatively opulent self-exile.
In an interview here in February he estimated his fortune
at some $3 billion and he has enlisted high-powered public
relations and law firms to fight his corner.

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Data Expert Is Cautious About Misuse of Information

March 25, 2003
By STEVE LOHR






SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 24 - As the government gears up
its domestic security program, the chief executive of a
venture capital firm founded by the Central Intelligence
Agency warned today of the danger of amassing a large,
unified database that would be available to government
investigators - as some technology executives have
advocated.

I think it's very dangerous to give the government total
access, said Gilman Louie, chief executive of In-Q-Tel, a
venture fund established by the C.I.A. in 1999.

Besides, the real lesson learned from the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks, Mr. Louie said, was that the
intelligence failure was not so much that the government
had too little information but that the information held by
different government agencies was not linked, shared and
analyzed.

It is already clear that a part of the vast amounts of
personal and commercial data housed in government and
corporation will increasingly be used in terrorist-related
government investigations. But there is a vigorous debate
over what data should be collected and how it should be
used to balance the interests of national security with
personal privacy and individual freedom.

Speaking at the PC Forum, an annual gathering of corporate
technology executives, entrepreneurs and venture
capitalists, Mr. Louie said there were two different paths
being pursued toward data surveillance by the government.

First, there is what he termed the data mining or
profiling approach. This involves collecting large amounts
of data - like credit card and air travel information - and
then sorting the data by names, buying habits or travel
plans looking for patterns.

The data mining approach, Mr. Louie said, results in the
watch lists used by law enforcement authorities. If used
as the main tool of surveillance, the data mining approach
is too blunt an instrument, in Mr. Louie's view, and one
likely to needlessly undermine individual freedom. The
policy has not been defined for how you get on or off these
watch lists, he said.

Mr. Louie said that he had friends who after the terrorists
attacks have been interrogated at length and sometimes
missed flights because they matched certain characteristics
that put them on a watch list. They have Arabic names, he
said, they are naturalized citizens and because they are
investment bankers they buy one-way tickets.

The second way to use database technology to detect threats
is what he called the data analysis approach. The
alternative, which Mr. Louie supports, starts with some
kind of investigative lead and then uses software tools to
scan for links between a person under investigation and
known terrorists, in terms of where they live, recent
travel and other behavior.

Las Vegas casinos, for example, use data analysis software
called NORA, for Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness, for
tracking threats to their business - links between some
patrons and sometimes employees with money launderers,
known card counters and individuals with criminal records.
The company that developed the NORA software, Systems
Research and Development, is one of the companies in which
In-Q-Tel has invested.

Data mining, Mr. Louie said, can play a useful role. But he
argues that relying on data mining as the principal way to
use database technology in fighting terrorism would be a
mistake. This is an ongoing argument, Mr. Louie said, a
big debate right now in government.

In-Q-Tel was established by the C.I.A., in an effort to
inject new thinking and technology into the agency. The
agency's handling of information had been shaped by the
cold war concerns of big power confrontations where the
weapons were tanks and missiles, and the security risks
tended to be spies and moles.

Information, noted Mr. Louie, a former computer game
designer and software executive, was kept in separate
database silos so it would not leak or any leak could be
quickly contained. Speed of information flow across
databases was not a priority.

Yet in a world of quickly shifting terrorist threats, Mr.
Louie said, the agency realized that this stove-piping of
information was a security model that was really
vulnerable.

Today, In-Q-Tel has invested in 25 companies. At the same
time, the Defense Department's advanced research projects
agency, or Darpa, and the government's National Imagery and
Mapping Agency, or Nima, have also supplied financing to
In-Q-Tel for specific programs.

Before Sept. 11, Mr. Louie said, In-Q-Tel was seen within
government as an intriguing experiment. Now, this isn't an
experiment, he said. This is a necessity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/technology/25DATA.html?ex=1049608608ei=1en=e06cac9de31e47bd



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