| 17.Jun.2004 URL: https://www.cooperativeresearch.org/061704-911timelineupdate.html 25.Jan.2002 Newhouse News] 11.Sep.2001 -on- NORAD is unusually prepared, because it is conducting a week-long semi-annual exercise called Vigilant Guardian. 11.Sep.2001 06-30 a.m. NORAD is thus fully staffed + alert + 11.Sep.2001 06-30 a.m. NORAD senior officers are manning stations throughout the USA. 11.Sep.2001 06-30 a.m. NORAD entire chain of command is in place + 11.Sep.2001 06-30 a.m. NORAD ready 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. when the first hijacking is reported. 03.Jun.2002 -later-[Aviation Week + Space Technology] :"In retrospect,the NORAD Vigilant Guardian exercise would prove to be a serendipitous enabler of a rapid military response to terrorist attacks on 11.Sep.2001 " 14.Sep.2002 -later-[ABC News] reports that because NORAD is "conducting training exercises [it] therefore [has] extra fighter planes on alert." 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. [ABC News] "We had the fighters with a little more gas on board. A few more weapons on board."-Colonel Robert Marr, in charge of NEADS,says-. 25.Jan.2002 [Newhouse News]„NORAD Vigilant Guardian exercise poses "an imaginary crisis to USA North American Air Defense outposts USA nationwide." 11.Sep.2001 09-00 a.m.(see) is being run : NORAD Vigilant Guardian exercise, along with another exercise named Northern Vigilance "at various radar sites + command centers in USA + Canada, including USA Air Force bases in upstate New York + Florida + Washington + Alaska . 12.May 2003 [Bergen Record] 11.Sep.2001 06-30 a.m.-a week-long Vigilant Guardian is said to be a practice attack "across the North Pole by Russian forces." 25.Jan.2002 [Newhouse News]Accounts # by participants vary on whether was 11.Sep.2001 the 2. or 3. or 4. day of NORAD Vigilant Guardian exercise. 11.Sep.2002 [Ottawa Citizen]Accounts # by participants vary on whether was 11.Sep.2001 the 2. or 3. or 4. day of NORAD Vigilant Guardian exercise. 00.Jan.2002 [Code One Magazine]Accounts # by participants vary on whether was 11.Sep.2001 the 2. or 3. or 4. day of NORAD Vigilant Guardian exercise. URL: https://www.cooperativeresearch.org/061704-911timelineupdate.html 00.Jun.2004 11.Sep.2001 -Commission has issued a new report regarding the USA military's response on 11.Sep.2001 . 00.Jun.2004 -new report- contains an incredible number ## of errors. Most critically : 00.Jun.2004 11.Sep.2001 -Commission -new report- almost completely fails to mention Clarke, Richard + 00.Jun.2004 11.Sep.2001 -Commission -new report- almost completely fails to mention Clarke, Richard efforts as 11.Sep.2001 USA national crisis manager. 00.Jun.2004 11.Sep.2001 -Commission -new report- There is only one mention of Clarke, Richard, as 11.Sep.2001 USA national crisis manager : 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. "The White House Situation Room initiated a video teleconference, chaired by Clarke, Richard. 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. While important, "The White House Situation Room initiated“- video teleconference, chaired by Clarke, Richard,-“had no immediate effect on the emergency defense efforts." 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. video teleconference appears to have been one of the first + 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. video teleconference certainly was the most important methods of communication amongst the top leaders on 11.Sep.2001 . 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. video teleconference Virtually every top Bush [BGW968] official participated in this conference. This is vital, because Clarke, Richard s account of this 11.Sep.2001 00-00 a.m. video teleconference contradicts many # of the other stories about what happened 11.Sep.2001 . We have published this interim update in order to highlight several important accounts + information that the recent 11.Sep.2001 Commission s -new report- failed to mention. Much of it focuses on information from Clarke, Richard s book, Against All Enemies, a book the 11.Sep.2001 -Commission has seemingly completely ignored. The new + updated entries listed below will soon be incorporated into the "Day of 11.Sep.2001 " timeline. [The color coding + acronyms are the same as on that page.] We will soon post another update that will include information regarding the 11.Sep.2001 Commission -new report-. URL: https://www.voanews.com/PrintArticle.cfm?objectID=A41ADD95-19AA-405F-AE96EBE4E548F781&title=Homeland%20Security%20Confirms%20Election%20Delay%20Talks The report, in Newsweek magazine + confirmed Monday, says the discussions were spurred by a letter from USA Election Assistance Commission chairman DeForest Soirees. Newsweek says Mr. Soaries wrote Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to suggest asking Congress for emergency legislation to allow postponing USA election after any attack. California Congresswoman Jane Harman, USA Senior Democrat on USA House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, called the plan excessive. But the Republican chairman of USA House Homeland Security Committee, California's Christopher Cox, told CNN Sunday the request was a prudent effort to plan for what he called "doomsday scenarios." 15.Jul.2004 -Last week USA Department of Homeland Security asked USA Justice Department s Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the cancellation + rescheduling of 02.Nov.2004 election. This came in response to a request from the chief of the newly created USA Election Assistance Commission for Congress to pass emergency legislation to empower the Commission to cancel + reschedule elections. A spokesman for USA Department of Homeland Security told Newsweek "We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure USA election URL: https://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=04/07/12/1345243 A report in Newsweek finds that USA Justice Department + Department of Homeland Security have begun examining ways to postpone 02.Nov.2004 's presidential election in the event of an attack near election day. We speak with Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent for Newsweek. URL: https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/12/1345243 14.Jul.2004 Hidden Prisons: USA Maintaining Global Network of Secret Detention Facilities 14.Jul.2004 Clear Channel Rejects Times Square Peace Billboard Timed for RNC Since the 13.Jun.2004 update—more than two weeks ago—we have received no more than $650 in donations (one $250 donation + a few small ones). We cannot continue to provide this service without funds. We just can't afford to, plain and simple. We are asking that everyone who regularly uses this website donate something—even it's just five or ten dollars. It's up to you whether this website continues. Your donation is needed today! 15.Jul.2004 Military Developments Bode Ill For Our Future Security: A number of dangerous developments in our military have suddenly come together -- pushed forward by the war in Iraq -- that should give Americans grounds for worry about the future security of our nation. 15.Jul.2004 Chavez Warns Andean Nations Against Trade Deal with USA: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned other Andean leaders against pursuing a trade agreement with the USA, accusing Washington of having "imperialist" intentions in the region. Venezuelan President Chavez again accuses USA of backing campaign to unseat him: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez restated his long-time contention that Washington is behind a campaign for a "yes" vote in an 15.Aug.2004 recall referendum aimed at removing him from power, in order to control Venezuela's oil. In case you missed it: Greg Palast: Warning to Venezuelan leader : "The dependence of the USA on oil is increasing progressively. And Venezuela is one of the most important suppliers of the USA. And the 'stability' of Venezuela is very important for the USA." USA in talks over biggest missile defence site in Europe : The USA administration is negotiating with Poland + the Czech Republic over its controversial missile defence programme, with a view to positioning the biggest missile defence site outside the USA in central Europe. USA considers keeping key air base in Bosnia after NATO pullout: The USA is considering keeping a key military air base in Bosnia-Herzegovina after NATO wraps up its peace mission there as part of a new force projection concept designed to facilitate the war on terror, military officials said Monday. Barroso criticises 'arrogant' USA : José Manuel Barroso, the outgoing Portuguese prime minister who has been nominated as president of the European Commission, on Tuesday criticised the USA for its occasional "arrogance" 15.Jul.2004 Macedonia admits assassination of illegal immigrants : Macedonian police confirmed on Sunday that six Pakistanis + one Indian, killed two years ago as "Mujahideen terrorists", were in fact illegal immigrants executed for political purposes by the government of the time. Battling "evil-doers" Begets Evil: Macedonian police commanders were dispatched to lure seven impoverished Muslim immigrants from Pakistan into their country. The van parked, the driver opened his door + fled, + a special terrorist unit of the police command opened fire, slaughtering all seven of the immigrants. 15.Jul.2004 The Selective Justice of USA And Its Allies: Is it any wonder that Israel continues to flout all the UN Security Council Resolutions that call for the Jewish state's withdrawal from the Palestinian land? As usual, where American interest is concerned, there is a set of rules for USA + its friends, + another set for the rest of the world Report concerning maltreated children in the torture-prison 15.Jul.2004 In case you missed it: USA Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive Chemical weapons antidotes shipped: New York + Boston, sites of the upcoming political conventions, are among the first areas to receive the "chem-packs." Sen. Ernest F Hollings: Now we know: It's our Mideast policy that's creating enemies: It's time to stop this wag of people "hating us" and against us "because of our values." It's not our values or people, but our Mideast policy they oppose. We need to return to evenhandedness and active negotiations in the Mideast. Israelis fire on UN food convoy: A UN Relief + Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) convoy delivering food to a besieged Palestinian town has come under Israeli fire in the occupied Gaza Strip. 15.Jul.2004 Europeans Refuse to Play Bin Laden Deadline Game: An ultimatum from Osama bin Laden to European governments will expire this week, but security officials say they do not see it as an immediate trigger for fresh attacks. Arms Spending Fueled by Iraq Conflict : World military spending 00.000.2003 increased by about 11% in real terms. " A remarkable rate of increase," it commented, coming after the 6.5% rise a year earlier. Spending 00.000.2003 reached $956 billion. The USA counts for almost half of the world total of military spending. Greg Palast: Black Voters Are Expendable : In the 2000 presidential election, 1.9 million Americans cast ballots that no one counted. "Spoiled votes" is the technical term. The pile of ballots left to rot has a distinctly dark hue: About 1 million of them -- half of the rejected ballots -- were cast by African Americans although black voters make up only 12 percent of the electorate. 'Potential felons' list that was scrapped cost Florida almost $2 million: It spent at least $125,000 in attorney fees to a GOP-linked law firm in a failed effort to keep the list secret, even though the state's chief lawyer, Attorney General Charlie Crist, said it was not worth defending. In case you missed it?: Hail To The Thief: Greg Palast: BBC Investigation Into How Voter Data Was Used To Prevent Democrats From Voting In The Last Presidential Elections. 15.Jul.2004 Advocates of War Now Profit From Iraq's Reconstruction : Lobbyists, aides to senior officials + others encouraged invasion + now help firms pursue contracts. They see no conflict. CIA's Acting Chief Says Threat Highest Since 11.Sep.2001 : "This is about as serious a threat environment as I have seen since 11.Sep.2001 ," said McLaughlin Danger Will Robinson! Osama has Nukes! : Williams’ book claims Osama has “six or seven” suitcase nukes already in-country + he’s biding his time, waiting for the right moment to light the match. “They want the most bang for the buck + that is nuclear,” Williams told NewsMax Iraq war 'a gift' to bin Laden, says CIA veteran: A CIA official who has written a book claiming the West is losing the global war on terrorism said in an interview on UK television today that the USA-led war in Iraq was a gift to Osama bin Laden. The Misunderstood Osama: How to read Imperial Hubris.: Osama Doesn't Hate Our Freedom Bush Rebounds on Terrorism : The survey found that 55 percent of all Americans currently approve of the way Bush is handling the campaign against terrorism, up 5 points in the past three weeks. 15.Jul.2004 'Open to doubt + seriously flawed': UK intelligence reports on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq war were "open to doubt" + "seriously flawed", the Butler Inquiry said today. Butler report: key findings : In 00.Mar.2002 the intelligence available was "insufficiently robust" to prove Iraq was in breach of the United Nations' resolutions. A failure of the system: A government cannot go to war on a false pretext. Either Blair apologises - or there must be a change of leader In case you missed it: British officers knew on eve of war that Iraq had no WMDs : UK intelligence learned just before war that Iraq had not assembled chemical weapons. Mossad "knew 45-minute claim was an old wives’ tale" - but did not tell UK or USA In case you missed it: Blair's secret weapon: A covert project, set up by the UK government, 'cherry-picked' intelligence to fit the hidden agenda of justifying war with Iraq, Bush + CIA Won't Release Paper on Prewar Intelligence: The White House + the Central Intelligence Agency have refused to give the Senate Intelligence Committee a one-page summary of prewar intelligence in Iraq prepared for President Bush that contains few of the qualifiers and none of the dissents spelled out in longer intelligence reviews Ray McGovern: The CIA and Iraq: An Intelligence Debacle...and Worse: In our various oral and written presentations on Iraq my veteran intelligence officer colleagues and I took no delight in sharply criticizing what we perceived to be the corruption of intelligence analysis at CIA. Nothing would have pleased us more than to have been proven wrong. It turns out we did not know the half of it. Torture as Due Process: After 11.Sep.2001 , the word of the president was supposedly the only protection that the rights and liberties of the American people needed. After 11.Sep.2001 , President Bush granted himself unlimited, unchecked power over anyone in the world suspected of being a terrorist. In case you missed it? : From Hitler to Bush : The editor of La República del Uruguay replies to the USA ambassador, Martin Silverstein, ( Uruguay ) who had complained about the comparisons the newspaper had drawn between Hitler and Bush. This is a must read Ten Reasons to Fire George W. Bush : And nine reasons why Kerry won't be much better Ted Rall: Boycott The Military: I'd rather sleep under a bridge, eating trash out of a Dumpster, than murder human beings for Halliburton. Bring My Brother Home!: Class, War and Education: "The way we fund education, that's at the heart of how this military recruits," said Erin Murphy, whose 20-year old brother is serving in Iraq. "Without that leverage they would not be able to recruit people in such numbers." URL: https://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO407C.html The URL of this article is: https://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO407C.html "... Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the USA in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... "This is sobering information about those who wish to do us harm... But every day we strengthen the security of our nation." (DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, 8 July 2004) Does this last announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge entail a code red emergency scenario of "closing down the country" (prior to the November elections) as conveyed by Secretary Ridge in a previous statement: "If we go to [code] Red ... it basically shuts down the country," (22 December 2003, emphasis added) Homeland Security and the White House no doubt have several "scenarios" in mind to "win" the presidential elections in November. (See Steven Moore, https://globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO407A.html ). Recent developments suggest that Homeland Security is indeed contemplating a code red alert. (See https://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO402A.html ). At the same time, the Bush Administration is also maneuvering cautiously behind the scenes, with a view to embedding formal "guidelines" into federal election procedures, which would allow for the cancellation or postponement of an election in the event of a terror attack. To reach their objective, the Bush Administration is using the jurisdiction of one of its bogus federal agencies, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) , established 00.000.2003 under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) Concurrent with Homeland Security's statement regarding the possibility of a large scale "11.Sep.2001 type attack", EAC director DeForest B. Soaries , a Bush appointee, has hinted to the need for: "establishing guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the USA again". "Look at the possibilities. If the federal government were to cancel an election or suspend an election, it has tremendous political implications. If the federal government chose not to suspend an election it has political implications... Who makes the call, under what circumstances is the call made, what are the constitutional implications?... I think we have to err on the side of transparency to protect the voting rights of the country... I'm hopeful that there are some proposals already being floated. If there are,! we're not aware of them. If there are not, we will probably try to put one on the table ... The states control elections, but on the national scale where every state has its own election laws and its own election chief, who's in charge?". (quoted in AP, 8 July 2004, emphasis added) What is important in this new initiative, is that if these so-called guidelines were to be adopted, the Administration would technically be able to postpone or cancel an election, "with the stroke of a pen" + without resorting to far-reaching emergency procedures and/or martial law. A temporary postponement might be considered by Republican strategists as a (desperate) propaganda ploy, for swinging votes away from the Kerry-Edwards ticket. Whether these guidelines will be accepted prior to November by the Democrats is, at this stage doubtful. The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is described as a "clearinghouse of voting information and procedures". The statements and news coverage seem to suggest that if guidelines on the postponement or cancellation of elections are to be formulated, they should emanate from the EAC, which has a (bipartisan) mandate under the USA Congress to oversee federal voting systems, rather than the DHS. But the EAC is an "informal arm" of the Department of Homeland Security. Both the DHS and the White House are indelibly behind the proposed "guidelines" initiative, calling the shots from behind the scenes. EAC Director Reverand DeForest "Buster" Soaries, a former Baptist minister, is a handpicked appointee. He was New Jersey Secretary of State under Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who is a political crony of Sec. Tom Ridge, going back to their days as GOP governors of the neighboring states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Todd Whitman was appointed by the Bush Admistration to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and has since then worked very closely with Tom Ridge in the domestic war on terror. The press reports suggest that DeForest "Buster" Soaries took the initiative on his own accord, acting on behalf of a federal governmental body. He has even complained: "that he was rebuffed when he wrote to Ridge seeking to discuss election security, including how to handle rescheduling the election if it were to be disrupted by an attack." (Associated Press, 9 July 2004). Secretary Tom Ridge has said that he is "against the guidelines." What he does not say is that various procedures have already been carefully worked out by Homeland Security analysts, who have simulated precise red code alert scenarios including situations, implying the cancellation or postponement of elections. (See https://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO402A.html ). Ridge says that "he doesn't agree with all of the conclusions in Soaries' letter, but the department is working on constitutional and security questions + Soaries will be involved in the process." (AP, 9 July 2004 ) Homeland Security is intent on establishing entrenched procedures under the EAC. The "guidelines" to postpone or suspend the elections could then be presented as a means to "protecting democracy" in the case of a terror attack. The setting of so-called "guidelines" at the level of an official body, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), would establish a "trigger mechanism" under the jurisdiction of a federal commission. A code red alert would contribute to activating the guidelines, although the latter could indeed be activated without resort to "the highest" terror alert level. E-Democracy or Electoral Fraud? The same Bush sponsored body, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which has hinted to the need for "guidelines" in the case of a terror attack, has also been pushing for the establishment in several states of the Diebold electronic voting system . Diebold is a black box system which very conveniently does not leave a paper trail. In other words, it does not leave a paper record of the vote. In fact: "all three black box computer manufacturers are Republican-led corporations actively involved in Bush’s re-election campaign." (Steve Moore, July 2004, https://globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO407A.html ). In June 2004, Diebold Inc, which is backing the Bush campaign, congratulated EAC Chairman DeForest Soaries for assisting Diebold in marketing is E-election system: We welcome the opportunity to provide input on these important issues and pledge our strong support to the EAC," said Mark G. Radke, director of marketing for Diebold Election Systems, Inc. 'This initiative by Chairman Soaries and the EAC will further increase voter confidence in the election process as election practices and procedures transition to more efficient, accurate technology," said Walden W. O'Dell, chairman and CEO of Diebold, Incorporated, the parent company of Diebold Election Systems." (Diebold News Release, https://www.diebold.com/news/newsdisp.asp?id=3083 ). Diebold's CEO Walden O'Dell confirmed in a subsequent interview that: "he has been a top fund-raiser for the Republican president, but said he intends to lower his political profile and "try to be more sensitive" in light of the national criticism he has faced. ... Because the fund-raising revelations fell closely on the heels of security questions raised about Diebold's machines in a later-questioned Johns Hopkins University study, O'Dell's critics began to suggest that Diebold should not be allowed to be involved in elections. (The Plain Dealer, 16 September 2003), Michel Chossudovsky is the author of War and Globalization, the Truth behind 11.Sep.2001 , Global Outlook, 2004 URL: https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FG14Ak01.html URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259861,00.html URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259861,00.html URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259861,00.html URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259861,00.html URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259861,00.html URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259861,00.html URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259861,00.html Tomorrow the Butler report will reopen the debate about who was to blame for the lies with which we went to war - the government or the intelligence agencies. One thing the news networks will not be discussing is the culpability of the news networks. After this inquiry, we will need another one, whose purpose is to discover why journalists help governments to lie to the people. URL: https://www.interventionmag.com/cms/print.php?sid=801&POSTNUKESID=38f5cda363ce2057c363754f88789eea URL: https://www.interventionmag.com/cms/print.php?sid=801&POSTNUKESID=38f5cda363ce2057c363754f88789eea When USA Foreign Policy Meets Biblical Prophecy: Does the Bible foretell regime change in Iraq? Did God establish Israel's boundaries millennia ago? Is the United Nations a forerunner of a satanic world order? For millions of Americans, the answer to all those questions is a resounding yes. For many believers in biblical prophecy, the Bush administration's go-it-alone foreign policy, hands-off attitude toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict + proposed war on Iraq are not simply actions in the national self-interest or an extension of the war on terrorism, but part of an unfolding divine plan. What is the message of the Christian Zionist? Simply stated it is this: Every act taken by Israel is orchestrated by God + should be condoned, supported + even praised by the rest of us. "Never mind what Israel does," say the Christian Zionists. "God wants this to happen." The Unannounced Reason Behind American Fundamentalism's Support for the State of Israel In order for most of today’s Christians to escape physical death, two-thirds of the Jews in Israel must perish, soon. This is the grim prophetic trade-off that fundamentalists rarely discuss publicly, but which is the central motivation in the movement’s support for Israel. It should be clear why they believe that Israel must be defended at all costs by the West. If Israel were militarily removed from history prior to the Rapture, then the strongest case for Christians’ imminent escape from death would have to be abandoned. This would mean the indefinite delay of the Rapture. The fundamentalist movement thrives on the doctrine of the imminent Rapture, not the indefinitely postponed Rapture. Has The Christian Message Been Corrupted ? Theology of the Land: A History of Dispensational Approaches Dispensationalism is one of the most influential theological systems within the universal church today. Largely unrecognised and subliminal, it has increasingly shaped the presuppositions of fundamentalist, evangelical, Pentecostal and charismatic thinking concerning Israel and Palestine over the past one hundred and fifty years. URL: https://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040712/index.php URL: https://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040712/index.php Vice President Dick Cheney, who probably should see a psychologist as well as a cardiologist, continues to claim a connection, but what he calls a connection is one or two meetings in a period of years from which nothing ever came. If a mere meeting is a ," then all of us have connections with every human being we've ever met, however briefly. This is another example of language abuse. Another architect of the illegal war, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, still coyly claims that just because we haven't found the weapons doesn't mean they don't exist. That's true. We haven't found any Martians, either, but perhaps they do exist, perhaps even in the offices of the Pentagon. It's always been hard to prove a negative. This is an administration of sick puppies whose minds are haunted by lust for power, ideological phantoms and a profound contempt for the American people. A willingness to deceive is always proof of contempt. Hopefully, in November, a majority of Americans will decide that this administration, like its illegal war, isn't worth re-electing. URL: https://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/07/13/recovering_a_hijacked_faith?mode=PF URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/us/story/0,12271,1259028,00.html George Fernandes appears to have quietly swallowed the post-11.Sep.2001 humiliation, recounting his experiences only in New Delhi this February to a private USA group that included Mr Talbott, who tells the tale in a new book. On an official USA visit in 2002 + en route to Brazil 00.000.2003 - the ageing politician, who likes to wear a kurta (baggy long shirt ), was strip-searched by USA immigration. "He seemed to enjoy our stupefaction at this tale," writes Mr Talbott. "He and other Indians who later referred to the incident clearly regarded it as more than merely a lapse of protocol or just another example of the post-11.Sep.2001 excesses for the sake of security. "They saw it as a symptom of a deep-rooted condescension, or worse, on the part of the west toward the east." URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6474.htm Der heute 61 Jahre alte Pfahls galt als Vertrauter des langjährigen bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten Franz Josef Strauß (CSU), dessen Sohn Max Strauß nun vor Gericht steht. Zeitungsberichten zugolge hoffen die Verteidiger von Max Strauß, Pfahls könne ihren Mandanten entlasten URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,308632,00.html URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,308675,00.html URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,308725,00.html URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,308725,00.html URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,308725,00.html URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,308725,00.html URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,308725,00.html 14.Jul.2004 Partei-Krise: Clement sieht SPD in "verteufelt schwerer Zeit" 14.Jul.2004 Heute in den Feuilletons: "Bastion der Abriegelung" 14.Jul.2004 Report über Geheimdienst-Pannen: Bericht entlastet Tony Blair 14.Jul.2004 Report zum Irak-Krieg: Blair räumt Fehler ein (Politik 14.Jul.2004 Ostdeutschland-Studie: Aufbruch der Zonenkinder (Politik 14.Jul.2004 USA: Bayer akzeptiert Millionenstrafe wegen Preisabsprachen (Wirtschaft, 14.Jul.2004 Angst vor Entführung: Staatsanwalt trägt Ortungs-Chip im Arm 14.Jul.2004 Dinosaurier-Knochen: Riesenechse bricht Europarekord 14.Jul.2004 Homo-Ehe: Rückschlag für USA-Präsident Bush 14.Jul.2004 "Ocean's Twelve": Mafia wollte Pitt und Zeta-Jones erpressen 14.Jul.2004 SUPER SIZE ME" Angriff der Killer-Burger 14.Jul.2004 Zuchtpläne eines Neonazis: Germanen im Glas 14.Jul.2004 REPORT ÜBER GEHEIMDIENST-PANNEN Bericht entlastet Tony Blair URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5115.htm This just in: More irrefutable proof that Dubya's is the slimiest administration in 100 years URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5115.htm Yes, Bill Clinton lied, too. He lied about stupid adulterous sex. And the GOP savaged him like rabid feral swine attacking a rutabaga. Had him impeached over it. Loathe him still + his wife, too, with unprecedented level of hatred and bile and vicious litigious action never before seen in this nation. No such fate for BushCo. Shockingly, the GOP isn't the slightest bit upset about this pro-corporate, oil-drunk administration's deadly string of lies. Shall we wonder why? Or is it just too poisonous and sad to consider for very long, lest the intellect curdle and the soul recoil? OK, I'll spell it out: George W. Bush and his entire senior administration lied + continue to lie, flagrantly, openly, knowingly, with full intent, about the need to drive this nation into a brutal and unwinnable and fiscally debilitating war, one that protects no one and inhibits no terrorism and defends nothing but BushCo's own petrochemical cronies and political stratagems. This much is obvious. This much is painfully, crushingly sad. And this much we must purge like so much clotted gunk from the collective social artery one year from now. Otherwise, we should just turn in our stained and bloody Superpower badge + resign ourselves to our fate. URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5115.htm URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5115.htm Do you need to be reminded? Do you need to see it again? Very good, then. Let us recap: No WMDs. Biggest joke on the American public in the past 50 years. Saddam doesn't have 'em + probably never did. Over 1,400 of BushCo's own investigators and specialists and scientists -- affectionately known as the Iraq Survey Group -- canvassing postwar Iraq for six months, not to mention the teams of original U.N. investigators, and finding not a trace of anything resembling huge stockpiles of massive scary weaponry. Which is to say, no nukes. No biotoxins. No big cannons full of scary Korans and rusty bullets and old gum. Nothing at all resembling what Condi Rice and Cheney and Rummy and Wolfowitz, et al., said were absolutely positively no question going to be found any day now because after all that's why we went to war. Except that it wasn't. And they knew it. To paraphrase The Washington Post: Among the judgments of the above-mentioned Iraq Survey Group, as overseen by David Kay, who reports directly to CIA Director George Tenet, are these: Iraq's nuclear-weapons scientists did no significant arms-related work after 1991. Also, all those facilities with suspicious new construction (remember Colin "Emasculated" Powell's bogus satellite photos?) proved benign + of no military use whatsoever. This is not speculation. This is not liberal wishful thinking. These are facts. And BushCo knew them. And more. URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20040712db.htm URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20040712db.htm URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20040712db.htm Hussein was a cruel dictator, a thug who deserves to be tried and punished. But that does not make him unique. Nor does it justify the USA and its allies going to war. The American people must hold the Bush administration accountable for taking the country into war on a lie. URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20040712db.htm In fact, the administration seems to be positioning itself to manipulate coverage of the trial. At Hussein's hearing, USA officials ordered pool reporters to disconnect their audio equipment when the former dictator was speaking URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20040712db.htm Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of "large, unaccounted-for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons -- including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas; anthrax, botulism + possibly smallpox." Bush claimed that "we found biological laboratories." Powell pointed to unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, that "are well suited for dispensing chemical and biological weapons." In fact, the administration charged that UAVs could hit American cities. Alas, all of these claims have proved to be false. Of course, maybe someone will eventually find something, as Hussein seemed to preserve program elements in the hopes of a future revival. But that isn't the same thing. Said David Kay, who ran USA's Iraq Survey Group: "It clearly does not look like a massive, resurgent program, based on what we discovered." URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20040712db.htm The Bush administration's strategy is clear: After taking the USA into war-based on a lie, get Americans to forget the lie. Playing the humanitarian card just won't do. The administration was blissfully unconcerned about mass graves before 11.Sep.2001 . There were no plans to oust Hussein and end his tyranny even as his security forces continued to arrest, torture + murder people. Moreover, after preparing for war, Bush offered to call off the attack if Hussein went into exile. Hauling Hussein into court and creating Western-style democracy were dispensable objectives. The supposedly charity-minded administration has done nothing about millions of dead in Congo, starvation and civil war in Sudan, and ongoing Russian brutality in Chechnya, to name just a few humanitarian catastrophes around the globe. 14.Jul.2004 Doubts on Informant Deleted in Senate Text : Among the passages deleted from the public version of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Iraq is a detailed assessment that casts doubt on the credibility of an Iraqi defector whose claims about Iraq's mobile biological weapons laboratories have been discredited, according to government officials. COMPLETE REPORT ON THE USA INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S PREWAR INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS ON IRAQ: .pdf format 13.7 Mb Bush goes to work with the whitewash: The Bush administration's strategy is clear: After taking the USA into war-based on a lie, get Americans to forget the lie. Playing the humanitarian card just won't do. The Incredible Lying BushCo : This just in: More irrefutable proof that Dubya's is the slimiest administration in 100 years. Like you even needed more proof. USA -- we need to talk. : I hate to say this, but it looks as if Bush is only here for the killing. He's finally found something he's good at and so far -- thanks to target-eyed flag-waving Americans -- destroying all those who are either with us or with the enemy has been as easy as sticking firecrackers in a frog's mouth. A must read 14.Jul.2004 Indian minister strip-searched in USA : India's former defence minister was twice strip-searched at Washington airport while on official business, according to the former USA deputy secretary of state, Strobe Talbott. 14.Jul.2004 Recovering a hijacked faith: How did the faith of Jesus come to be known as pro-rich, pro-war, and pro-American? What has happened? How do we get back to a historic, biblical + genuinely evangelical faith rescued from its contemporary distortions? 14.Jul.2004 Charley Reese: Legal Nonsense: I love the sharp tongue of the British. A former legal adviser to the British Foreign Office has said George Bush's war on terrorism is "legal nonsense" and confers no more power on the USA to detain people than the war against obesity. 14.Jul.2004 In case you missed it: Bush, Blair, Zionism, Armageddon and the corruption of Christianity 14.Jul.2004 The USA Has Lost its Moral Authority: Iraq , as a threat to the USA , was all contrived. Richard Clarke stated in his book, Against All Enemies, with John McLaughlin of the CIA confirming, that there was no evidence or intelligence of "Iraqi support for terrorism against the USA " from 1993 until 2003 when we invaded. Blair on the rack as spy chiefs attack Iraq claims : BRITAIN's intelligence community united today in a series of astonishing attacks on Tony Blair and his handling of the run-up to war in Iraq. 14.Jul.2004 Red Cross says U-S may be holding detainees in secret locations : The International Red Cross fears U-S officials are holding terror suspects secretly in locations around the world. 14.Jul.2004 Homeland Security Confirms Election Delay Talks: The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that the Bush administration has discussed possibly delaying the November presidential election if there is a new terrorist attack. Could Bush Cancel the Election?: The Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security have begun examining ways to postpone November's presidential election in the event of an attack near election day. This according to a report in Newsweek. Bush Administration "Guidelines" for Postponing or Canceling the November Presidential Elections 14.Jul.2004 Israel up against the wall : People who attack the World Court for its July 9 opinion on the Israeli wall in the Occupied Territories should beware. 14.Jul.2004 Greasing up to power : A USA comedian brings us closer to the truth than the BBC. Most of our journalists fail us 14.Jul.2004 You Calling Me An Unpatriotic Wimp? : When Americans opposed to Bush are called unpatriotic wimps, a disabled veteran in a wheelchair goes on the attack. 14.Jul.2004 "No one is going through what we are going through": Sgt. Reggie Butler saw his gunner buddy die inches away from him as they patrolled in Sadr City. "I'll do everything I can to bring all the soldiers back," he says. "Anything." |