“Hence, loathed War Criminal,
of Cerberus and blackest midnight born,
in Stygian cave forlorn,
‘mongst horrid shapes and shrieks
and sights unholy.

“Find out some uncouth cell,
where brooding Darkness
spreads his jealous wings
and the night raven sings.



“There, under ebon shades
and low-browed rocks,
as ragged as thy locks,
in dark Cimmerian desert
ever dwell.

( Apologies to Milton )

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The actual word used by Chaves was “sulfre”.
“Azufre” we found in the dictionary. Our bad.

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PNAC FOR BEGINNERS

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/PNAC_101

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From Captain Jack, via email. Thanks! Keep up the good work!

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Your News Choices in Washington DC: War-Mongering Israel-Firster Washington Post, or Insane “Mooney Times”

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003156107

‘Wash Post’ Endorses Lieberman for Senate—

While Hitting War on Front Page

By E&P Staff

Published: September 23, 2006 11:45 PM ET

NEW YORK The Washington Post’s editorial page endorsed Sen. Joe Lieberman for re-election in his third-party Connecticut U.S. Senate race on Sunday, saying that even though he lost the Democratic primary—and Republican leaders are now backing him—his victory in November would still be the best thing for his party.

The Post, like Lieberman, is a strong backer of the Iraq war. Lieberman lost to an antiwar candidate, Ned Lamont.

The Post noted that “the critical question facing voters in November, as opposed to party leaders now, is who would make the better senator—which is why we welcome Mr. Lieberman’s decision to remain in the race. He would be, by far, the better choice for the people of Connecticut.” It even asserted that Lieberman had been making “sharp criticism” of the president on the war for years—likely a surprise to most Democratic voters in the state.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html

September 24, 2006

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War

Worsens Terror Threat

By MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.

The report “says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,” said one American intelligence official.

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from an alert message board poster:

The Most Bizarre Justification

... in history for launching a war of aggression came out of Bush’s lips on August 21, 2006, when he justified the war against Iraq as a way of removing “resentment” and “lack of hope”. On top of that, he admitted that: 1) Saddam had no WMDs, and, 2) Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on 9-11-01. Here are his words:

Now, look, part of the reason we went into Iraq was—the main reason we went into Iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn’t, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction. But I also talked about the human suffering in Iraq, and I also talked the need to advance a freedom agenda. And so my question—my answer to your question is, is that, imagine a world in which Saddam Hussein was there, stirring up even more trouble in a part of the world that had so much resentment and so much hatred that people came and killed 3,000 of our citizens.

You know, I’ve heard this theory about everything was just fine until we arrived, and kind of “we’re going to stir up the hornet’s nest” theory. It just doesn’t hold water, as far as I’m concerned. The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.

Q What did Iraq have to do with that?

THE PRESIDENT: What did Iraq have to do with what?

Q The attack on the World Trade Center?

THE PRESIDENT: Nothing, except for it’s part of—and nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq was a—the lesson of September the 11th is, take threats before they fully materialize, Ken. Nobody has ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq. I have suggested, however, that resentment and the lack of hope create the breeding grounds for terrorists who are willing to use suiciders to kill to achieve an objective. I have made that case. 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060821.html

So now we wage war on people, kill their sons in battle, bomb and then occupy their cities, fire their civil servants, jail their citizens in their own land, torture them to confess that they don’t like us, dictate their form of government and the structure of their economy, and build permanent military bases in their country.

AND WE DO ALL THIS TO ELIMINATE RESENTMENT AND LACK OF HOPE. Absolutely astonishing rationalization. In all of human history, this takes the cake.

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Medea ( San Francisco ), Timothy ( Indiana ), Eric ( Wash DC )

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Jesus Camp : Kids Worshipping to a George Bush Picture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co1_9lR9EpM

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Left to Right: Romanian, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew

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Armitage, The ISI and 911 Hijacker…

Mohammed Atta.

“If the 9-11 Commission is really looking for a smoking gun, it should look no further than at Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Ahmad, the director of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) at the time. In early October 2001, Indian intelligence learned that Mahmoud had ordered flamboyant Saeed Sheikh – the convicted mastermind of the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl – to wire US$100,000 from Dubai to one of hijacker Mohamed Atta’s two bank accounts in Florida….”

http://www.btinternet.com/nlpwessex/Documents/armitageISIatta.htm

_{“Pakistan’s chief spy Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad “was in the US when the attacks occurred.” He arrived in the US on the 4th of September, a full week before the attacks. He had meetings at the State Department “after” the attacks on the WTC. But he also had “a regular visit of consultations” with his US counterparts at the CIA and the Pentagon during the week prior to September 11.}

_{What was the nature of these routine “pre-September 11 consultations”? Were they in any way related to the subsequent “post-September 11 consultations” pertaining to Pakistan’s decision to cooperate with Washington. Was the planning of war being discussed between Pakistani and US officials?”}

_{http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html}

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_{CODEPINK activists}

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_{Purchase a Psychological Profile
of ANYONE}

They Own You

_{Based mainly on their entries in chat rooms and message boards and
on relationships and purchases.}

_{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abika_Test
http://www.abika.com}

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_{CODEPINK and friends}

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Wingnuts at Family Research Council

Just Had a Convention Here in Washington,

_{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council}

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_{Timothy from Indiana. An experienced and effective activist.
Glad to have him in Washington.}

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_{THEY RULE A Graphic Representation of the
"Powers that Be"}

_{http://www.theyrule.net/theyrule.html}

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The War Against Democracy


Bush Thinks History Started in 2001, but Victims of American Imperialism Have Longer Memories



Here in Washington DC
September 21, 1976
Orlando Letelier was
Blown to Smithereens
By Fascist Tools of
Henry Kissinger



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Letelier

_{Orlando Letelier del Solar (1932 April 13 – 1976 September 21), was a member of the government of Chile. He was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by Chilean DINA agents in 1976. His murder prompted the United States to discontinue its support for Operation Condor.}

_{In 1971, Letelier was appointed ambassador to the United States by Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile. In 1973, Letelier served as Foreign Minister, and then Defense Minister. Then U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during the administration of President Nixon engaged in an effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile, which led to the Chilean coup of 1973 that brought Pinochet to power. The Nixon administration firmly backed Pinochet’s military dictatorship.}

Operation Condor

BushTards think history started in 2001, but you had better believe that Chavez, Morales, Lula, and Bachelet remember Operation Condor
and know all about the


School of the Americas

The school is frequently cited as an example of United States' alleged support for regimes in Latin America that have a history of employing death squads and otherwise infringing upon human rights. The school has attempted to rectify this by introducing courses that cover democracy and human rights topics; however, many have alleged that these classes are only taken by a few students and that the minimum of eight hours of ethical instruction mandated by recent law is not high enough to be effective.


John Negroponte

This only happens in places far removed from America...right?

John Negroponte

Bonus Points:

The American/British War Against Democracy in Iran

Operation Ajax, 1953

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_{BUSH CAN’T PARDON HIMSELF !}

_{from an alert message board poster}

_{It’s interesting that Bush, or any future President, could clearly underatke to pardon any CIA interrogator or decision maker who ordered some form of interrogation that would be deemed absolutely necessary in an emergency situation.}

_{So why is the RETROACTIVE “amnesty” portion of the Bill included? If the events of the case was such that a measure was undertaken by someone clearly attempting to get critical information, under pressure (think Jack on “24”) then a President could take the heat and offer a Pardon.}

_{But what’s clear is that this element of the bill gives a blanket amnesty for just about every case of torture, AND it protects the President himself from the threat of Congress regarding his decisions as an impeachable offense…or subsequently prosecutable!!!}

_{It’s his own get out of jail free card…a President can’t pardon himself…and a subsequent President may deem his acts so reprehensible and irrational that he might not do so!}

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<sub>THOSE DEATH SQUADS:
SURE LOOK A LOT LIKE
OLD JOHN NEGROPONTE’S WORK


Chief of USA Secret Police
and Death Squad Specialist
John Negroponte</sub>

_{An Army ranger speaks about killing 200 people execution}

_{style (women and children).}

_{http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5587990522549547050}

_{Once a POW talks to the Red Cross
and says, “The Americans put me on a waterboard and I nearly died,”}

_{Bush and his Masters and Minions will be indicted as war criminals by an international body acting on behalf of the Geneva Convention, most likely the Hague whether we have an agreement with them or not.}

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_{Excellent new sign in Turkish! Tesshakur, colleagues!}

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_{http://www.theocracywatch.org/}

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<sub>All Hat, No Cattle


We warned you! Look back at our 1999,
pre-primary assessment of George W. Bush</sub>

_{PAUL ALEXANDER}

_{George W. Bush was head cheerleader in prep school, a hard-partying frat rat and mediocre student at Yale. After skirting the draft in 1968, he failed at business three times, got bailed out by powerful friends, made a fortune at taxpayer expense and became the popular but weak governor of Texas, an evangelical Christian who preaches morality but ducks questions about his own past. And now he might be president?}

_{http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6482734/all_hat_no_cattle/}

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_{This is not Aristotles' Greek!
Not for the faint of heart!}

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_{http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/116}

_{Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 09/20/2006 – 12:12pm. Alerts}

Bush Closes EPA Libaries
Without Approval from Congress:

Will Gut Research and Cost Millions.

Why Does He Hate Science?

Why Does He Embrace Ignorance?

_{The Bush Administration’s decision to reduce EPA funding and eliminate several scientific research libraries has been challenged by Democratic House Ranking Members Bart Gordon, John Dingell, and Henry Waxman in a letter to the GAO. “We have grace concerns of this plan on the EPA’s ability to protect the environment, and we question whether the plan will actually save the government money,” they wrote.}

_{President Bush’s proposed 2007 budget slashed 80% of the funding for the library network, which contains 50,000 unique documents not found elsewhere along with vast resources relied upon by agency staff, scientists in academia and industry, and the general public. The EPA has already begun preemptively closing facilities despite the fact that Congress has yet to actually approve the president’s budget. By September 30, 15 states will have lost their libraries, and other states will begin losing hours and services.}

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_{Bush on a Stick. Props by CODEPINK}

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Timothy came all the way from Indiana,
Went to visit his "representative" and
refused to leave until they were heard.
From what I understand, that means "SIT IN"
with twenty some people. Mad Props out to YOU
My Brother!

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_{Some rather impolite Polish! LMAO!}

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_{From
Jewish Voice for Peace}

http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

_{[JPN Commentary : Even saying that the fields are sown with cluster bombs is an understatement, since the bomblets are embedded in trees, are on roofs, are everywhere outdoors…And because they are small, it’s hard to see them before it’s too late. This is beyond enraging and horrifying. I can’t conjure up any kind of rational thinking which would allow the meting out of such punishment on anyone. – RG]}

_{Deadly harvest:} 

_{The Lebanese fields sown} 

_{with cluster bombs}

_{By Patrick Cockburn in Nabatiyeh}

_{18 September 2006}

_{http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1616665.ece}

_{The Independent}

_{The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more.}

_{The casualty figures will rise sharply in the next month as villagers begin the harvest, picking olives from trees whose leaves and branches hide bombs that explode at the smallest movement. Lebanon’s farmers are caught in a deadly dilemma: to risk the harvest, or to leave the produce on which they depend to rot in the fields.}

_{In a coma in a hospital bed in Nabatiyeh lies Hussein Ali Ahmad, a 70-year-old man from the village of Yohmor. He was pruning an orange tree outside his house last week when he dislodged a bomblet; it exploded, sending pieces of shrapnel into his brain, lungs and kidneys. “I know he can hear me because he squeezes my hand when I talk to him,” said his daughter, Suwad, as she sat beside her father’s bed in the hospital.}

_{At least 83 people have been killed by cluster munitions since the ceasefire, according to independent monitors. Some Israeli officers are protesting at the use of cluster bombs, each containing 644 small but lethal bomblets, against civilian targets in Lebanon. A commander in the MLRS (multiple launch rocket systems) unit told the Israeli daily Haaretz that the army had fired 1,800 cluster rockets, spraying 1.2 million bomblets over houses and fields. “In Lebanon, we covered entire villages with cluster bombs,” he said. “What we did there was crazy and monstrous.” What makes the cluster bombs so dangerous is that 30 per cent of the bomblets do not detonate on impact. They can lie for years – often difficult to see because of their small size, on roofs, in gardens, in trees, beside roads or in rubbish – waiting to explode when disturbed.}

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_{A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferencz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting “aggressive” wars—Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq.}

_{“Nuremberg declared that aggressive war is the supreme international crime,” the 87-year-old Ferencz told OneWorld from his home in New York. He said the United Nations charter, which was written after the carnage of World War II, contains a provision that no nation can use armed force without the permission of the UN Security Council.}

_{Ferencz said that after Nuremberg the international community realized that every war results in violations by both sides, meaning the primary objective should be preventing any war from occurring in the first place. He said the atrocities of the Iraq war—from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of dozens of civilians by U.S. forces in Haditha to the high number of civilian casualties caused by insurgent car bombs—were highly predictable at the start of the war.}

_{“Every war will lead to attacks on civilians,” he said. “Crimes against humanity, destruction beyond the needs of military necessity, rape of civilians, plunder—that always happens in wartime. So my answer personally, after working for 60 years on this problem and [as someone] who hates to see all these young people get killed no matter what their nationality, is that you’ve got to stop using warfare as a means of settling your disputes.”}

_{Ferencz believes the most important development toward that end would be the effective implementation of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is located in The Hague, Netherlands. The court was established in 2002 and has been ratified by more than 100 countries. It is currently being used to adjudicate cases stemming from conflict in Darfur, Sudan and civil wars in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.}

_{But on May 6, 2002—less than a year before the invasion of Iraq—the Bush administration withdrew the United States’ signature on the treaty and began pressuring other countries to approve bilateral agreements requiring them not to surrender U.S. nationals to the ICC.}

_{Three months later, George W. Bush signed a new law prohibiting any U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court. The law went so far as to include a provision authorizing the president to “use all means necessary and appropriate,” including a military invasion of the Netherlands, to free U.S. personnel detained or imprisoned by the ICC.}

_{That’s too bad, according to Ferencz. If the United States showed more of an interest in building an international justice system, they could have put Saddam Hussein on trial for his 1990 invasion of Kuwait.}

_{“The United Nations authorized the first Gulf War and authorized all nations to take whatever steps necessary to keep peace in the area,” he said. “They could have stretched that a bit by seizing the person for causing the harm. Of course, they didn’t do that and ever since then I’ve been bemoaning the fact that we didn’t have an International Criminal Court at that time.”}

_{http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/138319/1/}

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_{WASHINGTON DC—Senator Bill Frist (R–TN) introduced a controversial new bill Tuesday that would severely limit the ability of sharks to “mutilate the institution of marriage until it is completely unrecognizable.”}

_{“For too long, we’ve stood by as our most sacred institution has been thrashed, bit by bit, by these amoral predators,” said Frist at a press conference, standing in front of a detailed diagram of a great white shark. “Marriage is a union between one man and one woman, and no shark should come between them with its powerful jaws and massive dorsal fin.”}

_{Bill S-691, also known as The Protection Of Marital Extremities Act, was co-sponsored by Mel Martinez (R–FL), who said that, as a devoted husband, he would not want his own 25-year marriage to be split to pieces by a shark, and hinted that opponents of the bill were in fact aiding the fish in their “murderous ways.”} 

_{( I think we swiped this from "The Onion" )}

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_{“Stuck in Middle East With A Buffoon”
sing along:
Well I don’t know how we lost all our might.
We had the feeling that something ain’t right.
Cons so scared in case they soil chimpie’s lap,
and wondering how to get some oil from Iraq.}

_{Clowns to the left of us,
Jokers to the right,
Here we are
Stuck in the Middle East with Baboon}

_{Yes we’re stuck in the middle with the Baboon,
and we’re wondering what it is we should do.
Losing control yeah – they’re all over the place.
It’s so hard to fly a plane off a base.}

_{Clowns to the left of us,
Jokers to the right,
Here we are
Stuck in the Middle East with a Buffoon}

_{Well he started off with everything
and was proud to be a self-made failure
yeah
and then his enemies came knocking,
slapped his giggly a$$ and said
Freeze . . .
Freeze . . .
Trying to make some sense of it all}

_{but I can see that it makes no sense at all.
Is it cool to ask for help from Al Gore?}

_{We don’t think that we can take anymore.}

_{Clowns to the left of us,
Jokers to the right,
Here we are
Stuck in the Middle East with Baboon
Here we are
Stuck in the Middle East with Baboon
Stuck in the Middle East with a Buffoon
Withdrawal’s long overdue
Stuck in Middle East .. with a Fool}

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_{posted by an alert message board denizen}

_{Let me get this straight,}

_{“The two sides remained at odds over how to adhere to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and at the same time allow the CIA to conduct effective interrogations.” The Supreme Court Has already Ruled NO GEORGE. Generals have said attemps to alter or void the War Powers Act and Geneva Conventions is madness.}

_{“Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., said “progress was being made in good faith,” while Majority Leader Bill Frist said he hoped to vote on a final measure by the end of next week.”}

_{Rush it through if possible right? That is why the CIA is taking out Legal Insurance.
Also have to try to protect Bush and Company from Prosecution right?}

_{Alberto is busy,}

_{Gonzales knows wire tapping America is illegal and still he tries to make the ISP’s retain records for Domestic Spying purposes, under the guise of “fighting pornography” as of late. Another way to attempt to “Leagalize After The Fact”, laws he is willfully violating.}

_{A Federal Judge has told BUSH TO STOP and does he? NO.}

_{These are Impeachable Offenses.}

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_{This guy is COMPLETELY innocent and both the US and Candian governemtns now admit it...after destroying his life. Read on.}

_{The Syrian-born Mr. Maher Arar was seized on Sept. 26, 2002, after he landed at Kennedy Airport in New York on his way home from a holiday in Tunisia. On Oct. 8, he was flown to Jordan in an American government plane and taken overland to Syria, where he says he was held for 10 months in a tiny cell and beaten repeatedly with a metal cable. He was freed in October 2003, after Syrian officials concluded that he had no connection to terrorism and returned him to Canada.}

_{Mr. Arar’s case attracted considerable attention in Canada, where critics viewed it as an example of the excesses of the campaign against terror that followed the Sept. 11 attacks. The practice of rendition has caused an outcry from human rights organizations as “outsourcing torture,” because suspects often have been taken to countries where brutal treatment of prisoners is routine.}

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_{Bush said that he supports and abides by the Universal Declartion of Human Rights. So, I took a look at it.}

_{It doesn’t appear that he supports any of it. In truth, from his perspective, it’s just another goddamned piece of paper, just like that pesky Constitution.}

_{Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.}

_{Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.}

_{Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.}

_{Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.}

_{Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.}

_{Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.}

_{Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.}

_{Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.}

_{Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.}

_{Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.}

_{read more if you can stomach it.}

_{http://www.un.org/rights/50/decla.htm}

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_{“A voluntary millitary has only two paths. It can lower standards to fill its ranks. Or it can inspire the best and brightest to join and stay.” -George W. Bush, A Charge To Keep (1999)}

_{(09-16-06) The Pentagon’s 12-Step Program to Create a Misfit Military: Iraq is driving down the number of new enlistees, and in desperation recruiters are bringing in a motley mix of underage teens, foreign fighters, neo-Nazis, and ex-cons.}

_{http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/41685/}

_{Maybe if the Decider and his merry band of duckpeakers weren’t chickenhawks they would understand things a little better.}

_{( text borrowed from message board )}

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German: "Shave Your Bush!"

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_{http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_econindicators_income20050831}

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_{If this article does not make your blood boil, your not human! THE GOP/BUSH has got to be stopped….}

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_{http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003262370_iraqcpa17.html}

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_{A Show That Trumpeted History} 

_{but Led to Confusion}

_{By EDWARD WYATT}

_{http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/business/media/18abc.html?th&emc=th}

_{It’s little wonder that ABC’s mini-series “The Path to 9/11” drew stinging criticism earlier this month for its invented scenes, fabricated dialogue and unsubstantiated accounts of how the Clinton and Bush administrations conducted themselves in the years encompassing the World Trade Center attacks of 1993 and 2001.}

_{A more puzzling question is why ABC spent $30 million on what, since it lacked commercials, amounted to a five-hour public service announcement.}

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_{Wolfowitz=Evil}

StopTheWall.org Press Release

Campaign Head Office: +972-2-2971505 Campaign Fax: +972-2-2975123
Campaign E-Mail: Mobilize@StopTheWall.org

_{September 20, 2006}

World Bank Proposes Oiling the Prison Gates of the Occupation
Wolfie, in whatever job he has, makes Israeli Tyranny his Top Priority

_{The World Bank has issued a report calling for the Israeli occupation to improve the operation of its apartheid mechanisms in Palestine.}

_{As part of the the Week of Global Actions Against International Financial Institutions (14th-20th of September) the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign have issued Oiling the Prison Gates of the Occupation a full length response to Bank’s recommendations.}

_{In a statement released with their report, Stop The Wall said:}

_{The ‘solutions’ proposed by the Bank would guarantee a permanent Zionist occupation of Palestine. In glaring violation of the decision of the International Court of Justice on the illegality of the Wall and any aid or assistance to the regime created by it, the World Bank continues to strategize for its sustainability.}

_{“Among other things, the Bank recommends ‘Israelis only’ roads in the West Bank, investment in a more efficient and entrenched checkpoint system and the introduction of new scanning technologies.}

_{Rather than suggest that Israel should comply with international law and call for an end to the Occupation the Bank demands that Palestinians give up their struggle in order to facilitate the World Bank plans in the West Bank and Gaza, with the onus placed on the PA to create a climate of goodwill among Palestinians in the face of ongoing aggression. The question of how to ensure that Palestinians can protect themselves from occupation, expulsion and apartheid is ignored.}

_{The Bank advises that Palestinians should put aside concerns about national liberation and defer ‘final status’ issues to some unspecified future date. It implies that if the ongoing Occupation can be made less painful to Palestinians, there can be some degree of normalisation between Zionism and the Palestinian people, a degree of economic improvement and an environment in which international capital can flourish.}

_{The World Bank seemingly does not understand that for Palestinians it is not good enough a reason that the bank has solidly integrated the Zionist “security” propaganda in its work to give up the struggle for their land and rights.}

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_{September 19, 2006}

_{Gore Calls for Immediate Freeze on Heat-Trapping Gas Emissions}

_{By ANDREW C. REVKIN}

_{Former Vice President Al Gore called yesterday for a popular movement in the United States to seek an “immediate freeze” in heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases linked by most scientists to global warming.}

_{Speaking at the New York University law school, Mr. Gore said that rising temperatures posed an enormous threat and that only a movement akin to the nuclear freeze campaign for arms control a generation ago, which he said he opposed at the time, would push elected officials out of longstanding deadlock on the issue.}

_{“Merely engaging in high-minded debates about theoretical future reductions while continuing to steadily increase emissions represents a self-delusional and reckless approach,” Mr. Gore said. “In some ways, that approach is worse than doing nothing at all, because it lulls the gullible into thinking that something is actually being done, when in fact it is not.”}

_{Bush has opposed requiring cuts in heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide}

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Vigil at Walter Reed Hospital

Every Friday 7-9 PM 

For all the soldiers inside that were maimed

in the imperial war

Walter Reed Vigil

From the Organizers of the Vigil:

Status Report

 

About forty participants showed up for the vigil this past Friday evening. Thanks are due to all. It is a tribute to the reality that many of us in the Peace Movement will not forget our brothers and sisters in the armed services, those wounded during their service and those still deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

It was a spirited night at the vigil. Many of the participants this Friday were in Washington for the Camp Democracy and Declaration of Peace events. We continue to receive enthusiastic support from people driving by and neighborhood people.

 

We know there are still some people who misunderstand the Walter Reed Vigil. We invite those people to attend the vigil any Friday evening to see the truth. We are not the blood-dancing ogres some writers depict us to be. There is a reason why the recovering soldiers and staff at Walter Reed appreciate our presence, and there is a reason why the Bush Administration wants us to go away. Why are our sisters and brothers in the Peace Movement hostile to our Vigil?

 

Those who connect Code Pink with the vigil should understand that while Code Pink activists played a big role at the start, and some continue to participate actively in the Vigil, the Walter Reed Vigil has grown far beyond Code Pink. Participants in the vigil are members of many different groups, including veterans groups, labor, Gray Panthers, and DC Anti-war Network. Many are simply individuals who care. No one except the participants direct the Vigil. Anyone looking for someone to attack—attack us.

 

We are a non-violent vigil for peace. We call for all the troops to come home now—immediately. We call for those who served to receive full care and benefits. We are a stubborn lot. We will continue to hold our vigil, Friday evenings, 7-9pm, without fail. The war and occupation has not ended. Our reason for being here is not over.

 

Friday, September 22, 2006, in front of Walter Reed Army Medical Center:

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We had the good fortune to meet
Howard Zinn
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9/11 Truth Movement

Gaining Momentum Every Day

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_{More at:}

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http://www.911truth.org/links.php}

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_{Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder-A Glimpse Into Israeli Collective Psychosis}

_{By Gilad Atzmon}

_{The Israelis somehow fail to read the message on the wall. Rather than looking at the mirror and spotting out their obvious faults that have already matured into severe moral bankruptcy, the Israelis prefer total submission to the materialist fantasy of Nuclear Judeocide.}

_{http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15015.htm}

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_{War Criminal at Bay}

_{By Paul Craig Roberts}

_{President George Bush, betrayed by the neoconservatives whom he elevated to power and by his Attorney General, Torture Gonzales who gave him wrong legal advice, is locked in a desperate struggle with the Republican Congress to save himself from war crimes charges at the expense of America's reputation and our soldiers' fate.}

_{http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15009.htm}

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• _{Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty for anybody who murders an abortion doctor.}

• _{Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex.}

• _{Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.}

• _{Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.}

• _{Republican politician Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted rape of an underage girl.}

• _{Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.}

• _{Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.}

• _{Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.}

• _{Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).}

• _{Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.}

• _{Republican politician, Richard Gardner, admitted to molesting his two daughters.}

• _{Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.}

• _{Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.}

• _{Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.}

• _{Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.}

• _{Republican preacher Stephen White was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.}

• _{Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.}

• _{Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.}

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_{International Support for the Cuban Five}

_{Swedish Solidarity with Cuban Five}

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_{( from the dark corners of the Internet )}

_{Pukes complained when gas was cheap, saying that during the 2000 price spike Oil Companies can do what they want. If you don’t like it don’t buy it. They sided with the oil companies.}

_{They complained about the “overheated economy,” upset that so many lower class people were making big bucks and kept saying its just a “bubble.”}

_{They said it was “irrational exuberance,” and there should be no credit given to Clinton in creating the largest expansion of the economy in the history of America during his entire Presidency.}

_{They complained about the money poor people getting off of welfare made, saying that they shouldn’t be making a good hourly wage for factory jobs, that paying them more than a few bucks an hour was going to scare away the CEO’s.}

_{They said that working class Americans didn’t deserve or “EARN” their $12.00 an hour but that Kozlowski, Lay, Dick Cheney, and other CEO’s like them all “EARNED” their $17,580.00 an hour (in many cases even more an hour) and complained that middle class Americans have it too good.}

_{They complained that the super-rich that had Lear Jets and 3 or 4 houses needed “tax relief” and that they pay the taxes so they should get all the Trillions that Bush cut taxes by because “it’s their money” (in the words of Dick Cheney, quoted in the book -Price of Loyalty- about the huge tax cuts and the deficits it would cause; “It’s Our Due.”)}

_{Repubs complained that Americans shouldn’t have forced the rich people to pay tax to begin with and therefore we deserve the cuts in FEMA, cuts in Librarys across America, cuts in Federal money for Police across America, cuts in Federal money for Fireman across America, cuts in Federal money to rebuild levees in America, cuts in Federal money for education in America.}

_{Republicans have been complaining about working class and middle class Americans for years now.}

_{I say FCK THE GOD-DAMED REPUBLICANS!}

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<sub>EVENT TITLE:

THE ISRAEL LOBBY: Does it have too much influence on US foreign policy?</sub>

_{HOST: The London Review of Books}

_{WHAT: A public policy debate}

_{WHEN: Thursday, September 28th, 7pm}

_{WHERE: Great Hall, Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY}

_{PANELISTS: Shlomo Ben-Ami, Martin Indyk, Tony Judt, Rashid Khalidi, John Mearsheimer, Dennis Ross, Moderator: Anne-Marie Slaughter}

_{COST: $25 per person, $15 Students (code STU1)}

_{TICKETS: Call Ticket Central 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com}

_{PRESS PASS: jf@groupsjr.com}

_{NOTES ON PARTICIPANTS:}

_{Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.}

_{Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.}

_{Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.}

_{Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.}

_{John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.}

_{Dennis Ross is Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.}

_{Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter 66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.}

<sub>SYNOPSIS: In March, The London Review of Books published a provocative article by John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt that contends that the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy is its intimate relationship with Israel. Moreover, the authors argue that although often justified as reflecting shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, the U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the Israel Lobby.”

The London Review of books is hosting a public debate to examine the controversial findings of Mearsheimer and Walt.</sub>

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_{...The people at the top are getting scared…The fog of secrecy is lifting, and the Bush administration is frightened to death that it will eventually have to pay a heavy price for the human rights abuses it has ordered or condoned in its so-called war on terror. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Geneva Conventions apply to the prisoners seized by the administration, which means that abusing those prisoners — as so many have said for so long — is unquestionably illegal. And there is also the possibility that the Democrats, if they ever wake up, may take control of at least one house of Congress, giving them the kind of subpoena power and oversight that makes the administration tremble. Bush, Cheney & Co. are desperately trying to hold together a house of cards that is ready to collapse because their strategy and tactics for fighting terrorism were slapped together with no real regard for the rule of law. What we’ve seen over the past few years has been a nightmare version of the United States. Torture? Secret prisons? Capital trials in which key evidence is kept from the accused? That’s the stuff of Kafka, not Madison and Jefferson.}

_{The reason Bush has been trying so frantically to get Congressional passage of his plan to interrogate and try terror suspects is that he needs its contorted interpretations of the law to keep important cases from falling apart, and to cover the collective keisters of higher-ups who may have authorized or condoned war crimes. There’s no guarantee that the administration can properly bring to justice even the worst of the bad guys, people like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and 13 other high-profile prisoners who were recently transferred from a secret C.I.A. program to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These are men accused of the most heinous of offenses, crimes that would subject them to the death penalty. But it’s widely believed that some or all of them were tortured. In civilized countries, evidence obtained by torture is inadmissible in a court of law. The Bush administration would also like to deny terror suspects, even those facing the death penalty, the right to see evidence against them that is classified. This is a concept that is so far beyond the pale it makes most legal scholars gasp}

_{—BOB HERBERT, NY Times}

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http://www.voltairenet.org/article143519.html
Controversy (1st Part)

Damage Control:
Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Jeffrey Blankfort* While the Bush administration is sinking into the Iraqi mess and supports the Israeli destruction campaign in Palestine and in Lebanon, a controversy is expanding in the United States on the exact links between the US imperialism and the zionist expansionism. Suddenly, the thought of Noam Chomsky, which was imposed, for a long time, as a reference to the US left-wing, does not function any more. It is the moment, for the journalist Jeffrey Blankfort, to question this superstar. We publish here, in three parts, his long study of the limits of Noam Chomsky’s thought.

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Bush’s stalled anti-terrorism agenda edged forward Tuesday, with a rebellious House member rewriting her bill on wiretaps more to his liking and maverick Senate Republicans reopening talks over how to handle detainees.


Rep. Heather Wilson (news, bio, voting record), R-N.M., offered to substitute her original bill on giving legal status to Bush’s warrantless surveillance program with a bill that would grant a key administration request: allow wiretapping on Americans in the event of an “imminent” terrorist attack.

_{Gonzales says it is to remove the ambiguity of interpretation that foreign courts sometimes have by precisely defining what is, and is not torture.}

_{However the wacky definition that Gonzales came up with isn’t going to be used by any foreign court, US law is not binding on them, what is binding is the Geneva Convention, which is the standard they will use.}

_{If it is only US law that is affected, Bush already has the authority to issue complete pardons for all crimes under US law. Bush could absolve the CIA interrorgators of legal liability under US law for torturing people by pardoning them.}

_{However, Bush can’t pardon himself. That leaves him, and only him as being responsible for ordering the torture, and then pardoning those who committed it. Both grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.}

_{This law does nothing to remove liability for war crimes under foreign jurisdictions. It provides no protection to CIA interrorogators other than what Bush can already provide by his sole authority.}

_{The only person this legislation protects is Bush.}

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_{The Presidential IQ Report
The Lovenstein Institute | September 18 2006
In a published report, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania has detailed findings of a four month study of the intelligence quotient of President George W. Bush. Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has published its research to the education community on each new president, which includes the famous “IQ” report among others.
147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower®
174 John F. Kennedy (D)
126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155 Richard M. Nixon®
121 Gerald R. Ford®
176 James E. Carter (D)
105 Ronald W. Reagan®
98 George H. W. Bush®
182 William J. Clinton (D)
91 George W. Bush®}

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_{Is Bush really the devil?}

_No.

_{He’s just his spokesmodel.}

_{Today’s video is not a documentary in
the classic sense. It’s an art piece
whose purpose – quite frankly – is to
drive home two points:}

_{1. 9/11 happened because it was allowed
to happen.}

_{2. Controlled demolition, far from being a
conspiracy theory, is a perfectly logical
explantation for why the buildings fell
that day.}

_{What makes this short video unique is that
it is made up entirely of TV footage
from the hours immediately after the 9/11
attacks – with nothing else added.}

_{In those first few hours, many analysts
and commentators were very frank about
what they observed and what they believed
had happened.}

_{Later in the day, anyone who did not conform
their opinions to the Bush Administration
version of events was swept off prime time
TV news and they and their incovenient opinions
were never seen again.}

_{No, Bush is not the devil. He just works
for him.}

_{Think of him as the ultimate TV anchorman.}

_{The film is seven minutes long and
it’s called: “Today We Saw Evil.”}

_{I think it conveys the horror of that day
and its dark significance in a simple
and powerful way.}

_{http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/911/911evil.html}

_{- Brasscheck}