Saturday, July 02, 2005
AP: Documents Show Gitmo Inmates Defy U.S. (FACTUAL -- "must read")
AP: Documents Show Gitmo Inmates Defy U.S. (FACTUAL -- "must read")
BG: This is as pointless as you can get.
Does this mean torture is justified in light of this information?
Does anyone think for second Amnesty's report, having overlooked these special circumstances, was somehow based on the idea that wow, now that we know this, that changes that indefinite detention is the only policy that is appropriate.
This is no integrity in these types of reports that emanate from Freerepublic.com
BG: This is as pointless as you can get.
Does this mean torture is justified in light of this information?
Does anyone think for second Amnesty's report, having overlooked these special circumstances, was somehow based on the idea that wow, now that we know this, that changes that indefinite detention is the only policy that is appropriate.
This is no integrity in these types of reports that emanate from Freerepublic.com
Melanie Phillips's Diary: Those non-existent Saddam/al Qaeda links
Melanie Phillips's Diary: Those non-existent Saddam/al Qaeda links
BG: If the story told by Bush / Blair about 9/11/2001 were not a truck load of lies to mislead the public, I would have some interest and respect in "intelligence" such as this.
BG: If the story told by Bush / Blair about 9/11/2001 were not a truck load of lies to mislead the public, I would have some interest and respect in "intelligence" such as this.
Dynamist Blog: Is Nancy Pelosi Stupid, or Does She Think We Are?
Dynamist Blog: Is Nancy Pelosi Stupid, or Does She Think We Are?
BG: Ms. Pelosi isn't grabbing my attention with her wonderful political stands either.
BG: Ms. Pelosi isn't grabbing my attention with her wonderful political stands either.
It happened to JFK!!!
It happened to JFK!!!: "Jimmy Carter was evidently seen as a much more potent threat to the CIA than he appeared, outwardly"
WTNH.com - Senior U.S. Military official confirms detainee abuse by Iraqi security forces
WTNH.com - Senior U.S. Military official confirms detainee abuse by Iraqi security forces: "Senior U.S. Military official confirms detainee abuse by Iraqi security forces"
Public Domain Progress: Not only are they wrong, they're clueless and delusional
Public Domain Progress: Not only are they wrong, they're clueless and delusional: "Not only are they wrong, they're clueless and delusional"
BG: They aren't really clueless and delusional. That would be one level of treason. They dare not speak the truth of their plans.
BG: They aren't really clueless and delusional. That would be one level of treason. They dare not speak the truth of their plans.
ProfessorBainbridge.com: Bush's Failure
ProfessorBainbridge.com: Bush's Failure
BG: Bainbridge supports the idea that Bush's mistake is the way he has handled "the hostile opposition media". What sickness.
BG: Bainbridge supports the idea that Bush's mistake is the way he has handled "the hostile opposition media". What sickness.
MORGAN REYNOLDS - TRUE PATRIOT... ROBERT GATES - ALTOGETHER A DIFFERENT CRITTER
MORGAN REYNOLDS - TRUE PATRIOT... ROBERT GATES - ALTOGETHER A DIFFERENT CRITTER
BG: More on Reynolds (bombs taking down WTC)
BG: More on Reynolds (bombs taking down WTC)
Friday, July 01, 2005
CNN.com - Iranian�VP was voice of the 1979 hostage-takers - Jul 1, 2005
CNN.com - Iranian�VP was voice of the 1979 hostage-takers - Jul 1, 2005
BG: Excuse me, AP, and CNN. Could I have a little more Propaganda?
BG: Excuse me, AP, and CNN. Could I have a little more Propaganda?
Bush Propaganda Tricks
from www.waynemadsenreport.com
DISINFORMATION ALERT July 1, 2005 -- Be wary of spin from the Neo Cons on new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The cabalist network of American Enterprise Institute, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Hudson Institute, the Moonie Washington Times, Heritage Foundation, AIPAC, Mojaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK) terrorists, Pahlavi Royalists, and Pentagon perception managers want to force a war with Iran. These disinformation specialists have given us phony Iraqi WMDs, false links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, plagiarized graduate school papers as intelligence, bogus Niger government documents, fake Iraq Oil-for-Food documents, fantasy meetings between Iraqi intelligence and Al Qaeda in Prague, and fake intelligence on Iraqi biological mobile weapons labs. And now the White House, where a number of neo-cons nest inside the National Security Council, is climbing aboard the "Ahmadinejad-is-a-hostage taker" bandwagon. The CIA, which tracks all Iranian political leaders and their biographies, has not commented on what five former hostages claim they saw over 25 years ago -- that Ahmadinejad was one of their captors at the seized US Embassy in Teheran. In 2003, the hostages lost a $33 billion lawsuit against the Iranian government after a federal judge dismissed the suit.
Other former hostages, including retired Air Force Col. Thomas E. Schaefer, and some of the hostage takers claim Ahmadinejad was not one of the captors. And the photo being shown of a dark-eyed Persian from Hollywood central casting is not the famous stock photo used by the meida during the embassy seizure. The following photo is what we all saw. Which begs the question. Where did this new photo come from? The Times (London) is reporting the photo "just emerged" and that it is from Iran Focus, a London-based anti-Ahmadinejad "news agency" It is claimed the "new" photo of Ahmadinejad is from the Associated Press's (AP) photo library and was taken on Nov. 4, 1979, the first day of the hostage crisis. The Times Middle East specialist says the photo will only have an impact if it is "genuine." However, some newspaper and broadcast web sites around the world, including The Times and the BBC are not posting the AP credit alongside the photo. Several news web sites are not even running the newly-emerged photo. On July 1, the White House announced there is no "solid evidence" that Ahmedinejad was a captor. However, the involvement of arch neo-con National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in stoking this story calls into question the National Security Council's links to a discredited bunch of Iran-contra felons and other suspects investigated by Independent Special Counsel Lawrence Walsh: Elliot Abrams, George H. W. Bush, Oliver North, John Poindexter, Michael Ledeen, and Iranian exile Manucher Ghorbanifar.
Ahmadinejad has been mayor of a major metropolitan city and a top presidential candidate and just now he is being recognized by former hostages and the White House as a hostage taker? One former hostage's comments could have come right from the Neo-Con quotation spin machine: "The new president of Iran is a terrorist."
FEMA Preparing for Mass Destruction Attacks on Cities
FEMA Preparing for Mass Destruction Attacks on Cities: "A source familiar with the deadline believes the effort is related to making the U.S. prepared for counterattacks if the U.S. invades Iraq sometime next year. "
there must be as many pilars of truth erected in the cafeteria as there are Cirque de Soleil's in Vegas
Crooks and Liars: "'very disturbing' for the Bush Administration."
Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Lies in Rand Document
BG: One of many lies (page 60.) "With the cold-blooded murder of 3,000 Americans and citizens of many other countries,
we were once again in the middle of a war we didn’t look for. It found us. We learned
in one shattering and horrific attack that evil remains on the loose. Like each past confrontation,
the target is freedom itself."
we were once again in the middle of a war we didn’t look for. It found us. We learned
in one shattering and horrific attack that evil remains on the loose. Like each past confrontation,
the target is freedom itself."
FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Iraq's New War Zone: American vs. American
FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Iraq's New War Zone: American vs. American: "Iraq's New War Zone: American vs. American"
UNDERNEWS: BRITISH SEIZE PROGRESSIVE NEWS SERVER BEFORE G8 SUMMIT
UNDERNEWS: BRITISH SEIZE PROGRESSIVE NEWS SERVER BEFORE G8 SUMMIT
BG: They must be doing something right.
BG: They must be doing something right.
The Heretik: BUSH: SORRY AND SORRIER
The Heretik: BUSH: SORRY AND SORRIER: "BUSH: SORRY AND SORRIER"
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Alternative view says homosexuals can change - Politics - MSNBC.com
Alternative view says homosexuals can change - Politics - MSNBC.com
BG: I'd bet heterosexuals can change too.
BG: I'd bet heterosexuals can change too.
Republican Rep. Robin Hayes' office is standing by -- sort of -- the congressman's claim Wednesday that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the attacks of 9/
Salon.com Politics War Room | Politics
More on the Saddam-9/11 link -- or not
Republican Rep. Robin Hayes' office is standing by -- sort of -- the congressman's claim Wednesday that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the attacks of 9/11. Carolyn Hern, Hayes’ communications director, told North Carolina's Independent Tribune Wednesday: “We know Iraqis did not board the planes, but there is strong evidence a connection exists between Saddam and al Qaida. All he's saying’s there is a connection between the two.”
But that's not "all" that Hayes said, of course. In a CNN interview Wednesday, Hayes didn't just say that there's a "connection" betwen "Saddam and al Qaida." He said: "I'm saying that Saddam Hussein -- and I think you're losing track of what we're trying to talk about here -- Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11."
Hayes suggested that members of Congress know things about 9/11 that the rest of us -- including, apparently, the members of the 9/11 Commission -- don't. His colleagues in Congress don't agree. John McCain said Wednesday that he's seen no compelling evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, and Rep. Brad Miller, a North Carolina Democrat, told the Independent Tribune that he hasn't, either. "Unless Robin is going to some tippy-top secret briefing, I’m not sure what Robin’s source of information is," Miller said.
Hayes says that anyone who hasn't seen the evidence of Hussein's involvement in 9/11 just hasn't "looked in the right places." At the suggestion of a reader, we just went looking on Hayes' Web site. Sure enough, there's a link there for the "Hayes statement on terrorist attacks." It leads to Hayes' biography. We're not sure how the fact that Hayes has two kids and owns the Mt. Pleasant Hosiery Mill establishes a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. But we're the first to admit: Robin Hayes knows things that we don't.
-- Tim Grieve
More on the Saddam-9/11 link -- or not
Republican Rep. Robin Hayes' office is standing by -- sort of -- the congressman's claim Wednesday that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the attacks of 9/11. Carolyn Hern, Hayes’ communications director, told North Carolina's Independent Tribune Wednesday: “We know Iraqis did not board the planes, but there is strong evidence a connection exists between Saddam and al Qaida. All he's saying’s there is a connection between the two.”
But that's not "all" that Hayes said, of course. In a CNN interview Wednesday, Hayes didn't just say that there's a "connection" betwen "Saddam and al Qaida." He said: "I'm saying that Saddam Hussein -- and I think you're losing track of what we're trying to talk about here -- Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11."
Hayes suggested that members of Congress know things about 9/11 that the rest of us -- including, apparently, the members of the 9/11 Commission -- don't. His colleagues in Congress don't agree. John McCain said Wednesday that he's seen no compelling evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, and Rep. Brad Miller, a North Carolina Democrat, told the Independent Tribune that he hasn't, either. "Unless Robin is going to some tippy-top secret briefing, I’m not sure what Robin’s source of information is," Miller said.
Hayes says that anyone who hasn't seen the evidence of Hussein's involvement in 9/11 just hasn't "looked in the right places." At the suggestion of a reader, we just went looking on Hayes' Web site. Sure enough, there's a link there for the "Hayes statement on terrorist attacks." It leads to Hayes' biography. We're not sure how the fact that Hayes has two kids and owns the Mt. Pleasant Hosiery Mill establishes a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. But we're the first to admit: Robin Hayes knows things that we don't.
-- Tim Grieve
Senate May Vote on CAFTA This Week
Senate May Vote on CAFTA This WeekSenate May Vote on CAFTA This Week
- By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, June 30, 2005
(06-30) 01:08 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Buoyed by the addition of several new converts, Senate supporters of the Central America Free Trade Agreement closed in on a vote to approve the accord with six Latin American nations.
A successful Senate vote for CAFTA, which could come Thursday, would shift the battle to the House, where Democrats opposing the labor rights provisions in the agreement and Republicans concerned about its effects on local industries have vowed to bring it down.
The House is expected to consider the agreement, signed a year ago but needing congressional approval to take effect, sometime in July.
The Bush administration has lobbied hard for its passage, stressing its importance in promoting economic development and political stability in Central America and determined to avoid what would be a stunning defeat for its policy of promoting a more open global trading environment.
Backers say the agreement, which would break down trade barriers on U.S. farm and manufactured goods, could significantly increase exports to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, now totaling about $15 billion a year. It would also tear down obstacles to U.S. investors and strengthen intellectual property rights.
But CAFTA has met stiff opposition from labor and environmental groups that contend it doesn't require the Central American countries to improve their records in those areas. Some lawmakers link free trade deals to America's soaring trade deficit and loss of manufacturing jobs. Some Hispanic groups are concerned that poor Central American farmers will not be able to compete with cheap food imports from the United States.
Leading groups in the U.S. sugar industry say increased imports from Central America, while minimal, will open the door for imports from other countries that could destroy the industry.
CAFTA, said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., generally a free-trade supporter who has come out against the agreement, is "the most controversial trade agreement to come before the Congress since the North American Free Trade Agreement a decade ago."
Supporters picked up three votes Wednesday after the administration offered proposals to ease concerns over labor rights and sugar.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., announced he would vote for CAFTA after U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said the administration was committed to spending $160 million over four years to promote labor and environmental laws, as well as $150 million over five years to help subsistence farmers in three Central American countries who might be displaced by an increase in U.S. agriculture imports.
Two senators who had previously criticized the agreement, Agriculture Committee Chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Wednesday the administration concessions to protect the sugar industry were enough to win their votes. Those included a pilot program to determine whether a sugar-based ethanol initiative is feasible.
The American Sugar Alliance, an industry association, said the administration proposals were inadequate.
"We came up with some good ideas, but in the end the timeline was too short," said Republican Sen. Craig Thomas of the sugar beet-growing state of Wyoming. Thomas voted against the pact when it cleared the Senate Finance Committee earlier Wednesday.
The Bush administration has so far succeeded in enacting free trade agreements with Singapore, Chile, Australia and Morocco. It is working on a new World Trade Organization round of market-opening measures as well as bilateral agreements with South Africa, Bahrain and others.
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The bill is S. 1307.
- By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, June 30, 2005
(06-30) 01:08 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Buoyed by the addition of several new converts, Senate supporters of the Central America Free Trade Agreement closed in on a vote to approve the accord with six Latin American nations.
A successful Senate vote for CAFTA, which could come Thursday, would shift the battle to the House, where Democrats opposing the labor rights provisions in the agreement and Republicans concerned about its effects on local industries have vowed to bring it down.
The House is expected to consider the agreement, signed a year ago but needing congressional approval to take effect, sometime in July.
The Bush administration has lobbied hard for its passage, stressing its importance in promoting economic development and political stability in Central America and determined to avoid what would be a stunning defeat for its policy of promoting a more open global trading environment.
Backers say the agreement, which would break down trade barriers on U.S. farm and manufactured goods, could significantly increase exports to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, now totaling about $15 billion a year. It would also tear down obstacles to U.S. investors and strengthen intellectual property rights.
But CAFTA has met stiff opposition from labor and environmental groups that contend it doesn't require the Central American countries to improve their records in those areas. Some lawmakers link free trade deals to America's soaring trade deficit and loss of manufacturing jobs. Some Hispanic groups are concerned that poor Central American farmers will not be able to compete with cheap food imports from the United States.
Leading groups in the U.S. sugar industry say increased imports from Central America, while minimal, will open the door for imports from other countries that could destroy the industry.
CAFTA, said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., generally a free-trade supporter who has come out against the agreement, is "the most controversial trade agreement to come before the Congress since the North American Free Trade Agreement a decade ago."
Supporters picked up three votes Wednesday after the administration offered proposals to ease concerns over labor rights and sugar.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., announced he would vote for CAFTA after U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said the administration was committed to spending $160 million over four years to promote labor and environmental laws, as well as $150 million over five years to help subsistence farmers in three Central American countries who might be displaced by an increase in U.S. agriculture imports.
Two senators who had previously criticized the agreement, Agriculture Committee Chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Wednesday the administration concessions to protect the sugar industry were enough to win their votes. Those included a pilot program to determine whether a sugar-based ethanol initiative is feasible.
The American Sugar Alliance, an industry association, said the administration proposals were inadequate.
"We came up with some good ideas, but in the end the timeline was too short," said Republican Sen. Craig Thomas of the sugar beet-growing state of Wyoming. Thomas voted against the pact when it cleared the Senate Finance Committee earlier Wednesday.
The Bush administration has so far succeeded in enacting free trade agreements with Singapore, Chile, Australia and Morocco. It is working on a new World Trade Organization round of market-opening measures as well as bilateral agreements with South Africa, Bahrain and others.
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The bill is S. 1307.
....twisting his quote to mean the very opposite of what he apparently believes.
The Huffington Post | Latest News: "State Department Doctors Bono Quote... "
06.29.2005 David Rees, My Old Bus Stop
The Huffington Post | The Blog: " I am convinced that within his essay we will find the distillation of every cognitive danger attendant to the support of war on humanitarian grounds. "
DIPLOMATIC CABLES
DIPLOMATIC CABLES
Under orders from CIA Directors George Tenet and Porter Goss, some CIA Special Activities Division paramilitary personnel have reportedly been assigned to work with the Pentagon's Task Force 121covert units, as was the case in the Italian operation.
Under orders from CIA Directors George Tenet and Porter Goss, some CIA Special Activities Division paramilitary personnel have reportedly been assigned to work with the Pentagon's Task Force 121covert units, as was the case in the Italian operation.
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