US, UK and the secret New Zealand Tsunami bomb
Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal.
View ArticleU.S. gives Israel "go-ahead" to strike Syria
Bush's administration gave Israel the go-ahead to attack Syria in retaliation to Tel Aviv bombing that took place last weekend, killing 5 Israelis, the Hebrew daily `Yediot Ahronot' reported.
View ArticleSyria is doomed and so is Lebanon's water
Some interesting material on background of US plans for Syria from another blogger: From 'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm' by Perle, Feith, the Wurmsers, etc. (their emphasis, but...
View ArticleMaximum pain is aim of new US weapon
The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But...
View ArticleBTK killer sent name, address to media last year
This week, the Eagle and KAKE-TV -- an ABC affiliate -- revealed communications they had kept hidden. The evidence BTK sent to news outlets included a doll with a bag over its head and its hands tied...
View ArticleRamadi Madness:1200 pages of Torture Released Today
Videos from Iraq compiled by a Florida National Guardsman and called "Ramadi Madness" appeared to show one soldier kicking a wounded, cuffed prisoner and another striking a detainee with a rifle butt,...
View ArticleUnintended consequence of the Chastity Amendment
As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, it was Ann Coulter's job to keep the media on Message. Thanks to the Media Responsibility Act of 2006, this was not a problem. Every licensed news...
View ArticleWhat will YOU do when the time comes?
As America's twilight deepens, the fading light reveals the true shape of the night's promises. While the name of Patriot Eunice Stone is uttered with reverence by warlord loyalists years after her...
View ArticleThe Case Against Democracy
Words like Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, do not mean the same things to all people. To many Americans, a country is a democracy if it agrees with US policies. Elections can be mostly media events, it...
View ArticleHealth Care and Housing: The Winnowing (This is your economy on feudalism)
Recent years have seen a marked acceleration in the effective use of health care and housing costs as a key tool in phasing out the middle class. Traditionally, the middle class has comprised the bulk...
View ArticleUS now wishes to purchase Hizbollah
"After years of campaigning against Hezbollah, the radical Shiite Muslim party in Lebanon, as a terrorist pariah, the Bush administration is grudgingly going along with efforts by France and the United...
View ArticleCredit Cards as Poor Tax: Why the Bankruptcy Bill Makes Sense
We all know the most sensible way to use credit cards: pay off your balance every month. Use the card as a convenience, don't fall into the trap of buying things you can't afford, don't think of it as...
View ArticleBrian Nichols Coverage: Is it just me?
I'm not talking about the remarkable coincidences, unquestioned discrepancies in the story itself. (example: Ashley Smith says she took Brian to drop off the blue truck, yet the morning of his capture,...
View ArticleTerri Schiavo versus Sun Hudson
No need to detail Terri's medical condition, it has been covered ad nauseam. Terri's legal guardian is her husband, who is living with another woman, by whom he has had children. He says no feeding...
View ArticleCentury of Resistance: US Has Limited Choices (SuperDraft)
If it is to achieve its military and economic objectives, the US's choices are quite limited. The native overseer/client state module is becoming too costly, at the same time as it is declining in...
View ArticleU.S. bars Italians from examining Sgrena's car
The U.S. military command in Iraq has blocked two Italian policemen from examining the car in which an Italian intelligence agent was shot to death in Baghdad, a newspaper said Wednesday. Corriere...
View ArticleTwo groups claim Texas blast, FBI sees no foul play
DUBAI, March 24 (Reuters) - Two Islamist groups have said they caused Wednesday's explosion at a Texas oil refinery which killed 15 people but the U.S. FBI said there was no evidence of "any criminal...
View ArticlePope is `serenely giving himself to the will of God'
THE POPE is "serenely abandoning" himself to God's will, according to a senior Vatican cardinal. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the head of the Congregation of Bishops, made his comments during a...
View Article2 US banks double minimum payments for credit cards
Bank of America and Wachovia -- have increased the monthly minimum payments customers must pay.
View ArticlePope May Need Feeding Tube
Sources in the Vatican told an Italian news agency that the breathing tube inserted Feb. 24 has made it difficult for the ailing pontiff to eat. Doctors are considering inserting a feeding tube in an...
View ArticleEl espiritu de San Pedro anda suelto! a multiculti recipe for the interregnum
I had the honor of making a return visit to a charming family over the weekend, while nominally Catholic, they are not at all religious, so I was surprised to see the hearth of their little fireplace...
View ArticleFeel Threatened? Just Shoot 'em - It's Legal!
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he intends to sign a bill that would allow people who feel threatened on the street, in a bar, at a ball game - or just about anywhere - to "meet force with force" to...
View ArticleA US Reservist tells his story (may be disturbing for sensitive readers)
I put in more snippets than usual. I don't really have a lot of commentary to add to this, those of you who pray, please pray for this man, and for his family, that they come to no harm.Aiden Delgado,...
View ArticleImmigration: The Founders hold out a hand of Hope
There are many Americans who don't think of the US as a land born of genocide and suckled on slavery and cradled in manifest destiny, all the while declaring itself to be the greatest thing to happen...
View ArticleThe US ambassador to Italy, teen genitorture, and the penis pump
He created a system to reprogram bad kids. Delete the bad code in their personalities. Break the will of sullen stoner boys, make bad girls confess to whorish secrets and reverse-engineer the minds of...
View ArticleSuper-Duper Imminent Iran Invasion Update, with links and poll
Scott Ritter says June. I say when the Michael Jackson trial ends. Regardless of who's right on that one (or maybe we both are, Jackson prosecution will reportedly close next week) it is clear that...
View ArticleGood Germans Don't Cut and Run
There has been a lot of internet chatter in recent days among Americans who style themselves as "leftists," primarily because they admire Democratic politicians who believe they could do a better job...
View ArticleBerlusconi edited Sgrena report to favor US position
Reports have surfaced that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi intervened to ensure that a report on the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad by US troops would not damage relations...
View ArticleIsraeli Soldiers beat 88-year old Palestinian in his olive grove
while working in his olive grove, 88-year-old Muhammad Kashu'a, a resident of `Elar, heard somebody calling to him. "I turned around and saw a group of about twelve soldiers," he told B'Tselem. One of...
View ArticlePropaganda's Last Stand, and a Reality Check
First, the reality check: The purpose of the US crusade against those who would stand between America and its oil is not:
View ArticleNewsWeek: I have changed my mind. I was wrong
Initially, I was somewhat indignant. That even the tiniest hint of diversion from White House press briefings on the part of the fawning corporate media would spark such a bizarre sequence of events...
View ArticleP2OG: Rumsfeld Program Offers Insight on Recent Events
A new Pentagon strategy aimed at luring terrorists into committing acts of terrorism has been recommended to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by the Defense Science Board (DSB). The "DSB Summer...
View ArticleUS Senator Combats Anti-US Sentiment in Arab World
While top Israeli and Palestinian officials discussed security at a Middle East forum Saturday, an American senator advised Arab leaders to focus on injustices in their own countries and reminded them...
View ArticleColonialism the Religion and World War III
World War III is a religious conflict, though not in the way you may think. It is also a war of survival, but again, not in the way you may think. The first step in understanding WWIII is to...
View ArticlePrisoner Recants Quran-Desecration Claims
A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who complained that a military guard threw a Quran holy book in the toilet has since recanted the story, senior Pentagon officials said Thursday.
View ArticleUS to get new E. Goldstein, New Message from Osama?
With the world abuzz over the reported injury and subsequent flight into seclusion of twice-killed composite character amputee Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the US has tapped Abu Hafs Al Kurani to assume the...
View ArticleKing Fahd is Dead, Long Live the Arabian Resistance!
Reliable sources in the Saudi capital Riyadh said Friday King Fahd is dead. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has been dead since late Wednesday, according to several well-placed sources in the capital...
View ArticleThe issue that threatens to tear Kos apart w/poll
It's not abortion. Or Palestine. Or even Howard Dean. In fact, all of those topics fall by the wayside and out of the discussion whenever the Big Issue raises its head. Blood boils. Passion rages,...
View ArticleThe Case Against the Ratings System
First, let me briefly state the case FOR the ratings system:Due to the alarming number of families who have failed to make the best choice with respect to the important question of unsupervised...
View ArticleThe American Anti-War Choice: Traitor or Hypocrite
For Americans who may have some misgivings, or feel the stirrings of some gentle questioning of their government's policies, the choices are somewhat limited. For example, few Americans can truthfully...
View ArticleNighttime on The City of New Orleans
Only in America would the citizenry watch thousands upon thousands of their countrymen die a slow agonizing death, some penned by armed gunmen in filthy enclaves with murderers and child rapists, and...
View ArticleDebunking Katrina: With the Consent of the Governed
We must be fair and balanced. The first debunking efforts were undertaken under the most inauspicious conditions. Officials were only accorded one side of a TV screen to explain to Americans that the...
View ArticleIn New Orleans, the Ghosts Wait
New Orleans has a long and close relationship with its ghosts, its restless spirits reeling through the ether throughout eternity. As anyone who has ever stood before the house of Madame LaLaurie can...
View ArticleCleaning up Katrina Cleansees: No Photos, No Stories
Immediately after issuing the comforting decree that the death toll from Katrina would be far less than previously anticipated, the US acted quickly to sidestep any skepticism from anti-American...
View ArticleKatrina: A Glimpse of America's Future: When Will YOU Be Cleansed?
"Like a third world country." It's been quite a favorite phrase with the TV reporters. It's become a meme. It has punch, impact, it gets attention. What it doesn't get from the overwhelming majority of...
View ArticleDoes Katrina Require Us to Now Bash Jesse, Al, Louis & Ilk?
"I do agree that the tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the US government, but the heart of the American people, and I think it has paid great dividends for us." Condoleeza Rice As...
View Article"All of a sudden we don't see white people"
From Farai Chideya's website:My Uncle Israel Chideya was missing for a while, lost in the maelstrom of post-Katrina evacuations from New Orleans. Well, we found him. He is good...and mad. Here's just a...
View ArticleAlternatives to Red Cross for Katrina, Rita Hurricane Relief
I posted the big list below originally as a comment elsewhere, but under the circumstances, I decided to make it a diary, so people can add to it more easily.
View ArticleFor Those Who Will March, I Ask a Favor
First of all, thank you for your service. Thank you for having the moral courage to stand up and represent to the world that not every American prefers to be represented by a warlord posse. In the...
View ArticleInsurgent Cleansees: A True Story of Katrina Survivors and Surprise
Never mind their names, never mind how they escaped, let's call it a covert operation, they know what they escaped, they know what they saw, what they lived. The television screen that a few weeks ago,...
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