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More Lies about Iran 15th JANUARY 2006

The public has been duped again by the intentionally misleading rhetoric and blatant lies of mainstream media and the Bush administration. What could be more clear? Iran poses no threat to either its neighbors or the United States. The public either accept[s] credible statements from Nobel Prize winning Mohammed Elbaradei, chief of the IAEA, or spurious allegations of the Liar-and-Chief. Which will it be? IAEA inspectors have yet to find any indication that Iran has - or ever had - a nuclear weapons program.

Al Gore Really Did Beat George W. Bush in 2000 15th JANUARY 2006

It’s embarrassing for Bush because it showed that Gore had more votes. The most decisive were write-in ballots where people would check Gore and write Gore in, and the machine kicked those out. When you see Gore picked and then Gore written in there’s not a question in your mind who this person was voting for. They’re unambiguous: Bush got some of those votes, but they were overwhelmingly for Gore. So you look at our system today and you know we’re in big trouble. It’s in my lifetime that this has happened, that elites have begun to put winning ahead everything else, ahead of truth and country.

Correcting the Distorted Vision of the Corporate Media 15th JANUARY 2006

Journalistic performance consistently traces a path around the issues that would land them in trouble with owners, parent companies, advertisers, potential future employers, and key sources. Thus we find that even normally honest and rational British journalists find fault with the American press, but not with the British press. Or they find fault with the right-wing but not the 'liberal' media. Or they find fault with the BBC but not their own newspaper. This pattern cannot be random and it cannot be the product of ignorance or instinct.

167 Cases of Death Following Police Stun-Gun Use 14th JANUARY 2006

The Arizona Republic, using computer searches, autopsy reports, police reports, media reports and Taser's own records, has identified 167 cases of death following a police Taser strike since 1999. [And let us not forget the children police taser, but who live to be tasered another day. Rb]

War, Lies, and Videotape: Moving on Iran 14th JANUARY 2006

They bring in Iraqis, interview them, then start talking about WMD and say to intelligence officers, "Bush is in trouble. He went to war saying there are WMD and there are no WMD. Can you help us?" Iraqi intelligence officers understood they were being asked to provide WMD for coalition forces to find. But this is absurd because anything put down would not pass the smell test and could be shown not of Iraqi origin and not using Iraqi methodology. Is it really possible they would plant fake WMD for OSP operatives to "find?" The answer is undoubtedly yes.

Freedom in Action & the Price of Progress 13th JANUARY 2006

The land of hallucinations is a nice place for someone like Bush, who said yesterday that most Iraqis are upbeat about their future. Despite rampant kidnappings, unemployment well over 50%, little electricity, no water and violence continuing unabated, Bush said, "the vast majority of Iraqis prefer freedom with intermittent power to life in the permanent darkness of tyranny and terror."

The TSA: Working to Create a Thoroughly Cowed and Compliant Herd 13th JANUARY 2006

Most people get used to being treated as criminals or inmates in a concentration camp. Americans are no exception. Keep beating them down and eventually you will produce a thoroughly cowed and compliant herd, a mass of pliant raw material perfectly willing to sacrifice their dignity rather than irritate an airport-security thug and be made to miss a flight.

Proof Bush Deceived America 13th JANUARY 2006

Bush does not want opposition to dwell on how he lied to Congress and the American people in order to invade a country and kill tens of thousands of civilians and more than 2,200 US troops -- not to mention many thousands maimed for life. Perhaps he knows Risen's book could do as much damage to his administration by calling renewed attention to the Downing Street memos as is likely to be done by revelations of NSA wiretapping. One world leader recognizes the extreme danger of official lies told in the service of an aggressive war.

"I'm a door kicker-inner," Marine blurted out to dismay of superiors. 13th JANUARY 2006

“Die ragheads die!” The US military has struggled to improve the cultural sensitivity of its troops. These people shit out kids like turds,” a National Guardsman muttered to The Times on a patrol in Baghdad. That contempt was quickly detected by the population, which was dismayed to see US forces obsessed with their own protection. US soldiers expect Iraqis to understand their hand signals and will shoot to kill if confused drivers fail to respond.

America’s Long Slide Towards Authoritarianism 13th JANUARY 2006

Greatly accelerated since our version of the Reichstag fire on 9/11, I see no prospect of it slowing, much less reversing. It makes me nostalgic for Reagan; even if the reality was two steps backward for one step forward, he at least seemed good-hearted. Baby Bush, on the other hand, appears stupid, ignorant, stubborn and mean-spirited. I don’t know whether or not to credit reports that he’s hitting the bottle again and flies into fits of rage when his will is challenged. Is it possible Bush is psychologically imbalanced? That is certainly possible, given his stated views on torture. But at least he’s not Dick Cheney, who appears to be a genuinely degraded being.

Americans Love Their Kentucky Fried Medicine 12th JANUARY 2006

In the byzantine world of American health care, the real profit is made not by controlling chronic diseases but by treating their many complications. Insurers will often refuse to pay $150 for a diabetic to see a podiatrist, who can help prevent foot ailments associated with the disease. Nearly all cover amputations, which typically cost more than $30,000. "If a hospital charges and can get reimbursed $50,000 for a bariatric surgery that takes just 40 minutes, or it can get reimbursed $20 for the same amount of time spent with a nutritionist, where do you think priorities will be?"

Sleazy Lying Unethical Immoral U.S. Army Recruiter Gets Promoted 12th JANUARY 2006

Army recruiter accused of lying to young would-be soldiers to meet recruitment goals has not been disciplined as the Army promised. Instead, he’s been promoted. Sgt. Thomas Kelt threatened a young man with jail and violated the Army’s recruitment guidelines. Officials promised swift corrective action. Kelt has instead been transferred to another recruiting office and promoted to supervisor.

Who's Fighting Our Wars? 12th JANUARY 2006

During the first Gulf War, there was one private military contract employee for every 100 soldiers. That ratio has risen dramatically to one PMC for every 10 soldiers. Nation-states are paying private companies to provide armed civilians, in lieu of soldiers, on an unprecedented scale. Yet, aside from a handful of allegations about contract workers firing on innocent civilians, little is known about PMCs. For as long as there has been war, there has been the outsourcing of war.

Iraq War as Pure Evil 11th JANUARY 2006

Iraq has become a very expensive made-in-America killing field, in which every death -- whether Iraqi, American, or Coalition -- has cost U.S. taxpayers more than 2 million dollars. Moreover, during 34 months of occupation, the U.S. has not built one university, school, hospital, bridge, factory, or road. There is no public accounting to explain where billions of Iraqi oil dollars have been spent, and on whom. "Not surprisingly, mainstream American media did not give Boyle's book the coverage it deserves. But one day, his expert witness testimony, along with others, could be used in a court of law, or by historians, to identify who is/was behind this pure evil. It may take years, but that day will surely come."

Iraq as Killing Ground 11th JANUARY 2006

The complete absence of coverage of the American air campaign is hard to explain. Along with the vast permanent military base facilities the U.S. has been building in Iraq to the tune of billions of dollars. the loosing of air power on Iraq's cities is the great missing story of the postwar war. Is there no reporter out there willing to cover it? Is the repeated bombing, strafing, and missiling of heavily populated civilian urban centers and the partial or total destruction of cities such a humdrum event, after the last century of destruction and threatened destruction, that no one thinks it worth the bother to attend to? Is the Bush administration really to be given another remarkable free ride?

Unseen Hands Decide Who Gets Elected 11th JANUARY 2006

America will be destroyed from within by Americans for two reasons: (1) apathy and (2)
the public's refusal to hold public servants accountable because of party loyalty. Sadly we can all see the sickening apathy in America and the absolute lack of concern regarding our rights, our freedom and our sovereignty. The only time Americans react to anything is if the TV guide comes wrinkled in the mail, a 12-pack of beer goes up a quarter or their favorite sports team lost.

Dana Rohrabacher: we had the same dope connection 11th JANUARY 2006

Having been a South Bay surfer, in the sixties, I was exposed to 'nuke-ya-ler' Rohrabacher because we had the same dope connection and our paths crossed on more than one occasion. We all laid around on the beach, stoned on pot, laughing because the cocaine was giving him delusions of grandeur. Now he has access to Executive Quality Pharmaceuticals like his patron saint King George III, I guess he is getting the last laugh. I sure am glad I never voted for him!

How Low Can Recruiters Go? 10th JANUARY 2006

First it relaxed restrictions against high-school drop-outs. Then it started letting in more applicants who score in the lowest third on the armed forces aptitude test-a group. The number of Category IV recruits is starting to skyrocket. New study demonstrates that, in all realms of military activity, intelligence does matter. Smarter soldiers and units perform their tasks better; dumber ones do theirs worse.

How Many Iraqis Have Died in the War-Criminally US Massacre? 10th JANUARY 2006

Published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, [the study] generated a hail of abusive criticism. General outrage may have been prompted by the possibility that Iraq's "liberators" had already killed a third as many as the reported 300,000 murdered by Hussein. For dedication to scholarly integrity, Roberts and his colleagues had to endure the flatulent ignorance of Michael E. O'Hanlon, sage of the Brookings Institute, who told the New York Times that the self-evidently deficient Iraqbodycount estimate was "certainly a more serious work than the Lancet report."

Behind US Govt's Corruption of Language Lies Far Greater Perversion 10th JANUARY 2006

The ugliest phrase to enter the language last year was "extraordinary rendition." To those who love words, this phrase's brutalisation of meaning is an infallible signal of its intent to deceive. Language has laws, and those laws tell us this new American usage is improper - a crime against the word. Every so often the habitual newspeak of politics throws up a term whose calculated blandness makes us shiver with fear - yes, and loathing. People use such phrases to avoid using others whose meaning would be problematically over-apparent.

Bush Advisor Says Resident Has Legal Power to Torture Children 9th JANUARY 2006

John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the resident from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody - including by crushing that child's testicles. Yoo authored a number of memos arguing for unlimited powers to order torture of captive suspects, and to declare war anytime, any where, and on anyone the [little shit] deemed a threat. Few lawyers have had more influence on resident Bush's policies in the 'war on terror' than John Yoo.

The Washington Post and the Coming Crash 9th JANUARY 2006

The Washington Post is one of the “great” papers. But to the American-European financial establishment it is much more than that. It is one of their house organs, with close ties to U.S. intelligence. The Post’s job is to shape news the way the establishment wants it shaped. No one should think rookie reporters Woodward and Bernstein would have been allowed to unmask Nixon if the intelligence/financier elite hadn’t decided it was time for the cursing Californian to go. Nixon’s crime? Probably not so much the dirty tricks and use of the IRS to hound those on his “enemy list” as much as use of the Federal Reserve to ease credit in order to create a mini-economic boom in time for the 1972 election. The Federal Reserve is an institution the establishment guards jealously as their private preserve, one that not even presidents can tinker with.

Few State-Subsidized Resources in Health Sector Reach Poor 9th JANUARY 2006

Programs designed to reach poor people often end up instead helping the better-off. Of the more than 20 countries surveyed, the richest 20% of the population received more, or as much as, the government's subsidized maternal and child healthcare services as the poorest 20%. The report leaves unasked the question as to why the richest members of the population are receiving funds from such programs at all.

Funniest, Wackiest, Most Entertaining Laugh Riot Since Richard Nixon 9th JANUARY 2006

As predictably as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the Congressfolks on whose behalf Abramoff extorted money kicked into weasel-mode immediately after he pled guilty to charges of wire and mail fraud, bribery of public officials and that old stand-by, "income tax evasion," returning large bundles of cash they'd received from Abramoff's clients so quickly it was as if they were struck with an epiphany. Several beneficiaries, including our Great Supreme Leader, demonstrated their profound sense of compassion by donating the money to charity. Just thinking about how those rulers of ours gave money they didn't earn to the needy and downtrodden sure warms the heart and brings a tear to the eye.

What I Heard About Iraq in 2005 8th JANUARY 2006

In 2005 I heard Coalition forces were camped in the ruins of Babylon. I heard bulldozers dug trenches and cleared areas for helicopter landing pads and parking lots, that thousands of sandbags had been filled with archaeological fragments, that a 2600-year-old brick pavement had been crushed by tanks, and that the moulded bricks of dragons had been gouged out from the Ishtar Gate by soldiers collecting souvenirs. I heard that 47 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein helped plan 9/11 and 44 per cent believed the hijackers were Iraqi; 61 per cent thought Saddam had been a serious threat to the US and 76 per cent said the Iraqis were now better off.

Americans Flee to India and Elsewhere for Better Health Care 8th JANUARY 2006

The US medical care system, rated 72nd, worldwide, has been teetering on the brink of destruction for years. Greed, malfeasance, misfeasance, grand corruption, murderous intent, and a self-centeredness unequaled in history has led the system to the abyss. The system, the most expensive in the world, is THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF AMERICANS. Above heart disease, cancer and stroke, the system, itself, is responsible for the unnecessary deaths of 783,936 Americans EVERY YEAR. There are no estimates of how many are damaged or disabled by it. But, what we do know is who's responsible. There are five culprits (1) the American Health Insurance Industry, (2) "Big Pharma," (3) the US medical regulatory system - the FDA and State licensing boards that aren't doing their jobs, (4) The "quackbuster" operation run by a New York ad agency, and (5) US Network television.

IRS Illegally Restricts Access to Matters of Public Record 8th JANUARY 2006

The Bush administration has illegally stopped making public detailed tax enforcement data, which has been used to show which kinds of taxpayers get the most and toughest audits, a noted tax researcher says. TRAC used records to report in 2000 that Clinton was auditing poor people at a higher rate than rich people and in 2004 that business and corporate audits were down substantially and criminal tax enforcement was at an all-time low. TRAC also reported that in fiscal 2002-2004 IRS audited only a third of the largest corporations, which control 90 percent of all corporate assets and 87 percent of all corporate income.

Plaintive Resident Pleads Case for War & Wiretapping 8th JANUARY 2006

No doubt reassuring millions of Americans, resident Bush yesterday defended his program of legally dubious wiretapping at home and strategically dubious regime change abroad for fighting terrorists by insisting he isn't in la-la land. "Terrorists want to use Iraq as a home base," Bush told reporters. He then added: "I'm not making this up." So now you know: This time it's for real.

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