‘Unnamed sources’ and ‘senior U.S. intelligence officials’ are now saying Osama bin Laden is dead. Does this matter? Why are they saying this now? What’s important is what our own tax-paid terrorists want you to think. Speculating whether or not bin Laden is dead only serves craven propaganda purposes. For one, declaring bin Laden must be dead because basically ‘we haven’t seen him’ diminishes his power to those that support him and his goal of disrupting US hegemony and global domination through sabotage. It also serves as a goad to provoke bin Laden or Al Quaeda to make a statement or to appear to dispel the rumors of his demise. The fact is, the US government doesn’t know shit. They like to appear as if they do, but as long as the money keeps rolling in and they can continue with their charades it doesn’t really matter to them. Hell, even if they knew for a fact that he was dead I’m pretty sure they would keep that information to themselves as long as it serves their purposes. As long as Americans can personify the ‘enemy’ and ‘evil’ they can be more easily manipulated. The same thing happened in the Gulf War with Hussein. Who was Saddam to 99% of Americans before 1991? Nothing. It wasn’t until we needed a strawman that we built him up into the big bad wolf, the Arab Hitler with his big, bushy moustache. Of course, no one thinks its significant that he was a big bud of the CIA and the US for decades. I’m just tired of the bullshit. People have such short memories.
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Jul 02
Post-war murder syndrome?
In Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, there have been 2 murders and 2 murder/suicides by soldiers of the US Special Forces within the past six weeks. Each case involved the murder of a military wife at the hands of her husband. Can this be what happens when you spend years molding men into cold-blooded killing machines, human weapons? Once you pass the point of justifying the taking of human life for purposes of war doesn’t that make it easier to justify it further? The Army wants to make sure we understand that this is an anomaly. Any bloodthirst is, of course, channeled cleanly toward enemies of the United States.
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Jul 02
Hunt for bin Laden goes online
Cyber-pigs and cyber-feds are upturning online stones looking for bin Laden. Forgive me if I’m a little skeptical but I really don’t see bin Laden inserting steganographic secrets in porno as this article suggests. Can’t they at least show us some actual examples or evidence of this? I’m tired of hearing all these stories and news bites from nameless ‘counterterrorism experts’ and ‘unnamed government sources’. The fact is, if the government actually knew anything they would do something and parade this guy on TV for propaganda purposes.
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Jul 02
The unorthodox orthodox
From The Guardian, flag-burning, peacenik orthodox jews. Awesome.:
The group is part of Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist sect of the Orthodox Jewish community which is passionately opposed to the state of Israel and its government’s treatment of the Palestinian population. Since they are forbidden to use transport on the Sabbath, a few of its younger, fitter members have made the two-hour journey from Stamford Hill on foot in their Saturday dress of prayer shawls and fur-rimmed hats. Despite their prominent position in full view of the thousands below, they seem perfectly composed, holding a Palestinian flag and a placard bearing the slogan ‘End the occupation’. They don’t want to speak, so one of the organisers reads a statement on their behalf. It condemns, in no uncertain terms, the ‘atrocities committed by the Zionist regime’, lamenting ‘the plight of the Palestinian people’. …
It is the largest event that 35-year-old Alter Hochhauser, one of the four, has ever attended. He breaks into a smile when he recalls afterwards, in slightly halting English, what making such a public statement meant to him. ‘I was feeling very good. I always thought the Arab people have nothing against the Jews, only Zionism. The Zionist propaganda is so strong, that the Arabs would kill the Jewish people, but I knew it was not true. Now I saw it with my own eyes, how happy they were with us.’ His friend Elhanan Beck is also heartened by the impact of their presence. ‘I think many people changed their mind about Jewish people when they saw us,’ he says. …
And the power of peace-making and love.
And for Hochhauser, recalling his big day out at the demo, it’s worth it. ‘Somebody came to me; he said for 39 years he had hated the Jews. And now, when he saw us, he felt he had to come and shake hands with us. There were tears in his eyes.’
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Jul 02
Duh – you mean Georgie boy was lying?
Files: Bush Knew Firm’s Plight Before Stock Sale:
As a businessman in 1990, George W. Bush was deluged with confidential information about the financial plight of a Texas oil company before he sold the majority of his holdings and triggered a federal investigation, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.
Stonewalling, this guy’s just as sleazy as Clinton and about half as smart. Of course, most conservatives will continue to pretend like Bush is beyond reproach. A bit hypocritical, no?
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Jul 02
The Corporate Takeover of Iraq by Bush Inc.
Newsmax is reporting that Saddam Hussein plans to invite U.N. Inspectors back to Iraq in August. If this is true and the U.N. does resume inspections expect the Bush administration to miraculously discover new evidence linking Hussein to Al Quaeda. Bush has a major hard-on to depose Hussein and get his oily friends into Iraq. This can’t be done until Iraq becomes a pliant, pro-U.S. vassal state.
Related:
- Iraq’s Kurds assess risk of backing the US: They have good reason to be wary since the U.S. essentially allowed them to be crushed the last time. Not to mention that the U.S. has no plans of assisting in Kurdish independence if it wants to keep Turkey on board.
- U.S. Iraq strike would hit moderate Islam
- French sources: U.S. to attack Iraq `soon’
- Bush exhorts rapt soldiers in orgy of bloodthirst. (Seemed that way to me. Read it for yourself.)
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Jul 02
Are a majority of Americans insane or just stupid?
FAIR: Attacks on Pledge Ruling Bolster Its Logic
“The pledge, taken as a whole, was not intended to be a coercive prayer, but was designed to promote patriotism, and as such is consistent with the neutrality principle,” wrote Rosen (New York Times, 6/28/02). Editorialized the Daily News (6/17/02): “The two words, viewed in the context of the entire pledge, have nothing whatsoever to do with avowing fealty to God.”
Yet if one can believe President Dwight Eisenhower, who signed the bill that added “under God” to the Pledge, that is precisely what altering the oath was meant to accomplish. “In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future,” Eisenhower announced at the time (Columbus Dispatch, 6/28/02). “From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.”
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Jul 02
American boot to remain on Iraq’s neck for one year
…as an American force occupies Iraq to ensure ‘stability’. Pardon me if I think this is crap.
AMERICAN troops would occupy Iraq for at least a year after toppling President Saddam Hussein to ensure the transition to a democratic regime, under plans being drawn up by the Bush Administration.
Of course, Bush has a different view of what constitutes a democratic regime than most people.