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Bush prepares to seize absolute power in 'emergency'| |
Excerpt: It's President Bush's newest plans for dealing with a "catastrophic emergency", and in it he entrusts himself with leading not just the Executive Branch, but the entire federal government! ...
The complete text of the plan (it's seven pages long and is written in excruciating legal-ese) is on the White House website. If you think I'm over-reacting, I dare you to read it. |
Bush "second surge" will double the number of combat troops in Iraq by Christmas| |
Excerpt: The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. The little-noticed second surge, designed to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq, is being executed by sending more combat brigades and extending tours of duty for troops already there.
Pentagon making preparations to keep tens of thousands of troops in Iraq for 'decades'
Excerpt: [The strategy] essentially envisions is a series of military installations around Iraq, maybe five or six of them, a total of maybe 30-40 thousand U.S. troops in Iraq for a long period of time, lasting, maybe a few decades. And the idea is that these bases will be somewhat hermetically sealed, that U.S. military forces won't be leaving them, they won't be conducting presence patrols and the patrols they conduct now ... |
Gates: Iraq violence likely to increase| |
Excerpt: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he expects the insurgents and terrorists in Iraq to accelerate their bombings and other attacks this summer before Gen. David Petraeus reports to Washington on whether he thinks the new U.S. strategy for securing Baghdad is working.
Comment: Of course, thanks to the information blackout, and the Pentagon's refusal to report on the surge until September, we will get no information on increasing violence until its already been taking American lives for months and months. Also, conveniently enough, we'll only find out about the scope of increasing violence AFTER the next round of war funding legislation, since the war funding package just signed by Bush expires in September. |
Republicans play politics with American justice
Goodling's testimony implicates entire Justice Dept hierarchy| |
Excerpt: Monica Goodling testified that Kyle Sampson lied to congress about putting Bud Cummings on the list. She testified that Deputy AG McNalty lied to congress about not being aware of white house involvement. She testified that she illegally staffed the justice department on a loyalty basis.
Goodling: Loyal to Bush, not to the law
Excerpt: Goodling went on to:
• Confirm that former department Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson had compiled a list of U.S. attorneys who would be fired -- apparently for being insufficiently partisan in their inquiries and prosecutions -- and that Gonzales had been aware of the list and involved in meetings about it.
• Place White House political czar Karl Rove in a room where the firings were discussed.
• Acknowledge that, as early as 2005, there was talk about forcing U.S. attorneys out to make way for White House favorites.
• Explain how U.S. attorneys were "rewarded" for helping to promote and defend the PATRIOT Act at a time when that law was under attack as an assault on basic liberties.
What Goodling's mention of 'vote caging' means
Excerpt: For the record, it's the practice of sending registered mail to minority voters, asking for a reply, and if one doesn't come back, the voter's right to vote is challenged either at the polls, or attempts are made to remove them from the voter rolls -- usually without their knowledge. Allegations have been made that this was done, based on race, in 2004, when registered letters were sent to the home addresses of African-Americans in Ohio, Florida and elsewhere. Most insidiously, letters were said to have been sent to U.S. troops who were away, serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, and thus did not (and could not) answer the registered mail. Their registrations were then reportedly challenged.
The RNC agreed to cease the practice in a 1986 consent decree in a court case brought after they had "tried to have 31,000 voters, most of them black, removed from the rolls in Louisiana when a party mailer was returned, " according to the Washington Post.
Comment: 'Vote caging' is a synonym for 'election fraud'. The 'caging' strategy, generally used by Republicans to deprive minority Americans of the right to vote, is simply illegal. Goodling's admission of Republican 'vote caging' operations is, very nearly literally, an admission that Republicans have been stealing elections.
This weblog has the story further boiled-down for quick, concise understanding. |
Democrats introduce no-confidence measure against Gonzales| |
Excerpt: After President Bush backed his beleaguered Attorney General again on Thursday, Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee announced that they would be scheduling a "no-confidence" vote on Alberto Gonzales in mid-June. At a Thursday press conference, [Senator Chuck] Schumer said, "The rule of law has been trampled. Confidence in the Department of Justice has been shattered, and leadership is virtually nonexistent. It's one of the most important agencies our government has. The rule of law is what our democracy is all about. And when people lose their ultimate faith in those, something has to change, and it is our obligation to do everything we can to bring that change about."
Comment: Yes, Chuck it is your obligation to do everything you can to get Gonzales out of office. Which means impeaching him instead of screwing around with this no-confidence nonsense. |
2000 Florida election "rioter" was rewarded with judgeship| |
Excerpt: A former Republican aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Garry Malphrus also worked on the White House's Domestic Policy Council before becoming a judge. But he really showed his stripes in 2000, when Malphrus joined other Republicans in making a ruckus (chanting, pounding on windows and doors) outside the Miami-Dade Elections Department -- the so-called "Brooks Brothers Riot" -- during the Bush-Gore recount. |
U.S. Attorney in Seattle suspects he was fired for failure to prosecute 'voter fraud'| |
Excerpt: "I still don't know if the 2004 governor's election was the principal reason I was asked to step down," McKay said in a speech at the Mainstream Republicans of Washington's Cascade Conference in Wenatchee. "If it was, I think it is an entirely improper and perhaps illegal reason for my termination," said McKay. |
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Florida election compromised by computer worm| |
Excerpt: New concerns about the accuracy of electronic voting in Sarasota County, Florida are being raised after a published report documented how the county's main database system came under attack from a virulent worm. The county server was breached on the first day of early voting in the 2006 election, which included a now-disputed race for a seat in the US House of Representatives.
The attack code was a variant of the infamous Slammer worm that penetrated the county's server, which unbelievably, was missing five years worth of security patches, according to an article painstakingly reported by investigative journalist Brad Friedman. The breach crippled the county's entire network, including the electronic voting system, where net connectivity was disrupted for two hours. Those trying to vote during the outage were turned away.
Comment: If it's true that the server which hosted computerized election results hadn't been updated with new security software in five years, that's willful negligence on a level that ought to be a felony.
Will the laughably-named Department of Justice care? |
Legitimate voters turned back by Republicans' efforts to stop non-existent 'voter fraud'| |
Excerpt: Congress is beginning to examine allegations that [Justice Dept 'recess appointment' Hans von Spakovsky] was a key player in a Republican campaign to hang onto power in Washington by suppressing the votes of minority voters.
"Mr. von Spakovsky was central to the administration's pursuit of strategies that had the effect of suppressing the minority vote," charged Joseph Rich, a former Justice Department voting rights chief who worked under him. |
Iran -- Run-up to the next war:
U.S. positions more warships off the coast of Iran| |
Excerpt: The U.S. navy began war games on Iran's doorstep on Thursday, navy officials said, a day after a large flotilla of U.S. ships entered the Gulf in a dramatic daytime show of military muscle. The ships, carrying about 17,000 personnel and 140 aircraft will take part in war drills over the next two weeks, the group's leader Rear Admiral Kevin Quinn said on Wednesday, adding that the drills would include exercises to defend against air, surface and submarine threats. |
Iran claims it uncovered American spy rings, holds several American prisoners| |
Excerpt: Iran said Saturday it has uncovered spy rings organized by the United States and its Western allies, claiming on state-run television that the espionage networks were made up of "infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers." Iran has arrested a number of Iranian-Americans in recent months, accusing them of seeking to topple the ruling establishment. Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, has been held at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison since early May and charged with seeking to topple the government in Tehran. Other Iranian-Americans have also been prohibited from leaving Iran in recent months, including Parnaz Azima, a journalist for the U.S.-funded Radio Farda; Ali Shakeri, a founding board member at the University of California, Irvine's Center for Citizen Peacebuilding; and Kian Tajbakhsh, consultant working for George Soros' Open Society Institute. |
Bush authorizes new covert action against Iran| |
Excerpt: The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, say President Bush has signed a "non-lethal presidential finding" that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions.
Comment: Who knows what the heck to make of an un-sourced item like this from a half-assed operation like ABC News? My first thought, just based on years of being lied to by the Bush administration and ABC News, is that it's bogus, a planted "leak" that amounts to nothing but more disinformation... but who knows, and how do you spot truth in a never-ending cascade of lies? |
IAEA report again contradicts major media narrative on Iran| |
Excerpt: What is at issue here today is whether recent reports of Iranian breakthroughs in enrichment are true. Before today's report it was pretty clear the media's claims were not correct. The claims had been completely debunked by experts before the IAEA report came out. And yet the claims still managed to form the dominant media narrative, as this ABC Report reiterates:
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to confirm Iran's rapid progress in advancing its uranium enrichment program in a report due tomorrow."
The only problem is that the report confirms no such thing. What the report details and conversations with arms control experts confirm is that the Iranians have made no major breakthroughs like that claimed by David E. Sanger of the New York Times. Furthermore, his story of May 15 was, as one expert put it, "misleading and sensationalized."
Iran still years from a nuke, even if they want one, says IAEA
Excerpt: "I tend, based on our analysis, to agree with people like John Negroponte and the new director of the
CIA, who are saying that even if Iran wanted to go for a nuclear weapon, it would not be before the end of this decade or sometime in the middle of the next decade. In other words three to eight years from now," International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei told a news conference in Luxembourg. |
White House finds actual diplomat to send to talk with Iran about Iraq| |
Excerpt: Ryan Crocker -- one of only a handful of U.S. diplomats who have held meetings with Iranians in the past quarter century -- is set to tackle yet another challenge Monday when he opens a groundbreaking round of high-stakes encounters with an envoy from Tehran. This time, it's about the enormous complexities of trying to restore security to Iraq. |
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Democrats sell out, approve endless pointless war| |
Excerpt: Bowing to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled Congress grudgingly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war Thursday night, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that drew his earlier veto. In a highly unusual maneuver, House Democratic leaders crafted a procedure that allowed their rank and file to oppose money for the war, then step aside so Republicans could advance it. There were 194 Republicans in favor, as well as 86 Democrats, three members of the leadership among them. Pelosi and 139 other Democrats voted against the measure, as did two Republicans.
In exchange for providing the war money on Bush's terms, Democrats won White House approval for about $17 billion in spending above what the administration originally sought. Roughly $8 billion of that was for domestic programs from hurricane relief to farm aid to low-income children's health coverage. Democrats also won a top priority -- the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade. The current federal wage floor of $5.15 an hour will go to $7.25 in three installments of 70 cents.
Americans vow to hold pro-war Democrats accountable
Excerpt: Pelosi praised the 140 Democrats who voted against the bill. She said the "no" votes communicated "No more funding." But the praise struck a dissonant note, since she was flanked by House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.) and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), all of whom had voted for the funds.
"This is not partisan anymore. This is not about staying away from Democrats to make them look good or attacking all Republicans to make them look bad," said Susan Shaer, co-chairman of the Win Without War coalition. "We don't care who you are or whether we usually like you. This vote was wrong."
What else was in the same bill? Privatizing Iraq's oil for US companies
Excerpt: The privatization law, written by American oil company consultants hired by the Bush administration, would leave control with the Iraq National Oil Company for only 17 of the 80 known oil fields. The remainder (two-thirds) of known oil fields, and all yet undiscovered ones, would be up for grabs by the private oil companies of the world (but guess how many would go to United States firms -- given to them by the compliant Iraqi government.)
Democratic Match considers name change
Excerpt: To illustrate it's disgust of the Democrat's agreement on funding the Iraq war, DemocraticMatch.Com, the dating site for Democrats, has asked it's 25,000 members to vote on whether or not to change the website's name to eliminate the word "Democratic." |
Immigrant-rights groups oppose "compromise" immigration bill| |
Excerpt: While conservatives criticize the bill as a veritable amnesty program, immigrant advocates say it is merely a guest worker plan that threatens to divide families and fails to offer a realistic path to citizenship for many already living and working here. For instance, Carlos Orellana of the Yonkers Immigration Coalition said the $5,000 in fees and fines that would eventually be required to apply for permanent residency is unrealistic for immigrant laborers earning $10,000 a year on upstate farms. For many immigration-rights advocates, one of the proposal's largest shortcomings is its failure to unite immigrant families. If the Senate passes the measure, which supporters say is likely, it still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives, where its prospects are far less certain. House members are expected to begin debate on immigration in the summer.
Congress debates creating database of who can and can't work
Excerpt: The so-called Employment Eligibility Verification System would be established as part of a bill that senators began debating on Monday, a procedure that is likely to continue through June and would represent the most extensive rewrite of immigration and visa laws in a generation. Because anyone who fails a database check would be out of a job, the proposed database already has drawn comparisons with the "no-fly list" and is being criticized by civil libertarians and business groups. |
Bush names killer-kook Surgeon General| |
Excerpt: Dr. James Holsinger was tapped by President Bush Thursday to be the nation's next Surgeon General. Sure enough, Holsinger's record is mired with incompetence, zealous conservatism, and, of course, sizable campaign contributions to Republicans. |
GSA chief violated law, OSC report finds| |
Excerpt: An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say. |
Bush Interior Dept. crony had
million-dollar conflict of interest| |
Excerpt: Julie MacDonald, who resigned this month as Interior Department deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, was actively involved in removing the Sacramento splittail fish from the federal threatened and endangered species list at the same time that she was profiting from her ownership of a farm that lies within the habitat area of the threatened fish, according to an investigative report published Sunday by the Contra Costa Times newspaper. |
Cheney blasts Geneva Conventions
in speech at West Point| |
Excerpt: "As Army officers on duty in the war on terror, you will now face enemies who oppose and despise everything you know to be right, every notion of upright conduct and character, and every belief you consider worth fighting for and living for. Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States. Yet when they wage attacks or take captives, their delicate sensibilities seem to fall away. These are men who glorify murder and suicide. Their cruelty is not rebuked by human suffering, only fed by it. They have given themselves to an ideology that rejects tolerance, denies freedom of conscience, and demands that women be pushed to the margins of society. The terrorists are defined entirely by their hatreds, and they hate nothing more than the country you have volunteered to defend." |
Bush releases selective, questionable "intelligence" linking Bin Laden to Al Qaeda| |
Excerpt: The White House dipped into an old playbook today, declassifying secret intelligence about purported Al Qaeda terror threats to the United States, in order to bolster the president's case for continued funding for the war in Iraq. But in so doing, the Bush administration exposed itself once again to charges that it exaggerates and selectively uses intelligence to score political points.
Delivering a commencement address to the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., President Bush made a dramatic disclosure: in January 2005, the president said, Osama bin Laden had "tasked" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, then the leader of Sunni insurgent forces in Iraq, with forming a cell inside Iraq to conduct terrorist attacks aimed at the United States. But the president's characterization of the intelligence may have been incomplete -- and also ignored contradictory reporting about what actually happened, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials with knowledge of the matter. |
UN begs international community to help Somalia| |
Excerpt: U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes urged the international community to not to turn its back on Somalia at a time of desperate need, saying the government appears to be seriously underestimating the humanitarian suffering in the country. Holmes told the Security Council on Monday that the United Nations believes almost 400,000 people fled Mogadishu in recent fighting and that the vast majority have not returned.
Comment: At the very least, maybe the most powerful nation on earth could stop encouraging Ethiopian troops to make the Somalis as miserable, or as dead, as possible. |
First death linked to 9/11 dust exposure| |
Excerpt: This week Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch ruled the death of Felicia Dunn-Jones -- a lawyer who ran through the thick clouds of dust as she fled the collapsing towers on September 11, 2001 -- was linked to her exposure to the dust. He included her death five months later in the official tally of September 11 victims in New York, which is now 2,750.
Comment: After 3,000 people have died because of the lies the White House told about the safety of Ground Zero, can we declare the entire GOP enemy combatants? Maybe lock up Rudy Giuliani and Christine Todd Whitman in Cuba with no access to lawyers indefinitely? |
U.S. helps Mexico set up
domestic spying program| |
Excerpt: Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the US government, a move that underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with United States on law enforcement. The expansion comes as President Felipe Calderon is pushing to amend Mexico's constitution to allow officials to tap phones without a judge's approval in some cases. The system, scheduled to begin operation within the next month, was paid for by the State Department and sold by Verint Systems Inc., a politically connected company based in Melville, N.Y., that specializes in electronic surveillance. Documents describing the upgrade suggest that the US government could have access to information derived from the surveillance. |
Australian David Hicks transferred from Guantanamo to Australian prison| |
Excerpt: David M. Hicks, the first of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees convicted under Congress's new rules for enemy-combatant terrorism trials, arrived home in Australia yesterday to finish his prison sentence after more than five years in U.S. custody, the Pentagon and the Australian government announced. As part of the plea deal that was negotiated with the politically appointed court authority without prosecutors' knowledge, the government released Hicks on the condition that he not speak with reporters for one year, that he waive his rights to appeal or sue, and that he recant accusations of illegal treatment while in U.S. captivity.
Comment: So he's already served more than five years on a nine-month sentence, with a gag order and a promise not to mention being tortured. That's what America now calls 'justice'... |
Guantanamo attorneys sue NSA and DOJ| |
Excerpt: A civil liberties group representing 16 attorneys of detainees at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday sued the National Security Agency and the Justice Department, claiming that the government illegally spied on the lawyers with warrantless wiretaps and has refused to turn over records of the snooping.
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One word that can save America
by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Everyone knows they're liars, so just say it already. Say "liars". Say it often, say it everywhere, say it over and over until it spreads from the grassroots to a grass fire. Don't let anyone say Bush or Cheney anywhere, without interrupting to point out that they're liars. Say it loud enough, often enough, and the spell will be broken -- this regime will be effectively toppled. |
On winning through losing
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The Army lost on purpose. It had no stomach for the ghoulish, evil plans of the leaders. Not that there was any organized conspiracy, it's just that decent people, which the vast majority of the soldiers were, sense when they are being sent on an evil mission, and they just stop trying. |
Medusa and the void between
Liberation and Fascism
by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is easier for people accustomed to creating gorgons on purpose to manipulate the world with, to think they can control the world without becoming a fount of a river of death drinking the blood from the Neck of the Sacred Feminine themselves. |
Washington is in the grip of corporate fascism
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Once in place there is little the average American citizen can do to oppose the new order of things, lest he be labeled a terrorist and dealt with by some military tribunal. |
Isreali/Palestinian drama queens
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If we wait for peace to "just happen", it never will. A global solution needs to be negotiated and imposed, perhaps in a way similar to the way South Africa was dealt with. |
The anger over breast- and bottle-feeding
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: After a few decades of experience trying to convince moms to breast feed, I think I understand some of the subtleties involved. It is often a very complicated and, above all, always a very personal decision. In a humane world moms would be supported in making these decisions rather than pilloried for making "the wrong choice." |
Screwed by the National Guard
by His wife, The Truth Will Set You Free
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Excerpt: Spc Franco Aguilar has been a proud serviceman of the National Guard for nine years since 1998. He joined he was 17.
Today Franco doesn't have a battalion, a job, or a means to support his family. Months back he attempted to re-enlist to serve his country. Then he was told that he would be deployed to Iraq per to "stop-loss" method of retaining Guardsmen. He was to serve an additional involuntary thirteen months.
It never happened.
What instead happened was a nightmarish series of confusion among his numerous higher ranking officials, a myriad of changed work orders and reassignments, and a lack of answer to the most basic question Franco had asked: "Would he or would he not be serving in Iraq?" |
What you're not supposed to think about
Paulitics
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Excerpt: If a U.S. politician stood up and said that he'd kill 100 Iraqis for every one U.S. soldier killed, he would be considered a moderate since the U.S. has killed on average over 500 Iraqis for every one Westerner killed by Al Qaeda. |
The man who used Liberty Dollars
by Fred E. Foldvary, Free Liberal
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Out of the blue the G men came,
in an unlicensed car,
it's true!
They knocked on the door of craftsman Jake,
a Liberty Dollar man.
They asked all kinds of real rude questions:
"What's wrong with U.S. cash?"
At the point of a gun, it can be scary,
Most folks would give in. |
The President wears no clothes
by MJS, MJS's Blog
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Excerpt: We must never, ever point out the obvious. Is this not clear to all Americans? We are nothing if not members of a civil and polite society. We shall endure as a people and nation so long as our implied contract with each other is respected, even in the face of an increasingly clothing-challenged President. That the President's Taliban Whacker is so far to the right that he can only pee at a ninety degree angle is obvious, but damn it, this sort of thing should never, ever be pointed out! |
How the hell is this anything if the
President can 'waive' the benchmarks?
by Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman, Countdown VIDEO
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Excerpt: There's nothing in this bill that affects the President's policy. He's going to get the hundred-billion dollars that he wants, and there essentially are no real strings attached. ... The Democrats basically got nothing, and they know it. |
Bush outsources the task
of catching bin Laden
by SilentPatriot, Crooks & Liars
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Excerpt: So if I understand this correctly, we are paying Musharraf $1 billion a year to strike immunity deals with the warlords thought to be harboring this man we're paying him to catch? |
Poetry professor becomes terror suspect
by Kazim Ali, New American Media| |
Excerpt: Because of my recycling, the bomb squad came, then the state police. Because of my recycling, buildings were evacuated, classes were canceled, the campus was closed. No. Not because of my recycling. Because of my dark body. No. Not even that. Because of [a stranger's] fear. Because of the way he saw me. Because of the culture of fear, mistrust, hatred and suspicion that is carefully cultivated in the media, by the government, by people who claim to want to keep us "safe." |
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Senate sets deadline for getting warrantless wiretapping docs| |
Excerpt: Senate Judiciary Committee heads Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, demanding he provide answers by June 5 to their "longstanding questions about the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program." In other words, Leahy and Specter are telling Gonzales: turn over the information now, or President Bush's desired changes to FISA are going nowhere. |
Lebanese army pounds Palestinian camp| |
Excerpt: Lebanese troops blasted a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery and tank fire again Monday, seeking to destroy a militant group with al-Qaida ties. The barrage smashed buildings and sent plumes of black smoke towering over the crowded camp on the Mediterranean.
The fierce, two-day battle has killed nearly 50 combatants and an unknown number of civilians, raising fears that Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war could spread in a country with an uneasy balancing act among various sects and factions.
Palestinian officials in the camp reported at least nine civilians were killed Monday, along with 40 wounded. ...
The State Department defended the Lebanese army, saying it was working in a "legitimate manner" against "provocations by violent extremists" operating in the camp.
Comment: If you recall, last year when Israel was attacking Lebanon, the Lebanese army stayed in their barracks and did not fight to defend their country. Many even surrendered to the Israeli invaders without firing a shot. But they're not done yet building their image as an Awesome Power...
In their latest Mighty Feat, the Proud and the Brave of Lebanon's Army are attacking a refugee camp with tanks and artillery. (Notice how they fear to engage personally but kill from afar.)
AND the US State Department is applauding.
Do you think the Lebanese government can survive when they refuse to defend their country when invaded, and then when not invaded, attack their own refugee camps? I don't. They're going down. Sooner or later that government will fall.
Thanks, Bush! You've done it again... |
U.S. Blackwater mercenaries provoke violence in Iraq| |
Excerpt: Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
Comment: Perhaps Blackwater was emboldened by the fact that the lawsuit brought against them for failing to protect other dead mercenaries was scuttled by the courts this week. Nothing like complete legal immunity to make your trigger finger start to itch. |
Blackwater lawsuit shut down; case goes to closed-door "arbitration"| |
Excerpt: After appealing unsuccessfully all the way to the Supreme Court, Blackwater now appears to have found another way to derail what promised to be a landmark lawsuit brought by the families of four security contractors killed in a convoy ambush in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.
The lawsuit says Blackwater broke its contractual obligations to the four men by sending them into hostile territory in unarmored vehicles without automatic weapons or a rear gunner.
This week, on orders of a federal judge, the dispute is scheduled to be taken up out of court by a three-man panel of arbitrators.
By steering the case into arbitration, Blackwater has shifted a legal showdown over issues of battlefield accountability and presidential authority into a non judicial arena where the proceedings occur behind closed doors and the outcome is confidential.
One of the three arbitrators is William Webster, a Reagan-era director of the FBI and CIA with personal and business ties to several Blackwater lawyers. |
Number of contractors killed and wounded in Iraq soars| |
Excerpt: Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according to new government numbers. At least 146 contract workers were killed in Iraq in the first three months of the year, by far the highest number for any quarter since the war began in March 2003. That brings the total number of contractors killed in Iraq to at least 917, along with more than 12,000 wounded in battle or injured on the job, according to government figures and dozens of interviews.
Comment: This means that the American death toll in Iraq is actually more than 4,000, since the 3,000-plus figure commonly cited only counts military deaths. |
Mega-"embassy" in Baghdad's Green Zone nears completion| |
Excerpt: Rising from the dust of the city's Green Zone it is destined, at $592m (£300m), to become the biggest and most expensive US embassy on earth when it opens in September. It will cover 104 acres (42 hectares) of land, about the size of the Vatican. It will include 27 separate buildings and house about 615 people behind bomb-proof walls.
Comment: As mentioned months ago when this monstrosity first became public knowledge, this is not an embassy by any traditional or sane definition of the word. It is a fortress for holding an occupied nation. |
Bush threatens veto of gas gouging bill| |
Excerpt: President Bush is likely to veto legislation that would create hefty fines and criminal penalties for gasoline price-gouging, the White House said Wednesday.
Comment: Because this article comes from a business website, it of course fails to mention that gas prices are up 50% over a year ago, while the price of oil has actually gone down. And Bush, of course, is AOK with that. |
Oklahoma bans abortion in state hospitals| |
Excerpt: Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry allowed an anti-abortion bill to become law on Wednesday by taking no action on the legislation.
The passage of the measure makes Oklahoma the only state this year to pass legislation that would prohibit certain abortions in state-funded medical facilities, according to a research institute.
Comment: Please note, Gov Henry calls himself a Democrat. |
Britain charges ex-KGB agent with murder of dissident Litvinenko| |
Excerpt: British authorities says they are preparing to issue Russia with an extradition warrant for the man they say should be charged with the murder of former spy Alexander Litvinenko. Yesterday, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said there was enough evidence to charge Andrei Lugovoi, an ex-KGB agent, with the murder of Mr Litvinenko. Mr Litvinenko, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died last November from radiation poisoning.
Johnny Depp to star in film about Litvinenko; documentary screened at Cannes
Excerpt: Johnny Depp is lined up to play murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in the film of a book that still has no ending, his widow told reporters at the Cannes film festival yesterday. Marina Litvinenko was at the festival for the showing of a controversial documentary about the death of her husband, who was poisoned with a radioactive substance in London last year. |
Court clears anti-war saboteurs| |
Excerpt: Two anti-war campaigners who broke into an airbase to sabotage US bombers at the outbreak of the Iraq war have been cleared of all charges.
Protesters Toby Olditch, 38, and Philip Pritchard, 36, used bolt cutters to enter RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. They had intended to clog the planes' engines with nuts and bolts when they were arrested by Ministry of Defense police.
The men pleaded not guilty at Bristol crown court to conspiring to cause criminal damage, claiming the B52s would have been used to commit war crimes in Iraq.
Comment: Read this slowly, and savor it: They admitted their intent to vandalize the bombers, but said it was necessary to prevent war crimes. And the court concurred. |
McClatchy punished by Pentagon for practicing journalism during run-up to Iraq attack| |
Excerpt: Staffers at McClatchy's Washington, D.C., Bureau -- one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq -- claims it is now being punished for that coverage.
Bureau Chief John Walcott and current and former McClatchy Pentagon correspondents say they have not been allowed on the Defense Secretary's plane for at least three years, claiming the news company is being retaliated against for its reporting.
"It is because our coverage of Iraq policy has been quite critical," Walcott told E&P. He added, "I think the idea of public officials barring coverage by people they've decided they don't like is at best unprofessional, at worst undemocratic and petty." |
Bush issues Mafia-standard threat to reporters' children| |
Excerpt: During his press conference Thursday, the president got personal when talking about the threat from al-Qaida terrorists. "They are a threat to your children, David," he said to NBC's David Gregory. ... [Bush said] in response to a question about the war from Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times, "It's a danger to your children, Jim." |
Air Force prepares members for ground combat| |
Excerpt: Like most high-ranking airmen, Gray is a pilot by training, but he's now overseeing the largest Air Force retraining center in the United States. The Iraq war has strained the Army and the Marine Corps. The Air Force is increasingly helping fill the gaps.
"The Army has felt some pressure, there's no doubt about it," Maj. Gen. Scott Gray says. "So the fact that we can aid the Army and Marines -- I see that personally as a good thing."
Comment: I wouldn't claim any military expertise, but this seems absurd to me. |
CREW sues White House over stonewalled FOIA requests| |
Excerpt: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)'s suit is based on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed with the Office of Administration (OA) on March 29, 2007 for records regarding the over five million missing emails. Although on April 27, 2007, the OA agreed to expedite CREW's FOIA request, the OA has yet to provide CREW with so much as a single document. |
Trashing (or saving?) the planet
U.S. will reject climate change agreement| |
Excerpt: The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace. |
Smithsonian Museum 'toned down' climate change exhibit for fear of angering Bush| |
Excerpt: Among other things, the script, or official text, of last year's exhibit was rewritten to minimize and inject more uncertainty into the relationship between global warming and humans, said Robert Sullivan, who was associate director in charge of exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Also, officials omitted scientists' interpretation of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions from the data, he said. In addition, graphs were altered "to show that global warming could go either way," Sullivan said. |
Scientists concerned about effects of global warming on infectious diseases| |
Excerpt: As the Earth's temperatures continue to rise, we can expect a significant change in infectious disease patterns around the globe. Just exactly what those changes will be remains unclear, but scientists agree they will not be for the good. |
Indian automaker readies air-powered car| |
Excerpt: India's largest automaker is set to start producing the world's first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine's pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit Indian streets in August of 2008. |
Pollution threatens fetuses, babies most| |
Excerpt: Scientists agree that the risk from chemical exposure to unborn babies and developing children is unacceptably high. Children face a greater risk of developing a variety of diseases because of exposure to some very common chemicals. |
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Senate report: Bush-Cheney ignored warnings, knowingly created al Qaeda recruiting gold-mine in Iraq| |
Excerpt: U.S. intelligence agencies warned senior members of the Bush administration in early 2003 that invading Iraq could create instability that would give Iran and al-Qaida new opportunities to expand their influence, according to an upcoming Senate report.
Officials familiar with the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation also say analysts warned against U.S. domination in the region, which could increase extremist recruiting. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the report's declassification is not finished. It could be made public as soon as this week.
The committee also found that the warnings predicting what would happen after the U.S.-led invasion were circulated widely in government, including to the Pentagon and the Office of the Vice President. It wasn't clear whether President Bush was briefed.
Comment: This isn't exactly "news," except that the administration, and the mainstream press, keep trying to make the argument that the intelligence agencies gave the White House bad intelligence, instead of acknowledging that the White House cherry-picked, manipulated, and ignored intelligence in order to make the case for war. |
U.S. tried to assassinate Muqtada al-Sadr| |
Excerpt: The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in the mind of Muqtada al-Sadr for which the US and its allies in Iraq may still be paying. "I believe that particular incident made Muqtada lose any confidence or trust in the [US-led] coalition and made him really wild," the Iraqi National Security Adviser Dr Mowaffaq Rubai'e told The Independent in an interview. |
U.S. Ambassador reads wrong statement at U.N.| |
Excerpt: U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, current president of the U.N. Security Council, read out a hard-hitting statement denouncing aerial bombardment in the troubled Darfur region in a clear critique of the Sudanese government.
When the session ended, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin was the first to point out that the statement was not the one that the council's 15 members had agreed, participants said. ...
Comment: Is there anyone, anyone, anywhere in the Bush-Cheney administration who's even vaguely competent? |
Supreme Court tells victims of wrong house searches: Deal with it| |
Excerpt: The police apparently didn't know that the suspects they were after no longer lived at the residence, and didn't bother to check to see that the house had been recently purchased by new owners several months earlier. The new owners were white. The suspects the police were looking for were black. And they were wanted not on charges related to violent crime, but for identity fraud. |
Drug companies secretly track doctors' prescriptions| |
Excerpt: Many doctors object to drugmakers' common practice of contracting with data-mining companies to track exactly which medicines physicians prescribe and in what quantities -- information marketers and salespeople use to fine-tune their efforts. The industry defends the practice as a way of better educating physicians about new drugs. |
U.S. will let nuclear treaty with Russia expire| |
Excerpt: The United States plans to let a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia expire in 2009 and replace it with a less formal agreement that eliminates strict verification requirements and weapons limits, a senior U.S. official says. This would continue President George W. Bush's practice of repudiating arms control as a means of curbing nuclear weapons while relying more on countermeasures like export controls, interdiction and sanctions.
Comment: Bush Admin decides it's too much trouble to cut nuclear arsenals -- even of possible enemies |
Miami Police shot protester, then laughed about it VIDEO | |
Comment: The video shows again what's long been known about Miami Police, an attitude of "cop supremacy" that's seen in many other police departments as well.
Similar police state video from Los Angeles, 2007 VIDEO
Comment: Here we see Los Angeles cops attacking a crowd, specifically going after reporters, and trying to destroy every camera they can get their hands on. Fortunately, they don't get all of them. |
Rules loosened further on cops' demanding your I.D.| |
Excerpt: A police officer may ask a citizen for identification and use the information garnered from the request, even if the officer has no reasonable cause to suspect that a crime has been committed, according to a ruling from the Sixth Circuit on Thursday.
Comment: If I'm reading this right, the ruling gives police the power to ask anyone, with or without cause, for "your papers, please" ... |
News from America's very bestest ally, Israel:
Israel killed 650 Palestinians in 2006| |
Excerpt: Israeli troops killed more than 650 Palestinians last year -- half of them unarmed civilians including some 120 children -- a threefold increase from 2005, a leading human rights group said yesterday. |
Israeli jets strike Gaza targets; Hamas minister arrested| |
Excerpt: Israel unleashed a new round of airstrikes on Gaza and arrested a second Hamas member of the Palestinian unity government in the West Bank on Saturday, Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
Olmert: Attacks on Hamas will continue
Excerpt: Olmert told the weekly meeting of his Cabinet Sunday that he had instructed the army to do whatever it takes to halt the rocket fire.
"There will be no limit in acting against the terror groups and against those who are responsible for the terror. No one is immune," Olmert said. |
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Pet and people food contamination
FDA gives Congress redacted reports on food imports from China| |
Excerpt: [Congressmen] told Michael Leavitt, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that the FDA has failed to respond to requests of the committee and in some instances, has produced redacted records to the committee without any prior consultation on such redactions. |
U.S. checking all toothpaste imports from China| |
Excerpt: The FDA's action comes after the lethal chemical diethylene glycol was found in toothpaste sold in the Dominican Republic and Panama.
It follows a wave of concern over pet food from China containing another toxic chemical, melamine, thought to have sickened thousands of U.S. cats and dogs and made its way into livestock feed. |
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Court says islanders displaced for U.S. military base can return to nearby islands| |
Excerpt: Chagossians -- who are descended from 18th century African and Indian laborers on French coconut plantations -- are not seeking to resettle Diego Garcia itself, but other islands in the archipelago, which are from 60 to 100 miles away. US and British officials have argued that raids on the air base could be launched from those other islands, or they could be used to observe the movement of warplanes.
But yesterday's ruling meant that three British courts have decided, in effect, that security concerns cannot trump the right of the Chagos islanders to return home. |
Google moves further into Big Brother territory| |
Excerpt: The company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said during a visit to Britain this week: "The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'What job shall I take?'."
Speaking at a conference organized by Google, he said : "We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms [software] will get better and we will get better at personalization." |
Police in Texas seize vibrators| |
Excerpt: Lubbock's war on sex continues. According to KAMC 28 Lubbock police raided the "Something Sexy" Lingerie Store at 53rd and Slide last week. KAMC 28 says it's a felony to have more than six of any one sexual object for sale. Several items were confiscated. The TV Station did not say what the sex toy was but it's our understanding that these were battery-powered vibrating key chains.
"We're so proud of our ways" AUDIO
Comment: This is a serious matter, but this As It Happens interview with Mike Evans, the store's laconically wise-ass owner, is hilarious. The interview starts at 20:00. |
Suspected by feds, professor uses website to prove his innocence 24 hours a day| |
Excerpt: The FBI agents had given him their phone number, so he decided to call before each trip; that way, they could alert the field offices. He hasn't been detained since.
So it dawned on him: If being candid about his flights could clear his name, why not be open about everything? "I've discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away," he says, grinning as he sips his venti Black Eye. Elahi relishes upending the received wisdom about surveillance. The government monitors your movements, but it gets things wrong. You can monitor yourself much more accurately. Plus, no ambitious agent is going to score a big intelligence triumph by snooping into your movements when there's a Web page broadcasting the Big Mac you ate four minutes ago in Boise, Idaho. "It's economics," he says. "I flood the market." |
Environmental wackos, classified as 'terrorists', get stiff sentences| |
Excerpt: The first two members of a radical environmental group who admitted to setting a series of fires aimed at saving animals, were sentenced Thursday to 12 to 16 years in federal prison.
In an unusual move, the judge agreed with a prosecutor's request to classify the crimes as acts of domestic terrorism, making them subject to harsher prison sentences.
Comment: I don't think it'll be "an unusual move" for long ... |
'War on terror' destroys lives worldwide, says Amnesty Int'l| |
Excerpt: "Today far too many leaders are trampling freedom and trumpeting an ever-widening range of fears: fear of being swamped by migrants; fear of "the other" and of losing one's identity; fear of being blown up by terrorists; fear of "rogue states" with weapons of mass destruction," AI secretary general Irene Khan said and added that "the approach being taken by many world leaders is short-sighted, promulgating policies and strategies that erode the rule of law and human rights, increase inequalities, feed racism and xenophobia, divide and damage communities, and sow the seeds for violence and more conflict."
Bloggers on frontline in global rights battle, says Amnesty
Excerpt: In its annual round-up of global human rights abuses, the London-based watchdog singled out Belarus, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia as countries that tried to keep a lid on their web-users, "monitoring chat rooms, deleting blogs, restricting search engines and blocking websites".
In addition, it said, "people have been imprisoned in China, Egypt, Syria, Uzbekistan and Vietnam for posting and sharing information online".
Bush administration creates rapid response team for fighting blogs
Excerpt: ... In addition, the president is expected to stump for the bill next week and a "rapid response" team is countering critics, not only in the conventional media but, for the first time, on Internet blogs, said White House communications director Kevin Sullivan. The president's press secretary, Tony Snow, already has debated talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and TV commentator Lou Dobbs, both critics of the bill. |
Terrorism is about 1% of one percent of Homeland Security's work| |
Excerpt: Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group.This comes despite the fact the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that fighting terrorism is the central mission of DHS. |
U.S. propaganda channel in Iraq aired anti-American propaganda by mistake| |
Excerpt: Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program.
That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces. |
U.S. claims of North Korean counterfeiting smell like lies| |
Excerpt: Swiss police who closely monitor the circulation of counterfeit currency have challenged the Bush administration's assertions that North Korea is manufacturing fake American $100 bills. |
Child reunited with lesbian adoptive mother until homophobic judge throws mom in jail| |
Excerpt: But the legal troubles are just not over for Emma, as Judge John Lee Parrott found [the adoptive mother] and her attorney in contempt of court, and sentenced them to jail time and a fine. |
Texas House speaker refuses to cede post| |
Excerpt: With his political career in jeopardy, powerful state House Speaker Tom Craddick charged through a rebellion that lasted into early Saturday, refusing to give up his leadership post.
By the time the House adjourned shortly before 1:30 a.m., Craddick had beaten back his opponents, lawmakers who tried to overtake the speaker's podium were physically restrained and the House parliamentarian resigned.
Comment: This fellow Craddick seems very Bush-like. I predict he'll be named to a powerful federal post, or be given an ambassadorship to some nation it would be disastrous to offend -- China, perhaps. |
Customs workers say they were told to falsify data| |
Excerpt: Six customs inspectors have told federal officials that superiors instructed them to enter false data indicating airline passengers had been stopped and inspected for plant and animal contraband. |
Everything's organic to USDA| |
Excerpt: Most of the [newly-approved as 'organic'] ingredients are food colorings derived from plants that are supposedly not "commercially available" in organic form. But at least three of the proposed ingredients, apparently backed by beer companies, including Anheuser-Busch, and pork and food processors, represent a serious threat to organic standards, and have raised the concerns of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), as well as a number of smaller organic companies and organic certifiers. |
Army and Air Force deny formal links to Christian event| |
Excerpt: After complaints by a government watchdog group, the Air Force and the Army partially distanced themselves yesterday from a three-day evangelical Christian event this weekend at a Georgia theme park.
The Memorial Day weekend "Salute to the Troops" celebration at Stone Mountain Park is sponsored by Task Force Patriot USA, a private group that says its purpose is "sharing the fullness of life in Jesus Christ with all U.S. military, military veterans and families," and whose Web site says "Christ is our Commander-in-Chief." |
Al Gore slams 'trivialities and nonsense' in news media| |
Excerpt: Former US vice president
Al Gore on Friday criticized the "trivialities and nonsense" of celebrity gossip in the media and called on people to focus instead on issues like Iraq and climate change.
Gore, who is promoting his new book The Assault on Reason, made the comments at a book signing in New York, where he was treated to a rock star reception by more than 1,300 cheering and screaming fans.
Comment: When he ran in 2000, Al Gore was called "a corporation wearing a suit," and I hated his guts and supported Ralph Nader. Now, times have changed, and Gore looks to me and millions of others like the second coming of Christ. |
In his waning days, Brit PM Blair stands firm against civil liberties| |
Excerpt: As he did in his term of office Mr. Blair is doing in the last days of his odious rule - -- he is doing his level best to strip Englishmen of more of their civil liberties. Blair has made it clear that civil liberties hinder government, which is precisely what they are meant to do mein Führer said some as they were blackbagged and carted off. |
Man held hostage five years is not enthralled by 24| |
Excerpt: John McCarthy, who was held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years and suffered physical and mental abuse from his captors, says television may be encouraging the use of torture techniques by US troops in Iraq. "The biggest lie that has gained currency through television is torture is an acceptable weapon for the 'good guys' to use if the stakes are high enough," he writes. |
Will Bush attack Norway?| |
Excerpt: Norsk Industri CEO, Stein Lier-Hansen, says to NRK that an energy demanding society like Norway's needs nuclear energy more than ever.
The demand for energy must be met without releasing more greenhouse gases like CO2. Nuclear energy is the best alternative, he says. |
1,000+ Americans were killed in secret sinking of WWII ship| |
Excerpt: As the truth has emerged, so have theories as to why it was classified for decades. The Rohna was sunk by a German airplane that had for the first time fired a radio-controlled glider bomb -- a "smart bomb." The U.S. military did not want news of the devastating attack to either cheer the Germans or deflate the Allies. Officially, as far as the United States was concerned, it never happened.
Not only did the families of the dead not know the truth, the 900 survivors of the Rohna sinking were instructed not to discuss it. The strategy may have made sense while the war continued, but for decades after the war was over, the secrecy continued. History books were written with no mention of the Rohna, and according to a 2002 story in the Birmingham (Ala.) News, "one survivor was turned down for Veterans Administration benefits because there was no record of the disaster." |
Peace garden deemed "inappropriate" and "destructive"| |
Excerpt: Forget the usual items grads often buy for their schools, like benches or signs. This year's [Wilson High School] seniors planted marigolds in the shape of a large peace sign in their courtyard. They signed it, too. Seniors Class of 2007. ...
"This is a senior prank," said Sarah Carlin Ames, a spokeswoman for Portland Public Schools. "It's inappropriate. It's destructive. We will figure out the best plan for returning it to the lawn." |
Japanese official kills himself amid scandal investigation| |
Excerpt: Japan's agriculture minister died Monday after hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in a political scandal, officials said, dealing a powerful blow to the increasingly beleaguered government ahead of July elections. |
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Still legal to call someone an assh*le
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Saudis arrest Christian in Mecca
State offices evacuated over bobblehead doll
TSA confiscates Congressman's last meal of food stamp stunt
Six Navy commanders sacked in six weeks
New software can identify you from your online habits
Photos of french fries spark suspicion
Christian rocker Scott Stapp is charged with domestic assault
School yearbook features kids doing drugs
What you flush becomes evidence
Paul gives Giuliani "reading assignment"
Pentagon's teen recruiting methods would make tobacco companies proud
Aussie Big Brother keeps death under wraps
Bush domestic policy czar: "I am never going to hire another
woman because they just get pregnant and leave."
Ohio lethal injection takes 2 hours, 10 tries
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Woman falsely labeled a sex offender by MySpace
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