April 2006 ~ no title

1:56 PM kresek

President Ignores Rule of LawThis Boston Globe article is perhaps the most important news article of recent times. It makes clear the unprecedented extent to shich President Bush is clearly challenging the separation of powers, and, indeed, the rule of law itself.He is ignoring laws passed by the Congress of the United States and past rulings of the Supreme Court. The only remedy is impeachment.President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside...

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11-22...

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"A huge chunk of the back of his head had been blown off....

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"SMITH said that the CIA had a photographer in Dealey Pla...

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Jack Ruby "Inside Ne...

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Bush Announces Conclusion of Oil Price-Gouging Probe: In AdvanceThree days ago the president announced a series of steps, including calling on his administration to investigate possible price gouging. But he admitted Friday that he thinks it's probably not happening."I have no evidence that there's any rip-off taking place," Bush said. "It's the role of the Federal Trade Commission to assure me that my inclination and instincts is right."And I'm sure they wi...

2:52 PM kresek

Amnesty International details tortureI was going to keep it light today, being Friday and all, but torture is one issue that I feel strongly about.The Amnesty report reviews several cases where U.S. detainees held in Afghanistan and Iraq have died as a result of torture. The group also lambasts U.S. use of electro-shock weapons, inhuman and degrading conditions of isolation in "super-max" security prisons and abuses against women in the prison system -- including sexual abuse by male guards, shackling while pregnant and even in labor.Cheney and...

10:08 AM kresek

The inimitable Candy Barr --I recently bought a CD on eBay of images of legendary stripper/porn star Candy Barr and from time to time I will be sharing some of them with you.See Candy in action and FBI interview of Candy B...

1:00 PM kresek

House Poised to Grant Arrest Powers to CIA, NSAThe House version of the 2007 intelligence authorization bill would grant CIA and NSA security personnel the authority to make arrests for "any felony" committed in their presence, no matter how remote from the foreign intelligence mission it might be, the Baltimore Sun reported today.With a tip of the hat to Professor ...

12:42 PM kresek

Offensive religious cartoons: Christianity's turnWorldNetDaily has an article on offensive Jesus cartoons by a student underground newspaper The Insurgent. One of them (censored) is featured above. To see the uncensored photos and the complete issue of the publication click hereStudent newspaper publishes images in response to Muhammad cartoonsNow,...

8:09 AM kresek

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1:28 PM kresek

"Miss Piggy" (Karl Rove) to be indicted?Karl Rove's appearance before a grand jury in the CIA leak case Wednesday comes on the heels of a "target letter" sent to his attorney recently by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, signaling that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff may face imminent indictment, sources that are knowledgeable about the probe said Wednesd...

10:05 AM kresek

President John F. Kennedy returning to Washington D.C. after Dallas"I am convinced that, in time, professional historians, political scientists, and others with a serious interest in the history of this poor perishing republic will be forced one day to come to terms with Dallas. This is, to my mind, the beginning of America's slipping into the Dark...

9:02 AM kresek

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1:06 PM kresek

Zbigniew Brzezinski: "Do not attack Iran"In the absence of an imminent threat (with the Iranians at least several years away from having a nuclear arsenal), the attack would be a unilateral act of war.If undertaken without formal Congressional declaration, it would be unconstitutional and merit the impeachment of the President....

10:14 AM kresek

Photo of the day (Sluts, in particular, need ready access to abortion)...

3:02 PM kresek

CNN: 32%68% of Americans do not approve of the President's job performance. Unfortunately, the poll did not ask how many thought he should be run out of town on a ra...

12:26 PM kresek

U.S. Prepares 'Super Base' in IraqIt is becoming clear why there is no exit strategy: they don't plan to leave--ev...

10:08 AM kresek

From Left-Over...

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Dear Mr. President (a song by Pi...

12:25 PM kresek

Iraq war based on lies: Final Proof(CBS) A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq. "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy." --Tyler DrumhellerDrumheller, who retired last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source. The source was Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri,...

10:16 AM kresek

Which means that 67% of the American public do not have their head up their ass....

10:04 AM kresek

Anticipating the 2008 presidential campai...

9:53 AM kresek

Russia rules out sanctions against Iran without evidenceApparently Russia feels that the UN should not impose sanctions without actual "evidence" that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, while our own country is quite possibly prepared to launch an unprovoked attack, perhaps nuclear, on the nation of Iran.Making rational decisions, on the basis of "evidence", would be unfamiliar territory for our President and his supporters, and I doubt they will adopt that standard for decison making. If we were to base belief, actions, and policy on "evidence"...

12:52 PM kresek

Not that I'm paranoid...Update: I am not going to update this every day, I promise. My "CDC" visitor seems to have gone away: numerous multiple daily visits of zero seconds, then (after I comment on it) one visit of over 26 minutes, and now--gone. Come back "CDC". Please, leave a comment, introduce yourself. Also, a big shout-0ut to ISP address 72.139.27, unknown ISP, unknown country, unknown continent. Next time, why don't you stay awhile?Update:Yesterday I post about this noting 8 CDC visits, all but one of zero seconds, and one of one second....

10:10 AM kresek

Something just had its cover blown(From Rigorous Intuiti...

10:02 AM kresek

Is the Bush administration backing away from war with Iran?Negroponte: Iran Nuclear Claims Exaggerated "According to the experts that I consult, achieving — getting 164 centrifuges to work is still a long way from having the capacity to manufacture sufficient fissile material for a nuclear weapon," Negroponte said. "It could still be a matter of years. ... In fact our assessment is that the prospects of an Iranian weapon are still a number of years off, and probably into the next decade."Rice says US will use varied means to stop Iran U.S. Secretary...

12:39 PM kresek

"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. … We are today not far from a disaster."- T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia), The Sunday Times, August 1920Another Lawrence quote:"Those who dream by night in the dusty...

12:25 PM kresek

Interesting article on WorldNetDaily (I read it so you don't have to.) Anything on that site must be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. Remember their American Hiroshima stories? Al Qaeda was going to nuke us over Ramadan.Real bad news in Afghanistan: Taliban regains control of much of country, PakistanIn a report by Paul L. Williams, author of the new book, "Dunces of Doomsday," and David Dastych, one-eyed Mullah Omar and his army of radical Islamic students are currently in control of all of the rural and mountain areas of Afghanistan,...

12:44 PM kresek

Photographs from Iraq A boy at a refugee camp near Najaf, where he and his family fled from the Ahu Ghraib district of Baghdad. Some 33,000 people have been internally displaced in Iraq since the shrine in Samarra was destroyed on February 22, according to the International Organization for Migration. Another day at a refugee camp, called Diwaniyah,...

12:37 PM kresek

Conservative Arnaud de Borchgrave in The Washington Times says that Afghanistan is "on life support" . Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to pull most of our resources out of that country and send them to Iraq, which is also going to he...

12:28 PM kresek

FBI Watching Non-Violent Peace GroupsAccording to this article in the Denver Post, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force has been watching groups such as Food Not Bombs. I am sure that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Undoubtable, thousands of man-hours are being wasted spying on liberal groups--time that could have been better spent looking for terrorists.As an ACLU lawyer said recently, it's difficult enough finding a needle in a haystack without adding more h...

10:11 AM kresek

This is an interesting document from the National Archives. It's a 1959 US Army document. Note the name Jack Rubenstein. #119-100031-0172Update: Greg Parker has made the following comment on this document:I personally don't believe the person named here is Ruby.There are two better prospects with the same name; both NYC residents. First was head of...

5:15 PM kresek

If we attack Iran: How bad could it get? from Sic Semper Trannis 2...

4:33 PM kresek

Why Iraq Was a Mistake (Lt. General Gregory Newbold, in Time magazine) "The cost of flawed leadership continues to be paid in blood.""It is time for senior military leaders to discard caution in expressing their views and ensure that the President hears them clearl...

3:14 PM kresek

Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac.? During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described...

2:31 PM kresek

Iran issues stark military warning to United States TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime's boldest challenges yet to the United States. "You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it," said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime's most powerful figures. "The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a...

1:01 PM kresek

What we are seeing now from the far right is not conservatism at all. It is fascism: the imposition of a national and worldwide police state to enforce a narrow world view that enriches and empowers the few at the expense of the many, and that gives no respect or honor to other cultures, ways of living, or opinions. To call that conservatism is a crime against the memory of America's great and true conservatives, who might think that government ought to be less involved in life than we old liberals would concur with, but who nevertheless stood...

10:13 AM kresek

Eyes Only: CI-Project would mean Counter Intelligence Project--not sure about RE. VOLUME I/SUPPORT DOCUMENTS FOR THE HELMS HEARING AT HSCA- (180 pag...

1:17 PM kresek

The Saddam Documents - Caveat EmptorHighly recommend...

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“We are creating an American military secret police that is clearly acquiring way too much information and way too much power.”...

12:26 PM kresek

US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror groupThe Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being “run” in two southern regional areas of Iran.“These guys are nuts,” this intelligence source said....

12:22 PM kresek

Tales of the Cold WarThroughout the Cold War, as now still, with only a handful of exceptions, there have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed – usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors – and the ones that are not yet widely known to have fail...

10:13 AM kresek

Someone who did know what he was talking about on Iraq-so of course he was ignored by the Bushites:It was a few weeks before the invasion of Iraq, three years ago. I was interviewing the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, in the ballroom of a big hotel in Cairo.Shrewd, amusing, bulky in his superb white robes, he described to me all the disasters he was certain would follow the invasion.The US and British troops would be bogged down in Iraq for years. There would be civil war between Sunnis and Shias. The real beneficiary would be the...

1:00 PM kresek

The Ghosts of NovemberAn excellent article by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, “Vanity Fair” magazine, December 2...

12:33 PM kresek

Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to ContraryIn other words: Bush liedOn May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go...

12:29 PM kresek

Fish that walked on land is missing link in evolutionOK, that it then, right? The creationists can all shut up and go home and we can teach children science in the public schools rather than fantasy.Update:Ancient fossils fill gap in early human evolution So, let me see if I understand this. More complex forms of life EVOLVED from simpler ones, resulting eventually in human beings. I learned this "theory of evolution" in high school Biology class and now, years later, new evidence supports the theory. I believe this is how science is supposed to...

10:43 AM kresek

From Smirking Chimp , a good article by Ernest Partridge: 'Newspeak and the corruption of politics'The right faces an invincible adversary: reality. Their denial of reality, which they label "faith" and "intuition," cannot abolish evolution or the laws of atmospheric physics and chemistry that determine climate chan...

12:52 PM kresek

A Simple Act of Murder : November 22, 1963 Yes, Mark Fuhrman has a book coming out on the JFK assassination....

12:44 PM kresek

It's not often that I agree with Karl Rove."We have, as you know, an enormous and growing problem with elections in certain parts of America today, We are, in some parts of the country, I'm afraid to say, beginning to look like we have elections like those run in countries where they guys in charge are, you know, colonels in mirrored sunglasses. I mean, it's a real problem..."He is not confessing, however. He is apparently referring to alleged Democratic vote fra...

12:39 PM kresek

Vince Palamara posted the following message from Abraham Bolden at alt.conspiracy.jfkI just wanted you all to know that Random House Publishers has contracted to publish my book, The Echo from Dealey Plaza. For those who are unfamiliar with the book, it is the story of my life from birth, through my time spent as the first African American to be assigned to the Presidential White House Detail under President John F. Kennedy, and through the trials and tribulations that I suffered after the President was assassinated. After final editing is completed,...

4:07 PM kresek

Candy B...

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#104-10109-10374 - I thought today that I would scan some of the documents that I recently received from the National Archiv...

10:04 AM kresek

Larry Johnson in his blog No Quarter called George W. Bush a coward yesterday.Johnson was formerly with the CIA and the State Department's Office of Counter Terrori...

12:41 PM kresek

Devil-board occultist to lead Italy?With thanks to Professor ...

12:33 PM kresek

Strange Tale of Eugene Din...

3:35 PM kresek

Martin Luther King Assassination Records Onl...

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Martin Luther King was assassinated 38 years ago today div align="center" Sound files of King assassination...

12:36 PM kresek

Madmen in the White House?From Sic Semper Tyrannis ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large:A prominent "neocon," still in good odor at the White House and OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense), speaking privately, assured us that by the time president Bush leaves office in January 2009, Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions would be history.Assuming tough sanctions -- draconian or otherwise -- don't bring Iran's mullahs to heel, we inquired, trying not to sound too wimpish, what would be Mr. Bush's next step?"B-2s," this prominent armchair strategist...

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