I know that every other liberal blogger ran these days ago. But just what is the upside to civil war in Iraq? So, my top 10 list of good things about civil war in Iraq...1. Better than "uncivil" war.2. Makes disarray in the Bush administration look good by comparison.3. New Orleans doesn't look so bad now.4. Better than civil war here.5. Bush destroying...

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Whistleblower Charged With Three Felonies for Exposing Diebold's CrimesHis name is Stephen Heller, and I have added him to my list of heroes. None of the names on that list are very well known. And, so far, none of them are in the governme...

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Reporter Rob Johnson couldn't understand why his name showed up on the federal no-fly terrorism list last July:It all started last July when I headed to California with my family on my two-month-old son's first trip. We arrived an hour and a half early at O'Hare. We tried to check our bags curbside, but were told to go inside. The automated kiosk didn't work either, so we went to the American Airlines counter. After several computer checks we were told one of our names were on the federal no-fly list. By the time we were cleared it was too late...

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Cheney quail hunt gamehttp://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/140206hunt....

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"One can't doubt that the Americanobjective in Iraq has failed."William F. Buckleywww.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200602241451.aspIt is hard to believe that it was in June of 2005 that Vice President "Dead Eye" Dick Cheney announced that the insurgency was in its "last throes." That was, of course, the "light at the end of the tunnel" moment of the war in Iraq, and that is when I concluded that the cause was lo...

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Jesus' GeneralI've added a new link in the bloggers section, http://patriotboy.blogspot.com which is titled Jesus' General, from which I took the accompanying graphi...

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Oh, my God! I know I wasn't going to post any more photos of scantily clad women, but OH MY GOD! Remember when Abbie Hoffman was censored for wearing an American flag shirt on television? And now conservatives are blatantly using sex (and the flag) to sell T-shirts. I'm shocked, real...

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"Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran."Senior Bush Official, May 2003www.counterpunch.org/shahid01172006.h...

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I knew it!From Ratbang Diary:Last night CNN’s Lou Dobbs was on the right track when he said, “President Bush's family and members of the Bush administration have long-standing business connections with the United Arab Emirates, and those connections are raising new concerns and questions tonight in some quarters about why the president is defying his very own party leadership and his party in defending the Dubai port deal.”CNN’s Christine Romans was even more enlightening. She said, “The oil-rich United Arab Emirates is a major investor in The...

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Congresswoman Sue Myrick on the port dealhttp://images.redstate.com/images/myrickuae....

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DP World and Carlyle GroupNYTexan posted this on the Free Republic site:Public statement of purchase of CSX by DP:www.dpiterminals.com/fullnews.asp?NewsID=4Earlier purchase of CSX by Carlyle Groupe:www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/news/l5-news2467.htmlCarlyle Group has, among its officers, Frank Carlucci, James Baker and former president George Bu...

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Robert Parry on the port dealThe Bush administration is letting the United Arab Emirates take control of six key U.S. ports despite its own port’s reputation as a smuggling center used by arms traffickers, drug dealers and terrorists, apparently including the assassins of Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022206.h...

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Conservative John LeBoutillier on the port dealIf Vice President Dick Cheney shot himself in the foot last week when he shot poor old Harry Whittington down on the Armstrong Ranch, President Bush is in the process of machine gunning both his legs off over this Dubai Ports World deal.www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/2/21/225541.shtml?s...

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Dubai: Our loyal ally in the war on terror?March 25, 2004 12 -- The Central Intelligence Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan, the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday.Had the CIA targeted bin Laden, half the royal family would have been wiped out as well, he said.http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/25osama....

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Response to readersA few days back I asked my regular readers what they wanted to see in this blog. Here are the replies and my responses:Anonymous said...JFK assissination stuff. Current events. Yeah,I'm interested in reading that stuff. And yes,I do appreciate the occasional scantily-clad woman.OK, great Anonymous, thanks. More JFK assissination and current event stuff on the way. And look for the occasional scantily-clad women.albion said...dirt, baby, dirt! scandals, rumors, irresponsible speculation. all that stuff that makes the blogosphere...

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Bush: Arab Co. Port Deal Should ProceedBush Says Deal With Arab Company to Run U.S. Ports Should Proceed, Vows to Veto Efforts OtherwiseWASHINGTON Feb 21, 2006 (AP)— President Bush said Tuesday that a deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1645919Bush hasn't threatend a veto since the torture bill, and we know how dear torture is to him. Somehow, somewhere, the Bush family is making money off this...

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Clearly DP World, the state-owned company in the United Arab Emirates that wants to take over our ports, can be trusted with our national security. Look at the cute cartoon mascots from their websi...

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Peter Dale Scott on the Homeland Security ContractsParanoids on the right and the left have been talking about FEMA and the coming police state for a long time now. I remember such talk during the Nixon administration, and although our form of government was in danger during his time, democracy prevailed. So, I believe, it will be today. But when a responsible political researcher like Professor Peter Dale Scott raises the alarm, I am, well, alarmed.It is clear that the Bush administration is thinking seriously about martial law.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20SC20060206&articleId=1897...

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Paranoids of both the right and left have been talking about the coming police state for decades--but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration’s domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy.“The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements,”...

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Prominent conservative Joseph Farah has accused former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and former Vice President Al Gore of treason:What is it with this recent trend of American officials and former officials going abroad to criticize their own country and enflame the passions of our nation's enemies?I don't suppose there is any way to rein them in. Personally, I think anyone who conducts himself in this way should be barred from re-entering the country. That's not likely to happen in this era of America-bashing.But, at least, Americans...

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Alberto J. Mora was the general counsel of the U.S. Navy and a Reagan conservative. When he was informed of interrogation practices at Guantanomo by the head of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), David Brant, he objected.Two years before the Abu Ghraib scandal, the general counsel of the U.S. Navy wrote a memo which tried to halt the "disastrous and unlawful policy of authorizing cruelty toward terror suspects,"I was under the opinion that the interrogation activities described would be unlawful and unworthy of the military services.”...

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Iran War in March?Evil Genius Michael Ledeen is still promoting war in Iran. This recent column is interesting:Sometime in late November or early December, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gathered his top advisers for an overall strategic review. The atmosphere was highly charged, because Khamenei’s doctors have diagnosed a serious cancer, and do not expect the Supreme Leader to live much more than a year. A succession struggle is already under way, with the apparently unsinkable Hashemi Rafsanjani in the thick of it, even though Khamenei, and...

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It needed to be said:The gravest indictment of the American news media is that George W. Bush has gutted the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter – yet this extraordinary story does not lead the nation’s newspapers and the evening news every day.-Robert Parry www.consortiumnews.com/2006/021806.h...

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Russell Tice's DilemmaA former NSA employee said Tuesday there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of Americans' Constitutional rights. Russell D. Tice told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations he has concerns about a "special access" electronic surveillance program that he characterized as far more wide-ranging than the warrentless wiretapping recently exposed by the New York Times but he is forbidden from discussing the program...

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Harry Whittington and FuneralgateBernice Moore posted this at www.jfkresearch.com:The Lawyer Harry Whittington, that was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney, heads the Texas Funeral Service Commission...which..Was involved in the Bush scandal "Funeralgate" which involved the worlds largest funeral conglomerate..Waltrip Mortuaries..One of Waltrips Companies won the contract to collect the bodies after "Katrina"..about which there is much on the web.www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Repor...505leopold.htmlThe former head of the Commission, was fired,...

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The Prince of Darkness on Bush and the CIAFormer Undersecretary of Defense Richard Perle, a strong supporter of the war against Saddam, blasted the CIA for orchestrating a smear campaign against the Bush White House and the war in Iraq."The CIA has been at war with the Bush administration almost from the beginning," he said in a keynote speech at the Intelligence Summit on Saturday.He singled out recent comments by Paul Pillar, a former top CIA Middle East analyst, alleging that the Bush White House "cherry-picked" intelligence to make the case...

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Have a good weekend everybody!I figure I have about six or seven regular readers and I know I have disappointed you guys this week. I will try to do better. What do you guys like? JFK assassination stuff, current events, stripper photos? Let me know: I am here to plea...

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Clint Curtis Running for Congress!Regular readers of this blog know that I have a "Heroes" section in my links because now more than ever America needs heroes. One of mine is Clint Curtis, who has accused Congressman Tom Feeney of asking him to create a vote-rigging software prototype program. Now Clint is running against Tom Feeney. That should be...

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Prez Wins One-Day Lying TrifectaYesterday, disclosures showed Bush lied on three separate issues:1. The Prez says Library Tower in Los Angeles was the target for a 2002 attack. Untrue from the git-go.2. The White House knew the New Orleans levees had been breached the night it happened even though the next day the Prez said New Orleans had “dodged a bullet”.3. E-mail from lobbyist Jack Abramoff confirmed that he met at least twelve times with George W. Bush.http://ratbangdiary.blogspot.com/2006/02/prez-wins-one-day-lying-trifecta.h...

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Cute gay penguins www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-450.h...

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Every rightwing site in the country has posted the anti-Muslim cartoons (because they are such strong believers in freedom of speech.) So I thought I would exercise my freedom of speech. No offense. "Suffer the little children to come unto me." God walking his dog. A classic And a real classic."Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit" -- Lord...

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The Drums of WarThe press and the Democrats have taken a war that could maybe, just maybe, have been fought by the nation's intelligence services over here and our elite military forces overseas, and turned it into a street brawl. A nuclear Iran means nuclear weapons in the hands of Islamic terrorists. That means the end of civilization.Islam has proven itself incapable of routing the evil that has grown within it. The inescapable conclusion is that "moderate" Muslims support the goals of the terrorists to present a single world in submission to...

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The argument in favor of the National Security Agency intercepts is consistent with those that took us to war in Iraq. They are all a collection, an assemblage, a concatenation of fibs, exaggerations, misinterpretations, selected evidence, hype, false leads, vile suggestions, felonious deletions and the like, which marched us to Baghdad where we remain to this day.Richard Cohen, Washington Post column...

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Get Ready for the Next WarThey're at it again: a Middle Eastern country is accused of having, aspiring to have, and wishing they had "weapons of mass destruction." Its leader is demonized as worse than Hitler. Its ambitions are described as virtually unlimited. And it is said to be threatening its neighbors – and the United States.The same gang that lied us into war last time is preparing a rerun of the same nightmarish movie, only this time in a new location: Iran. Starring many of the same actors, this story line should sound eerily familiar...

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Why Do They Always go after the Peace Groups?National Security Agency mounted massive spy op on Baltimore peace groupAccording to the documents, the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, a Quaker-linked peace group, has been monitored by the NSA working with the Baltimore Intelligence Unit of the Baltimore City Police Department.http://rawstory.com/news/2005/National_Security_Agency_spied_on_Baltimore_0110.htmlFBI targeting US activist activities as 'domestic terrorism'The documents released by the ACLU also include FBI observances on supposed Communist...

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On the Home FrontNew Mexico ACLU wants apology to employee investigated on 'sedition'ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico wants the government to apologize to a nurse for seizing her computer and investigating her for "sedition" after she criticized the Bush administration.www.freenewmexican.com/news/38858.htmlFrozen Account Ruffles NunsST. LEO - The nuns of the Holy Name Monastery say they have been swept into the net cast by the nation's antiterrorism laws.The sisters say the monastery's main bank account was frozen...

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The Drums of WarIranian fingerprints on cartoon-rage riots?www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48716Poll: Iran Biggest Threat to U.S.www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/7/144522.shtml?s=ic&s=lhMilitary strike against Iran may be necessarywww.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48227Newt Gingrich: Iran’s President is the New Hitlerwww.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/25/100038.shtml?s...

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What I'm reading:Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future by Jack CashillCashill's book is better than I thought it would be given that it is published by WND Press, associated with WorldNetDaily, one of the nuttier wingnut news sites. I am not convinced that Ron Brown was murdered--and, in fact, the author himself says that an accident cannot be ruled out although he clearly leans toward murder. There is certainly information in this book that is suspicious to say the least. Cashill quotes "Wecht's...

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The CIA Leak: Plame Was Still CovertFeb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the...

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NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- In an interview airing tonight on the PBS weekly newsmagazine NOW, Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson makes the startling claim that much of Powell's landmark speech to the United Nations laying out the Bush Administration's case for the Iraq war was false."I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council," says Wilkerson, who helped prepare the address. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060203/nyf073.html?.v=35So now we can say...

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Bin Laden Truce Offer: An expert opinionSome are portraying Osama bin Laden's offer of a truce as a sign of weakness. Michael Scheuer, a former CIA counter-terrorism expert on al-Qaeda, disagrees:Q: Is he reading us our rights?Scheuer: In many ways that’s exactly what he’s up to, one final try to get us to change our policies or he’s going to attack us again.Q: Can he do it?Scheuer: Oh sure, our borders are wide open. The other thing I always point to is that the Soviet nuclear arsenal isn’t under control. Also the message is very much in the tradition...

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A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the invasion - reveals that Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme.http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1700881,00.htmlSo, now can we say BUSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED without the wingnuts criticizing ...

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The Spider’s Web: The Texas School Book Depository and the Dallas ConspiracyBy William Westonhttp://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=5b46a3ee8430478ac5db45d915e5e01d&showtopic=6017Recently, Wilmer Thomas, a friend of Jim Garrison and a philanthropist in New York who funds the Metropolitan Opera, approached Arthur Schlesinger, historian for the Kennedy administration, and asked him who was responsible for the assassination of the President. Schlesinger replied, “We were at war with the national security people.” [48] When President Kennedy...

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Jeb shredding state records?A source inside the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation told Insider magazine that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has ordered the shredding of documents and public records, a clear violation of Florida law.The department has oversight and approval of state gaming licensees, slot machines, dog and horse tracks, and jai-alai games.The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said the governor also has brought in personnel from Texas to replace key members of his staff in Tallahassee. The Texans are overseeing...

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“We must all be prepared to torture.” — Charles Krauthammer, “The Truth About Torture,” The Weekly Standard, December 5, 2005Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald announced today that, swayed by the powerful arguments of an article in The Weekly Standard, he is prepared to torture Vice-President Cheney and political counselor Karl Rove for information that is “urgently needed” to save American lives. “I have determined that American lives can be saved by ending the ongoing stonewalling by these two suspects, who have clearly orchestrated a campaign...

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Harry Dean - Wade Rhodes posted this on the JFK Forum (see links) and Frank Agbat was good enough to transcribe it. I have a lot of documents on Harry Dean and will eventually put together a research project on him. Any information on Harry Dean is appreciated.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=9980&relPageId=30In an exclusive interview granted to Between the Lines, former undercover operative for the FBI, Harry Dean, has stated that the John Birch Society and the Drive Against Communist Aggression (DACA) had a heavily armed...

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