Politics May 2005
5/31/2005 Politics (slate) The Man Inside Who Brought Down a President
5/25/2005 Politics / Oil (rferl, teleg, abc, glob). US Backed Caspian-Mediterranean Oil Pipeline Launched In Baku.
"A 1,100-mile long oil pipeline with a capacity of 1 million barrels per day stretching across the former Soviet Union has been opened. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to transport
crude oil extracted from the Caspian Sea shelf to the Mediterranean Sea basin was inaugurated today near Azerbaijan's capital Baku. ... Construction of the U.S.-sponsored Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) started in 2001, and its final cost totaled well over the $3 billion originally planned. ... Experts say underground oil reserves in the Caspian Sea could total as many as 220 billion barrels. ... Beginning in Azerbaijan a mostly Muslim country and a U.S. ally in the war on terrorism with troops in Iraq the underground pipeline passes through Georgia and Turkey, ending at the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. It avoids going through Russia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria on its way to the Mediterranean. ... Other outlets, such as Iran and Afghanistan, remain too unstable to attract pipeline investors. "
Keep repeating: Oil had nothing to do with the US invasion of Afghanistan which continues today at a cost of $1 billion per month. An Afgan pipeline could move Caspian Sea oil and natural gas for the US, but that is just a coincidence.
5/26/2005 Politics / Freedom / Media. Newsweek Told Truth, Was Pressured to Call Truth a Lie, and is Now Vendicated by Pentagon Admitting Truth.
What a bizzare and disgusting manipulation of our media. Newsweek had Department of Defense approval on the story before it ran. Now we learn that there was, in fact, mishandling ( abuse ). The Pentagon has admitted it.
"Brigadier General Jay Hood, commander of the US prison in Cuba, said an investigation had uncovered 13 separate allegations that the Qur'an had been mishandled, 10 by prison guards and three by interrogators. ... Brig Gen Hood said that in (some) instances the mishandling appeared to have been deliberate, " -guardianuk
AND ... US General Eikenberry the top commander in Afghanistan, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers have both said the riots were not caused by the Newsweek story on the psychological torture tactic of Koran abuse reported to take place (along with physical torture) at Guantanamo. Protests, the officals said, were sparked by economic conditions and hostility to the continued presence of American troops in Afghanistan. The lie that the Newsweek story caused riots is still circulating. So many lemings blindly jumped on the Attack Newsweek! train without bothering to check the facts. Oops, cliff! Too late.
To stop making the world hate the USA, the solution is not to censor the true news. The solution is to really stop doing cruel things. No, really. I'm serious.
"...the fact that Newsweek is finally exposing a reality that has remained relatively hidden to the general American public is not a ''loss of journalistic credibility,'' rather it's called the purpose of journalism." - satimes
Impeach Bush and his neocon mob. There is a better way! Don't call this entry "Bush bashing". I'm lie bashing. I'm media manipulation bashing. I'm murder and torture bashing. I'm war bashing. Get it straight.
5/26/2005 Politics / Freedom / Media. Newsweek Told Truth, Was Pressured to Call Truth a Lie, and is Now Vendicated by Pentagon Admitting Truth.
What a disgusting manipulation of our media. "Newsweek did not make an error. It simply reported a fact that the Bushites did not want reported." Newsweek had Department of Defense approval on the story. There was, in fact, a mishandling ( abuse ) of the Koran. Furthermore, US General Eikenberry the top commander in Afghanistan, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers both said the riots were not caused by the Newsweek story. Protests, they said, were sparked by economic conditions and hostility to the continued presence of American troops in Afghanistan. The riot lie is still circulating. To stop making the world hate the US, the solution is not to censor the true news. The solution is to really stop doing cruel things.
"...the fact that Newsweek is finally exposing a reality that has remained relatively hidden to the general American public is not a ''loss of journalistic credibility,'' rather it's called the purpose of journalism." - satimes
Meanwhile, much worse things than book flushings are going on in our unholy Gulags.
Sadistic liars now control this country and our great military. Impeach Bush and his evil gang! Get the US back on track!On Jan. 9, 2005, Andrew Sullivan, writing in The Sunday Times of London, said, “While White House lawyers were arguing about what separates torture from legitimate ‘coercive interrogation techniques,' the following was taking place: Prisoners were hung for hours or days from bars or doors in semi-crucifixions; they were repeatedly beaten unconscious, woken and then beaten again for days on end; they were sodomized; they were urinated on, kicked in the head, had their ribs broken, and were subjected to electric shocks.” - satimes
5/20/2005 Politics / Freedom / Strange Happenings (scotsman | cnn). Britain's Sun Newspaper Defiant: We'll Publish More Saddam Pictures.
"(T)he Sun's managing editor Graham Dudman said the paper was proud to have run the pictures ... He said the newspaper had got hold of the pictures in a professional manner from a US military source who hoped it would deal a blow to the resistance in Iraq."
5/19/2005 Politics (cnn). George Galloway returns to London to a standing ovation after a fiery showdown with U.S. senators who accused him of profiting from the U.N.'s defunct oil-for-food program in Iraq.
"I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims, did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11, 2001," he told Coleman.
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong. And 100,000 people have paid with their lives -- 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies, 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever, on a pack of lies."
He added: "Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported."
Straight up. Here's to the British spirit and the tradition of facing down your accusers in person. I am impressed. Follow this example, little sprouts. Speak the truth fearlessly every minute of every day. It is past time for the BS to end.
"Take a close look at the way Galloway's name appears in slightly smaller and fainter type, and the way it is slightly crooked, inside a supposedly computer-generated document." - wrh
Galloway's Accuser's Oil Claims 'Based on Forgery'
5/18/2005 Politics. Jeb Bush: Next King of the USA. Positioning Begins.
5/16/2005 Politics / Movies. Power Hour 9-11 Video. The video presents the following ideas: 1. Military jets with missiles attached underneath hit the twin towers instead of passenger jets. 2. The towers fell as the result of demolition charges previously set. 3. A missile and not a passenger jet hit the Pentagon. 4. The 9-11 conspiracy is not just a theory. Based on the observable facts, it is a real possibility. Freak yourself out by reading the Power Hour web site. Stay skeptical and trust no one.
5/14/2005 Politics / Pop Culture / Movies. Darth Bush / Darth Cheney? George Lucas in Revenge of the Sith draws a parallel in defense of truth and democracy.
Bush Quote: "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." - GW Bush. Sept. 20, 2001
Vader Quote: "If you're not with me, you are my enemy," threatens Hayden Christensen , as the newly christened Darth Vader in "Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" .
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes," responds Ewan McGregor coolly as the betrayed mentor, Obi-Wan.
Such a line, not to mention the film's story of a growing empire that is transformed from a democracy into a dictatorship, has stirred some of the film's first viewers to question filmmaker George Lucas about the political context of the film.
"This really came out of the Vietnam era," Lucas said today of his six-part story about the transformation and rise of Darth Vader. But he admitted during this afternoon's press conference here in Cannes that there are parallels between Vietnam and Iraq and added that such themes have recurred throughout history. But, he feels that "Star Wars" is especially relevant today. "When I wrote Star Wars, Iraq didn't exist. We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction, we weren't worried about him."
"I didn't think it was going to get quite this close," he said during the crowded session with the select press, "I hope this doesn't become true in our country. Maybe the film will wake people to see how easily a democracy can be subverted."
"This is not the fun, happy go lucky movie that some of the others were," George Lucas explained at the press conference. Then, asked if this is really the end of the saga, Lucas put to rest any rumors of more "Star Wars" films (other than an animated TV series about the Clone Wars and a live-action TV series about minor characters). - blogs.indiewire.com
5/12/2005 Politics. Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents. Critics of Bush call them proof that he and Blair never saw diplomacy as an option with Hussein.
LONDON — Reports in the British press this month based on documents indicating that President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by July 2002 to invade Iraq appear to have blown over quickly in Britain.
But in the United States, where the reports at first received scant attention, there has been growing indignation among critics of the Bush White House, who say the documents help prove that the leaders made a secret decision to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nearly a year before launching their attack, shaped intelligence to that aim and never seriously intended to avert the war through diplomacy.
5/8/2005 Politics / Events / Blog. Whole Earth Festival. Hi people. For those of you who wanted to go but couldn't here are my pics from the 2005 Whole Earth Festival.
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