News -- November 30, 2005

Pentagon, intel pros tell Bush war cannot be won - "“The American people have turned against the war, and they're not turning back,” said political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “The public is no longer with the President on this issue.” But opposition to the President’s policies also grows in the private corridors of the Pentagon and in the intelligence community where professionals in the art of waging war say the battle for Iraq is lost."
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7723.shtml

O'Reilly on Fire on Today on Iraq: "It's World War III" - ""See, this is a war, this is WWIII. Everyone watching today: this is WWIII! If these people get an atomic device, which Iran is making right now, they're going to set it off in America if they can. Wise up, let's knock this off, everybody should come together and do what we have to do to stabilize that country."" -- Shut up, Bill.
http://newsbusters.org/node/3015

What 'staying the course' really means - "Nearly three years into the war in Iraq, the Bush administration tells us that it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction or Iraqi ties to al-Qaeda, but about America's holy mission to spread democracy to the benighted regions of the Middle East. However, postwar Iraq is anything but a democracy. In fact, if Iraq manages to avoid all-out civil war, it is likely to end up with a government that is fiercely undemocratic - a Shi'ite theocratic dictatorship that rules by terror, torture, and armed might."
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GL01Ak01.html

How our governments use terrorism to control us - "The sponsorship of terrorism by western governments, targeting their own populations, has been a taboo subject. Although major scandals have received cursory coverage in the media, the subject has been allowed to immediately disappear without discussion or investigation. Therefore the appearance this year of two major studies of this subject is a welcome breakthrough, and provides essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the events of September 11, 2001 and the post September 11 world. The studies are complementary. NATO's Secret Armies, Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser concerns terrorism sponsored by American and British intelligence in Western Europe and Turkey between the end of World War II and 1985. The War on Truth, 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed chronicles the cultivation and sponsorship of militant Islamic terrorism by the intelligence services of the United States, Britain and Russia from 1979 to the present. Both studies are models of scholarship -- meticulously documented and carefully reasoned -- but the world they reveal will boggle the mind of the most wild-eyed conspiracy theorist."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/291105controlus.htm

Cheney 'may be guilty of war crime' - "Vice-president Dick Cheney's burden on the Bush administration grew heavier yesterday after a former senior US state department official said he could be guilty of a war crime over the abuse of prisoners."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1653936,00.html

None Dare Call It Censorship - "All serious and intelligent journalists today know that the U.S. government has massive media management brigades to carefully control what Americans see in the media and, thus, what they are very likely to believe about things of which they have no direct experience, such as high-level politics, finance and foreign affairs. They also know that the government is extremely effective in secretly censoring the news by using devices such as "embedded reporting" in nations like Afghanistan and Iraq which the U.S. government invades, occupies, and governs."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/douglas2.html

Fascism then. Fascism now? - "When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132960211791&call_pageid=1109682110623&col=1109682108702

Alito Pushed Abortion Fight Under Reagan - "As a young government lawyer opposed to abortion rights, Samuel Alito argued for a legal strategy of chipping away at the landmark Supreme Court ruling rather than mounting an all-out assault likely to inflict a defeat on the Reagan administration, according to documents released Wednesday."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051130/D8E72UAO0.html

US Military Stages Media Offensive in Iraq - "As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the US military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the US mission in Iraq."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/113005I.shtml

Are Jews born smart? - "Ashkenazi Jews are genetically intellectually superior to everyone else. This is the conclusion of a recent "scientific" study entitled "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence"."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475650155&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

U.S. Customs now reads your blog entries? -- You are not free to travel.
http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-5976066.html

IE Flaw 'extremely critical' - "AN UNPATCHED vulnerability on Internet Explorer is so bad that security expert Secunia has had to add a new category of danger to its rating system."
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27992

French woman has first partial face transplant - "French surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant -- giving a new nose, chin and lips to a woman savaged by a dog. Specialists from two French hospitals carried out the operation on a 38-year-old woman on Sunday in the northern city of Amiens by grafting on tissues, muscles, arteries and veins from a brain-dead woman."
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2005-11-30T203038Z_01_MCC059437_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-TRANSPLANT.xml&rpc=22

Kids' 'choking game' can be fatal - "The goal is a fleeting "high" that follows a lack of oxygen to the brain and has teens across the nation throttling themselves with belts and ropes, choking each other with bare hands or pulling plastic bags over their heads until they nearly pass out."
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051129/LIVING/511290343&SearchID=73228069476749

15 wives, 100 children - "A tribal Christian cult leader in this northeast state could well claim a slot in the Guinness Book of World Records - 15 wives and more than 100 children staying together."
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=11197

Kiss steals the life of a girl with an allergy - "Christina Desforges, a Canadian teenager allergic to peanuts actually lost her life after she stole a kiss with her boyfriend who had just consumed a peanut-based snack. The allergy that affects just over a percent of the population caused the 15-year old to go into anaphylactic shock despite an immediately administered adrenalin shot. The girl eventually died four days after the lethal kiss of respiratory failure."
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/4553.html




Quote of the Day
"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands . . . [Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect . . . The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses . . . [Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way . . . But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. . . . The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince . . . the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them."
~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf