January 22, 2006

News -- January 22, 2006

When George Met Jack - "White House aides deny the President knew lobbyist Abramoff, but unpublished photos shown to TIME suggest there's more to the story. ... "The President does not know him, nor does the President recall ever meeting him," McClellan said. The President's memory may soon be unhappily refreshed. TIME has seen five photographs of Abramoff and the President that suggest a level of contact between them that Bush's aides have downplayed. While TIME's source refused to provide the pictures for publication, they are likely to see the light of day eventually because celebrity tabloids are on the prowl for them." -- Another lie about to collapse.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1151747,00.html

Latest Bin Laden Tape: Another of the NeoCons' "Greatest Hits" - "Experts already begin to come forward with revelations that Latest tape just another CIA fake. Spying? Torture? Illegal airstrikes? SHUT UP and hate Bin Laden. The NeoCon use of Osama Bin Laden as a tool of fear and control is a tried and tested method whenever the going gets tough. It's predictable and it's tiresome, but the masses buy it every time and that's why he has reappeared once again."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/200106Bin_Laden_Tape.htm

Bin Laden threats may boost Bush - "Americans hardly need a tape of Osama Bin Laden to remind them they are threatened by extremists, as the War on Terror has overshadowed their lives since 9/11."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4630054.stm

Iran's Bomb - "Presumably, we didn't want Israel to have the bomb, but the Israelis built them anyway. Ditto Pakistan, India and North Korea. In the end, despite the hot rhetoric, if the Iranians want a bomb, they will probably end up building it. That might cause the Israelis to lose a little sleep – though not much, as they have 200 nuclear weapons – but it shouldn't bother us in the least. The Iranians are just as sensible and levelheaded as anyone else. Don't buy the propaganda that they are all a bunch of crazies. They've been around a lot longer than we have. I would trust them with nuclear weapons as much as – perhaps even a hair more than – I trust Bush. Americans must stop allowing politicians and propagandists to scare them into reckless behavior."
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=8421

Israeli Hints at Preparation to Stop Iran - ""Israel will not be able to accept an Iranian nuclear capability and it must have the capability to defend itself, with all that that implies, and this we are preparing," Shaul Mofaz said."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060122/D8F9EEN00.html

‘US will help Israel in case of war with Iran’ - "If Israel is attacked, the United States will “obviously” militarily support its close Mideast ally, US Vice President Dick Cheney said in interview with CNBC television Thursday."
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\01\21\story_21-1-2006_pg4_4

Currency War - "And perhaps that hitch caused them to slow down long enough to reflect upon the Iranian Bourse that is scheduled to become operational – coincidently? – as early as March. ... So, there are some observers who fervently believe that the real reason Bush-Cheney launched a war of aggression against Iraq was to restore the primacy of petrodollars and to demonstrate to any country – such as Iran, who had begun serious planning for the Iranian Bourse in 2000 – what would happen to them if they followed Saddam’s lead."
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=8426

Collapse of U.S. Economy Imminent - "In its attempt to establish a world empire dominating every nation on the planet, the U.S. has exhausted its ability to finance the expansion and the country now faces imminent financial collapse. From all indications, it looks like 2006 will spell the end for America. Consider these five important points:"
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9995

What do they know that they are not telling us? - " There has to be a reason why the U.S. government is spying on its citizens. There must be a reason why laws are being enacted to put the U.S. on a police state footing. There's got to be a reason why the executive branch of government seeks more and more control of all aspects of governance, including shaping the views of the judiciary by placing jurists in high positions who defer to the executive at the expense of the influence of their own branch of government. And the fear of "terrorism" cannot be that reason. ... There is something our government knows; there is something our government is planning; there is something about to happen that they are preparing for and not telling us about. It has little to do with foreign terrorism. Someone is preparing to survive at the expense of someone else."
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=19784&hd=0&size=1&l=x

Iran will be taught a lesson: Burns - "US Undersecretary of State R Nicolas Burns has called Iran “a threat to world peace” and vowed to “teach it a lesson”. He said this in a press conference following talks with Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran on Friday.Iran has “crossed so many international red lines, that it has to know that will be a penalty to be paid,” he said." -- Same vague shit we heard about Iraq.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C01%5C21%5Cstory_21-1-2006_pg1_1

Not. Backing. Hillary. - "I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president. ... The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times. There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief."
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=20250

Rove tells Republicans to run on Bush's record - "White House political adviser Karl Rove on Friday said Democratic critics of the Iraq war were wrong and Republicans should highlight the issue in November's congressional elections."
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-01-20T220043Z_01_N20293953_RTRUKOC_0_US-REPUBLICANS.xml

The Other Pro-Choice Movement - "In addition to Oregon, physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland. Everywhere else, the terminally ill are forced to endure sometimes horrific pain at the end of life, or end their misery with a plastic bag, a noose, or other undignified means. And those sad, desperate acts will continue as long as so-called "pro-life" factions keep fighting attempts to widen the acceptance of physician-assisted suicide and provide more people with the power to choose a good death over a horrible, lingering, painful one. ... "Surely the right to die in a manner and at a time one's own choosing is the ultimate civil liberty.""
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0121-23.htm

Homeland Security to launch preparedness program for kids - ""Disaster . . . it can happen anywhere, But we've got a few tips, so you can be prepared, For floods, tornadoes, or even a 'quake, You've got to be ready -- so your heart don't break.""
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/20/ready.kids.ap/index.html

Physicist hypothesizes creator left messages - "A University physicist has proposed that temperature fluctuations in microwave radiation may contain messages from the universe’s creator."
http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/18/43ce0fdf42101

Fairies stop developers' bulldozers in their tracks - "VILLAGERS who protested that a new housing estate would “harm the fairies” living in their midst have forced a property company to scrap its building plans and start again."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881612,00.html




Quote of the Day
"The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them."
~ U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark

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