To Look Again - Part Four
Dave's Diatribe - Unfair and Unbalanced
David Mullenax
david@davesdiatribe.com
One of the weapons used in manipulating public opinion is the use of the personal attack. It has many other names as well, like mudslinging, slander, name-calling, character assassination, etc., and you'll find plenty of it when any two opposing sides meet. Many special-interest groups are quite fond of the strategy, but no one is as masterful at it as organized Jewry.
http://www.augustafreepress.com
Israel Wants Iraq to Pay Compensation
by Lawrence Smallman
Tuesday 01 June 2004 5:52 PM GMT
Baghdad's Old Jewish quarter is a shadow of its former self
Israel looks set to pursue a compensation claim on behalf of Jews who left Iraq over 50 years ago, despite no such similar consideration for Palestinian refugees.
http://english.aljazeera.net
Israel: Now You See It, Now You Don't
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST
King County Democrats just pulled off a nifty magic trick.
They made Israel disappear.
Not the country, mind you, but the word -- as it had appeared in proposed language for the party's 2004 county platform.
The plank called for the United States to stop sending aid to Israel unless it treats the Palestinian people with dignity and respect. But when county Democrats, preparing for the big state convention, ironed out the final wrinkles of the platform Tuesday, "Israel" vanished.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com
Bilderberg: The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory
By Jonathan Duffy
BBC News Online
The Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its 50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever.
Given its reputation as perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world, the Bilderberg group doesn't go a bundle on its switchboard operations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Guess Who's at Super-Secret Bilderberg Meeting Today
Italy hosts 50th-anniversary confab of mysterious society of world leaders
Posted: June 4, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The 50th anniversary conference of the elite Bilderberg group – which many believe conspires semi-annually to foster global government – is under way in Stresa, Italy.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com
The Fed Cannot Fix Itself
By Frank Shostak
[Posted June 2, 2004]
In his speech on May 20, 2004, a Fed Governor, Ben Bernanke, argued in favor of a gradual approach to interest rate policy settings. According to Bernanke, because policy makers do not have precise knowledge of how the economy will respond to a given change in interest rates it is logical that policy makers should proceed cautiously.
http://www.mises.org
The US Established a New Category of Human Being Without Rights: "the Terrorist"
Toward a Universal Declaration of Human Wrongs
By C. DOUGLAS LUMMIS
A talk given at the symposium, "The World Today", sponsored by Forum Barcelona 2004 12 May, 2004
Let me begin by saying that as an American citizen I want to express my congratulations and my gratitude to the people of Spain for instructing their government to withdraw from the illegal and unjustified catastrophe called the occupation of Iraq. This not only a great gift to the people of Iraq, it is also (whether they know it or not) a great gift to the people of the United States. I admire you, and I envy you.
http://www.counterpunch.com
The 'Patriot' Search
Buying a home? Prepare to pay to have your name checked against a government list of suspected terrorists
http://msnbc.msn.com
Little Brothers Like IP Cameras
Reuters Page 1 of 1
07:39 AM Jun. 06, 2004 PT
TAIPEI -- Big Brother is getting a whole lot of little siblings. New surveillance cameras allow anyone with a broadband Internet connection to keep a 24-hour watch on nearly anything from anywhere.
http://www.wired.com
Big Brother is Driving You
Controversial and creepy technology, which lets car rental agencies track whether drivers are speeding, finally has its day in court. Privacy loses.
by Colleen Van Tassell - June 3, 2004
CRANICK ILLUSTRATION
It took a jury of six Connecticut residents only about 40 minutes to decide that ultimately, Big Brother can ride shotgun.
http://newhavenadvocate.com
Freedom vs. Security: A False Choice
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
In recent days administration officials have warned the nation about possible terrorist attacks, subjecting us once again to color-coded threat charts and puzzling admonitions to go about our lives as usual. The message is clear: grave danger surrounds us, but ordinary citizens should do nothing and trust the government take care of it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com
Saudis Released Gunmen on Advice of US
03/06/2004 - 13:31:26
Saudi authorities gave safe passage to three al-Qaida gunmen after the they killed 10 of the hostages on the advice of the US, a senior security official said.
http://212.2.162.45
U.S. Told Saudis to Let Al-Qaida Gunmen Escape Says Official
"PA"
Saudi authorities gave safe passage to three al-Qaida gunmen after the they killed 10 of the hostages they were holding at a hotel in the oil hub of Khobar, a senior security official said.
http://news.scotsman.com
Did al-Qaida Trainee Warn FBI Before 9/11?
Says he told agents of terrorist plan to hijack passenger planes
By Lisa Myers, Jim Popkin and the NBC Investigative Unit
NBC News
LONDON - More than a year before 9/11, a Pakistani-British man told the FBI an incredible tale: that he had been trained by bin Laden’s followers to hijack airplanes and was now in America to carry out an attack. The FBI questioned him for weeks, but then let him go home, and never followed up. Now, the former al-Qaida insider is talking.
http://msnbc.msn.com
Taliban Told US It Would Give Up Osama: Report
United States and Taliban officials met secretly in Frankfurt almost a year before the September 11 attacks to discuss terms for the Afghans to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a German television documentary.
http://www.abc.net.au
Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
Jun 4, 2004, 06:15
President George W. Bush’s increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader’s state of mind.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com
US Blew Up Village Wedding Because of Role in Smuggling American Fugitive Soldiers Out of "Iraqi Hell."
THE background to the American bombing raid on a village wedding party on May 18, during which the bridegroom was killed along with over 40 other villagers, remains largely a mystery in the international media.
http://www.fpp.co.uk
Gulf Vets Victimized Again
Associated Press Page 1 of 1
09:42 AM Jun. 04, 2004 PT
WASHINGTON The Defense Department and the CIA used flawed computer modeling to determine which troops were exposed to chemical warfare agents during the first Gulf War, the General Accounting Office said this week.
http://www.wired.com
Malaria-Drug Diagnosis for 'Coward' GI
By Mark Benjamin and Dan Olmsted
United Press International
Published 6/4/2004 5:37 PM
WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The first U.S. soldier charged with cowardice since the Vietnam War is suffering from damage to his brainstem that likely was caused by the anti-malaria drug he was given in Iraq, a military doctor has concluded.
http://www.upi.com
The Fact Behind the Fictions: the U.S. and Israel Plan Permanent Occupations
By Rachelle Marshall
I BELIEVE President Bush declared the death of the peace process today.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, former Palestinian information minister, on Bush’s acceptance of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for unilateral “disengagement,” The New York Times, April 15.
As resentment against the U.S. occupation in early April boiled over into a guerrilla war involving tens of thousands of angry Iraqis, Americans began comparing the situation to the U.S. intervention in Vietnam, where the United States became bogged down in a bloody, no-win war that had no credible justification.
http://www.wrmea.com
The Same Old Failed Policies in Iraq
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Statement before the US House of Representatives, June 3, 2004
Mr. Speaker, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Our allegiances to our allies and friends change constantly. For a decade, exiled Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi was our chosen leader-to-be in a new Iraq. Championed by Pentagon neocons and objected to by the State Department, Mr. Chalabi received more than 100 million U.S. taxpayer dollars as our man designated to be leader of a new Iraqi government.
http://www.lewrockwell.com
Crony Contracts in Iraq Memo
http://www.judicialwatch.org
How to Fight the Mighty Morphin’ Neocons and Their Trusty Sidekicks
By Jacques Kinau
AS PRESS BARON Conrad Black faces ouster from Hollinger Internationaland seems to be taking Richard Perle down with himmany Americans, blighted by the neocons’ pervasive infestation of the U.S. media, may think they can rest easier. One can’t blame them, of course, for being grateful for any reprieve. However, even though Hollinger’s illicit payments to Perle, George F. Will and a legion of neocon sympathizers have been permanently cut off, it is too soon to let down one’s guard. Since their early days as Trotskyite radicals, America’s neocons have exhibited an uncanny ability to morph into parasitic forms and attach themselves to new hosts for nurture.
http://www.wrmea.com
More Imperial Intrigue as CIA Director Resigns
by Jim Lobe
The abrupt resignation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet adds new grist to Washington's rumor mills, already churning at warp speed due to the ongoing prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq and reports that the Bush administration's favorite in Baghdad turned over critical information to Iran.
http://www.lewrockwell.com
Arab World Galvanized by Bush’s “New Balfour Declaration”
By Peter C. Valenti
IF PRESIDENT George W. Bush intended to eliminate even the pretense of the U.S. as an “honest broker” in the Arab-Israeli conflict, then he has succeeded masterfully. Similarly, he fostered a unity of Arab and Islamicas well as Europeanopinion against American foreign policy even greater than the reaction to the Iraq war. It was not hyperbolic for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to state during an April 19 interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, “Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region.”
http://www.wrmea.com
Train Wreck of the Week
by Bob Chapman
Mobile phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US Army installations in Iraq so that future rapes, abuse and torture cannot be captured in living color. Isn’t fascism wonderful? Now we won’t have to see those terrible actions take place.
http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com
Dr Congo's Shameful Sex Secret
By Kate Holt
Please note that the names of the girls interviewed have been changed to protect their identities.
Faela is 13 and her son Joseph is just under six months old.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Nuns in Front Line of Mugabe Campaign to Drive the Last Whites from Zimbabwe
By Anne Wayne
06 June 2004
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo has condemned an invasion of a white-owned farm led by two nuns, amid a fresh upsurge of violence against Zimbabwe's white farmers. At least 13 properties have been invaded in the past fortnight and several farmers have suffered beatings.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Following the Afghan Drugs Trail
The Afghan drugs trade is growing so fast some fear the country could become a narco-state, where drugs barons rule, not the government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
The Afghan Boys Who are Prey for the Organ-Traffickers
By Mike Collett-White in Kandahar
07 June 2004
Ismail is only 10 years old, but the horrors of the past three months will be with him to his grave. He was rescued by the Afghan authorities on Friday, after being kidnapped in March with his brother Ibrahim, 6.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Russia Sends 80 Tons of Poisoned Corn Back to the US
06/04/2004 17:21
Federal agricultural inspection services of Russia decided to send back 80 tons of American poisoned corn back to the US and 649,5 tons of potatoes back to Israel.
http://english.pravda.ru
History Without History, Spelling Without Spelling
Friday, June 04, 2004
By Joanne Jacobs
American students learn how World War II affected Japanese-Americans, blacks and women, but not much about the actual war, writes Jay Mathews in the Washington Post. Students tend to learn social history but not military history.
http://www.foxnews.com
It Beats Working
Women fought hard for the right to be working mothers - but now many want to step off the career ladder and swap the boardroom for full-time motherhood. Is this the failure of one movement or the beginning of another?
Lisa O'Kelly
Sunday June 6, 2004
The Observer
It is Monday morning. Caroline Sherwood, mother-of-three, has just finished the school run. She heads for a coffee shop in the high street of the affluent district of west London where she lives. By the time she gets there, the tables are already packed with women like her, mothers in their thirties and forties, some with toddlers in tow. If you ignore the Juicy Couture gym clothes and mobile phones, it could be a scene from the 1960s - except for the fact that most of these mothers have degrees.
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Satellite Images 'Show Atlantis'
By Paul Rincon
BBC News Online science staff
A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis.
Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Confederates Mourn the Passing of the Last of America's Civil War Widows
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
02 June 2004
A few years ago, Alberta Martin was an unexceptional old lady living in an Alabama nursing home. But then word got out that, in her youth, she had enjoyed a brief marriage to an octogenarian veteran of the American Civil War, and she became something else entirely - a heroine for nostalgics of the old confederate South.
http://news.independent.co.uk
The Associates of Herr Zundel
by Steven Plaut
June 01, 2004
Ernst Zundel is a German-born Nazi, Holocaust denier, and anti-Semite. He makes his living by selling Nazi military paraphernalia. He moved to Canada from Germany when he was 19. In 1978, a Canadian Broadcasting Company journalist revealed that - using his middle names - Christof Friedrich, Zundel had become Canada's leading pro-Nazi and Holocaust-denial propagandist. Once exposed, Zundel continued his efforts under his conventional name.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com
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