Colin Powell's UN presentation slide showing alleged mobile production facility for biological weapons. (Subequently shown to be an incorrect allegation.) (Image and description from Wikipedia)
“WHAT WE’RE GIVING YOU ARE FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS BASED ON SOLID INTELLIGENCE.”
(Global Research)
These ominous words—uttered by Secretary of State Colin Powell before the UN Security Council and dutifully trumpeted by a compliant media in the run-up to invasion of Iraq in 2003—are being surfed today in another journey on a war path; this time with Iran. Then it was aerial intelligence (solid) of nuclear implacements in Iraq and “mobile laboratories” for nuclear weapons development. Now it is computerized drawings of what purport to be blueprints for Iranian nuclear weapons. The content is different; the result is likely to be the same. As a member of the British cabinet said (Downing Street Memos) that “facts and conclusions” about Iraqi development of mass destruction were being “fixed” to justify a “policy” of invasion of that country; so “solid intelligence” from unnamed sources is now being used to justify another military operation just ahead of a meeting next week in Baghdad between key western and Arab League powers to determine a course of action to deal with the Iranian “threat.”
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WHEN IS A KURDISH MILITANT A GOOD PERSON? WHEN (S)HE IS A KURDISH OPPONENT OF THE REGIME IN SYRIA—NOT A KURDISH OPPONENT OF THE ONE IN TURKEY
(World Socialist)
The U.S. continues to provide military asssitance to Turkey in putting down its Kurdish insurgency. Now—according to an officially “sourced” article in the Washington Post—the U.S. seems to be moving to helping open upon another military “front” for the opposition in Syria that includes a signficant component of Kurdish resistance.
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SHOULD POLICE OFFICERS BE ALLOWED TO APPEAR IN COURT IN UNIFORM AS SPECTATORS WHEN A FELLOW OFFICER IS ON TRIAL
(Houston Chronicle)
This comes up in Houston in a case involving alleged excessive use of force by police officers. The chief of HPD may forbid the practice–as some see it as “intimidating” jurors in favor of officers being tried. Head of HPD union scoffs at this; says that police are there to “support the families” of defendants not to intimidate the jurors. The jury is still out on this one.
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HOW DO YOU RE-CREATE A STREET IN DOWNTOWN NIAGARA FALLS AS THE “GREENEST STREET IN WESTERN NEW YORK?”
(Buffalo News)
Well of course you tear down the “famed” downtown arboretum (the Wintergarden) and replace it with a street with limestone green benches and lots of native plants and schedule a summer long series of concerts and other “events” that will make the dying city look like New Orleans at Mardi Gras. It’s a matter of attracting those “tourists” who may have been kept away from that “other Niagara Falls”—the smelly industrial plants on the “other side” of town.
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TAMPA GETTING READY FOR “BIG DOINGS” IN AUGUST: THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
(Tallahassee Democrat)
The state party itself is “punished” for violations of party rules about the scheduling of its primaries and its delegates “banished” to hotels in outlying cities. Still the late August event will bring 4400 delegates and alternates to the area along with 15000 “credentialed” media reporters. A Tampa blogger does the math about the delegates and the press and suggests that the latter maintain a “man-on-man” strategy of assigning four reporters to “cover” each delegate.
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Quote of the day…
Conditions for the average Egyptian have become worse – economically, socially and in terms of security – than they were before the revolution.
Egyptian analyst Ammar Ali Hassan on conditions in the country 15 months after Tahir Square uprising that deposed Hosni Mubarak.
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With Public financing of campaigns these dirtbag politicians wouldn’t have to worry about appeasing Israel for Jewish votes in America. Americans are held hostage by Israel, Wall Street, and Big Oil.
Israel has the strongest military in the Middle East next to Saudi Arabia. You would think that after 50 years the strongest would be able to make peace, IF they really wanted to.
“The most significant action Israel could take to demonstrate good faith would be a settlement freeze.” – President Reagan 1983 (so much for taking hints from American presidents)
The New Israel Lobby
The Israel lobby had succeeded in ruling almost any criticism of Israel out of bounds, especially in Congress. “The bottom line,” Mearsheimer and Walt wrote, “is that Aipac, a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on Congress, with the result that U.S. policy is not debated there, even though that policy has important consequences for the entire world.”
http://www.nytimes.com/?2009/09/13/magazine/?13JStreet-t.html
Israeli spy Pollard
The most damaging to America, anti-American spy in history since the Rosenberg’s sold Russia American nuclear secrets. Netanyahu has demanded Pollard be released to Israel. http://tinyurl.com/yvqznh
Then there’s our friends the Saudi’s… 9/11 hijackers were Saudi and Saudi money funded the attack, also funded the Iraqi insurgents who killed Americans.