and then
www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Congress Seeks Secret Memos On Interrogation 05 Oct 2007 Democratic lawmakers assailed the Justice Department yesterday for issuing secret memos that authorized harsh CIA interrogation techniques [torture], demanding that the Bush regime turn over the documents. But officials refused and said the tactics did not violate anti-torture laws.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/articl
e/2007/10/04/AR2007100400979.html
Opening of US Embassy in Iraq Delayed 04 Oct 2007 The opening of a mammoth, $600 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which had been planned for last month, has now been delayed well into next year, U.S. officials said Thursday. The Vatican-sized compound, which will be the world’s largest diplomatic mission [KBR blow job], has been beset by construction and logistical problems.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSQ14
PoKO8jjCLmzfdzIzty14IjwD8S2OV106
Iraqi judge: Corruption undermines Iraq’s government, threatens future 04 Oct 2007 Iraq’s top corruption fighter, who’s seeking U.S. asylum because of death threats against him, told a congressional panel Thursday that rising corruption cost Iraq $18 billion over the past three years, with enormous sums of oil revenues ending up in the hands of Sunni and Shiite militias.
news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071004/wl_mcclatchy/200
71004bcusiraqcorruption_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop
Are U.S. troops being force-fed Christianity? A watchdog group alleges that improper evangelizing is occurring within the ranks. 04 Oct 2007 On Sept. 17, US Army Spec. Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed suit against Army Maj. Freddy Welborn and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, charging violations of Hall’s constitutional rights, including being forced to submit to a religious test to qualify as a soldier. The MRFF plans more lawsuits in coming weeks, says Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, who founded the military watchdog group in 2005. Weinstein charges that several incidents in recent years – and more than 5,000 complaints his group has received from active-duty and retired military personnel – point to a growing willingness inside the military to support a particular brand of Christianity and to permit improper evangelizing in the ranks.
www.csmonitor.com/2007/1004/p13s02-lire.html
Onward ‘Christian’ soldiers: Sniper team tells of pressure from above to produce high body count —Members of a U.S. Army unit in Iraq accused in murder trials say they felt pushed to notch more ‘kills.’ 05 Oct 2007 Interviews and court transcripts portray a 13-man sniper unit that felt under pressure to produce a high body count, a Vietnam-era measure that the Pentagon officially has disavowed in this war. They describe a sniper unit whose margins of right and wrong were blurred…
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world
/la-fg-snipers5oct05,0,5481304.story
Weapons Sent to Iraq Poorly Tracked [Should read: 190,000 US Weapons MIA In Iraq] 28 Sep 2007 In the rush to arm Iraqi forces against [with] a violent insurgency, U.S. military officials did not keep good records. About 190,000 weapons weren’t fully accounted for, according to one audit. [Why add the word ‘fully’ before ‘accounted for?’ The weapons were either accounted for or they were not. And, if they were accounted for, there would be no article! They lying sacks of sh*t at the Pentagon and their media whores try to placate/mitigate/justify the illegal actions of this illegitimate regime every second of every day, beginning with Coup 2000. A lot of us are tired of it. We’re onto the little language twists and headline misidentifiers that are executed by every media outlet from the PentaPost to the Whore York Times. Now, while were at it: Gates: US must speed up weapons for Iraq 04 Oct 2007 The United States must deliver weapons to Iraq more quickly, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday after an announcement that the Iraqis have ordered $100 million in military equipment from China. He noted that the United States has already delivered about $600 million worth of equipment to the Iraqis, and has another $2 billion to $3 billion on order. The Iraqis can’t ‘account for’ 190,000 US weapons – and Goofy Gates wants the US taxpayers to pay Bush bin Laden’s corpora-terrorists to ship more weapons to Iraq more quickly? This is the Mega Barf Alert of 2007. —Lori Price, CLG.]
www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,150759,00.html
US to keep closer watch on private security firms in Iraq 05 Oct 2007 The US is to keep a closer watch on private security firms [mercenaries] in Iraq after Blackwater guards shot dead at least 11 civilians last month. A state department spokesman said a review ordered by the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, recommended that American security agents accompany private security guards who escort US diplomatic convoys.
www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2184713,00.html
Charge Blackwater guards, says inquiry 05 Oct 2007 The official Iraqi investigation into the Blackwater shooting last month recommends that the security guards [mercenaries] face trial in Iraqi courts and that the company compensate the victims, an Iraqi government minister has told The Associated Press.
www.smh.com.au/news/world/charge-blackwater-
guards-says-inquiry/2007/10/05/1191091337862.html
Blackwater Faulted In Military Reports From Shooting Scene 05 Oct 2007 U.S. military reports from the scene of the Sept. 16 shooting incident involving the security firm [Waffen-SS] Blackwater USA indicate that its guards opened fire without provocation and used excessive force against Iraqi civilians, according to a senior U.S. military official. The reports came to light as an Interior Ministry official and five eyewitnesses described a second deadly shooting minutes after the incident in Nisoor Square. The same Blackwater security guards, after driving about 150 yards away from the square, fired into a crush of cars, killing one person and injuring two, the Iraqi official said.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/10/04/AR2007100402654.html
Blackwater won’t guard FBI in Iraq shooting probe 04 Oct 2007 The U.S. government, not Blackwater USA [both are terrorists], will handle security for FBI agents in Iraq while they investigate whether the private security firm acted properly in an incident that killed 11 Iraqis, the FBI said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN04308615
Blackwater to guard FBI team probing it 03 Oct 2007 When a team of FBI agents lands in Baghdad this week to probe Blackwater security contractors for murder, it will be protected by bodyguards from the very same firm, the Daily News has learned. Half a dozen FBI criminal investigators based in Washington are scheduled to travel to Iraq to gather evidence and interview witnesses about a Sept. 16 shooting spree that left at least 11 Iraqi civilians dead.
www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/10/03/2007-
10-03_blackwater_to_guard_fbi_team_probing_it-2.html
FBI takes lead in Blackwater investigation 04 Oct 2007 The FBI has taken control from the State Department of an investigation into the September 16 shooting incident involving security contractor [terrorists] Blackwater in which 11 Iraqis were killed, the department said on Thursday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071004/ts_nm/usa_iraq_blackwater_dc_6
British guards ‘assault and racially abuse’ deportees 05 Oct 2007 Hundreds of failed asylum-seekers deported from the United Kingdom have been beaten and racially abused by British escort teams who are paid to take them back to their home countries, The scale of the alleged abuse has been uncovered in a joint investigation by The Independent and a group co-ordinating the representation and medical care of failed asylum-seekers.
news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3028727.ece
Iran and Syria in new oil deal 04 Oct 2007 Iranian state television has reported a new gas deal between Iran and Syria. The two countries have signed an agreement for Tehran to export a billion dollars worth of gas every year to Syria. [LOL!]
feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=287989
US ‘must break Iran and Syria regimes’ 05 Oct 2007 America should seize every opportunity to force regime change in Syria and Iran, a former senior adviser to the White House has urged. “We need to do everything possible to destabilise the Syrian regime and exploit every single moment they strategically overstep,” said David Wurmser, who recently resigned after four years as Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney’s Middle East adviser. [The US needs regime change – with Hague trials and hangings for any Bush regime officials convicted of war crimes.]
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2007/10/05/wiran105.xml
The fallout from an attack on Iran would be devastating —The drumbeat of war in Washington is growing – and so must public pressure against British involvement in such folly By Seumas Milne 05 Oct 2007 What is becoming clearer is that the likely pretext for aggression against Iran has shifted from the possibility that Tehran might develop nuclear weapons to its role in supporting and allegedly arming the resistance in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration is increasingly convinced that it will be far easier to convince the American public of the case for war on Iran if it’s seen as being about the protection of US troops rather than nuclear scaremongering from the people who brought you Saddam Hussein’s WMD.
politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,2184267,00.html
Report: Israel ‘blinded’ Syrian radar 05 Oct 2007 After the Israeli missile strike on Syria was confirmed by both sides, the question remains – how did Israel’s non-stealth jets infiltrate Syrian airspace undetected? US aerospace experts tell Aviation Week magazine that Israel used new US-developed technology that lets users invade and manipulate enemy communication networks.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3456456,00.html
Elizabeth Edwards ‘disappointed’ Kerry quickly conceded in ‘04 05 Oct 2007 Elizabeth Edwards, married to former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), said she was “very disappointed” Sen. John Kerry conceded the last presidential race [coup d’etat] so quickly. “I was very disappointed, not just because we did not count the votes, but because we promised people that if they stood in line and fought for the right to vote, that we would fight with them,” Mrs. Edwards said on Air America Radio. “And I was very disappointed that the decision was made by the campaign, over John’s objection, not to fight,” she added.
video1.washingtontimes.com/bellantoni/2007
/10/eliazbeth_edwards_disappointed_1.html
Republicans aim to win presidency by changing voting rules —California ‘reforms’ would guarantee GOP victory 05 Oct 2007 A Republican push to change America’s historic voting system is faltering after a fightback by Democrats fearful that it could cost them the 2008 presidential election. Republican activists in California, the most populous state, have set in motion a proposal to end the winner-takes-all electoral college system. The change, if it went through, would effectively hand the next election to the Republicans.
www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2184068,00.html
Did White House Lie About Solution Provider’s Role in Loss of 5 Million E-mails? 03 Oct 2007 When Congress asked about 5 million executive branch e-mails that went missing, a White House lawyer pointed the finger at an outside IT contractor. The only problem? No such IT contractor exists, according to sources close to the investigation of a possible violation of the Federal Records and Presidential Records acts.
crn.com/government/202200837
US to test response to massive dirty bomb attack 03 Oct 2007 The United States will test this month its preparedness for a large scale terrorist attack with a dirty bomb, a Homeland Security Department official said Wednesday. “TOPOFF 4" (Top Official 4), as the exercise is called, will be held between October 15-20, Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness Dennis Schrader told the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071004/ts_alt_afp/usattacksecurity
Key Viral Change Could Help Bird Flu Spread 04 Oct 2007 U.S. scientists say they’ve spotted [created] a crucial step the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus must take in order to spread easily in humans. So far, the virus has not developed the ability to spread easily among humans. Now, researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka have ‘pinpointed’ a single change in a viral protein that helps H5N1 infect the cells of the upper respiratory system in mammals. [See: Killer flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004, and DoD to ‘augment civilian law’ during pandemic or bioterror attack 11 May 2007.]
www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/
hscout/2007/10/04/hscout608817.html
FBI checks bomb report in Tacoma, finds pumpkin 04 Oct 2007 The FBI checked out a report of an atomic bomb in Tacoma and found it had turned into a pumpkin. The Port of Tacoma called the FBI after the deputy director received a phone message Sept. 21 from a port commission candidate, Bill Casper. He said he knew how to make an atomic bomb that could elude security devices.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews
/2003924832_webpumpkinbomb04m.html
Matthews says Bush administration has “finally been caught in their criminality” By Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin 04 Oct 2007 Chris Matthews had barely finished praising his colleagues at the 10th anniversary party for his “Hardball” show Thursday night in Washington, D.C. when his remarks turned political and pointed, even suggesting that the Bush administration had “finally been caught in their criminality.” The Clinton camp, he said, never put pressure on his bosses to silence him. “Not so this crowd,” he added, explaining that Bush White House officials — especially those from Vice President [sic] Cheney’s office — called MSNBC brass to complain about the content of his show and attempted to influence its editorial content. “They will not silence me!” Matthews declared. “They’ve finally been caught in their criminality,” Matthews continued… Matthews left the throng of Washington A-listers with a parting shot at Cheney: “God help us if we had Cheney during the Cuban missile crisis. We’d all be under a parking lot.” [Built by KBR.]
www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2007/10/
4/Matthews-Bush-Admin-puts-pressure-on-my-bosses
Larry Craig will ‘stick out his term’ in the Senate [Stick this!] 04 Oct 2007 Idaho Sen. Larry Craig defiantly vowed to serve out his term in office on Thursday despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men’s room sex sting.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134202/
GOP toilet arrest senator denied: Sen. Craig can’t withdraw sex charge plea: judge 04 Oct 2007 A Minnesota judge on Thursday refused to let U.S. Sen. Larry Craig take back the guilty plea he made after a sex sting arrest, raising the possibility the Idaho Republican will resign his Senate seat as planned. [Craig’s fellow Idahoan Senator, Mike CRAPo, stands by his man caught in the toilet scandal. That’s too much of a pun for the world to bear. © Michael Rectenwald, CLG]
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071004/pl_nm/usa_politics_craig_dc_2
FBI examining HUD secretary’s ties 04 Oct 2007 The FBI is examining the ties between Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson and a friend who was paid $392,000 by Jackson’s department as a construction manager in New Orleans, three federal law enforcement officials said Thursday.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071005/ap_
on_go_ca_st_pe/hud_secretary_5
Bush bin Laden, agriterrorists killing US citizens: USDA defends 18-day wait on beef recall 04 Oct 2007 The Agriculture [Agribusiness] Department will speed up warnings about contaminated meat in the future, officials said Thursday, as they sought to quell criticism of an 18-day delay in seeking the recall of millions of pounds of tainted ground beef.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071004/ap_on_
go_ca_st_pe/meat_recall_2
When 1 in 150 is really 1 in 67 By Raymond W. Gallup & F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP 05 Oct 2007 …Dr. Gerberding did not volunteer and it appears that no one thought of asking her why the CDC kept the results of the 2000 and 2002 studies secret for so long or if a third CDC study had been done in 2004 that was still “Top Secret” for undisclosed reasons. In any case, if according to the CDC, the ASD prevalence rate was 1 in 150 on average among children born in 1994 and if the number of 6 year-old children with ASD known to the U.S. Department of Education indeed increased by 124% nationwide over the last six school years, then it is likely that among children born in 2000 who are now registered in U.S. schools, the prevalence rate of autistic spectral disorders is around 1 in 67, on average.
www.vaproject.org/yazbak/1-in-150-is-r
eally-1-in-67-20071005.htm
Conservatives Are Such Jokers By Paul Krugman 05 Oct 2007 Mark Crispin Miller, the author of “The Bush Dyslexicon,” once made a striking observation: all of the famous Bush malapropisms — “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family,” and so on — have involved occasions when Mr. Bush was trying to sound caring and compassionate. By contrast, Mr. Bush is articulate and even grammatical when he talks about punishing people; that’s when he’s speaking from the heart. The only animation Mr. Bush showed during the flooding of New Orleans was when he declared “zero tolerance of people breaking the law,” even those breaking into abandoned stores in search of the food and water they weren’t getting from his administration.
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html
Ex-Lacrosse Players File Sweeping Federal Lawsuit Against Durham 05 Oct 2007 Three former Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape filed a federal civil lawsuit Friday, seeking an unspecified amount in punitive and compensatory damages, as well as numerous reforms to the way the Durham Police Department handles criminal investigations.
www.wral.com/news/local/story/1896692/
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[Previous lead stories:] Iran ‘arming Taliban with roadside bombs’ 04 Oct 2007 Iran is supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan with the same bomb-making equipment it provides to ‘insurgents’ in Iraq, according to British military intelligence officers. US Army General Dan McNeill, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, said that the discovery of more than 50 roadside bombs and timers in lorries crossing the border from Iran last month proves that Iran’s Quds Revolutionary Guards are actively supporting the Taliban. [*Puke.*]
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2007/10/04/wafghan104.xml
France: Iran to run nearly 3,000 uranium centrifuges soon 03 Oct 2007 Iran is set to run almost 3,000 centrifuges by the end of the month, nearing the threshold for industrial-scale uranium enrichment in its contested nuclear program, French diplomatic officials said Wednesday.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-03-iran_N.htm
Bush Warns of Nuclear-Armed Iran [I’m worried about a nuclear-armed Bush!] 03 Oct 2007 President [sic] Bush warned Wednesday of a nuclear-armed Iran but did not rule out that the United States would negotiate with its leader if he gives up his suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.
apnews.myway.com/article/20071003/D8S20UO82.html
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