Latest News & Analysis August 2004

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AUGUST 31

Tel Aviv will choose the next President
"Contrary to widespread belief, it was more likely American voters in Israel, not Florida, who put George W. Bush in the White House four years ago -- a phenomenon that has Kerry's supporters in Israel vowing to do whatever it takes to make certain that doesn't happen again in November.

"Harvard Professor Gary King, co-compiler of a survey analyzing Florida's overseas vote in 2000, has no doubt that expatriate Americans gave Bush his victory four years ago. And while it's unclear whether the vote from Israel alone was enough to put Bush over the top, 185,000 U.S. citizens live there -- an undetermined number from Florida.

"Mark Zober, chairman of Democrats Abroad in Israel, said he has no firm figures but estimates that roughly 100,000 Americans in Israel are eligible to vote in the upcoming U.S. election, and that roughly 14,000 were registered in 2000."

Jewish Voters: Bush's Secret Weapon?
"If Bill Clinton was the first black President -- a moniker he relished -- then George W. Bush is the first Jewish President. After first disengaging from the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and refusing to even lay eyes on Yasser Arafat, Bush went on to give Israeli Prime Minister and best Mideast buddy Ariel Sharon virtual carte blanche in his crackdown on the suicide-bombing Palestinans and then followed the advice of his fiercely pro-Israel neocon advisers and went to war in Iraq." Bush zeroes in on Jewish vote Bush losing Arab American support

Kerry: "We will never compromise America's special relationship with our ally Israel"

"Across the Middle East, the United States and Israel are facing a range of crucial security challenges. We are not secure while Saudi donors fund terror, while Iran pursues a nuclear weapons programs and while Syria sponsors terrorist operations. We are not secure while Iraq is at risk of becoming a haven for terrorists. And we are not secure while Israel, the one true democracy in the region, remains the victim of an unrelenting campaign of terror. If we continue without a more effective strategy, we are not supporting our ally as best we can."

Ed Koch: Bush vs. Kerry on Israel

(Real News 24/7: Of all the countries that the United States calls allies, is there any other one that gets this sort of attention from the candidates? Oh, and we'd love to see what Kerry's definition of a "true democracy" is. Considering that Israel is, by its own definition, a Jewish State, whose sectarian character does not permit religious freedom for non-Jews and who treats such people as second class citizens [at best], we must conclude that Kerry's use of the term is far different than that of most Americans, however erroneous the latter happens to be.)

Pro-life group targets Republicans as well as Democrats
"Pro-life activists are including high-profile Republicans in their campaign against pro-abortion Catholics." (RN 24/7: Good, but here's another one for your list.) Substance abuse linked to abortion

Jewish man arrested over arson at Paris Jewish center
"French police confirmed that a man arrested in connection with what was first believed to be an anti-Semitic arson attack on a Jewish social center a week ago was a Jewish man who had worked there." (RN 24/7: While investigators said the arsonist was mentally unstable and committed the crime out of "revenge" for losing his job, this doesn't explain why "swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans like 'The world would be pure if there were no more Jews' were scrawled inside." Question: If the perpetrator was simply unbalanced, would he have had the presence of mind to fake a hate crime, rather than just vent his anger.)

'Passion' DVD poised to make Gibson richer
"If, as the Bible says, it is harder for a rich man to enter heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, Mel Gibson is in for a very tough afterlife. With "The Passion of the Christ" due out today on DVD and VHS, Gibson is poised to reap a second immense fortune from his controversial film about the final hours of Jesus."

FOOD FOR THOUGHT We recently were sent this link In Western Iraq, fundamentalists hold U.S. at bay, along with the following comment: "Notice the subtlety of yesterday's NYTimes.com headline. Soon they will begin equating militias here to be in affiliation with al-CIAduh terrorists."

AUGUST 30

At the RNC, it's all in the bag
"Who would have thought they would have been such reasonably good guests, these protesters from such groups as the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and the Spartacus Socialist Youth Club? Even the feared anarchists have yet to wreak any Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade mayhem on the streets.

"City organizers of the Republican National Convention, of course, had tried to pacify these proletariats with promises of discounts from Ben & Jerry's, Madame Tussaud's, and even the Museum of Sex if they promised to behave. And instead of sneering, "Let them eat cake," the New York powers that be were trying to give revolutionaries the same benefits as their reactionary counterparts."

GOP 2004: Michael Moore Draws McCain Barb, Taunts from Crowd
"Much of the audience erupted in boos and then, turning to Moore, many delegates chanted "Four more years!"

"Moore exclaimed, 'Two more months!' He also said, 'I can't believe they'd mention the film and help the box office.'

"A short while later Moore exited, accompanied by heavy security. He told E & P on the way out that he was not fleeing: He had to speak to a Planned Parenthood gathering at a theater uptown."

The Coward of Vietnam: When Johnnie came marching home
"Johnnie came home and failed at a run for office until he got smart, stuck his wet finger up into a chorus of 'Blowin' In The Wind' and realized he could surf that rising tide of discontent into a cushy political seat. Trading on his commie ties (at his heart, this elitist with the snooty accent is just like the rest of 'em: commies out the mouth, all for the people-- while capitalists and privileged at the very top eating caviar with a philosophy chaser) Johnnie never passed up easy opportunity when it came his way."

Democrats attack Bush for terrorism remark
"Democrats were on President Bush's case even before Republicans opened their convention Monday, attacking Bush for saying the war on terrorism wasn't winnable."

RE-DISCOVERED! The Federal Marriage Amendment of 1868
"Most Americans are unaware that the United States has already passed a Federal Marriage Amendment. The Federal Marriage Amendment was passed by three fourths of the states in 1868."

AUGUST 29

According to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, suspected spy Larry Franklin worked at the Pentagon with the neo-con Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Jay Feith . Americans must insist that a thorough probe of Feith and other Zionists of influence influence in Washington.

Israeli-Pentagon spy probe
Pentagon mole's ties to American Zionist cabal
"AIPAC, the Jewish lobbying juggernaut, operates in such high-stakes politics that it inevitably has been unable to avoid occasional unpleasantness. But almost universally, the largest pro-Israel lobby has found all the friends its has needed in Congress, on both sides of the aisle.

"More often than not, the politician who tried to face down the American Israel Public Action Committee came out the worse for it.¼

"Even friends in high places, however, have not made a perpetually smooth ride for AIPAC over the years. The latest scrape came with word Friday that FBI investigators suspect AIPAC has acted as middleman to funnel to Israel details of secret Bush administration deliberations about Iran, a murky assertion adamantly denied by the group."

Report: Suspected mole met Israeli, AIPAC officials as FBI watched
"The FBI last year monitored a Washington meeting between an Israeli Embassy official and a lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), during which suspected Pentagon mole Larry Franklin joined the lunch meeting, Newsweek reported late Sunday."

White House remains silent on probe into alleged mole
"Bush is constantly warding off accusations that he had gone to war in Iraq for the wrong reasons and on the basis of erroneous considerations. The new accusations to the effect that Israel managed to manipulate the U.S.'s pre-war considerations, would only strengthen the accusations against Bush."

Former BBC Chairman: Blair tried to gag BBC war reports
"Tony Blair took the unprecedented step of writing a letter to the BBC to try to force it to soften its coverage of the war in Iraq, according to Greg Dyke, the former director-general of the corporation."

Uncle Sam hides more and more from Americans
"Three years after 9-11, the shroud of government secrecy is spreading as agencies strip information from their Web sites and withhold public information on the grounds it could help terrorists."

Terri Schiavo could have second chance if incumbent judge defeated
"There have been years of legal battles, legislation passed by the state legislature and efforts by the governor to save Terri Schiavo's life. But, help could be on the way if a local attorney wins his bid to unseat the judge who previously ruled to end Terri's life and frustrated her parents' efforts to save her." Terri's website More news on the fight for Terri and other disabled people."

AUGUST 28

FBI intensifies probe of Israeli spying at Pentagon
"The FBI has intensified its investigation of senior members of what was formerly known as the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans on suspicion that one of them passed highly classified U.S. military information to the government of Israel, according to federal law enforcement officials. In some cases, colleagues, former associates and members of other government agencies have been interviewed as many as four times by teams of FBI agents, FBI officials told United Press International."

FBI looks at Pentagon worker in Israel spy probe
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"The FBI has evidence that a person who has been working at the Pentagon may be a spy for Israel, senior U.S. officials have confirmed to CNN." (RN 24/7: Knesset official: "Israel is not spying in the United States." Yeah, sure, we believe you. Really we do.)

Passport of 'hijacker' survived crash of United Airlines Flight 93
"Even if we are to entertain the notion that this piece of paper supposedly in the pocket of the suicide pilot who survived a crash which left aircraft parts strewn eight miles apart, do the two photographs shown above even represent the same person?"

A different theory about the Russian airliner crashes
More Mossad "false flag" operations?

ADL gets coach fired for 'discriminating' against Jewish cheerleader
"University of Georgia's fired cheerleading coach on Wednesday vowed to fight to get back the job she held for 12 years."

AUGUST 27

The government says we need more government
"The 9-11 Commission report, released late last month, has disrupted the normally quiet Washington August. Various congressional committees are holding hearings on the report this week, even though Congress is not in session, in an attempt to show the government is 'doing something' about terrorism in an election year. The Commission recommendations themselves have been accepted reverently and without question, as if handed down from on high."

Bush or Kerry¼ where's the choice?
"No, we have no choice in November. On one side we have an incumbent that is big government, and on the other side we have a challenger that is bigger government."

Bush versus Kerry: the fake debate

GOP convention --Calling all Marxists!
Over three days and nights, conference attendees are treated to an array of workshops that deliver a straight dose of utopian Marxism and class warfare - 'Visions for a Post-Capitalist Society,' 'Class Struggle in the 21st Century,' 'Participatory Economics,' 'The Barter System in Argentina,' 'Art and Revolution,' 'Anti-Capitalist Multi-Racial Coalition Building,' 'Life Beyond the Prison Economy,' etc."

The crime wave that wasn't
"Last year, the governor of Alabama proposed and then overwhelmingly lost a bitter referendum to increase taxes and boost revenue. Voters rightly saw the campaign as a slick attempt to expand the public sector's power, prestige, and wealth transfers by increasing the degree of legal plunder in Alabama's tax system."

Zionist neo-con timeline

June 16, 2004: Washington, DC. The 9-11 Commission investigating the September 11 attacks reports that there did not appear to be a collaborative relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

June 22, 2004: Washington. Wolfowitz tells a House Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon had underestimated Iraq’s postwar insurgency and that the U.S. may have to keep a significant number of troops in Iraq for years to come.

July 5, 2004: Former U.S. Army General Janis Karpinski, who had been in charge of the Abu Ghraib prison when Iraqi detainees were abused and humiliated, tells BBC radio that she knew of at least one Israeli involved in the prisoner interrogation.¼

AUGUST 26

Traitorous Kerry's reaction to the Swift Boat controversy

"What the Swift Boat controversy has done is show the world what many of us have known for years: John Kerry is a completely ruthless, calculating, pathological, overly-ambitious liar who will do anything to win the White House.

"However, as bad as things seem for him at the moment - and make no mistake that this controversy is the worst chapter in his campaign since the days of Howard Dean zooming ahead in the race a year ago - the fact that he is being proven to be a liar, an exaggerator, an embellisher and a fabricator does not automatically mean he will not or can not win in November."

Kerry won't release his war records
"Why won’t John Kerry release all of his documents and diary on his four-month service in Vietnam? Why? Because his version of how he amazingly received three Purple Hearts and Silver and Bronze stars in just four months without ever being hospitalized in combat is a mystery to just about everyone except John Kerry."

Hanoi Kerry flew Viet Cong flag while US troops died in Viet Nam
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"Who wants a self confessed war criminal and traitor who flew the Viet Cong flag while US troops where still in Viet Nam as Commander in Chief?"

(Real News 24/7: As utterly contemptible as Kerry is, do supporters of the current president--a Skull and Bones member, initiator of an unjust war in Iraq based on fraudulent claims, phony defender of the unborn and the family, tool of the globalist interests--have any reason to boast?)

Russia downplays terrorism as cause for dual air disasters
"Russia went on high terror alert today after two passenger jets flying from a Moscow airport crashed at almost the same time -- with one reportedly sending a hijack SOS just before it went down."

Attack on Iraq mosque 'kills 25'
"At least 25 people have been killed and dozens injured in a suspected mortar attack on a mosque near the troubled city of Najaf, say hospital officials."

Keeping tabs on Congress
Find out how your representative voted on key spending and constitutional issues.

AUGUST 25

The Politics behind Fox News

"This year, Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of the News Corporation, parent of the Fox Network, is listed as having raised over $50,000 for the Kerry campaign. The Center for Responsive Politics' website, OpenSecrets.org, discloses Chernin contributions not only to Kerry but to Reps. Richard Gephardt and Howard Berman.

"Chernin's role in the Kerry campaign prompted the New York Times to ask: 'What do Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Brit Hume have in common? They all work under a Democratic fund-raiser.'"

(Real News 24/7: More proof, for those who need it, that there is an interlocking of major party interests at the top and that as stated in a recent column, the apparent opposition is really for cosmetic purposes [that is, to con the American people into thinking they have a legitimate choice of candidates for federal offices, including the presidency]. The feature below provides even more evidence.)

Dick Cheney admits support for "gay marriage"
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"Vice-President Dick Cheney has contradicted his own leader on the electorally controversial issue of gay marriage. Mr Cheney, whose daughter is gay, was unusually frank – siding with Democrats on the issue, saying gay marriage is a matter for the state and expressing his opposition to the Bush administration's position of seeking a constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriage."

General: U.S. forces tortured Iraqis
"An Army general has acknowledged for the first time that U.S. forces tortured Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib jail and his report said a colonel who headed the military intelligence unit at the prison could face criminal charges."

Terri Schiavo's estranged husband fails to show to second deposition
"For the second time, Terri Schiavo's estranged husband has failed to show for a deposition in the case surrounding whether or not he should remain as her legal guardian." Terri's website More news on the fight for Terri and other disabled people."

AUGUST 24

Will Bush make war on Iran?

"Having made such a smashing success out of its war with Iraq, the Bush administration now seems to be pondering the glories of yet another one in Iran. In recent weeks, various administration officials and their amen corner in the neo-conservative press have muttered and mumbled about the perils of Iran suddenly developing—guess what?—'weapons of mass destruction.' Is there nothing that can embarrass these people?"

Neocon treason
"In 1997 (current Undersecretary of State Donald) Feith wrote in his 'Strategy for Israel' that the U.S. and Israel should conquer Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Moreover, Israel should reoccupy 'the areas under Palestinian Authority control,' though 'the price in blood would be high.'"

Tehran Threatens To Retaliate If Israel Strikes Nuclear Facilities
"Iran has reiterated that it will retaliate if Israel carries out a preemptive strike against its nuclear program. The escalating war of words comes as a top U.S. arms-control official has charged that Tehran may have nuclear weapons within three years if left unchecked."

American National Congress's unjust justice
"The mere mention of South Africa's appalling crime levels (more than 48,000 murders a year for a country that has a population of only 40 million), irritates the ruling African National Congress. Anyone who dares to bring up the subject is instantly called a 'racist.'"

Stealth Bush immigration betrayal
"The recent announcement by Border and Transportation Security Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson of two seemingly unrelated Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations—approved by DHS Secretario Tom Ridge and published in the federal register last week—amounts to a stealth Bush Betrayal potentially as large as the Administration’s stalled amnesty/ guestworker proposal. It leaves no doubt who is running American immigration policy: Vicente Fox and the government of Mexico."

Hands-on despotism in Iraq
"In the build-up to the December 1989 invasion of Panama, reports circulated in the American media that then-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega killed several of his political enemies himself, personally dispatching each victim with a bullet to the back of the head."

AUGUST 23

Israeli sexpionage: The McGreevey, (Gary) Condit and Clinton Affairs

Is Golan Cipel, an Israeli national who served as an advisor to NJ Gov. James McGreevey advisor, also a Mossad agent? And what was he, an alien, doing holding a sensitive government position in the US in the first place? These questions and others like them must be answered to protect our nation's security.

"The current Governor James McGreevey (above right, announcing his resignation) homosexual scandal is actually the result of yet another Israeli sexpionage operation targeting "sexually loose" Democratic Party government officials. Two other recent operations, that should be fresh in the memories of the American people, are the Congressman Gary Condit and the President Bill Clinton Affairs.

"In the parlance of the shadowy underworld of international espionage, the use of 'sex' by foreign spies to obtain information or concessions from government officials is called 'sexpionage.' The sexual seduction of high level government officials by foreign spies is usually of the illicit category which provides foreign operatives the added advantage of being able to better bribe the targeted victims which may be married with children. The operation may involve compromising the government officials through the use of professional prostitutes, underage girls (or boys) or by providing homosexual lovers to not yet 'out-of-the-closet' targets, as was the case with Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey."

Why Golan Cipel's Jewishness is important
"Everyone spies, French on America and vice versa, but only Israel, when it is caught, behaves as if America is the one that should be ashamed because it did not give Israel what Israel deserved to have and forced it to steal."

McGreevey accused of ‘smear campaign’
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"'While employed by one of the most powerful politicians in the country, New Jersey Governor McGreevey, I was the victim of repeated sexual advances by him,' Golan Cipel said in a statement read by attorney Allen M. Lowy during a news conference in New York."

Cipel: I was threatened to keep quiet
"A former aide at the center of the sex and political scandal in New Jersey said he was told by associates of Gov. James E. McGreevey to be quiet or face deportation, according to his attorney. Golan Cipel, an Israeli national and former homeland security adviser, is the man the governor was referring to when he acknowledged that he had a homosexual affair and would resign, McGreevey administration sources say."

Secrecy shrouds US e-vote
"The three companies that certify the US' voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in the presidential poll in November. Despite concerns over whether the touchscreen machines can be trusted, the testing companies will not say publicly if they have encountered shoddy workmanship."

O'Neill dares Kerry: 'Sue Me'
"Swift Boat Veterans for Truth spokesman John O'Neill dared Sen. John Kerry on Sunday to sue him for libel if, as Kerry's presidential campaign maintains, key claims in O'Neill's book "Unfit for Command" are not true." Swift Vets for Truth (RN24/7: Funny, first Kerry called them war criminals, then alcoholics, and now crypto-Republicans. The only thing he can't do is refute their charges. Website includes video of 1971 debate between John O'Neill and the lying vet-turned-traitor!)

Mental health and world citizenship
"In a recent article, I related that the Bush administration's Secretary of Education Rod Paige last October 3 declared that the U.S. is pleased to rejoin UNESCO where we could develop common strategies to prepare our children to become 'citizens of the world.'"

Fall's hottest fashion statement?

AUGUST 22

Upheld judgment against Rudolph is exercise in pro-abortion politicizing

"The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a Jefferson County judge's ruling that accused abortion clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph must pay $115 million to a nurse maimed in the 1998 blast.

"The high court on Friday affirmed with no opinion the decision of Circuit Judge Helen Shores Lee that the award stand despite Rudolph's efforts to have it dismissed. Rudolph had claimed that he wasn't properly served with the lawsuit filed in 2000 by nurse Emily Lyons and her husband, Jeff."

(Real News 24/7: This judgment comes a year after the amount was awarded. By way of comparison: the infamous McDonald's scalding coffee lawsuit garnered the injured party $2.7 million [later dropped to under half-a-million dollars], while the combined total of damages awarded to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in the O.J. Simpson wrongful death suits was only $33.5 million. We spoke to an attorney concerning the Lyons award and he expressed surprise that Alabama's Supreme Court would have upheld the outrageously high figure, which he said clearly showed a pro-Planned Parenthood bias on the part of the lower court judge. We did a Google search on Helen Shores Lee and found that she's a Democrat who's on the board of directors of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Whether or not she actually belongs to Planned Parenthood, the absurdly high amount of damages--especially the $50 million in punitive damages--leaves no doubt to her sympathies. As the Pro-Life News website states, what we're seeing in cases like this is the "using [of] tort judgments to publicly 'presume' guilt -- without proof -- before a criminal jury verdict finds the accused guilty or innocent.")

California professor convicted in hate crime hoax
"A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury in Pomona last week found Kerri Dunn guilty of filing a false police report and attempted insurance fraud, which is punishable by up to three-and-a-half years in prison." (RN 24/7: For background information on the Dunn incident, see our June 2nd feature, "Do-it-yourself hate crime.")

Arsonists destroy Paris Jewish community center, leave anti-Semitic graffiti (RN24/7: Also faked?)

The upcoming election for cosmetic purposes only
"Many political activists that were once involved in the two-party system like myself are dropping out of the 'occult' and voting for a third party candidate. We know we can't win at this point but our anti-two-party vote as it grows will get attention. "

More holes in the official story: The 9-11 cell phone calls
"While serious doubts regarding the cell calls were expressed in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, a new landmark in the wireless telecom industry has further contributed to upsetting the Commission's credibility. Within days of the release of the 9-11 Commission Report in July, American Airlines and Qualcomm, proudly announced the development of a new wireless technology --which will at some future date allow airline passengers using their cell phones to contact family and friends from a commercial aircraft." (Also see The trouble with those 9-11 cell phone calls)

AUGUST 21

Secret society member Bush cheered by Knights of Columbus

"In a nauseating display of moral cowardice and mental illness on the part of Conservative Catholics, masonic secret society member George W. Bush appeared before the national convention of the Knights of Columbus and instead of being jeered and chased out of the convention center in Dallas on Aug. 3, was given repeated standing ovations and chants of 'Four More Years!' from thousands of Catholics, among whom were two ranking cardinals, Edward M. Egan, archbishop of New York, and Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop of Washington.

Bush told the Catholics that both he and the Knights of Columbus organization were 'born' in New Haven, Connecticut (the Knights group was founded in Connecticut in 1882 as a Catholic fraternal alternative to the Freemasons). This macabre inside joke by Bush went right over the heads of the Knights, since New Haven, Connecticut is also the place where Bush was selected for initiation into the Masonic "Skull and Bones" secret society while a student at Yale University.¼" (Real News 24/7: As Michael Hoffman writes in this article, there is a level of "moral cowardice and mental illness" on display here, but what must also be noted is the infiltration of the Catholic Church, not the least in the subversion of Catholic action groups such as the Knights. See also The Greatest Conspiracy)

Catholics won't march to polls in lock step
"What's more, top Vatican official Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger announced last month that it's OK for Catholics to vote for a candidate who doesn't oppose abortion. If a voter feels a candidate's position on other issues outweighs his or her stand on abortion, Cardinal Ratzinger said, then the voter is free to support that person." (Also see Actions by religious pro-lifers betray the sacred cause)

Charley Reese: Conspiracy, or Stupidity?
"Most conspiracy buffs underestimate human stupidity. They see people they consider smart and powerful do stupid things, and they think the people must have some hidden ulterior motive. Surely people in such high positions, they think, couldn't do something that dumb." (RN 24/7: Regardless of the existence of what Charley calls "blundering diplomacy," the fact of political conspiracy is quite demonstrable. Certainly the two--conspiracy and stupidity-- are not mutually exclusive, as the Soviet Communists coined the term "useful idiot" to describe the Westerners who unwittingly advanced the goals of the Reds. But the Communists, in a sense, have been use idiots themselves--pawns of something bigger, a movement seeking a one-world government that's commonly called the New World Order (NWO). While those involved have usually kept a very low profile concerning it, British author and Fabian Socialist H.G. Wells actually promoted the NWO in his 1928 book The Open Conspiracy. No, Mr. Reese, in answer to your question, it isn't stupidity, but a well-organized drive to advance a criminal dream to enslave humanity that ultimately must be the focus of our concern. The quote of James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense, is just as pertinent as when he uttered it over fifty years ago: "Consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If the diplomats who have mishandled our relations with Russia were merely stupid, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor." For more on Wells' book and its relevance to modern politics, see Joseph Sobran's column on the subject.)

Almost $9 billion for Iraq goes missing
"At least $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds that was given to Iraqi ministries by the former U.S.-led authority there cannot be accounted for, according to a draft U.S. audit set for release soon. "

Poll shows more Americans favor Terri Schiavo's right to live
A new poll finds that a majority of those who take a stand on whether Terri Schiavo should live or die feel she should continue to be provided with food and water. Only a minority side with her estranged husband Michael that her life should be ended. Terri's website More news on the fight for Terri and other disabled people.

AUGUST 20

Pentagon hides depleted uranium dangers to deny medical care to vets

"Far from the radioactive battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, another war is being waged. This war, over the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, is being fought between the military top brass and the men who understand the dangers of DU: former military doctors and nuclear scientists."

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Iraq's Christian minority attacked; 5 churches hit, 11 killed in car bombs on a day of worship
"The Baghdad targets of the Aug. 1 terror attacks, according to MEC, were the Armenian Catholic Cathedral; Our Lady of Salvation Church; Saint Elijah of Heyra Church; and St. Peter and St. Paul Church. The Mosul target was St. Paul Church. MEC reported that police also found a bomb outside St. John the Baptist Church in Baghdad that failed to explode."

Church bombs: Top insurgent blamed - Aug 2, 2004
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"Deadly weekend attacks targeting Christian worshippers in Iraq bear the markings of insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his operatives, Iraq's national security adviser said Monday."

ANOTHER VIEW OF THE BOMBINGS
Iraqi Muslims did not blow up Christian churches
"Having discussed the matter in detail with other experts on the Middle East, Christianity in Iraq and on Islam in Iraq, we have all concluded this is not the work of any Muslim group. There has never been any animosity between the Christian and Muslim communities in Iraq, in fact, they have stood toe-to-toe against the American occupation and they have resisted efforts by the Israeli office in Baghdad to become allied with Israel. "

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Targeting tolerance
"The gates of Mar Illyas Church and the Al-Dawra Monastery -- the targets of car-bombings on Sunday -- were adorned with the statues of the Virgin Mary, sculpted by prominent Iraqi sculptor, Mohamed Ghani, a Muslim. The statues bear witness to Iraq's ethnic diversity: the Virgin is wrapped in an Iraqi abaya and wearing a traditional Basra head covering."

The forgotten church of iraq
"Many Christian communities in the Middle East (quite rightly) have a high profile because of the terrible persecution they face. By comparison the church in Iraq enjoys a relatively favorable position – but therefore relative obscurity, with worldwide attention focused on other parts of the suffering church."

Christians for Saddam?
"After the Divine Liturgy a few Sundays ago, I joined several other men from my parish for brunch. The topic of Iraq came up, and one of the men remarked that he had heard that there was a substantial Christian population in Iraq, and that Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi foreign minister, was a Roman Catholic. He was shocked that a Christian could be associated with such a man as Saddam Hussein."

Politically incorrect and proud: Offending with the truth
"When people do speak out, they are labeled as 'racist,' 'xenophobe,' 'right-wing nut,' 'radical Christian right,' 'paranoid,' 'anti-Semitic,' 'bigot,' 'homophobe' and/or 'sexist' for openers. Rarely does the left present a cogent argument, based on facts and syllogistic reasoning, to refute a conservative or moral position. They play the race/victim/unconstitutional cards like a two-year old’s hissy fits."

Homosexuality: Principal enemy of the family
"Since the homosexual relationship is sterile by definition, it is destructive of the family; it is the opposite of the family, and the number one enemy of the family."

AUGUST 15

A war for Israel

"On March 13th, 2003, during a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on foreign aid, of which Israel has long been the dominant recipient, Secretary of State Colin Powell took the extraordinary step of assuring members of Congress that a 'small cabal' of pro-Israeli American Jews was not orchestrating President George W. Bush's drive toward war.

"'The strategy with respect to Iraq has derived from our interest in the region and our support of U.N. resolutions over time,' Powell said, in response to a question from the subcommittee's Republican chairman, Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe.¼

"On this occasion, as he had on others, Powell played the loyal soldier, joining in what Haaretz's Nathan Guttman described as the Bush Administration's 'Every effort to play down Israel's role in the future military conflict... to remove any suspicion that the decision to go to war with Iraq is a pro-Israeli... step. But, as hard as the administration tries,' he wrote, 'the voices linking Israel to the war are getting louder and louder. It is claimed the desire to help Israel is the major reason for President George Bush sending American soldiers to a superfluous war in the Gulf.'" (Also see Gen. Franks says threat on Israel justified Iraq invasion.)

Terrorism and double standards
"When a Palestinian kills Israelis, he is considered by the US to be a terrorist. But, when the Israelis kill Palestinians, demolish their houses, confiscate their land and commit acts deplored by international law, the US defends the Israeli actions as self-defense against 'terrorists'" Israel ploughs on with huge settlement construction (RN 24/7: Motto for Tel Aviv's "urban renewal": What's ours is ours and what's yours is ours.)

Fed's Internet plan spawns new fears of cyber fraud
"With little fanfare, the Federal Reserve will begin transferring the nation's money supply over an Internet-based system this month — a move critics say could open the U.S.'s banking system to cyber threats." (RN 24/7: So now it's not just computer vote fraud to be concerned about. For more on the Fed, see Federal-Reserve.net)

AUGUST 14

John Paul looks weak as he joins pilgrims at French shrine.

"His voice weak, his legs unsteady as he knelt in prayer, Pope John Paul joined thousands of other ailing pilgrims Saturday at a cliffside shrine known for its miraculous cures, telling them he shares in their physical suffering and assuring them the burden is part of God's "wondrous plan."

"The rare reference to his own illnesses -Parkinson's disease and crippling knee and hip ailments -came at the start of a two-day visit to the shrine to the Virgin Mary, where Roman Catholics seek healing, hope and inner peace." (Real News 24/7: When he arrived, France's President Jacques Chirac formally and fraternally greeted John Paul II, stating: "France and the Holy See are joined in the fight for a world which places Man at the center of every enterprise." Yet it is Grand Orient Freemasons and other non-believers place "Man at the center of every enterprise," but not true Catholics, who acknowledge Christ as the center. Instead of challenging this, John Paul in so many words turned his back on sound Catholic doctrine, confirming, instead, Chirac's linkage of the two by invoking the motto of the anti-Catholic French Revolution: Freedom, Equality, Fraternity. It's time people had better start waking up to what the post-Vatican Council II "Catholic Church" is all about. A good place to keep up with "a thousand-and-one" outrages committed at every level of that body is in the archives of Novus Ordo Watch. Prepare to be shocked. Oh, and by the way, while at Lourdes, John Paul II led the pilgrims in his own devotional concoction called the "Luminous Mysteries" of the Rosary. Given the Vatican's current chumminess with secret societies and Masonic mumbo jumbo, a friend suggested half jokingly that perhaps they should be called the Illuminati Mysteries!)

Terror alert for Pope's pilgrimage to Lourdes
"Unprecedented security measures were being finalized last night around the pilgrimage site of Lourdes as France prepared for the arrival of Pope John Paul II tomorrow amid official recognition the event was a potential terrorist target.
"Police units specializing in biological, chemical and nuclear attacks were on standby after local officials said they were taking seriously the possibility that Islamist extremists might strike the center during the Pope's visit." Notre-Dame de Lourdes

Hecklers banned at Bush rallies
"The art of TV-friendly political stagecraft reaches new levels in this campaign. At 'Ask President Bush' events, even the president makes no bones about the fact that he's speaking to invited guests. " (RN 24/7: No wonder he's so popular!)

On Heterophobia: The brainwashing of straight America
"Actually, there is more strategy in the labeling of straights as haters than one might presume. It appears to be a deliberate tactic as a means in which to get the straight population to cower before the demands of the gay agenda."

AUGUST 13

What the Supreme Court really said about Jose Padilla

"Jose Padilla will have to be released -- unless the government somehow conjures up charges of treason or criminal acts. To be sure, the Supreme Court's June 28 opinion in Rumsfeld v. Padilla literally said nothing of the sort. In fact, it didn't reach the merits of the case at all. Still, the inescapable conclusion, based on the Court's same-day opinion in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, is that Padilla will soon be charged or freed.

"Here's what's happening: Jose Padilla is the U.S. citizen who supposedly plotted to detonate a 'dirty bomb' and use natural gas to blow up apartment buildings in Washington D.C., New York and Florida. Since his capture − not on the battlefields of Afghanistan or Iraq, but at Chicago's O'Hare Airport − he hasn't been charged with any crime. Yet since June 2002, Padilla has been held incommunicado in a South Carolina military brig − indefinite detention, without access to a lawyer until the government acceded to outside pressure in March 2004."

Official: No evidence attack is imminent
"The Bush administration has discovered no evidence of imminent plans by terrorists to attack U.S. financial buildings, nearly two weeks after the government issued startling warnings about such possible threats, a White House official said Thursday." (RN 24/7: CODE RED!--CODE RED!--CODE RED!--CODE RED!--CO-¼Uh, neeever mind!)

Dead Brit soldier's family: Get troops out of Iraq
"My message to Tony Blair is we should not be there. Why are we in Iraq? It is my personal opinion only, but my message would be, get the rest of the kids out."

AUGUST 12

Kerry on Iraq: An echo, not a choice

"When it comes to Iraq, after all, Kerry sounds an awful lot like the guy who got us into this mess.

AN ECHO

NOT A CHOICE

"Like Bush, he wants help from the UN, hopes our allies will send more troops and plans to bring our soldiers home when Iraq is stable. In 1964, Barry Goldwater ran for president on the slogan, 'A choice, not an echo.' Kerry is all echo and no choice.

"None of this should come as a surprise. Kerry had made the political error of opposing the 1991 Gulf war, which turned out to be a military and political triumph, and he was not about to repeat the mistake. This time, he favored a