Maybe the big unreported news is that the next civil war -- Washington pundits and neoconservative elites versus the whole rest of the country -- has already started.

The unanimous decision makes it more difficult to use a public records law to access law enforcement records. Justices said the privacy rights of survivors outweigh the benefits of releasing some photographs.

They have used fear to quiet, intimidate and suppress us. They have conditioned us to hide behind our insecurities. We have been programmed to cower and think of evil at the words “terrorism” and “terrorist.”

"The whole idea of this X-43 air vehicle is to develop a new technology and then allow military planners to imagine the possibilities."

It is time for the American people, especially conservatives, to honestly face the spending question. If we are going to tolerate and condone increased federal spending, we must be willing to finance it with increased taxes. If we truly want to reduce taxes, we must also demand decreased spending.

US businessman and philanthropist George Soros was attacked today at the Rus hotel in Kiev . . . 'Let Brotherhood Reign' and proceeded to pour glue on Soros . . . another man yelled 'Yankee Soros - Go Back Home' and proceeded to shove Soros and pour water on him.

If Iraq collapses in chaos or civil war to become a spawning ground of Islamic terror, Bush will be a failed president and America will need a new foreign policy.

Those who stand for freedom, justice, the rule of law, self-government and the moral principles of the Bible are not part of "the establishment." We're the rebels. By the world's standards, we're the renegades.

As the dollar continues to fall, eventually the Treasury will run out of investors. When that happens it will be forced to raise interest rates to attract them, resulting in a tighter money supply and higher inflation. These are not things that may happen, they are inevitable.

Condoleezza Rice wants to bring democracy to the Middle East. Ms. Rice, an expert on what is now an obsolete subject, the Soviet Union, believes this can be done the way the United States brought democracy to Chile or Iran or Afghanistan - that is, by violently overthrowing governments.

Chalabi holds the ultimate weapons -- several dozen tons of documents and individual files seized by his Iraqi National Congress from Saddam Hussein's secret security apparatus.

If citizens of this country ever again enjoy the blessings of liberty and true freedom, it will not be the result of a majority of its citizens having risen up in righteous indignation at govenmental abuse of themselves and their culture . . . If lawful government is reestablished it will come about because a revolutionary majority makes it happen.

The report also provides a useful visual aid, showing when the Bush-Cheney fabrications were spiking, and when their lies were more modestly put forth.

Though the Americans might be attempting to silence a vocal and vitriolic critic of their efforts in Iraq, the move plays directly into Muqtada's hands. Hamid Bayati, the spokesmen for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, confirmed that the move would only "provoke Muqtada Sadr's supporters", and confirm Iraqi suspicions that Americans are hypocritical and selective in their application of democracy.

Conservatives have principles; believe in a Creator, and the rule of law. Liberals do not have principles, except for their dedication to stealing production of conservatives and undermining principled references such as the Bible and Constitution.

The real issue is whether the U.S. government contributed to the hatred that caused the September 11 attacks.

The presidential election, Bush vs. Kerry, what a joke! Two privileged plutocrats, two psychotic perverts from the same demonic college fraternity, neither ever had to hold a job, each advocating continuing crimes against humanity, even against their own people. And to make matters worse, they no longer count the votes honestly.

After decades of hiring illegal aliens and lobbying against any and all restrictions on immigration, Big Business is about to find out the real costs of the Open Borders it has subsidized.

Some commentators see Europe as a civilization in decline, facing demographic collapse, unable to meet their economic goals and either weary of conflict or hedonistically self-absorbed.

There are serious doubts even within the occupying power about America's choice to send Chilean mercenaries, many trained during General Pinochet's vicious dictatorship, to guard Baghdad airport. Many South Africans are in Iraq illegally--they are breaking new laws, passed by the government in Pretoria, to control South Africa's booming export of mercenaries.

In a repentant newspaper article he allegedly wrote from behind bars, Russia's wealthiest man, who faces fraud and tax evasion charges, called Monday for higher taxes on business and denounced the post-Soviet privatization that made him rich.

Cotecna's job involved squaring the income from oil sales against the goods that were allegedly purchased . . . According to the best estimate of the nonpartisan US Government Accounting Office, Oil for Food generated at least $10 billion ($15.4 billion) for Saddam's family and a further $1 billion ($1.54 billion) to pay the 1000-plus UN bureaucrats who were supposed to be keeping it honest.

Phone-tap evidence and plea bargains are set to become admissible in courts under new government plans for a UK-style FBI agency to tackle organised crime.

Jim Angle trumped the slick marketing of 60 Minutes, and interviews with Richard Clarke by Larry King, PBS and TIME magazine with what can only be described as an incredible record keeping system and a tough as nails work ethic.

Judge Charles Pickering finally got the public hearing he deserved, and the competence, courage, and decency of the man shined through.

Sharon does not want us to confine our war on terror to those who attacked us on 9-11. He wants us to expand our list of enemies to include his list of enemies: Arafat, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia. He wants us to escalate "the firemen's war" into an American war on Israel's enemies, so, together, we can establish joint hegemony in the Middle East.

WE BELIEVE IF THE TREACHERY IN PLAY NOW UNRAVELS THAT ALL OF THOSE COMPLICIT INCLUDING MAJOR OIL COMPANIES, IF THEY ARE SHOWN TO BE COMPLICIT, WHICH WE NOW BELIEVE THEY SURELY ARE, WILL ALL HANG.

"There is clear-cut evidence from the Supreme Court, which ruled 11 years ago that a person cannot serve in a major national capacity if he is under indictment"

Great Britain, Denmark, Norway and Belgium are ready to provide their aircraft to guard the airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which are joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

HilLAIRy is an example of a FASCIUNIST !!!

Fasciunism (fash-iu-nism): A political philosophy combining fascism and communism, in order to take over a country, eliminate its sovereignty and turn it over to a one world government.

Fasciunist (fash-iu-nist): A person who believes in a one world government and who will do anything to see that it comes to pass, including giving up sovereignty and using fascist and communist tactics.

Unfortunately, our politicians, by cravenly obeying the wishes of Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby, have made us a part of the conflict. We've already paid in blood and treasure. Anybody who doesn't understand that the attack on 9/11 was directly related to the Palestinian and Israeli conflict hasn't been paying attention.

As Mr Blair outlined his Third Way philosophy, otherwise known as the big tent theory of politics, Col Gadafy trumped him. Delving into the pocket of his robe, he produced a copy of his governing text, the Third Universal Theory. Warming to his theme, Col Gadafy then offered tips on how to run a totalitarian state.

Vanunu's story – how he was abducted by the Mossad after leaking details of Israel's illegal nuclear program to the London Sunday Times – underscores not only the utter ruthlessness with which the Israelis pursue their interests, but also highlights the peculiar deference paid them by their enablers in the West.

Displaced natives may find work in other fields, but at far lower pay levels.

“If NATO remains a military alliance with its current offensive military doctrine, Russian military planning and principles of developing the armed forces, including its nuclear component, will be revised”.

The enemies of the US have become countless. The government's response was to make ever more enemies, which is what the recent US policy in Iraq has done.

The first President Bush lost his re-election bid for one primary reason: He disenfranchised his conservative base and allowed a surly Texas billionaire with a can-do attitude to siphon off precious votes of moderates and conservatives.

The half-page advertisement in the PLO's Al-Ayyam newspaper called on Palestinians to lay down their arms and turn to peaceful means of protest to end Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"In fact, in most of America, a thoughtful, culturally conservative position that is based on principle is one that consistently is also good politics."

Traditionally, when Latin Americans elect governments that show even vague intentions of redistributing the lopsided national wealth toward the poor, US officials get their knickers in a twist and force new elections: the pro-US candidate then emerges.

This set the stage for similar privatization initiatives once Bush got to Washington. Bush’s proposed “Temporary Worker” program even privatizes the U.S. border, granting American businesses the power to sponsor immigrants into the U.S. through the simple expedient of posting a minimum wage job on a web site, waiting for Americans to ignore the paltry offer, then importing foreigners to take the work.

These also show that John McLaughlin, deputy to the CIA director George Tenet, had told the panel he too was worried that not enough was being done.

It's only by relying upon this small core of disillusioned ex-CIA employees that some of its highly secret actions can be uncovered. What we come to know is always but a minor fraction of the whole strategy and practical execution, but is still highly indicative of the CIA's modus operandi and political aims.

In making any sense of what happened not just last week, but five years ago and over the past 15 years in general, one has to understand the bitter background of the situation, which the American Empire did not resolve as much as force into an "illogical, immoral, and utterly untenable rearrangement of the Balkan architecture" (Trifkovic).

When Thomas Jefferson said "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance," he didn't mean eternal vigilance against people who might say unpleasant things about the U.S. government. He meant "eternal vigilance" against tyranny. And that, dear "patriots," is what patriotism is.

Many high ranking officials have come out and said that the Bush Administration has lied and exaggerrated selective intelligence to garner support for an Iraqi invasion. Many of whom are conservatives.

This striking pattern has become even more frequent and predictable since Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister in February 2001 and escalated Israel's assassination campaign against Palestinian militant leaders, particularly when the militant groups were involved in negotiating or upholding cease-fires on attacks on Israeli civilians.

Working through its consulates in the United States, the Mexican government is waging a war of subversion against our nation — with the silent complicity of Washington.

A behind-the-scenes look at some of the key globalist architects and apparatchiks responsible for launching and promoting NAFTA, FTAA and other ?free trade? traps.

If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.

Now why do I have the sneaking suspicion that eventually, one way or another, it's the U.S. taxpayer who's going to foot the bill for the Bracero program?

Following is the the transcript of public testimony from four high-ranking officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, as recorded by Federal News Service.

Not until the day before the Sept. 11 attacks did U.S. officials settle on a strategy to overthrow the Taliban Afghan government if a final diplomatic push failed.
When do you think these bills were printed?

First, turn America into a bilingual or multi lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way, “The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy.

The aforementioned suggests that Northeast Asia is the world hot-spot--not the Middle East.

Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)".

If Francis is correct in the observation that “Jewish Americans played a crucial role in pushing for mass immigration throughout the last century,” maybe the time is ripe for right-wing Jewish Americans to take the lead in undoing the damage.

Members pledge to always help each other, and the combination of this obligation and the secrecy of their vows encourages a disturbing tendency towards something Americans criticise elsewhere: crony capitalism.

When it does happen - and it's when not if - we just won't be prepared. The public have been told almost nothing about the threat, we have received no form of training, and the emergency services have been given no extra manpower to deal with the aftermath of an incident.

In terms of foreign policy, the differences are even smaller. Kerry's criticisms of Bush are purely tactical.

Why Won’t ABC Ask McCain About Democrats Subverting McCain-Feingold Law With Their New Anti-Bush Ads?

Israel will not wait for the next Hamas attack before taking action, but will strike whenever an opportunity presents itself.

"What does frighten Sharon ... is any prospect or sign of calm or moderation. If the situation were to calm down and stabilize, Sharon would have to return to the negotiating table and, in the wake of pressure from within and without, he would have to raise serious proposals for an agreement. This moment terrifies Sharon and he wants to put it off for as long as he possibly can."

Here is why it matters that Americans get serious about controlling our borders. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau statistics, by 2050 non-Hispanic whites will comprise only 50 percent of a population expected to swell to 420 million people.

China has ordered its army on combat alert, ready to strike Taiwan if the island's election dispute intensifies, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said on Monday.

ARIEL SHARON led a chorus of Israeli support for the assassination, saying it had rid Israel of the Palestinians' "chief terrorist". "I would like to thank the defence apparatus and its various branches for this morning's operation," Mr Sharon said.

Tony Blair remained publicly silent as tens of thousands took to the streets in London and Glasgow while the former Labour foreign secretary, Lord Owen, used the occasion to call on Blair to stand down, saying his “shelf-life” was almost over and he should not repeat the mistake of Margaret Thatcher by staying too long.

The FBI acted on information that someone may have used the service for hacking. It was within its jurisdiction, obtaining a warrant for the search and seizure. But it's what they could do with those servers and the information stored on them that really has me spooked.

People are finding this Patriot Act so oppressive and disgusting that groups of all stripes are banding together to denounce it. Conservative organizations have joined liberal groups to tell the president that - they reject the idea that it is necessary to sacrifice civil liberties in order to increase security.

The assassination of Hamas' spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin by Israeli forces is an indication that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has embarked on a high-risk strategy.

The killing of Sheikh Yassin pushed the violence far beyond any recognisable measure. It is pushing the Palestinian masses towards martyrdom.

Announcing Yassin's death, the Hamas leadership said, "Sharon has opened the gates of hell and nothing will stop us from cutting off his head," referring to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon."

1) The war on terror is a colossal flop.
2) Shows the link between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi resistance to the American invasion.
3) Shows just how shallow and ill-conceived the whole war on Iraq itself was.
4) Al Qaeda remains capable of carrying out massive acts of terror but that it understands the political strategy that always controls any kind of deliberate violence, conventional or terrorist.

Also lending its support is Empower America, the neo-conservative front group established by William Kristol, editor and publisher of billionaire Rupert Murdoch?s Weekly Standard, which is said to be the ?intellectual? journal that governs the train of foreign policy thinking in the Bush administration.

Sir John called for a "pan-European" structure for analysing information along the lines of Europol, the Hague-based centre for handling criminal intelligence.

For there is no party in Washington that speaks for those of us who believe America should stay out of these religious and tribal wars from Morocco to Malaysia where no vital US interest is at risk. There is only one vital interest in this region -- oil, and Iran and the Arabs must sell it to survive, no matter the regime in power.

The claim of victimhood is no longer enough to make listeners suspend their critical faculties, even when made by a noted feminist.

Gibbs’ TruVote machine is a marvel. After voters touch the screen, a paper ballot prints out under plexiglass and once the voter compares it to his actual vote and approves it, the ballot drops into a lockbox and is issued a numbered receipt. The voter’s receipt allows the tracking of his particular vote to make sure that it was transferred from the polling place to the election tabulation center.

The plan called for blowing up several Manhattan subway stations along with the Humble Oil refinery in Linden New Jersey and Statue of Liberty.

The answer to the second question is simple: the great American newspapers censored themselves. They became, if you like, patriotically deaf. In the post-9/11 atmosphere they had no editorial strategy for coping with George Bush’s moral authority, and no editorial will to devise one.

There have been at least as many terrorist operations in the past year as there were in the previous 12 months, and that is with an estimated two-thirds of al-Qaeda's known leadership dead or behind bars.

The antiwar movement should focus not on candidates but on the underlying decency of the vast majority of Americans and their moral superiority to the ruling, war-making class. Never again should we allow the war-makers to claim to speak for "the silent majority."

Over the past seven days, we've seen fourteen occurrences of either new lies or revelations of old ones. Here's a summary, with links to the original news sources:

In replying to these questions, both men were breaking a cardinal Bonesman rule - namely that when the club was mentioned in conversation a Bonesman should leave the room or deny membership in such a way that his denial both confirmed his membership and brought the discussion to an end.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the actions of Kosovo Albanians ethnic cleansing against Serbs, reported president's press-services . . . According to Putin, "there has to be immediate reaction to protect Serbs".

An eleventh-hour attempt to influence the outcome of Taiwan's presidential elections through an assassination try on the incumbent president Chen Shui-bian produced a contested vote that has sharply polarised the public in this island of 23 million people. Chen, the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who survived Friday's assassination attempt, barely won re-election by 30,000 votes on Saturday. His opponent Lien Chan, leader of the Nationalist party, or Kuomintang, said the vote was invalid and demanded a recount.

A war fought on false pretenses is still a war where more than 500 American soldiers have died, billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted and what little remained of this country’s credibility on the world stage has been lost.

On March 13 the Iranian news agency Mehr reported a story that, if true, is surely the biggest news of this election year: "U.S. forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq. A reliable source from the Iraqi Governing Council, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Mehr News Agency that U.S. forces, with the help of British forces stationed in southern Iraq, had made extensive efforts to conceal their actions."

Washington has now inherited the identical problem faced by imperial Britain when, in order to control the region’s recently discovered oil, it stitched together three disparate Ottoman vilyats to create the Frankenstein state of Iraq.

Nato rushed 1,000 extra troops to Kosovo last night - 750 of them British - and Germany announced it will send 600 additional troops amid fears that the Balkans were again sliding towards a conflagration that could suck in neighbouring countries.

Observing a double anniversary: blowback from Kosovo and Iraq.

Kosovo today is a gangster state ruled by armed gangs that deal in drugs, prostitution, and extortion: the ethnic cleansing of the last remaining Serbs from the land of their forefathers has been going on since the "liberation," and is only being noticed now that it is reaching a blood-soaked crescendo.

The Taiwenese election race has been emotional and hotly-contested, dominated by the issue of China, Taiwan's biggest rival. While Mr Chen is pushing for a policy of independence, Mr Chan has opted for a softer approach.

The Justice Dept., FBI, and Drug Enforcement Administration delivered an 83-page petition to the Federal Communications Commission demanding dramatic new surveillance powers. If they're approved, the FBI would have the right to require Internet service providers (ISPs), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies, and others that rely on broadband access to the Net to redesign their networks to support standards designed by law enforcement for wiretapping and tracing.

"The problem is not with just the Bush administration -- it is about U.S. power, it's about America's sense of itself."

NASA (news - web sites) has developed a computer program that comes close to reading thoughts not yet spoken, by analyzing nerve commands to the throat.

Jorgensen's team found that sensors under the chin and one each side of the Adam's apple pick up the brain's commands to the speech organs, allowing the subauditory, or "silent speech" to be captured.

''we believe that the sides should not be incited by the extreme elements to preserve the tranquility that is on sensitive balances which the international community exert great efforts to maintain. We also believe that the sides should act with restraint to prevent the incidents from reaching dimensions that would threaten stability and security of the region.'' FOREIGN MINISTRY

"In Oct. 2001, this country passed an ignominious milestone: For the first time ever, the number of college-educated unemployed surpassed the number of unemployed who don't have high school diplomas" . . . Unable to pay for its imports with exports, the U.S. is paying by giving up ownership of its assets.

In a first sign of official criticism in Poland of the US-led invasion of Iraq, President Aleksander Kwasniewski said that his country had been "taken for a ride" about the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction in the strife-torn country.

"Terrorism cannot be defeated only by the force of arms, and if we give the impression that weapons play the dominant role, we will only stir up nationalist feelings among the Arabs against us," said European Affairs Minister Rocco Buttiglione.

In terms of national interests, Spain had nothing at stake in America’s war with Iraq . . . The whole notion that the 21st century can suddenly revert to the 18th and governments can fight wars in which the people and vital national interests are not involved is absurd.

The bill establishes a supreme court, abolishes the post of lord chancellor and removes the right of law lords to sit in the upper house.

Foreign Report was told by a well-placed source that discussion in the US on Kosovo's future revolves around the 'Austrian model'.

"There is a huge gap" between the perspectives of Americans and the others, noted Pew director Andrew Kohut. "The gap isn't narrowing in these surveys; if anything, it's widening".

Our politicians and our evangelical leaders assure us that America is the most blessed nation on earth. Many claim we are blessed by God because we, as a nation, have blessed Israel. But is this true?

Nothing, however, compares to the U.S. global empire. What makes U.S. hegemony unique is that it consists, not of control over great land masses or population centers, but of a global presence unlike that of any other country in history. According to the Department of Defense publication, "Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country," the United States has troops in 135 countries. Here is the list:

As if asylum in the United States isn’t already a generous enough racket for illegal aliens, the Treason Lobby is salivating at the possibility that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Secretario Ridge will open the door even wider by making “gender persecution” and domestic violence grounds for asylum.

Well, the military suffers for the same reason public education suffers. Essentially it is an organization designed and run by politicians and bureaucrats.

John Kerry the Democratic candidate -- showing that there's not a nickels worth of difference between the major parties on this issue -- has pledged his strong support for Israel and vowed not to follow the Oslo path (spoken like a true Likudnik).

Quotes you might have missed.

The outsourcing train has left the station with many top financial, health care, tax reporting and credit reporting companies on board. The business process outsourcing market in India alone is expected to grow 54% to $3.6 billion by the end of this quarter.

Most people in Europe opposed the war on Iraq, and they do not see a war on civil liberties as an effective antidote to terrorism.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s writings reveal the true intentions of radical feminism: achieve a gender-less society and impose totalitarian ideals on American society.

ONLY McGLORY DOESN'T HAVE one bit of the emerald isle in him . . . And neither is Kerry. He's a mix, Eastern European mostly. His paternal grandfather, as everyone now knows, was a Jew from Austria-Hungary. After the Globe blew the lid off this story last year, Kerry was forced to acknowledge he may have (cough) allowed people to believe he was an Irishman.

It is about our country’s identity and whether or not we will continue to be the greatest country on the face of the earth or whether we will elect ourselves into being the cash cow for a multicultural globalist society, a world community hell-bent on embracing socialism instead of democracy.

The hypocrisy doesn’t end there, either. When the news media confronts the topic of broadcast indecency, they are quick to give credibility to the “censorship” argument, but then censor out the very content that’s under discussion.

Without addressing the controversies over the war and the troubled occupation of Iraq, Bush said that the Dutch should "think about the Iraqi citizens who don't want people to withdraw because they want to be free."

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez also said he would not recognize the Haitian transition government being formed by Prime Minister Gerard Latortue. An official said none of the 11 of 13 Cabinet ministers chosen so far came from Aristide's Lavalas Family Party.

A year into the E-voting crisis, shouldn't we have noticed the printer that is already built in each Diebold voting machine?

Is terrorism, then, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?

The 1920s epic poem on the Civil War written by Stephen Vincent Benet would be titled, "John Brown's Body." And the first lines of the fighting song of the Union army were: "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on. Glory, glory hallelujah."

Most European politicians and intellectuals - apart from Blair, Berlusconi, Aznar and their friends - consider that the Bush administration's response to asymmetric warfare has only served to increase the threat. It's a classic reductio ad absurdum.

Utopian Dreamers: The ILO report 'A Fair Globalisation: Creating Opportunities for All' was prepared by the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation.

By condemning the Iraq war as a disaster, and blasting the government for getting Spain involved, he emerges as a leading spokesman for sanity at a time when the lunatics have taken over the management of governments in the West. It is a credit to the Spanish population to have opposed their government's involvement in the Iraq war to begin with, and to let that opposition show itself in an election.

Kerry is a card-carrying member of the moral minority. He voted against the Defense of Marriage Act even Clinton signed, and opposes the death penalty even for Willie Horton. He believes homosexuals should have the same right to form matrimonial unions as heterosexuals and supports abortion up until the final minutes of pregnancy. Kerry even voted not to outlaw that grisly form of infanticide known as "partial-birth abortion."

The country above all where more meaningful democracy is needed is the United States, and what has happened in Spain can help inspire us to greater achievements. First of all, we should realize that Spain has something that does not exist here in the United States; it has a major political party that wants to end its participation in the war against Iraq very quickly.

"Mr Blair and Mr Bush must do some reflection ... you can't organise a war with lies"

Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, urged Mr Zapatero to move quickly to agree a constitution, which has been under debate since 2002 and represents the EU's most sensitive unfinished business.

"Perhaps Mr. Aznar, the Spanish Prime Minister and Mr. Blair should look at themselves in the mirror and wonder whether their years of reckless policy towards Iraq and the unleashing of bombs in Afghanistan has anything to do with the horrors in Madrid."

During the last session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) held in Malaysia, Putin expressed Russia’s interest in increasing cooperation with Islamic countries and joining the 57-member OIC.

Terrorism has been exclusively portrayed as the action of non-State actors against the State. This is a most convenient definition for strong military states like US, UK and Israel, with State terrorism never raised in any discourse on the subject.

"It's possible," the headline answers, "but more likely they will continue to straddle two worlds, figuring out ways to remain Hispanic even as they become Americans."

One way is through its "Bio-Revolution" program which seeks to "harness the insights and power of biology to make U.S. warfighters and their equipment... more effective."

But what about the American people? Almost without exception, the people of the world have opposed this war and anti-American feelings are running high nearly everywhere.

The Defense Sciences Office is interested in proposals to develop innovative science and technology capable of affording superior physiological qualities to the warfighter.

Advertising revenue is the number one concern of newspaper editors and editorial integrity is often subordinated to placate advertisers . . . In our multicultural society, political correctness has become the lingua franca of newspapers.

Two hours before the polls closed in Madrid, Condoleezza Rice, Mr Bush's national security adviser, was on network television proclaiming her belief that "the Spanish people understand that they've had strong and good leadership in Jos? Maria Aznar and his government".

Spanish voters seem to have decided that being close to the US is a risky proposition.

The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages. "But they thought that if we have any kind of a draft, it will probably be a special skills draft."

A powerful White House official told me, prior to his elevation, that "we (Jewish Americans) have step by step upped our influence in every state. We now have the lieutenant governorships, the state controllers. Now we are everywhere.

All citizens of the European Union have equal rights, but some seem to be more citizens than others as the bloc expands from 15 to 25 states, with restrictions on international movements of people from the new Eastern European members.

In a huge victory for pro-life advocates, members of the U.S. Senate have agreed to have a debate and vote on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act as early as the week of March 22. The Senate has never before voted on this pro-life legislation, that would allow prosecutors to hold criminals accountable when they kill or injure an unborn child as a result of an attack on a pregnant woman.

"Washington failed to put through its draft resolution to the agency's Board of Governors. Practically all of the countries stated their position, which was approval of Iran's aspiration for cooperation and the creation of an atmosphere of confidence in resolving the problem of nuclear programs".

Julian Peel-Yates said that basic democratic principles, including "vibrant political discourse and meaningful pluralism", were lacking in the election and that it "failed to meet important commitments such as treatment by state-controlled media on a fair basis and the secrecy of the vote".

Critics of the existing foreign or domestic order will not take over Washington this November . . . But America will be more prudent and the world will be far safer only if the Bush Administration is constrained by a lack of allies and isolated.

Socialist voters may not have worked out the arithmetic; Jose Zapatero's supporter in the street simply does not want to be burdened with America's distant wars, especially if they draw fire at home.

Russia's assertiveness is likely to be evident both at home and abroad, with its tough stance in the war on Chechnya unlikely to soften and with a more robust approach towards neighboring countries like Georgia and Ukraine backed by the increasing stakes taken by Russian companies in those countries' energy industries, the New York Times reported, quoting a new CIA assessment.

"The Spanish troops in Iraq will come home" . . . "The war in Iraq was a disaster, the occupation of Iraq is a disaster."

Baffled conservatives who are wondering how health care can be a "right" in Iraq, and a product in capitalist America, might consider that we're exporting democratic socialism rather than just democracy to Iraq.

Had Bush chosen to press the fight against al Qaeda itself, and not Iraq, Spain and Aznar and all those dead would not now be on the forefront of the carnage.

It all started with Brown — or rather, with a willingness to tolerate dubious constitutional reasoning for the sake of getting desired results. Since 1954, judicial review has come to mean liberal tyranny, as liberal courts have imposed their arbitrary will.

What made this evening so remarkable was that the power-elite’s secrets were being revealed in all their dirty detail on 500+ different radio stations. This broadcast had such an impact that the following morning it even cracked the mainstream media by being discussed on C-SPAN, along with scores of other websites.

The Americans and British warned of the dangers of civil war - so did the journalists, of course - although no Iraqi had ever been heard to utter any demand for conflict with their fellow citizens. Who actually wanted this "civil war"? Why would the Sunnis - a minority in the country - allow "al-Qaeda" to bring this about when they could not defeat the occupying power without at least passive Shia support?

And for "strategic" read oil. Not for nothing is this land known in US government circles as the "Kuwait of the Gulf of Guinea". Not without reason has President Bush welcomed President Obiang, a confirmed if not convicted corrupt despot, to the White House. He may be a despot, but as presider over an oil-rich state, he is their despot.

Now, as part of its deal with the IMF, Argentina says that it will recognise the committee, and that it will give formal powers to the banks it has appointed to deal with creditors.

You don't need a Ph.D. in economics to see that our present course is not sustainable. In fact, with entitlement programs the single biggest federal expenditure, assuming no fundamental, structural changes, Social Security and Medicare alone will break the bank.

The book contains documentation from eyewitnesses who said they've seen Mexican military and paramilitary police assisting Mexican nationals with crossing illegally into the U.S. And witnesses have described how some Mexican army and federal police units actually provide armed cover for smugglers packing drugs into our country.

''You have said very little about the changes in the world, and perhaps the increased resistance to being colonised or dominated''.

The 1999 bombings proved to be Mr Putin's political making. He positioned himself as a strongman who would crush the Chechen rebels and restore order to the ailing country.

Peter Brimelow writes: I’ve always had a special fondness for libertarians who are sensible about immigration, which was just one of the reasons I agreed to write this Foreword to Ilana Mercer's new collection of columns Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Culture.

So totally is an automatic pro-war stance now equated with conservatism that I’ve grown accustomed to e-mail accusing me of being a “liberal” and “Democrat” for opposing the Iraq war. How could any conservative be against any war?

Critique of WND essay - The real anti-Semitism by Benjamin Shapiro

Shapiro is advocating (quite literally) the singling-out and systematic killing of any and all deemed to be "anti-Semitic," which of course includes the "dealing with" those that are strongly opposed to the socialist, anti-christ state of Israel. Are you against Israel due to principled reasons related to their policy of mistreating the Palestinians? You are "anti-semitic"; you need to be killed.

With this in mind, why is our media trying to bill this fall’s election as being between two candidates who are more markedly different than any in recent memory? Both are Globalist proponents of a U.N.-backed War Machine, and whether Bush wins or Kerry wins, the status quo establishment will still reign supreme, for our Secret Society Election of 2004 is nothing more than a Hegelian exercise where each participant has been selected and manipulated to insure that the status quo is preserved.

Considering the American mainstream media’s reluctance to link John Kerry to his blood-brother/fraternity brother George Bush at Yale University’s Skull & Bones, it’s not hard to imagine that there are other skeletons lurking in Kerry’s family closet. Specifically, the press has failed to adequately report on the Democratic candidate’s ties to the murky world of intelligence, his Jewish roots, and his family’s past ties to another influential government operative with the last name of Bush.

As Pentagon Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, Rabbi Zakheim's priority has been financial management. He had intended to focus his energies on bringing business practices to the bureaucratic business of defence procurement.

Isn't if odd how al-Qaeda mysteriously shows up in "strategic" places to US wants to lord over? Can there be any doubt Osama's phantom terrorist organization is custom-made -- by the CIA -- for devising bulletproof excuses to invade other countries and steal their natural resources?

One of the most fallacious arguments for open borders is that we need immigrants to raise the birth rate, lest America begin to shrink and decline.

Clearly, Wal-Mart, union-free in 11 nations, is now pulling down the wages and benefits of union workers in the U.S. Call it the “Wal-Martization” effect coming home to roost in the world’s last superpower.

I think a nation-state is almost certainly inappropriate for most of the Middle East as well. I have argued elsewhere that the main mistake Jews seeking a homeland made was to insist that it be a nation-state on the Western European model.

South Korea was plunged into a deep political crisis on Friday, when opposition lawmakers voted to impeach president Roh Moo-hyun, following a mass brawl in the country's National Assembly.

The Administration yesterday released the official list of guests who stayed overnight at the White House . . . Donald Etra, Ken Cohen, and Muhammad Saleh were all members of Skull and Bones . . . Roland Betts.

Is there a true red-blooded American Resistance Army that is poised and waiting to rush in like the cavalry from the old John Wayne movies?

The 2.5TB system is "the largest SSD installation in the world by far. What that means in simple English is that the US government has just bought the world's biggest RAM drive in order to speed up cross-checking across several vast databases.

Palestinians fear that Sharon's ultimate goal is trading Gaza in exchange for permanent control over large parts of the West Bank, thus depriving them of land they want for a state.

The judge, who was examining this case, said that Konanykhin didn't violate his agreement with US authorities; that agreement allowed him to live in the United States. Russian authorities are accusing Konanykhin of embezzling $8 million from the National Exchange Bank's assets.

”In this case, it has been extended to some of those who had a link with the protests under the principle of moral support. If this is the charge, there are not 26 offenders but 300,000.”

I just had the pleasure of being a guest on the FOX show "The Big Story" with John Gibson. To be fair, Gibson invites me, an Edmund Burke conservative, career military officer on the show to discuss my observations of intelligence manipulation in a push to war in Iraq. After a Jerry Springer style rough and tumble (and I lost my temper, sorry folks), he then tells the next guest (a Mr. May of the Foundation for Freedom of Democracy) that I am a punk and an anarchist. Cliff May, who has probably never met a real anarchist, echoed John Gibson's concerns. Fair and balanced, just like I like it! All I can say is FOX, bring it on!

There is no doubt that America's foreign policies are manipulative and self-interested, certainly not based on the bedrock of democratic principles.

Misleader compared the companies that outsource the most U.S. jobs (referred to as "captive remote services companies" on page 11 of the trade association report noted below) with the president's campaign finance records.

“Our critics would suggest that we are confusing cause and effect, and that IQs are higher in rich countries because of better health, education and so on. But we don't think that is likely: intelligence is the largest single factor behind national wealth. It then becomes a virtuous circle, with the benefits of the resulting affluence adding extra IQ points.”

Our main argument was that it was likely to make life more miserable for the Iraqi people, add to regional volatility and provide further fertile ground for al-Qaeda to expand its operations and gain wider sympathy among Arabs and Muslims for its causes, and deepen anti-American anger in the region and beyond.

Mr Barnwell should use NeoCon for mainstream . . .
When one really takes a look at mainstream conservative thought, it becomes quite clear that they are not really supporters of freedom and liberty.

The CIFA was originally charged with protecting the military and critical infrastructure from spying by terrorists and foreign intelligence services. But in August, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, issued a directive ordering the unit to maintain a "domestic law-enforcement database that includes information related to potential terrorist threats directed against the Department of Defense."

The shocking figures on new job creation released last week highlight the historic tendency of some ‘conservative’ governments to make conservatives poor, and also some historic myths of the free market.

Listen to the audio. First Rush insinuates he doesn't know what Skull and Bones is but when the caller displays a good grasp of the facts Rush has to acknowledge Skull and Bones and then try and whitewash it.

NAFTA, GATT, WTO, PNTR. These are the trade treaties and global institutions that have permitted the historic substitution of foreign labor for American labor, to the enrichment of the transnational companies that look upon the Congress as a wholly owned subsidiary.

The people sending up the smoke screen are the cultural elitists who hold sway in Hollywood and in the major media. They are anti-Christian and anti-God. They are nihilists and hedonists who shamelessly use their dominance of our cultural organs to undermine basic Judeo-Christian values and to create moral anarchy.

Last Sunday, United States Ambassador to Brazil Donna Hrinak, gave a strong caution to the Brazilian government with relation to the South American giant's relationship with Venezuela and Cuba.

During a conference at Florida International University last Sunday, Hrinak said that her government expects Brazilian President Lula da Silva to convince Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to adopt a "democratic solution" to the current political situation.

The BJP did not consult its allies before announcing the "yatra." The allies, most of whom do not share the BJP's Hindu-supremacist ideology, have very little leverage on it.

A recent SRA Commentary by Chris Sanders[1] drew attention to the astonishing swiftness with which Howard Dean’s candidacy was displaced by John Kerry’s. Now that the dark horse candidate, Kerry, has indeed won the Democratic nomination, and given that he has campaigned against the Bush administration on the war on terror, what exactly are the foreign policy views of this man who, like Bush, is a member of the Skull & Bones society?

Few Zionists outside the ranks of the extreme right have been prepared to be so brutally honest and Benny Morris claims to be on the political left. More significantly, it was he who first exposed the true circumstances of Israel's creation . . . Thus, he eloquently shows why Zionism is a dangerous idea: at its root is a conviction of moral righteousness that justifies almost any act deemed necessary to preserve the Jewish state.

The US State Department should begin issuing passports that will include electronic chips containing the bearer's biographic information and photograph later this year.

Skull and Bones is intimately tied to Semi-Secret Globalist Organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers, which have so come to dominate U.S. political and economic policy as to constitute a separate American government. Bonesmen have playedprominent roles in leading these groups for the past several generations.

Nationalizing marriage laws will only grant more power over our lives to the federal government, even if for supposedly conservative ends. A far better approach is for Congress to exercise its existing constitutional power to limit the jurisdiction of federal courts.

The truth is that many, many Americans are part of the ‘uninformed electorate’ not because of what they WERE told, but because of what they WERE NOT told.

"I think Skull and Bones has had slightly more success than the Mafia in the sense that the leaders of the five families are all doing 100 years in jail, and the leaders of the Skull and Bones families are doing four and eight years in the White House".

If you go up against the elite media it will not be pretty. You will be branded a bigot, racist, anti-Semite, [a] homophobe. You will be called a fundamentalist, or an ultra-conservative. Elites don't debate. They attack and marginalize.

Latino immigrants are getting jobs. In the process, however, they are displacing native-born Americans—and first and second generation Hispanics, many of whom are too discouraged to remain in the labor force.

While Diebold has received the most attention, it actually isn't the biggest maker of computerized election machines. That honor goes to Omaha-based ES&S, and its Republican roots are even stronger than Diebold's.

Upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lyndon Johnson is said to have told aide Bill Moyers, "I think we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come."

By repudiating our historic ways of war and democratization, the Bush administration threatens attempts at nation-building elsewhere.

"society needs to be prepared for the major changes to come." Convergent technologies such as augmented vision or hearing, pervasive sensor networks and genetic manipulation will challenge the meaning of human nature and privacy, as well as many aspects of trade and international law.

Growing numbers of Republicans who voted for the Medicare drug benefit now wish they hadn't . . . The nation's fiscal problem is bad and getting worse, as documented by a new Treasury Department report.

Argentina was racing towards defaulting on a $3.1bn payment to the International Monetary Fund after efforts on Monday to broker an end to its confrontation with the IMF appeared to get nowhere.

It is not the war in Iraq, strongly supported in a state known for patriots and warriors. The GOP worries about the sea change here on international trade created by job losses blamed on foreign competition.

Lying to the feds is a crime. Natch, lying by the feds to you is NOT a crime. Did we have a media that was actually interested in reporting the Way Things Are Here in America instead of the Comeuppance of Celebreties, the Martha Stewart case would prove a perfect opportunity to inform Americans about 18 USC 1001, and how it is used in practice. You can find some revealing info about this pernicious and overreaching statute here and here.
Statute itself is here

When prominent Jewish Catholics, among others, pointed out such statements by Jesus as “Go nowhere among the Gentiles … but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matt. 10:5) and “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt. 15:24), the document was quietly dropped. Appropriately, the architect of that document was Eugene Fisher, the same man who helped the ADL orchestrate an attack on “The Passion” —based on the preliminary, stolen script.

Congress has the power to impeach federal judges and remove them. It has the power to impose term limits on them. It has the power to restrict the jurisdiction of all federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. It has the power to abolish every federal court but the Supreme Court. But it has refused to use that power.

Thanks to the researches of Seymour Hersh, Karen Kwiatkowski, Jim Lobe, and others, the route taken by bogus "intelligence" originating from Iraqi exiles, Washington thinktanks, and foreign intelligence agencies via the Office of Special Plans, and stovepiped to the White House and the public, is well-known.

With the removal of the Baathist regime, thousands of Kurds and Turkmens are returning to Kirkuk to lay claim to their former homes, deepening the city's already complex demographics.

Greek conservatives ended a decade of socialist rule with a resounding election victory yesterday that handed new prime minister Costas Karamanlis the daunting task of getting this year's Olympics back on track.

If a third-party populist were to run in 2004 on Ross Perot’s signature issues of unfair trade and mammoth deficits, George W. Bush would suffer the fate of his father. He would be a one-term president, fortunate to get 40 percent of the vote. For the combined budget and trade deficits George W. has run up dwarf anything his father produced.

GEORGE Soros is a traitor to his class. A meddling billionaire who wants to buy his way into the political spotlight. A frustrated currency speculator suffering under the delusion that he is US secretary of state. A radical liberal who is soft on drugs. An egomaniacal do-gooder.

If the immediate peril posed to mankind, today, by the collapse of the presently hegemonic, predatory world monetary-financial system is recognized in time, the needed will for that action can be found.

One major way the new "conservative" paradigm has gained ascendance over the old "liberal" one has been through convincing the American public (via long-term repetition in the media) that liberals are wasteful and weak. With his gigantic deficits and huge tax cut for the rich, George W. Bush is in no position to talk about waste, or to turn the talk to economic policy at all, for that matter.

Joerg Haider brought his party a stunning victory in his home province Sunday, confounding pundits and increasing the odds for a national comeback.

Anyone can be grist for a prosecutor's conviction record . . . What you know about these cases is only what the government claims.

To change your mind-set, you must change your behavior.

Dr Kelly had himself predicted in jest in only February 2003 that if Iraq was attacked, he might be found 'dead in the woods'.

As Ralph Nader pointed out after his candidacy in 2000: 'In essence you don't run for President directly, you ask the media to run you for President.

At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine.

A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offers a world-view different from that of George W Bush.

With mass immigration shredding what Harvard scholar Samuel Huntington calls the "Anglo Protestant core" of American civilization, the Open Borders lobby remains delighted with the benefits the shredding brings.

The current crisis, though, dates from Haiti’s parliamentary elections of 2000, which the opposition claim were gerrymandered in President Aristide’s favour. Concerned by allegations of electoral fraud, most foreign donors withdrew aid and the US imposed a blockade.

The US Senate on Thursday passed the first sweeping restrictions on overseas outsourcing, by barring companies from most federal contracts if they plan to carry out some of the work abroad.

Out of the California's intoxicating brew of irrepressible individualism and pragmatic communalism arose a schizoid politics that for decades defined both the Left and the Right in an America prone to simplistic nostrums.

A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.

Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's Feb. 25 testimony to the House Budget Committee provided an unintentionally candid look at the Bush administration's deliberate fiscal policy of bankrupting the federal government to justify a sweeping program of privatization.

Embroiled in a new scandal, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview yesterday he is the victim of organised slander and hinted it could be part of an attempt to block his plan to dismantle some Jewish settlements.

Resolution 678, to which Mr Fleischer's neo-cons, and other apologists on both sides of the Atlantic and their Antipodean side-kicks cling to, to fraudulently justify their unleashing Armageddon.

Israelis I spoke to will tell you, if you ask them, that they claim Semitic ancestry for a political reason, to justify the land they have taken by force.

The campaign against the supposed new 'anti-semitism' in Europe today is basicly a cynical ploy on the part of the Israeli Government to seal off the Zionist state from any criticism of its regular and consistent brutality against the Palestinians.

The LOST was hatched by a group of internationalists who want to give the United Nations control of seven-tenths of the earth's surface area.

"The Saudi Paradox," by Michael Scott Doran, published in the Jan/Feb Foreign Affairs is a good source of background information on the likely motivation for this week’s anti-Shi’ite terrorist attacks.

The great problem affecting Americans these days is a mixture of apathy and anger over the growing realization that nothing they say or do matters. It is a growing sense of hopelessness as government spirals out of control and beyond their reach.

Dr Faber believes equity markets may be forming a significant top between now and April.

As long ago as the 1930s, H.G. Wells prophesied “the Open Conspiracy” — by which he meant an international tendency toward a one-world bureaucratic regime, which he already (approvingly) saw taking shape. Communists, socialists, liberals, and other “progressives” around the globe were all working toward the new order Wells foresaw; maybe he wouldn’t be surprised to find self-styled conservatives, in time, joining the irresistible movement too.

The conservative must go further and overturn the managerial society, since it is the epitome of all that is unconservative and anti-conservative. In other words, the conservative must take on the role of a revolutionary, or more precisely of a counter-revolutionary. In the present situation, one is a revolutionary precisely to the extent that one is a conservative.

Linda Vester of FOX NEWS did an hour long documentary on the security of our borders. I had the honor of being involved in the taping. Click on the segment links below to watch this insightful newcast.

As a parent of a 14-year-old, it seems to me that the schools are teaching quite more black history than they did back when I was a kid, but they’re teaching less overall history. The result is a deficit of knowledge about where we all have come from as Americans.

President Clinton’s close friend, a billionaire and fugitive from justice, was a top Mossad source—and could wreck plans by Hillary Clinton if she decides to run for the presidency.

The money, `liberated' from 400 emptied individual, institutional and family accounts would be used for `humanitarian goals of Palestinian society' including `improving the infrastructure at checkpoints'.

Few predicted however, and who could have besides perhaps Robert Fisk, the cruel reality of day-to-day human casualties in Iraq after the "war" was over. Most critics of pre-emptive war, whether military or civilian, suggested we know thy enemy, but this restraint was neither seconded by the administration nor the mainstream media.

Russia could have more of a say in the EU's security and defence policy if progress is made in resolving disputes on the Soviet Union's old borders.

A sticky point before the transfer of power is what is called "the status of forces agreement". In the case of Iraq, it will govern the future role of the US military.

"If Mr. Bush is possessed with the madness of trying to blockade Venezuela ... or worse, for the Americans to attempt to invade Venezuela in response to the desperate whining of his lackeys ... not a drop of petroleum with come to them from Venezuela."

Odd, isn't it? There never has been a civil war in Iraq. I have never heard a single word of animosity between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq.

When it comes to removing heads of state by indirect means, the US still has what it takes to get the job done.

How many times has the U.S. "restored order" in the "republic" of Haiti? I would say none, since there never was any order to restore: only brief pauses punctuating the normal flow of chaos. The country has always been ungovernable, and will continue to be in the foreseeable future. So what, pray tell, is the point of sending in the Marines yet again?

Violence, bloodshed, bombs, and coups – my goodness, how disorderly is the world. Might US foreign policy have something to do with it?

Unquestionable racism from the liberal left was allowed to rear its ugly head and the outrage from within the “party of tolerance” was non-existent, there wasn’t even a dropped jaw.

The electronic voting being used in today's Super Tuesday Democratic primaries offers unprecedented opportunities for electoral fraud.

The US National Debt = $7 Trillion
The US Income (not including funds that go specifically to Social Security and Medicare) = $1 Trillion
The US Deficit = $0.5 Trillion
Interest Rate on Debt >= 5% (based on $128 Million spent during the first trimester of fiscal 2004

"We have pushed this issue of multiculturalism - this concept, this philosophy - to the point where it has taken on a status it does not deserve. I would call it radical multiculturalism."

"TIA will live on in the broad sense," said Marcia Hofmann, staff counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). "Just because the name has been killed and the specific project killed, it doesn't mean the idea is dead. We will see it continue in smaller projects throughout government in different agencies, that is what I see as its legacy."

The NSA costs at least $3.5bn (£1.9bn) a year to run. It employs at least 20,000 officers (not counting the 100,000 servicemen and civilians around the world over whom it has control). Its shredders process 40 tons of paper a day.

The Conservatives are to seek to extend the government's civil partnerships bill to cover other close dependent relationships.

Kapeliouk says in the end that the Israeli authorities, especially Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have attempted practically everything to deal with Arafat, with no success. ”Sharon has isolated him. He has humiliated him. He has compared him with Osama bin Laden. He has called him a terrorist and an assassin. He has tried to kill him. There is only one thing Sharon has never tried -- to respect Arafat.”

All this has been funded from the USA Agency for International Development (USAID), under the guise of its falsely so-called "Democracy Enhancement" program.

"Fradkov is going to do exactly what Putin tells him to do. When Putin says jump, he is going to ask how high, " said Roland Nash, chief equity strategist at Renaissance Capital. "He would not have been forwarded if he had not been able to implement Putin's policy."

Lawmakers in several states this week are preparing rules to prevent Wal-Mart and other companies from using radio-frequency identification tags to spy on their customers.

The White House has issued a “Statement of Administration Position” (SAP) that encourages the Senate to pass a “clean” bill free of extraneous amendments.

He is defending a Zionist ideology, based on the violent displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians, and justified in terms of racial exclusiveness. As a symbol of Zionist thought, the wall is a continuation of the Zionist strategy.

The report, released yesterday, also poses serious questions about the possible politicisation, and effectiveness, of Australia's premier intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments (ONA).

President Vladimir Putin on Monday nominated Mikhail Fradkov, a former tax police chief who is Russia's representative to the European Union, for the post of prime minister.

Verison on Haiti from: Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board
1 March 2004

The armed insurrection which contributed to unseating President Aristide on February 29th 2004 was the result of a carefully staged military intelligence operation.

Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else fights it . . .

The melting pot is long gone. It was replaced by tyranny; first of the majority, soon by the minority, as former voters vote with their feet.

Kerry said his CIA chief would be "a true director of national intelligence with real control of intelligence personnel and budgets."

The election in two weeks will confirm Vladimir Putin as the most powerful Russian leader since Stalin. Yet five years ago he was just another faceless KGB apparatchik...

Globalization, we are told, is what modernity is all about, and to statists of every hue this means the globalization of American military and political power.

Top Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Sistani has rejected a U.S. proposal that the transitional body be chosen by regional committees.

Because the children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil automatically become U.S. citizens, Third World populations seeking welfare and free healthcare have long sought to sneak across U.S. borders.

Prediction: The American empire will be the first luxury to be auctioned off in the great yard sale to save Social Security and Medicare.