And few doubt that the two key demands of any genuinely elected government in Iraq would be (a) the withdrawal of all foreign troops and (b) Iraqi control of Iraqi oil. It is this that unites a large bulk of the country, and I am convinced that the Kurdish leaders at present engaged in dangerous manoeuvres with Israel will be isolated in their own territory if they carry on in this fashion.

One can almost imagine American proconsul Paul Bremer handing the keys to this rolling bomb over to former CIA pal and newly-minted Iraqi 'Prime Minister' Iyad Allawi with a snicker and a shrug. Thanks for the laughs, Iyad, but my helicopter is waiting on the roof.

Before Congress left town Friday for its Fourth of July recess, Rep. Bill Thomas of California pulled off one of his patented legislative assassinations. Washington's most cunning parliamentarian, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Thomas eradicated the Freedom of Speech in Churches Act without openly opposing it. In the process, he fired an early shot in a destructive civil war looming for Republicans.

America's military commander in Iraq ordered British troops to prepare a full-scale ground offensive against Iranian forces that had crossed the border and grabbed disputed territory, a senior officer has disclosed . . . Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez then ordered the British to prepare to send in several thousand troops to attack the Revolutionary Guard positions.

“With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn’t the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.”

Hamid Karzai has appealed for more Nato troops to maintain security during the Afghan elections. His plea reminds the West that removing a regime does not solve everything.

Handover could open the door to democracy, dictatorship, or chaos.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper abandoned his putative conservatism, minimizing his differences with the Liberals. He played me-too with the Liberals on more billions for Canada's decrepit, statist medical system. He joined them in declaring his party “pro-choice.”

His immigration spokeswoman told the Vancouver Sun that her party like the Liberals and the NDP support immigration of 300,000 annually (i.e. three times the current U.S. level). She explained that Conservatives' formerly restrictionist policy had “matured.”

While CAP has been bitingly critical of the Bush administration's performance before, during and after the Iraq war, the program it is putting forward may not be all that different from what the Bush State Department has now been empowered to do.

"This route has created such hardship for the local population that the state must find an alternative that may give less security but would harm the local population less. These alternative routes do exist," the High Court said.

What he has done therefore is to gain control of Saddam and his top 11 regime officials as hostages to guarantee his life. The insurgents will be given to understand that violence against the prime minister will be met with the fast trial and execution of a member of Saddam’s “dirty dozen.” It will therefore be in Saddam’s vital interest to keep his successor in good health.

Consequently, the Turks have made a decision to minimize the presence of Israeli operatives of Mossad as a condition for cooperating with the beleaguered Bush administration in Iraq. However, Ankara will hold its diplomatic fire for now to see whether Washington will bring pressure on the Israelis to deescalate their activities in Iraq.

Constitutionalist Americans who want to fix the nation’s ills through the presidency are fighting on the wrong battlefront. The proper place is in our own congressional districts.

Occupation Authorities Stash Oil Funds as Iraqi Health Care Dies

Perhaps most remarkable of all was Mr Allawi's demand that "mercenaries who come to Iraq from foreign countries" should leave Iraq. There are, of course, 80,000 Western "mercenaries" in Iraq, most of them wearing Western clothes. But of course, Mr Allawi was not speaking of these men.

Prince Turki al-Faisal stated in a television interview "When you're under attack by people who come and kill your countrymen and visitors to your country, and you see at the same time an attack on the kingdom from the outside, from Zionist circles, it is natural to make a connection."

What is going on in South Africa is not merely the exposure of the cheap hypocrisy of President Bush's gabble about "human rights" but the working out of the results of the century-long racial conflict that is being waged wherever whites are or have been dominant.

What we need to learn from what has happened in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and what is happening now in South Africa is that as the white future in the United States steadily darkens, their fate may be ours as well.

Unfortunately, the reality of the State - what it is in fact - is not how it is perceived by most Americans. To put it bluntly, the vast majority of Americans disagree with the libertarian view of the State. We may get some agreement on particular points, but the vision of the State as, in essence, a criminal gang, is far more radical than most Americans are willing to accept.

Republicans are pleased with Bush’s role as Caesar, arguing that unconstitutional power is necessary to fight the war against terrorism. Conservative media such as Fox News, National Review, Weekly Standard, and the Wall St Journal editorial page glorify Bush’s exercise of illegitimate powers.

On the August 21 1921 Gertrude Bell, Oriental secretary to the high commissioner, wrote to her father about the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis. She mentions some of her Iraqi "pals" and enemies, descendants of whom are playing similar roles in Iraq today . . . Then she refers to "Saiyid Muhammad Sadr ... a tall black bearded alim (cleric) with a sinister expression. We tried to arrest him early in August but failed. He escaped from Baghdad and moved about the country like a flame of war, rousing the tribes."

Another American politician with conservative ties in Israel is former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. He was present at Sycamore Ranch with Sharon and Riklis, when the plan for West Bank settlements was developed.

How much clearer can it be than no American politician dares to expose the continuing carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan as unjustifiable mass murder? Or that Americans are too cowardly and immoral to stand up for justice, freedom, and peace? The lies for these unconscionable actions are well-known, irrefutable, seered in the minds of the terrified citizens of the world.

Yet the American/Israeli war machine rolls on, with hardly a murmur of protest.

We have devolved from a culture of self-responsibility to one of continual babyhood. When Americans are willing to sell their freedoms for the empty promise of security, their morals for political correctness, and their sovereignty for collective prosperity, they have become a nation of trash.

Someone observed long ago that science would produce weapons of complexity that would far exceed the capacity of the simpletons who ended up in positions of political power to control them. History is a record of human stupidity writ in blood.

As head of the Likud's "Jewish Leadership" group, Mr. Feiglin has become an increasingly potent political force who, even his detractors concede, can no longer be ignored.

Feiglin's aspiration is no secret: He wants to reshape Israel according to his own ultranationalist definition of Judaism.

The Rothschild-Rockefeller banking cartel is behind most political (and cultural) trends and its goal is to destroy the nation state, true democracy, religion, culture, marriage and family, in order to degrade humanity to animal status in advance of totalitarianism.

The key variable is what I have called the ‘racial ratio.’ This measure refers to how many whites there are to shoulder the cost of preferences, relative to each “protected” minority member. As the proportion of whites to other races shrinks due to immigration-driven demographic change, the higher the cost to the individual white. As the burden of preferences grows, white Americans will feel increasing resentment.

The U.N., a U.S. creation, is now claiming the right to determine when, where and whether the United States may go to war. Secretary General Kofi Annan, a U.N. bureaucrat from a failed state, Ghana, is telling us that U.S. soldiers must be subject to prosecution by a U.N. war-crimes tribunal with jurisdiction we have never accepted.

Within hours, Bremer flew out of the country.

Tens of thousands of Turks chanting anti-Bush slogans demonstrated against the president's visit to their country on Sunday and a NATO summit.

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, says Israel should start discussions on ridding the Middle East of nuclear weapons.

Wiesenthal's reputation as a moral authority is undeserved. The man whom The Washington Post has called the "Holocaust's Avenging Angel" (1) has a little known but well-documented record of reckless disregard for truth. He has lied about his own wartime experiences, misrepresented his postwar "Nazi-hunting" achievements, and has spread vile falsehoods about alleged German atrocities . . . In light of his well-documented record of deceit, lies and incompetence, the extravagant praise heaped upon this contemptible man is a sorry reflection of the venal corruptibility and unprincipled self-deception of our age.

What did he achieve? Ronald Reagan let the American eagle soar. He cut tax rates from 70 to 28 percent, restored our spirit, rebuilt the armed forces into the most formidable the world had ever seen, and led us to bloodless victory in the Cold War. God bless him.

On Wednesday, June 23, the Congress of the United States passed an incredible resolution. By a vote of 407 to 9, the House passed Concurrent Resolution 460 to give total support to Israel's hard right Likud government to annex the great bulk of Palestine and make it part of Israel.

British elites are to press on with membership in the European Union despite growing domestic opposition.

The Free Trade Area of the Americas should be enacted and include the entire Western Hemisphere except for Cuba until Fidel Castro is gone. It should then evolve into the "American Union" as a carbon copy of the European Union.

An "Asian-Pacific Union" is to emerge as the third great superstate, neatly dividing the world into three great regions for the administrative convenience of banking and corporate elites. The United States and other international financial institutions should facilitate and administrate these global trade pacts.

Carole Coleman cut right through that cosy assumption, and in a manner that clearly unsettled President Bush, who had probably assumed he'd be treated with sycophantic Irish blarney and could therefore dish out whatever platitudes he wished to utter.

He defended himself this month against charges that he was being financed by the CIA by saying that over the years he had taken money from 15 different intelligence organisations but had always been true to his aim of getting rid of Saddam Hussein.

Saleh Mohammed al Oufi, the new head of "Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula," the group that kidnapped and beheaded American Lockheed Martin helicopter technician Paul Johnson, may have received training from a U.S. military contractor while he was being trained as a Saudi public security non commissioned officer and prison guard.

Democracy, freedom and liberty, you might as well strike them from all our dictionaries and textbooks. On September 11, 2001, those words were something that we lost along with the thousands of Americans that lost their lives. It's time to regain our country. As Patrick Henry said, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."

The bottom line: what advances the elite conspiracy to subvert freedom, God, nation, democracy, race, marriage and family is "tolerence"; what defends these institutions is "hate."

Alfred Lilienthal posed the question of what the cost of supporting Israel was to the US 40 years ago, when the price tag for Americans was low.

Today the answer is knowable and daunting the figure comes to at least $1.6 trillion through the end of 2002.

The report, published yesterday by the leftwing Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus also counts the human costs.

A Study by the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus

The United States and its European allies may be self-indulging in a Wilsonian "greater Middle East" project or discourse frowned on by the region's politicians and intellectuals, yet there is little doubt about the operation of Israeli power well beyond her tiny borders pushing for a "greater Israel".

During his visit to the U.S. last week, President Vicente Fox kept pushing his agenda of opening the American border for hordes of Mexican "migrants" and granting them "rights" that would make it easier for them to entrench themselves in our country once they managed to put their foot on American soil.

It was his public, charismatic and outspoken defiance of the U.S.-led occupation that earned him the most support. Up until al-Sadr's blunt criticism of U.S. policies, none of Iraq's other prominent leaders would risk speaking out against Washington. Fearing that such action would cause the U.S. to silence them, or marginalize them from power, these leaders remained relatively neutral, deciding that the best way to achieve their interests was through cooperation and sacrifice with Washington.

Israeli-made bullets bought by the US Army should be used for training only, not for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, US lawmakers have told army generals.

It's all very cloak-and-daggerish, with spy-versus-spy plots and counter-plots, and, with so many layers of deception, somewhat confusing. But we can see what this complicated game was all about if we look at the results, i.e. what is happening on the ground in Iraq. As Iran takes the southern provinces, and the Israelis extend their influence into the northern part of the country, where the Kurds predominate, the real allegiances of the various players stand revealed.

The cosy dismissal that the draft is not happening because the bills have stalled is a red herring. One big terror attack engineered by the government and those bills will be accelerated through Congress quicker than you can say 'Patriot Act'.

"The Americans have prepared the war, we have prepared the post-war. And the transfer of power on June 30 will not change anything regarding our objectives. This new provisional government appointed by the Americans has no legitimacy in our eyes. They are nothing but puppets."

A graduate of Yale University, he was a career diplomat between 1960 and 1997 serving in eight countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as positions in the Department of State and the White House . . . In 1987, during the administration of George Bush the elder/(George Herbert Walker Bush), Negroponte returned to the NSC to work under Colin L. Powell as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs. Within two years, he was back in Latin America; Bush appointed Negroponte ambassador to Mexico.

John Kerry's foreign policy adviser Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute, author of "Democratic Realism: the Third Way", points to the exemplary nature of the 1999 " intervention in Kosovo".

Despite economic forces compelling the US to expand militarily and pursue an aggressive, predatory foreign policy, there are some who concede that while the world's de facto government cannot be compelled to act morally, or at least in accordance with international rules and conventions, it can nevertheless be embarrassed, or pressured through the activism of the public, into doing so. World opinion, it was argued not too long ago, is a second superpower. There are few reasons to believe this is any more than wishful thinking, for it is difficult to think of any confirming instance of world opinion standing in the way of imperialist plunder. World opinion being massively against the invasion of Iraq, or against the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, made not one jot of a difference to the foreign policy of the US and its NATO allies.

Thousands of foreigners who work in the United States will have to go to U.S. embassies abroad to be interviewed and fingerprinted when they need to renew their visas under a U.S. policy announced on Wednesday.

According to Dr. Steinlight, Jewish groups have succeeded in securing American support for Israel “by default,” because there was no other group in America that was as passionate about the issue. However, as Muslims pour into this country, they are likely to act as a counterbalance and could possibly prevent America from supporting Israel.

He told his audience: "The five great saints and other leaders in the spirit world, including communist leaders such as Marx and Lenin, who committed all manner of barbarity, and dictators such as Hitler and Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons."

The Clintons have lowered the standards of what is expected of a public figure. In their treatment of journalists who attract their ire they have also heightened the dangers a president can present to the First Amendment.

The United States of course is not a democracy but a wonderfully crafted pretense. We have separated the results of elections from the formulation of policy. It is a neat trick: Voting distracts the rabble without disturbing the government. You cannot possibly – can you? – believe that your vote will change anything of importance? That it will end the flood of semi-literate Mexican proletarians who join our own? Divert the schools from their ghettoish apotheosis of the mentally lame and halt? Cause governmental behavior to rely on merit instead of race, creed, color, sex, and national origin?

Include China and India in the G-8—making it the G-10—and then hold the next summit in "one of the manicured campuses of Indian outsourcing companies" or in "Shanghai's manufacturing hub." Then—and here's the key moment—you invite Arab leaders to attend this summit. Presumably, after seeing the manufacturing hub in Shanghai, Arab leaders will smack their heads and immediately see the light:

The chickenhawk argument that has risen to such prominence today, with the major players in the Iraq war--Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz--having never experienced war firsthand--is in fact an argument as old as war itself.

The balance of forces in this city has turned against fiscal restraint, and deficits ad infinitum may be our future, until we go the way of the great commercial republics of the past: Holland, Spain and Great Britain.

"I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001."

Militants seem to have achieved a sophisticated understanding of how violence, the media and public opinion can interact. The Bush administration's skillful manipulation of the American media might have been successful in getting American public opinion to back the invasion of Iraq. But the present phase of the war, especially the psychological war that the militants are waging in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, might well go in favor of the militants.

The ACLU profited enormously, collecting $790,000 in legal fees, plus $160,000 in court costs, as a result of its suit to deny the Boy Scouts of America the use of San Diego's Balboa Park for a summer camp, a city facility the Scouts had used since 1915.

While American troops are fighting and dying to maintain the independence and unity of the Iraqi state, the Israelis, operating behind our backs and in the shadows, are working to split the country up.

And it's hard to know, even from the perspective of three years after the Bill Clinton presidency, which army -- the FOBs or the EOBs -- is bigger.

When New York Times columnist and Likudist mouthpiece William Safire wrote in a June 8 Op-Ed that "our most loyal friends" the Iraqi Kurds have been "double crossed" by the United States at the expense of "appeasing" the south, you know his concern is anything but genuine. Indeed, his gratuitous sympathy extends to all situations which could potentially favor Israel, as he now sees in the brewing conflict between the leadership of Iraq's Shi'a Arabs and Kurds.

Outside powers also have lots at stake. Uganda was heavily involved in the 1998 war. It too risks losing big budgetary support from foreign donors. South Africa seeks to reap economic rewards of a stabilized continent. South African President Thabo Mbeki has warned of a real possibility of "catastrophic war."

Annan said, "Are not Jews entitled to the same degree of concern and protection? The fight against anti-Semitism must be our fight, and Jews everywhere must feel that the United Nations is their home too." Israel is hoping the UN resolution will be passed some time this fall.

The U.S. seems to have a fixation to become the "Master of the World." Is the U.S. truly just a great liberating power, bringing freedom to the un-free of the world? Or, is the U.S. giving into the temptation that was the downfall of the Roman Empire: to overstretch, to get greedy, to become frustrated with indirect rule through allies and decide, instead, to get the job done itself? Is the U.S. embarking on its most ambitious voyage, or at the end of its imperial journey?

Fearing more revelations about its secretive nuclear weapons program, the Zionist regime has barred a British journalist from entering occupied Palestine due to his connections with nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.

It appears that the liberal media, which practice a form of cultural Marxism that protects the interests of certain special-interest and minority groups, believe they will never be targeted for prosecution under the "hate crimes" approach. And they may well be right. Based on the record and statements of groups such as CAIR, conservatives are the ones who will be singled out for inciting or provoking "hate."

If the New York Times and NPR have their way . . . all but begged the Internal Revenue Service to open up a large-scale investigation of all churches that take stands on moral issues which bleed over into political action, or allow members of their congregation to register voters.

Not only does their own government do nothing to stop the invasion but the Open Borders lobby is using the law to crack down on the citizens’ patrols.

Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel’s view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria.

The need to protect you and yours is as natural as breathing. Of course, as with all natural instincts...the left will try to legislate them away.

“Israel has come to the conclusion that at present, there is no Palestinian partner with whom it is possible to make progress on a bilateral peace process.”

That is to say, the international community has confirmed that the Palestinian people has no right to take part in the determination of its own fate. Everything will be decided by the Government of Israel alone, with the backing of the United States, whose position will be automatically accepted by the other partners of the “Quartet”.

The Russian president's declaration that he would not bankrupt Yukos, the oil group, mattered because, for better or for worse, the fraud and tax-evasion trial of two big Russian investors has become a kind of proxy trial for capitalism in Russia. And Russia's progress, however flawed, has in turn become a proxy for the kind of halting but real progress to which the broken nations of the Middle East or Africa - including, of course Iraq - might aspire.

In 2003, we attacked and invaded the only one of the three that did not have a secret nuclear program. And since that State of the Union, the other two have accelerated their programs to acquire the atomic weapons President Bush said they would not be permitted to have. At this point, the Bush Doctrine has to be judged a limited success.

Calling for lower standards in the future in order to widen the pool of athletes eligible to be admitted to Notre Dame is a compliment to black grads of the past. As we now know, they were (mostly) admitted and earned a degree under higher standards than those of most colleges.

Today we have another novel situation: a Republican president with a Republican Congress — a mirror image of the Johnson years. It should have been a golden opportunity to move back toward constitutional government, and at first the new Bush seemed to encourage such hopes. But he soon showed that he had only a weak and erratic conception of limited government, and he was ready to compromise even that for political advantage.

In an interview to CNN on Sunday, reporter Seymour Hersh said that hundreds of Israelis, some of them Mossad agents, are operating in the region in order to collect information on Iran's nuclear program and monitor events in Syria.

Israeli military and intelligence operatives are active in Kurdish areas of Iran, Syria and Iraq, providing training for commando units and running covert operations that could further destabilise the entire region.

“It is memorable television which will give the public a different insight into the President’s character. It will leave them wondering whether he is as contrite as he says he is about past events. Dimbleby manages to remain calm and order is eventually restored.”

"What the Israelis do is much more effective than beatings," he said. "Three days without food and without sleep and you're eager to tell them anything. It just shows us the Americans are amateurs. They should have taken lessons from the Israelis."

Nader called upon Bush's administration to support efforts exerted for achieving peace in the Middle East and to stop backing the Israeli military system as well as to start thinking of its citizens' interests.

He depicted the White House and the US congress as a puppet theatre where Israeli officials control everything and decide what they want then they return to Israel carrying billions of dollars and arms.

The Israeli army envisions a "remote control" border with the Gaza Strip after a troop withdrawal, including unmanned patrol cars and computerised observation posts that would automatically spot and kill attackers.

A group of British politicians were shot at by Israeli soldiers during a UN-supervised fact-finding mission.

To put it plainly, our federal government does not live up to American ideals. Americans citizens, rather than acting like sheep, should vigorously insist that it do so. We must replace an unjust policy with a just policy and substitute sincerity for hypocrisy and propaganda.

That is the only way to make America secure. That is the only way to win the war against terrorists.

Israeli foreign policy is proving devastating if not fatal for America, in terms of American lives and treasure. But more distressing is the subtle and gradual erosion of liberties in our homeland spawned by the rise of what I will call Jewish supremacy - as witnessed by the actions of America's bought politicians and their Zionist speech writers.

"A decision to impose martial law could be taken if the attacks continue," said Hazem Shaalan, the defence minister. Muwaffaq Rubaie, national security adviser, confirmed to the Financial Times on Thursday that the idea of declaring a form of martial law was under active consideration by Iraqi ministers.

Such laws carry uncomfortable echoes of the legal fabrications used by the former regime of Saddam Hussein and many current Arab governments to justify repressive and totalitarian rule.

There is some evidence of disaffection among conservatives – and not just those long connected with Pat Buchanan and the crowd at his American Conservative magazine – over how badly the Iraq aftermath is going, but for some people the impulse to stay loyal to the Bush administration is apparently invincible. Apparently this impulse includes misremembering what the administration actually said during the run-up to the war.

The solution is not expulsion of the jews. The solution is to have all our government needs issued as an IOU to the Treasury rather than the current practice of Federal Reserve Central Banking, which relies on usary and fractional reserve techniques.

To Love the Old Republic Is Patriotism; To Love the Empire Is Nationalism

Policy is no longer driven by leadership figures, but by consortia of mutually interested elites. Like the forty years since 11-22, the three years since 9-11 have seen exponential growth in defense spending as a portion of the USG's annual budget. Between forty-six and fifty-three cents of every tax dollar we pay goes to military debt payments, salaries, deployments, and weapons stockpiling. This flood of capital into the arms industry drives a domestic policy of despair and a "foreign" policy of violence.

The esteemed Jane’s, in an article titled “Bush's secret army--The USA hires contract soldiers to fight in Iraq,” reports that more than 10,000 civilian men and women perform various jobs for the U.S. military in Iraq, and out of the $85 billion allocated for the military, over a third is now targeted for private contractors. “A reality check: this figure is greater than the defense budgets of most countries.”

If white makes still have any group identity left, they need to work toward building a movement that identifies their values, their interests and their needs as voters and citizens that both parties ignore. It's not clear they do share sufficient political interests to make them a solid bloc of votes for a single party, but they might start looking at creating an entirely new party.
They could call it the White Man's Party, and if they let in women too, they might even start taking back their country.

George W. Bush claims the mantle of conservative. What is he conserving? Not my tax dollars. Not my liberty. Not the moral standards of my society. The only thing he seems to be conserving- rapidly expanding more like it- is the arbitrary power that the federal government holds over our lives.

"I think in any war where Washington were destroyed, inevitably, there would be a period of, for lack of a better term, something like MARTIAL LAW".

The federal government has been so infiltrated that they are on the verge of creating horrible circumstances that will ensure martial law with the loss of ALL of our Constitutionally guaranteed rights.

The clearest exemplar of a modern national leader who was capable of realizing when not to "stay the course," and acting forcefully on that decision, was French President Charles de Gaulle, who ended France's bloody attempt to keep colonial control over Algeria.[1] De Gaulle realized that that course would have led to national destruction of France as a republic, and overcame right-wing resistance and a threatened coup to withdraw French forces.

Why call a president (FDR) great whose government was honeycombed with spies and traitors, and whose war diplomacy lead to the loss of 10 Christian countries of Eastern Europe to a Muscovite despot whose terrorist regime was the greatest enemy of human freedom in modern history?

The Zionists are so desperate to increase the loyal population of the state that they are willing to admit hundreds of thousands of people, mainly from the former Soviet Union, who do not meet the official definition of a Jew because they have only a male grandparent or are merely married to a Jew. Since there is no such thing as Israeli nationality in Israel (there being only Jewish nationality and "undetermined"), these people, who do not qualify as Jews, are therefore registered as "under consideration."

The move will pit Mr Blair against Jacques Chirac of France and Gerhard Schröder of Germany, threatening to sour a summit aiming to project a new mood of European unity.

Lie on behalf of the global empire, and anything you say is treated as serious news, worthy of consideration and deference. The spokesmen for the regime – those who lend their voices to legitimizing the monopolists of violence – are always and everywhere granted credibility that they have not earned, if only because they have the power and you do not. So it has always been throughout history.

The American government is criminal enterprise, and American law enforcement is complicit in the crime. The only way to stop the continuing crime spree is by a military takeover and a declaration of martial law. Hundreds of cops, attorneys and judges need to be in jail.

Although hopes for transforming Iraq into a pro-US base in the heart of the Arab world have been badly set back, President George W Bush's administration is proceeding as fast as possible to reinvent US forces worldwide as "globocops", capable of pre-empting any possible threat to its interests at a moment's notice.

One of the major problems with US foreign-policy formulation is that the democratic process of checks and balances does not function effectively, not least because far too many Americans have neither the information about nor the interest in what happens elsewhere, which leaves the field open to obsessive interest groups.

Despite American declarations of goodwill, Russian interpretations of US military shifts are tangled up with a deep history of rivalry, and a current fear of being left behind. A strategy rethink is under way in Moscow. Senior officers speak of an "asymmetrical" response to counter US strength without matching Washington's expenditures.

The naive view of the president as dictator is expressed in the common belief that Lincoln “abolished slavery” — as if any president, at any time, might have abolished it with a stroke of the pen. The twin myths of Lincoln and Roosevelt as great wartime presidents serve to exalt the power of the U.S. Government. So does the myth of “the greatest generation.”

The whole point of Hitchens' paean to Trotskyism, aside from justifying his unrepentant faith in the benignity of the "Old Man," is to lash out at those of us who find the neocons' Trotsky cultism more than a bit dubious

The rigged choice is between a self-proclaimed conservative, Christian Republican president rallying the nation against the "evildoers," and the "hate-America" crowd that perversely abets the terrorist campaign to destroy our nation. This false dichotomy is incessantly invoked by the White House, amplified by Fox News, and spoon-fed to the masses by shameless partisan radio shills such as the uncivil Michael Savage, the bombastic Rush Limbaugh, and the unimpressive Sean Hannity.

One of the most stunning developments to come out of the Bush administration’s war on Iraq has been almost completely ignored by the media cartel. Incredibly, the Bush Defense and State Departments are jointly proposing to establish, with the apparent blessing of the White House, a 75,000-strong army of international "peacekeepers." Called the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), this astonishing scheme calls for recruiting and training primarily Third World peacekeepers, to the tune of over $600 million over the next five years.

A powerful new lobby tells the world its purpose is to direct Congress to act on behalf of the State of Israel. Unity Coalition for Israel (UCI) is strictly an Israeli controlled organization that calls for a militant, no compromise solution to its Arab problem. What makes UCI unique among radical Israeli political groups is that it finds its support among prominent USA professing Christians.

Conservatives should understand that the power given the president today will pass to the president’s successors, who may be only too eager to abuse that unbridled power domestically to destroy their political enemies . . . An imperial presidency threatens all of us who oppose unlimited state power over our lives.

Intelligent, perceptive people who use their abilities to curry favor with the mighty or to explain why abuses of power really aren't abuses after all deserve contempt. But if you share that opinion, be prepared for frequent disillusionment. Most intellectuals through most of history have been more likely to dance attendance on the powerful - to flatter power - rather than to speak truth to power. And more often than not, at least in the short run, truth is no match for power.

Every Palestinian town--Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm, Kalkilia, Bethlehem, Hebron and others--will become the "capital" of a tiny enclave, cut off from all the others, from their "hinterland" and villages, except by tortuous roundabout routes. Fifty-five percent of the West Bank will be Israeli, the Palestinian enclaves will amount to 45% (about 10% of historical Palestine).

The Open Borders crowd loves to gas on about how wonderful illegal immigrants have it when they come to the land of opportunity, but for most the only real opportunity is to be exploited by which ever gang gets hold of them—the Born to Kill boys or Target and Wal-Mart.

The UAE-based daily Al-Khaleej reported on Monday that Kuwaiti tariff officials have intercepted a truck loaded with radioactive materials in the Iraq-Kuwait border.

It’s not only tangled; it’s matted, convoluted, and it stinks to high heaven. And dead center in the web is a dangerous little “black box” with a red hourglass on it. The black box is inside each and every voting machine, and it holds the source code for every function of encoding, decoding, identification, authentication, and tallying of votes put into it. And the source code belongs to the two companies which manufacture and sell the electronic voting machines that could be responsible for counting roughly 80% of the votes in November’s election.

Led by the United States, global “defense” spending has risen 18 percent since 2001, presumably justified by an increase in global terrorism. According to a U.S. congressional study, terrorism has risen 35 percent since 2001. The increase in spending has coincided with an increase in terrorism. With every dollar, the U.S., which accounts for 47 per cent of the spending, manufactures new terrorists, which will, in turn, lead to demands for increased defense spending.

The U.S. is now waging three wars, says intelligence expert Thomas Powers. One is in Iraq. The second is in Afghanistan. And the third is in Washington - an all-out war between the White House and the nation's own intelligence agencies.

The elections to the European Parliament in the 25 member states of the European Union have been characterized by two marked trends. One is that voters often rejected ruling parties, voting instead for opposition parties. The other phenomenon was low overall voter participation, with turnout reaching a rock bottom of 17 percent in one EU state.

MP Seyyed Ahmad Musavi said here Sunday that Iran will continue its cooperation with Europe only if the three European countries -- Britain, Germany and France -- remain honest toward their commitments as stated in the Tehran Declaration. In an interview with the Mehr News Agency (MNA) he said that Iran has absolute right to find access to peaceful nuclear technology, adding that no one can forgo this right.

The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly widened in April to an all-time high of $48.3 billion as the nation imported a record amount of cars and consumer goods. Retail sales rose in May, the seventh gain in eight months.

Europe's elites took a battering in elections across the European Union yesterday as governing parties suffered heavy losses and Eurosceptics made their first breakthrough.

If we discuss the disaster of immigration and reveal it to be the nation-killing phenomenon that it is we are branded as racists. Our leadership, Democrat and Bush Republican alike, has embraced politically-correct tyranny and is forcing us to accept it.

ISRAEL'S attorney general has reportedly decided not to indict Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a bribery case involving a failed real estate deal . . . The state attorney had recommended charging Mr Sharon with accepting a bribe, and included a draft indictment in its report to Mr Mazuz.

A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the `best of people.'

Nobody ever asked African-Americans if they wanted their nation's ethnic balance rearranged to pry them out of their hard-earned spot as the biggest minority. So why have their leaders acquiesced in this disastrous social engineering experiment?

The group, which calls itself Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, does not explicitly endorse Democrat John Kerry for president in its campaign, which will start officially Wednesday at a Washington news conference.

Raney Aronson is producer of the Frontline documentary, which can be viewed at www.pbs.org. In a Washington Post online interview, he was asked whether there is evidence that Mr. Bush "shares the 'Christian Zionist' belief that Israel must gain dominance over the Holy Land in order to bring the Second Coming of Christ, the Rapture, etc." President Bush "has not spoken about this issue," said Mr. Aronson. "But I do believe, as he talks so often of his faith, and his belief in the Bible, (that) this is a good question for him to address."

Israel's failure to send any important leaders to Reagan's funeral was a diplomatic, political, and cultural slap in the face that should not go unnoticed in the Bush administration, the Republican and Democratic parties, the John Kerry campaign, and the American media.

Other countries with strong anti-EU forces include heavyweight EU newcomer Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic, while other far-righters like France's Jean-Marie Le Pen, Austria's Joerg Haider and the Vlaams Blok in Belgium also campaign strongly for national interests to take precedence over EU concerns.

If the constitutional amendment is passed, citizenship will only be granted to babies with at least one parent who has lived in Ireland for at least three of the past four years.

During the strike, signs carried by some of the strikers specified “outsourcing” as a key concern . . . Stelzer argues that tariffs are a necessary form of taxation that could provide needed revenue to the federal government, while creating leeway for the government to lower domestic taxes and regulations, which would make America much more business-friendly for firms of all sizes—benefiting both white collar and blue collar workers.

Americans of all political persuasions believe profoundly that it is their right and duty—indeed their destiny—to promote freedom and democracy in the world.

I suggest that President Reagan possessed what many of the more ‘sophisticated’ members of the ‘white wine and brie set’ so clearly lack: a clear sense of moral priority. He would not be distracted from pursuing that moral priority despite the snickering and nay-saying, the disparagement and vile ridicule heaped upon him by the cultural elite.

People like Rush Limbaugh and William Kristol and Max Boot, and Paul Wolfowitz and David Frum and Donald Rumsfeld, who actually think we can invade cultures thousands of years older than ours, and by murder and mayhem, remake them into our image, are idolaters worshipping Man as God, ones who have more in common with the story of Satan than anything recognizable as "conservatism."

Believers do not commit wrong because they believe God looks over their shoulder; but as the wrath of God has faded into the wraith of God, people become more willing to exploit any gullibility they perceive.

Notice how the article says that the seven carriers deployed represent every carrier that is seaworthy. When in reality there are now 10 carriers at sea. Completely unprecedented.

The idea of a president worried those who believed in the ideals of the revolution. They were assured that he could not be a despot. He would be under the impeachment threat. He couldn't do a thing without the Senate's advice and consent. The Senate in turn was to be appointed by the state legislatures, which were the fundamental governing units in America. For that matter, if the states didn't like something about the way the union was working out, they could always leave the union.

It is currently estimated that at least $17 BILLION (*updated estimate) of Parmalat funds have simply disappeared and cannot be accounted for. The way this came about is a complex web of high risk derivatives based on worthless bonds which, in turn, were founded through offshore shell companies. IF this derivatives scandal is ever fully exposed, the collapse of U.S. and European banks, and the U.S. and European economies, will be eminent. After derivative based scandals like Enron and WorldCom, this just may be the pin that bursts the financial balloon.

That great criminal enterprise - the Federal Reserve - has accomplished step #1, trashing and ending the dollar system, culminating a multi-year, massive, insane inflation of money supply and credit . . . There will only be one corporation in the world, and they are all pulling together to put everyone as deep into debt as possible, to assure than no American state or corporation or region will survive when the debt mountain suffocates all life.

The court deemed the security situation faced by Israel to be grave enough to merit granting intelligence services the power to torture. Now, the excuse that every Palestinian is a "ticking bomb" gives the Israeli security forces carte blanche to abuse any prisoners in their care, including children.

Many Iraqis said that the new interim government just appointed was not representative of them. Bassam Najam, a middle-aged driver, said: "In one sense the Americans are transferring power but only to their own agents. The new government are all pawns of the CIA."

Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization intent on deposing Saddam Hussein that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990's to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities under the direction of the C.I.A., several former intelligence officials say.

Off-the-shelf CIA "asset" Iyad Allawi was made strongman/prime minister -- just like Afghanistan's U.S.-installed figurehead Hamid Karzai, another CIA stock item. Iraq's defence and interior ministries will also be run by other U.S. "assets." Some 160 senior American "advisers" will supervise all key ministries, notably defence, police, finance, communications and a new, CIA-trained secret police.

Much of ASPO's predictions stem from the calculations of Dr Campbell. His work on oil reserves has long suggested that many official oil data are either flawed estimates or at worst downright lies. Scandals like the 23% of 'lost' reserves at Royal Dutch Shell have helped to boost interest in his work.

Where is the man like Ronald Reagan – so ready to be a friend, so sure of his central beliefs, so fundamentally at peace with himself? The American people sensed this, and wisely chose to follow him. The outpouring of grief at his death tells us all we need to know about what America thought of him.

Reagan's optimism was not the hollow Hallmark humanism of the Left, which calls barbarism progress and treats some lives as more equal than others even as it babbles about equality. It was more like the theological virtue of hope, the optimism of a Christian who believes that God gave him moral and intellectual powers to lead a good life on earth and a perfect life in heaven.

What did he achieve? Ronald Reagan let the American eagle soar. He cut tax rates from 70 percent to 28 percent, restored our spirit, rebuilt the armed forces into the most formidable the world had ever seen and led us to bloodless victory in the Cold War. Time declared Mikhail Gorbachev Man of the Decade. America knows better.

Several official, and likely-embarrassing, reports concerning CIA activities--including one dealing with the Agency's generous estimates of Iraq's non-existent weapons--are expected to appear soon. The timing of the resignations may well reflect these coming reports.

The Bush administration has proved itself to be an insular group of inept, dishonest and dangerous CEO's of the corporation known as America. They have become very bad for business and the Board of Directors is now taking action. Make no mistake, the CIA works for "The Board" - Wall Street and big money.

The letter to Bush, signed by such former State Department experts as Andrew Kilgore, former Ambassador to Qatar, Richard Curtis, former chair US Information Agency, James Akins, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia , Eugene Bird, Embassy Counselor in Saudi Arabia, Richatrd Nolte, Ambassador to Egypt and 45 others, stated:

"We are deeply concerned by your April 14 endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's unilateral plan to reject the rights of 3 million Palestinians, to deny the right of refugees to return to their homeland, and to retain large illegal settlement blocks in the Occupied West Bank.

In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class elements of society must be brought under total control, i.e., must be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke and long-term social duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to question the propriety of the matter.

As Daniel Denning points out in China’s Deliberate Attack on America (June, 2004), the international elite, along with their Mainland Communist counterparts, have been implementing a plan which will ultimately knock America from its perch as the world’s preeminent economic superpower. The following strategies are currently being put into place. First, China’s vastly devalued monetary unit, the yuan, is pegged to the dollar so that we will never be able to effectively close our trade gap with them. As The Washington Post stated on December 10, 2003, “Many economists believe that the Chinese currency is undervalued by as much as 40%, giving the country an unfair advantage in being able to under-price competitors in international markets.”

The Left welcomes massive immigration as a means of diluting a nation towards which it has felt animosity for so long. The equally dogmatic libertarian right also celebrates it because the emerging “universal nation” emerging will gloriously transcend the parochial nation-state of our history. Corporate managers welcome what they think is the triumph of global markets.

Iraq did not threaten our freedom, nor did it have the means to do so. North Vietnam did not threaten our freedom, nor did it have the means to do so. Ditto for Panama, Grenada, Yugoslavia, North Korea and Afghanistan. Those were all imperial wars, either deliberately started or blundered into by the idiots we put in office. Remember, the only freedom the American armed forces are justified in defending is the freedom of America and Americans.

The People's Congress of Kurdistan (the former Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK), announced an abrupt end to its five-year ceasefire with Turkish forces, warning that it would soon resort to violent means to achieve its ends.

Practically the first thing you said was to remind me that you had proposed a gold-based reform to the International Monetary Fund at its Washington meeting in September 1987!! You were proud of that initiative, as you had told me some years earlier that your father had been a fervent advocate of a paper dollar as good as gold, and had told you so many times.

Their problem is that puppets do not hold all positions of power, and even then, they can show independence. The LaRouche method is to provide these people with the intelligence they need to resist the bankers' plans.

Top Diebold officials "may not make contributions to, directly or indirectly, any political candidate, party, election issue or cause, or participate in any political activities, except for voting."

The 12th Amendment says "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president of the United States."

Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, Reagan did not deceive and manipulate his country into war through outright and covert aggression against foreign nations.

Chuck was ranting about the Mideast and its peoples’ lack of gratitude for everything we have done for them. By doing this, Chuck was demonstrating two very common American traits—American pride and American ignorance of what our government has really done for the people in the Mideast.

It is clear that interventionism leads to the perceived need for more interventionism, which leads to more conflict and to increased resentment and anti-Americanism. It is an endless cycle and the American taxpayer is always left holding the bill. This policy has huge dollar costs at home, which contributes to huge deficits, higher interest rates, inflation, and economic dislocations. War cannot raise the standard of living for the average American.

It’s all down to demographics and the discrepancy in birth rates between Arabs in Israel and the occupied territories (six children) and Israelis (two). Even the most conservative estimates show that within 20 years, Muslim and Christian Arabs will outnumber Jews. Sharon wants to dismember Gaza from the equation in the hope that Israel can continue maintaining its Jewish character.

Ralph Nader recently accepted Pat Buchanan’s invitation to sit down with us and explain why his third-party presidential bid ought to appeal to conservatives disaffected with George W. Bush. We think readers will be interested in the reflections of a man who has been a major figure in American public life for 40 years—and who now finds himself that rarest of birds, a conviction politician.

The military and CIA are stabbing the neocons front, back and center, laying responsibility on them for the mess in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Balkan wars of the American Right have reignited, with even the normally quiescent Beltway conservatives scrambling to get clear of the neocon encampment before the tomahawking begins.

The radical fringe on the left always has money from rich liberal donors. But a backlash with mainstream America awaits if they allow this party to follow the influence of George Soros and MoveOn.org. The agenda they push of radical ideas never has played well outside of the fringe.

In the end, Reagan’s real political legacy was not substance but style - form rather than content. For politicians, as for artists, this is an important distinction. Long after time has rendered the policies that Reagan favored not merely obsolete but even incomprehensible, the manner in which he chose them will be remembered. What this means in his case was farsightedness and courage.

The predicted inflation never materialized from the "Reagan deficits" because the deficits themselves were the direct consequence of the collapse of inflation. Treasury supply-siders predicted the disinflationary expansion. But their prediction was ignored, because it conflicted with the Keynesian interpretation of fiscal policy and the economic establishment’s belief in the "Phillips curve."

Within the Tribe, one of the worst sins a Jew can commit is to become a Christian, as witness Jewish hostility to Jews for Jesus. An irreligious or atheist Jew may claim Israeli citizenship at any time, but a Jew who has converted to Christianity may not. This antagonism is so predominant that the Tribe opposes not only government endorsements of Christianity, but even the public exaltation of the Old Testament (as in displays of the Ten Commandments on public property) because Christians have adopted it too. The “Judaeo-Christian tradition” is a sentimental myth, treasured by many Christians but by very few Jews.

Some observers are even speculating that President Bush will make an appearance at this year's event, just as Bill Clinton did at the group's 2000 meeting. By coincidence, it just happens that Bush will be in Italy over the weekend …

US President George W. Bush's trip to Italy coincides neatly and quite conveniently with the annual meeting of the notorious Bilderberg Group, the world's ruling cabal of politicians, mega-corporate honchos and other gofers of the New World Order.

This criminally bad report links anyone that thinks Bilderberg have power with world-renowned terrorists. There's also the rudimentary 'Jewish conspiracy' tactic used, a pathetic worn out attempt to brand anyone who thinks 200 world leaders meeting in secret is interesting as a racist. If Bilderberg has no power, perhaps 'Jonathan Duffy' can explain to me how Bilderberg's own archives discuss the creation of the EU and the single currency years before the EU even existed. Perhaps Mr. Duffy should talk to his colleagues at the BBC because they reported on it a year ago.

There's no shortage of reasons why Tenet should leave the CIA. Indeed, if there was any accountability in this White House, he would have been fired long ago. Let's list a few of the CIA's failures on Tenet's watch:

George the Conqueror is not a king, as much as he wants us to treat him like one. We may have conquered a major chunk of the Middle East, and could well be on our way to invading the rest, but America isn't an empire – at least not yet.

To many in the Jewish community, Tenet's legacy will be quashing a plan to release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from prison.

James Pavitt, deputy director for operations, is said to have made the decision some weeks ago. The departures come as the agency is braced for reports expected to criticise its conduct in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq. The CIA says Mr Pavitt's decision was unconnected with Mr Tenet's departure.

"There were more failures of intelligence on his watch as director of the CIA than any other [director] in our history. I have long felt that, while an honourable man, he lacked the critical leadership necessary for our intelligence community to effectively operate, particularly in the post-9/11 world," said Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, who spent eight years on the Senate intelligence committee.

Tenet started getting calls last week from several Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee who had been reading the committee's report on intelligence failures leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to a Senate Intelligence staffer, the Democrats told Tenet that their support of him probably could not be sustained given what the draft report had to say about the CIA's performance a little over a year ago.

The perceptions of collective guilt along with Israeli-style collective punishment are powerful generators of resentment, of sympathy for terrorists, and of recruitment for local terrorist groups as well as for al Qaida. Those perceptions are widely paired with the realization that actually very little is being done worldwide to combat the causes of terrorism. Meanwhile, the US policy of even-handedness shelters the persistent abuses of the Palestinians by the Israelis.

"I will not say who was my first choice, and who was not my first choice ... I will remind you that the Americans are governing this country."

CONSERVATIVES WELL KNOW that a government bureaucracy's appetite for power is never sated. Left unchecked, it will push the limits, mindless of the cost to our freedom. Already, there is an effort underway in Congress to remove the existing sunset provisions to the PATRIOT Act even though the Government Accounting Office in a 2003 report raised questions about whether the Act's powers were being misused to fight not terrorism, but run of the mill crime.

Our whole system of living is based on a lie. The lie that we can pile up enough money so that we don't have to be honest and compassionate, that we can kill anybody we want and take whatever they have and make it our own. That is what the American way has become. And most of the rest of the world, sycophantic cowards all, timidly follows suit. 9/11 was no attack by Islamic malcontents. It was a deliberately scripted terror event to turn America into a police state and simultaneously make billions of dollars for the richest people in the world, some of whom live in this country, many of whom live in Europe, Arabia and elsewhere.

Thousands of lives have been shattered because Wolfowitz's predictions were lies. They were deliberate lies, because he refused to take into account the assessments and advice of those who knew better than he how to engage in war and cope with its aftermath. He did not only ignore the people whose careers have been devoted to the study of war : he held them openly in contempt, and continues to do so.

Within a few years, he explained, there will be an equal number of Arabs and Jews living between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea - the combined area of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, all currently under Israeli control. In 15 years, thanks to their faster birthrate, the Palestinians will be a majority. "I want to live in a Jewish state," Olmert told me. "I don't want to live in a non-Jewish state."

Transport Minister Avigdor Lieberman has presented Russian officials with his plan to separate Jews from Arabs, which involves exiling Israeli Arabs deemed disloyal to the state. Lieberman described the Plan for the Separation of Nations as an alternative to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan, which calls for Israel to evacuate from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

Both are interventionists . . . No voice in those debates will be heard to assert that it was a historic blunder to invade Iraq and that an early end to the U.S. occupation would serve the national interest . . . Bush has approved the Sharon Plan for Israel's annexation of much of the West Bank. Kerry agrees. On amnesty for illegal aliens, they also agree. On the trade treaties that have cost America one in six manufacturing jobs since January 2001, Bush and Kerry both supported them all. Bush proposed both the Patriot Act and the vast expansion of federal power over education known as the No Child Left Behind Act. John Kerry voted for both.

MI5 bosses believe fanatics are planning to drive trucks packed full of explosives at military headquarters - and believe London, in particular, has been targeted

"In the long run, no country can advance intellectually and in terms of its culture and well being if it has to devote everything to military buildup. I do not see much hope for a world engaged in this all-out effort on military buildup, military technology, and tremendous attempts at secrecy."

Labor Party leader Shimon Peres lashed out at the "disgraceful" behavior of the ruling coalition at Sunday's cabinet meeting, and said the country should go to new elections if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could not overcome their differences. Netanyahu has called on Sharon to respect the majority decision of the Likud Party - which Sharon leads - not to go ahead with his plan.

If the accusations against Chalabi and his associates are true, and can be proven (in the court of public opinion, if not a court of law) then the neocons are really going to be up against it - even their allies on the religious right may be forced to cut them loose. And this time, presidential pardons may not be in the picture.

His only “opposition” to Bremer has been over the issue of “de-Baathification”. Allawi has insisted on retaining officials from the key institutions of state repression—the military, police and intelligence services—in order to deal with the mounting opposition to the occupation.

Barring a sudden reversal in the direction of US foreign policy, a strong bipartisan push to reinstate the draft can be expected soon after the November elections. Whether or not Bush wins is irrelevant. The logic of empire requires more boots on the ground, and conscription looks like the only way to get them.

Let me just say from the outset that the Federal Reserve has confirmed our Stock Market Crash forecast by raising the Money Supply (M-3) by crisis proportions, up another 46.8 billion this past week. What awful calamity do they see? . . . The Fed is deflating the value of the monetary base by a fifth! Why are they willing to do this?

Imagine the most intellectually indefensible policy in the most corrupt area of government and you've got the diversity visa—a program by which some 55,000 foreigners annually win admittance to the United States through a lottery.

Environmental extremism kills. Millions die annually because of restrictions on DDT, and imposing the "Kyoto" regulations would kill many more.

The Federal Reserve is planning to destroy the U.S. economy by: printing the U.S. dollar in exponentially riskier quantities until it blows off the charts and crashes, and by easing credit and rates until the average individual and corporate debt loads are so enormous that the resulting massive distortions in the economy suddenly bring on an economic heart attack, leaving no possibility of a short or even medium-term recovery.

Maybe, the only way people will realize that the money they are saving by hiring illegals as well as legal immigrants is a mere pittance compared to the real costs to society if we build all the facilities needed to maintain a functioning society.

Since politicians are all the same, I don't see how Kerry beating Bush will make any difference in Iraqistan. I'll bet he'll stay the course just like Dubya, so he'll end up despiserized just like the Monkeyhead. All politicians do one thing and say the other, anyway, so what's the difference exactly between these two Boners?

As the dollar has fallen, the dollar price of crude oil has risen. But the euro price of crude oil remains essentially unchanged throughout this 3-year period. It does not seem logical that this result is pure coincidence. It is more likely the result of purposeful design, namely, that OPEC is mindful of the dollar's decline and increases the dollar price of its crude oil by an amount that offsets the loss in purchasing power OPEC's members would otherwise incur. In short, OPEC is protecting its purchasing power as the dollar declines.

If the welfare of Iraqis was the paramount goal of U.S. leaders, U.S. policy in Iraq would be designed to avoid a similarly nasty civil war. Instead, the Bush administration’s politically-driven strategy of retaining a unified Iraqi government, while mollifying armed factions that will eventually try to gain control of it, is a recipe for just such a disaster.

Our own country has a Christian heritage. Despite the fact that there were non-Christian minorities, during the Colonial and early republic days the overwhelming majority of Americans were of the Christian faith. What began happily as tolerance for non-Christians has now degenerated into demands by some non-Christians that all traces of Christianity be driven from the public square.

At a stormy governing council meeting yesterday, Mr Bremer bluntly warned members not to hold another vote on who should be the new president. If they did he would ignore it.

"Bremer came in and read them the riot act," a Governing Council aide said. Ala Hashimi, a member of the Dawa Party, who was present at Sunday's meeting, said: "Bremer interfered and postponed the vote."

I don't know where the terrorists are, but I have an idea as to how they might get into the country if they're not already here. If pregnant Mexican women can cross what we still merrily call our "borders" illegally and with impunity, I'll bet trained Al Qaeda terrorists can.