"We must scrupulously guard the civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pretending he exists serves a purpose for U.S. foreign and military policies - and for the Iraqi resistance. Disinformation is useful to bothe sides here. You believe he is alive, based on what evidence? Derived from what sources? Whith what motivation for honesty?
6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit,
stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly
announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any
regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.
7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.
8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.
10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Sa
You know me... Fairly clever, so amused by "meta-anything".
The first-century Zionist bit is the greatest, though! When the Hebrew nation of the Israelites was under the same occupation faced by Palestinians and Iraqis.
Once again, Israel has been caught with spies at the
highest levels of the US Government.
Once again Israel
denies wrongdoing, or faced with incontrovertible
evidence (in this case one of the spies has reportedly
cooperated with the FBI) dismisses the spying with the
claim that such spying is harmless, because Israel and
the United States are such good friends.
Well, let us take a closer look at that idea of
"harmless espionage" by recalling Israel's
most famous failed spy, Jonathan Pollard.
Jonathan Pollard is an American of Jewish descent,
born in Galveston Texas, who established a career as an
intelligence analyst for the US Navy. There have been
many theories offered as to why Pollard decided to betray
his country of birth to the Jewish state, but that
Pollard did betray his country of birth to Israel is
beyond all doubt. Pollard's defense was that he did
not spy so much against the United States, only that he
spied for Israel, sending them documents that in his
opinion the US should have shared with Israel anyway.
That it was never Pollards job to decide what
documents Israel should have was apparently irrelevant.
Pollard arrogated that authority to himself. From his
position of trust within the US Navy, Pollard delivered
over 1000 classified documents to Israel for which he was
well paid. Included in those documents were the names of
over 150 US agents in the Mideast, who were eventually
"turned" into agents for Israel.
But by far the most egregious damage done by Pollard
was to steal classified documents relating to the US
Nuclear Deterrent relative to the USSR and send them to
Israel. According to sources in the US State Department,
Israel then turned around and traded those stolen nuclear
secrets to the USSR in exchange for increased emigration
quotas from the USSR to Israel. Other information that
found its way from the US to Israel to the USSR resulted
in the loss of American agents operating inside the USSR.
Casper Weinberger, in his affidavit opposing a reduced
sentence for Pollard, described the damage done to the
United States thus, [It is] difficult to conceive
of a greater harm to national security than that caused
by... Pollard's treasonous behavior.
This should end the suggestion that Israel's
spies are harmless. They are not. The United States'
nuclear deterrent cost an estimated five trillion
taxpayer dollars during the 50s and 60s to build and
maintain, and less than $100,000 for Pollard to
undermine. Israel waited 13 years to admit Pollard had
been spying for them, and now lobbies for his release,
having granted him Israeli citizenship.
Pollard is hardly the only Israeli spy operating in
the United States. He just had the misfortune to get
caught. Here are just a few examples of the Israeli spy
operations that have been detected.
1947. Information collected by the ADL in its spy
operations on US citizens is used by the House Select
Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair
Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL's reports on
suspected communists as "hearsay.
1950 John Davitt, former chief of the Justice
Department's internal security section notes that the
Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in
the United States after the Soviets.
1954 A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is
discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel
Aviv.
1956 Telephone taps are found connected to two
telephones in the residence of the US military attaché
in Tel Aviv.
10/17/2004 American Multinational Firms Stealing Iraqi Grain Seeds Staff of GRAIN
When the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) celebrates biodiversity on World Food Day on October 16, Iraqi farmers will be mourning its loss.
A new report [1] by GRAIN and Focus on the Global South has found that new legislation in Iraq has been carefully put in place by the US that prevents farmers from saving their seeds and effectively hands over the seed market to transnational corporations. This is a disastrous turn of events for Iraqi farmers, biodiversity and the country's food security. While political sovereignty remains an illusion, food sovereignty for the Iraqi people has been made near impossible by these new regulations.
"The US has been imposing patents on life around the world through trade deals. In this case, they invaded the country first, then imposed their patents. This is both immoral and unacceptable", said Shalini Bhutani, one of the report's authors.
The new law in question [2] heralds the entry into Iraqi law of patents on life forms - this first one affecting plants and seeds. This law fits in neatly into the US vision of Iraqi agriculture in the future - that of an industrial agricultural system dependent on large corporations providing inputs and seeds.
In 2002, FAO estimated that 97 percent of Iraqi farmers used saved seed from their own stocks from last year's harvest or purchased from local markets. When the new law - on plant variety protection (PVP) - is put into effect, seed saving will be illegal and the market will only offer proprietary "PVP-protected" planting material "invented" by transnational agribusiness corporations. The new law totally ignores all the contributions Iraqi farmers have made to development of important crops like wheat, barley, date and pulses. Its consequences are the loss of farmers' freedoms and a grave threat to food sovereignty in Iraq. In this way, the US has declared a new war against the Iraqi farmer.
"If the FAO is celebrating 'Biodiversity for Food Security' this year, it needs to demonstrate some real commitment", says Henk Hobbelink of GRAIN, pointing out that the FAO has recently been cosying up with industry and offering support for genetic engineering [3]. "Most importantly, the FAO must recognise that biodiversity-rich farming and industry-led agriculture are worlds apart, and that industrial agriculture is one of the leading causes of the catastrophic decline in agricultural biodiversity that we have witnessed in recent decades. The FAO cannot hope to embrace biodiversity while holding industry's hand", he added.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
From GRAIN Shalini Bhutani in India [Tel: +91 11 243 15 168 (work) or +91 98 104 33 076 (cell)] or Alexis Vaughan in United Kingdom [Tel: +44 79 74 39 34 87 (mobile)]
From Focus on the Global South Herbert Docena in Philippines [Tel:+63 2 972 382 3804]
NOTES [1] Visit
http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6.
GRAIN and Focus' report is entitled "Iraq's new patent law: a declaration of war against farmers". Against the grain is a series of short opinion pieces on recent trends and developments in the issues that GRAIN works on. This one has been produced collaboratively with Focus on the Global South.
[2] Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety Law of 2004, CPA Order No. 81, 26 April 2004,
http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/2004042 6_CPAORD_81_Patents _Law.pdf
[3] GRAIN, "FAO declares war on farmers, not hunger", New from Grain, 16 June 2004,
http://www.grain.org/front/?id=24
S: You are a looney.
C: Look, it's a bleeding pet, isn't it? I've got a license for me pet dog
Eric, and I've got a license for me pet cat Eric...
S: You don't need a license for your cat.
C: I bleeding well do and I got one. He can't be called Eric without it--
S: There's no such thing as a bloody cat license.
C: Yes there is!
S: Isn't!
C: Is!
S: Isn't!
C: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
S: This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written
in in crayon.
The '60's FF, Captain America and Spiderman....
SLIDESHOWS! Some were taken from Jack Kirby panels, with an almost Gilliam-style of cut-and-paste animation applied.
Slashdot Mirror
That's how his "radio hump" worked withhout an earpiece...
That they are hosting the website on this machine, too!
Oh, agreed. I don't hold up Roosevelt as a paragon of any kind - nor would many do so with Ben Franklin - but the sentiment embodied is correct.
"We must scrupulously guard the civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Don't say I didn't say all of this - right here three years ago.
It works out to about 1000 a month, not 3000. That's still a 9/11 perpetrated by the Americans, every 3 months.
The U.S. repeats the 9/11 body count of 3,000 innocent civilian dead every month or so, for the past 17 months, or so.
BTW: Tony Blair and the USAID are not clear, unbiased sources. Just because the BRAINWASHING is free, doesn't mean you are obliged to take one1
He's DEAD!
Pretending he exists serves a purpose for U.S. foreign and military policies - and for the Iraqi resistance. Disinformation is useful to bothe sides here. You believe he is alive, based on what evidence? Derived from what sources? Whith what motivation for honesty?
The U.S. has now tortured, killed, maimed and poisoned more Iraqi innocents in ONE year than Saddam did in 20.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=fa cts
100 Facts and 1 Opinion
by JUDD LEGUM
[from the November 8, 2004 issue]
Click here to download, circulate and distribute a PDF version of this article.
IRAQ
1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a war of choice in Iraq.
Source: American Progress
2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.
Sources: Fox News, The Boston Globe
3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.
Source: PBS
4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" in Iraq.
Source: The Washington Post
5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than 1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000 have been injured.
Source: globalsecurity.org
6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.
Source: Yahoo News
7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.
Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission
8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.
Source: New York Times
9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.
Source: USA Today
10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Sa
Here's a new LINK for the troll-bait!
We'll never know
The first-century Zionist bit is the greatest, though! When the Hebrew nation of the Israelites was under the same occupation faced by Palestinians and Iraqis.
Did some one leave the Iron on?
Once again Israel denies wrongdoing, or faced with incontrovertible evidence (in this case one of the spies has reportedly cooperated with the FBI) dismisses the spying with the claim that such spying is harmless, because Israel and the United States are such good friends.
Well, let us take a closer look at that idea of "harmless espionage" by recalling Israel's most famous failed spy, Jonathan Pollard.
Jonathan Pollard is an American of Jewish descent, born in Galveston Texas, who established a career as an intelligence analyst for the US Navy. There have been many theories offered as to why Pollard decided to betray his country of birth to the Jewish state, but that Pollard did betray his country of birth to Israel is beyond all doubt. Pollard's defense was that he did not spy so much against the United States, only that he spied for Israel, sending them documents that in his opinion the US should have shared with Israel anyway.
That it was never Pollards job to decide what documents Israel should have was apparently irrelevant. Pollard arrogated that authority to himself. From his position of trust within the US Navy, Pollard delivered over 1000 classified documents to Israel for which he was well paid. Included in those documents were the names of over 150 US agents in the Mideast, who were eventually "turned" into agents for Israel.
But by far the most egregious damage done by Pollard was to steal classified documents relating to the US Nuclear Deterrent relative to the USSR and send them to Israel. According to sources in the US State Department, Israel then turned around and traded those stolen nuclear secrets to the USSR in exchange for increased emigration quotas from the USSR to Israel. Other information that found its way from the US to Israel to the USSR resulted in the loss of American agents operating inside the USSR. Casper Weinberger, in his affidavit opposing a reduced sentence for Pollard, described the damage done to the United States thus, [It is] difficult to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by... Pollard's treasonous behavior.
This should end the suggestion that Israel's spies are harmless. They are not. The United States' nuclear deterrent cost an estimated five trillion taxpayer dollars during the 50s and 60s to build and maintain, and less than $100,000 for Pollard to undermine. Israel waited 13 years to admit Pollard had been spying for them, and now lobbies for his release, having granted him Israeli citizenship.
Pollard is hardly the only Israeli spy operating in the United States. He just had the misfortune to get caught. Here are just a few examples of the Israeli spy operations that have been detected.
1947. Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL's reports on suspected communists as "hearsay.
1950 John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets.
1954 A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv.
1956 Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.
God bless you, me son.
Meself, I'm a Groucho Marxist.
"Who cares, jus' check off all 'em boxes. Maybe we'll win!"
"Oooh! Look! Vin Deisel is on here! I'm definitely votin' for him. He kicks serious ass!"
10/17/2004
2 6_CPAORD_81_Patents _Law.pdf
American Multinational Firms Stealing Iraqi Grain Seeds
Staff of GRAIN
When the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) celebrates biodiversity on World Food Day on October 16, Iraqi farmers will be mourning its loss.
A new report [1] by GRAIN and Focus on the Global South has found that new legislation in Iraq has been carefully put in place by the US that prevents farmers from saving their seeds and effectively hands over the seed market to transnational corporations. This is a disastrous turn of events for Iraqi farmers, biodiversity and the country's food security. While political sovereignty remains an illusion, food sovereignty for the Iraqi people has been made near impossible by these new regulations.
"The US has been imposing patents on life around the world through trade deals. In this case, they invaded the country first, then imposed their patents. This is both immoral and unacceptable", said Shalini Bhutani, one of the report's authors.
The new law in question [2] heralds the entry into Iraqi law of patents on life forms - this first one affecting plants and seeds. This law fits in neatly into the US vision of Iraqi agriculture in the future - that of an industrial agricultural system dependent on large corporations providing inputs and seeds.
In 2002, FAO estimated that 97 percent of Iraqi farmers used saved seed from their own stocks from last year's harvest or purchased from local markets. When the new law - on plant variety protection (PVP) - is put into effect, seed saving will be illegal and the market will only offer proprietary "PVP-protected" planting material "invented" by transnational agribusiness corporations. The new law totally ignores all the contributions Iraqi farmers have made to development of important crops like wheat, barley, date and pulses. Its consequences are the loss of farmers' freedoms and a grave threat to food sovereignty in Iraq. In this way, the US has declared a new war against the Iraqi farmer.
"If the FAO is celebrating 'Biodiversity for Food Security' this year, it needs to demonstrate some real commitment", says Henk Hobbelink of GRAIN, pointing out that the FAO has recently been cosying up with industry and offering support for genetic engineering [3]. "Most importantly, the FAO must recognise that biodiversity-rich farming and industry-led agriculture are worlds apart, and that industrial agriculture is one of the leading causes of the catastrophic decline in agricultural biodiversity that we have witnessed in recent decades. The FAO cannot hope to embrace biodiversity while holding industry's hand", he added.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
From GRAIN Shalini Bhutani in India [Tel: +91 11 243 15 168 (work) or +91 98 104 33 076 (cell)] or Alexis Vaughan in United Kingdom [Tel: +44 79 74 39 34 87 (mobile)]
From Focus on the Global South Herbert Docena in Philippines [Tel:+63 2 972 382 3804]
NOTES [1] Visit
http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6.
GRAIN and Focus' report is entitled "Iraq's new patent law: a declaration of war against farmers". Against the grain is a series of short opinion pieces on recent trends and developments in the issues that GRAIN works on. This one has been produced collaboratively with Focus on the Global South.
[2] Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety Law of 2004, CPA Order No. 81, 26 April 2004,
http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/200404
[3] GRAIN, "FAO declares war on farmers, not hunger", New from Grain, 16 June 2004,
http://www.grain.org/front/?id=24
And all Microsoft RMS implementation uses a PKI hierarchy that terminates in an MS-held private key.
C'mon! "Hibernate in Action" is an oxymoron of biblical proportion.
S: You are a looney.
C: Look, it's a bleeding pet, isn't it? I've got a license for me pet dog Eric, and I've got a license for me pet cat Eric...
S: You don't need a license for your cat.
C: I bleeding well do and I got one. He can't be called Eric without it--
S: There's no such thing as a bloody cat license.
C: Yes there is!
S: Isn't!
C: Is!
S: Isn't!
C: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
S: This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written in in crayon.
Transylvanians in Romania have been beating summer heat this way for several centuries.
You'll all come grovelling to California, on your hands and knees.
The '60's FF, Captain America and Spiderman....
SLIDESHOWS! Some were taken from Jack Kirby panels, with an almost Gilliam-style of cut-and-paste animation applied.
I worshiped this stuff at 4-5-6 years.
Who has crossed the "oilers"?
Cliff Ogle
J. Clifford Baxter
Dr. David Kelly
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