20051211
Family Upset Over Marine's Body Arriving As Freight!http://www.10news.com/news/5504608/detail.html
Dead heroes are supposed to come home with their coffins draped with the American flag -- greeted by a color guard. But in reality, many are arriving as freight on commercial airliners -- stuffed in the belly of a plane with suitcases and other cargo. Reporters from 10News called the Defense Department for an explanation. A representative said she did not know why this is happening.
Pentagon Angered by Photos of War Dead
http://www.sibology.com/BUSHKILL.HTM
"I think if the administration were more sympathetic, they would see that this is a positive thing," she said. Family members "want to see how our loved ones, how our heroes are being taking care of and how they get home."
British gas prices will go through the roof.
U.K. Police Say Oil Blasts an Accident
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051211&cat=news&st=newsd8ee5ct03&src=ap
Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups have threatened to target fuel depots.
Qaeda leader calls for attacks on oil facilities
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/12/08/qaeda_leader_calls_for_attacks_on_oil_facilities/
Zawahri also said that bin Laden was alive and well and leading the holy war against the West.
Osama bin Laden:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead
The recording was dismissed by the Bush administration yesterday as sick propaganda possibly designed to mask the fact the al-Qa'eda leader was already dead. "He could have made the video and then ordered that it be released in the event of his death," said one White House aide.
Bush 'troubled' by propaganda he ordered
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051211-085515-4415r
George WMD Bush is reportedly "very troubled" that some 1,200 soldiers are writing "news" for Iraq that the White House ordered in September 2001.
U.S. propaganda is widespread, often disguised
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/12/11/MNG0FG65SB1.DTL
After the Sept. 11 attacks forced many Americans to recognize the nation's precarious standing in the Arab world, the Bush administration decided to act to improve the country's image and promote its values?
WHEN a government substitutes propaganda for governing, the Potemkin village is all. Since we don’t get honest information from this White House, we must instead, as the Soviets once did, decode our rulers’ fictions to discern what’s really happening. What we’re seeing now is the wheels coming off: As the administration’s stagecraft becomes more baroque, its credibility tanks further both at home and abroad. The propaganda techniques may be echt Goebbels, but they increasingly come off as pure Ali G.
http://deadissue.com/archives/2005/12/11/it-takes-a-potemkin-village/
In a perfect storm of revelations, the “Plan for Victory” speech fell on the same day that The Los Angeles Times exposed new doings on another front in the White House propaganda war. An obscure Defense Department contractor, the Lincoln Group, was caught paying off Iraqi journalists to run upbeat news articles secretly written by American Army personnel and translated into Arabic (at a time when American troops in harm’s way are desperate for Arabic translators of their own). One of the papers running the fake news is Al Mutamar, the Baghdad daily run by associates of Ahmad Chalabi. So now we know that at least one P.R. plan, if not a plan for victory, has been consistent since early 2003. As Mr. Chalabi helped feed spurious accounts of Saddam’s W.M.D. to American newspapers to gin up the war, so his minions now help disseminate happy talk to his own country’s press to further the illusion that the war is being won.
U.S. Rebuffs Red Cross Request for Access to Detainees Held in Secret
How very strange. The Nazis allowed the Red Cross access to all their camps, POW, slave-labor, all of them. The US refuses. QED the US is doing something worse than the Nazis did.
TERRORISM: TORTURE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF TERROR, SAYS ANNAN
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.238027590
Torture can never be an instrument to fight terror because it is an instrument of terror, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said, in his annual Human Rights Day message. He decried the recent trend of countries claiming exceptions to the international prohibition against the practice and called for all states to honour the legally established ban on torture and to vigorously combat the impunity of those who perpetrate it.
Since 2003, Rice has repeatedly told representatives of Human Rights Watch and other similar organizations that the U.S. does not torture. There is no trail of memos tracing her involvement in the titanic struggle over U.S. torture policy between Powell and the senior military on one side and Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft's Justice Department on the other. Was the national security advisor completely out of the loop? On Nov. 19., ABC News reported, "Current and former CIA officers tell ABC News there is a presidential finding, signed in 2002, by President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, approving the [harsh interrogation] techniques, including waterboarding." That technique has its origin in the Spanish Inquisition. Indeed, in 1490, a baptized Christian who was a secret Jew, a converso named Benito Garcia, was subjected to water torture. The process drew out of him a confession of the ritual murder of a Christian child by crucifixion to get his blood for a magic ceremony to halt the Inquisition and bring about Jewish control. The incident greatly helped whip up the fear that led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, as described by James Reston Jr. in his new book, "Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors." Since the Inquisition, the method of waterboarding has been little refined.
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=486595
But Rice, like Bush, says we did not and will not torture anymore.
Condoleezza Rice Warned Sept. 6 About Imminent Terror Attack
Five days before Sept. 11, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was warned that a terrorist attack inside the United States was imminent, a former U.S. senator who headed up a blue-ribbon commission on terrorism revealed late Tuesday.
White House Liars on the Defensive
The bullying Bush insider warned against such belief, dismissing it as naïve: "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he declared. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Jack Murtha still can't figure out why the father and son treated him so differently. Every week or so before the '91 gulf war, President George H.W. Bush would invite Congressman Murtha, along with other Hill leaders, to the White House. "He would listen to all the bitching from everybody, Republicans and Democrats, and then he would do what he thought was right." A decorated Vietnam veteran, ex-Marine Murtha was a critical supporter for the elder Bush on Capitol Hill. "I led the fight for the '91 war," he says. "I led the fight, for Christ's sake."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10417159/site/newsweek/
Yet 13 years later, when Murtha tried to write George W. Bush with some suggestions for fighting the Iraq war, the congressman's letter was ignored by the White House (after waiting for seven months, Murtha received a polite kiss-off from a deputy under secretary of Defense). Murtha, who has always preferred to operate behind the scenes, finally went public, calling for an orderly withdrawal from Iraq. In the furor that followed, a White House spokesman compared the Vietnam War hero to "Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party." When that approach backfired, President Bush called Murtha a "fine man ... who served our country with honor." The White House has made no attempt to reach out to Murtha since then. "None. None. Zero. Not one call," a baffled Murtha told NEWSWEEK. "I don't know who the hell they're talking to. If they talked to people, they wouldn't get these outbursts. If they'd talked to me, it wouldn't have happened." ¶ 11.12.05
