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Latest News: Thursday, July 27, 2006
Ann Coulter defends insinuation Bill Clinton is gay RAW STORY Published: Thursday July 27, 2006 Ann Coulter repeated on Hardball her insinuation that Bill Clinton is gay, then went on to joke that "may not be gay, but Al Gore: total fag". She also repeated the claim that liberalism stands for "sucking the brains out of little babies." Watch Video
'Waiting to Get Blown Up' Some Troops in Baghdad Express Frustration With the War and Their Mission By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 27, 2006; Page A01 BAGHDAD, July 26 Army Staff Sgt. Jose Sixtos considered the simple question about morale for more than an hour. But not until his convoy of armored Humvees had finally rumbled back into the Baghdad military base, and the soldiers emptied the ammunition from their machine guns, and passed off the bomb-detecting robot to another patrol, did he turn around in his seat and give his answer. 'Think of what you hate most about your job. Then think of doing what you hate most for five straight hours, every single day, sometimes twice a day, in 120-degree heat,' he said. 'Then ask how morale is.' .... 'At this point, it seems like the war on drugs in America,' added Spec. David Fulcher, 22, a medic from Lynchburg, Va., who sat alongside Steffey. 'It's like this never-ending battle, like, we find one IED, if we do find it before it hits us, so what? You know it's just like if the cops make a big bust, next week the next higher-up puts more back out there.' .... 'How did it become, 'Well, now we have to rebuild this place from the ground up'?' Fulcher asked. He kept talking. 'They say we're here and we've given them freedom, but really what is that? You know, what is freedom? You've got kids here who can't go to school. You've got people here who don't have jobs anymore. You've got people here who don't have power,' he said. 'You know, so yeah, they've got freedom now, but when they didn't have freedom, everybody had a job.' Read More Sunday, July 23, 2006
Photos from Lebanon Warning! Very Graphic www.fromisraeltolebanon.info
UK minister slams Israeli attacks Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has criticised Israel's bombardment of Lebanon, in the strongest condemnation of the Israeli offensive made so far by a British official. Speaking yesterday from the Lebanese capital Beirut, Mr Howells claimed that Israel's attacks against the militant group Hizbullah were not "surgical strikes", stressing that the military offensive was killing a number of ordinary people and destroying Lebanon's infrastructure. "I very much hope that the Americans understand what's happening to Lebanon," said Mr Howells, who was paying a visit to one of the last ships to evacuate Britons from the region, with some 4,400 people now having been transported to safety by the UK. "The destruction of the infrastructure, the death of so many children and so many people. These have not been surgical strikes," he added. The foreign office minister, who is known for being outspoken, said that it was "very difficult" to understand the "kind of military tactics" used by Israel. Read More
Israel set war plan more than a year ago Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began gaining military strength in Lebanon Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service Friday, July 21, 2006 Matthew Kalman reveals that Israel's wideranging assault on Lebanon has been planned in a general way for years, and a specific plan has been in the works for over a year. The "Three Week War" was shown to Washington think tanks and officials last year on powerpoint by a senior Israeli army officer: "More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail." Read More Thursday, July 20, 2006
The Beach Boys Remix? What happens when you have the following? Soldiers with too much time on their hands. Soldiers with audio-video equipment Soldiers with a great sense of humor...... Watch Video Kosovomusicvideo.wmv
It's not just about Hezbollah By Trita Parsi WASHINGTON - As fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah persists, an Israeli strategy of enlarging the conflict seems to be crystallizing. Neo-conservative pundits in the US have pointed an accusatory finger at the usual suspect, Tehran, arguing that Hezbollah was pushed by Iran to open a new front against Israel to capitalize on Israel's involvement in Gaza and to draw attention away from the controversy around Tehran's nuclear program. Recalling Hezbollah's close ties to Iran and Syria, both Washington and Tel Aviv argue that the clashes must have the support and blessing of these two states. Such a conclusion rests on the assumption that Tehran and Hezbollah could have predicted Israel's reaction to the ambush and kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. Yet, mindful of the decades-long fighting between Israel and Hezbollah - in which kidnappings of soldiers have been the rule rather than the exception - the assertion that Iran and Hezbollah aimed to draw Israel into a major war remains unconfirmed. Read More
Lebanon left for dead By Pepe Escobar Lebanon is mired in a terrifying labyrinth of death and destruction. Beirut's airport is bombed. Israel has imposed a sea blockade. Other than privileged Westerners who are being evacuated by air or sea, people have overnight become refugees. They are plunged into an exodus of hundreds of thousands crammed on rickety rural trucks, overcrowded buses, Red Crescent convoys and even Mercedes with Saudi license plates on a mad dash through Lebanese back roads to Syria. Israel's lethal bombing is ubiquitous - raining hell over family homes in the Bekaa Valley, over the Liban Lait milk factory on the road to Baalbek, over a Greek Orthodox church, over civilian trucks carrying rice and sugar near the Christian village of Zaleh, over a civil-defense building in Tyre, over a paper mill, over a packaging firm, over a pharmaceutical plant, over the Lake Qaraoun dam, over bridges, water reservoirs, electric plants, gas stations, ambulances, even over Beirut's main Christian neighborhood. ...... No one at this point may predict with certainty what the Bush/Blair/Olmert troika is actually cooking. But there is the terrifying possibility that these may be the early stages of the Great Middle East war outlined in A Clean Break; the chance for the US/Israel axis to strike at both Syria and Iran - with no one, be it Russia, China or the cowardly EU, being able to stop it. Note 1. Readers can access the essential points on www.iasps.org/strat1.htm. Read More
VIDEO: Hezbollah takes BBC into 'wasteland' of southern Beirut Watch Video
We Can't Make It Here Anymore - by James Mcmurtry Watch Video
http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy. ......An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by: .... Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions. http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf original document "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor..." "And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." -- from "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century," September, 2000. Here are summaries http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm http://www.terraknowledge.net/news/terrak040503a.htm http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard "For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.” (p.30) Zbigniew Brzezinski The Grand Chessboard American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives
Photos from Lebanon Warning! Very Graphic www.fromisraeltolebanon.info
GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION ISRAEL slightly smaller than New Jersey 6,352,117 Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.) GAZA slightly more than twice the size of Washington, DC 1,428,757 (July 2006 est.) Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% WEST BANK slightly smaller than Delaware 2,460,492 Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17% LEBANON about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut 3,874,050 (July 2006 est.) Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% Muslim 59.7% (Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt, Protestant), other 1.3% SYRIA slightly larger than North Dakota 18,881,361 Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% IRAN slightly larger than Alaska 68,688,433 (July 2006 est.) Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1% IRAQ slightly more than twice the size of Idaho 26,783,383 (July 2006 est.) Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5% Friday, July 14, 2006
Russia and Iran lead the new energy game By Pepe Escobar Whatever the West may have thought about it, Russian President Vladimir Putin has already spectacularly preempted this weekend's Group of Eight (G8) summit in St Petersburg with his own bit of Pipelineistan news. Putin announced in Shanghai on June 15 that "Gazprom is ready to support the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and India with financial resources and technology". He was referring to a fabled US$7 billion, 2,775-kilometer, 10-year old project - an Iranian idea - which should now be finished by 2009, developed by Gazexport, a Gazprom subsidiary. As a result, by 2015 both India and Pakistan should be receiving at least 70 million cubic meters of natural gas a year. Thus the two top global gas producers - Russia and Iran - reached a strategic partnership abiding not only by their own interests but the interests of India, Pakistan, China and part of Central Asia, something that spells nothing less than an auspicious economic future for a great deal of Asia - independent from any American interference. Washington was not amused. Read More Advantage Iran By Ehsan Ahrari Iran is the source of much discussion and dismay in the West. Yet it is reportedly becoming quite popular in the world of Islam. What is the reason for this ostensibly split vision of Western governments and Muslims at large regarding Iran? The simple answer is that the country's decision to defy the United States, the lone superpower and a leader of the "West", But the reason is more complex than that. To be sure, no one in the Muslim world wants Iran to become a nuclear power. In fact, Iran itself continues to insist that it has no such intentions. Read More Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Roller derby From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oakland Outlaws, A Roller Derby Team.Roller derby is an American contact sport—and historically, a form of sports entertainment—based on formation roller skating around a track. It is played at both professional and amateur levels. While traditionally for both women and men, roller derby has developed a predominately female circuit during its current revival. Read More
Cruisin' for a bruisin' Bradentucky Bombers bring the roller derby to Manasota WADE TATANGELO Herald Staff Writer "Drop your butts, ladies!" commands Frieda Killigan. The broad-shouldered woman boasts a voice like a shotgun. She dons a black jumper with red stockings, matching helmet, knee and elbow pads and four-wheel skates. This woman is not playing around when she tells her roller derby pupils to give 100 percent. Twangy punk music blares on the loudspeakers at Florida Wheels in Bradenton. Several dozen women in "wife-beater" tank tops, cut-off denim shorts, fishnet stockings and similar protective gear stoop tight and low as they skate around a corner. With the straight away comes another sprint and another round of audible moans Read More Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Gangs claim their turf in Iraq May 1, 2006 BY FRANK MAIN Crime Reporter The Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings and Vice Lords were born decades ago in Chicago's most violent neighborhoods. Now, their gang graffiti is showing up 6,400 miles away in one of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods -- Iraq. Armored vehicles, concrete barricades and bathroom walls all have served as canvasses for their spray-painted gang art. At Camp Cedar II, about 185 miles southeast of Baghdad, a guard shack was recently defaced with "GDN" for Gangster Disciple Nation, along with the gang's six-pointed star and the word "Chitown," a soldier who photographed it said. The graffiti, captured on film by an Army Reservist and provided to the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights increasing gang activity in the Army in the United States and overseas, some experts say. Read More Photo Gallery
FOREIGN POLICY: Seven Questions: Covering Iraq Posted July 5, 2006 Reporting from Iraq has become one of journalism’s most difficult and dangerous jobs. FP spoke recently with Rod Nordland, who served as Newsweek’s Baghdad bureau chief for two years, about the challenge of getting out of the Green Zone to get the scoop. Read More Sunday, July 09, 2006
Dobbs- North American Union CNN Show Host Lou Dobbs brings us a segment on a proposed "North American Union" Watch Video
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America Prosperity Agenda PROSPERITY AGENDA Promoting Growth, Competitiveness and Quality of Life To enhance the competitive position of North American industries in the global marketplace and to provide greater economic opportunity for all of our societies, while maintaining high standards of health and safety for our people, the United States, Mexico, and Canada will work together, and in consultation with stakeholders, to: Read More From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, founded March 23, 2005 by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States, was born in response to the evident necessity for the North American continent to take new steps to address the threat of terrorism and to enhance the security, competitiveness and quality of life of their countries' citizens. President Bush of the USA, President Fox of Mexico, and Prime Minister Martin of Canada announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, United States. ... The SPP has received some criticism from conservative commentators within the United States, such as Phyllis Schlafly, and Human Events Online, on the grounds that they believe it will lead to an erosion of US sovereignty. In particular, they have expressed concern over position papers of the Council on Foreign Relations, which they perceive as advocating policies which would lead to integrated continental court systems and currency. These concerns have not received wide support. However, this could simply be a function of the lack of widespread awareness of the pact as it has not been widely discussed in the major press outlets and general public awareness is therefore limited. Read More
Harris Calls For Enhanced Border Security Washington, Jul 12, 2005 - Efforts to fortify the nation’s borders should be balanced with a commitment to open trade and commerce between North American countries, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris said today in testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Harris, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, testified about “The North American Cooperative Security Act” (NACSA), legislation that she has introduced in the House to enhance management, communication and coordination on border issues between the governments and law enforcement communities of the United States and Canada. The hearing, titled “North American Cooperation on the Border,” brought together a bipartisan contingent of members of Congerss, along with officials from the executive branch, for a closer look at border security issues. Also testifying on Harris’s panel were U.S. Senators John McCain of Arizona, Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and John Cornyn of Texas. The full text of Harris’s testimony follows. Read More Wednesday, July 05, 2006
US media ensnared in liberty vs security debate By Ehsan Ahrari There is an important debate taking place in the United States over the Bush administration's resolve to conduct its "war on terror" versus the need of the media to be the nation's conscience. Time magazine in its latest issue calls it "the tension between liberty and security". That subject has arisen many times in the short history of the United States. It was never really resolved before in the sense that no lasting conclusions were reached that are applicable during different eras. Instead, a general understanding has prevailed whereby the media have acquired a permanent role as the watchdog of the people to ensure that there remains a healthy balance between liberty and security. Read More
Afghanistan’s Worsening Security and The Indo-Pak Power Game By Ehsan Ahrari As security situation worsens in Afghanistan, the differences between the U.S. and the Afghan government appear to escalate. Recently, President Hamid Karzai has been critical of the coalition force’s use of force that resulted in several civilian deaths. While there are a lot reasons for the deterioration of security, one most important one is the Indo-Pak rivalry, a variable that has not been the focus of attention of the United States. More to the point, there is ample evidence that the Karzai government has attempted to exploit that rivalry for its advantage. However, that maneuver seems to have backfired. Pakistan, in response, has decided to use the Taliban card for its own advantage. Read More Tuesday, July 04, 2006 Rocket fired from Gaza hits Israeli school No casualties; prime minister calls attack ‘major escalation’ in hostilities GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian militants hit an Israeli city with a rocket from Gaza for the first time on Tuesday, causing no casualties but drawing a pledge of harsh retaliation from Israel while it was already in the midst of a military offensive. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the rocket fire on the coastal city of Ashkelon a “major escalation,” coming just hours after a deadline set by the militants holding an Israeli soldier passed with Israel rejecting demands to release about 1,500 Palestinian prisoners. The militants said they would not harm 19-year-old Cpl. Gilad Shalit — if he is still alive. But they warned they would provide no further information about him, leaving his condition unclear. Read More |
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