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  • YOUR PIPELINEISTAN TOUR GUIDE
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Devil went down to Georgia just to Ogle his Stream of Gold; Patriot threw a hand grenade but the Damned thing didn’t explode.
    On May 25, 2005, Pipelineistan declared its independence as a Nation/State and a supreme law unto itself. Only 44 meters (144.4 feet) wide by 1,767 kilometers (1,098 miles) in length, the life’s blood of Pipelineistan flows through only one vein 126 cm (49.6 inches, or 4.1 feet) in diameter.
    This serpent writhes from the Caspian Sea through the Caucasus and (…)

  • Buying off the settlers
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery,
    Perhaps there are countries where drivers stuck in traffic jams don’t get annoyed. They know they can do nothing about it, so they wait patiently. Think their own thoughts, listen to the radio or read until the jam disperses.
    We Israelis are not like that. We are a nervous lot. We have no patience. When we are stuck in a jam, we curse the world and the government, demanding a solution, perhaps a dirt road by which we might escape.
    This is why I find it so hard to (…)

  • Depleted Uranium: A Scientific Perspective
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Interview With LEUREN MORET, Geoscientist
    Interview Conducted By W. Leon Smith and Nathan Diebenow
    Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who works almost around the clock educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials on radiation issues. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after witnessing fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. She is currently working as an independent citizen scientist and radiation specialist in (…)

  • GETTING AWAY SCOT FREE
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    GETTING AWAY - SCOT FREE
    By Peter Fredson
    There is an apocryphal story, which I invented, about an arrogant bank robber. During a bank hold-up he struck the security guard, raped a cashier, spat on the floor, and took all the cash in the vault. Then he had the bank president, vice president and chief cashier sign a statement granting him absolute immunity from any and all crimes he had committed in their bank.
    An analogous situation has taken place with invading a country by using (…)

  • Kenya to US: Keep your cash, we’ll keep our dignity - (US bribe for ICC immunity)
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Officials in the Kenyan government reacted harshly today to the news that the US will suspend military aid until Nairobi decides to sign the bilateral agreement guaranteeing immunity for US citizens - civilian and military - before the International Criminal Court (ICC), in case they are charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide. The main Kenyan daily ‘Daily Nation’, opened today’s edition a long article entitled, ”Kenyans tell Americans enough of This Blackmail”.
    The (…)

  • Condoleeza Rice aware of Downing Street Minutes/Memo but ignores reporter’s questions
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And if I could then ask both of you to comment on the very well-publicized British memo that was leaked to the Times of London, or to the London Times. Madame Secretary —
    SECRETARY RICE: Which one is that? Andrea, which one is that?
    FOREIGN SECRETARY STRAW: Which one is that?
    QUESTION: On Iraq. That came out about 10 days ago, 12 days ago. Are you not aware of this memo?
    SECRETARY RICE: Well, a lot of them are, unfortunately, out. (Laughter.)
    QUESTION: In particular, this memo — (…)

  • A Vietnam-War-Style Anti-War Movement Needed to Awaken Americans
    29 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Under international law, it is illegal, as Lord Goldsmith said, to attack a sovereign country for the purpose of toppling the government. It is illegal to even plan to do so. These crimes are known as conspiring to wage aggressive war and waging aggressive war. They were the two main offences for which Nazi leaders were tried at Nuremberg." Dan Gardner CanWest ’British Memo a Smoking Gun’
    What will it take to finally awaken Americans to the illegal, cynically pre-mediated war?
    American (…)

  • US aircraft doubled bombing raids on Iraq in 2002 to provoke Saddam Hussein
    29 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
    The attacks were intensified from May, six months before the United Nations resolution that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the coalition the legal basis for war. By the end of August the raids had become a full air offensive.
    The details follow the leak to The (…)

  • HOW DID BUSH GET US INTO THIS MESS?
    29 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HOW DID BUSH GET US INTO THIS MESS?
    By Peter Fredson
    Several friends asked me this week about the divided nation, the War in Iraq, and how this recent mess evolved.
    Before George W. Bush took office in January of 2001, he and a few neoconservatives had planned a preemptive attack on Iraq, supposedly to effect “regime change”
    Plans to create a “global Pax Americana” were made by people like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Lewis Libby (Chief of Staff for Cheney) (…)

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Iraq
    29 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I apologize, as George W. Bush would say, "I misspoke". What I meant to say was, "on vietnam". Does this sound familiar?
    ECT "And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam and search within myself for ways to understand and respond in compassion, my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak not now of the soldiers of each side, not of military government in Saigon, but simply of the people who have been under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now.
    I think (…)