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by Jason Galde
On November 30th, 2005 President Bush gave a "war strategy" speech in front of a packed auditorium of U.S. Navy midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
It’s so much fun deconstructing such a masterpiece of well thought out propaganda as one of our fearless leader’s locker room speeches. The key element of the propaganda used here is Emotional Leverage. As defined by ”Propaganda 101: Mastery of the Dark Arts”, "Emotional Leverage is the use of imagery (…)

AN IMAGINARY TALK WITH DONALD RUMSFELD, IN HIS OWN WORDS
Interviewer: “Hello, Secretary Rumsfeld. Thank you for joining us this morning.”
Rumsfeld: “Well, golly, I’m just pleased as punch to be here.”
Interviewer: “Let’s get right to it, shall we Mr. Secretary. There are many Americans who think that Iraq has become a quagmire. What do you have to say about that criticism? Is Iraq a quagmire?”
Rumsfeld: “Now settle down, settle down. Hell, I’m an old man, it’s early in the (…)

Four men deprived of their liberty for four years on suspicion of being international terrorists disclose today that they have not once been questioned by police or security services since being arrested.
The four, who were among 16 suspects detained without trial under post-11 September terror legislation, later overturned by the law lords, give harrowing accounts of the treatment they have suffered. All are now under virtual house arrest. Although three face deportation, The Independent (…)

Mounzer Sleiman, Ph.D. is a vice president and founding member of the National Council of Arab Americans . He is an independent political-military analyst with expertise in U.S. national security affairs, the subject of his doctorate dissertation. In addition, he is an independent media consultant with more than twenty five years of experience in Middle East diplomacy and media relations. He is a frequent commentator and guest analyst on radio and television broadcasts, including the BBC, (…)

Formal Administration Lies
By Peter Fredson
December 15, 2005
The administration lies have been coming fast and thick recently. The President just made a series of speeches, Condi made a series of speeches, and Cheney made several speeches. Ordinarily it would be hard to keep up with so many speeches, except for the fact that essentially they are all the same speech. In several the wording is identical, from cut-and-paste jobs of phrases that sounded good and suckered some Bush (…)

Here’s an article to make the left go stark raving mad. The sufferers of Bush Derangement Syndrome have had a tough week, execution of Toukie, stunning success of elections in Iraq........now this.......LOL.
BY IRA STOLL - Staff Reporter of the Sun December 15, 2005 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/24480
Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says.
The assertion comes as President Bush (…)

THIS IS PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME YOU WILL SEE THIS PROOF — BUT NOT THE LAST.......The meeting gave the US permission for "renditions" — kidnapping Muslims off the streets of Europe — and CIA flights to take them to prison without trial (and, it turns out, to torture). I’ll quote from an EU-US meeting and show you the web link, you judge. Here’s the link: Furthermore, the US has secret CTICs — joint-venture spy nests — in over 25 countries! Condoleeza Rice is right, Gerhard Schroeder is (…)

Publisher’s note: A hack like this could have easily swung Florida, and the 2004 election.
Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed (…)

This is an excerpt, full article follows
A document obtained by Knight Ridder appears to reveal the existence of an Interior Ministry death squad.
A memo written by an Iraqi general in the ministry operations room and addressed to the minister’s office says on its subject line: "Names of detainees." It lists 14 men who were taken from Iskan, a Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad, during the early morning hours of Aug. 18. It also marks the time of their detention: 5:15 a.m.
The (…)

WASHINGTON - A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn’t know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military.
A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists the Lake Worth meeting as a “threat” and one of more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country over a recent 10-month period.
“This peaceful, (…)