Bob Morris @ Apr 15th 2003 00:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
Do NOT attempt to stop a New Yorker from smoking
“Bouncer ‘killed over smoking ban’.
A New York bouncer has been stabbed to death after trying to enforce a new city-wide smoking ban, police say. “
Bob Morris @ Apr 15th 2003 00:41 - Category: Unfiled ;
Whew, all Iraqi oil is now Safe For Democracy
“War on Iraq: All Iraqi oilfields under coalition control.
The US military says all of Iraq’s oil fields are in areas controlled by coalition forces.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 15th 2003 00:38 - Category: Unfiled ;
Guess where U.S. did NOT allow looting in Baghdad?
Virtually all government buildings in Baghdad have been pillaged and destroyed. However, now hold on for this shocker, U.S. tanks and troops protected the Ministries of Oil and the Interior.
“US troops have sat back and allowed mobs to wreck and then burn the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Irrigation, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Information.
They did nothing to prevent looters from destroying priceless treasures of Iraq’s history in the Baghdad Archaeological Museum and in the Museum in the northern city of Mosul, nor from looting three hospitals.
However, the Americans have put hundreds of troops inside two Iraqi ministries, which remain untouched - and untouchable - because tanks and armoured personnel carriers and Humvee jeeps have been placed inside and outside both institutions.
And which particular ministries proved to be so important for the Americans? Why, the Ministry of Interior, of course - with its vast wealth of intelligence information on Iraq - and the Ministry of Oil.
The archives and files of Iraq’s most valuable asset - its oil fields and, even more important, its massive reserves, perhaps the world’s largest - are safe and sound, sealed off the from the mobs and looters, and safe to be shared - as Washington almost certainly intends — with US oil companies.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 15th 2003 00:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
Afghanistan faces return of Taliban
“The Taliban have re-emerged in force in Afghanistan, with attacks on American bases and the first direct hit on the headquarters of the international peace-keeping forces in Kabul.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 15th 2003 00:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
The fiends
“Mean scientists dash hopes of life on Mars
A team of cold-hearted, killjoy scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory callously announced Monday that the likelihood of complex life on Mars is “extraordinarily low,” dashing the hopes of the public just like that.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 15th 2003 00:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bush vetoes Syria war plan (maybe)
“The White House has privately ruled out suggestions that the US should go to war against Syria following its military success in Iraq, and has blocked preliminary planning for such a campaign in the Pentagon, the Guardian learned yesterday.
In the past few weeks, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, ordered contingency plans for a war on Syria to be reviewed following the fall of Baghdad.”
The White House frequently flip-flops rapidly on policy, stating a pro- position one day, and an anti- position the next. So, rather than pay much attention to whatever their spin of the day is, watch what they do, not what they say.
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