Bob Morris @ Nov 18th 2005 14:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case.
I bet some folks in DC won’t sleep well tonight…
Bob Morris @ Nov 18th 2005 13:47 - Category: Unfiled ;
Thousands of farm activists and union workers hurled bottles in a clash with police near a meeting of Pacific Rim leaders on Friday and had to be quelled by water cannon.
About 2,000 farmers and farm activists and 3,000 union workers took to the streets of Pusan to denounce APEC, the World Trade Organization and U.S. President George W. Bush, who was attending the leaders’ meeting.
ANSWER LA organizer John Beacham is in South Korea now attending a counter-conference and will report back at a forum in L.A. on Dec. 2.
Tag: APEC protests
Bob Morris @ Nov 18th 2005 07:54 - Category: Anti-war ;
Raising the temperature in Congress over U.S. policy in Iraq, a pro-military Democrat who once voted to back the war now says it is time to bring the troops home
Good! But, like Bill Clinton, his reasons for now opposing the war have nothing to do with it being based on lies nor does he question the decades-old US policy of imperialism that fueled it.
"Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency," Rep. John Murtha said Thursday.
And he was expecting, what? You invade a country, you should expect the locals will fight back. Except of course if you are arrogantly convinced of your superiority and thus assume the populace will not dare oppose you. A mistake the Pentagon made in Vietnam too.
"They are united against U.S. forces and we have become a catalyst for violence. The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion."
The insurgents want the US out. Insurgents are like that. They dislike having their country invaded, homes bombed, and populace terrorized by foreign powers lusting for their resources and occupying their homeland.
This is a lesson that should have been learned by our rulers in Vietnam, but I guess not.
Bob Morris @ Nov 18th 2005 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Lefti on the News blogs via The Wayne Madsen Report that Valerie Plame was outed because the CIA intercepted shipments of nerve gas into Iraq "which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network"
Might even be true. Plus, it’s a given that the public is only seeing the tip of a long-festering internal war.
My take: Watergate was something along these lines too, the CIA or someone like them did in Nixon. Forget the Woodward-Bernstein nonsense about meeting Deep Throat secretly in a parking garage where he would give them juicy info. Yeah, right. As if Nixon, the President, didn’t have the resources to have them followed to find out who Deep Throat was. Especially since Woodward and Bernstein were trumpeting their "secret meetings" in the WaPo every day. Hello, here we are! And we’re going to the parking garage tonight, so don’t follow us!
Watergate was probably some nasty internal power struggle that erupted into the open and took down a president. May lightning strike twice.
Which is not to say the thugs at CIA are to be lauded. Given their bloodstained history of toppling governments, assassination, backing death squads, running gulags, etc., well I’m just not real inclined to give then the benefit of the doubt.
"Tribal war inna Babylon" is a line from a classic reggae song, and that’s precisely what we’re seeing.
Tag: Valerie Plame
Bob Morris @ Nov 18th 2005 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
"The outdoor mould spore concentrations could easily trigger serious allergic or asthmatic reactions in sensitive people," said Dr Gina Solomon, who led the NRDC team. "The indoor air quality was even worse, rendering the homes we tested dangerously uninhabitable by any definition."
Here’s a surprise, the US government is snoozing at the wheel.
The group <NDRC>, whose tests were supported by a coalition of local organisations, said that the federal government’s various agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health and Human Services and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, are not monitoring mould levels in flooded areas and have not helped residents cope with the problem.
I’m dumbfounded. Not a single federal agency is helping residents or even monitoring the situation? What, might I ask, are they doing then, as NOLA residents continue to breathe deeply toxic mold?
Bob Morris @ Nov 18th 2005 00:06 - Category: Climate change ;
Global warming poses an enormous ethical challenge because countries that produce the least amount of greenhouse gases will suffer the most from climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.
Whether it is an increase in poor health from diseases such as malaria or shrinking water supplies, nations in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America are vulnerable to the consequences of changes in global temperatures.
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