Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2005 17:59 - Category: Torture ;
Tony Blair and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, were under pressure last night to refute convincingly claims that Britain has been complicit in alleged use of CIA planes to take suspected terrorists for torture in secret camps abroad.
They can’t refute it. It’s true. Plus, like Bush, Blair has lied so often (and so ineptly) that fewer and fewer trust him to tell the truth.
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2005 08:58 - Category: Unfiled ;
Australian PM John Howard says Sydney riots won’t hurt country’s image AND he denies racism had anything to do with the riots.
Goodness no, race clearly has nothing to do with it.
The young men appeared to be of Middle Eastern origin, indicating they were taking revenge for a riot on Sunday when a mob of 5,000 white men, many drunk and wrapped in the Australian flag, attacked people of Middle Eastern appearance near Cronulla beach.
Sunday’s fighting came in retaliation for the beating a week earlier of two volunteer life guards by men described as being of Lebanese descent.
Meanwhile
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2005 08:31 - Category: Unfiled ;
Thanks so much for your hate-filled rages against Tookie. Writing a comment here saying "the n****r must die" adds so much to the debate.
Sadly though, all such comments never got posted because I deleted them. So, your thoughtful messages never saw the light of day here.
Some of you would write virtually the same nasty comment two or three times to the same post trying to start a fight, then complain in another comment about how unfair Polizeros is for not allowing anti-Tookie comments.
We did allow them. There’s several of them. However they are well-written, intelligent, and non-abusive. But you need to actually read the comments to know that.
So, feel free to start your own blog, although judging from some of your comments, you would have trouble writing a coherent sentence, much less a blog post.
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2005 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political commentator, said the decision was determined by the governor’s faltering political fortunes. "He’s a conservative Republican, he’s up for a tough re-election next year and he needs the Republican base," he said. "This country puts a lot of lip service into the concept of redemption. The message this decision sends is horrible and hypocritical."Ellen Kreitzberg, professor of law at Santa Clara University, criticised the governor’s decision on legal grounds. "He’s making a clemency decision based on a reluctance to go against what has already been decided, whereas clemency is designed to go against previous decisions," she said.
Westwood Federal Building. Monday night.
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2005 00:07 - Category: Climate change ;
Pity the poor neocons, they can’t quite grasp that there is a difference between lobbyists and journalists. ‘Freedom of the press’ is a concept that apparently eludes them completely. I mean, they claim to want to make Iraq free but then blow up news sites that disagree with them. Now they’re pretending lobbyists are journalists.
Washington Times provides press credentials to right-wing lobbyist
Chris Horner is counsel at the right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which has received more than $1.3 million in funding from oil giant ExxonMobil. Horner "is also part of the Cooler Heads Coalition, "a group set up "to dispel the myth of global warming."
But when Horner attended last week’s U.N. Climate Change conference, he appeared not as a lobbyist, but as a journalist.
Horner is not a journalist. He has published just a single op-ed in the Washington Times since 2003, and has never written a hard news article for the paper, according to a database search.
But he is quite experienced at underhanded tactics. He drew up plans, funded by ExxonMobil, to destroy Europe’s support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change. The plan hoped to emulate the White Houses’s "success" in stalling progress on climate change.
In a silly attempt at truth-twisting and Orwellian propaganda.
Horner promoted the Bush administration position, suggesting the U.S. position be portrayed as leading a "new consensus."
Really?. Well, since the US was humiliated at the conference, it appears the rest of the planet sees the US position as contemptible, since the ‘consensus’ was reached by precisely one nation, the United States.
I wonder, do these bozos actually believe what they say? Or maybe they’ve spun so much deceit they no longer know what’s true? As the old adage states, the fall of a con man happens when they start believing their own bullshit.
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2005 00:06 - Category: Anti-war ;
The center is not part of a news organization, but a military operation, and those writers and producers are soldiers. The 1,200-strong psychological operations unit based at Fort Bragg turns out what its officers call "truthful messages" to support the United States government’s objectives, though its commander acknowledges that those stories are one-sided and their American sponsorship is hidden.
Translation: We write the stories, pay people to print them, emphasizing all the while how the US loves freedom and hates deception.
"We call our stuff information and the enemy’s propaganda," said Col. Jack N. Summe, then the commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group, during a tour in June. Even in the Pentagon, "some public affairs professionals see us unfavorably," and inaccurately, he said, as "lying, dirty tricksters."
"Inaccurately"?
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2005 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
How Abramoff spread the wealth
Follow the money trail in their clear, understandable graphic.
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