Bob Morris @ Aug 14th 2006 11:44 - Category: Anti-war Tags: Lebanon;
From the Aug. 12 march and rally in L.A.
There are several hundred thousand Armenians living in Lebanon, and the Glendale / Pasadena area of Los Angeles has a large Armenian population.
Bob Morris @ Aug 14th 2006 08:55 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Craig Murray, former Brit ambassador to Uzbekistan who was forced out of his job after protesting the US/Brit policy of sending prisoners there to be tortured.
None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports,
The informant in Pakistan whose ‘tip’ supposedly broke the case may well have been tortured and “fled the UK after being wanted for questioning over the murder of his uncle some years ago. That might be felt to cast some doubt on his reliability.” Indeed.
We then have the extraordinary question of Bush and Blair discussing the possible arrests over the weekend. Why? I think the answer to that is plain. Both in desperate domestic political trouble, they longed for “Another 9/11″. The intelligence from Pakistan, however dodgy, gave them a new 9/11 they could sell to the media.
Bob Morris @ Aug 14th 2006 00:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Lebanon government has postponed indefinitely talks on implementing the cease-fire. Disagreements on disarming Hezbollah are a primary reason, according to the BBC.
Robert Fisk: “As the 6am ceasefire takes effect… the real war begins.”
The Israeli army, reeling under the Hizbollah’s onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing the harshest guerrilla war in its history. And it is a war they may well lose.
Israel had 40 military deaths Saturday. Olmert is being attacked by political opponents from all sides. Hezbollah, Fisk says, has prepared for years for this, a invasion by Israel allowing Hezbollah to fight them on the ground.
Bob Morris @ Aug 14th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Seymour Hersh details in the New Yorker that plans to invade and bomb Lebanon were made in advance, “earlier this summer, before the Hezbollah kidnappings” by Israel and the US, with the full agreement of Bush, Cheney and Rice, as a prelude for a war against Iran.
Brain-dead ideologues that they are, the Bushies believed Lebanese would then rise up against Hezbollah - precisely what, in their delusion, they assumed would happen when they invaded Iraq. Of course, precisely the opposite happened. “Insanity is when you continue to do the same thing expecting different results.” Their connection with reality is fleeting indeed. That thousands are dead and a country has been bombed concerns them not. One happy day in the future, may they all be frog-marched to a war crimes tribunal. Let’s work towards making it so.
Bob Morris @ Aug 14th 2006 00:07 - Category: Blogging, Fair use ;
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
This is a great way for blogs and websites to allow their content to be shared under criteria of their choosing.
Polizeros now displays a Creative Commons “Attribution- NonCommercial- ShareAlike 2.5 License” at the bottom of each page. This means anyone can use content here as long as they 1) attribute it to Polizeros, 2) do not use it for commercial purposes, and 3) if they share that content with others, it must be done with the same type of license.
Thus, no one needs to ask if they can copy content from Polizeros, the Creative Commons license grants them that right. Other websites might consider doing the same. As part of this continuing series on fair use, I’ve been quoting from EFF and Fair Use Network, both of whom have Creative Commons licenses.
(If you have a WordPress blog, get the Creative Commons plug-in.)
Subscribe
