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RE: Oil Workers Mount Protest in Basra

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From: Patriots Speak Out ®©™
Date: Jul 16, 2007 10:46 PM



Oil Workers Mount Protest in Basra

Union Protests Oil Law, Government Increase on Fuel Prices
Posted 5 hr. 47 min. ago


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Basra, IRAQ: Iraqis shout slogans as they demonstrate in the southern city of Basra, 16 July 2007.

Basra, Jul 16, (VOI) – The executive bureau of Basra's trade unions organized a large demonstration on Monday, where hundreds of workers called for reconsidering the oil and gas law and the government's recent decision to increase fuel prices.

"Members of all Basra's trade unions took to the streets to show solidarity with the oil trade union, calling for reconsidering the oil and gas law and the government decision to increase fuel prices," the head of the bureau, Hussein Fadel, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

The executive bureau issued a statement last week calling for the removal of the oil minister, freedom of syndicates to organize their administrations and activities and the cancellation of decision no. 150, which bans syndicates' activities in public sector institutions.

"The demonstration reflected the unity of Basra's trade unions. The ports, electricity, services, municipalities and other trade unions all united to call for the legitimate demands of the oil trade union's workers," he added.

A media spokesman for Basra's trade unions, Faraj Ribat Mazban, told VOI that the demonstrators were protesting against the oil and gas law, which he said allows foreign companies to exploit Iraq's wealth.

The law on oil and gas is one of the most controversial laws on the Iraqi political scene. It was recently ratified by the Iraqi cabinet after a number of Shura Council amendments were made to it, described by the government as "peripheral." The law was referred to the parliament for approval and is currently under discussion. The current draft gives foreign investors the right to set up refineries and oil facilities and to invest in them for 50 years, after which they will belong to the Iraqi government.

Mazban added that the demonstrators were also angry at being unheard. Representatives from the syndicate of trade unions met several officials, including the prime minister and the oil minister, "but all they gave were empty promises," he indicated.

The Iraqi Oil Ministry said earlier that starting July 1, 2007, premium gas will be sold at 450 Iraqi dinars per liter (36 U.S. cents) and regular gas for 400 dinars (32 U.S. cents), attributing the price increase to pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Paris Club to remove subsidies on oil derivatives.

Basra, a Shiite province with 20% Sunni population, is 590 km south of Baghdad.

RE: BANNED Bush Interview.. must see!!

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From: Vivid Imagination
Date: Jul 10, 2007 10:44 AM


No I hadn't seen it. Thanks. You were right Jared,
I would've wanted to see this, respects man!

This is a video I found of an Irish TV interview with President Bush. I later found out that this interview was not shown on American television because it was banned! Why you ask, take a look and see...

RE: BLACKWATER : THE SHADOW WAR

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Date: Jun 9, 2007 3:28 AM

RE: IT'S THE FUKIN NEWS... (oops* , my bad)

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Date: Jun 8, 2007 7:49 PM


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George Bush; spreading homelessness worldwide is job #1

RE: War Refugees Live in Baghdad Trash Dump

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From: Patriots Speak Out ®©™
Date: Jun 7, 2007 12:28 AM

War Refugees Live in Baghdad Trash Dump

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3095/War_Refugees_Live_in_Baghdad_Trash_Dump

By JANE ARRAF Posted 8 hr. 20 min. ago

Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger

Trash dump in southwestern Baghdad area of al-Shoula, home to dozens of Shiite families displaced by sectarian cleansing in formerly mixed neighborhoods.

Baghdad – Their old homes were in mixed neighborhoods of Abu Ghraib and a-Haswa. Their new homes are literally built of garbage.

At first glance it looked like a huge field of trash with water buffalo wallowing in stagnant water and piles of garbage burning in the distance.

And then the garbage trucks came. As a landslide of trash came sliding from the backs of the trucks, women in abayas rushed forward to pick through it, darting around the sheep competing with them.

The last time I’d seen people pick through garbage in Iraq was immediately after the 1991 war, when Baghdad was shattered by the bombing and the shock of trade sanctions, when people would do almost anything to eat.

One woman carried away a large square of cardboard. Another flung masses of plastic bags out of her way as she dug deeper into the pile.

“They live on the garbage,” said one of the Iraqi policeman on a highway overpass overlooking the field.

I was with soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division who were watching an Iraqi police checkpoint in al-Shoula, in southwestern Baghdad. The checkpoint, manned by Shiite police, seemed to be working. Police officers climbed into the back of trucks to inspect them and listened to directions from the American soldiers on checking gun permits.

“They’re pretty receptive to how to do things better which is what we look for,” said platoon leader 1st Lieutenant Christopher Ford.

But then there was that field of trash. What had looked at first glance like just a garbage dump was dotted with crude brick homes and mud huts with walls reinforced with tin cans and roofs of corrugated iron and cardboard.

Small children played barefoot in the dirt. An elderly man hobbled by on a crutch. The water buffalo, valued in the south of Iraq for their milk, wallowed in stagnant ponds that had turned a dark maroon color from the waste.

There is no clean water, no sewage, no electricity. Just makeshift houses in a seemingly never-ending field of trash. When Saddam was in power, it was to have been a sports stadium.

Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger

Iraqi police taking a break in the shade at a checkpoint near the trash dump.

The police said the Shiite families had been driven out of al-Haswa south of Baghdad by sectarian cleansing. They said there were perhaps 100 families who had arrived over the past year.

One of the policemen himself was displaced. Mohammad, 27, said his family had had two houses and a supermarket in Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad.

“They took them and we had to leave,” he said. “Who took them?” I asked. “The terrorists,” he said, meaning Sunni extremists. He said two of his cousins had been killed there.

As a policeman, he said he made 100,000 dinars a month – about $70. He and his colleagues spend ten days at a time at the checkpoint with no running water and a makeshift tent for shade. “We have to buy our own uniforms,” one of his colleagues said. “Look at his shoes.” One of the police was wearing mismatched plastic sandals.

The group was from Diwaniyah, in the Shiite south of Iraq. “Life was better under Saddam because then there were no terrorists,” one said. “Nothing has changed except they removed Saddam - we didn’t have electricity or water then either.”

Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger

Five-year-old refugee Sajad Abbas.

“All of the Arab countries around us are against Iraq,” said another. “Even Iran – Iran just uses Iraq.”

Next to the police station in al-Shoula, Younnis, who runs the parking lot, introduces me to Sajad Abbas, who is five years old.

“This is one of our refugees,” he tells me. “There are lots of them everywhere.” He says Sajad’s family was also driven out of al-Haswa, fleeing to al-Shoula, a Shiite neighborhood controlled by the Mehdi Army.

In turn, Sunni families fled their homes in al-Shula. “They went to Abu Ghraib, to Fallujah, to al-Anbar,” Younnis says.

I ask him whether people prefer it that way. “It’s not right,” he says. “We were brothers for years.”

RE: Make Film Not War - Parental Advisory

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Peace Bros,
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Bush: "terrorists and states that harbor terrorists will be treated the same way," as friends

RE: Holy sh!t RE: With us or against us!

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Date: Jun 1, 2007 9:31 PM


Holy sh!t RE: With us or against us!

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Date: Jun 1, 2007 9:08 PM


Thanks BREE:)~
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Date: Jun 1, 2007 3:25 PM

RE: Locals Rise Up Against -- at a Cost

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From: Patriots Speak Out ®©™
Date: Jun 1, 2007 10:53 PM

Locals Rise Up Against al Qaeda -- at a Cost

Off-Duty, Armed APTN Cameraman Dies a Hero Defending his Neighborhood

By JANE ARRAF Posted 2 hr. 55 min. ago

Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger

A US Army medic tries in vain to save the life of off-duty APTN cameraman Saif Mohammad Fakhry.

Baghdad – They were still bringing in the wounded when we arrived at the mosque in southern Amiriya Thursday morning, racing from the armored vehicles surrounded by bursts of gunfire.

An American soldier was among the casualties – killed by small arms fire. His name is being withheld. His commanders said he was an exceptional young man who re-enlisted after surviving a mortar attack that killed his roommate.

The Iraqi wounded were taken to the mosque – laid out on the teal blue carpet stained by pools of blood and littered with shards of glass from the shattered ceiling panels which had read "There is no God but God...'

One of them was Saif Mohammad Fakhry, an Iraqi cameraman with the television news agency APTN. His brother said he had gone out in the street with a gun after suspected al-Qaeda militants attacked the neighborhood.

A doctor from the U.S. Army's Stryker brigade, sweating with heat and exertion, worked frantically to insert a chest tube in his side to try to keep his lung from collapsing. I turned away for a moment as an American medic worked on an Iraqi man who had been shot in the face. When I turned back – he had died.

The Army's Arabic interpreter who had held Saif's hand knelt by him to pray. Saif, 26, was the younger brother of Omar Fakhry, 33, a photojournalist for Arabic television stations and Yasser Fakhry, 31, who was also an Iraqi journalist. They shouted in grief.

"Why, why?" Omar sobbed, cradling his brother's body.

"Take my picture – it's normal," he said when I asked. Violent death and sorrow is an Iraqi cameraman's stock in trade – he and Saif would have videotaped dozens and dozens of such scenes. Omar reminded me that the three of us had covered the same story in happier times – a bridge reopening in northern Iraq three years ago. Saif had been his assistant then.

Saif's phone rang – Omar reached into his brother's blood-splattered pockets and pulled it out. I asked if he had told Saif's wife, who was expecting their first child any day.

Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger

Omar Fakhry cries over the lifeless body of his brother, off-duty APTN cameraman Saif Mohammad Fakhry.

"What am I supposed to tell her?" he asked.

"I told him to stay inside – that the fighting was none of our business," he told me, still sobbing. "He was a peaceful man but he said: 'They are killing us every day – we live like this with no electricity, with no water and they are killing us."

Saif had gone into the street carrying the rifle that each family in Baghdad is allowed to own. The U.S. military normally considers guns on the streets justification to shoot on sight but in Amiriya that rule was relaxed as neighborhood men spurred on by religious leaders gathered to fight al-Qaeda.

"They have a better ability to find and kill al-Qaeda that we do," said Lt Colonel Dale Kuehl, commander of the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment responsible for the area.

One of the imams leading the group said they killed an al-Qaeda leader and two other al-Qaeda members in the clashes Thursday – a target on the Americans' own hit list. U.S. officials said they had no independent confirmation.

An hour before, the local Iraqi Army brigade commander had called Kuehl asking for more ammunition and for help in evacuating the wounded in the midst of the vehicle ban the armed group had asked for while they fought al-Qaeda. The ammunition wasn't for the Iraqi Army but for a group of men not normally considered allies of the U.S. Army or the Shiite-dominated security forces. The U.S. commander said he would evacuate the wounded.

Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger

Omar Fakhry grieves over the death of his brother Saif.

Later in the day, rounds of AK-47 ammunition wrapped in paper and bundled in sardine-like cans were distributed from the Iraqi Army to neighborhood leaders.

U.S. military officials said some of the group are what Iraqis call the 'honorable resistance' – including former Baathists and members of the Sunni insurgent group the Islamic Army who appear to have agreed to stop attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces to fight a common enemy. Local residents said al-Qaeda forces had taken root in Amiriyah, one of the last remaining Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad, and were launching unprovoked attacks.

"We don't like the Americans because they allowed – excuse the expression – these dogs of Osama bin Laden to come to Iraq," said a school teacher at the mosque. He hasn't worked in more than three years. "Because they said I was a Baathi," he said.

Some of the group appeared to be ordinary neighborhood men who have taken up arms as part of what U.S. military commanders say is a badly equipped, undermanned and largely untrained force. The number of neighborhood fighters was impossible to verify but appeared to be only about several dozen.

"They seem to be a bunch of residents who are tired and fed up, and everyone has an AK," said Kuehl.

"We were expecting people from the area to help protect the area more," a local leader told Kuehl.

"They're afraid, we understand," Kuehl told him, advising him to regroup and allow Iraqi Army forces to help protect the area. Most of the Iraqi Army are Shiite and unwelcome in this heavily Sunni area.

Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger

Yasser Fakhry sits alongside the coffin containing his brother's body.

A U.S. commander said there were no clashes on Friday but five U.S. soldiers were wounded – at least two of them seriously – when a major weapons cache they'd found exploded.

"We are conducting ongoing operations to reinforce the lead of local residents and local sheikhs," said Lieutant Colonel John Reynolds, from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. "We want to build momentum with the help of this group."

U.S. commanders hope that the group that has stepped forward to fight al-Qaeda could form the basis of a local police force in Amariyah – largely Sunni and mirroring the population here.

In the mosque the most seriously of the Iraqi wounded were taken to the main U.S. military hospital. "Don't take me to an Iraqi hospital," begged one fighter who had been shot four times. "The Shiite there will kill me."

Yasser sat as the shadow's lengthened and watched over his brother. Saif, who drew his last breath in a mosque after fighting for his home, died a martyr's death. His friends laid a bullet on his chest.

O'Reilly declaires war on Rosie

RE: IT'S A FACT THAT THE IRAQI INVASION HAS KILLED 600,000+

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From: " THE COLLECTIVE "
Date: May 27, 2007 11:45 AM


" REALIST " vs. REP. "CHRISTIAN" ANDROID - "IMUS" 2 - WATCH

WE " THE COLLECTIVE " & MILLIONS MORE IN THIS GREAT NATION ( GREAT IS NOT DEFINED AS " GOOD " ) ARE BECOMING AWARE OF A " TROUBLING TRUTH ". FACTS THAT PROVE THAT SEPTEMBER 11th ( ALONG WITH OTHER " WORLD CHANGING " EVENTS ) DID NOT HAPPEN THE WAY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN LEAGUE WITH CORPORATE MEDIA etc. TOLD THE PEOPLE.

KNOW & UNDERSTAND....TRUTH IS TRUE & FALSE IS FALSE ( RIGHT IS RIGHT, WRONG IS WRONG ETC. ) NO MATTER THE SITUATION.

TRUTH IS DEMANDED WHEN FALSEHOOD IS IN QUESTION!!!!!!

NOW, MS. ROSIE ( ALONG WITH WILLING HUMAN ) HAS THE " EARTHLY RIGHT " ( IF NOT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ) TO SPEAK FREELY REGARDLESS..............

HOW IS MS. ROSIE ANY LESS " AMERICAN ", " PATRIOTIC " THAN ANY AMERICAN.

SHEEPLE, THE SHOW IS CALLED " THE VIEW ", BUT AS SOON AS YOU GIVE A VOICE TO YOUR VIEWS ( ESPECIALLY IF IT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE POLICIES OF CURRENT GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE ) IN TRUTH, YOUR " ANTI-AMERICAN.

YOU HUMANOIDS MUST UNDERSTAND.... NO MATTER HOW " FUCKED UP " DON IMUS'S " VIEWS " ARE, HE & OTHERS HAVE A RIGHT TO EXPRESS THOSE " VIEWS ".

THAT ONE ASPECT OF FREEDOM!!!! ( TAKE THAT AWAY, YOUR DESTROYING ALL ASPECTS OF FREEDOM !!!! )

THE CORPORATE MEDIA HAVE BEEN " PROGRAMMING " DISTURBING FOOTAGE, IMAGES, ETC. FOR YEARS ( TO THIS VERY DAY ). WHY IS IT A PROBLEM NOW !!!!!!

DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE WHAT THE " SHEEPLE " CALL MEDIA.
THE MEDIA DOES NOT REFLECT THE THOUGHT OF THE PEOPLE.

SEPTEMBER 11th ( 3000 + DEAD ) IS A " OPEN FILE ", AND WE AS A PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO INVESTIGATE. IF THE INVESTIGATION POINTS TO THOSE IN POSITION TO PROTECT IT'S PEOPLE, WHAT SHOULD THE PEOPLE DO ???

IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU MORE AMERICAN BECAUSE YOU STAND BY YOUR COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG. A PATRIOT DEMANDS RIGHT & DENOUNCES WRONG.

TO " THE COLLECTIVE ", ROSIE IS JUST REFLECTING AN UN-AVOIDABLE TRUTH. A TRUTH EVERY AMERICAN WILL SOME DAY FACE..........YOUR GOVERNMENT IS ATTACKING YOU !!!!!! YOUR GOVERNMENT IS ATTACKING YOU !!!!!! YOUR GOVERNMENT IS ATTACKING YOU !!!!!! YOUR GOVERNMENT IS ATTACKING YOU !!!!!!

TRUTH THROUGH AWARENESS !!!!!

-------------------------------WATCH !!!! ----------------------------------------

FOX NEWS - THEIR "SPIN' ON "THE VIEW"


IT'S A FACT THAT THE IRAQI INVASION HAS KILLED 600,000+ IRAQIS

IT'S A FACT THAT SEPTEMBER 11th WAS AN INSIDE JOB ( YOU ONLY HAVE TO INVESTIGATE )

IT'S A FACT THAT RELIGION HAS KILLED MORE HUMANS THAN ANY KNOWN CONCEPT ON THIS PLANET!!!!

--------------NOW LETS WATCH THE VIEW--------------------------------

"The View" 5/23/07 Rosie and Elisabeth - MAJOR FEUD


" REALIST " vs. REP. "CHRISTIAN" ANDROID
THE BATTLE OF THE AWARE vs. the un-AWARE

" WE WATCH DANCING WITH THE STARS INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH REAL ISSUES !!!!!

WHAT IS YOUR VIEW ????

Fort Baghdad: enroll early and skip the draft

RE: It's not an embassey...it's a fortress.

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Date: May 16, 2007 11:53 AM


A fortress from which we'll attempt to run an occupied country. Like everything else these idiots have done, this will fail in spectacular fashion.



The embassy compound in Baghdad will have more than 600 blast-resistant apartments -- but could use a few more.



World's Biggest U.S. Embassy May Not Be Quite Big Enough

By Al Kamen
Wednesday, May 16, 2007; Page A13

For all those who keep whining about how the government can't do anything right, we're happy to report that the massive New Embassy Compound in Baghdad, the biggest U.S. embassy on earth, is going to be completed pretty much as scheduled in August.

The bad news is that it appears it's not going to have enough housing for all the employees who'll be moving to the 27-building complex on a 104-acre tract of land -- about the size of the Vatican, two-thirds the size of the Mall -- within the Green Zone.


The embassy compound in Baghdad will have more than 600 blast-resistant apartments -- but could use a few more.
The embassy compound in Baghdad will have more than 600 blast-resistant apartments -- but could use a few more.

In fact, our new man in Baghdad, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, is said to be concerned that, while there are more than 600 blast-resistant apartments in the NEC, there's a need for several hundred more apartments.

Problem seems to be that the original plans didn't account for hundreds of staff working in reconstruction, development, the inspector general's office and other security programs, who, though considered temporary, will need, at least for a few years, somewhere to live. There are 1,000 Americans working at the embassy, and Crocker is looking to downsize, but we hear he's having trouble finding even 100 to toss overboard.

Also, there are about 200 non-U.S. workers brought in from around the region who are replacing Iraqi staff because it is too dangerous for the Iraqis, who live outside the fortified Green Zone, to work for Americans.

Worst of all, there's no provision for rooms for congressional delegations or other distinguished guests coming to shop in the famed markets. There aren't any safe hotels in Baghdad, much less a decent B&B.

Embassy employees, now living in trailers with no overhead protection, are getting increasingly jittery over mortar and rocket attacks. New guidelines tell them to wear helmets and flak jackets when walking in the open. But some employees, sleeping in those tin-can trailers, apparently would actually like to take off the helmets and jackets while they're in bed.

One speaker at a recent town hall meeting in Baghdad, McClatchy Newspapers reported yesterday, asked for bullet-resistant Kevlar blankets to protect him from shrapnel in case of incoming mortar fire.

There's discussion now of a short-term solution that would put some people in trailers in the 30 to 40 acres not being used for housing. They would be right outside the compound but at least have overhead cover.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week said she dispatched super-competent Patrick Kennedy-- now director of management policy and talked about as a possible undersecretary for management at the State Department -- to Baghdad to assess the situation.

Crocker's home in the NEC -- which one source said was about 16,000 square feet -- is expected to be ready. Ditto deputy chief of mission Daniel Speckhard's cottage, which is a cozy 9,500 square feet. In addition to office buildings, the complex, located on the banks of the Tigris River, will have a pool and gym and a 17,000-square-foot commissary and food court building.

The NEC will also have its own water supply, power plant and waste-treatment facility so it doesn't have to rely on the Iraqis for essential services.

All this for only $592 million. Well, that was the original price tag.

'Not a Campaign Document'

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. is running for president of the United States. So it seemed most peculiar when some colleagues here received a 90-page booklet of his speeches and editorials from the last year about Iraq -- paid for by Senate funds and mailed from the Senate.


The embassy compound in Baghdad will have more than 600 blast-resistant apartments -- but could use a few more.
The embassy compound in Baghdad will have more than 600 blast-resistant apartments -- but could use a few more.

A cover letter to "Dear Friends" reminds us that a year ago he "announced a detailed plan for a way forward in Iraq." The last page says, "For over three decades, Joe Biden has played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy" and "has been a leading and consistent voice against the administration's failed policy in Iraq."

Looks like a campaign duck, sounds like, waddles like . . .? No. "It is not a campaign document," Biden press secretary Elizabeth Alexander said yesterday. "There's been a lot of misinformation about his plan for Iraq," she said, so "we wanted to make clear" what the details were. "There's nothing new here."

The fine booklet, which she said cost only $75 in all to produce, was sent to fewer than 140 media people, mostly columnists and foreign affairs and military writers, not political reporters. He's put out similar compilations before, Alexander said, about issues such as intellectual property and the Boys and Girls Clubs.

It's really not something they wanted to do. He's chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Alexander noted, and "it's part of our duty to educate reporters and the public about his Iraq plan."

Quack . . .

New Face at the NSC?

The Korean press reported last week that Katrin Fraser, a Fulbright fellow in Korea after her graduation from college in 2000 and more recently a special assistant to Kristin Silverberg, assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, is expected to replace Victor Cha as National Security Council director for Korea and Japan.

Cha, a fluent Korean speaker whose father-in-law was a general and minister in the Roh Tae Woo government of South Korea, has gone back to his international relations professorship at Georgetown University.

Fraser, who's not expected to be directly involved in negotiations on North Korea's nukes, has been harshly critical of President Bush. In a 2002 article for the Korea Society Quarterly, she said South Korean reaction to his "axis of evil" statement was "swift and largely negative," and talked of his "insensitivity to Korean cultural conventions."

RE: Bill Hicks war mix

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Date: Apr 24, 2007 5:35 AM


From: aweatherman

CIA brainwashed mindslave?!?

The Question I have is why would an al Qaeda gunman want the government to have more power unless he worked for them?


RE: RE: Virginia Tech Shooting 'Oddities'

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From: ♥ Angel ♥ ™
Date: Apr 18, 2007 11:26 AM


Virginia Tech Shooting 'Oddities'

Thanks: Arkansas Outlaw ~Amy~

Virginia Tech Shooting 'Oddities'

"The average 'nut' is not this well armed, nor able to kill with such precision, and so quickly." --Comment by CLG reader, Blueridge

Breaking: Chicago Tribune: Alleged gunman left note in dorm room [My theory on its announced contents: "I did this for Al Qaeda in Iraq. I've come to the US becuase the Democrat congress wants a timeline for troop withdrawal. P.S.: Rosie O'Donnell is wrong. Osama bin Laden did carry out the 9/11 terrorist attacks. If NSA wiretaps were allowed, I wouldn't have been able to do this."]

More from Blueridge, who lives in WV:
I have been watching Roanoke local TV with excellent coverage. Brian Williams of NBC interviewed two students, one who was shot. The following facts about the shooter emerged as they met face to face:
1. did not recognize from campus
2. reloaded clips (semi auto pistol(s)) very fast
3. "looked trained" in use of weapons, pro
4. wearing red cap, vest (impression of trained "beret")
5. authorities said he had "no ID" on him
6. gunman wearing all black (pro wear)
7. camera phone recorded "blast" after fired shots.

The school police stood down for two hours, without notifying students or faculty. During the press conference, they said they often run "drills." School president and campus police chief were absolutely emotionless during both conferences, very matter of fact. Police not providing ID, not providing weapon details... Why?

AFT source tells NBC News that the gunman was not a Virginia Tech student, but someone who had access to the dorm.

Authorities Tentatively ID Va. Tech Gunman 16 Apr 2007 Authorities say they've tentatively identified the gunman behind Monday's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech that killed 32 victims, but they're not releasing any information yet. Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum told reporters that two weapons were recovered, but he declined to describe them.

Gunman may have made 3 bomb threats to test 'security response' 16 Apr 2007 Authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history was a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa. The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Police believe three bomb threats on the campus last week may have been attempts by the man to test the campus' security response, the source said. The exits to the buildings where the shootings occurred were chained by the shooter, the source said.

A 'person-of-interest' was being interviewed while the second shooting occurred. He was not a student. --Press conference, Blacksburg, VA

CNN: 'The Virginia Tech killer chained doors shut at his second shooting site before going into a German class and opening fire.'

VA Tech wasn't locked down for two hours, after the first shooting was reported at 7:15 AM. The shooter apparently made it over to the *other side of campus* and *carried out more shootings,* unmolested, two hours later!

It has not been confirmed whether or not the shooter is a student. [How did the shooter access the buildings, when a scanned ID is required for access?]
First report: The suspect was led away in handcuffs.
Second report: The suspect was killed.
Third report: The suspect killed himself.
Fourth report: There were two suspects.
Individual had same style of guns (*two* handguns) used by FBI agents, a 'high-powered' weapon and the shootings were 'well-planned.'
MSNBC's FBI profiler: 'students lined up and shot execution style'
19 hours after the first shooting, the shooter(s) has/have not been identified. [00:15 EDT 17 Apr 2007 Note: The shooter has finally been identified.
At press conf., VT Tech.: We thought the shooter (7:15 AM) had left the state. ?

Regardless, it appears that the Gonzales testmony will receive little coverage tomorrow. Oops, strike that: Senate postpones to Thursday the gonzales hearing, in light of VA Tech shootings. Can we expect new Blackwater USA contract$ to 'secure' college campuses? --LRP

Articles of Impeachment to Be Filed On Cheney By Mary Ann Akers 17 Apr 2007 Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)... declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney... Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to impeach the president, vice president and "all civil Officers of the United States" for "treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Sources tell the Sleuth that in light of the mass killings at Virginia Tech Monday, Kucinich's impeachment plans have been put on hold. There will be no action this week, they say.

Gunman ID'd as student; tests tie same gun to both attacks 17 Apr 2007 A Virginia Tech senior [Cho Seung-Hui] from South Korea killed at least 30 people locked inside a classroom building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university and police said Tuesday. Ballistics tests also found that one of the guns used in that attack was also used in a shooting two hours earlier at a dorm that left two people dead, Virginia State Police said. Cho committed suicide after the attacks, and there was no indication Tuesday of any possible motive.

Anger mounts over response to massacre 17 Apr 2007 (Blacksburg, VA) Parents and students at the scene of the worst school shooting in US history on Monday criticised the university for waiting too long to alert people a killer may be on the loose.

Police Cite Person of Interest in Va. Tech Dorm Killing; Dead Gunman Yet to Be ID'd 16 Apr 2007 In a press conference tonight, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger gave a detailed timeline of the morning's tragic events. He said a 9-1-1 call reporting a shooting at a dormitory was made at approximately 7:15 a.m. While police were trying to assess what they first believed was a domestic dispute, they received a second 9-1-1 call, nearly two and a half hours later, that reported shootings on the opposite side of campus. According to the Virginia Police Chief Wendell Flinchum, officials have not definitively linked the two shootings. Campus police have identified a person of interest who is not currently in police custody.

Gunman may have made 3 bomb threats to test 'security response' 16 Apr 2007 Authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history was a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa. The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Police believe three bomb threats on the campus last week may have been attempts by the man to test the campus' security response, the source said. The exits to the buildings where the shootings occurred were chained by the shooter, the source said.

Eyewitness: '40 or 50 shots' --Massacre at Virginia Tech: 33 Confirmed Dead --Gunman's Body Disfigured; Hard to Identify 16 Apr 2007 A tranquil college campus in Virginia became a killing field Monday morning. At least 33 people are dead in the worst mass shooting in modern American history. Police at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va., said that the shootings happened at a dormitory and then at a classroom on opposite sides of the university campus. Some students are questioning why administrators did not stop classes after the first shooting, and why it took more than two hours to inform the university community via email about the shootings.


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RE: Hiding Behind Civilians - documented us of human shields

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From: thumbs
Date: Apr 14, 2007 12:12 PM


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From: madthumbs
Date: Apr 14, 2007 9:08 AM


Hiding Behind Civilians - documented us of human shields

-Articles, testimonies, and discussion on Israels use of humans as shields.

Joke: What's the difference between a Jew and a Palestinian?

- A Palestinian has no money to spend. A Jew has money and still doesn't spend it.

The only other difference is religion. There's no such thing as a Jewish race. It's a fabrication to suit a racist religion and justify stealing land, bull dozing homes, terrorizing Palestinians, taking taxpayer's money from other countries to fund a war machine, etc.

Did they really need a homeland? How have we been lied to about the Holocaust? Do they call people who question the numbers, images, and claims liars or deniers? Why do people get so emotionally defensive about the subject? Could it be mass mind-control like we see with religion?

We're not denying the Holocaust either.. We're pointing to their evidences and showing how they're unquestionably debunked. We're pointing out how they use legislation and emotion to keep the truth from spreading and keep money pouring in for themselves.

Are all Jews bad? Consider this: There's no such thing as a Jewish race. If you investigate the religion; you'll find that it is a sick racially genocidal, female oppressing, slave endorsing, rape approving religion.

So: Not all who call themselves Jews are Jews. The ones that are promote a sickness that is causing much of the atrocities in the world. The world bankers, the Oppenheimer Diamond Cartel, and many other world class criminals hide behind the protections afforded them by these lies, the religions, and Zionist owned world media.

Do Jews benefit from Zionism? Christians who outnumber them expect the world to wage war on Israel in the last days which many believe we're in. Wouldn't Russia, China, Africa, Iran, Iraq, etc have good reason to wage war on Israel?

ZOG happened in USA. How are we gonna fix it?

Government Terrorism

RE: You will be breathing radioactive depleted uranium dust

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From: frEinLy Fier ll9 reLAvTicN (eMenY TeRriBaList)
Date: Apr 14, 2007 1:50 PM


You are in CA area right? You will be breathing radioactive depleted uranium dust long before this happens if you don't take steps NOW to stop Lawrence Livermore Labs from getting a permit to explode 450 lbs of DU...

I have posted bulletins on this, I have blogged and commented on this, but no one seems to be paying any attention. I am flabberghasted, totally aghast and actually crying right now.

I lived in CA (central coast) for 15 years. My friends and family are in Ca. YOU and they will be horribly afflicted with multiple types of cancers if this is not stopped!

Depleted uranium (when exploded) turns into a fine, highly radioactive and toxic ceramic dust (less than 1 micron in size -sails right through HEPA filters!!) that is breathed in and lodges in the lungs, causing massive, irreparable DNA damage and multiple types of cancer, thyroid problems, etc..

It CANNOT be cleaned up by any measure (my mom worked for the US Dept of Defense on a project to find a way, and they CAN'T). It immediately suspends into the atmosphere (into the clouds and comes down with rain) and travels all over within the weather.

It *will* affect YOU and your loved ones!,

LLL wants to explode LOTS of this stuff. The only thing that will stop it is public outcry. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is going to take public comment on their permit application. I am telling you that public outcry CAN stop it.

PLEASE, for the love of God and your own life, act before it is too late! This is not bullshit, this is not playing around. I am serious as a heart attack! I will be calling them and lying like a bitch that I live there and objecting in the strongest possible terms to the permit. I am asking EVERYONE to call and say they live there and object, so hopefully enough pressure and comment will be enough to stop this madness.

If it isn't, well, you can kiss your life goodbye - your pretty hair and health will be only a memory. Hello, cancer!

I'm begging you to pass this info along to everyone you know in CA and in the US, before it's too late.

It *will* spread across the continent, as it has already spread from the Balkans and Iraq to the UK... this has been measured scientifically. It is no joke. It is horrifyingly real.

Here's the contact info:

San Joaquin Valley APCD
1990 E. Gettysburg
Fresno, CA 93726
APCO - Seyed Sadredin
Phone: (559) 230-6000
Fax: (559) 230-6061

Money For Nothin'

RE: remember that 363 tons of money flown into the war zone?

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From: Elsewhere's Daughter
Date: Feb 16, 2007 12:20 PM


From: Simon
Date: Feb 16, 2007 9:16 AM

The New World/International Order is Death!

Bush jokes about 2800 US deaths


George Bush and John Kerry having a laugh at the expence of over 2,800 soldiers' lives. What God do they follow? Look down the rabbit hole and see that it's not the same as you and me.

Keith Olberman, True Freedom Fighter

cheneHitler says "tag, you're it."

This is one of Keith Olberman's best to date. If there was ever a "State of the Union Address" than this is it. This clip covers several points of the day that will show the world we live in. This is only in the moment; we have the choice to take the power from a person like this. I know this is a taboo subject but Nixon and Clinton were removed from office. There is a reason his name in Skull and Bones is "Temporary," he was meant to leave the throne to Dick Dastardly. This is the reason All People put in office with and by this administration should be removed due to lack of public trust. If you have any doubt about the peoples opinion, just look at what happened on November 7th the people will buy your lies anymore!