Burning semen haunts Gulf War vets

Bernstein speculated veterans may have been exposed to chemicals that changed the proteins in their semen. He notes that some partners developed antibodies to the semen. This finding provides objective evidence the condition is not just in the veterans' heads, he said.

A while back we had posted articles on health related issues with Gulf War Vets. One issue we focused on was Mycoplasma, a by-product of Anthrax. It was developed by the U.S. in U.S. labs with the aid of Israeli scientists. The danger of Mycoplasma is it mutates and it changes a person's DNA. It's a pretty nasty bacteria.

Any bets? And just think our government has the arrogance to think that our troops will be safe in a war with Iraq. Bull Shit.

"Damn -- we don't need to go to war with bad equipment," said Steve Robinson, whose Army unit helped repatriate Kurdish refugees after they fled into the mountains of northern Iraq during the Gulf War.

Related Headlines

Studies track Gulf War illness -- but too late?

Our veterans were abandoned

The Fallout of War

Chronology of nuclear diplomacy on North Korea

After listening to Colin Powell, we are left with the feeling that the Bush adminstration is scrambling to find some damage control.

First, his comments on North Korea is not a crisis......yet. Boy, if kicking out the U.N., having nuclear warheads and having the ability to make plutonium is not a crisis, then what is, a Nation that has U.N. inspectors indicating that they have not found WMDs?

What is emerging is a foreign policy debacle. When you juxtapose Iraq with North Korea, where is the crisis really? Did North Korea steal the Bush thunder. Or is China laying claim to the region and Bush was told to back off.

More on Powell's comments:

"Iraq is a regime that has stood in defiance of 16 U.N. resolutions, and we're waiting to see whether they're going to be in defiance of this new one"

[...]

And they have used this kind of capability against their own people, against their neighbors. And they have stood in this kind of defiance for 12 years.

Yes they did indeed, and Rumsfeld was part of the equation when it came to Iraq using chemical weapons against the Kurds. And since U.S. policy is so hell bent on maintaining relations with Turkey, do you think Turkey was feeling sorry for the Kurds? Hell no.

As for North Korea, who in the hell are they going to invade, China? Better yet, South Korea? Not with the troops stationed there.

Colin Powell's argument is weak at best considering North Korea has broken how many promises. And how many people are starving there? The dictatorships that have ruled North Korea have been just as evil as has Hussein. The difference here is, we never gave WMDs to North Korea but we certainly did in Iraq.

In listening to Biden, Powell should take heed. That way, the missile defense system so badly needed, would be an easy sale. We are sure, that Powell's current babbling will be brought up when it comes time to sign on the dotted line for a missile defense system.

When that time comes, what will the Bush administration say, North Korea has now become a crisis.

U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup

Among the people instrumental in tilting U.S. policy toward Baghdad during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war was Donald H. Rumsfeld, now defense secretary, whose December 1983 meeting with Hussein as a special presidential envoy paved the way for normalization of U.S.-Iraqi relations. Declassified documents show that Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons on an "almost daily" basis in defiance of international conventions.

The Gulf War vets are outraged at Rumsfeld for his lying about not knowing what was going on.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

--Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789. ME 7:300

Some Noteworthy Terrorist Oragnizations

TERRORISM: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT U.S. SANCTIONS

Two that stick out from the typical suspects.

PKK (a.k.a. FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY CONGRESS OF KURDISTAN; a.k.a.
HALU MESRU SAVUNMA KUVVETI (HSK); a.k.a. KADEK; a.k.a. KURDISTAN
FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY CONGRESS; a.k.a. KURDISTAN WORKERS' PARTY;
a.k.a. PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN; a.k.a. THE PEOPLE'S DEFENSE
FORCE) [FTO] also listed as [SDGT] on 10-31-01 with additional
"a.k.a."s on 12-03-02

And

SWORD OF DAVID (a.k.a. KAHANE CHAI; a.k.a. COMMITTEE FOR THE
SAFETY OF THE ROADS; a.k.a. DIKUY BOGDIM; a.k.a. DOV; a.k.a.
FOREFRONT OF THE IDEA; a.k.a. JUDEA POLICE; a.k.a. KACH; a.k.a.
KAHANE LIVES; a.k.a. KFAR TAPUAH FUND; a.k.a. KOACH; a.k.a.
REPRESSION OF TRAITORS; a.k.a. STATE OF JUDEA; a.k.a. THE JUDEAN
LEGION; a.k.a. THE JUDEAN VOICE; a.k.a. THE QOMEMIYUT MOVEMENT;
a.k.a. THE WAY OF THE TORAH; a.k.a. THE YESHIVA OF THE JEWISH
IDEA) [SDT] [FTO] also listed as [SDGT] on 10-31-01


(Via Future Paradigm)

Update

Simply amazing on how many faces these groups have within so called legitimate (jsid@dorsai.org) organizations.

Loud Mouths 2002 Blog of Shame

It's not the quantity of hits that counts, because you can be a prom king or queen and still be a moron

The 2002 year is closing and we have decided to come up with the Loud Mouths Blog of Shame. Our focus will be only on the most ignorant and assinine comments made by bloggers.

We could care less about grammar, spelling or sentence structure, cuz as you will see some of the so called best writers on the blogosphere come up with the most assinine statements. So without further adieu and a drum-roll we will start with the most famous and popular blogs and work our way down.

Andrew Sullivan

What more can be said about the self proclaimed gay bigot who likes to use trash talk against the Catholic Church and its policies towards gays. Sullivan is a strong proponent of the gay lifestyle being accepted in the Church and when the focus of the sexual abuse problems of the Church was linked to gay preists, laughably, Sullivan argued celibacy was the problem.

In one Time article, Sullivan stated celibacy was: "an onerous burden that can easily distort a person's psyche."

In another article written for Time, Sullivan stated:

“As a Catholic struggling to keep the faith through all this, I find myself asking: Why? Why can these men not get the enormity of what has happened? The best I can come up with is that they are well-intentioned men who somehow cannot see that what they have enabled is systematic child rape. They resist deep change by claiming that celibacy isn't the issue. But the hierarchy's cover-up of this evil surely has something to do with celibacy. Today's church leaders see sex primarily as an act, fraught with moral danger, not as a relationship, imbued with moral good. And how could they think otherwise? They have never known sexual relations — only sexual fantasy, masturbation and struggle. So perhaps it never occurred to them, as the writer Michael Sean Winters has pointed out, to see this abuse from the child's point of view. “


Well if celibacy is such a burden then why were the Four Now Charged In Child Sex Abuse Case not preists.

Sullivan was dead silent on this news as was the mainstream media for the national outlets. But it was interesting to note Rathmann’s comments on investigative journalism on gays in parks. Evidently Rathmann didn’t like what was being photographed.

As it turns out, some of the rapes occurred in parks. And celibacy certainly did not enter the equation of the criminal behavior of the rapists.

A pattern of behaviour perhaps?

Glenn Reynolds

Next that illogically lopsided law professor who professes to be an Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds. Here is a law professor who if I was a parent and saw that my child's education was influenced by this moron; the buck would stop.

Remember the West NIle virus? Well here is the latest headline: West Nile's Widening Toll

What did Instapundit have to say months back on the virus?

August 03, 2002
I'VE GOTTEN SEVERAL EMAILS suggesting that the West Nile Virus outbreaks may be a biological attack. I doubt it, but if so it's the lamest biological attack imaginable:
While there are 58 known cases of mosquito-borne West Nile virus in Louisiana, one state health official estimated 10,000 to 12,000 other people have been infected, felt no symptoms and are now immune to the disease.
But just in case it was an attack: Neener, neener, nyah, nyah!

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at August 03, 2002 10:24 PM

Hey Reynolds, the 2003 mosquito season hasn't even hit yet.

Next, the illogically lopsided statements this guy makes is truly breathless. On the sodomy laws, the Fox network had the courage to print his opinion on the matter. We will link to a more interesting site on the matter.

In other words, where laws infringe on important rights like property or "personal liberty," the very "nature of republican and free governments" may offer some restraint, even in the absence of specific constitutional language barring such laws. And this is not because of some fancy new right, but because of longstanding principles that the government should not regulate conduct that causes no harm to others.

The gist of the argument is the sodomy laws were bigoted and targeted a certain class and government had no right to regulate conduct that causes no harm to others.

Well, isn't he smart. But one thing, he missed Law and Order: Sex offender is accused of grabbing 10-year-old

This is where a sexual abuser who raped a girl was charged with sodomy. You see Reynolds has an agenda and that is one of a bigoted mindset. The sodomy laws do not only target gays. And lastly, the four men who raped the boy? They too were charged with sodomy.

So where does that leave these two top popular bloggers? At the top of the list of the moronic bloggers.

This is just the tip of the bloggers iceberg, there will be more to come. We do have a few days left to add to the list.

Update

Atrios

Next in-line is a blogger who is proof to the positive that you can be both popular and be an idiot when making statements. So we take our hat off to a blogger who goes by the name atrios.

His gem is his defense of the ex-Congresswoman McKinney. What more can be said about his spin on McKinney.

It is only if you link these two things that her comments were potentially over the line. At least, over the line if she has no further evidence. In doing this, it makes it sound as if McKinney was saying the administration caused or let 9/11 happen in order to reap great profit. Though her radio remarks could be interpreted this way by a reasonable person, I admit, she didn't actually say it. And, her written statement makes quite clear what she meant.

Well what did she say?

First her written statement to the fact that Bush had prior knowledge that the attack was in fact going to take place.

May 16, 2002

Several weeks ago, I called for a congressional investigation into what warnings the Bush Administration received before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. I was derided by the White House, right wing talk radio, and spokespersons for the military-industrial complex as a conspiracy theorist. Even my patriotism was questioned because I dared to suggest that Congress should conduct a full and complete investigation into the most disastrous intelligence failure in American history. Georgia Senator Zell Miller even went so far as to characterize my call for hearings as "dangerous, loony and irresponsible."

Today's revelations that the administration, and President Bush, were given months of notice that a terrorist attack was a distinct possibility points out the critical need for a full and complete congressional investigation.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. If committed and patriotic people had not been pushing for disclosure today's revelations would have been hidden by the White House.

Because I love my country, because I am a patriot, and because the American people deserve the truth, I believe it would be dangerous, loony and irresponsible not to hold full congressional hearings on any warnings the Bush Administration had before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

Now what about the statements made on radio?

McKinney's comments came soon after her March 25 appearance on the "Flashpoints" public affairs program on KPFA, a public radio station in Berkeley, Calif.

Now is the time for our elected officials to be held accountable," McKinney said on the show. "Now is the time for the media to be held accountable. Why aren't the hard questions being asked? We know there were numerous warnings of the event to come on Sept. 11. Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, delivered one such warning. Those engaged in unusual stock trades immediately before Sept. 11 knew enough to make millions of dollars from United and American Airlines, certain insurance and brokerage firm stock. What did this administration know and when did it know it about the events of Sept. 11? Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered?

McKinney then detailed how some associates of the White House stood to gain from the response to the attacks.

Persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war," McKinney said. "Former President Bush sits on the board of the Carlyle Group. The Los Angeles Times reports that on a single day last month, Carlyle earned $237 billion selling shares in United Defense Industries, the Army's fifth-largest contractor. The stock offering was well-timed. Carlyle officials say they decided to take the company public only after the Sept. 11 attacks. The stock sales cashed in on increased congressional support and hefty defense spending.

So why the innuendo of being a profiteer at the expense of so many deaths? If 9-11 didn't happen, no one would profit under her logic, so in her mind, Bush and his cronies must of ignored the warnings. End of story, cha-ching.


Brendan O'Neill

Here is a blogger who is a self-proclaimed atheist that thinks there should be a 4 step standard for anti-war protesters to live by.

1) Be anti-interventionist

One major problem with today's antiwar movement is that it is not remotely anti-intervention. Indeed, being antiwar today is synonymous with being pro-intervention. Almost every antiwar activist I meet has his or her own preferred option for what 'we' should do about Iraq - suggesting that we should impose sanctions, just bomb Saddam and not the people, or organise a coup.

This is an assinine statement, we are anti-war when it comes to Iraq. We have stated just shoot the sonofabitch. Somehow, using his statements, this would make us pro-intervention? No. Just payback. His collectivism is breathless. But socialist do like the idea of collectivism. Next.

2) Be less anti-American

Today, much of the antiwar movement expresses a corrosive and backward anti-Americanism. Don't get me wrong - I despise Bush and co as much as the next right-thinking man or woman. But this new anti-Americanism is less about challenging America's leaders than it is about questioning certain American (read progressive) values.

This coming from a self proclaimed atheist who lives in the land of socialism? Progressive values, there is that code word for socialism. For many in the anti-war movement, it's about questioning politics that are anti-American (progressive) politics. After all, sending WMD's to Iraq during the Iraq/Iran war was about politics. And under his standard, it is alright for politics to be the driving force behind an immoral act.

3) Be less personal

This is the main point I made in the CS Monitor article - stop putting the personal over the political. It just smacks of bleeding hearts, of a moral rather than a political stance against war. And who's going to benefit from such pompous statements? Certainly not the people of Iraq or anywhere else.

This slaps in the face of the goodness of mankind. He in his collective manner, puts mothers who feel they have a moral duty to protect their children under the title of bleeding hearts. What can you say about this statement other than what can you expect from a writer who during his childhood, was cruel to animals. Maybe he should bone up on the fact that if those sons have to go to war, they are being sent with faulty equipment that will certainly lead to illness that they will be left with. But we are sure he would say that is expected in war and politics must prevail.

Also, nevermind Gulf War Syndrome and the deaths of thousands of soldiers who were in the Gulf War. Under Brendan's standard, the vets from the Gulf War who are protesting the war; they are pompus and don't know what they hell they are talking about. You see, politics must prevail.

Interestingly the progressive self proclaimed atheist who defines "Americanism" in collective jargon has this to say:

At its worse, this kind of individualist stand against war looks down its nose at 'everyone else' - all those ignoramuses too busy making a living or getting caught up in the rat race to be bothered to do anything about war. The logical conclusion of an individuated and moral opposition to war is to judge those who are not antiwar, and even to write them off as useless.

In other words, individual concerns are self centered.We say individuality is the foundation of what separates America from let's say Britian.

4) Be less pacifistic

This is one thing that has always annoyed me about the modern antiwar movement - its focus on violence and military conflict over every other form of intervention. Of course, I hate bloodshed, particularly innocent blood spilled in the name of America's or Britain's or France's political gains. But I don't think the antiwar movement should necessarily be pacifistic.

You cannot resolve international problems by calling for 'peace'. Peace is not an option. International differences and conflicts demand political solutions - sometimes they even demand conflict, so that issues can be worked out and settled. Peace, as an abstract, substance-lite hippy demand, is no good to anyone.

I guess the Catholic Church has that hippy look. Peace is not an option? War is hell and what about those little critters that Brendan picked on during his adolescence? They just got bigger. We wonder if his bullying was done out of politics or morality.

Since he is an atheist, that can be answered by simply saying "creatures great and small" is not part of his thinking


Damian Penny

Here is one of the crazy Canadians who is a lawyer (what is the deal with lawyers who blog) who is lacking in logic as is his mentor Instapundit. If his arguments on his blog are an indication of his abilities in the court room; one piece of advice, get another lawyer or do it pro se.

Here is a lawyer blogger who thinks bin Laden is dead. He is in good company however, his self styled and "I want to have a nemisis", Michael Rivero thinks he is dead also.

In his worthless "I hate these 12" list he pays his respect to bin Laden.

Well all we have to say is, show us the dead body. In order to have a killing, you gots to have a body counselor.

Besides Rivero, who else thinks bin Laden is dead. Yes Penny is in with good company.

On his Thursday August 15th daytime broadcast, Jones stated, "I have it from high level [sources] from inside the Bush administration...that bin Laden died of natural causes and that his family has given the body to the CIA, that they're gonna roll him out right before the election, that he's on ice right now. They will claim they killed him right before the election."

We say, let Penny sleep where dead bin Ladens "lie." He is in good company.

While on the topic of Canadians such as Penny, he had a big beef with Buchanan on his use of the term Canuckistan. He went on how the term was used by White Supremacist sites and attacked Buchanan. So we will use Penny's double standard to introduce another blogger with a double standard who liked the term Soviet Canuckistan

Jonah Goldberg

While researching my article, I was simply staggered by the obsession Canadians have with the United States: about their superiority, about America's problems compared to Canada's, about how Canadians know so much about American but Americans know nothing about Canada. My favorite quote along these lines was from Peter Jennings, the Canadian-born anchor of ABC News who told the New York Times, "I know more about America than most Americans.

Well we will just post an excellent rebuttal to the moron. It comes from our Canadian friends to our South East; Future Paradigm.

After reading Goldberg's rant a nickname comes to mind; Mama's boy. And what the hell happened to Penny's use of White Supremacists using the term Canuckistan when it comes to Goldberg. AWOL.

Little Green Footballs

If you're seeking balance from a weblog, don't go looking for it here

This blogger's site would be the modern version of the Aryan Knighthood during the crusades. The only difference; the weapon of choice is his pen loaded with racism.

All that is missing is his verbal attacks on extremists who lay claim to a secular nation that includes the expulsion of Christians from the Holy Land. But that would offer a balanced
voice.

This is a guy who cites "News" from DEBKA, the equivalent to IndyMedia which is cited by White Supremacist sites. One does ask why is it that these white guys have so much bigotry.

They must like getting into pissing contests. Thank God the crusades are passe. An Aryan is an Aryan is an Aryan. No matter if you hate Muslims or Jews. Charles should shake hands with his other half on the other side.

Religion of peace? Would that be his, Stormfront's or some extremist? It's getting harder to tell each day.

Central Asia pipeline deal signed

The Devil is in the details.

Viagra Saves Lives: A whole new meaning to the word horny



University of Alaska Anchorage assistant professor Frank von Hippel and his brother William von Hippel have found evidence that sales of Viagra are cutting into the market for endangered animals sold as a remedy for impotence. They published their findings in the journal Environmental Conservation. (Photo by Erik Hill / Anchorage Daily News )

Endangered species may benefit from Viagra sales, study shows

Latest Leaflets Dropped in Iraq



From Prague With Love

Update

"Fundamentally, the policy was justified," argues David Newton, a former U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, who runs an anti-Hussein radio station in Prague. "We were concerned that Iraq should not lose the war with Iran, because that would have threatened Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. Our long-term hope was that Hussein's government would become less repressive and more responsible."

From Today's Washington Post

Turkish speaker calls for debate on Iraq war

We thought DEBKA was full of shit in their article on Turkey. It turns out they are.

Russia dares US to prove claim

Russia yesterday challenged a US contention that Iraq was a terrorist threat, saying nobody had produced any such evidence, while Syria denied an Israeli claim that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were stationed on its soil.

North ups the ante once more

South Korea not worried about nukes

S. Koreans complain that U.S. is the threat

N. Korea: China's Child

With a naïve Jimmy Carter as his agent, President Clinton caved in to North Korea's nuclear blackmail in 1994 by agreeing to a $5 billion payoff, mainly in oil.

[...]

The Bush administration has in the past year embraced China, overlooking its brutal Xinjiang crackdown, tolerating its espionage, ignoring its military buildup, smoothing its way to world trade, gobbling up its exports. But it's been a one-way street.

Ancient writings found in China

Sharon Caves In on Church Appointment, Supports Arafat's Man

The article states that the U.S. is pressuring Sharon to do this?

Winning Powerball Ticket Sold In WVa.

Officials of the multi-state Powerball lottery report there is a single winning ticket in the Christmas night jackpot drawing and it is worth $314.9 million. Spokesman Joe Mahoney says the ticket was purchased in West Virginia, although they do not know who has the ticket.

[...]

Lottery officials don't know yet who bought the winning ticket, but say the person opted for a cash prize rather than an annuity. That will come to a lump-sum payment of about $170 million dollars -- before taxes.

Don't know the winner but know the person opted for a cash prize? Huh?

Turkey to seize Kirkuk and Mousul says Israeli news website

The Israeli news site? DEBKA. Turkey seize Kirkuk and Mousul? B.S.

Related Headlines

Senior U.S. Officials to Visit Turkey

Turkey faces dilemma as US launchpad

Turkey, Israel join U.S. war plan

Al-Qaeda operatives thriving in Asean: UN

CIA Gets Tough With Captives

As they should.

Iraqi Christians pledge adherence to President Hussein

Done with a threat to their lives. Sort of the same princple that the Chinese apply to Catholics in China.

Bethlehem quiet on Christmas

Here is a different event. Christians caught in the cross-fire between Muslims and Jews. Bethlehem and its importance to Christianity is not part of the equation between Muslims and Jews. Plain and simple.

A secret Christmas celebration in Saudi

Churches are not permitted—“freedom of religion does not exist,” a recent State Department report said about Saudi Arabia—though some expatriates gather privately throughout the year for religious services.

This has been known for years. The Saudi government isn't shy about it. The question is, who should decide the fate of the Saudi government and any change to it.

IRS invokes Santa clause

Girls more vicious than boys when it comes to bullying

What do Wal-Mart and China have in common?

Exploitation of workers, and while on the topic of Made in China, how about this.

Hepatitis B

Think those shots that your kids get are safe? Think again.

Just recently, a friend's daughter came down with illnesses after receiving the Hepatitis shot. My friend's daughter tested positive for Lupus, positive on the Epstein Bar and other test that show a link to the Hepatitis shot.

She now has to stay home from school because of her illnesses and by results of the vaccine and testing for the Hepatitis virus, she will have a debilitating illness that will be with her the rest of her life.

One has to wonder what effects the vaccine will have on children, since it is given to neonates.

In Alaska, the Anchorage School District just recently instituted a program requiring parents to have their children vaccinated before their children can be enrolled.

One has to ask why the vaccine, since it is not an illness that runs rampant among children.

But first as a parent, ask yourself if you received a Vaccine Information Statement , if you didn't the health care provider who gave the vaccine broke the federal law. With that information in hand, you would have been left with more questions than answers. It seems the federal government wants you to have as little information as possible on the seriousness of the effects the vaccine can have on your child.

So the answer is left to the individual on formulating why the vaccinations. Some might say the answer is left to the highest bidder.

So much for individual rights and concerns.

Le Pen in Beirut, backs Lebanese Christian rightists

French extreme right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen met hardline Christian opposition figures in Beirut this weekend, voicing support for their campaign against Syria's grip on Lebanon.

Now this is interesting. We saw this first on Window of Lebanon.

The Christian factions have become corrupted by the Druze.

John LeBoutillier outlines the smoking gun for an attack on Iraq.

Daughter Tapped to Fill Murkowski Senate Seat

Prediction, she loses in the 2004 election to Tony Knowles. This was nepotism on Murkowski's part. His daughter was nearly beat by an unknown candidate.

Lousy decision.

US judge orders Iran to pay $301MLN to former hostage

Osmosis Reynolds

WOULD I EVEN NOTICE BIOLOGICAL WARFARE? My sinus infection is clearing up as the antibiotics kick in. (My daughter's sick and on 'em, too -- my wife's at the doctor's even as I write). Meanwhile, having had two colds in the past month, I've got another one coming on. And I hear there's a nasty stomach bug going around.

Ugh.


posted at 10:42 AM by Glenn Reynolds

Tick Tick Tick Tick.

JUST SAW THE TWO TOWERS. I don't want to spoil it, so I won't be too specific. Basic take: (1) Lots more liberties taken with the plot than in the first movie -- and while I understand some of them, others mystify me as to their purpose. (2) Big themes, present in the book but much more present in the movie, are temptation and despair -- and the temptation of despair. (3) Best actor: Gollum, in his dialogues with himself.

Worst part of the movie: the many commercials beforehand (people booed, and one guy shouted "I came here to see a movie!" to general applause) and the trailers for other movies, pretty much all of which looked absolutely dreadful. A couple of lame horror films, a Jim Carrey movie (the trailer for that one was good -- but since all the good stuff from his movies is in the trailers, the movie probably isn't) and I forget most of the rest.

Overall, where the first movie got a 9.0 -9.5, I'd give this one about an 8. To be fair, the second part of any trilogy is the hardest to carry off -- both in movies and in the books themselves -- but I felt that Jackson's hand was too heavy on this one. Still a great job overall, but not as good as the first.

And yeah, Viggo Mortensen's occasional off-camera antiwar blather notwithstanding, the inevitability of war, and the importance of having the will to resist evil despite the burdens and the horror is a repeated theme, twined in and around the despair and temptation points I mention above. Indeed, one speech in which Aragorn explains to Theoden that this isn't just the usual raiding, but an effort to stamp out his civilization, seems especially on point.


posted at 10:13 PM by Glenn Reynolds


Let's see, the wife is sick and his child is sick and he goes to a movie.

Ex-Klan leader David Duke pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges

To the folks at cbc.ca, and other news media outlets, check out the the background info from Future Paradigm

Between the Sheets: In other words, in bed with each other.

Isn't Democratic Underground an oxymoron when you consider this.



Wonder if the boys at D.U. would be willing to give him up and lose the Senate if they had control of it.

China plane loses cabin pressure, 13 hospitalised

Well we came close when we posted this.




(Via Rodger Schultz)

Arms racket unearthed in Nagaland; Huge arms cache recovered, two held

The Nagalands for Christ seem to be on the move again. The pipeline from the so-called "Christian" churchs in China continues.

Hizbullah offers to help Ottawa rectify ban ‘error’

Hmmm. Will the Canadian government buy it?

U.S. military exercise in Qatar ends

So much for CENTCOM headquarters moving to Qatar. Just like we said. It was a friggin exercise as is the one in Kuwait. All of the hoopla and hype the press is making should be a lesson for bloggers that think we are headed for a war. As it stands right now, it ain't happening.

Soldiers say U.S. let Taliban general go

And who thinks bin Laden is dead?

Circle the Wagons

Penny is on the war path

Criminal charges for "hate speech"? Apologies not accepted.

U.S. Task Force Hunting Al Qaeda in Horn of Africa

U.N.: Al Qaeda Camps Being Reactivated in Eastern Afghanistan

Ahenakew apologizes but may still face criminal charges

Detained Algerian belonged to al Qaeda: report

Lone Muslim GI at Qatar base dreams of Makkah

Feds to Join War Against Out-Of-Control L.A. Gangs

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"Shit, what are we going to do with all of these mugs."

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Eleanor Clift

What can you say other than, Ahem "the pot calling the kettle black."

US Muslims urge Lott to step down

More H2 the IZZO V2 the IZZA

Lott Apologizes Again on Words About '48 Race

In a surprisng attempt to make amends, Lott was heard saying "what's the schizzle my nizzle" to Jesse Jackson.

Special Report: Leave the tin cup at home and try "cyberbegging"


Some clever ways of begging among bloggers? Andrew Sullivan wants you to make a Pledge.

He states:

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Here is our pledge, get a job that pays you enough to support your own blogging habit. It just pisses us off when we have to hire this guy after reading Sullivan's screed (online journalism). Maybe we'll open up a site that asks for donations that go to pay for the screen cleaning by the Internet Squeege Guy, with a profit of course.

Jordan: Al Qaeda killed diplomat

Will A Capuchin Monk Replace Law

"Either Catholics today are all saints or they've lost their sense of the critical importance of this sacrament. I think we know which is the more likely answer, and we need to change that, beginning today, beginning with ourselves."

Archbishop Charles Chaput's statement on the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

The Lott of them
Another Black Conservative Speaks

High Court Hears Thomas On KKK Rite

Justice Thomas who usually asks few questions during oral arguments had this to say: "We had almost 100 years of lynching and activity in the South by the Knights of Camellia and the Ku Klux Klan, and this was a reign of terror, and the [burning] cross was a symbol of that reign of terror."

How will he rule? Hard to say. But interestingly, the moderates such as Kennedy have some misgivings about the construction and language of the law.

Pat Buchanan is way off base on Lott.

Lott has acknowleged his own insensitivity by apologizing, so Buchanan is clearly wrong. Having said that, on the other side, Andrew Sullivan is an artist at not telling the whole story and carrying his own bigotry.

Case in point, he avoids a so-called black conservative's comments in support of Lott's apologies.

Al-Qaeda training Pak suicide squads

Suicide squads are being trained in Pakistan by al-Qaeda operatives to hit targets in Afghanistan and the bombers` families are being promised $ 50,000, say Afghan and Pakistani sources.

Christmas Vacation

School bans saying 'Christmas'

At a time when Americans of many faiths – and even no faith – gear up to celebrate Christmas this year, a first-grade teacher in Sacramento Co., Calif., says she's been ordered by her principal not to utter the word "Christmas" at school.

No Vacation for the principle. It should be a matter of principle.

Boston's Cardinal Resigns Over Sex Abuse Scandal

Good. It is time the Catholic Church clean its house to include the agenda ridden Voice of the Faithful.

U.S. confident China will pressure N. Korea

"It's not for me to give messages to the Chinese leadership," he told reporters before meeting China's Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and Vice Premier Qian Qichen on Thursday.

"But I think that China shares the same concern that the United States has, that Seoul, Korea has, that our Russian friends have, that the Japanese have and that is that we have to find a way to denuclearize the peninsula of Korea," he said.

"And I'm sure the Chinese will be urging some different behavior on the North Koreans."

All talk, no substance. This meeting happened before North Korea announced that it would reactivate their nuclear program. We stated Bush would play soft on China. He did.

A Whole Lot of Rebuffing

Iran Rebuffs U.S., Says Has No Secret Nuclear Plans

Defiant North Korea says it will reactivate nuclear reactor that was frozen under 1994 deal

SPY SATELLITES SET UP COMMANDOS' DARING SEA RAID

U.S. intelligence officials said White Cloud is a "constellation" of three satellites that can intercept any electronic emission from a ship, "triangulate" its exact location, and then beam the coordinates back to a U.S. Navy control room at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, Md.

Try Hawaii. But hey, what do we know. It's from the New York Post so it has got to be true. Our guess is the satellite tracking began around November 25th or a few days earlier.

Turkey outlines price of co-operation with US

Philip Gordon, a defence analyst at Brookings, said: "Turkey has about $5bn in military debt to the US, and that will be on the table. Turkey is throwing big numbers around, of about $25bn in assistance, but that does not seem realistic. They will be wanting to address foreign military sales from the US, economic aid and IMF support. If the US wants ground troops in Turkey, they will have to pay a price for it."

Attention Law Students

Professor Reynolds states By the same principle, it held, regulation of sodomy was none of the state's business:

The state has no interest. Hmmm, than what is this.


While shock, speculation, and blame engulfed the area’s GLBT community, former Pride St. Louis President Rolf Rathmann was expected to be released from jail as the Vital VOICE went to press today. His request for bail reduction was granted on Wednesday morning, December 11th.

Rathmann was charged on December 6th with eight counts of statutory sodomy in the second degree. The charges stem from an investigation into a fourteen-year-old boy's claims that he had sexual encounters with four men, including 37-year-old Rathmann of St. Louis. Bail was set at $200,000, and Rathmann's attorney Brad Kessler asked the court to reduce that amount. Circuit Court Judge Michael Jamison granted that request, reducing the bail to $100,000 and authorizing a 10% cash payment, or $10,000.

N.Korea Says Ending Nuclear Plant Freeze-Yonhap

Is anyone surprised?

Bush is keeping Kim Jong Il in his sights

Maybe Bush should get some balls and just tell China to get in line. If China didn't support North Korea as they do, North Korea wouldn't exists as it does. Plain and simple.

Terror’s ‘global reach’

Who exactly meets the global reach standard? Other than al-Qaida, I can find only one outfit to whom the administration has definitively attributed global reach: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Kashmir-based group that has targeted India. How about the Tamil Tigers in neighboring Sri Lanka? Do they have global reach? Vice President Cheney ducked that question. How about Abu Sayyaf, the group that has staged several bombings in the Philippines? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ducked that one.

All of these groups fall under the Maoist influence of that region.

The unflagged ship, carrying 15 Scud missiles along with conventional warheads and rocket propellant, had been tracked for weeks by the United States before it was intercepted in the Arabian Sea 600 miles southeast of Yemen.


North Korea is being looked at.

From Hawaii.

US sea ambush was warning to North Korea




Why not China, the damn ship had visited a port in China. We suspect some other stops were made along the Asian islands.

Best bet the last stop was made in Sri Lanka.

Reality ends Scud drama

The reality is, the Scuds were hidden for a purpose. And the U.S. has most likely put Yemen on notice by saying you got caught but we will overlook this because we need your help in catching the Al Qaeda in Yemen. It would be interesting to know what country the North Korean ship had just come from or what ports it visited.

U.S. Approved Sale of Atropine

With U.S. approval, Iraq imported more than 3.5 million vials of the drug atropine over the past five years, despite concerns that it could be used to inoculate Iraqi soldiers participating in chemical warfare, according to U.N. sources and confidential U.N. documents.


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Turkey denies Iraqi demands for Atropine

The Homey-moon is still going on

A GENERATION GAP? It has been really encouraging to see many conservative outlets coming out and decrying Trent Lott. It tells you something when the Washington Times has editorialized and the New York Times hasn't. The best piece so far is Jonah Goldberg's. It has a brutal sentence: "[Lott is] a deal-cutter who seems to stand for nothing except massive amounts of pork to his home state and, occasionally, sticking up for Jim Crow." My gut tells me that this contempt for Lott is particularly acute for younger conservatives/libertarians/classical liberals. In arguing for a race-neutral society, we have an obligation to repudiate with even more vehemence those formally racist institutions of the past. A loathing of Jim Crow is a critical part of our attempt to persuade people that our opposition to, say, affirmative action is not a function of racism, but a function of anti-racism. With this comes an obligation, especially from non-blacks, to acknowledge the uniquely hideous legacy African-Americans have endured. Indeed, it should not be up to blacks to complain about this kind of statement. That's why I'm heartened by the conservative reponse. It's a watershed. But that's also why having someone like Lott as the leader of the Republicans in the Senate is such an intolerable affront. Lott makes the Left's point for them. And he undermines a politics of race-neutrality that is still empathetic to the historic plight of African-Americans while eager to move on. Perhaps older conservatives can look beyond this. Younger ones, who were born after Jim Crow, can't. It's time for Lott to go. And it's time for Bush to say so.

Notice how he focuses on the money aspect of Lott and not on the real money quote in Goldberg's rant. We knew this was coming when we posted the comments below.

The money thing was more important to Goldberg than the race issue. Do you think that secretly, Goldberg really thinks Lott was right on the black thing? Nice to see that Sullivan can still kiss ass.

Conservative Commentary makes some comments on Britain's New party.

Speaking about British parties, one would wonder why a consertative party from Britian would be so interested in this site.

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The Case of the Criminal Rosary.

A few weeks ago, Westmont Police Officer Charles Cordero pulled Kit Morris over to the side of Cass Avenue. It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Visibility was clear. She was not speeding, yet Cordero figured he had enough probable cause to apprehend her.

Her crime?

A rosary was hanging behind her rearview mirror.

Give us Islamic sportswear, women tell firms



Delegates to the QSI World Sport Conference yesterday made repeated call for assistance from sportswear giants like Nike and Adidas in providing sports clothing which is both practical and competitive, while meeting the requirements of the Islamic faith which demands modest dress.

They should just take a lesson from the Nuns who are out on the tennis courts playing in their full-length habits.

More Proof That You Can Be Popular and a Moron at the Same Time


For several days now, I've been searching for a conservative to come to the defense of incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. I haven't found one. In fact, I constitute one of his biggest defenders simply because I don't think he should be dumped from the GOP leadership because he's allegedly racist. I think he should be dumped because he's politically stupid.

I guess the Homey-moon between the Warbloggers will be over shortly. What will Sullivan do? What will the Instapundit do? What will Penny do?

One of the many MONEY QUOTES that begs "Hey brother can you spare a dime" because it lacks any cha-ching other than pocket change is this one:

One reason so many conservatives are denouncing Lott is that he's never given conservatives much reason to trust him or care about him.

The moron is speaking for conservatives? And they are denouncing Lott for his politics? What slave trading gig did Goldbeg support? Slave trading was good for the South and it wasn't a conservative gig, that is what the conservatives are pissed about. And Lott was never a true conservative because he carried that bigotry of the "Ole dixe democrats."

Goldberg better brush up on what is more important to conservatives; politics or racism. It is evident he is singing "Dixie." As for he not being able to find one Conservative supporting Lott? Goldberg didn't try hard on finding one.

Conservative African American activist Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), does not think the GOP should punish Lott.

"We have to realize that the liberal media, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and those people, they are desperate right now to regain power, and any little thing they can jump on to make the Republicans look like racists, they are going to use that to further their agenda," Peterson said.

Peterson said he believes Lott did not intend to be offensive. "There was just a sense of joy about [the event], he did not mean to be negative to black Americans or the civil rights movement at large," he explained.

Peterson believes the Democratic Party has its own racial problems.

"I suggest they first go after Senator [Robert] Byrd (D-W.Va.) who was a member of the KKK. He is in their party and then [the Democrats should] come after Lott." Peterson said.

"I think this is hypocrisy and a shameless act," he added.

U.S. Votes 'Yes' to Hariri's Economic Reforms

And what did that vote of confidence have?

According to an English text obtained by Naharnet, the letter noted that the pledges made at Paris II – some $3 billion in cash flow for the ailing treasury plus another $1.42 billion in long-term development loans – offered only a respite for the government to press ahead with its reform plans.

Catholic groups sues city over Islamic, Jewish displays in public schools

New York is discriminating against Christian students by allowing Islamic and Jewish holiday symbols to be displayed in public schools while banning nativity creches, a Catholic organization suing the city charged Tuesday.

Catholic row: How should the Church deal with it?

It is very simple. Purge gay priests.

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Pride St. Louis Accepts Rathmann's Resignation, Bail Hearing Set -- GOP Committeeman Also Charged In Investigation

Rolf Rathmann, the former president of Pride St. Louis who is charged with eight counts of statutory sodomy in the second degree, is scheduled for a bail hearing on Wednesday, December 11th. The charges stem from an investigation into a fourteen year old boy’s claims that he had sexual encounters with four men, including 37-year-old Rathmann. Bail is set at $200,000, and Rathmann's attorney Bruce Hopson will ask the court to reduce bail to $20,000.

U.S.: Scuds found on ship off Yemen

That is why the the USS Mount Whitney heads to Djibouti

Al-qaeda 'envoy' runs for election

The boys at World Tribune are at it again

A rehash of old news. This has been known for sometime now.

How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them

The press are going after this one.

Three Iraqi opposition leaders meet in Iran

Israel Threatens to Launch Nuclear Attack on Islamic Sites

Hmmm.

Andrew Sullivan attacks Lott and says he must go.

Ok Andrew, has this thing about bigotry. But why his silence on the GOP gay hack in St. Louis that sexually abused a 14 year old boy? Or how about the other three men who are accused of sexually molesting the same boy. Was it because he wasn't a Catholic priest and it doesn't fit his celibacy argument.

PRIDE ST LOUIS APPLAUDS POST-DISPATCH FOR UNION DECISION

We wonder if they will retract their statements. It sure is interesting to note that MO's DHSS is searching for stories on this case.

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GOP committeeman is charged with having sex with teen boy

The Republican committeeman for Hadley Township, a party nominee for the Missouri House in 2000, was charged Friday with having sex with the same teen-ager involved in cases against two other relatively prominent men.

Shanghai's Per-Capita GDP to Top US$ 10,000 by 2010

China's Per-Capita GDP Surpasses US$800

China '03 GDP Growth Forecast Around 8%

CSX man receives Marco Polo award

Bush will be sucking up to China big time.

Al Qaeda's spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith warns of more Mobasa-style attacks

EDITORIAL: Al Qaeda strikes Pakistan again

More al-Qaeda threats on web

Israel Has Warning of Al Qaeda Threat in Prague

Russia Says Iraq Has Complied With U.N.

First India, now Russia. China next?

LeBoutillier wants to counter the Clinton Library.

Sharon says AL Qaeda cells in Palestinian areas

Hmmm. The Palestinians say they were working for the Mossad. Either they were in fact Al Qaeda or they were assets for the Mossad and they were trying to infiltrate the Al Qaeda.

There is something that is very disturbing about this story however. The Israelis are saying the group was linked to the Mombasa, Kenya bombing but the Mossad knew that the bombings would likely occur, but took no action.

AS SALIYAH, QATAR — USS PAUL HAMILTON, UNIDENTIFIED VESSEL COLLIDE IN NORTH ARABIAN GULF

Blasts Kill 15, Injure 200 in Bangladesh

15,937 terrorists killed during last 13 years in J&K, says report

Iran's Embassy, Interests in Kabul Face 'Serious Bombing Risk by Al-Qaeda, Taleban

US warns of possible 'terror' threat in Turkey

Al-Qaeda network being dismantled: Bush

Hmmmm.

US set to demand UN action

UN vehicles may be used to smuggle terrorists, IDF says

Israel accused over Gaza killings

A United Nations official says eight of the 10 Palestinians killed during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning were unarmed civilians.

Al-Qaida said eyeing Israeli targets abroad

Don't care for Fisk because he is definately biased. But his information on the Al Qaeda seems to be factual in regard to the Al Qaeda using more primitive ways of communicating.

Case in point, Mullah Omar's latest letter.

Saddam's Secret Service Blamed for Dissident's Murder in Tyre

Attacks in Kenya signal Al Qaeda's expanding war

Saddam lays out his clean sheet - in 13,000 pages

STUPID STATEMENT ALERT

December 05, 2002
A SMALL PLANE crashed into the Federal Reserve Bank building in Miami. The pilot is dead, but no one else was hurt. Terrorism? If so, it's pretty lame. But Al Qaeda has been trending lame for a while.

UPDATE: They're calling it an accident.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at December 05, 2002 10:50 PM

Reynolds needs to define lame. If this, this or this are lame attempts by the Al Qaeda, he needs a fucking life, other than the one making assinine comments like his latest.

Trending lame for a while he should talk.

Alexander at Future Paradigm raises the topic of gangs in the U.S.

The gangs have been exposed to extremists, have imported weapons and have been monitored by the FBI in conjunction with local enforcement. The sophistication of the weapons used by gangs has not been coincidental.

When local law enforcement and the FBI confiscate a few thousand AK47s that are entering the U.S. illegally, it shows the similarities to other countries that have similar problems like India, Pakistan, Russia and other countries.

In L.A. it would not be too surprising to see the law enforcement agancies ratchet up its agencies.

US troops not to leave Qatar immediately

You have to love the statement made by the U.S. official on the term headquarters being used. Looking at the pictures of the members arriving, its is purely a foward command post entity. Not a headquarters of CENTCOM. Same applies with the term headquarters used with the command post on the USS Mount Whitney headed to Eastern Africa.

It boils down to a lot of sabre rattling by the U.S. Strickly a show of force.

INTERNAL LOOK 2002/2003



The United States Central Commands forward deployed headquarters facility as it nears completion. The forward deployed headquarters will be used for the up coming exercise, Internal Look. The Mobile command post is presently being set up in the Central Commands Area of Responsibility.

And Now Words From a Wannabe Tin Horn General

Friday, December 06, 2002

WHAT NOW? The Iraqi deadline is fast approaching and it's worth trying to figure out what could happen in the next few days. Saddam's current ploy is to welcome inspectors as a way to prove he has no weapons of mass destruction. Without taking experts out of the country and interrogating them, the inspectors almost certainly won't find any. That's surely why the December 8 deadline is so important. It's the first clear trip-wire for war. What if Saddam produces a list of mainly civilian-use technology and the Bush administration declares that it knows it's incomplete. What then? The administration has long argued that the point of the U.N. inspections is not to find well-hidden weapons but to provide Saddam a mechanism by which to disarm completely. If his December 8 declaration is a lie, then Saddam is clearly violating the terms of the 1991 truce and the U.N.'s last chance option. So we declare war. We could be on a direct war-path by next week. In fact, I think it's highly likely we will be. And then the counter-strikes in Northern Lebanon and throughout the West may well be ramped up. This is the calm before the storm. As snow blankets much of us, we should savor it while we can.

Ah Andrew who gets to decide it is a lie. Not the U.S. Once again proof that you can be popular and an idiot at the same time.

One for Andrew Sullivan

Leader of Gay Pride Organization is Charged with Sexual Abuse

(KMOV) -- The president of a St. Louis gay and lesbian group has been charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy. Rolf Rathmann, 37, is president of Pride St. Louis. Prosecutors say Rathmann is one of four men suspected of having sex with the same 14-year-old victim.

Rathmann is accused of having the sexual relationship with the boy over a five-month period. St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch says the acts took place at Blue Bird Park in Ellisville.

Al Qaeda Web Site Says Israel New Target -Post

Buying real estate: a foreigner in the CR vs. a Czech abroad

Can a Czech buy a villa in the Alps without legal obstacles? Yes. What about the opposite - can a foreigner without a Czech passport buy an apartment in Prague or a cottage in Krkonoše? Yes and no. How is this possible?

Czech real estate is very cheap.

Study: Iraq War Could Cost $1.9 Trillion

Intelligence ‘noise’ indicates possible attacks on Eid

Mullah Omar Warns U.S. of More Attacks

Pakistan Official to West: Focus Less on Bin Laden

USS Mount Whitney heads to Djibouti

The ship will serve as a floating command-and-control vessel for U.S troops in the Horn of Africa.

The holiday season officially got underway when food service specialists, employed by Brown and Root, gathered to serve the biggest anticipated meal of the year in Afghanistan.

UN asks Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories

U.S. Citizen Detained in Turkmenistan After Coup Attempt


A big HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Update

Komarovsky holds dual citizenship of the United States and the Russian Federation [which is illegal in Russia].

Yikes. Ops for the U.S.?

Pakistan province to release banned militants

The leader of a Pakistani province has ordered authorities to release all prisoners being held for membership in radical religious groups banned by President Pervez Musharraf.

Here we go. One step foward, ten steps back.

Not only did the Mossad ignore warnings, Kenya's security agencies ignored warnings four times.

Grenades thrown at UN compound in Afghanistan

Sixth Sense or Nonsense

Damian Penny is talking to a dead person or at least he thinks they are dead.

Psst. Penny, the Mossad ignored the warnings you idiot.

Turkey Would Open Air Bases for U.S. Iraq Strike

The Kurds are screwed.

Update

Maybe not. Turkey Backtracks on Approving U.S. Use of Bases

Mossad blasted for ignoring warnings

Cloudy skies cleared briefly Sunday, pushing temperatures into the mid-30s in Anchorage and into the high 30s in Wasilla, National Weather Service forecaster Rich Hanas said, creating the perfect afternoon for, say, water skiing. Curt Blount put up a wall of water while skiing on Wasilla Lake on Sunday afternoon. Blount was one of five local skiers who took advantage of the mild weather and set personal records for the latest time of year to get out on the Mat-Su lake. Another weather system off the Gulf of Alaska is expected to reach the area tonight and Tuesday, bringing more warm, cloudy weather. ( Photo by Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News)

Study links biking, male infertility

Iraq 'tried to break weapons sanctions'

U.S. Postal Service equipping workers with potassium iodide pills in event of radiological emergency

UN inspects Iraqi booze, missile plants

Iraq cooperating with UN, says India

India thinks Iraq is cooperating with the weapons inspectors and is "hoping and expecting that there will be no military conflict", Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said on Monday.

UN agency charges Israeli soldiers destroyed their food warehouse in Gaza


First a U.N. worker is shot and now a U.N. warehouse is destroyed. Do you think Israel doesn't like the U.N.? Israel Protests to U.N. Over Egypt TV Series

Naw.

A Foreign Ministry Rejects AFP Report on Iran-U.S. Ties

It looks as the CIA was at work in having misinformation publicized in the press to create an effect. It creates internal turmoil.

Mossad wakens 'sleeper' agents in Yemen, Saudi Arabia

Codenamed "Warriors," the highly trained sleeper agents are said to volunteer to live undercover in Arab countries, remaining dormant unless war breaks out. In such circumstances, their mission is to undermine Arab plans for strikes against Israel.

The last time the Mossad received such orders was in 1972 when then-prime minister Golda Meir ordered the assassination of Palestinians who were involved in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. All but one were eliminated in an operation that ranged over several continents and six years.

Taliban Leader's Kin Nabbed; Qaeda Hunt Continues

"They are some individuals close to the Taliban leader Mullah Omar who were trying to contact some of their members. Our security forces spotted them and arrested them."

The Mossad and the U.S. must be getting close to Mullah Omar and bin Laden.

Iraqi torture dossier a 'cold manipulation of data'

A dossier of human rights abuses by the Iraqi regime was being released by UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today - amid accusations that the data was being 'coldly manipulated' to build a case for war.


Human rights abuses will not fly as an excuse for going to war.

U.N. team looks for traces of biological sprayer

Now you have the Iraqis successfully using a mechanism that can disperse biological agents. Where did they get it?

Bush Sr.

Kissinger is going to be busy.

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A Cluster Fuck

It was unclear which of the factions the U.S. bomber had attacked. U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan Colonel Roger King told reporters at Bagram air base north of Kabul that he was not sure which side the B-52 bomber was targeted against.

"One of those groups took the U.S. under fire, we just don't know who," he said. "We bombed somebody who was shooting at our forces and everybody who operates in Afghanistan understands that if you fire at coalition forces there will be fire returned."

Herat's security chief Sayed Nasir Alawi said the U.S. bomber attacked Amanullah's positions after they opened fire on the U.S. troops. Amanullah told AIP Ismail Khan's forces were hit.

Boot Blasts Kissinger in his latest.

Prague link to Kenya missiles

UN shows film on Jenin crimes

What a bunch of hypocrites. The report on Jenin that came from them was a friggin joke.

Air strike mars UN inspections

Scientists: Data Show Taped Voice Not Bin Laden's: Swiss Scientists Can't Be Sure But Believe U.S. Intelligence Conclusions Wrong


Despite differing opinions from Swiss researchers, U.S. intelligence officials say they're standing by their conclusion that the voice on a recent audiotape is that of Osama bin Laden.

Bush-bin Laden 'sex act' t-shirt confiscated

A Twist of the Arm

Democrats in Congress smell blood with this one issue.

Russia Welcomes Inspection of Israeli Weapons Sites

Pakistan could supply nukes to terrorists: Putin

Update

Pakistan-Russia counter terrorism meeting to be held on December 2

The first meeting of the Pakistan Russia Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism will be held tomorrow, on December 2 in Moscow. According to Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs sources, the Pakistani delegation will be led by Aneesuddin Ahmed, Additional Foreign Secretary, while Anatoly Sofanov, Deputy Foreign Minister, will head the Russian side. Both sides are likely to deliberate on a wide spectrum of issues of mutual interest, including cooperation in the field of counter terrorism and the regional situation.

Pakistan and Iraq How to run rings round Washington

13 Reported Dead in Fighting in West Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda blamed after bomb find

SIX bombs have been discovered in a residential neighbourhood of the Afghan capital Kabul.

B-52 Bombs Scene of Faction Fighting in Afghanistan

The Quiet Professionals

Editor of banned magazine condemns the move

The editor of a Lebanese magazine banned by Egypt for reporting on the country's censorship condemned the ban Saturday, accusing the Cairo government of stifling free expression.

Bush on Asia: Malign neglect

China Urged to Stop Repatriating N. Korean Refugees

AF secretary outlines future role for Pacific

North Korea is being looked at.