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From the latest Carter trip:

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former President Carter said Monday that Hamas — the Islamic militant group that has called for the destruction of Israel — is prepared to accept the right of the Jewish state to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."

Give me a break. This is Hamas’ official stance for quote some time now. The only catch is that they demand that Israel recognizes Palestine as a state as well. And that’s where the noose ends. That’s why Israel is stepping up its actions (the Gaza ghetto) to grab as much land as possible, because they don’t have much more time. 

Bush tried to peddle a nookie once again (remember Iraq?):

But Bush in an interview with a US-controlled Farsi-language radio station said Iran has declared it wants nuclear weapons "to destroy people."

But the scam fails and:

The White House on Friday sought to back pedal on comments by President George W. Bush accusing Iran of having said it was seeking a nuclear bomb.

But at least Bush knows (hopefully) that having nuclear power is their right, according to the NPT:

Bush told Radio Farda, which broadcasts from Europe to Iran, that he supported Iran developing a civilian nuclear power program.

"It’s in their right to have it," Bush said, according to a White House transcript of the interview made on Wednesday.

 

More at Yahoo news. 

 

The US has been beating the war drums for quite some time against Iran and its alleged nuclear program that no one can prove it exists. With the NIE report coming out, the White House has snagged only a technical obstacle that probably won’t effect any long term plans (that have been drawn up back in the 2000, at least).
It seems only natural, that Iran will take some legal “soft” steps against the, still, verbal aggressor. I don’t know why they didn’t do this sooner. Iran has completely dropped the dollar as the currency in which oil is sold. Saddam tried to drop the dollar and look what happened. Can we expect something similar with Iran? The war machine is already mostly in place. All we need is a catalyzing event and off we go!
If that were to happen, I think we can expect a greater devaluation of the dollar. Be sure that I’ll be buying some cheap books from overseas by then! So, yeah George, keep it up…

Slovenia had the final round of elections (and a referendum) for president. A president in Slovenia is basically a really expensive walking ad, with a huge salary and all expenses paid trips around the globe. Yet, people still make a lot of fuss about it. I tend to think of them as a really expensive and non aesthetic beauty pageant.
Despite the fact that a lot of people agree with me that we don’t need a president (we’ve been practically without one for about 5 years now and everything is still standing), they’re still all up and at them about the idea. I tend to be more pragmatic about it, so I torn my ballots apart and thew them into the trash ballot box.
Bottom line, I don’t think anything would be significantly different had Peterle won, instead of Türk.

Krege’s team used an $80,000 Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) device, which sends out vertical radar signals that are visible on a computer monitor. GPR detects any large-scale disturbances in the soil structure to a normal effective depth of four or five meters, and sometimes up to ten meters. (GPR devices are routinely used around the world by geologists, archeologists, and police.) In its Treblinka investigation, Krege’s team also carried out visual soil inspections, and used an auger to take numerous soil core samples.

The team carefully examined the entire Treblinka II site, especially the alleged “mass graves” portion, and carried out control examinations of the surrounding area. They found no soil disturbance consistent with the burial of hundreds of thousands of bodies, or even evidence that the ground had ever been disturbed. In addition, Krege and his team found no evidence of individual graves, bone remains, human ashes, or wood ashes.

“From these scans we could clearly identify the largely undisturbed horizontal stratigraphic layering, better known as horizons, of the soil under the camp site,” says the 30-year old Krege, who lives in Canberra. “We know from scans of grave sites, and other sites with known soil disturbances, such as quarries, when this natural layering is massively disrupted or missing altogether.” Because normal geological processes are very slow acting, disruption of the soil structure would have been detectable even after 60 years, Krege noted.

Over the years, I’ve learned that there are two kinds of “facts”, if you will. One is hearsay and various (history) books, the other is scientific method and it’s offspring - scientific work.
The former push the “Holocaust” to its limits, asserting it, often squelching anyone who disagrees with the version of events. The latter uses a scientific method and, this is important, questions the scale of the “Holocaust”, as facts don’t amount enough (any) evidence supporting the current official version.

I guess this one will go into the mass grave of forgotten information regarding the “Holocaust”, as many before it. Link.

Well, perhaps we shouldn’t worry that much about the GIs that get sick. If they’re not smart enough to get away from the dust, well, it’s their loss, ain’t it? Also, notice the attitude.

Lieberman-Kyl’s Iran amendment passes.

By a vote of 76-22, the Senate passed the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which threatens to “combat, contain and [stop]” Iran via “military instruments.” Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) called the amendment “Cheney’s fondest pipe dream” and said it could “read as a backdoor method of gaining Congressional validation for military action.”

Link here. The list of nay-voters is short, predictable, and yet, still holds some surprises.

Those of you who haven’t been following the Iraq war (you are probably dead) at least from a distance, know, that the “Allies” are using a neato weapon - at least from a strategical and tactical point of view. Armour piercing rounds made from depleted uranium go through a tank like hot knife through butter, that’s why some people just love them. But as you might imagine, the radiactive waste has a downside. Inhaling those particles will brand you for life - or at least what’s left of it. Apropos DU, I’ve come across this article.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, May 2007, Gulf War Veterans Information System reports the following:

Total U.S. Military Gulf War Deaths: 73,846
– Deaths amongst Deployed: 17,847
– Deaths amongst Non-Deployed: 55,999

Why the discrepancy?

What the government is doing is only counting the soldiers that die in action before they can get them into a helicopter or ambulance. Any soldier who is shot but they get into a helicopter before he dies is not counted.

Has anyone heard anything to the contrary regarding this method of counting?
If true, this means that the U.S. is severely under representing the body count, which will, eventually, bite them in the ass. It’s just that this time there will be no hippies to protest. Interesting times we live in, my friends!

Ah, I knew I’ll have to do a near 9/11 post about 9/11, because so many news and blogs rotate around it. Just let it go, it happened long time ago.

This is from a fairly recent story from The Independent (emphasis mine):

Then, the videotape of the September 11 hijacker, Waleed al-Shehri appears. Al-Shehri was one of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the World Trade Centre.

And now check the old, really old BBC piece from 2001:

A man called Waleed Al Shehri says he left the US a year ago

This is why the “Muslim hijackers” theory is called into question, which raises a red flag about everything the Govt and the MSM are telling you. As you can imagine, there are a lot more of these “discrepancies” as you read.

Ah, like a clockwork! “Bin Laden” has, as you’ve probably heard, got another hot video. There is some evidence that this is fake, just like a bunch of videos that have been produced recently.

Next time you see an “anti-Semitic” attack, I want you to think of this. Things sometimes aren’t what they’re made out to be by the media and the Big Brother.

Police said Sunday they have broken up a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused of a string of brutal racist and anti-Semitic attacks, videos of which were played on television to a stunned national audience.

It would seem, Veterans Administration is putting U.S. cancer surveillance and research in jeopardy by withholding cancer data. Makes you ask the question “why”, doesn’t it? I would say it’s a safe bet that it has something to do with the “cool” weapons the soldiers have been using in Iraq and Afghanistan, as they’re made from depleted uranium. The Industry has found a way to recycle toxic nuclear waste, and people of mentioned countries, recruits and soldiers are breeding this stuff in. At least you have to admire the irony. The weapon doesn’t take sides. We are all equally worthless to it.

And how about this piece off the PrisonPlanet.com?
What rotten dumb minded SOB uses a taser on pregnant women and children?

More on the Haditha rampage here.

While some suffer from premature ejaculation, Hamas has a bad bad bad case of of late ejaculation.

Hamas has accused Fateh of working in league with Israel and its domestic security agency, known as Shin Bet, in an effort to crack down on Hamas in the West Bank.

Fatah was created to offset the “radicals” against Israel.

*UPDATE*
Jin noted that it was Hamas, and not the Fatah, that was created by Israel. And he’s right.

Remember the 14 soldiers that died in a helicopter crash last week in Iraq? I’m sure you don’t. These sort of things happen on almost daily bases, and death from Iraq is something not even worthwhile of reporting.
Anyway, here’s the story:

A US army helicopter crashed in northern Iraq today killing all 14 soldiers on board, the military announced.
The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was carrying four crew and 10 passengers when it came down during a night-time operation, according to a statement.

The army claimed there was no indication that the aircraft was hit by hostile fire, saying early signs pointed to a mechanical failure.

And of course there’s a twist:

Several U.S. Army soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq last week were to be witnesses in the homicide trial of their former superior.

Honolulu’s KITV reported Sunday that some of the soldiers who died in the crash had been scheduled to testify in the trial of Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales, who is accused of orchestrating the death of an Iraqi detainee this year.

Make of it what you will…

I found this article an interesting reading. Here are sine excerpt:

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.

‘’It’s a sad, heartbreaking comment on the system,'’ said Isakson, a former FBI agent who owns an international contracting company based in Alabama. ‘’I tried to help the government, and the government didn’t seem to care.'’

One way to blow the whistle is to file a ‘’qui tam'’ lawsuit (taken from the Latin phrase ‘’he who sues for the king, as well as for himself'’) under the federal False Claims Act.

Signed by Abraham Lincoln in response to military contractors selling defective products to the Union Army, the act allows private citizens to sue on the government’s behalf.

The government has the option to sign on, with all plaintiffs receiving a percentage of monetary damages, which are tripled in these suits.

It can be a straightforward and effective way to recoup federal funds lost to fraud. In the past, the Justice Department has joined several such cases and won. They included instances of Medicare and Medicaid overbilling, and padded invoices from domestic contractors.

But the government has not joined a single quit tam suit alleging Iraq reconstruction abuse, estimated in the tens of millions. At least a dozen have been filed since 2004.

‘’It taints these cases,'’ said attorney Alan Grayson, who filed the Custer Battles suit and several others like it. ‘’If the government won’t sign on, then it can’t be a very good case - that’s the effect it has on judges.'’

Or, the government’s in on it.

Gaza strip has gathered some not-so-mainstream attention over the years. Recently, “natives” have had some problem with Israeli settlers, who are sponsored by the Israeli government who gets almost blind checks from the US. Their crop is being almost systematically destroyed, tap water turned off, assassination after assassination of leaders that Israel does not approve, not to mention “collateral” damage - the destruction of homes, sniper fire, which results in unnecessary fatalities, and more… To put the cherry on top of everything, the only plant in Gaza has been shut off for —

The only power plant in Gaza was shut on Sunday when fuel deliveries were stopped and the EU has said they will not resume until Hamas assures them it is not benefiting from the aid. Hamas has denied the charge, and expressed readiness to provide” all the assurances needed.”

Which means the EU is actively punishing the average Joe (or Joehmed), which is, under the you-know-what-convention, a war crime.
Also notice that Hamas has been elected democratically, which surely doesn’t help the process at all. Why were they elected? I guess waking up in the morning with an Israeli bulldozer in your living room, or a call from the hospital that your kid died of a sniper wound, tilts the balance just a bit to the radical side, don’t you think?

There you have it, Rove announced that he is living the office on 31^st of August. I wonder what promped his leaving? Could it have something to do with this?

Two former aides to Rove, Sara Taylor and J. Scott Jennings, complied with subpoenas and testified earlier this year in front of Leahy’s committee. Rove refused to appear when called to appear before a Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month.

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When asked by Gigot whether he’s leaving “to avoid Congressional scrutiny,” he said, “I know they’ll say that. But I’m not going to stay or leave based on whether it pleases the mob.”

And here’s the official Government salute:

Via Screaming penguin:

Most people has probably already heard it by now - Bush is getting something up the shaft where sun don’t shine. They’ll be searching for all the stuff his staff and neocons have been pushing up his “high knee” since 2000. Doctors expect to find much more constipating material, since a lot has happened since 2002 when he had his last exam.
I’m sure a lot of low punch jokes will surface, but pay no attention. They can do no harm.

Evil Bobby has a post showing a video about College Republicans (Chickenhawks) and their willingness to help out eating the Quagmire that they grown ups have gotten them into. Go check it out.