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Blogsdarker & dirtier .....The latest revelations in the Bush Administration's long unfolding, ever growing illegal wiretapping scandal carry with them a multiple sting.
mouldy promises .....
The US secretary of state has said it is time for a Palestinian state to be founded, and that the US will put its full weight behind such efforts. Condoleezza Rice said reaching a two-state solution was a priority for her and US President George Bush.
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Planners' Hopes- Dirty Bomb Insider Trading?Did you hear the one about the AFP counterterrorism strategy founder who became the manager of a homeland security company that made a killing in the Australian share market? Sorry, it's not a joke. It happened years ago. Let's set the scene... "Planners hope that, the more they do it, the more the agencies and personnel will learn to work together, forming some semblance of organization before any occurrence of the real thing." Don't you find this to be bizarre language to hear on a nightly TV bulletin? Esoecially in a city about to host a fake terror attack? The way KOIN TV (love the name) would have it, it's gonna happen sometime or another.
good germans .....Our moral trajectory over the Bush years could not be better dramatized than it was by a reunion of an elite group of two dozen World War II veterans in Washington this month. They were participants in a top-secret operation to interrogate some 4,000 Nazi prisoners of war. Until now, they have kept silent, but America’s recent record prompted them to talk to The Washington Post.
pots & kettles .....
pangea .....
fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice .....from Crikey ….. first fibs from Dear Leader Mungo MacCallum writes: Always start the way you intend to continue; so our Dear Leader began his official election campaign with a great big fib.
nobel war prize .....
rattus overboard .....I'll help battlers, promises Howard …..
John Howard has pledged to do more to help battlers if he is re-elected as he moved yesterday to clear the decks ahead of officially calling the election as early as today.
sanchez just doesn't get it .....
Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is 'a Nightmare' ….. In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the Bush administration's handling of the war "incompetent" and said the result was "a nightmare with no end in sight."
nobel heat prize .....US stands firm on climate policy despite Gore's success ….. The Bush administration says it will not change its policy on climate change, despite the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to former US Vice President Al Gore.
nobel prize for diplomacy .....
US rejects Russian missile call ….. Talks between the US and Russia about a US anti-missile system in Europe have ended acrimoniously and without any sign of progress. The US rejected Russian appeals at the talks in Moscow to halt the scheme. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country would take steps to neutralise the threat posed by the missile system if it went ahead.
and rooted .....from Crikey….. If you do the crime, Johnnie Chris Graham, Editor of the National Indigenous Times, writes: Let's talk about John Winston Howard, and his 11th hour epiphany that the "Aborigine people" really aren’t that bad after all.
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