Diary: British Believe Bush Is More Dangerous Than Kim Jong-il

DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> IF LINK DOESN'T WORK, THEN PASTE ARTICLE LINK(S) INTO YOUR BROWSER -- OR GO DIRECTLY TO >> http://www.truthout.org FOCUS | British Believe Bush Is More Dangerous Than Kim Jong-il http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306Z.shtml America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbors and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq. ----- Nick Turse | American Prison Planet http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306P.shtml Nick Turse writes: "Today, the United States presides over a burgeoning empire - not only the 'empire of bases' first described by Chalmers Johnson, but a far-flung new network of maximum security penitentiaries, detention centers, jail cells, cages, and razor wire-topped pens. From supermax-type isolation prisons in 40 of the 50 states to shadowy ghost jails at remote sites across the globe, this new network of detention facilities is quite unlike the gulags, concentration-camps, or prison nations of the past." ----- Bush Administration Published Nuclear Secrets in Arabic on Web http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306K.shtml ----- Jason Leopold | Rumsfeld's Lethal Denial http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306A.shtml Jason Leopold writes: "Five days before the hotly contested midterm elections, Rumsfeld, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and senior members of the administration are crisscrossing the country, using far-right media outlets to send a distorted message to the American people about the reality on the ground in Iraq, where 103 US troops were killed in October - the fourth highest monthly figure since the start of the war more than three years ago." ----- Bush Names Exxon Chief to Chart America's Energy Future http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306D.shtml Bush has named Lee Raymond, the retired chief of Exxon Mobil, to head a key study to help America chart a cleaner course for our energy needs. Raymond currently chairs the National Petroleum Council, one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington. "Putting Lee Raymond in charge of solving US energy problems is like putting Jack Abramoff in charge of solving corruption," said Shawnee Hoover, campaign director for the Exxpose Exxon Coalition. ----- The New York Times | Avoiding Calamity on the Cheap http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306T.shtml The New York Times weighs in on the Stern report on the economic disaster that climate change will cause, saying that solutions require either "a carbon tax or a mandatory cap on emissions. But the administration has refused to ask Congress to impose either." The administration appears to believe "that calamity can be avoided on the cheap." ----- Robert Parry | America's Point of No Return http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306N.shtml Robert Parry writes, "In many ways, Election 2006 not only marks the last chance to exact some accountability from those responsible for the disastrous Iraq War and other failures, but it also represents a point of no return for a nation hurtling toward a future of endless warfare abroad and a new-age totalitarianism at home." ----- Paul Krugman | As Bechtel Goes http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306M.shtml Paul Krugman writes: "Bechtel, the giant engineering company, is leaving Iraq. Its mission - to rebuild power, water and sewage plants - wasn't accomplished: Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity last month, and much of Iraq's population lives with untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel, having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers' money and having lost the lives of 52 employees, has come to the end of its last government contract." ----- GOP Congress Closes Oversite Office After Scandals Exposed http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306L.shtml ----- William Rivers Pitt | You're Kidding Me, Right? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306R.shtml ----- Israeli Troops Open Fire on Women Outside Mosque http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306F.shtml At least one Palestinian woman was killed and another 10 were reported wounded when Israeli forces today opened fire on a group preparing to act as a human shield for militants in a Gaza mosque. ----- Joseph L. Galloway | Maliki Fiddles as Iraq Burns http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306E.shtml ----- William Fisher | Political Amnesia? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306B.shtml "Unless you happen to live in Southern Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama, you're unlikely to have heard from office holders or their challengers the one word that was supposed to be a defining issue of the 2006 mid-term elections. The word is Katrina," writes William Fisher. ----- VIDEO | TO Election Report: On the Ground in Missouri http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110206S.html With less than a week to go in a race that could decide the balance of power in the Senate, voters in St. Louis, Missouri, like the rest of the country, are concerned about the war in Iraq, but the issue that is dominating the debate is stem cell research. ----- November Off to Bloody Start in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306O.shtml Insurgent attacks show no signs of abating after at least 1,272 Iraqis were killed in October. The figure is a minimum, since many deaths go unreported. With shootings, bombings and abductions tearing apart Iraq three years after the US-led invasion, the war in Iraq is the top issue for voters before next week's US Congressional elections. ----- No Memory Expert for Libby Trial http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306G.shtml A proposed key defense witness - a memory expert - in the CIA/Leak trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top aide to Vice President Cheney, will not be allowed to testify at the upcoming trial. Judge Reggie Walton, in an opinion Thursday, wrote that the testimony of memory export Dr. Robert Bjork, chairman of UCLA's psychology department, would be a "waste of time," and could mislead and confuse a jury. ----- Woman, 92, Cleared Over Linking Head Scarves to Ancient Rites http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110306WB.shtml A Turkish court yesterday acquitted a 92-year-old archaeologist for claiming that Islamic-style head scarves were first worn more than 5,000 years ago by priestesses initiating young men into sex. In a trial that lasted less than an hour, the court in Istanbul acquitted Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an expert on the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia of around the third millennium BC, of insulting religious feelings. _________________________________ Submitted by: http://eddiestinson@gmail.com I remember the quiet day we lost the war in Iraq It was the moment I should have twigged. It was the moment I should have realised that I had voted for the biggest British military fiasco since the Second World War. I was wandering around Baghdad, about 10 days after Iraq had been "liberated", and it seemed to me that the place was not entirely without hope. OK, so the gunfire popped round every corner like popcorn on a stove, and civil society had broken down so badly that the looters were taking the very copper from the electricity cables in the streets. But I was able to stroll without a flak jacket and eat shoarma and chips in the restaurants. With no protection except for Isaac, my interpreter, I went to the Iraqi foreign ministry, and found the place deserted. The windows were broken, and every piece of computer equipment had been looted. As I was staring at the fire-blackened walls a Humvee came through the gates. A pair of large GIs got out and asked me my business. I explained that I was representing the people of South Oxfordshire and Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph. That didn't cut much ice. Then I noticed a figure begin to unpack his giraffe-like limbs from the shady interior of the Humvee. He was one of those quiet Americans that you sometimes meet in odd places. He was grizzled and in his mid-50s and with a lantern jaw, and unlike every other US soldier I'd met he had neither his name nor his blood group stitched on his person. I grasped at once that this quiet American was no soldier. He had that Brahmin air, a bit Ivy League, a touch of JK Galbraith. Yes, folks, he was some kind of spook. [snip] Con't.> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/02/do02 _________________________________ Submitted by: .ron corvuswire@verizon.net Why Does Fox Have Its Own Exit Polls? by Steve Soto With widespread concern over electronic voting this election and the multiple opportunities for GOP fraud, note that the TV networks have taken steps to deprive the public of exit polling information until well into Election Day. >> http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/009124.php http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103434.html _________________________________ http://donwilliams7@charter.net [commentary] Kerry Botched A Joke, Bush Botched A War ... By Don Williams ........................snip............................. That's what Harold Ford, Jr., should've asked while campaigning with his pal Bill Clinton for Bill Frist's senate seat. Instead, Ford joined the chorus calling for Kerry to apologize. The move inoculated Ford from media foolishness that elevated the importance of a mangled punch line above a war that's killed more than 655,000 people and mangled many, many more, according to the British medical journal Lancet. It's a war that's created more terrorists, not fewer, according to our own National Intelligence Estimate, and virtually destroyed Iraq. That's what Democrats and the media should focus on. Kerry botched a bad joke about a war. Bush botched the actual war. By splitting over Kerry's remarks, Democrats are missing an opportunity to do what they could've done in 2004--mount a solid front against the mishandling of our security, and demand accountability from Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice. [snip] Full article >> http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/opinion _________________________________ NOTE from Diane About: "'anti Semitism' is no longer what it used to be.," (see following article,) and the statement: " 'anti Semite' in today's use of the term in the media and public debate is no longer someone who hates Jews, but - the other way round - someone the Jews hate." [snip] I was warned not long ago to be careful about posting articles from ZioPedia.org, which I took under consideration, because who wants to make enemies, (unless you're a neocon war-monger for profit, goes without saying, you'd think). Is it just me, that I cannot imagine anyone could EVER agree with the daily murderous activities of the Israelis against the mostly innocent civilians, women and defenseless children, in Palestine? HOW CAN anyone dismiss these actions! let alone permit and fund them, which we do, make no mistake. But I should be polite in how I make mention of these facts because I could become a target, accused of being anti Semitic. It's anti-despicable behavior. I'm anti-despicable behavior, whomever. Who you really are under the skin is what matters, not the title or book cover and one's actions tell you all you care to know. 'Nuf said, read on: http://editor@ziopedia.org ZioPedia Newsflash 'Antisemitism' is no longer what it used to be. Being a dissident activist running an anti-Zionist blog and online encyclopedia, I am used to wholesale accusations of Antisemitism. That comes with the territory. The recent Lobby debate in the US, stirred up by the Walt/Mearsheimer study, made large portions of the public aware of the fact, that an 'Antisemite' in today's use of the term in the media and public debate is no longer someone who hates Jews, but - the other way round - someone the Jews hate. Anybody criticising how the IDF is treating Palestinians, the rampant use of torture and extra-judicial killings, the bulldozing of Palestinian homes and orchards, the daily harassment of Palestinian kids on the way to work and Palestinian farmers on their way to their fields by Jewish settlers, the use of army check posts and illegal 'security walls' making life in the occupied territories virtually impossible, the conversion of Gaza, one of the world's most populated areas, into a giant concentration camp without food, water, electricity and medications, the killing of hundreds of Palestinians, most of them children and teenagers each year, the killing of over 1000 Lebanese civilians and dropping of over a million cluster bombs onto civilian areas in the recent Lebanon assault, .is an Antisemite. [snip] ... Continued: http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/2113/1/ ----- Israeli troops open fire on women outside mosque Excerpt: Television pictures showed at least 50 women making their way along a pavement when shots could be heard ringing out. They started to flee in terror and at least two women were left lying on the ground. Witnesses said one woman, aged about 40, was killed, and 10 others were wounded. Some reports said a second woman had died. The Israeli army said troops spotted two militants hiding in the crowd of women and opened fire. [snip] http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/2122/1/ _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://mediamatters.org Absent any evidence, CNN anchors and reporters asserted that Kerry remark will have major impact CNN anchors and reporters stated or suggested without evidence that the controversy over Sen. John Kerry's remarks will have an impact on the midterm elections, despite the fact that Kerry is not running for office in the election. Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611030004?src=other ----- Blitzer let Reynolds baselessly take credit for Foley resignation [snip] ... House Speaker Dennis Hastert has denied that the House leadership was responsible for Foley's resignation, though he later claimed credit. Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611030002?src=other ----- Blitzer failed to challenge Steele's conflicting statements about Iraq and Bush, blue "Steele Democrat" paraphernalia Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611030005?src=other ----- CNN's Koppel: Moderates among GOP chairs, but prospective Dem committee chairs "extremely to the left of their party" [snip] ...CNN's Andrea Koppel claimed that some Republican leaders "have more moderate voting records" but that "the Democrats that they're looking for these chairmanships are all extremely to the left of their party." Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611020007?src=other ----- In interview with Rove, ABC's Compton focused almost exclusively on Kerry comments In an interview with White House senior adviser Karl Rove posted November 1 on ABCNews.com, ABC News correspondent Ann Compton followed a recent pattern in the media by asking Rove three questions about Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) "botched joke" about Bush and Iraq, but asking none about other contemporaneous topics of greater significance. Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611020017?src=other ----- CNN's Zahn failed to ask Coulter about refusal to cooperate in felony investigation, reportedly bumped Air America host CNN reportedly canceled a scheduled appearance by Air America Radio's Sam Seder, who claimed that he was to debate Ann Coulter on The Situation Room, but that Coulter "refused to appear with me," because, Seder said, "she was afraid ... I might mention," her reported "refus[al] to cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct." Co-host Paula Zahn did not ask Coulter about the AP report. Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611020013?src=other ----- Blitzer failed to challenge Boehner on false claims about war, ethics Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611020015?src=other _________________________________ Splenda Misleading Consumers (Again) >> U.S. sugar farmers and processors accused the seller of Splenda artificial sweetener of false advertising and asked regulators to investigate. A trade group representing the sugar industry sent a letter to the FTC saying McNeil Nutritionals, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, was misleading consumers by claiming its product is "made from sugar so it tastes like sugar," according to Reuters. 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