tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182367642024-03-06T21:32:23.829-08:00qwstnevrythgwho controls the past, controls the future
who controls the present, controls the pastxxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.comBlogger3774125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-73440383809205047372006-08-21T13:01:00.000-07:002006-08-21T13:05:08.642-07:00The Big Switch....Many of you may have noticed that there are not as many posts here as there were previously. I will be switching to a paid blog version with another blog-host, and this will happen over the next week or so, with all of the features you see here hosted at the other site.This site will remain open as archives. Please feel free to visit the site below, and revisit, as the features and links from xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-69732417447441071162006-08-20T11:57:00.000-07:002006-08-20T12:01:24.713-07:00Israel defiant on Lebanon raid, prepares for 'next round'Israel defiant on Lebanon raid, prepares for 'next round'yahoo.comby Yana DlugyIsrael warned that it would keep up raids against Hezbollah to prevent the Shiite militia from getting weapons from abroad and said it would prepare for the "next round" of war.Israel also said that it would not allow the Lebanese army to fully deploy along the volatile Israeli-Lebanese border until the arrival of an xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-30813376097848571772006-08-20T11:47:00.000-07:002006-08-20T11:52:47.212-07:00Bush's final gamble: giving Iraq a dictator?Andrew Sullivantimesonline.co.ukThe news was buried in a New York Times story last week but it confirmed what others in the Washington chattering classes have been observing lately.The context is that the White House has been inviting outsiders in to the Oval Office to discuss strategy in Iraq. The new chief of staff Josh Bolten has apparently been trying to pierce the intellectual cocoon in xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-35004201590370929082006-08-20T09:52:00.000-07:002006-08-20T10:01:22.347-07:00Women assaulted, raped by military recruitersFUBARWomen assaulted, raped by military recruitersBy MARTHA MENDOZAAug 20, 2006, 04:26More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.A six-month Associated Press investigation found that more xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-42466021482934184402006-08-20T09:27:00.000-07:002006-08-20T09:32:12.214-07:00IDF plans an assassination-- Israel is committed to blocking arms and killing NasrallahIsrael is committed to blocking arms and killing NasrallahBy Steven Erlanger The New York TimesPublished: August 20, 2006JERUSALEM Despite a cease-fire agreement, Israel intends to do its best to keep Iran and Syria from rearming Hezbollah and to kill the militia's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, says a senior Israeli commander. International commitments to exclude the Hezbollah militia from xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-67243072959316309592006-08-20T08:54:00.000-07:002006-08-20T08:56:12.034-07:00IDF DRESSED AS LEBANESE SOLDIERS--Israel raid violates cease-fire, UN saysInternational Herald TribuneIsrael raid violates cease-fire, UN saysAgence France-Presse, The Associated Press, The New York TimesPublished: August 20, 2006BOUDAI, Lebanon Israel's weekend commando raid on a Hezbollah stronghold deep in Lebanon has put the fragile Middle East truce to its biggest test so far, with Lebanon threatening to halt the deployment of its army to the south and the United xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-13143422342338208522006-08-19T12:17:00.000-07:002006-08-19T12:20:34.915-07:00US names spy operations 'manager' for Cuba, Venezuelaby Maxim KniazkovSat Aug 19, 6:33 AM ETThe United States has named a special "manager" for its intelligence operations against Cuba and Venezuela, in effect putting the two Latin American nations on a par with "axis of evil" states confronted on multiple levels by the administration of President George W. Bush.North Korea and Iran are the only other countries that have been assigned so-called "xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-26231750254671589312006-08-19T12:14:00.000-07:002006-08-19T12:15:02.161-07:00on the lighter side of things.....Man trapped waist-deep in chocolateSat Aug 19, 9:36 AM ETIt might sound like a chocoholic's dream, but stepping into a vat of viscous chocolate became a two-hour nightmare for a 21-year-old man Friday morning. Darmin Garcia, an employee of a company that supplies chocolate ingredients, said he was pushing the chocolate down into the vat at Debelis Corp. because it was stuck. But it became loose and he slid into the hopper."It was xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-28213872967412851322006-08-19T11:50:00.000-07:002006-08-19T12:12:20.926-07:00A Shaken LandscapeA Shaken LandscapeWith a cease-fire in place between Israel and Hezbollah, it's in neither party's interest to resume the fight. The reasons why amount to a dangerous new reality for Israel.By Robert Padavick, Hot Zone senior producer, Thu Aug 17, 2:15 PM ETEditor's Note: To better understand what's next for the Mideast in the aftermath of the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Hot xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-33433737328017912062006-08-19T11:36:00.000-07:002006-08-19T11:43:40.564-07:00Friday Wingnut Roundup (Saturday Edition)Friday Wingnut Roundup (Saturday Edition) Gee, do you suppose the wingnuts have anything to say about Judge Diggs Taylor's ruling on the Dear Leader's Terrorist Surveillance Program™? You know, the program that had absolutely nothing to do with the capture of the British terrorists? Count on it (bonus - which one is a quote?): Ace of Spades - it's all Jimmy Carter's xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-72211464123458601362006-08-19T11:29:00.001-07:002006-08-19T11:29:56.228-07:00Personal data thefts continue unabated.Aug, 19/20, 2006 -- Personal data thefts continue unabated. The most recent thefts of personal data have been from the medical community. A regional office of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the firm in which Tennessee GOP Senator Bill First has a major financial interest, has reported the theft of 10 computers containing "thousands of files" on Medicare and Medicaid patients and xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-35554319586311111712006-08-19T11:28:00.001-07:002006-08-19T11:28:36.421-07:00Additional clues point to U.S. attack on Iran.Aug. 19/20, 2006 -- Additional clues point to U.S. attack on Iran. State Department sources report that State's Iran Desk Officer Henry Wooster has suddenly been transferred to another position. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney's office is assembling a group of neo-cons from the Pentagon, State Department, and the National Security Council to cook up intelligence and talking points thatxxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-73169060993229077722006-08-19T11:23:00.000-07:002006-08-19T11:25:02.808-07:00ABC featured only conservatives defending "necessity" of warrantless surveillance programSummary: An ABC World News report on a federal district judge's ruling that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional featured only Bush administration officials and a senior research fellow from the conservative Heritage Foundation defending the "necessity" of the program. The report did not note that the program's effectiveness has been called into xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-85626350315456316162006-08-19T10:39:00.000-07:002006-08-19T10:41:06.344-07:00Israeli raid in Lebanon tests truceIsraeli raid in Lebanon tests truceSat Aug 19, 2006 11:49 AM ETBy Nadim LadkiBEIRUT (Reuters) - Helicopter-borne Israeli commandos raided a Hizbollah bastion on Saturday in what Lebanon called a "naked violation" of the U.N.-backed truce that halted Israel's 34-day war with the Shi'ite Muslim group.Israel said the operation in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley aimed to disrupt weapons supplies to xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1156003506853919032006-08-19T09:05:00.000-07:002006-08-19T09:05:07.996-07:00IF PEOPLE GET HELP, THE TERRORISTS HAVE WONIt's a uExpress postcard!To: wrh@whatreallyhappened.comFrom: Charles EverettSubject: UComics PostcardMessage: Hezbollah to rebuild New Orleans? That would be cool!Ted Rall IF PEOPLE GET HELP, THE TERRORISTS HAVE WONWhy America Needs HezbollahNEW YORK--Surrender, already. For America's sake, let the terrorists win!Hours after a ceasefire halted a five-week war between Israel and Iranian-backed xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1156000205734283672006-08-19T08:10:00.000-07:002006-08-19T08:10:16.686-07:00Capitol Hill Blue: Israelis raid Lebanon in cease-fire violationCapitol Hill BlueIsraelis raid Lebanon in cease-fire violationBy SAM F. GHATTASAug 19, 2006, 06:09Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli commandos who landed near the militants' stronghold deep inside Lebanon early Saturday, killing one soldier, in the first large-scale violation of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between the sides.Hezbollah said its guerrillas foiled the raid after a gunbattle, and thexxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155998202894557292006-08-19T07:36:00.000-07:002006-08-19T07:36:43.863-07:00NY Times , CNN, Fox News uncritically reported GOP suggestion that unwarranted surveillance helped foil U.K. terror pNY Times, CNN, Fox News uncritically reported GOP suggestion that unwarranted surveillance helped foil U.K. terror plot http://mediamatters.org/items/200608180009 In an August 18 article on a federal judge's ruling striking down as unconstitutional the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program, New York Times reporters Adam Liptak and Eric Lichtblau uncritically quoted xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155960236591922782006-08-18T21:03:00.000-07:002006-08-18T21:03:57.506-07:00The Raw Story | Intelligence officials doubt Iran uranium claims, say Cheney receiving suspect briefingsThe Raw Story Larisa AlexandrovnaPublished:Friday August 18, 2006 The Bush administration continues to bypass standard intelligence channels and use what some believe to be propaganda tactics to create a compelling case for war with Iran, US foreign policy experts and former US intelligence officials tell RAW STORY One former senior intelligence official is xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155950912647187332006-08-18T18:28:00.000-07:002006-08-18T18:28:33.526-07:00Robert Fisk: The army is back, but don't expect it to disarm HizbollahIndependent Online EditionPublished: 18 August 2006Now you see them, now you don't. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army's job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised. After all, most of the xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155943260856947882006-08-18T16:21:00.000-07:002006-08-18T16:21:01.983-07:00Bush Vows to Fight Wiretapping Ruling - New York Times New York TimesBush Vows to Fight Wiretapping RulingBy ADAM LIPTAK and ERIC LICHTBLAUWASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — President Bush said today that he is confident that a federal court ruling against his administration’s electronic surveillance program will be overturned, and he described those who hailed the ruling as naïve.“I would say that those who herald this decision simply do not understand the xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155937590216571952006-08-18T14:46:00.000-07:002006-08-18T14:46:31.386-07:00NSA Ruling a Victory For the Constitutiontruthout.org NSA Ruling a Victory For the Constitution By Sarah Olson t r u t h o u t | Report Friday 18 August 2006 Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, of the US District Court in Detroit, Michigan, handed the American Civil Liberties Union and their supporters a stunning victory yesterday when she ruled the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program was unconstitutional. xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155928764592661542006-08-18T12:19:00.000-07:002006-08-18T12:19:25.600-07:00South Lebanon welcomes country's armyYahoo! News South Lebanon welcomes country's armyBy LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press WriterThu Aug 17, 6:20 PM ETVillagers throwing rice and Hezbollah supporters holding banners welcomed the country's army to south Lebanon on Thursday after a nearly 40-year absence, and the first airliner landed at Beirut airport since fighting began more than a month ago.Four days into a cease-fire between Israelxxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155918019968123292006-08-18T09:20:00.000-07:002006-08-18T09:20:19.986-07:00Marine Corps May Have Cleansed Haditha FilesThe New York Times Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings By David S. Cloud The New York Times Friday 18 August 2006 Washington - A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155917430278845952006-08-18T09:10:00.000-07:002006-08-18T09:10:30.283-07:00France Declines to Contribute Major Force for U.N. MissionwashingtonpostBy Colum LynchWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, August 18, 2006; Page A16...France on Thursday rebuffed pleas by U.N. officials to make a major contribution to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, setting back efforts to deploy an international military force to help police a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, according to U.N. and French officials......France would xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18236764.post-1155917007765398532006-08-18T09:03:00.000-07:002006-08-18T09:03:28.433-07:00Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq's northern frontierWHATREALLYHAPPENED.COMTurkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.Frustrated by the reluctance of the US and the government in Baghdad to crack down on the PKK bases inside Iraq, Turkish generals have hinted they are xxxevilgrinxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03955466744806430878noreply@blogger.com0