Promoted by Steven D. BYON (Bring Your Own News).
You pass through places
And places pass through you
But you carry ’em with you
On the souls of your travellin’ shoes
– The Be Good Tanyas
And places pass through you
But you carry ’em with you
On the souls of your travellin’ shoes
– The Be Good Tanyas
The Terminator? CNN
I love those poll numbers in the 30s, don’t you?
Here’s mine: Link
In a fascinating interview Robert Fisk, writer and contributor to The Independent (UK), addresses a number of questions on Iraq. Fisk is based in Lebannon, and is of the view there will be no civil war in Iraq.
Questions raised: Who are these people who are trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq? Is it Al-Qaeda? Is Al-Zarqawi a creature invented in order to fill in the narrative gaps? What of the death squads?
I thought of this Fisk interview in connection to Steven’s story as well. As a journalist, he won’t say what he does not have hard evidence for, but walks the reader right up to the abyss of implication, clearly holding the Amercians & British for abuses under the Interiror Ministry. The interviewer plays the role of straight man, asking questions out of the dominant narrative, allowing RF to poke holes in it.
“There’s much more to this than meets the eye.”
“Now, if the Shiites and Sunnies come together, as they did in the 1920s in the insurgency against the British, then we are finished in Iraq. And that will mean that Iraq actually will be united.”
“That narrative that we’re getting – that there are death squads and that the Iraqis are all going to kill each other, the idea that the whole society is going to commit mass suicide – is not possible, it’s not logical. There is something else going on in Iraq. Don’t ask me to…”
“I think we’re being very naive. Just because I can’t give you the detail, like, of who ordered this death squad, doesn’t prevent us saying that something is wrong with the narrative we’re being given the press, from the West, from the Americans, from the Iraqi Government. There is something going wrong. Iraqis are not suicidal people. They don’t go around blowing up mosques every day. It’s not a natural thing for them to do. It’s never happened before. I can’t say to you, ‘Well, ok, here is the person who killed this person, or here’s the person who left this explosive truck.’ All I am saying to you is that it is time we said, ‘Hang on a minute, this is not how it looks’.”
new Sprinsteen album based on Pete Seeger songs
April 25
Tour to follow
Sounds cool.
Of course, we have to include today’s follow-up story on Lindsey Lohan: Online Sun.
I don’t care about Traci Bingham’s nipple peekaboo, but that tongue kiss sure grosses me out. ACK!
Well, I have to say that news has truly changed over the years! LOL! I just wonder if it is truly accidental or not!
Your killing me CG I can’t click on the pictures because I’m at work. Why oh why must I be tortured like this! 🙂
In the sixties I wore out the recording of his Carnegie Hall concert.
Imagine Seeger next to George W. Bush. One has been standing tall for humanity for decades and the other…
Exenatide rocks: NYT
Thanks. I will forward this to my wife.
Florida legislator throws in towel over pie
Obviously not the first person to throw in the towel over pie, huh?
AOL News has an alarming pictorial on global warming.
Here’s just one of them which shows seasonal melting in Greenland in 1992 (left) and 2002.
I don’t understand how people can keep refusing to see the truth. I saw a documentary about Glacier National Park and how the glaciers were melting. It showed pictures from the early 1900 up till now. There is no denying it. By 2050 or sooner Glacier National Park will have to be renamed or the name kept as a sad reminder.
We’ll capture a bit of glacier and put it in a glacier zoo.
“Look, boys and girls, this is what used to cover a big portion of the earth. And now let’s move along to the frog exhibit.”
“What’s a frog, Teacher?”
They would probably take a big chuck and put it in a refrigeration unit, thus producing more global warming. The circle never ends.
Hmm, I didn’t think of that. So, okay, the Glacier Zoo will just have photos of glaciers. No, better make that drawings. We’ll still be able to make homemade ink and dye from plants? There will be a few plants left. . .won’t there?
Antarctica is also losing ice faster than predicted, according to two studies discussed in the NYT here.
Apparently increased snowfall has done less to compensate for ice loss in Antarctica than in Greenland, and less than earlier projections had assumed it would.
Once again, the so-called doomsayers seem to have been overly optimistic.
Don’t miss this diary on the undercovered stories of the day
including my favorite –archaeology news of the day
Time for another news morph? I like the way you’ve set that up. Maybe time to think about putting links @ the top for yours & Knox’s extended news? Nothin’ fancy, just “Un-news” and “Environment” links? Just a thought.
thanks but it wasn’t my diary — you might want to leave the same comment in that diary.
Um, “rats”.
heh
You knew yesterday’s all-good-news respite couldn’t last: This morning I got hit by the boomerang…
Mother Jones this month features an in-depth piece on the fate of the oceans under climate change, worth reading…
…And George Monbiot explains why “Flying is Dying” – there’s no way to make air travel green with current or projected technologies…
…But at least Congress is starting to push back on the administration’s plan to sell National Forest lands, and GM says it can get hydrogen-powered cars in the marketplace in 4 to 9 years – But where will they fuel up?
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared himself well on Thursday, despite being bitten by a mosquito when he visited La Reunion island in the Indian Ocean, which has been ravaged by a disease carried by the insect. There is no known cure or vaccine for Chikungunya fever, which weakens the immune system, but most people recover. The name comes from the Swahili for stooped walk, referring to the posture of those afflicted.
I wish this were still unbelievable…but nothing much surprises me anymore.
It continues to amaze me! “What you and I mean by torture could be different,” What is this??? Different meanings of the word “torture” in a court proceeding? Well, it just shows that Gitmo is becoming a “rules as you go” legal farce! What happen to rule of law, following precedent, etc?
How can anyone believe that these “detainees” are receiving any form of justice when military officers, sworn to defend the U.S. Constitution, are even thinking about using evidence that was obtained through torture? This path is not new in the scope of world history and it would be very wise to review the previous results before continuing down this path.
Ethical application of the law must be applied in all cases and Colonel Brownback’s assessment greatly disturbs me to no end! My greatest fear is that we, meaning U.S. citizens, will reap the harvest of these unethical and immoral legal proceedings and the results will greatly diminish our democracy and freedom!
For all the rabid “Brownie did it” folk:
90,000 square miles of destruction, 2.25 million people, and the whole thing was the fault of one guy? Not according to the 12 experts Borenstein interviewed for K/R, including James Lee Witt.
Lynch mobs by any other name.
Over at state it’s more than just political gossip. As we pump up for our assault on Iran, the girls Condi, Karen and Lizzy get busy.
Like father like daughter, Karen Hughes loses out to Elizabeth Cheney. Wow, who would’ve thought.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1722364,00.html>Kenya clamps down on media freedom
please help get this dkos diary recommended:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/2/185325/7623
it’s a very important action item about saving public lands – we are in the 30-day public comment period.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba Mar 3, 2006 (AP)– After four years of secrecy, the Pentagon released documents Friday that contain the names of hundreds of detainees held at a U.S. military prison. The released resulted from a victory by The Associated Press in a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
The Bush administration had hidden the identities, home countries and other information about the men, who were accused of taking up arms against the United States. The administration argued that releasing the identities would violate the detainees’ privacy and could endanger them and their families.
An unidentifiable detainee spends time outside his cell at Camp Delta Four AP Photo/Andres Leighton
Most of the men were captured during the 2001 U.S.-led war that drove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and sent Osama bin Laden deeper into hiding.
● Judge Questions Gitmo Force-Feeding
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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http://tinyurl.com/o3597 Wonder if this will make it into the MSM? Bushco informed Congress that the UAE is set to acquire(from a British firm) the right to operate 9 military facilities. Which produce engine components for US aircraft and tank parts.
Do we run anything anymore? Also that 45 day investigation that was supposed to happen on the ports deal well apparently bushco counts different than the rest of us as it’s being reported that the 45 days will be over maybe by Monday. Man how time does fly when you make up the rules as you go along.
Speaking of MSM..Wolfie is still blabbing about running 6 ports instead of the now known 21..at least he was a few days ago. How can his information be so damn far behind concerning real ‘facts’..oh yeah ..fact’s we don’t need no stinken facts in the MSM do we now. I think maybe his beard and grown inward and he has a lot of ingrown hairs that have made their way into his so called brain.
part of the globalization agenda. It was either DPW or Hutchison, the Chinese owned firm. DPW sweetened the pot and won the bid.
Btw, seems there’s a split in the family. Hillary, one of the loudest critics of the deal, said she was ‘unaware’ hubby Bill was advising the UAE on ports deal (reports FT, as New York Post asks “Hillary on Bubba: DUBAI- AI – AI” lips sealed, no more pillow talk?
“he never confided in me”, said she. Oh my.
I sent off an email to Countdown with link about the UAE article..should send it to Dobbs also I suppose..
Yes, interesting about the Bill/Hilary split on this isn’t it.
The UAE deal is on hold as the case has gone to the Court of Appeals, AP reports in Port Deal Is delayed
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SAN DIEGO – Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who collected $2.4 million in homes, yachts, antique furnishings and other bribes on a scale unparalleled in the history of Congress, was sentenced Friday to eight years and four months in prison, the longest term ever meted out to a congressman.
Cunningham, who resigned from Congress in disgrace last year, was spared the 10-year maximum by U.S. District Judge Larry Burns.
Former Republican U.S. Congressman Randall 'Duke' Cunningham is helped by aides as he arrives at the federal courthouse in San Diego for sentencing on his conviction for bribery and tax evasion. AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi
Federal prosecutors sought the maximum and his attorneys asked for mercy, but Cunningham, choking up as he addressed the judge, focusing on accepting blame. “Your honor I have ripped my life to shreds due to my actions, my actions that I did to myself,” he said.
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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