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Bush Begins War That May Destroy His Presidency |
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by ML
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07 Oct 2001
Modified: 09:29:30 PM |
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Setting impossible to acheive goals, Bush may regret the road not taken in the next election. |
Taking advantage of the fact that US embassies world-wide will be closed for Columbus Day on Monday, October 8, the US launched attacks on Afghan cities late Sunday morning, US time. Apparently hoping that protests can be suppressed by Tuesday so that government workers won’t have to take an extra day off, rumors had been circulating that something was up during the day Saturday. Extra foot patrols were noticed around the Urbana Federal Courthouse on Saturday evening. Police presence was increased even more than is now normal at Willard Airport in Savoy.
E-mail reports filtering in from overseas shortly after 11am Central time provided the first hints that the moment had arrived for Bush to begin his holy war on non-US supported terrorism.
UK News , 17:00 UK Time.
ITN Reporter, Gaby Rosen, 40 Miles from Kabul, reporting Air Strikes within last hour. Apparently this was "Witnessed" by the reporter. No other news feeds confirming this at the moment.
CNN is quiet. News feed from Satellite.
Web site www.ITN.CO.UK
UK Sky TV just announced Air Exclusion Zone over north Afghanistan declared for next 48 hours!!
Then Associated Press reported at 11:34am Central time that "[t]hunderous explosions, anti-aircraft fire heard in Kabul; electricity cut throughout city."
Bush addressed the nation via radio and TV at noon Central time, promising a long war. He ran down a list of countries supporting the attack with military forces, naming nations such as Great Britain, France, and Germany, but excluded mention of any majority Islamic nations that are claimed to be a part of the shaky alliance that has been cobbled together to provide diplomatic cover for Bush’s Crusade.
CNN and other media are reporting multiple attacks in Kabul, the capital, and in Kandahar, stronghold of the ruling Taliban.
Stay tuned to the Urbana-Champaign IMC website and to the IMC Newshour, Monday at 5pm on WEFT, 90.1 FM, for further developments. |
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The Myth of an American Free Press |
by John Swinton
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07 Oct 2001
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by John Swinton
Chief of Staff, New York Times
(Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers)
When asked to give a toast at the New York Press Club in 1953.
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." (Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.) |
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Speculation and Little Else |
by ML
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07 Oct 2001
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Looking this site over, I would say that they have strung a bunch of unrelated facts together and cooked up a wild theory about the WTC. Nothing new here, except for the paranoid with too much time on their hands. |
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The Spammers Are Pissed |
by ML
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07 Oct 2001
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The comment below attributed to "ML" was not posted by me.
It kind of warms my heart to that they think enough of my stuff to repost it here though.
I guess they don't have enough imagination to come up with anything original on their own;>)
Looks like Bobby Meade, the UFO flakes and maybe FPI are all one and the same.
Coincidence or COINTELPRO?
Only your government knows for sure. |
