Month: November 2005

  • Jim Wallis Rants on American Christians

    Assembled for the meeting were theologians, pastors, priests, nuns, and lay church leaders. At one point a Native American stood up, looked out over the mostly white audience, and said, Regardless of what the New Testament says, most Christians are materialists with no experience of the Spirit. Regardless of what the New Testament says, most […]

  • Bush Administration Breaks Spending Record

    President George W. Bush and the current administration have now borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined.

  • Kansas Rewrites Definition of Science

    Real nice ya choads: The board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena. Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean? The studies of phenomena outside of natural explanations is called theology. How backwards can we get? I think it […]

  • Reconsidering the 2004 Elections

    Debate on was the 2004 election stolen?  Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again Extensive election fraud in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, West Virginia, Oregon, Montana, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey including Americans living abroad Pre-election in Ohio OH Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (also co-chair of Bush/Cheney Ohio) Tricks to reduce number of people […]

  • Italian Documentary Shows Fallujah Massacre

    Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre a documentary on the siege of Fallujah shortly after the 2004 Presidential Elections premiered on Italian television today. U.S. Specialist Jeff Englehart: Every peron in Fallujah was considered an enemy combatant Age restrictions on shooting armed children were loosened White phosphorous was used Would hear calls for ‘Whiskey Pete’ on the […]

  • FBI Uses National Security Letters to Investigate – Without Oversight

    30,000 Americans every year receive a National Security Letter from the FBI From section 505 of USA PATRIOT Act No expiration date or sunset clause. FBI does not have to disclose what it is looking for Cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or email reading. Collected data is stored after investigation/need is over Can be […]

  • We Are At War

    Media-watching tip: Keep track of how often the phrase We are at war. Is used to explain something away. 

  • U.S. Took Fallujah with Napalm-like White Phosphorus

    From Finnish news source via Americ_nt: In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy combatants and guerrillas, but again innocent civilians. The Americans are responsible for a massacre using unconventional weapons, the identical charge for which Saddam Hussein stands accused. […]

  • Democrats Closed Congress Over Declassified Memo

    Can you feel the burn? A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a […]

  • Army Dumped Nerve Gas, Bombs and Landmines into Ocean

    Mustard gas in the ocean. That’s nice:  Decades of dumping chemical arms leave a risky legacy The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste – either tossed […]