Sunday gets caught up

Hello and welcome. It's been a few and the news is flowing. please pardon my absence and accept these links as a token of my appreciation.



All The Recent Rumors Of the US Planning A Strike on Iran? It's All part Of A US Psy-Ops Strategy. (atlanticfreepress.com)

Lieberman: Can't We Invade Iran Yet? Petraeus, for some reason, politely declined to start a third contemporaneous U.S. war (tpmmuckraker.com)

Bush invaded a country to rid it of imaginary weapons of mass destruction. When he didn’t find any, he declared victory and changed the mission to democracy building. When that strategy led to a theocratic government unresponsive to sectarian bloodletting, the mission became about stability. And now, the one goal supporters of the war seem determined to realize is to achieve some vague, if delusory, sense of victory. (truthdig.com)

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday U.S. President George W. Bush's Middle East policies had failed and he and others would one day be put on trial for "the tragedies they have created in Iraq." (news.yahoo.com)


An assassination that blows apart Bush's hopes of pacifying Iraq. Last week George Bush flew into Iraq to meet Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of Anbar province. This week General David Petraeus told the US Congress how Anbar was a model for Iraq. Yesterday Abu Risha was assassinated by bombers in Anbar (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)

Bush's address was the worst speech he's ever given on the war in Iraq, and that's saying a lot. Every premise, every proposal, nearly every substantive point was sheer fiction. The only question is whether he was being deceptive or delusional (slate.com)


Seriously, the Most Spectacular Collection of Kickass Obscure Counter Culture Quotes Ever. Pass It On. (vagabox.com)

Several 9/11 First Responders come out: Heard demolition countdown via loudspeaker seconds before WTC 7 was "pulled" (prisonplanet.com)

Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official evidence they were given was 'far from the truth' (commentisfree.guardian.co.uk)

A Holy Day in the Empire...unfortunately, 9/11 was nowhere close to the worst thing that ever happened. But the American Empire has transformed it into the most revered icon in the national religion--with lethal consequences. (opednews.com)

CNN: Mystery 9/11 aircraft was military 'doomsday plane' (rawstory.com)

More people die annually in China's coal mines than in total from the Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear is now seen as Green, will it get a new era? (economist.com)

10 Google Video Documentaries You Have To Watch (nichegeek.com)

Military Photos from 9/11 (I think they are new) (scribd.com)

The US government has been lying about inflation since 1983. Surprised? (atimes.com)

[VIDEO] Glenn Greenwald: "Whatever else is true, the only real anti-war position is a vote against any bill that does not contain mandatory withdrawal, because any such bill by definition will have no effect other than to ensure that the war continues. The D.C. establishment, by and large, is well on its way to enabling George Bush to continue to occupy Iraq through the end of his presidency." (youtube.com)

After he won the Texas governorship, Bush said to an aide: “the blacks didn’t come out for me like the Hispanics did, so they’re not going to see much help from me” (correntewire.com)

At Nuremberg, US prosecutors charged the Nazis, among many other heinous crimes, with "the apprehension of victims and their confinement without trial, often without charges, generally with no indication of the length of their detention" (dailykos.com)

This is HR 2826, the House bill to restore habeas corpus. Please call your representative and tell them to support it. You might also remind them that the 4th Amendment provides against unreasonable searches and seizures, if they happened to forget it (thomas.loc.gov)

A Conservative Estimate of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: $108 Billion (globalresearch.ca)

Ice loss opens Northwest Passage - The most direct route through the Northwest Passage has opened up fully for the first time since records began, the European Space Agency (Esa) says. (news.bbc.co.uk)

Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV (ibnlive.com)

$1 USD = $1.03 Canadian...congratulations to the most broke-dicked president in american history (finance.yahoo.com)

No Exit, No Strategy - "[Bush's] only real plan is to confuse enough Americans [...] to let him muddle along and saddle his successor with this war that should never have been started." (nytimes.com)

"We continue to wage one of the most absurd wars in history -- one in which all of the original justifications have long ago vanished and nobody can identify any specific purpose in staying, yet one which continues with no remote end in sight. Put another way, we have exactly the war that befits our political establishment." (salon.com)

I'm not sure map of what is this, but you will probably want to see this [pic] (slgcomic.com)

The Dirty Truth: Childhood Allergies are on the Rise Because we are just Too Clean (livescience.com)

Israel Bombs Syria, Neocons Cheer (adereview.com)

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. (samtsai.com)

Texas prosecutors push to destroy evidence that could show that they executed an innocent man. (reason.com)

Follow the Money: Who Owns Your Govenment? (opednews.com)

“The Memory of Water?” - Journal Club roundup and submissions for publication (badscience.net)

Due to Bush’s reckless fiscal policies, EPA will finish only 24 Superfund toxic waste cleanups this year, compared to the average 76 completed annually during the Clinton administration (washingtonpost.com)

pseudosymmetry: The false impression given by the mass media that scientists are equally divided on an issue. (skepdic.com)

Monster plant grows 5ft in a weekend and bursts through greenhouse roof (dailymail.co.uk)

The German terrorist plot was uncovered via good old fashioned police work - no warrantless wiretapping required (eff.org)

Green Your Home! - A List of Ways to Make Your Home More Environmentally Friendly (homeguide123.com)

Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should (liveslick.com)

Bottle makes dirty water drinkable in seconds (telegraph.co.uk)

The Air Force has ordered a stand-down for all jet fighters and bombers for Sept. 14. (dailypress.com)

The Hardcore Recycler’s Bible (celsias.com)

The more moles a person has, the more likely their DNA to have the properties to fight off ageing. (news.bbc.co.uk)