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by Charles Coughlin

Only a day after the most famous pro-war Democrat, Joe Lieberman, was defeated by a solid margin in the Democrat primary, a news story appeared about twenty one Pakistanis who were just arrested in England for a plot to use liquid explosives to down as many as ten airplanes.

A Reuters article reports “The plot foiled by Britain to blow up U.S.-bound flights would have been a disaster on the same scale as the September 11 attacks that killed almost 3,000 people, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday. The suspected plotters were ‘a couple days from a test, and a few days from doing it,’ according to a U.S. intelligence official. Chertoff said the plan would have involved coordinated multiple suicide bombings.President George W. Bush tightened airline security and said the plot was a ’stark reminder’ the United States was ‘at war with Islamic fascists.’ …About 10 transatlantic flights were targeted, including those of U.S. and British airlines but possibly others as well, an intelligence official said. ABC News reported that the plot included concealing explosive gel or liquid in a sports drink and detonating it with the flash from a disposable camera.”

Just hours after Lieberman’s defeat in Connecticut, political analysts were calling his defeat “the shot heard round the world.” Finally the neocons were thrown on the defensive. Supporting the war in Iraq could spell doom even for a three term incumbent like Joe Lieberman. If nothing else happened, the big story for the next three weeks would have been how Joe Lieberman’s relationship with the neocons led to his defeat. (more…)

Joe-mentum Turns to No-mentum

by James Buchanan

In a stunning upset victory, Ned Lamont has unseated three-term incumbent and “conscience of the Senate” Joe Lieberman. The only thing that most voters know about Ned Lamont is that he opposes the Iraq War, but that was enough for Connecticut voters to pull the lever for Lamont. This upset must be especially troubling for all the Republicans whose popularity has been eroded by one embarrassing failure after another by the Bush administration.

Lieberman has threatened to run as an independent in November. It’s unclear how someone, who can’t even win his own party’s primary, thinks he can win a general election. Most voters will see Lieberman as a sore loser, who has no chance of winning. The Democrats want to win in November and voting for Lieberman is a sure way to lose. Also, the November election may prove that there are swarms of anti-war Republicans in Connecticut. Their votes could easily make up for any die-hard fans of the nerdy and obsolete Joe Lieberman. (more…)

by James Buchanan

Just how safe are we from terrorism? Let’s say terrorists wanted to devastate the US economy. All they would have to do is drive an SUV out into the Alaskan wilderness and sabotage the pipeline. Near panic in the financial markets followed an announcement by British Petroleum that their trans-Alaskan pipeline was shutting down due to unforeseen corrosion. If al Qaeda were a real terrorist organization instead of a creation of the CIA and/or Mossad, the Alaskan pipeline would be blown up every six months. Rebels in Iraq have been highly effective blowing up pipelines despite the presence of the US army. It’s just impossible to defend a target that spans hundreds of miles going through vast stretches of barren territory.

A recent news article reports “Oil prices surged to an all-time high as BP said a new oil spill would shut off all its production from the biggest oilfield in the United States. The closure of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska will rob the market of 400,000 barrels of oil a day, about 8 per cent of all the oil produced in the US. That, together with escalating violence in the Middle East, sent crude prices up 3 per cent to a record $78.44 (£41.15). BP said it was unable to predict how soon it would be able safely to restart production after finding that 16 miles of pipelines were corroded and need to be replaced. Although it held out the prospect that regulators may allow it to reopen parts of the field soon, BP shares fell 13.5p to 622.5p as analysts speculated on whether production would be shut down for weeks or months. The company also admitted it had found another oil spill in the region, a vast Arctic wilderness which had already suffered its worst on-land spill earlier this year when 200,000 gallons of oil leaked from the BP pipeline.” (more…)

by Charles Coughlin

The sick individuals running Hollywood appear compelled to push one abomination after another on American society. First it was the homosexuals. Then it was transsexuals and now bestiality is increasingly promoted as just another “harmless alternative lifestyle.” Many an arrogant liberal ridiculed old fashioned Americans who felt uncomfortable around the flaming queens, whom the liberals admired so much. As quickly as the homosexuals came out of the closet, they fell victim to AIDS. Even this devastating plague could not convince the liberals that homosexuality was wrong.

Decades ago, a few prophetic individuals pointed out that if America tolerates homosexuals and abandons traditional Christian morality, then there may be no limit to how evil things could get. Eventually a vocal minority would demand that sex with children or sex with animals be decriminalized. While the extreme perverts of NAMBLA are still viewed with disdain, there are more subtle attempts being made by increasingly sneaky degenerates. Lax prosecution of child molesters is a serious problem. Some parents are shocked when they discover their neighborhood is dotted with recently released sex offenders. Often these perverts get just a few years in jail thanks to some insanely lenient liberal judge (or perhaps a judge who is secretly sympathetic to child molesters). Another issue is that there have been repeated efforts (mainly by homosexuals) to lower the age of consent to 16 or less. If the age of consent were lowered to 16, then these same perverts would start lobbying to lower the age to 14. Finally, child pornography is possibly the most aggressive attempt to undermine the morals of society. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

A Zogby poll taken in February reports that 72 percent of US troops in Iraq think the occupation should end in 2006. 51 percent of US troops in that poll think the occupation should end in six months or less. These soldiers are on the ground in Iraq and they are seeing first hand how the occupation is going. They aren’t in some air-conditioned think tank in suburban America with Israeli flags on the wall, cheering on Rumsfeld and Cheney.

Our volunteer military joined to defend the United States, not the interests of Israel and Halliburton. There are some truly soulless people in America today, who don’t care one bit about these soldiers. Many of these people parrot the words “Well, those soldiers deserve to keep getting sent to Iraq, they volunteered, didn’t they?” (By the way, every time a neocon says those words, a devil gets his horns.) Most of these amoral Americans never served in the military. They are confusing the US military with a pack of mercenaries. Mercenaries should expect to be sent to fight for private corporations for evil purposes and deserve whatever happens to them. American soldiers deserve better.

A new website has appeared in which one can read the letters from military families protesting Donald Rumsfeld’s decision to refuse the soldiers return to the United States at the end of their one year tour, and to keep them in the Iraqi quagmire for yet another year. Some of these soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Combat Brigade were actually in Kuwait waiting to board aircraft for the United States when they were ordered back into the oven-like summer hell of the guerilla-infested Baghdad streets. (more…)

by James Buchanan

An Associated Press article reports “Hezbollah’s sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group’s deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce Israel’s most advanced tanks. Experts say this is further evidence that Israel is facing a well-equipped army in this war, not a ragtag militia. Hezbollah has fired Russian-made Metis-M anti-tank missiles and owns European-made Milan missiles, the army confirmed on Friday. In the last two days alone, these missiles have killed seven soldiers and damaged three Israeli-made Merkava tanks — mountains of steel that are vaunted as symbols of Israel’s military might, the army said. Israeli media say most of the 44 soldiers killed in four weeks of fighting were hit by anti-tank missiles. ‘They (Hezbollah guerrillas) have some of the most advanced anti-tank missiles in the world,’ said Yossi Kuperwasser, a senior military intelligence officer who retired earlier this summer. ‘This is not a militia, it’s an infantry brigade with all the support units,’ Kuperwasser said.”

If most of the 44 soldiers killed in recent fighting were inside tanks, this could be anywhere from five to twenty tanks badly damaged or destroyed. Even going with the low figure of five, this is a disaster for the Israelis. Their opponents have a means of destroying their most formidable armored weapon. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

You can tell that the city of New Orleans is on its way to recovery from the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. Black crime is becoming rampant once again. In June five teenagers sitting parked in a sports utility vehicle (most likely gang-bangers) were killed. Six shooting deaths in a single weekend provide ample proof that New Orleans is climbing back to its pre-Katrina inner circle of hell. In the old days before the Hurricane, white tourists were said to have “missed out” on part of the New Orleans experience if they weren’t mugged or didn’t have their hotel rooms or cars broken into.

An Associated Press article reports that “This weekend’s spate of violence began Friday night when three brothers and a friend were killed several blocks away from the French Quarter in the Treme neighborhood. They were sitting on a porch when two men walked by, turned around and fired. Two other people were gunned down in separate incidents hours later in other neighborhoods, one close to busy St. Charles Avenue, between a daiquiri shop and a restaurant that both had customers at the time…No arrests had been made in the latest killings as of Sunday afternoon.” (more…)

by Jim Lobe

In systematically failing to distinguish between Hezbollah fighters and civilian population in its three-and-a-half-week-old military campaign in Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have committed war crimes, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch Wednesday.

The 50-page report, “Fatal Strikes: Israel’s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon,” detailed nearly two dozen cases of IDF attacks in which a total of 153 civilians, including 63 children, were killed in homes or motor vehicles.

In none of the cases did HRW researchers find evidence that there was a significant enough military objective to justify the attack, given the risks to civilian lives, while, in many cases, there was no identifiable military target. In still other cases cited in the report, Israeli forces appear to have deliberately targeted civilians.

“By consistently failing to distinguish between combatants and civilians, Israel has violated one of the most fundamental tenets of the laws of war: the duty to carry out attacks on only military targets,” according to the report. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

An article from Insight on the News reports “Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy agenda. The conservatives, who include Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle and leading current and former members of the Pentagon and National Security Council, have urged the president to transfer Miss Rice out of the State Department and to an advisory role. They said Miss Rice, stemming from her lack of understanding of the Middle East, has misled the president on Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

It’s hard to take sides in this issue because it’s the war-mongering neocons versus the quota hire. It seems Condi was appointed to the position of Secretary of State because the Bush regime doesn’t consider international relations important and they needed a token Black somewhere. The US just vetoed a resolution by the rest of the world to condemn Israel for their current war on their Muslim neighbors. The US is becoming as much an outlaw and outcast state as Israel itself. (more…)

by James Buchanan

The bandit state of Israel has launched a major land invasion of Lebanon only days after various Israeli officials swore up and down that they would do no such thing. They are launching this invasion on the anniversary of the start of World War One. August 1st is regarded by many as the beginning of World War One. It was on this day that Germany and Russia declared war on each other thanks to a network of alliances that turned a small regional conflict between Austria and Serbia into a much greater war. It’s doubtful if George W. Bush knows what day World War One started or how entangling alliances played a key role in starting that world war. The arrogant neocons in the Bush regime continue to assume that they and the Israelis can do whatever they want without any backlash by other major powers.

A recent news article reports “Thousands of terrified refugees fled the port city of Tyre as Israeli forces stepped up their campaign to drive Hezbollah fighters from south Lebanon and prepared to resume full air raids after a two-day lull. Israel’s decision to widen its three-week-old offensive came amid apparent disagreement among major powers on how to end the conflict. In New York, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan held ‘frank discussions’ on the Middle East crisis with ambassadors from the five UN Security Council permanent members. But it was unclear whether Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States could unite behind one resolution on a ceasefire and the deployment of an international buffer force.” (more…)