Free Iraq

The deceit of Reporters Without Borders: ... Its hidden political agenda has become all too evident and its malice toward certain nations that are on the U.S. blacklist is hardly a matter of coincidence. The generous contributions received from the NED explain RSF’s alignment with the White House. Robert Menard does not direct an organization that defends press freedoms, but instead a propaganda office financed by economic and financial conglomerates at the service of the world’s powerful.
 

Mosul - Another “Paradise Lost”? In September 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) stated: “In terms of internal erosion potential of the foundation, Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world .... If a small problem (at) Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely.” The dam is the largest in Iraq and the fourth largest in the Middle East. Were the dam breached, the ACE estimate that Mosul city (2002 population 1.7 million) would be engulfed in a wall of water twenty metres (sixty six feet) high, which would flood all in its path down to Baghdad. In May this year, General David Petraeus and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker, wrote to “Prime Minister” Nuri Maliki, urging him to make the repair of the dam a “national priority”. Maliki's U.S., puppet, corruption ridden, government is playing down the dangers - it is thought to avoid causing panic - and next to nothing has been done by way of action.

The Mosul region in Nineveh province, has been continually inhabited for eight thousand years and incorporates the ancient city of Nineveh, named after the god Nina and was capitol of the Assyrian empire, built around 3,700 BC. Jewellery, combs and the “oldest dice know to history”, have been found there.* The region and people's stretch back to Mesopotamia's dawn. Mosul is known variously as “The city of two springs” (Um Al-Rabi'ain); Autumn and Spring being so similar, when the fertile land nearby is carpeted with anemones, periwinkles, wild tulips and a vibrant tapestry of flora. It is also called Al-Faiha, (The Paradise) Al-Khadra (The Green) and The Pearl of the North. Al-Mosul means “The Linking Point”. It was long on history's “Silk Road” from China to the West and now is connected by road to Syria (of whose capitol, Damascus, the Prophet, legend has it, turned his face from, saying: “No one should enter Paradise twice.”) and Iran (Persia) and Turkey, “Gateway to the Orient”.
 

U.S. evangelicals raise specter of 'Islamofascism' to rouse voters (Crucial: Always, 'we' must have a 'them' to demonize /dehumanize.)
 

'I feared I'd end up dead in the woods like Dr Kelly,' says biological warfare expert who criticised Britain and U.S.
 

Video (5 min), The Strife Aquatic: Jon Stewart explains how torture such as waterboarding sounds so much more fun than simulated drowning.
 

Leaked: Guantanmo bay Operations Manual
 

Video (9 min), Ron Paul on Face The Nation 11/11/07
 

Shotgun Wedding: The Saint, the Insurgent and the Surge's "Success": ... [I]t would not be surprising if the "strongman" who eventually emerges to take over Iraq -- in the name of some sort of "national emergency council" ruling by decree and supported, implicitly or openly, by the United States -- comes not from the old circle of Western-backed exiles nor from the Iranian-backed parties that Bush has empowered in the present government, but from one of the street-level gangs now being built up by the Americans.

In Saturday's Guardian, the paper's remarkably courageous man in Baghdad, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, gives us a vivid portrait of one of these American-paid gangs in action. ...
 

Taxi driver shot dead by private guard in Baghdad: A policeman who witnessed the shooting by guards of US company Dyncorp in the north Baghdad neighbourhood of Utafiya on Saturday, said the incident was unprovoked and that the security guards had after the shooting driven away "as if nothing had happened."
 

U.S. rebuffs Iraq demand for handover of prisoners (To hang, or not to hang, that is the question.)
 

Will 'armloads' of US cash buy tribal loyalty?
 

Iraqi Police Academy Remains Largely Unusable
 

Waterboarding is 'drowning', 'water torture': expert testimony (Who would have guessed?)
 

Who Says Africans/ Haitians Gave AIDS to the World? History Answers: Follow the Accuser’s Thumb
 

Iraq: Call an air strike: Amid the George W Bush administration's relentless campaign to "change the subject" from Iraq to Iran, how to "win" the war against the Iraqi resistance, Sunni or Shi'ite, now means - according to counter-insurgency messiah General David Petraeus - calling an air strike.

With fewer missions on the ground, the Pentagon could not but launch four times more air strikes on Iraqis in 2007 - the year of Bush's "surge" - than in the whole of 2006. Up to the end of September, there had been 1,140 air strikes. Last month, there were more air strikes than during the siege that devastated Fallujah in November 2004.

Even discounting the criminal absurdity of an occupation routinely dropping the bomb on packed neighborhoods of a city it already occupies, civilians are the inevitable "collateral damage" of these attacks - families, women, children, assorted "non-combatants". The US Air Force does not even take responsibility - claiming the air strikes are ordered by scared-to-death convoys of Humvees patrolling, say, the mean streets of Sadr City.
 

For those Republicans (or Democrats) who defend waterboarding as something less than torture, I have a proposal. Whenever a Bush Administration official is called before the House or Senate to testify, they should be waterboarded the entire time they are testifying. The technique, according to the Bush Republicans, elicits honest answers and does not amount to torture. According to these Bush Republicans, waterboarding does not cause any lasting damage.
 

My god, what did we do?
 

American media assaults Arab and Islamic media out of guilt
 

Neocon Sandwich: U.S. Building Military Base Directly Atop Iraqi Oil Platform
 

BREAKING! FASCIST CONSPIRACY, FUELED BY U.S. TAX DOLLARS TO LAUNCH THE 2ND COUP D’ETAT in THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA (The neocons simply cannot allow the government of Hugo Chavez to stand.)
 

Why the Children in Iraq Make No Sound When They Fall: And then there is the Iraqi girl, hands soaked in her dead father's blood, whose little brother does not yet understand that his childhood just came to an end. Fearing for their lives, US soldiers killed the parents in the front seat of the family car. Demons will likely haunt their nights. Stuff happens. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, bless their souls, will sleep well tonight.
 

Military bulldozers uproot lands west of Bethlehem
 

I’ll have the Bilderberger, well done! I read Daniel Estulin’s The True Story of the Bilderberg Group* over a long weekend trip to South Dakota to visit in-laws. The amazing history of the Bilderberg Group, its kindred Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Trilateral Commission (TR), filled my mind with its awful vision of One World Government, one government uber alles, that is, over all sovereign nations, from America to Zambia. [ . . . ]

“Iran war, after two years of huffing and puffing by the Bush government is definitely off the table. Furthermore, with France, Russia, Japan and China investing heavily in Iran, the world has drawn a line in the sand and the U.S. will be told at the conference not to cross it. There is blood in the water, and blood in the water usually leads to a good fight.

“That notwithstanding, the United States needs to control the region, not only for its oil reserves but, most importantly to help it sustain world economic hegemony. Under this strategic design, regional states will be turned to weak domains of sectarian sheikhs with little or no sovereignty and, by implications, a pathetic agenda of their economic development. Regional chaos favours the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, which in turn reinforces the process of political and social disintegration supported by the Bilderbergers.”

Thus you see that David Rockefeller and his friends have their viewfinders on many sights. In fact, the world is in their sights. Yet this super-powerful world organization, as Estulin points out, “runs out of an 18m2 [194 square feet] offices, staffed by one person, using one telephone line and a single fax number. There is no web page and no brass name plate on the door. The independent press has never been allowed in, and no statements have ever been released on the attendees’ conclusions nor has any agenda for a Bilderberg meeting been made public . . ." It is the epitome of low-profile dark ops, a shadow government hidden in a doorway.
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* Highly recommended for those who want to understand.