News from Space

At spaceimaging, you can see satellite photos of Baghdad. Don't miss this amazing photo of the whole city where you can zoom in and see individual buildings on fire. (4043KB but well worth it). Get a visual reminder that Baghdad is as big as Los Angeles. Decide for yourself just how "precise" our bombing was.

Question for George W. Bush The Press Won't Ask

If our troops are already in Baghdad, why did we drop four bunker buster bombs on a suburban house with no confirmation whatsoever of who was in the house? Why not just surround the house and take Saddam a prisoner, since we were there anyway?

Nobody Said It Was Going to be Easy

Check out this interview with a human shield.

Everyone Who Thinks This is a Bad Idea, Raise Your Hand

Article 1 of Purpose and Principles of the United Nations...

1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace...

I Feel So Much Safer Now

Independence Hall in Philadelphia is closed to visitors because of the war on terrorism.Alameda, California, laid off every one of its 635 teachers. 

Russian nuclear subs are heading towards the mideast.

At Iraq Body Count, there are constantly updated reports of civilians reported killed in Iraq by US-led military action during 2003.

The U.S. is killing journalists in Iraq who aren't embedded.

Congress is about to make raves illegal.

The U.S. Navy is seeking the power to exempt itself from environmental laws.

General Yevgeni Primakov, former head of the KGB, has been hired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Predictable Story of the Week

It should come as no surprise that reliable sources say the entire SARS scare is a scam.

Video of the Week

Fox News superstar Bill O'Reilly interviews a liberal heathen for fun and profit.

 Democracy from Hell

Check out this demo of the new Florida Touch Screen Voting System.

This Would Have Never Happened Under Mussolini

Jungle camouflage for desert fighting

This WOULD have Happened Under Mussolini

A protester bears the wounds from police 
who attacked an anti-war protest in Oakland, Calif.
(unless it's a fake. Pretty weird wound)

Hero of the Week

Lance Corporal Stephen Funk, a US Marine reservist who deserted his unit, turned himself in and declared himself a conscientious objector Tuesday, becoming one of the first to do so since war erupted in Iraq.

Don't Take My Word For It

"We just wanted to let them know that we're here."
- Gen. Buford C. Blount III after American forces killed more than 2,000 Iraqi fighters and civilians -

"Slowly but surely the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people are being won over as they see security increase in their areas."
- Ari Fleischer - 

"What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen."
- Leo Tolstoy -

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all people, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -

"A time has come when silence is betrayal. That time is now."
- Martin Luther King Jr. -

"I most certainly do not see God at work in the slaughter and destruction now unfolding in Iraq or in the war plans now being developed for additional American invasions of other lands. The hand of the Devil? Perhaps. But how can I suggest that a fellow Methodist with a good Methodist wife is getting guidance from the Devil? I don't want to get too self-righteous about all of this. After all, I have passed the 80 mark, so I don't want to set the bar of acceptable behavior too high lest I fail to meet the standard for a passing grade on Judgment Day. I've already got a long list of strikes against me. So President Bush, forgive me if I've been too tough on you. But I must tell you, Mr. President, you are the greatest threat to American troops. Only you can put our young people in harm's way in a needless war. Only you can weaken America's good name and influence in world affairs."
- George McGovern: The Nation -

"Those who spend their time, money, and energy fighting tyranny are patriots. Those who spend their time, money, and energy fighting patriots are advancing tyranny."
- John Perna -

"Yeah, it is the end of the world. What, do you think it's going to come on a TV show, right on schedule? Shit. They've been digging this for a long time. Read the fucking Book of Revelations… The end of the world is not just coming; it's here. Until Bush came in it was still possible to be successful, happy. That was two years ago, but now the wheel is turning and I don't think what we're in now will possibly get any better."
- Hunter S. Thompson interviewed by Marty Beckerman -

"To say that the current debacle in Iraq is the fault of Don Rumsfeld is to miss entirely the structure, mindset and functionality of the Bush administration. CIA officials, as well as analysts  from the State and Defense Department, warned the administration that American forces would face stiff and deadly resistance from Iraqi forces. These warnings were utterly ignored.  The spin now is that these views were not presented 'forcefully' enough, intimating that Bush was not given  all of the facts in the manner required. This is nonsense. What has happened is clear. Bush wanted war on Iraq, period. He is surrounded by a mob of yes-men who also wanted war, and so they made sure that only the rosiest of predictions were listened to in the planning stages."
- William Rivers Pitt: The Miscalculations of Yes-Men -

"The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans." 
- Hermann Hesse -

"Like Roman Caesars Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, and Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini before him, Bush's fanaticism threatens to plunge the world into endless war and bring to an ignoble close America's 227-year democratic run."
- Wayne Madsen: A Material Breach of the Constitution - Bush's War on the Soul of America -

"Our position is that whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions."
- Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in his opening statement to the tribunal, Nov. 21, 1945 -

"Get the following production pieces in the studio NOW: . . . Patriotic music that makes you cry, salute, get cold chills! Go for the emotion."
- McVay Media, a Cleveland-based consultant, in a War Manual memo to its station clients -

"It looks very neat on television, the American marines on the banks of the Tigris, the oh-so-funny visit to the presidential palace, the videotape of Saddam Hussein's golden loo. But the innocent are bleeding and screaming with pain to bring us our exciting television pictures."
- Robert Fisk -

"Does anyone imagine that Osama bin Laden isn't laughing insanely at the idea of young Arab children sitting in their living rooms watching images of American GIs fighting Muslims in the streets of Iraq?  Could Osama bin Laden possibly share the Bush administration's excitement about regime change in Iraq? After all, it's the only way Islamic militancy stands a chance of taking hold in that country in ways that it never could under Hussein's iron-fisted secular dictatorship. Hussein has been stepping on bin Laden's Iraqi Muslim brothers for more than 30 years. Bin Laden set the trap, and think-tank refugees from the American Enterprise Institute walked U.S. troops into it."
- Oregon Daily Emerald Editorial Board -

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
- Douglas Adams -

Stop the Presses

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH is an anagram for HUGE BERSERK REBEL WARTHOG.

Cartoon from Hell

Quiz from Hell

With the invasion of Iraq, the United States is telling the leaders of the world...

a) Don't take the lives of your own citizens or WE'LL take the lives of your citizens.
b) If you don't want to be invaded by the United States, you better get yourselves some weapons of mass destruction.
c) Fuck you.
d) All of the above.

History Lesson from Lexis/Nexis

704 stories about Gore inventing the Internet. 
13 stories about Bush failing to show up for his National Guard duty for a year. 
1,000+ stories about Gore and the Buddhist temple.
12 stories about Bush being accused of insider trading at Harken Energy.
347 stories about Al Gore wearing earth tones.10 stories about the fact that Dick Cheney did business with Iran and Iraq and Libya.

Everything Else

Mandatory reading: War Crimes: A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal, by Ramsey Clark and Others. 

An excellent photo of two hands forming a globe that makes great desktop wallpaper.

An anti-war protester chained himself to the wrong building.

George's war is working... as an excellent recruitment campaign for Islamic extremist organizations.

John Rappaport's new site, No More Fake News, is a vast repository of stories that strangely reflect the exact opposite of what the rest of the media is feeding you. Cancel your subscriptions to everything in print and get your news STRICTLY from the Internet, where you can immediately check something out to see if it's true, usually discovering that what they're telling you is the exact opposite of the truth.

Unemployed bum Peter Arnett says This War Is Not Working.

Is the United States going to handle the Iraqi oil in an even-handed way, with open books, the way Norway does? No way.