scientists and nature enthusiasts:
an important day for the people of Greenpoint, BrooklynItem 6 from the delightful Max Boot posits a cunning Iraqi "insurgent" biding his time safe in the belly of the Iraqi judicial system, coddled and protected by all those perp-friendly liberal-sponsored laws they have over there. Max Boot is Jewish, and a prominent voice in American journalism.
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The suspect's corruption is believed to have funnelled millions of US dollars into rogue JAM
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$12 billion in cold, hard American cash, and no one, especially Bremer, seems to know where it went
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Medical therapy for restless legs syndrome may trigger compulsive gambling
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The euro's share rose to 0.45 percent from 0.4 percent, the Russian central bank said. The dollar's share was cut to 0.55 from 0.6, it said.
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Captured Iraqi insurgents know they can remain silent and that most likely they will never be convicted because witnesses and judges can be bought or intimidated.
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...the Pentagon has cleared five service-members recently accused of abusing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. But critics are pointing to one problem: investigators didn’t speak to any of the alleged victims.
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Any lasting solutions will have to be extremely simple, and - because of the cost implicit in reducing the use and emissions of fossil fuels - will also have to benefit those countries that impose them in other ways.
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Changes in the global climate that some attribute to human activity are expected to have a big impact on animals and ecosystems, according to a panel of scientists and nature enthusiasts...
Item 3, the magical-realist tale of the disappearing "363 tons of newly printed, shrink-wrapped $100 bills", concerns the centrality or no of Mr. L. Paul Bremer in that prankish business of importing billions of cash into a war zone. Mr. Bremer is also Jewish.
Mr. Bremer was as well the first important American-installed boss in Iraq post-invasion, succeeding Mr. Jay Garner's hastily truncated two-month era, in May 2003. Bremer's title was officially "Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance", a brilliant example of the Bush Administration's p.r. team's profound grasp of the use of irony and passive-aggression as military weaponry.
They were calling him a proconsul for a while, a term that goes back to the Roman Empire and Pontius Pilate, but that term was never on his paycheck, and won't be found on his c.v.
The fact that Bremer's a Jew would seem to give a little credence to the "US invades Iraq for Israel by proxy" crowd, or at least betray an insensitivity to and/or disregard of the issue of anti-Semitism in the Arab world - given that installing a Jew as head of "reconstruction" in an Arab country you've just invaded, without provocation as it turns out, would appear to have an "in-your-face" quality to it; but it's forbidden to discuss whether or not someone's Jewish - and whether that might influence their views and actions on various conflicts in the Middle East - at all, for any reason. Though everyone knows that an Arab will be automatically prejudiced against the Israeli government in the Palestinian situation, and against the US in the Iraq situation
That the "corruption of Hakim al-Zamili, the [Iraq] health ministy's deputy secretary" is exposed exactly as Bremer's exponentially greater complicity reaches what passes for the light of day now seems a little fortuitous all in all.
P.R. wars.
Item 2 is part of a thread that's really hard to parse, where you have this "firebrand" "radical" cleric and his "army" who are being blamed for pretty much everything that's wrong right now in Iraq, without ever being specifically targeted in exactly that way by anybody willing to take responsibility for having said it. This is how it works: the media create a cloud of confusion around an issue, then deposit little signs, as though by natural progression, that lead toward a conclusion that the bewildered reader then seems to find on his or her own.
So that out of the confusion and questioning - why? who? what? in Iraq - there's this demonic photo of Al-Sadr, looking like the devil himself in black robes and a turban on the cover of Newsweek, that exemplar of truth and journalistic integrity second only to Time itself. Both of them owned by corporations owned by Jews. Not that that figures in anything.
Al-Sadr did say a couple weeks ago that the killing would really begin to intensify during the Shi'ite holy period we're now in, and it has. He also said there were a lot of false-flag units and agents operating against him, strategies that the US and Israel are both infamous for employing. False-flag operations being where you put on the uniform or the mannerisms of someone you want to take down, and then go do things that make them look belligerent and dumb, or destructive and heartless, or whatever. Another strategy that began to get ridiculously overt during the slime-rising Reagan years and's been used consistently since, is to accuse the other side of doing what you're about to be accused of doing first. So that the noise has your name on it. Branding the accusation.
Reading stories about "corruption" in the Iraqi "government" that finger Al-Sadr's side of the conflict as responsible for the nightmare has an Orwellian tang that's hard to displace. Though that figure, of 363 sum-bitchin tons of "newly printed, shrink-wrapped $100 bills" does redirect the attention somewhat.
Americans, who are still financing all that carnage in Iraq with their money and the reputation of their country and the lives and limbs of their sons and daughters, are being led toward the obvious conclusion that it's Al-Sadr's fault the war drags on.
Al-Sadr's not Jewish, as far as I know.
