Anna Politkovskaya, Journalist and Putin Critic, Is Shot Dead

Quit being a pussy:

"He was just mad that they kept letting him go when he was a known terrorist, sir," Bacos said. "He was detained and released three times, sir."

Yet the squad did not find their intended target - whose name was Saleh Gowad - and instead seized Awad next door, Bacos said.

Tanner/Reuters 06.10.06

The U.S. command in Baghdad reported Wednesday it suffered the most bombings last week since the insurgency began, and at least 21 American soldiers have been killed since Saturday.
"This has been a hard week for U.S. forces," said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, chief military spokesman in Baghdad.
Scarborough/WashingtonTimes
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A son, nephew and grandson of American veterans, Mr. Newbill said he had sought out the videos, searching on YouTube for "I.E.D.," "because I like watching stuff blow up."
Wyatt/NYTimes

both links via Small Wars Journal

"a little more than a month after he defied the media conglomerate's demands for staff cuts that he suggested could damage the newspaper"

The Tribune Company fires LATimes publisherJeff Johnson:

previous ditches, low points, disaster areas, self-imposed crises at The [LA]Times

Native Intelligence 05.10.06
LAObserved
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story in the aforementioned journal
story in the NYTimes
Robert Scheer fired by Jeff Johnson in Nov. '05

to other states without their consent:

"Our prisons are now beyond maximum capacity, and we must act immediately and aggressively to resolve this issue," Schwarzenegger said in a statement.
Prisoner rights advocates questioned the timing of the announcement.

Warren/LATimes 05.10.06
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"We simply must do everything in our power to slow down global warming before it's too late."

Despite leading the nation in energy efficiency standards and control of automobile emissions, California is the 12th largest emitter of carbon in the world. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took another step toward a cleaner worldwide environment and fullfilled a campaign pledge Thursday by signing a bill to fight against global climate change.

Xinhua 29.09.06
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Turn the prisoners into fuel. Better than the death penalty all the way around, and many in the gas-buying public will get great satisfaction knowing they're burning low-emissions felons on their way to work.

The blood or water flows from the necks of the two women in all directions, and into the belly button of a third, central figure depicted as an almost skeletal figure, neither male nor female.

Rapidly approaching, says B'Tselem, is the moment when Gaza's economy - already under an internationally backed siege to penalise the Palestinians for democratically electing a Hamas government - will simply expire under the strain.

In December 2005, a criminal court in Jakarta convicted Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, an airline pilot traveling as a passenger on the Garuda flight to the Netherlands on which Munir was poisoned, of premeditated conspiracy to murder

these chips in the bright mosaic:

Just before dawn last Saturday, Italian filmmaker Angelo Rizzo awoke to flames at the doorstep of his house.
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...the fact that they lost the computer
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The female flower merchants were arrested after police attempts to evict them got out of hand and they clashed with police.
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...lifted a warning against eating fresh spinach other than products that had already been recalled by Natural Selection.
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"Our people actually have jobs, so they can't go to the hotel and try to get lucky and eat the bagels and do stuff and chase each other up and down the halls," he said.
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"I've never felt out of the mainstream in America. I've felt out of the mainstream at Le Cirque."
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James Packer
Who: Executive chairman of Australia's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd. and Australia's richest man
Controls: The Nine Network, a major Australian TV station, as well as
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"an unrepentant criminal and admitted mastermind of terrorist plots and attacks on tourist sites,"
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it's arguably 60% of the GDP right now
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Remember, Izzy had no access to classified information whatever. Remember, the FBI hounded him for decades seeking to find something to pin on him and found nothing.
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Sam Bodman, the energy secretary, said he would tell Opec ministers that the world still needed all the oil they could pump as they head into winter...
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So far, the investigation into the leak has cost $1.44 million, according to Fitzgerald's office.
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...the day when police in Milan arrested the members of a private espionage ring. It was headquartered in the security department at Telecom Italia, where software programs...
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a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period

the good news keeps on coming:

While Washington insiders were distracted with a Capitol Hill sex scandal - and while media outlets and politicians are doing all they can to keep the story alive - the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its second, consecutive record high on Wednesday. Also, President Bush signed into law a homeland-security spending bill that frees up funds for a U.S.-Mexico border fence...

CNSNews 05.10.06

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Geraldo Alckmin e Opus Dei?

Silva, a leftist, fell just shy of the 50 percent needed for an outright win in Sunday's first round, topping the conservative former Sao Paulo Gov. Geraldo Alckmin 48.6 percent to 41.6 percent.

leftist v. conservative
as opposed to liberal v. or progressive v. I guess
definitely as opposed to v. rightist
though of course leftist v. rightist is the symmetrical choice
but it doesn't scan
doesn't make for good poetry

Laingian:

It's okay for people to do bad things
to people who do bad things

Spam:

It works on gullibility, also on the cut-corners mentality that most any striver's subject to, looking for a way around the daily grind.
There's a spam phenomenon working in the polis too, in the American people, it's what was tapped to put Bush in office - it's fluxing now, the amalgam's precipitating, but it's still that same idea.
Only with real spam you can tell yourself - well, this Nigerian person with the son dying of cancer and the 14 million dollars in a bank in Cote d'Ivoire wants to get my bank acct. #'s, or my credit card #'s, or some other ticket into my worldly goods.
What's being scammed in the political arena is something the people don't even know they have - the tremendous might of the electorate, the latent power of the will of the people - which is compounded of millions of the powerless, people who feel they have no power at all, who feel their will makes no difference.
So here's some charismatic someone offering them power, a way to make the world conform to their values and expectations, in exchange for almost nothing, or what seems like nothing.
Votes, or small cash donations, or simply paying attention to a few subliminal messages.
Spam.

under the condition where safety is firmly:

PYONGYANG, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct a nuclear test in the future as war deterrent against the U.S. hostile policy.
In a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, DPRK said "the field of scientific research of the DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the condition where safety is firmly guaranteed," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
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DPRK also affirmed that it would strive to "realize the denuclearization of the {Korean} peninsula and give impetus to the worldwide nuclear disarmament and the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons."
The statement accused the United States of adopting a hostile policy towards DPRK, saying that's why it must conduct a nuclear test as a way of bolstering war deterrent.
"Under the present situation... the U.S. moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK have reached the worst phase, going beyond the extremity," it said.

"The DPRK can no longer remain an on-looker to the developments," it added. Enditem

Xinhua 03.10.06

life, liberty and the pursuit:

...legislation now marching up to the Republican White House for signature, has shattered a number of bedrock legal protections for suspects, prisoners, and pretty much anyone else George W. Bush deems to be an enemy.

William Rivers Pitt/truthout 29.08.06
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A lot of good minds are trying to get next to this latest signifier - there's shrugs and cynical laughter, shock and nervousness, bitter negativity, sorrow, the atomization of fragile communities as groups collapse around nuclei of helplessness.
Bleak - aching and empty out to the horizon, and the gloating behind us - well we'll get to the gloating later.
It isn't Bush, he doesn't even exist anymore except as a lunchbox full of soundbites. And as Rivers Pitt makes clear, the personal theme is the undeniable linear movement toward this moment, all those steps, all that sensible denial of what so frighteningly led right to here. And goes on from here, now.
It feels almost inevitable, like watching the skin of a bubble go from that swirling rainbow of bright glistening profusion to gold then silver metallic then colorless black white and gray, just before it pops.
The pigs can track anyone entering the country down to the minutest detail of locus.
Placing the emphasis for the utilization of that power on Bush is another, firmer, deeper form of denial.
This is preparation, it's like watching something prepare for its own birth.
What thing?
The tradition I was raised in would call it Satan, but that tradition has, at least for me, been degraded in too many ways to get and keep my blind trust.
The binary has too much of the shell game to it, diversion and misdirection, that building up of false confidence in the rube so he'll go with what his senses tell him has to be.
Terrorism's a false flag, we know that. What they're really afraid of is something else.
Jesus, maybe. Joan of Arc. Spartacus. D'Artagnan. Rosa Luxemberg. Thomas Paine.
Something like a Messiah. Or Subcommandante Marcos for the gringo world.
Those of us who don't have those kinds of bones can write our names, and arrows, on the walls of the maze.
The one consistent mistake the privileged left has been making all along has been the underestimation of its enemy, following the misdirection toward an empty shell. The near-drooling idiocies of fundamentalism, the illogic and overt hypocrisy of the barking mad right. These were, and are proving themselves to have been, masks.
But the alternative is to have no word to name it with, or to use the ones it gives us, to have no one to point with precision at except Bush and Rumsfeld and the rest of that collection of masks - the public faces it wears.
I have visions of a kind now and again, small things, clips, like youtube videos - a giant made out of babies sitting spread-eagle in an empty parking lot, Moloch at the PTA meeting with an antique dress on, lipstick on its monstrous telegenic smile - stuff like that.
On the other hand, I've always had this problem of seeing the humanity of what hates me, of what wants to hurt me, the mammalian commonality, the relation of living, of identification with anything that's alive, doing what it needs to do to live.
It weakens the defiance, makes for a pulled punch. That guy who's got you trained in his gunsight is just protecting his young, like any other creature would. The fascist leather-and-steel regulations that bind us in tighter and tighter now - just things to make it safer for the pigs to raise their families.
I tried a bunch of times to get to the gist of it, the kernel of the locked forces of the present - what it is that has to be recognized; it's still elusive but it comes down to something like

Make them remember you. Make it count.

the person who booked the ticket

balanced news:

The laughing 9/11 bombers
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a lurid scandal that has put House Republicans in political peril

The options are many:

"We have developed an ability to look harder and broader in a greatly enhanced way to see if there is any crossover," Billy said

Milton/AP 01.10.06

Eelam, Eelam:

The abducted men had been interrogated about six months earlier by the police.

Unidentified armed men came in a "White Van" abducted two Tamil civilians on Tuesday night around 11:10 p.m. in Ward No.6 area opposite Udappu Tamil Vidiyalayam, according to a complaint made by the abductees' relatives with the Munthal police.

TamilNet 28.09.06
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Seven Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in clashes with the Sri Lankan navy in two separate battles, the military said today.

Three rebels were killed yesterday evening on Kayts Island, West of the Jaffna Peninsula, after sailors were deployed there, an official at the Media Center for National Security said on condition of anonymity, citing policy.

The Navy operation followed an attempted raid on Friday by a Tiger vessel that was destroyed trying to enter a Naval base near the island, he said. Four guerrillas were killed in the sea battle and two bodies were recovered, the official said.

ZeeNews 01.10.06