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by William Thomas
Commentary
Lifeboatnews.com
I couldn't make this up. Five days ago, the man who covered up the
MyLai massacre was on a roll. Addressing the UN
Security Council and a
worried wired world, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell repeatedly
remonstrated, "Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid
sources.
These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions
based on solid intelligence."
Hot stuff! The globally-televised 75 minute briefing put forward
reeling from the last big American bombardment, and 11 years of
strangulating sanctions that followed.
"Here is the evidence," ranted a righteous Powell at tight-lipped
representatives from 15 nations, who may also have been listening to
the ghostly chorus of 38 million Europeans killed during World War II.
"Ignore it and become irrelevant as a world body whose strongest
resolutions have been consistently ignored by
ally's 35 year illegal occupation of the
our unprovoked aggression against the people of Iraq and become irrelevant
for violating international laws -- just like Americans do all the time in
places like Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Bosnia and Afghanistan."
I'm paraphrasing here...
Powell called Blair's intelligence scoop "a fine paper" of
"exceptional
quality" that detailed "
went on to praise a pompous Prime Minister for supplying what Blair
boasted was an "up to the minute" assessment of Saddam's sadistic arsenal.
The latest information on
could punch in
pages of intelligence available to
of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation". [BBC
OOPS!
Within hours of Powell's pronouncements, TV crews descended on the
"chemical weapons sites" featured in his presentation -- only to find
old dust atop ancient rubble. The reason was revealed the following morning, when the BBC's Channel 4
reported, "Downing St. Dossier Plagiarized".
Plagiarism is a form of theft. It turns out that Powell's "top
intelligence" briefing to the UN had been lifted verbatim from a
woefully
outdated student thesis! [BBC
CLIP
GOING NUCLEAR IN
They're just getting started.
Cancer rates across
12 to 15 times higher than pre-war levels. For the people of Iraq, as well
as any occupier, constant exposure to uranium dust from hundreds of tons
of Depleted Uranium munitions fired during Desert Storm (and hundreds of
tons more from any new invasion) carries lethal risks. DU is 60% as
radioactive as the uranium used in nuclear bombs. It enters human lungs, wombs
and
DNA as easily as it does open wounds and the food chain. And exploded DU
rounds remain lethal for millions -- some experts say billions -- of years.
[Bringing The War Home]
Now the boys around Bush are keen to try out their new "Robust Earth
Penetrators" by gang-raping
cosseted men, who have never been near a battlefield or seen the dazed
expressions of maimed children, figure their "little" nuclear bombs
will burrow far enough into their mother planet to stop radiation from
leaking out and freaking out the entire world. [
29, 2002]
But common sense and many experts warn that a more likely scenario
would see "dirty" detonations raining a radioactive dust storm
downwind,
killing plenty of people in mosques and souks in
-- depending on whether the Shamal is blowing. Entire
regions would be
rendered uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years.
But hey, say Rumsfeld and others who pushed for the
"baby nukes", we
won't know till we try it.
Just like
GEORGE, DICK, DONALD AND PAUL MEET THE "INFORMATION AGE"
To everyone following this global cliffhanger, it looks like we're
coming quickly down to a tripwire that could capsize the global applecart.
Within weeks, a conscienceless Frankenstein armed with wicked weapons of mass
destruction may be once again loose in our midst.
Or maybe not.
For all their firepower and media mesmerization
techniques, the Bush
junta never reckoned on running head on into an uncontrollable source of
constantly updated, augmented and corroborated information available
24/7 to anyone who can log online.
No one did.
For the first time in known human history, power-crazed bureaucrats are
finding it difficult to get away with almost anything. In this truth-telling
time of personal camcorders and computers, exposure of official deceptions can
be embarrassingly swift -- posted on the web for a whole wide wired world to see.
If you can type it, you can probably find it online: Flight 800,
City
ibrary called
the Internet.
HOW IT WORKS
Forget B-52s. Real power comes from networked hominids tapping keyboards.
As a Secretary of State discovered, all it takes to verify an official
"story" is to go online and type in a few key search words. Try
"powell presentation" or "bush
cocaine" -- then hit the key appropriately labelled "Enter".
The results can be spectacular. Thanks to a
recollection and online retrieval, Bush's only buddy willing to send
reluctant soldiers into the irradiated ruins of
humiliating non-confidence vote within days.
Former Labour minister Glenda Jackson told BBC Radio 4, "If that was
presented to Parliament and the country as being up-to-date intelligence and in fact as we now
know they simply lifted it from a university
thesis, it is another example of how the Government is attempting to
mislead the country and Parliament on
the issue of a possible war with Iraq."
Another former Labour minister, Peter Kilfoyle, said
he was "shocked"
at the way the dossier had been doctored. "It just adds to
the general impression that what we have been treated to is a farrago of half-truths,
assertions and over-the-top spin. I am shocked that on such thin evidence-- a Californian postgraduate
thesis -- that we should be trying to convince the British people that this is
a war worth fighting."
[Telegraph
The implications for
loses a vote brought against him by his own party, the present Prime Minister
of England will find himself suddenly unemployed. And Bush will be bereft
of major backers.
BLACKOUT
Back in the
But extensive
The spookiest episode in this story came 24 hours after the BBC exposed empty
excuses for mass murder in
As Iran accelerates its nuclear weapons program to defend against an American
attack they know is coming, and France moves this morning to block NATO from
initiating plans to involve Turkey, mainstream media in Canada, Britain and across the USA continue
to ignore revelations that shared U.S.
and British "intelligence" on Iraq is years out of date. And cribbed from public
sources. [Global TV Feb. 10]
Commenting on the media's self-censoring stories that trash all retenses for war, Lifeboatnews
editor Paul Grignon gripes, "It's as fixed as
wrestling."
WHITE HOUSE WATCHERS
The American media's big snooze is good news for pretenders who remain in
power only as long as they continue to hoodwink the people they seek to rule.
By waving flags, suppressing contrary information, and pointing to successive "threats" of
their own devising, the Bushwhackers depend on
the zombie-like behavior of sedated and
distracted masses, and a military as robotic as their weaponry. In their mutual
rush to parrot empty slogans
and do the bidding of "authorities" bent on conquest
and murder, few question the
consequences, veracity or legitimacy of their actions.
But deep questions are being raised, in an intense international forum called
the Internet. Immune to cruise missiles and faked intelligence briefings, the
power of the ever-wakeful web is to network the global village outside the
filters of controlled information -- exposing official lies almost as fast as they
can be floated.
No wonder the day after Sept. 11 a President-select announced that one of
his first objectives was to get control over the Internet. Since then, his
lavishly funded Department of Cyber Security is working to force all servers to
submit to federal surveillance. [CBC
But it may already be too late.
When critical mass is reached and the hundredth monkey logs on, it's all
over for the Bush regime and their successors. Even now, with more than 620
million people logged on worldwide, incessant Internet revelations are
illuminating a gang who:
1. Stole an election by rigging votes in
2. Blocked investigations and interceptors that could have
foiled 9/11
3. Experimented with mailing an army-designed strain
of anthrax to
Americans to boost sales of a vaccine jointly controlled by the Bushes
and bin Ladens
4. Paved the way for a police state with freedom-canceling proclamations
copied almost verbatim from laws issued by someone named Adolf
Hitler.
[NUA Internet Trends 2002; All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass
Persuasion]
All this with nary a murmur from a cushy, compliant and culpable press
owned by the same corporations who manufacture costly armaments for the
conflicts their news networks "sell".
It's all documented online for anyone who cares to look. But
information is
only as powerful as the actions it prompts. Next weekend, organizers
say
that worldwide protests coordinated through the worldwide web could
outnumber the massive anti-war demonstrations that ended years of
unprovoked aggression against the people of
Despite the ballyhoo over a bogus briefing that appears to have
hardened
war they cannot justify, the Gang of Four still intends to crush
It only makes sense when they admit that their long-standing agenda is not
really concerned about
Century" notes that while Saddam Hussein poses no threat to the United
States, the dictator can be "used as an excuse" to further aims that
are all about oil. Whoever controls the world's last big oil fields, also
controls a world running on empty. [
29,
2002
What happens next is anybody's guess. Intended as an indelible lesson to
the world, we could be weeks away from unprecedented "live fire"
demonstrations over
Or maybe not.
Type "peace protests" and hit Enter.
---
William Thomas served as a member of a
Emergency Response Team in
Storm. Producer of the award-winning documentary, "Eco War", he is
the
author of Bringing The War Home, Chemtrails Confirmed, Alt. Health and
All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass Persuasion.