As Thomas Kuhn describes in his classic work The Structure of Scientific Revolution, if something occurs outside the dominant paradigm, it -- for all practical purposes -- did not really happen because it is beyond the comprehension of those stuck in the old ways of thinking. In this case, if the dominant paradigm says that terrorism is the exclusive province of movements or governments the United States does not like and the United States is the world leader in fighting terrorism, there is therefore no such thing as U.S.-backed terrorism.

US intelligence agencies estimate there are up to 7000 missiles on the black market and say 27 terrorist groups, including Al-Qa'ida, are armed with the weapons.

Depp said he wanted his two children, ages 1 and 4, to experience the United States "like it's a kind a toy — a broken toy maybe. Investigate a little bit, check it out, get this feeling and then get out."
"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots," he told Stern.

There was one bit of good news for the administration in the report: The budget office said the Pentagon's recent estimate that it was spending about $3.9 billion a month in Iraq might be overstated. That figure may include some one-time costs that would not be necessary in a longer occupation, the report said.

A WEAPONS scientist caught up in a political storm over the government's case for war in Iraq had taken a potentially fatal dose of painkillers besides apparently slashing his left wrist, a toxicologist testified today.

PHILIPPINES military Chief of Staff, General Narciso Abaya, ordered the release yesterday of 47 junior officers who were linked to a July mutiny against the government

"Pride is no substitute for protecting our young men and women in uniform," he said. Half the 58,000 US troops who died in Vietnam did so because "a president refused to admit he was wrong".

Schwarzenegger has also made several television commercials, including two on Wednesday in which he calls for an audit of state spending to reverse deficit spending. He fails to mention that a nonpartisan state office in Sacramento already audits the budget.

The ease with which Howard dumped the whole thing can tempt you to believe politics in this country is easy. You pledge you'll "never ever" introduce a GST, then introduce one. You encourage the belief that would-be refugees throw their children into the sea, then simply concede they didn't. You tell the nation Saddam Hussein has the capability to threaten the entire globe, then move on to referendum proposals to dent the power of the Senate! Nice work if you can get it.
Remember all the fuss about whether Hussein had complied with UN commands to disarm? If WMD was a lie, then weeks of headline-hogging public debate was a farce, a charade. Not that there weren't those who had strong intimations of that at the time.

Predicting "the real cruelty and cynicism will become evident as soon as the war ends", Fisk concluded: "This war is about oil and regional control." Should you still doubt the latter, incidentally, you should try to procure a tape of SBS's July 1 edition of The Cutting Edge, the German-made Cartel. Ye gods! Definitively not, absolutely not, White House-approved presidential publicity. It's all about the enormous debt Bush owes the oil/energy sector for his incumbency.