1. new book from Anonymous - looks sus.

2. didja notice the orange g-style jumpsuits of our latest 2 unheading victims (pjohnson & the sthkorean wailer)? nice touch -

3. 3gorge - theres been a change in the spin of the story - from "the pentagon suggested that..." to "DOD suggests that Taiwain was thinking about..."
"TAIPEI: Security experts in Taiwan have dismissed a US Pentagon report which suggested the island bomb China's Three Gorges Dam to deter a possible invasion by its political rival."
(via: " A top Chinese general on Wednesday called the United States "a whore"
for suggesting that Taiwan try to destroy")
to: "U.S. Defence Department report suggested the island's leaders were thinking of developing missiles that could strike mainland Chinese targets such as the dam to deter an attack."

4. torture memos "Document Dump"
"White House yesterday handed reporters a 2-inch-thick stack..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64079-2004Jun23.html
in what world is a 2inchstack a 'DUMP'??? im surprised they didnt call it a 'document deluge' - what size stack is 1800 torture pix? Document Dump Dwarfed by Damning Depictions of Despicable Deranged Degradation. alliteration is for feeble folk. fukkoff.

5. the moonie coronation thing is spooky. the story has been around for weeks but i didnt really believe/understand/comprehend it. its on aaron brown now - but not much at google news http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/world/8988597.htm

6. the bergy/f911 thing still confuses me. of course. still no sign of anything about the cn8/dadberg interview. a couple of new items:
a) "It's the only footage of the young man who later was beheaded in Iraq. "
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/06/20/PKGJC766UO1.DTL&type=movies
b) moore: "We had it in an earlier version. We weren't going to put it back simply because he lost his life. We thought the family should have the footage . . . We were offered lots of money to sell it. We wouldn't do that." ttp://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/movies/article/0,1299,DRMN_23_2973446,00.html
hmm - the plot thickenth. it seems the interview was at least sufficiently interesting to include some of it in early versions of the moov... does anyone think that i *mite* be onto something here? it seems to get curiouser... (i havent seen anyone cept jonahgoldberg (briefly) come to the same conclusion)

7. speaking of which, i havent seen anyone else query how condirice was in elgin, tx @ 9am on 91101 and then in a bunker in dc 1300 miles away in the bunker with dick an hour later. theres not even any suggestion that she left the goatskool. she just somehow appeared somewhere else. odder than number 3 or 7. im either smarter or stupider than everyone. i expect that i'm stupider but in the interest of fairness, im holding off on a final judgement till theres more proof ;-)

8. 43 today on aids "I mean, we really don't care here in America if it takes a bicycle or a moped to get antiretrovirals out of these big cities, but that's what we're going to do." and in a top o' the hat to his mate reagan "People have got to say, I've got a problem, come and help us. It's hard in certain countries that people say, we don't have a problem, you know, in denial. In the meantime, people are dying. Part of diplomacy, by the way, good diplomacy says to leaders, I think you need to listen to the truth, and the truth will set you free and help people survive."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040623-4.html