* i cant believe ca'ians 'voted' for this guy http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/national/19arnold.html

* safire on wilson (!) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/opinion/19SAFI.html he was on jimlehrer spouting the same rubbish. they are going all out on wilson - apparently based on an odd ft article, and then the comment in the hutler report. seems they are desperately trying to hang on to the saddam/niger thing for some reason. i wonder what the butler comment cost them. we saw something recently here where the ozzies were in trouble cos they didnt warn people to stay away from bali, despite other countries warning their people, and the cia made the odd announcement that they had told everyone except oz that there were likely to be some problems. odd.

* 8 outta 19 hijackers went thru iran. 19 outta 19 hijackers went thru am.

* arafats cousin got a job and setting the mideast alite. prescotts son and grandsons include 2 presidents, 2 governors, head of cia, and a veep... and the ams sleep.

* there seems to be an increase in fake anti-semitic attacks - can people please fucking grow up http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3904025.stm and http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2004/06/06/Floridian/An_education_in_hate.shtml is this all random stuff or is it state-sponsored? and if so, which state?

* 10 people killed in iraq. and again. and again. and again. fisk: "The US authorities say they know nothing about the air strike; indeed, they tell journalists to talk to the Iraqi Ministry of Defence--whose spokesman admits that he has "no clue what is going on"."
"US air strikes are becoming "uncoverable", as the growing insurgencies across the two countries make more and more highways too dangerous for foreign correspondents. Senior US journalists claim that Washington is happy with this situation"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6519.htm

* blair lied. " There is a seething anger among the British public at the bastardisation of the entire system of parliamentary democratic government. The electorate has finally lost confidence in Parliament, the civil service and even the over-deferential media." http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=820092004

* "Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6509.htm arlington is a mass grave.