* woolsey fed the pentagon with dodgy INC 'defectors' and lying about it
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9165361.htm

* kidnappings in gaza - increasing chaos.

* expecting large scale muslim per-emmptive arrests in amerika in the next few months. internment. nice.

* "WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. economic aid could only flow to countries that have agreed not to surrender Americans to a world court for prosecution of war crimes, under a measure the U.S. House of Representatives approved Thursday."
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/040715/w071572.html

* "Quietly and with minimal coverage in the U.S. press, the Navy announced that from mid-July through August it would hold exercises dubbed Operation Summer Pulse '04 in waters off the China coast near Taiwan.
This will be the first time in U.S. naval history that seven of our 12 carrier strike groups deploy in one place at the same time. It will look like the peacetime equivalent of the Normandy landings and may well end in a disaster. "
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson15jul15,1,6211433,print.story

* dog knows what arroyo is doing. seems the philipines are lying about the reduction in troops, and its not obvious why she is turning her back on her friends. cnn: "the americans and the australians have denounced the move" - something suspicious is afoot. i wonder the implications if this guy gets released and then the beheaders figure they were lied to - what happens tomorrow?

* 2 israeli spies sentenced in nz yesterday - nz has frozen diplomatic ties with israel http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5683578

* "Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings. "
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757.html#

* Congresswoman Corrine Brown made the following statement:
"Striking my words from the House floor is just one more example of the Republican Party's attempt to try and cover up what happened during the 2000 election and of their activities this year in the state of Florida in preparation for stealing this year’s election as well. What is the Republican Party so afraid of? Let me tell you what I'm afraid of: another stolen election and four more years of the Bush administration. When the words of Corrine Brown are stricken from the floor, so is the voice of her 600,000 constituents in Florida's third congressional district."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6505.htm

* Revealed: Government witnesses knew September dossier was unsafe - but did not tell Hutton
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=541514

* losalamos is more embarrassing than ashcroft http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4314863,00.html

* Seymour Hersh : The US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison. "The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6492.htm

* "Prospect of a New Military Draft Drawing More Attention, Concern" http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-draft14jul14,1,5352382.story?coll=la-home-nation

* another nyt wea culpa of sorts "We had a groupthink of our own." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/opinion/16FRI1.html

* florida is a complete debacle http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/9165517.htm?1c

* wilson replies to the latest http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/07/ale04018.html

* the fox memos http://www.wonkette.com/archives/fox-news-memos-the-whole-batch-017613.php