mutiny on the recounty

* " Has a candidate or a party ever been more pleasantly caressed by the winds of history in an election year than John Kerry and the Democrats?' http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10222004.html

* "Nearly 1,000 UK Territorial Army soldiers were sent to fight in Iraq despite failing their weapons test, a court martial heard today. (and maybe 2300) " can we leave yet? http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=574859&host=3&dir=62

* " Increasingly concerned about Iran's nuclear program, Israel is weighing its options and has not ruled out a military strike to prevent the Islamic Republic from gaining the capability to build atomic weapons, according to policymakers, military officials, analysts and diplomats." (ie according to everyone) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20041022/ts_latimes/israelmayhaveiraninitssights

* "Halliburton may keep disputed money - Report: Army may let company retain billions of dollars from Iraq work, despite auditors' questions...According to the report, Kellogg Brown & Root has so far billed about $12 billion in Iraq, and about $3 billion of that remains disputed by government officials.
The Journal also cited Pentagon records showing that $650 million in Halliburton billings are deemed questionable. An additional $2 billion is considered to have insufficient paperwork to justify the billing, the report said." thats 45%. nice. http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/22/news/fortune500/halliburton.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

* " According to the Italian Military Health Observatory a total of 109 Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted uranium." thats a lot! how many troops do they have in iraq???
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200410191947-1213-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

* the funny thing abuot the fluvaccine shortage is that itll prolly save a whole bunch of people from the same ssri/mmr/anthraxshot problems.

* it looks like those alq 'training camp' videos are fake. thats cbs again. http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10121/index.html

* theguardian had a campaign to get readers to write to amvoters - here are some of the responses to the campaign. its kinda funny. eg "As a US citizen, I want to advise you that you and anyone that participates in subverting the US presidential election can be criminally charged and perhaps even charged as spies.
California"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1329858,00.html

* "Senior Sunni clerics are adamant: if the Americans attack, they will issue a fatwa proclaiming jihad all over Iraqi territory." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FJ22Ak04.html

* "When an old and near-forgotten acquaintance arrives unexpected on your doorstep you're entitled to ask what he wants and why he wants it - two questions that were no doubt on the mind of new Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono when Australian Prime Minister John Howard arrived in Indonesia on Thursday." i dunno whats going on with this crew. this comes at the same time that howard declined to send more troops to iraq. something that bliar didnt wanna do. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FJ23Ae06.html

* "In an essay in the new October Issue of "Harper's Magazine", editor and professor Benjamin DeMott describes, "how the 9/11 Commission Report defrauds the nation" ." http://www.incunabula.org/valis/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=237&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=d35cfa7125857dcd9a8ba5005123fb47






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