nomdeplumacy is our fist option.

WAR
* wow. read this article "The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the Guardian today." theres nothing really new/unsurprising - but a lot of details & confirmation
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1423304,00.html

* " if the attorney general had said that the use of force was legally dubious, Britain could not have attacked Iraq. But this is precisely what the attorney general did say." blair in an orange suit? how sweet. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1423038,00.html

* krug does a "Wag-the-Dog" piece http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/opinion/22krugman.html

* haririkiri. ""The bomb was placed underground, especially (since) the crater was so huge," said Hisham Jaber, a retired brigadier and former professor at the Lebanese Military and Staff Command College. "Even a car with 1,000 kg of TNT wouldn't create such a crater."" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1026606.cms

* the funny thing abuot the demands for an 'international inevstigation' into haririkiri is um - Hutton. 911comm. Warren. etc.

* "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he believes the US government is planning to assassinate him." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4282603.stm

* "John McCain has called for the establishment of permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. McCain said a permanent presence is needed "Not only because of our appreciation of Afghanistan, but also we believe there will be vital national security interests in this region for a long time." " in other news, syria must leave lebanon. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/23/164204



MEDIA
* redfolk think krove is off his game - the wead tapes should have been released *b4* the election cos they show what a standup guy blinky is - and how his int/ext 'thinking' are actually consistent... ummmm - u already know my thinking on this... http://mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com/2005/02/tape-gate.html

* rockstah johnconyers.com is blogging

* barry bonds...

* the beeb has been doing quite a bit about bush protestors in europe

* pope: assassins is evil. nazism is evil. communism is evil. gays is evil.

* "Forty percent or more of what passes for news and information these days is the result of organized PR campaigns. " http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21307/

* heres the hitchens/ohio/vf article http://makethemaccountable.com/articles/Ohio_s_Odd_Numbers.htm



AMDOM
* sibel: "Justice Department Caves In: Allows Publication
of Retroactively Classified Information" http://www.pogo.org/p/government/ga-050202-classification.html

* "Today’s development also follows the Justice Department’s release of the full Inspector General report on Edmonds’s dismissal at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 18, at the beginning of a holiday weekend." http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17527&c=206

* New York Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey says rove maybe did rathergate http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_02_20_digbysblog_archive.html#110913550656176287

* will blinky get the flu in germany?

* parently hst didnt leave a homicide letter

* if i was tortured, id probably confess that i wanted the president and the rest of the egadmin dead.

* "Thompson killed himself this past Sunday. He reportedly stuck a .45 caliber handgun in his mouth and shot himself while his wife listened on the phone and his son and daughter-in-law were in another room of his house. " http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/23/164218


OZ
* "In the past five years, the U.S. fundamentalist Christian churches have successfully exported their brand of religion and politics to Australia. These churches are funding and fueling the current abortion debate and the Australian anti-abortionists, emboldened by the success of their U.S. counterparts, are embracing the same emotive tactics to win political support. Given John Howard's respect for the ideas and political strategy of George W. Bush and Karl Rove, the hour of the long-dormant Australian anti-abortion movement might be just around the corner." http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/213105_abortion23.html

* the sierra club joins in a tasmanian greeny legal fight http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0223-06.htm


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