shove it

VOTE
* "Teresa: Hackers may have won Bush office" this story is frontpaged on the smh website - its a PA article - bet you cant find it in the US media - apart from the seatllePI article (in their 'local' section). if u news.google it, u get 8 responses, the original PI article, one in ireland, one in france, 3 in oz. hush. hush. imagine if she told someone to 'shove it'. this is pretty serious (non)news, if they really thought they could laugh at her, they really really would. http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Hackers-may-have-won-Bush-office-Kerrys-wife/2005/03/10/1110316121604.html

* in separate, unrelated news, they are opening up THK's estate records - and u can read about everywhere. think about that for a minute - 3 days ago she said that she thought the election may have been stolen and it gets abuot 2 mentions in the country, 19 hours ago a judge ruled that her inheritance records will be partly opened and it gets 50 news.google mentions. fucking crooks. now think about it again. and its not like she is spouting off in isolation like an alien, there was a fucking electoral challenge. and conyers' report. and even fucking chris hitchens wrote an article about it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Heinz%20Estate%20Records

* and in other separate news, stories about ms matsui's win ought mention that "She received donations from prominent Democrats such as Teresa Heinz Kerry" ($2000)

* matsui's widow wins 'his' seat. http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2005/03/another-whitewash-report-on-abuse.html

WAR
* "A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated... "Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said." who'd have thunk? remember all the spideyhole nonsense, and the elaborate diagrams et al. i wonder how many faux stories there have been that we didnt notice at the time.
http://www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=422B960A-26BA-4891-9E60-21C8818788D4

* "US ambassador William Brownfield said in an interview published Tuesday that US officials had warned President Hugo Chavez in 2004 of a possible attempt on his life." http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38290

* "Tony Blair is facing calls for a formal investigation after it emerged that he breached the official code of conduct for ministers by failing to show the Attorney General's full advice on the legality of the Iraq war to the Cabinet." this story keeps giving http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=618151

* and clareshort: "My view is now that by failing to reveal his full legal advice and the considerations that underpinned his final advice, the Attorney misled the Cabinet and therefore helped obtain support for military action improperly. This is a very serious matter in relation to the war in Iraq, the integrity of his office, his own integrity and the proper working of UK constitutional arrangements." http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=618099

* "An attorney for the Sept. 11 commission testified Tuesday that the conspiracy to fly hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was conceived and planned outside Germany, complicating prosecutors' efforts to convict a Moroccan man for aiding the Hamburg cell that carried out the attacks." oops, another investigation gets shut down. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18219-2005Mar8.html

LEBANON
* "The crowds that gathered in Riad Al-Solh Square were estimated by al-Jazeera to be 1.5 million." thats half the population. http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2005/03/forgive-me-for-not-reporting-on-all.htm

* cnn is reporting that 'all the signs at the rally looked like they were printed at the same place - very little personal initiative' please.make.it.stop.

AMDOM
* http://www.timetogojoe.com/

* johnbolton is another yalie. wtf do they put in the water up there?

* when was the last time u heard 'ownership society'?

* kristoff discusses domestic terrorists. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/opinion/09kristof.html

* the beeb is leading with wackojacko. jfc! acquit. acquit now.

* today would be a good day to declare bankruptcy

* the response to bolton is pretty funny 'gee, what about blinky's trip to europe? we'll have to reassess his committment to a nicer world'

* "In July 2003, Bolton was poised to testify to Congress that Syria's alleged programs to develop weapons of mass destruction had developed to such an extent that they threatened regional stability, an assertion which reportedly provoked a "revolt" by US intelligence analysts, who insisted that the evidence did not warrant such a conclusion." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GC09Aa02.html

* wingnuttery re rally: "I don't care about numbers, those people will procreate at an astronomical rate to create a quantitative superiority without any regard to the social, educational and living conditions of their children" http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2005/03/forgive-me-for-not-reporting-on-all.htm#comments
* will cbs run the nigeranium story now that rather has signed off?


ISRAEL
* " "Preserving Israel as a democratic state requires urgent actions to change" the "continual, blunt and institutional breach of law, executed by the institutions of the state themselves," said the investigator, Talia Sasson, in a report commissioned by the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon" ugly mirror. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/international/middleeast/09cnd-mide.html

* flashback to yesterday "* pelosi: "While this Republican Administration has spoken strongly about promoting democracy around the world, the House Republican Leadership is working feverishly to undermine democracy here at home." ouch." ugly mirror. http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=885

* "THE Israeli diplomat who was recalled at Australia's request claims he was the victim of a witchhunt" http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12497892%255E601,00.html

OTHER
* "Police have seized Australia's largest haul of drug chemicals - enough to make four million ecstasy pills worth $160 million." somehow e.pills are apparently about $45 here still. everything i thought i knew about mkts is wrong.
http://theage.com.au/news/National/Drugs-raid-breaks-all-records/2005/03/10/1110417602129.html
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