manufactured dissent

WAR
* "Nine Australians killed in Nias" LINK
shit. i wish this happened in iraq.

* heres a 90min chomsky speech LINK
i love chomsky. is 'manufactured consent' the most beautiful phrase ever?

* novak calls rice "the most dominant secretary since Henry Kissinger" and "This willowy, vulnerable-looking woman wields measurably more power than Colin Powell, the robust general who preceded her. Officials who know her well believe she favors the escape from Iraq." LINK
lol - "escape" is a choice word. arent we sposed to declare victory and leave?

* nader on the latest wmd/cia report "It is now left to Congress to fully investigate this matter. Certainly, the Commission found massive intelligence failures and overstatements by the administration, now a Congress that was cognizant of its Constitutional authority would at least initiate an impeachment inquiry with full subpoena power, testimony under oath and in public so Americans can determine whether they were merely misled into war or whether they were plunged into an illegal war on a platform on fabrications, deceptions and manipulations. Nothing short of accountability of the Presidency is at stake." LINK

* " After the first batch of Abu Ghraib images shocked the world on April 28, 2004, becoming instantly iconic no substantial second round ever came, either from Abu Ghraib or any of the other locations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay where abuses have been alleged. ABC News broadcast two new photos from the notorious Iraq prison on May 19, The Washington Post printed a half-dozen on May 20 and three more on June 10, and that was it." LINK
its amazing that there havent been any more pix surface - remember at the time that grunts were sposed to be passing the cd's around freely and using them as screensavers etc. hersh tells a story about one mother who opened her daughters computer and found a disk.

* " Iran allocated $2.5 billion to obtain three nuclear warheads last year, an exiled opposition group said Thursday, without saying whether Iran had secured any of the warheads... Mohaddessin said he received the news Thursday morning and had no further information on the project. " LINK
yada yada. nice timing. for some reason, the article doesnt mention that the exile group is actually the terrorist MEK.
drum.beat.drum.beat.drum.beat.drum.beat.drum.beat.drum.beat.drum.beat.

* tariq ali on the UK elections LINK

* "Iraq Reconstruction Fund Invested on Wall Street" LINK
i dont know if this is true... nothing would surprise...

* i wonder if anyone, anywhere, will notice that wolfowitz's JHU is the same JHU that produced the lancet report that 100k iraqis were dead cos of the war. and that report is now 9 months old.


OTHER STUFF
* here's blackwells guy on the latest exitpoll report: "``The weather's turning nice. There are more interesting things to do than beat a dead horse.''" LINK (btw - this is the only article ive seen on the report in the media)

* billmon on DeLay "there's a real chance the Bug Man is going to find himself standing in a courtroom entering a plea one of these days, and right now I don't think he's got very many friends on the bench. " LINK

* billmaher: 'does blinky remember that he put his hand on the bible and swore to uphold the constitution and not the other way around?' btw - lots of peeps are peeved at maher at the mo

* how good was chelseas 3rd goal vs sthhmptn???

* good article on ssricide in counterpunch LINK