Monthly Archives: January 2004

In a recent edition of “Meet the Press” on NBC, Sen. John Kerry admitted to being a member of Skull and Bones, the fraternal order at Yale that builds the foundation for backroom deals at the highest levels of government. Alex Jones’ Prison Planet has a video of the snippet.

As correctly projected by CNN, Sen. John Kerry has won the New Hampshire primary. While this may well be a disappointment for the Dean campaign, the fact that he obtained over 100% more votes than the next runner up, Wesley Clark, gives much needed hope. If one thinks of Dean in terms of the candidate [...]

Just over an hour ago CNN projected that John Kerry would win the New Hampshire primary and the numbers continue to confirm this as the results are coming in. Kerry has a comfortable lead over Howard Dean, who has at least made it to second place this time. The surprise here is Wesley Clark who [...]

The past few days have dealt two major blows to the White House’s claims that WMD existend in Iraq until last year. Not only did Bush’s chief Weapons inspector David Kay resign after a fruitless search but even Secretary of State Colin Powell now doubts whether or not WMD programs existed, all this after Tuesday’s [...]

With the superbowl just around the corner, news has broken that CBS has decided to cleanse its ad breaks by not intending to air ads sponsored by moveon.org and PETA. This effort at censorship is not about keeping out issue ads however as CBS will be airing an ad produced by the White House. Click [...]

After pResident Bush’s remarks on WMD last night many are naturally wondering where the proof is. Today the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Porter gross estimated that it may take years before any details and therefore proof emerge. This is of course very convenient as it will allow Bush to avoid answering questions [...]

Here now is a more detailed analysis by means of comments. I will quote selected parts of the address and then add my comments in between. Click on “Continue reading…” to read the rest of this post. “(…) thousands of American servicemen and women (…) are making America more secure.” It is a proven fact [...]

- No mention of Bin Laden. – Permanence of PATRIOT act and tax cuts desired. – Assorted Christian nonsense. – Neocon nonsense. More extensive comments to follow later.

As the Iowa caucus draws to a close, CNN is predicting that Sen. Kerry will win the state and has also just broken the news that Rep. Gephardt may be dropping out of the race after only coming in in 4th place. The biggest surprise here is of course that Howard Dean has come in [...]

In the run up to tonight’s Iowa Caucus, polls have shown that what used to be a comfortable lead may now turn into a narrow victory for Howard Dean. John Kerry is closing in on Dean and some say that if Kucinich should drop out tonight and then endorse Edwards, the situation could become even [...]

The British rock band Oasis today released a statement saying that they had asked their drummer of 8 years, Alan White, to quit. On one hand’s side this could be an indication of good things to come for Oasis as the last time they fired a drummer they were in the process of recording their [...]

In a suprising move, popular author Michael Moore has endorsed General Wesley Clark as the best man for the Democratic candidate in this year’s presidential elections. It is surprising as I would have expected him to either endorse an extremely liberal / progressive candidate like Dennis Kucinich or the winner, Howard Dean. I say winner [...]

Last week, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank released a report that provided a great deal of evidence that Iraq did not have a WMD program and therefore no WMD at any point after the first Iraq war. This adds to the impression that corporate greed, and nothing else, really was the only [...]

Even though former Treasury secretary O’Neill’s book may contain a certain number of falsehoods, we now know that he was right with at least one of his assertions: pResident Bush had been planning the invasion of Iraq all along. Some conservatives assert that this is nothing out of the ordinary and the he was more [...]

A few days ago, many neoliberals were very excited about a stash of mortar shells that was found in Iraq as the shells were thought to conain mustard gas. Yesterday The Guardian reported that all indicators point towards that analysis as being false. This comes as no surprise as there are evidently no WMD in [...]

It would seem that the US government doesn’t trust its own embassies anymore: Since monday January 5th, foreign visitors to the US who enter the country with a visa have been subjected to fingerprinting and photographing at the point of entry. While the DHS has naturally claimed that this has already helped them catch criminals, [...]

Six and a half years after the event, British authorities have finally announced that they will begin an official investigation into the deaths of Princess Diana and her companion in 2005. This should be very interesting for both the conspiracy fans and the lemmings.

As usual when the Tom Ridge has decided to raise the homeland security terror alert level, the Bush administration has once again snuck an unusually nasty piece of legislation behind Americans’ backs. This time it’s about the FBI’s ability to look at your bank records at will. The alert scale should really be renamed to [...]