Month: October 2004

Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 October 23-31 2004

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October 2004 — Information Clearing House

[I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB]

Information Clearing House
Digest October 23-31 2004
Date: 31 Oct 2004

The Power of Nightmares Part I

This is a must watch BBC documentary

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.

Watch It Now!
207.44.245.159/video1037.htm

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Al-Qaqa’a: Osama to the Rescue? By William Bowles

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30 October 2004

CNN LARRY KING LIVE
Bin Laden Releases New Videotape Aired October 29, 2004 – 21:00 ET (transcript)

LARRY KING, HOST: OK, Walter. What do you make of this? [a new Osama bin Laden tape addressing the American people] …

WALTER CRONKITE, FMR. CBS NEWS ANCHOR: What we just heard. So now the question is basically right now, how will this affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaigns right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dump. Right now, that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign. Continue reading →

Al-Qaqa’a: ‘Benign’ Neglect by a Malign Power By William Bowles

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28 October 2004

The latest ‘revelations’ to emerge from the annals of the US occupation of Iraq concerns the ‘loss’ of over 350 tons of high explosives that the US was meant to be guarding at the military base of al-Qaqa’a. According to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), the stockpile went ‘missing’ some time after January 2004. So either, the US didn’t bother to check that it was still there over the past nine months (complete with its IAEA seals that had been intact since being installed in 2002) or, they knew it was missing and didn’t tell anybody. It was left for the IAEA to discover that dozens of truckloads of highly explosive matériel had gone missing.

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Psych-Wars By William Bowles

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26 October 2004

“The target suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad.”
— CIA officer testifying to US Senate hearing, after bloody CIA aided Ba’ath Party coup overthrew Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Kassem, 1963

The Kurt Nimmo article I posted here last week prompted some emails on the issue of US agent provocateurs and their role in destabilising the situation in Iraq. The problem for journalists and investigators is of course proving beyond all doubt that the US is up to this kind of skulduggery and unless Congress or the Senate is forced to take it on as in the case of the Pentagon Papers, there’s little likelihood of a definitive answer that names names. Continue reading →

Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 October 16-23 2004

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October 2004 — Information Clearing House

[I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB]

Information Clearing House
Date: 16-23 October 2004

7 killed in US air raids on Fallujah :

US warplanes and artillery pounded the Iraqi flashpoint city of fallujah overnight, killing seven people and wounding six others, witnesses and hospital sources said on Friday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/22/content_2126116.htm

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Way Down South of the Border…By Edward Teague

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16 October 2004 — The New Dark Age

The Commander in Chief of SOUTHCOM is responsible for all U.S. military activities in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and waters south of Mexico. North to south the distance is 7,000 miles, and from east to west more than 3,000 miles. Brazil is larger than the continental United States; Peru is three times the size of California. There are 32 sovereign nations in this theatre or Area of responsibility (AOR). SOUTHCOM had clearly derived advantages from a forward presence in Latin America over the years with U.S. military facilities in Panama and in Honduras. Until recently, these U.S. bases in Panama funnelled critical support to regional counter drug efforts (Drugs headed for the U.S. from South America pass through a 6 million square mile transit zone, roughly the size of the continental U.S), humanitarian operations, military-to-military contacts, and defence of the Panama Canal.

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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 October 11-15 2004

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October 2004 — Information Clearing House

[I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB]

Information Clearing House
Digest October 11-15 2004
Date: 15 Oct 2004

1 YEAR & 191 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ

Baghdad blast kills 10:

A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi police patrol in southern Baghdad today, killing ten people and wounded four others, the US military said.
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1328581,00.html

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Eat your heart out Mussolini By William Bowles

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15 October 2004

“We control political forces, we control moral forces we control economic forces, therefore we are a full-blown Corporative state.”
– Benito Mussolini [1]

The database state
Six million video surveillance cameras, biometric ID cards, transnational data interception laws and ‘joined up’ government. Add to this the privatisation of key state functions, all mediated by global IT corporations that are also the indispensable link in the weapons, media, pharmaceuticals and global financial networks and you have the corporate, security state 21st century style.

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Big Brother is Watching/Acting By William Bowles

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12 October 2004

“In the present matter regarding Indymedia, Rackspace Managed Hosting, a U.S. based company with offices in London, is acting in compliance with a court order pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering. Rackspace responded to a Commissioner’s subpoena, duly issued under Title 28, United States Code, Section 1782 in an investigation that did not arise in the United States. Rackspace is acting as a good corporate citizen and is cooperating with international law enforcement authorities. The court prohibits Rackspace from commenting further on this matter.” – Statement issued by Rackspace Managed Hosting [1]

Rackspace is the US-owned corporation which hosts a number of Indymedia Websites that got closed down around the planet last week including a number here in London. In all, a total 140 Websites in around 17 countries have been shut down, and although some of the UK Indymedia servers are apparently up and running once more using backup facilities many of the 140 Websites are still offline including a number of Internet radio sites that ‘happened’ to use the same servers. Continue reading →

Forward to the past! By William Bowles

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8 October 2004

I suppose it’s not so strange really but the more the status quo crumbles, the more the British state retreats into its imperial past – with the help of the state-run media. Nothing could typify this better than the BBC’s coverage of the Tory Party conference this week. For a moment I thought I’d gotten a free ride on HG Well’s time machine, when during BBC 2’s coverage of the conference on 6/10/04, three virtually geriatric former members of her majesty’s armed forces were exhumed for their views on the Tories desperate attempts to recapture the ground appropriated by the Labour government by asking them what they thought of Labour’s policy vis our armed forces.

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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 October 1-6 2004

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October 2004 — Information Clearing House

[I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB]

Information Clearing House
Digest October 1-6 2004
Date: 6 Oct 2004

1 YEAR & 181 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ

Iraq Had No Stockpiles of WMD – Duelfer:

Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons for military use before last year’s U.S.-led invasion and its nuclear program had decayed since the 1991 Gulf War, a U.S. weapons inspector said in testimony on Wednesday.
olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6430071

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Book Review: ‘The Politics of Empire: Globalisation in Crisis

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6 October 2004

Book review: The Politics of Empire: Globalisation in Crisis, edited by Alan Freeman and Boris Kargarlitsky

“The US war drive, going well beyond what it is now doing in Iraq, up to and including its clear and announced intention to deploy nuclear weapons, is not the deluded fantasy of a Strangelove but a considered and well prepared response to the emerging new world situation. It is part of a concerted strategic drive to ensure that whatever the international institutions fail to deliver by jaw, the Pentagon can secure by war.

“But for this very reason, it is not a product of strength but of weakness: it has come about because globalisation has failed to secure territorial governments that can impose the policies on which the US’s existence depends. With the failure of consent, the curtain falls on the age of globalisation, and opens on the age of war.” – From the Introduction.

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