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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
ICH: "Two super-sized adult male U.S. Secret Service (S.S.) agents banged on the front door at 14 year-old Julia Wilson's home last Thursday during school hours, but Julia wasn't home. Predictably (except to the S.S. agents), the straight-A student was in her microbiology class at school.
But Julia's mother, Kirstie, was home. When she opened her front door, she was a little taken aback, not only by the sizes of the agents and the official nature of the visit, but also by their questions and demeanor after she welcomed them inside.
The S.S. agents told Kirstie that they were investigating her daughter's role in setting up a MySpace Web page. In particular, they were troubled because the Web page included the creation of art that the agents felt was extremely threatening to the life of the President of the United States."
That artwork only expressed the feelings of millions of people, not what they are actually planning. And George W. Bush has no qualms at all about really killing hundreds of thousands. And he's probably up to more mischief.
PensitoReview: "Based on stories last month in Time magazine and The Nation, it appears that the U.S.S. Eisenhower Strike Group left Norfolk, Virginia, on Oct. 1 and will reach the shores of Iran at the Strait of Hormuz this Saturday, Oct. 21 - 17 days before the mid-term elections."
10:55:24 AM 
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CommonDreams: "Millions of people die of hunger-related causes every year. However, that is not because of actual shortages of food, but is a result of social injustice and political, social and economic exclusion, argue non-governmental organizations that launched a campaign in Spain on World Food Day Monday."
10:45:22 AM
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Independent: "George Bush and Tony Blair were looking more isolated than ever last night as the ground shifted further under their strategy of remaining in Iraq 'until the job is done'."
Independent: "The commander of the British forces returning from Helmand said that his forces were having to make up for the time lost by the decision of the US and UK to invade Iraq instead of concentrating on post-Taliban Afghanistan."
George Monbiot: "The courts are starting to accept that the war against Iraq is a crime.
In Britain and Ireland, protesters who have deliberately damaged military equipment are walking from the dock.
In Ireland and Germany the courts have made decisions - scarcely reported over here - whose implications are momentous. Last year, five peace campaigners were acquitted after using an axe and hammers to cause $2.5m worth of damage to a plane belonging to the US navy. When they attacked it, in February 2003, it had been refuelling at Shannon airport on its way to Kuwait, where it would deliver supplies to be used in the impending war. The jury decided that the five saboteurs were acting lawfully."
10:42:52 AM
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