Latest News and Analysis June 16 -30

6-30-03 One Republican against Bush "Scott Ritter, former U.N. chief weapons inspector, is a self-professed conservative Republican who admitted to the audience he voted for Bush three years ago.
Since then, Ritter said, Bush has lied to the American public about the true situation in Iraq, particularly in regard to the weapons of mass destruction, which American forces, to date, have failed to locate."

6-30-03 Church of the Nativity excommunicates Bush, Blair "Spokesman of the Orthodox Church in the Holy Lands, archimandrite Attallah Hanna declared that U.S. President George Bush, his Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, British Premier Tony Blair, his Foreign Minister Jack Straw have all been deprived from visiting the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem."

6-30-03 The Death of Law "I woke up this morning and realized the Constitution was dead. The cadaver isn't really stinking yet, so not everyone knows, but I'm pretty sure it's as dead as the proverbial doornail."

6-30-03 Gun nuts Quick, name the gun nut who said: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms"? This from a website that not only demolishes the arguments of the anti-gun lobby, but, at the same time, manages to be very entertaining (some of this site requires the user to have Flash). Oh, and the answer to the question? Thomas Jefferson.

6-29-03 The War in Iraq

American counterinsurgency operation nets 60 arrests in Iraq “We go in with such overwhelming combat power that they won’t even think about shooting us,” Lt. Col. Mark Young said before the start of the operation. War is not over, U.S. warns "The United States warned yesterday that the war in Iraq was not yet over. As US forces discovered the bodies of two soldiers, missing since Wednesday, and a guerrilla ambush killed a further serviceman and wounded four others, a senior American officer warned: 'The first clear message that we have to take out of here is that this war is not over. I think that is pretty clear to all of us.'" Tikrit believe Sadaam is back "Nobody thinks the Americans will ever capture Saddam alive, even though he may be right under their noses. 'Saddam is protected by God. He is walking around Tikrit. He will never be captured because God is with him,' said Ali Waseem."

BBC, government feud over Iraq report "A dispute between Britain's biggest broadcaster and Prime Minister Tony Blair over the government's use of intelligence information in making the case for war in Iraq has turned personal—and nasty. Blair's combative communications chief is accusing a British Broadcasting Corp. reporter of lying, and neither side is backing down."

6-29-03 Since When Does Patriotism Mean Love of Big Government? "No one in Washington wants to dismantle any federal program or department. Even the once-despised National Endowment for the Arts gets a huge spending boost from these "conservative" Republicans. Ditto for federal spending for education, energy, agriculture, commerce, etc., and ad infinitum. And if you think all that's bad, wait until this new Homeland Security Department grows up. There won't be a shred of freedom left!…"

6-29-03 Supreme Court looking less conservative "In blockbuster rulings on affirmative action and gay rights and in less heralded decisions this term, a Supreme Court dominated by conservative jurists looked less conservative than it has in years."

6-29-03 Dignity and solidarity "The official Israeli policy, no matter whether Ariel Sharon uses the word 'occupation' or not or whether or not he dismantles a rusty, unused tower or two, has always been not to accept the reality of the Palestinian people as equals nor ever to admit that their rights have been scandalously violated all along by Israel."

6-29-03 Arabs seen as new villains in Hollywood "Now the Apache have become respected native Americans, the Iron Curtain gone, and Russia almost an ally, Arabs are pretty much the only villains in town. According to a new report, they are portrayed in a derogatory way 96 per cent of the time." Shooting the Arabs Professor Jack Shaheen has spent 20 years cataloguing Tinseltown's portrayal of Arabs in over 900 movies. He's found that, with very few exceptions, Arabs are presented in the movies as "subhuman" and detestable to a degree that the studios would no longer dare with any other ethnic group. Arab youths need positive images in media In Disney's Aladdin, notes Shaheen, “The evil, manipulating Jaffar character (left) is the only character with exaggerated Arab features,…" (None of this should be surprising, considering that the film industry is almost completely run by rabidly anti-Arab Israel Firsters, who have made Hollywood An Empire of Their Own.) What percentage of the time in the movies are, say, Jews portrayed in an unfavorable light? Real News 24/7 hasn't researched this, but our hunch is the answer must be hardly ever. From Exodus to Schindler's List, one film after another depicts them in a positive way, to the point where it well may be that they are shown in a sympathetic fashion 96 per cent of the time! To paraphrase Shaheen's remarks concerning the incessantly negative Arab characterization, this isn't to say that Jews shouldn't ever be positively portrayed, but that the overall approach needs to be much more balanced.

6-28-03 Two huge U.S. intelligence centers go up in Iraq "The new installations will greatly enhance America’s military, intelligence and electronic command and control over Iraq and its neighbors, notably Iran and Syria." (Real News 24/7: There's foreign aid to Israel and, then, there are the freebies!)

6-28-03 Flirting with fascism Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right.

6-28-03 Live from Dubai, it's Baghdad Bob!!! Yes, Iraq's former Minister of Information and master of the wildly inaccurate statement, Mohammed al-Sahaf, has survived the war. "Al-Sahaf had been a regular sight on TV before and during the US-led war, sporting military garb and a beret with dark hair peeking out. He boasted of non-existent Iraqi military dominance and hurled insults at coalition forces and their leaders. His outlandish claims and insults during the war bemused fellow Arabs and made al-Sahaf a notorious figure in the West, where dozens of Web sites, T-shirts, and dolls ridiculed him." Here's a website dedicated to Saddam's court jester extraordinaire.

6-27-03 Australian Jews protest David Irving film "The Jewish Community Council of Victoria state said it had asked the Equal Opportunity Commission to challenge plans by the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) to show Irving's (right) "The Search For Truth in History." Council President Michael Lipshutz: "All around the world it is now recognized that Holocaust denial is anti-Semitism."

French Editor Jailed For “Questioning” Holocaust The computers and archives on disks seized at his house have been apparently permanently confiscated.

Other revisionists under fire "Four months ago, Canadian history scholar Ernst Zündel was also arrested on a minor visa violation. Even though he is married to an American citizen, he was deported (the Patriot Act made that possible) to Canada and banned to return to the United States for the next 20 years." This link also includes photos and audios of all the speeches from the Barnes Review Conference (June 19-22), including Hutton Gibson, author and father of actor Mel Gibson, on "the Declining influence of Roman Catholicism"; Tito Howard updating news about the U.S.S. Liberty; retired FBI special agent Ted Gunderson on "What the System knew about 9-11 and FBI corruption since J. Edgar Hoover," Thomas K. Kimmel, grandson of Admiral Husband Kimmel, about how he seeks to clear his grandfather's reputation, who was unjustly blamed for allowing the Japanese sneak attack at Pearl Harbor; a Holocaust revisionism panel, and much more. (Click on "Broadcast" to access audios.)

6-27-03 From our "Believe it or not" department: Company fined $6,000 for answering customer's question, "Is any of this stuff made in Israel?"

6-27-03 Our government-controlled press—CIA Origins "Katherine Graham, for decades owner of the Washington Post, had this to say to top CIA officials as the Berlin Wall was starting to crack. ‘There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.’"

6-27-03 Pro-life Group to Lead Demonstration at Clinic Where Diana Lopez Bled to Death After an Abortion "When and Where: Protest to be held Saturday, June 28, at 9 a.m. in front of Planned Parenthood at 1057 Kingston Ave. in Los Angeles. Survivors, a nationally known pro-life youth organization, will be leading the event and is calling for the immediate firing of Dr. Maltzer and a statewide investigation of abortion clinics."

6-26-03 SUPREME COURT LEGALIZES SODOMY

By a 6-3 vote, the Justices overturn a Texas law banning homosexual relations, thus effectively opening the way for deviant sexuality throughout the United States. "Gay" groups announce celebrations in 35 cities around the nation, but others are appalled. "Given that the court is now governed by an elite group that reflects the liberal opinion of major universities and even corporate boards, I think they will continue to function as a wrecking ball in our culture and destroy the legal framework for having a family-friendly society," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture & Family Institute. [Real News 24/7: June 26, 2003 is destined to will go down in history, along with January 22, 1973 (the day the Court's Roe vs. Wade decision legalized abortion), as a date upon which a tremendous evil was visited to American society.] Pro-family group denounces decision Focus on the Family's Vice President of Public Policy Tom Minnery: "With today's decision the court continues pillaging its way through the moral norms of our country."

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Kentucky priest convicted of homosexual abuse of boy "This defendant, more so than any other, needs to be in prison,'' prosecutor Michael Mann said. He said the 55-year-old [Rev. Daniel] Clark (shown, right) "had a chance to change and he didn't.' [Real News 24/7: Like 99% of the so-called pedophile priests, Clark's victims of choice were young boys—he and the rest of them ought to be identified correctly for what they are: predatory homosexuals. The Book of Gomorrah (Liber Gomorrhianus) an eleventh-century treatise on the sins of clerical homosexuality and pederasty is still important reading. Had the post-Vatican II church utilized this work in its seminaries, instead of heeding the Siren call of sociologists, fewer Rev. Clarks would be running around (at least not swearing Roman collars and being addressed as "Father"). Also, the widespread policy of bishops to coddle these men would not be rampant. See Goodbye, Good Men for information on how so many the seminaries went so bad.

BBC: Anglican church divided over proposed homosexual bishop "Thirty-five church leaders urged openly gay Canon Jeffrey John to withdraw his acceptance of the position when they met in Oxford on Wednesday night."…other religious news

6-26-03 Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad backyard WMDs "missing link"? Well, maybe in the sense that the "Piltdown Man"—a jawbone and part of a skull—was fraudulently passed off as mankind's missing link. Or, as the the author of Baghdad's WMD "evidence" says, this is the same as finding a couple of screws and deciding it's evidence of a car.

6-26-03 The Myth of Tiny, Little Israel: Zionist Tentacles Everywhere "The facts go and on, one has but to look at UN reports on these matters of Israeli abuses to see that it would take me dozens, nay hundreds of pages to cite all the abuses of even the last dozen years—not to mention the previous and ongoing atrocities being committed in the name of 'security'—very much like Hitler needing more and more land for Germany’s 'security.'"

6-26-03 Israelis Exonerated in Rachel Corrie's Death The cover-up continues. Whether Corrie was murdered, as the International Solidarity Movement (ISM—the group she was part of) maintains or was her death was unintentional, as Israel contends, is at a very basic, non-political level, irrelevant. The official ruling holds that the bulldozer driver can't be held accountable, since he didn't see her, but this explanation doesn't wash. The simple truth is that ISM activists had been confronting the bulldozers all day, so every driver had a grave obligation to make certain that they had clearance before proceeding, just as a someone driving through a school zone must go forward with due caution. This being said, the driver who ran over Rachel Corrie was , at the very minimum, guilty of willful negligence resulting in her death. But there is no justice for the enemies of Israel as the family and friend of Rachel Corrie have discovered. Rachel Corrie Memorial website A bulldozer driver speaks "I didn't see dead bodies under the blade of the D-9, but I don't care if there where any." (This article originally appeared in an Israeli newspaper and is reprinted here by Gush Shalom, the Israeli peace group.)

6-26-03 Pentagon whistleblower reveals CIA/DoD fiascos "In a world exclusive, Al Martin Raw.com has published a news story about a Department of Defense whistleblower reveals that a US covert operations team had planted 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' (WMDs) in Iraq – then 'lost' them when the team was killed by so-called 'friendly fire.'"

6-26-03 Where is Saddam? Could he be in Hawaii? "Rumors are no novelty in Baghdad, where papers regularly print articles, complete with front-page photographs of white-bearded Orthodox Jews, about a Zionist conspiracy to buy up the city's best real estate"

6-25-03 Left, Right take aim at Bush aide White House Chief Counsel Alberto Gonzales' name is being thrown around as a possible Supreme Court nominee, but he may find the going tough. "Conservative purists are attacking his stance on affirmative action and abortion decisions rendered as a Texas Supreme Court justice. Liberals are challenging his role in White House decisions they say threatened civil liberties.…" Gonzales waiting for date with the Supremes Background of the potential Justice (puff piece from MSNBC News). Conservatives want Alberto Gonzales kept off the Supreme Court Some feel he could be another David Souter: "Thirteen years ago, then-White House chief of staff John Sununu called Souter's nomination a "home run" for conservatives. But today, Souter is firmly in the high court's liberal bloc, supporting abortion rights, affirmative action and a high wall of separation between church and state." Gonzales supports secret military tribunals Transcript of his interview with Jim Lehrer on PBS Newshour "We, of course, are in an extraordinary time, Jim. And these call for different kinds of measures.…"

6-25-03 Dad seeks inquiry in Dodi's death "Mohammed Al Fayed, the owner of the Harrods department store, asked a Scottish court today to review a decision turning down his request for a public inquiry into the death of his son in a car crash in France that also killed Princess Diana."

6-24-03 DARPA, PNAC and the Perfect Killing Machine Popular movies and TV shows like Robocop (right), The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, to name a few, have dealt with characters who have been electronically transfigured into part human, part machine. They were fiction, but the reality may be nearer than you think. DARPA, the same folks who brought us the Total Information Awareness office, have announced the formation of the Brain Machine Interface Program, which could bring about an army of cyborgs. "While Stepford soldiers may not be marching onward just yet, technology is headed in that direction. Researchers at the State University of New York in New York City successfully implanted electrodes into a rat's brain and turned it into a remote controlled robo-rodent."

6-24-03 Six British soldiers killed in Iraqi ambush "It was the biggest daily death toll sustained by coalition forces since March 23, three days after the start of the war to topple Saddam Hussein."

6-24-03 Blix criticizes U.S. accusation on Iraq's weapons "'It is sort of puzzling I think that you can have 100% certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where they are,' he said."

6-24-03 Mueller: FBI making strides in war on terror He described the Patriot Act as "essential" and decried "misperceptions" about how its powers might be misused. Mueller reorganizing FBI into a tool of oppression "Robert Mueller was the first FBI Director to speak at an ACLU conference and his buddy John Ashcroft was also invited to speak, but declined. Whatever one may justifiably think of the American Civil Liberties Union, they asked some questions that a whole lot of people have been asking." [Real News 24/7: Let's keep in mind that this is the same ACLU that permits high-profile member Alan Dershowitz to promote torture as a tool in the "War on Terrorism" (no civil rights for Arabs?) on nationally-aired TV talk shows.]

6-23-03 Trilateral Commission clear in directing world government "World banker David Rockefeller is very clear: The states, the peoples, the governments and the economies of world must serve the needs of the multinational banks and corporations." The on-going conspiracy to create a one world dictatorship Salient quotes about the push for global tyranny. Mankind's tormentors: a brief history of the international bankers "In order for these potential rulers to take control of the world through subversive tactics, the dominating world powers had to be brought to their knees. The power of the Church had to be decimated as well as the French, British, and Germanic Empires." The Trilateral Commission official website

6-23-03 An Iraqi 'quackmire' in the making US sergeant to The Washington Post: "The war is supposed to be over, but every day we hear of another soldier getting killed. Saddam [Hussein] isn't in power anymore. The locals want us to leave. Why are we still here? "

6-22-03 Now Bush blames failure to find WMDs on looters Oh, no, it's Washington's answer to Baghdad Bob! For the uninformed, Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf aka Baghdad Bob aka Comical Ali, has become a cult hero in the West due to his slightly surreal and unintentionally funny (and, on rare occasion, accurate) pronouncements during Iraq War II. A few examples of his comedic genius: "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" "We will welcome them with bullets and shoes." "Listen, this explosion does not frighten us any longer. The cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river." "I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad." "We are winning!" Here's a website dedicated to Saddam's court jester extraordinaire. The loutish looters, delirious in their folly, have hidden the Weapons of Mass Destruction, but believe me, we shall mercilessly root them out like wild pigs, every one of them!!!

6-21-03 Media silent on Clark's 9/11 comments Retired general and Clinton crony Wesley Clark tells Meet the Press that the Bush White House urged him to say Saddam was behind attacks, but provided him with no evidence.

6-21-03 Wesley Clark: The best candidate not running Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist joins a growing number promoting a Clark run. On 6-20, Clark went from outright denial that he was a candidate to "maybe." Now, who's the War Party.?

6-21-03 Wesley Clark—a war criminal? Not so fast with those endorsements!

6-21-03 Flashback: NATO has installed a reign of terror in Kosovo…with the able assistance of "the best candidate not running."

6-21-03 No Prior Warning At WTC On 911? Corrected casualty assessments now indicate that the only major tenant of the World Trade Center to suffer suspiciously light losses on the morning of Sept. 11 was the FBI.

6-21-03 Bush's shift Israel was swift The day after President Bush delivered a rare public criticism of Israel last week, he sat down to dinner at the White House with 100 Jewish leaders and did some damage control." (Just ask yourself one question, Mr. President: "Do I want to be reelected?")

6-20-03 Flashback: Clinton's Jewish Connection Much has been made of the the Israel First orientation of the Bush Administration—and rightly so. But it would be a mistake to think that the Zionists only began to exert power in the White House with the 2000 Election. So, in the spirit of non-partisan, equally opportunity president-bashing (and reflecting on the possibility that a Clinton might one day again haunt the Oval Office), Real News 24/7 presents Bill Clinton's kosher political diet. The late Israel Shahak, a courageous Israeli who spoke out against war crimes committed by his country, wrote: "The tremendous influence of the Jewish establishment upon the Clinton administration found its clearest manifestation in redefining the 'occupied territories' as 'territories in dispute'. The Palestinians are understandably angry. But lest they be accused of anti-Semitism, they cannot, God forbid, talk about Clinton's 'Jewish connection'." (Emphasis added; for much more of and about Shahak's writings and work, see our special report, Jews against Zionism: The hidden protest.)

6-20-03 Charley Reese: Road map to nowhere "[I]t is immoral in the extreme for the United States to condone the criminal acts of Israel, which include: assassinations of its political opponents; demolition of houses; the uprooting of olive trees and other agricultural products; the sealing off of towns and villages; mass arrests without charges; imposition of curfews; murder of civilians, including children; and confiscation of land and water resources."

6-20-03 Why no objection to Israel's WMDs In the name of security, Israel has continued to stockpile biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Never forget that Middle East "peace" is always peace as Israel dictates!

6-20-03 Theater of deception: Bush, Sharon and Abbas "George W. Bush, it appears is an adept thespian. Look at the way he kept telling the world that he was 'doing all I can not to go to war with Iraq'—when, in fact, he'd made the decision months earlier to definitely go to war against Iraq."

6-19-03 Finland: PM resigns over use of classified Iraq documents "Newly elected Finnish Prime Minister Anneli Jaatteenmaki, the country's first female prime minister, announced her resignation yesterday after being accused of lying to parliament over her use of classified documents on Iraq. She had been in office just 63 days." Squeaky clean Finns red-faced by PM leak scandal "Finns, who pride themselves on having stable, smooth governments, were stunned over Jaatteenmaki's actions, though many voters in other parts of Europe may be puzzled that a leader should quit when allegations remained unproven." Police investigate Jäätteenmäki's actions in "Iraqgate"

6-19-03 C.I.A. fears terrorists may have jet "A Boeing 727 jet that made an unauthorized take-off from Luanda airport three weeks ago may be in the hands of terrorists, United States officials say." [Real News 24/7 comment: What better to divert attention from the missing WMDs than a missing 727?]

6-19-03 U.S. troops "shoot civilians" "American soldiers in Iraq today make the astonishing admission that they regularly kill civilians."

6-19-03 Goldstein sentenced for plotting to bomb mosques Curious, but none of the accounts mentioned "terrorist" or "hate crime." Seems the court and the news media are giving him a free pass on that regard.

6-18-03 Canada to allow homosexual "marriages" Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said he will file a bill to permit same-sex marriages, a change that would make Canada only the third country where homosexual couples can legally wed. Flow of "gay" immigrants predicted Now, if only they'd stay there. A potential U.S.-Canadian thorn: "gay weddings" But American sodomites see the change as "a powerful tool to break down the remaining discrimination here."

A few reactions from Canadian religious groups (at posting these were the only online stories):

And what about the children? "Someday, Canada will come to regret all that it has done to separate marriage from procreation and the nurturing of children."
Church slams gay marriage ruling "If marriage is redefined, the EFC [Evangelical Fellowship of Canada] is concerned about increasing discrimination against religious communities that cannot accept the legitimacy of same-sex marriage."
Rabbis split over the legalization of same-sex marriage Rabbi David Novak, professor of Jewish studies at the University of Toronto and an opponent of the measure, warned: “I don’t think gays will stop. I think their aim is to totally, completely transform the moral tone of society.” (Emphasis added)

Real News 24/7 readers in the United States are again encouraged to Support the Federal Marriage Amendment and urge their representatives at national, state and local levels to see that no repetition of Canada's bad example occur south of the U.S.-Canadian border. (We urge readers in other countries to fight against same-sex marriages in their country, as well. And we extend to our Canadian readers our deepest sympathy and hope that they soon can overturn this insanity.)

6-18-03 Israel may retaliate for girl's murder Why is it always called murder when an Israeli child is deliberately killed by Palestinian extremists, but only an "accident" or "collateral damage" when a Palestinian child is deliberately killed the Israeli Defense Forces?

6-18-03 Knesset forbids citizenship to Palestinians who marry Jews "A controversial government bill that would halt granting citizenship to Palestinian residents of the territories who marry Israelis passed its
first reading Wednesday in a stormy Knesset session." Proponents said citizenship would be too risk, since it allowed free passage around the country, but one MK opposing the bill likened it to Germany's
World War II-era Nuremberg Laws." (How different the mentality of Israel's Zionist ruling class is from its "ally," the United States. In America, foreigners who immigrate here are considered citizens, not enemy agents.)

6-18-03 Author warns of new legislative push for doctor-assisted suicide "With advocates for doctor-assisted suicide pushing for legislative passage in Hawaii and Vermont, the author of an updated book on the subject has issued a bleak warning. Wesley J. Smith writes that physician-aided suicide could evolve into a widespread practice of doctors refusing to treat certain patients because they are too old or too sick."

6-18-03 A supreme act of treason "Unlike other pieces of legislation which typically assault our liberties one at a time, the Patriot Act completely shreds the Bill of Rights. Our Founding Fathers would have never even debated such a proposition; they probably would have reached for their guns."

6-17-03 Bring me the head of Frank Keating! Refusing to recant, Keating resigns as church panel chief What would happen if, after being picked by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to head a panel on priest sexual child abuse (popularly referred to in the news media as "pedophiles," but, in reality, predatory homosexuals), you said some of the bishops "act like La Cosa Nostra and hide and suppress [evidence of abuse]"? Well, if your name is Frank Keating, you would be asked in less than friendly terms to resign. Keating, former Oklahoma governor, infuriated Godfather—er, Cardinal—Roger Mahony of Los Angeles so much that he ordered a "hit" on the candid chairman. (L.A. cardinal critical of governor overseeing sex abuse panel) In the letter tendering his resignation, Keating was anything but contrite, making a distinction between the Church founded by Jesus Christ and what he sees as its polar opposite: "It is not a criminal enterprise. It does not condone and cover up criminal activity. It does not follow a code of silence. My remarks, which some bishops found offensive, were deadly accurate. I make no apology. To resist grand jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, to deny, to obfuscate, to explain away; that is the model of a criminal organization, not my church." (Emphasis added) Well said, Governor! No wonder they forced him to resign—instead of being the yes man they desired, Keating sounded more like someone ready to drive the money changers out of the Temple (or the mob bosses out of hiding). Unfortunately, as usual, the victims are the ones who'll suffer more (Keating resignation seen as a setback). Real News 24/7 salutes Frank Keating for opposing this evil in high places and standing tall for principle even when forced to resign, but in so doing, we feel obliged to add: Governor, you should have seen this coming— your ouster only confirms the validity of your remarks! The USCCB is not willing to do any thing substantive about the rottenness in its midst and you were canned precisely because you insisted that they confront the rottenness and dispose of it. Your ouster should be lamented, not only by every Catholic, but by anyone eager to see justice served on behalf of the victims of the predator priests and an end to the system that condones and covers up such evil. (For a book exploring the origins of "pedophile priest" problem, Real News 24/7 recommends Michael Rose's Goodbye, Good Men. In it, he looks at the the homosexual underground in Catholic seminaries, a phenomenon that has grown to pandemic proportions since the Second Vatican Council. Rose interviews dozens of ex-seminarians who were often ostracized, not because they were "gay," but because they weren't; who were told they didn't have a vocation to the priesthood, not because they lacked piety, but because they were too pious! While we don't agree with all of his conclusions and we think he has wimped out by refusing to use the term "conspiracy" in addressing the issue (as though it was a coincidence that all of these seminaries went bad in the same way and at the same time!), we still believe the book merits our commendation for the way it conclusively proves that the evil fruit of the predatory priests manifested today is the direct result of bad seeds were planted decades ago.

6-17-03 "Jane Roe" wants a ban on abortion "Norma McCorvey, who joined the anti-abortion fight nearly 10 years ago and says she regrets her role in Roe v. Wade, said the Supreme Court's decision is no longer valid because scientific and anecdotal evidence that has come to light in the last 30 years has shown the negative effects of abortion." Roe no more Norma McCorvey's website.

6-17-03 Section 861:The law they hope you never read "I’m speaking of fraud on a scale so massive and so enduring it could only be perpetrated by the federal government. That is to say, a federal government operating way outside of the limits mandated by the Constitution."

6-17-03 Federal Reserve Interventionism "The bedrock of the U.S. economic system for nearly the past century has been the policy of interventionism. Specifically, intervention in the financial markets by way of central bank money lending operations and easing (or tightening) of interest rates." Federal Reserve System/central banking archive G. Edward Griffin on the Fed: "What are its objectives? What are the objectives of any cartel? To make money for the members of the cartel, to improve the profit margins of the members of the cartel and to stabilize themselves in the marketplace. That is the true objective of the Federal Reserve System." Abolish the Fed petition "The consequences of wealth confiscation by the Federal Reserve mechanism are now upon us. In the current decade, corporate debt is soaring; personal debt is greater that ever; both business and personal bankruptcies are at an all time high. Interest on the national debt is consuming half of our tax dollars and we are facing an international trade deficit for the first time in history."

6-16-03 Expert to expose WMD "exaggeration" "A former senior Australian defense analyst who resigned in March claiming the government was exaggerating the Iraqi threat is to appear before British MPs probing intelligence on Baghdad's weapons programs, it emerged today."

6-16-03 BBC poll: World opposed to Bush and Iraq War

6-16-03 It's time for them to go "Bernie says the media has learned a little trick -- that the American people will believe what they are told by the media to believe. It must be true, because like George Orwell said, 'All happenings are in the mind--people believe what you put in their minds.'"

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