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TRUFFULAUT #6
20 FEBRUARY 2004
FOREIGN POLICY
COST OF THE WAR IN
IRAQ
http://costofwar.com/
JAPANESE MILITARY ON THE RISE
Japan throws off pacifist cloak
and once again hoists nationalist flag of militarism "Politically a minnow on
the world stage, Japan is potentially a military giant. The world's
second-largest economy boasts an army of 238,000 which is probably the
best-equipped in the world outside the US, thanks to Japan's 50-year alliance
with Washington."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=492400
RUSSIAN
WAR GAMES
Latest news is that the ICBM did not fire correctly, but it's
the thought that counts, isn't it? http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/02/17/009.html
DOMESTIC ISSUES
PLANETARY
PHYSICS, OR 'WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON?'
President Calls Economy 'Strong
and Getting Stronger'
It's easy to be delusional when you have a severe
personality disorder, but does the entire nation have to suffer too? We're
having a "jobless recovery," which means that robber barons and captains of
industry are thriving.
http://servihoo.com/channels/kinews/v3news_details.php?id=32142&CategoryID=47
WHITE HOUSE SAYS RECESSION BEGAN UNDER CLINTON
...which, were
it true, does not explain why, three full years after the squatters entered our
White House, it is still here...
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=S2JUWWEEA0W2ICRBAEKSFFA?type=reutersEdge&storyID=4317144
POLICE SAY MATRIX CRIME DATABASE NEEDED
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/7922142.htm
U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND
Read it and weep (or
not).
http://www.northcom.mil/
http://www.northcom.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=s.whoweare
MEN OF NOTE
HOLLYWOOD
LIBERALS?
Don't be surprised if Oliver Stones upcoming film Alexander
[http://imdb.com/title/tt0346491/combined] draws parallels between the Macedonian conquer and George W Bush. "The
connection is the West moving into the East," Stone said, according to the Thai
newspaper Nation. "Alexander did the same journey. He went into Iraq, took
Babylon, then went north into Afghanistan." [And he smiteth his
critics...]
Incidentally, isn't Asia "The East" because it is east of
Europe? The ancient Chinese referred to their nation as the Middle Kingdom
(http://www.bartleby.com/65/mi/MiddleKi.html). I guess it had to move before the Europeans could find
it.
AL GORE ON "THE USES AND MISUSES OF FEAR" AT NEW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY, NYC
Another fine speech by the winner of the 2000
presidential election.
http://www.newschool.edu/admin/pres/spring04/algorespeech.html
DONALD RUMSFELD
I was listening to the Bangles (Walk Like An
Egyptian) and decided...
http://home.earthlink.net/~truffulaut/id21.html
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