TRUFFULAUT #11

http://home.earthlink.net/~truffulaut/id22.html

18 April 2004

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ALLIES

There are a lot of un-American attitudes out there.

CANADA: HUMANITY IS THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR

Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? -- Barbara Bush, the mother of numero cuarenta y tres, on ABC/Good Morning America, March 18, 2003

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1080993667768

UK: BLAIR'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF HIS CHOSEN ALLY IS DANGEROUS FOR US AND THE AMERICANS

A view from across the pond, written by Godfrey Hodgson of the UK Independent:

It is not George Bush's resolve that is in question. It is his understanding, his wisdom, and his decency.

http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=512186

FOREIGN POLICY?

Calling the current Administration's interaction with other nations "policy" seems like a real stretch.

APRIL FOOLS (HAPPY GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED EASTER)

The one newspaper representative allowed to attend said Bush was "grim and somber" and appeared "strained under the sudden and immense weight of the presidency."

I suppose 3½ years is a bit sudden, isn't it?

Both of these sites require Free Registration:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4152-2004Apr11.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8412178.htm

The site
(http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/12/MNGM463OM11.DTL)
apparently does not require registration. It has an edited version of the original Washington Post story, most notably omitting the final paragraph:

The group returned to the ranch for an Easter dinner of gingersnap-and-apricot-crusted ham and green chili cheese grits soufflé. Bush meets on his ranch Monday [April 12] with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak before returning to Washington.

RISE OF THE MACHINES
(http://www.drafthouse.com/trailers/robotcarnival.html)

The push to replace soldiers with machines is impelled by an over-extended military searching for ways to limit U.S. casualties, a powerful circle of arms manufacturers, and an empire-minded group of politicians addicted to campaign contributions by defense corporations.

http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0404machines.html

TIME FOR APOLOGIES

Do you remember when Saddam Hussein -- who at the time was dividing his time between a hole in the ground and a shed piled with dirty clothes and was obviously not commanding any organized opposition -- was captured last December 14?

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/12/iraq.reconsidered/index.html

BACK IN THE USA

DECLASSIFIED MEMO

Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

http://us.cnn.com/2004/images/04/10/whitehouse.pdf

SENATOR DASCHLE ON ABUSE OF GOVERNMENT POWER

If things were as they should be, Tom Daschle, senior Democratic Senator of South Dakota (http://daschle.senate.gov/), would be Majority Leader of the Senate.

I am compelled to rise again today, because the people around the President are systematically abusing the powers and prerogatives of government.

http://democrats.senate.gov/~dpc/releases/2004330506.html

Those named specifically in Senator Daschle's speech as victims of the venom emanating from Our White House:

Senator Max Cleland -- http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/spa/ccps/faculty/clelandm.html

Senator John McCain -- http://mccain.senate.gov/

Secretary Paul O'Neill -- http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/oneill-bio.html

Ambassador Joe Wilson -- http://www.greatertalent.com/bios/wilson.shtml

Richard Clarke -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Clarke

Richard Foster -- http://ds1.psc.dhhs.gov/hhsdir/eeKey.asp?Key=32754

Larry Lindsay used to work for Enron, used to work for Bush, and current contact information is not readily available.

General Eric Shinseki -- http://www.hiarmymuseumsoc.org/shop/shinseki_book.html

ARMAGEDDON PLAN WAS PUT INTO ACTION ON 9/11

An "Armageddon" program designed to ensure that the federal government would continue to function in the aftermath of a nuclear war was put into place during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55877-2004Apr6.html

ARMAGEDDON PLAN

At least once a year during the 1980s Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld vanished.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/03/mann.htm

ABC'S NIGHTLINE: TERROR ATTACK RAISES SUCCESSION CONCERNS

"A constitutional crisis could occur should both the president and vice president die," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a former Texas attorney general.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030917_147.html

CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT PLANS

For many years these plans were kept tightly under wraps, fearing the public panic that would no doubt follow a revelation that their government was busily planning for post-apocalyptic survival... The George W. Bush Administration put the Continuity of Operations plan into effect for the first time directly following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Continuity%20of%20Government%20Plans

STOP USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO PAY FOR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

· The Bush-Cheney campaign has used government employees to conduct opposition research on John Kerry. Even a former Republican Treasury official admitted that they had "stepped over the line" [Wall Street Journal, 3/31/04].

· The House Resources Committee posted a diatribe against Kerry's "absurd" energy ideas on its taxpayer-funded Web site [Associated Press, 4/6/04].

...among many others.

http://www.johnkerry.com/bill/

RESOURCES

C-SPAN

http://www.c-span.org

According to the New York Times (Free Registration required for online copyrighted articles), C-SPAN is seriously considering a time delay to filter out objectionable language from callers. As a friend of mine used to say, "@#&** $$%%!."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/business/19cspan.html

WATCH AND LISTEN TO LIVE STREAMING CONTENT FROM C-SPAN, C-SPAN 2, C-SPAN 3, & C-SPAN RADIO

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=

9/11 TESTIMONIES AVAILABLE ON C-SPAN FOR LIMITED TIME

If I find it online elsewhere, I will let you know.

http://c-span.org/

BROADBAND C-SPAN

With cable's broadband technology, you can do faster searches, download files quickly, and watch high-quality video online.

http://www.broadbandc-span.org/

FREE ONLINE DICTIONARIES

These are cited by Truffulaut today.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

SEARCHABLE ONLINE VERSION OF 1984, BY GEORGE ORWELL (1948)

As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust... Goldstein... had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor... All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured -- in some hiding-place in Oceania itself.

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/

SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT

CONDOLEEZA RICE'S MAGICAL TESTIMONY MACHINE

http://www.bettybowers.com/condoleezza.html

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