tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31714082011-06-07T23:23:03.381-07:00Department of RumsfeldWASHINGTON, D.C. 23.10.03<br>
<i>Will Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld never stop? Portrayed in the mainstream press as a crotchety but smart geezer, Rummy has practically set up his own government. It's almost like a mini-coup in Bush's Washington.</i>
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1176606267820369972007-04-14T20:00:00.000-07:002007-05-09T16:48:04.519-07:00 People in the know now confess that Gitmo isn't going away until Bush ends his term. All the more reason to build yourself and cage and protest. COMPLETE INTRUCTIONSRealo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1170457646641081362007-02-02T15:07:00.000-08:002007-02-02T15:07:26.650-08:00Domestic Surveillance by the DOD
Minutes ago, I had just successfully countered a hack attempt against my home computer by a system in France (88.191.28.59), combined with a mysterious IP address from Sprint in Virginia (205.245.110.154). Immediately after I filed a protest with Sprint, a similar IP address took up the attack. I tracked it to "Space and Warfare Command" in Washington, DC. David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1168393408632526832007-01-09T17:37:00.000-08:002007-01-10T03:17:30.496-08:00Judge Allows Discovery to Proceed in Chicago Suit Against Rumsfeld
I spoke with Mike Kanowitz of Loevy and Loevy this morning, and the latest news of his client's lawsuit against the former Secretary of Defense is that Judge Milton Shadur has decided to allow discovery to proceed, although service of process has not yet been completed. It is a forgone conclusion that a response will be David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1168219091903540502007-01-07T17:17:00.000-08:002007-01-07T17:18:11.913-08:00Case Continues Against Rumsfeld in Chicago
On Friday, I contacted the law firm representing Donald Vance in his lawsuit against Rumsfeld in the Northern District of Illinois, the jurisdiction where they both live. They are still "trying to accomplish service" on Rumsfeld.
Lucky for him that his old boss, Gerald Ford passed away in a timely manner:
Rumsfeld was in Ann Arbor while the Sheriff was David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1167919673461840892007-01-04T06:07:00.000-08:002007-01-04T06:07:53.470-08:00End Torture and Detainment: Protest on January 11
Thursday January 11, 2007 is the 5th anniversary of illegal detention at Guantánamo Naval Base. Build your own Gitmo cage, and join the nationwide protests! Events are being coordinated by Witness Against Torture. They also have provided complete instructions for the "Gitmo cage" shown in the protest at right. STORY AND PLANSDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1166647350803699372006-12-20T12:36:00.000-08:002006-12-20T12:53:51.046-08:00Rumsfeld Under the Gun of Major Law Firm
Loevy and Loevy has won 11 of their last 12 contests.
How many coaches can match this? Plaintiff Donald Vance
won't need any coaching: his full story of torture and
secret detention is right out in public, and Loevy is ready to collect on his pain and suffering. IN 1999, they won a US$28 Million judgement against the Chicago police, before the SAME JUDGE David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1166126662465836742006-12-14T12:04:00.000-08:002006-12-14T12:04:22.483-08:00Iraq Study Group Members Profit from Secret UK Defense Lab
George Tenet, Frank Carlucci, and James Baker benefit from the privatization of sensitive UK defense assets finalized shortly before 9/11. On July 1, 2001, a portion of the British "Defence Evaluation and Research Agency" was renamed QuinetiQ. Former DCI George Tenet is one of its' directors.
These same people will profit from the David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1147307751660917572006-05-10T17:31:00.000-07:002006-05-10T17:35:59.316-07:00Laughing Off Disaster at the Bush White House
Laughter in response to tough questions isn't unusual in the Bush White House. Yesterday's reponse to the 18 page letter from Iran's President Ahmadinejad was not much different from what we recently experienced when Bush was questioned by an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University about contractor impunity - although it was not nearly as David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1145141616388265242006-04-15T15:47:00.000-07:002006-04-15T15:54:49.916-07:00CNN Circles the Wagons Around Rummy
The Washington press corps must be specially trained for their duties:
they need to whistle the right tune while in the government-approved postion.
That's why special knee pads are issued.
Obviously, Barbara Starr was wearing hers when she reported on Rumfeld's
loss of favor among the top brass of our uniformed soldiers. I'm not done dishing it out:
for a fullDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1131664187504553912005-11-10T15:09:00.000-08:002005-11-10T15:10:24.036-08:00Ahmed Chalabi Goes to Washington
Ahmed Chalabi will be visiting Donald Rumsfeld and other high-level government officials while being whisked around DC in a Secret Service Limo. Pretty royal treatment for a fellow with so many pending warrants for his arrest.
FULL STORYDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1130103489491719912005-10-23T14:18:00.000-07:002005-10-23T14:42:11.550-07:00Rumsfeld's appointment as Secretrary of Defense came at an opportune time in his career. He was a member of the transition team of George Ryan, then the newly elected governor of Illinois. It was not widely known at the time that George's Republican cabal had been using tax money to fund Republican political campiagns since 1991. Alan Drazek, one of Rumsfeld's fellow committee members, pled guildDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1129783258549731992005-10-19T21:35:00.000-07:002005-10-19T21:40:58.556-07:00Two hours ago I met Dahr Jamail: the news from Iraq wasn't pretty. It will be more difficult for a reporter to go in and get the type of coverage he got in January of this year. In June he was asked to testify for the International Tribunal on Iraq. He read from his testimony and indicated that the horrors he saw were only the tip of the iceberg. I will be posting my notes and a few photos of theDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1129588399964529582005-10-17T15:16:00.000-07:002005-10-17T16:17:43.993-07:00Role of Pakistan Central to Current Conflicts in the Former British Empire
The nuclear capability in Iran was aquired from Pakistan,and likewise were the leadership and intelligence resources of the Taliban. Half a decade ago, experts were seriously adressing this problem which then seemed to focus on the nuclear saber-rattling between India and Pakistan.
In the picture above, George W. Bush David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1123795690515716352005-08-11T14:26:00.000-07:002005-08-11T14:28:10.523-07:00
Fort Monroe General Loses his 4 Stars in Secret Controversy
The cover story for the abrupt firing of 4 star general Kevin P. Byrnes was "sexual misconduct". Byrnes was an expert on simulation of battle situation using the latest technology. His publications in military journals have served to explain the future direction of the US Military. There are indications that he had become disenchanted David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1123194281351911242005-08-04T15:24:00.000-07:002005-08-04T15:24:41.356-07:00Joe Wilson Interviewed on the CIA/Rove Scandal
This morning's interview with Joe Wilson on Democracy Now! shed some new light on the fallout from the faked Niger Uranium documents. How did the "outing" of CIA agent Valerie Plame by Karl Rove result in the imprisonment of journalist Judith Miller? What did she really know? Last year's statement from Wilson and the original documents are still David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1113970954663765152005-04-19T21:14:00.000-07:002005-04-19T21:22:34.666-07:00Last week, Donald Rumsfeld made some surprise visits to the middle east, to Azerbaijan on Tuesday April 12, after a visit in Iraq on Monday the 11th when the BBC reported:
The US is worried that officers from the security forces who served under Saddam Hussein may be dismissed...
This would seem to indicate a hidden meaning to Rumsfeld's call to achieve democracy and block the insurgency: the David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1113345240598842742005-04-12T15:33:00.000-07:002005-04-12T15:34:00.600-07:00
Occupations Seeks to Extinguish Popular Government in Iraq
Buried within the stories of protests in Iraq is news that "officials of Moqtada al Sadr" were gunned down en route to Baghdad. I had indicated in the previous DOGSPOTs last year that even during the rule of Saddam Hussein, a de-facto administration, led by the al Sadr family, existed in Iraq, with offices in various regions of the David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1110668514253050242005-03-12T14:58:00.000-08:002005-03-12T15:01:54.300-08:00
Another Journalist Silenced in Iraq
An important part of the war in Iraq has been the war conducted by Donald Rumfeld against journalism. A former Air Force intelligence officer has presented a cogent analysis of the latest "accidental" death.
"... the control of information from Fallujah as to consequences of the US assault, particularly with regard to civilians, became a critical element in David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1110314460146070362005-03-08T12:38:00.000-08:002005-03-08T12:41:49.026-08:00Habeas Corpus for Jose Padilla
Jose Padilla has once again obtained a writ of Habeas Corpus: albeit Donald Rumsfeld has been given another 45 days to produce
the body.
full story and documents
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1083952222742355252004-05-07T10:50:00.000-07:002004-05-07T10:53:36.483-07:00Protesters Greet Rumsfeld at Hearing on Torture
This breaking story was just posted on indymedia in Washington, DC. Original source will be confirmed as soon as possible:
Washington, DC (05-07) At about 12 PM eastern time a small group of protesters disrupted a Senate and House Armed Services committee hearing, interrupting Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the middle of a statement.
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1083283711774927202004-04-29T17:08:00.000-07:002004-04-29T17:11:54.903-07:00Security Guard from Oregon Dies in Iraq
Thomas Carter of Portland Oregon was riding in a truck to a munitions site, when the bomb exploded...
more from DOGSPOTDOGSPOT UKDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1082582653671967392004-04-21T14:24:00.000-07:002004-04-21T14:27:11.920-07:00Guns for Haiti
According to retired ATF agent Daniel McBride:"We would see, all of a sudden, a rash of large gun purchases, a large quantity of gun purchases throughout South Florida. We would find that then, a month or two months later, we would see a coup take place in Haiti." more from DOGSPOTDOGSPOT UKRealo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1082518476255533622004-04-20T20:34:00.000-07:002004-04-20T20:37:33.606-07:00Iran Contra Conspiracy Continues in Iraq and Haiti
John Negroponte, currently US ambassador to the UN will soon direct the largest US embassy in the world as ambassador to Iraq. It's not surprising that he will be a major figure in the concluding chapters of our costly venture in Iraq: He was in it from the beginning.
more from DOGSPOTDOGSPOT UKDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1081887180030180132004-04-13T13:13:00.000-07:002004-04-13T13:16:40.356-07:00Young Victim of Terror War Arrives in Canada
14 year old Karin Elsamnah Khadr arrived in Toronto, paralysed during a shootout with Pakistani troops. His mother obtained an emergency passport so he could receive medical treatment. His brother also has tales to tell of his stay in a compound with Osama Bin Laden:
more from DOGSPOTDOGSPOT UKDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1081378777177834362004-04-07T15:59:00.000-07:002004-04-07T16:02:20.950-07:00Background of US Duplicity in Haiti
...there are two governments: the official government and the invisible one (the Pentagon and CIA), which is often referred to in Haiti as the "Laboratory."...
more from DOGSPOTDOGSPOT UKDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1080856543259285552004-04-01T13:55:00.000-08:002004-04-01T13:58:20.983-08:00Iraqis Lash Out at Occupation
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP 03-31)
"...frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four men identified as U.S. security guards through the streets of a town...
west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad ..."
...In Baghdad, at least 10,000 supporters of a radical Shiite Muslim cleric rallied Wednesday outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in a protest David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1080705907315588302004-03-30T20:05:00.000-08:002004-03-30T20:07:43.983-08:00Previous Coup Leaders Haunt Haiti
The New York Times Reports
Mr. Latortue struck a discordant note with American policy makers last week when he lauded the rebels...
Among those basking in the (was) Louis-Jodel Chamblain, convicted in absentia of murdering a Haitian businessman.
This is corroborated by
Haiti Progres:
"Chamblain had also been convicted of the murder of Antoine Izméry, a David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1080430016639096252004-03-27T15:26:00.000-08:002004-03-27T15:29:29.810-08:00Bush Must Obey Rule of Law
What is wrong with this picture?
On June 9, 2002, as a federal judge stood ready to review whether the
government had enough evidence to hold Joseph Padilla, President Bush
signed an order declaring him an enemy combatant. He was taken to a
naval brig in Charleston,South Carolina,
where he was held incommunicado for more than 2 years until recently
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1080333936674363542004-03-26T12:45:00.000-08:002004-03-26T12:48:08.653-08:00Think Small and Carry a Big Stick: Bush's New Motto
It's regrettable that amidst the controversies surrounding 911 and Iraq Intelligence that the Bush administration has failed to rise to the occasion and provide solid reasoning to justify its action (or lack thereof). Instead they have proved their ability to think small.
more from DOGSPOT
DOGSPOT UKDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1080171012274358762004-03-24T15:30:00.000-08:002004-03-24T15:32:42.530-08:00According to the Times of India,two suspects detained in connection with the March 11 terrorist attacks in Spain may ultimately turn out to be ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence of Pakistan) agents. This may further embarass an administration that has relied upon Pakistan as an ally against Al Queda, an organization created by Pakistan's ISI and still intricately linked to it. David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1080166214324341582004-03-24T14:10:00.000-08:002004-03-24T14:12:44.700-08:00Mixed Signals from Pakistan
"...elements within the Pakistani military and its intelligence establishment are helping Al-Qaeda members evade capture and making a mockery of the media hype about the fresh military operations against leaders such as Osama bin Laden, United States analysts have said.
With anti-Taliban and anti-Al Qaeda forces controlling Kabul, Stratfor said, the only remaining David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079727577441184502004-03-19T12:19:00.000-08:002004-03-19T12:22:02.623-08:00 US Gunfire Increases Toll of Arab Journalists
BAGHDAD (IHT 03-19) A reporter for the Arab satellite television station Al Arabiya died from his wounds Friday after U.S. soldiers shot him hours earlier along with a cameraman, who died at the scene. The death brought to five the number of journalists killed in Iraq in less than 24 hours.
"There are so many things that are untrue that are David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079721228219245572004-03-19T10:33:00.000-08:002004-03-19T10:36:13.140-08:00Justice Department Appeals Detainment Ruling
The Justice Department urged the court to overturn an appellate ruling that found President Bush had exceeded his constitutional
authority in detaining Jose Padilla, an American citizen who the government
contends has links to Al Qaeda.
''The ultimate issue,'' Ms. Newman said in an interview, ''is whether the
president has the authority to order Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079721064509513942004-03-19T10:31:00.000-08:002004-03-19T10:33:34.153-08:00Senate Probes Backing of Haitian Insurgents
The DOD has supplied 20,000 M-16s and other equipment to the Dominican military over the past two years. Was the Dominican Republic being used as a staging ground for weapons transfers and coup plotting?more from DOGSPOTRealo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079720892685482662004-03-19T10:28:00.000-08:002004-03-19T10:30:37.670-08:00Pakistan Poses Greater Threat than Taliban
"...the administration is still covering up for Pakistan, whose government recently made the absurd claim that large-scale shipments of nuclear technology and material to rogue states - including North Korea, according to a new CIA report - were the work of one man, who was promptly pardoned by President Pervez Musharraf. "more from DOGSPOTRealo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079559653084053622004-03-17T13:40:00.000-08:002004-03-17T13:43:16.200-08:00Al Jazeera Goes to Jail
by Christian Parenti of
THE NATION
"Donald Rumsfeld has called Al Jazeera's coverage "outrageous" and "inexcusably biased" and implied that he'd like to see the satellite channel thrown out of Iraq. So far the American military has bombed the network's offices in both Baghdad and Kabul, killing one employee; and arrested twenty-one of Al Jazeera's reporters...."
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079467638104201802004-03-16T12:07:00.000-08:002004-03-16T12:09:40.450-08:00Report from An American In Venezuela
The conflict in Venezuela began with a sucessful petition to recall 37
opponents of Hugo Chavez, with a response from his apponents for his
recall...
The tendency of the opposition now seems to be towards the use of guns.
When opposition leaders or adherents are detained with high-powered
weapons, the media discredits the arrest and repeats David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079308915009150512004-03-14T16:01:00.000-08:002004-03-14T16:04:15.590-08:00Train Wreck Influences Election in Spain
The government had initially blamed ETA, an armed Basque separatist group, for Thursday's string of train bombings in Madrid. Analysts (predicted) that blaming the massacre on ETA, which the government has gone all out to crush in recent years, would likely benefit the ruling party in today's election. (and it did indeed....
more from DOGSPOTRealo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1079136266675426342004-03-12T16:04:00.000-08:002004-03-12T16:06:45.233-08:00 DOGSPOT Foreign Service Detained in Kabul
Kabul (03-11)
We have just received a report that the entire staff of DOGSPOT's foreign service has been detained in Afghanistan, and taken to Kabul for questioning. The last message recieved from our staff was posted by Steven Realo
more from DOGSPOTDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1078885349662483852004-03-09T18:22:00.000-08:002004-03-09T18:24:45.153-08:00Stolen Moments? Follow the Money
The day the music died in the intelligence committee hearings
Time is money: especially in this quagmire called Iraq. Much ado has been made of the false basis of our involvement. Investigations have come and gone here and in the UK. Tony Blair managed to hang on by his fingernails in the wake of the Hutton inquiry while the inner circle of Bush advisors David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1078432556909446102004-03-04T12:35:00.000-08:002004-03-04T12:38:06.903-08:00Interview with Aristide Confirms US Coup
“This is what I call a real coup d’état,” Aristide said. “This is an issue for all African Americans and Africans.”
“It’s like he is in jail, he said. He said he was kidnapped,” Waters said. She said Aristide had been threatened by U.S. diplomats who reportedly told the Haitian leader that if he failed to leave, Guy Phillippe, the rebel leader, would David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1077926364592422672004-02-27T15:59:00.000-08:002004-02-27T16:01:28.373-08:00Discovering Why We are in Iraq
Separate statements by Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), and U.S. retired Gen Jay Garner, who was in charge of planning and administering post-war reconstruction from January through May 2002, suggest that other, less public motives were behind the war, none of which concerned self-defence, pre-emptive or otherwise.
DOGSPOTDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1077407933674503442004-02-21T15:58:00.000-08:002004-02-21T16:00:51.496-08:00Hussein Declared a POW, Receives Visit from Red Cross
BAGHDAD, AP(2-21)
"...the Pentagon formally declared Saddam a prisoner of war last month because of his status as commander in chief of Iraq's military. As a POW, Saddam is entitled under the Geneva Conventions to certain rights, including visits by the international Red Cross and freedom from coercion of any kind during interrogations."
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-107723578592507352004-02-19T16:09:00.000-08:002004-02-19T16:11:42.420-08:00US Backed Contras in Haiti
A close associate of Chamblain, Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, has admitted its CIA funding and direction. Chamblain was revealed in documents reviewed by the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York as one of those present during the planning, with a USA agent, of the assassination of the pro-Aristide minister of justice, Guy Malary, in 1993. The USA refuses to David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1077062208611829692004-02-17T15:56:00.000-08:002004-02-17T15:58:42.450-08:00US Backed Contras in Haiti
Even as Colin Powell insists the USA does not seek “regime change,” the attempt to oust the legitimate elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide grows more violent by the day. During the past week, at least 50 people have been slaughtered, and probably far more, in Gonaives, Haiti’s fourth-largest city - most by those whom Powell and pro-USA media call “rebels...David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1077046348439775582004-02-17T11:32:00.000-08:002004-02-17T11:34:22.436-08:00Bush Appoints Iran-Contra Figure To Head Up Iraq "Intelligence" Probe
PACIFICA RADIO (02-12)
"The impartiality of the commission has...
...come into question. The co-chairs named to head up the inquiry will be federal appeals court Judge Laurence Silberman and former Virginia Democratic Senator Charles Robb.
Judge Silberman has been described as a longtime Republican operative and is David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1076786730883296492004-02-14T11:25:00.000-08:002004-02-14T11:27:21.966-08:00
Haiti's President Arisitide Faces Overthrow
Reversal in US Policy may lead to overthrow of reform leader
HAITI PROGRES(02-11)
Background
Haiti’s “armed opposition” launched its most lethal offensive yet last week, creating the civil strife that may be used by the US State Department to justify military intervention. On Feb. 10, State Department officials gave their first David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1075952594609081182004-02-04T19:43:00.000-08:002004-02-04T19:44:55.686-08:00Prepare for Another Whitewash
In the wake of an investigation that largely cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair of
falsifying intelligence that was
used to justify the invasion of Iraq,
President Bush now calls for a similar inquiry into the "sources" that lead to our
involvement.
As the New York Times blighthly notes, this undertaking is awash with difficulties. Some
would say David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1075841113275219772004-02-03T12:45:00.000-08:002004-02-03T12:46:53.030-08:00Andrew Gilligan's Resignation Statement -- full text:
"...The Government did sex up the dossier, transforming possibilities and probabilities into certainties...
and many in the intelligence services, including the leading expert in WMD, were unhappy about it."
His complete statement
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1075584394489782782004-01-31T13:26:00.000-08:002004-01-31T13:28:11.530-08:00False Basis of Iraq War
Precipates International Scandal
"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on weapons of mass destruction
because it was the one issue everyone could agree on."
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
special
coverage
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1074811194977120012004-01-22T14:39:00.000-08:002004-01-22T14:41:22.903-08:00Free Speech Isn't Cheap
while trying to post a report that I had just emailed to the FBI, my personal internet sites were repeatedly blocked each time I attempt to post a copy of my report.
As a result, I'm posting it everywhere I can. Why? The stalker is currently very near by on the Chemeketa Community College Campus and has threatened my life.
The report follows:
MEMO:
STALKING AND David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1071876648651332342003-12-19T15:30:00.000-08:002003-12-19T15:31:43.170-08:00Occupation Becomes Unpopular
"If Saddam Hussein had ever put barbed wire around this village, we would have fought him," the Sheik says angrily.
Interview with the sheik of Saddam Hussein's tribe
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1071876400956628862003-12-19T15:26:00.000-08:002003-12-19T15:28:05.936-08:00
London Times 12/31/02
DONALD RUMSFELD, the US Defence Secretary and one of the most strident critics of Saddam Hussein, met the Iraqi President in 1983 to ease the way for US companies to sell Baghdad biological and chemical weapons components, including anthrax and bubonic plague cultures, according to newly declassified US Government documents.
FULL STORYDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1070670976381056142003-12-05T16:36:00.000-08:002003-12-05T16:46:45.810-08:00Pangloss Doesn't Live in Azerbaijan Anymore
AP Stories:
(12-03) 11:42 PST BAKU, Azerbaijan
__Rumsfeld congratulates Aliev on his October election victory
(12-05) 14:36 PST BAKU, Azerbaijan
__Jailed opposition refuses food after rigged election
published by opposition leaders who found refuge in the Norwegian embassy
Rauf Arifoglu, editor of the opposition party paper Yeni Musavat, David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1070400822249589452003-12-02T13:33:00.000-08:002003-12-02T13:37:47.763-08:00
Rumsfeld Wins "Foot in Mouth" Award
Plain English Awards
'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1070315694607764362003-12-01T13:54:00.000-08:002003-12-01T13:56:52.903-08:00 Rumsfeld Censorship Lacks Evidence
Washington Post Editorial
"Last week, with the approval of the Bush administration, Iraq's Governing Council reacted by shutting down the Baghdad operation of one of the two leading broadcasters, al-Arabiya. In addition to setting a terrible precedent for press freedom in Iraq, this will only make the underlying problem worse...
...Defense Donald David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1069896910615759712003-11-26T17:35:00.000-08:002004-06-29T20:19:46.446-07:00
Haliburton Iraq contracts worth $2 bn
The administration has shut down one of Iraq's
major TV stations, and threatened another.
Could this be the reason?
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1069793195871929622003-11-25T12:46:00.000-08:002003-11-25T15:38:35.186-08:00
Freedom of Press in Iraq Excedes that of US Invaders
(11-25) 14:20 PST WASHINGTON (AP)
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claims that Arab news organizations Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya cooperated with Iraqi insurgents to witness and videotape attacks on American troops.
"They've called Al-Jazeera to come and watch them do it...
THAT IS EXACTLY HOW THE AMERCAN PRESS COVERED David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1069874936796636412003-11-25T00:47:00.000-08:002003-11-26T11:29:28.513-08:00
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread...
(11-17) 23:11 PST WASHINGTON (AP)
When the House voted to stop charging wounded soldiers for their hospital food, it had a lot to do with what Rep. Bill Young's wife heard during a bedside visit with the troops.
Read more about this unspeakable outrage....
at least now IT'S FEDERAL CRIME TO CHARGE
WOUNDED VETERANS FOR THEIR
HOSPITAL FOOD
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1067904941959417972003-11-03T16:15:00.000-08:002003-11-03T16:22:28.470-08:00Privatizing the Military Industrial
From the AP wire October 30, 2003
By paying civilians to handle military tasks, the Bush administration is freeing up U.S. troops to fight. But the use of contractors also hides the true costs of war.
Their dead aren't added to official body counts. Their duties — and profits — are hidden by close-mouthed executives who won't give details to Congress. And asDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1067903455736407132003-11-03T15:50:00.000-08:002003-11-03T16:51:37.866-08:00Who Stood Down on 911
The system comes from Project Looking Glass —
technology developed under this project facilitates surveillance on a whole new level
The efforts to break down the wall of government secrecy on black projects come up against the basic official line that the government has the right to keep these secrets for purposes of "national security." However, on 9/11 the governmentDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1069875289513067382003-10-24T11:30:00.000-07:002003-11-26T11:35:21.186-08:00Some background on recent applications: Page 89, New World Vistas, Air and Space Power for the 21st Century, Ancillary Volume, unattributed article, 1996.
New Vistas in Sublethal Warfare
It would also appear possible to create high fidelity speech in the human body...When a high power microwave pulse in the gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small temperature perturbation David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1066939219142247282003-10-23T13:00:00.000-07:002003-10-28T13:11:49.890-08:00Village Voice - 30 minutes ago
...Rummy has practically set up his own government. It's almost like a mini-coup in Bush's Washington
Rummy Reinterprets the War on Terror
"...the Defense Department said it would be calling up more National Guard and Reserve troops for Iraq duty. Not combat troops, according to General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but people in supportDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1066510400006579882003-10-18T13:53:00.000-07:002003-10-18T14:00:39.313-07:00Just a reminder...
Cheney enjoys "a slice of the pie" at the Pentagon with fellow ideologue Donald RumsfeldDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1066510096291319652003-10-18T13:48:00.000-07:002003-10-18T13:50:46.210-07:00From a press conference last year, archived by the US State Department
Rumsfeld: It's not for me to give advice to other countries. We do have a
saying in America, if you're in a hole, stop digging. I'm not sure I should have
said that. [Laughter] Let's pretend I never said that. [Laughter]"
Who is he laughing at?
David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1066181725209263192003-10-14T18:35:00.000-07:002003-10-14T18:37:36.113-07:00News from Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya
"US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops."
more newsDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1064007950095082422003-09-19T14:45:00.000-07:002003-10-07T17:55:30.966-07:00kind of funny that rumsfeld started his august press conference bragging about the $30 million dollar HIT he put out on the Hussein bros, and amazing that the press actually cut to the chase for once and immediately switched the subject to Liberia...where we might indeed be knee deep in hot sand rather soon.
What they failed to probe was how small it seems compared to Haliburton's 1.7 Billion Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-1063920268504644912003-09-18T14:24:00.000-07:002003-09-18T14:24:28.320-07:00regarding Rumsfeld and fiscal responsibility:
"For fiscal year 2000 alone, auditors for the Pentagon's Inspector General's Office found $1.1 trillion in bookkeeping entries that could not be tracked or justified....
...Although this is not a new problem -- for fiscal year 1999 the Pentagon Inspector General reported $2.3 trillion worth of untraceable accounting entries -- the budget mess isDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-112421132002-03-28T23:52:00.000-08:002002-03-28T23:52:58.270-08:00Where's the money trail. Donald?
During Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's January confirmation hearings, Senator Byrd said, "I seriously question an increase in the Pentagon budget in the face of the department's recent inspector general's report. How can we seriously consider a $50 billion increase in the Defense Department budget when DoD's own auditors...say the department cannot account Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-90979422002-01-27T12:22:00.000-08:002002-01-27T12:22:31.253-08:00News From The Laboratory of Donald Rumsfeld
"... in 1977, Donald Rumsfeld...was hired as the president of G. D. Searle Laboratories.
Searle was then seeking approval of a new controversial sweetener, which has since become popular as "Aspartame". Rumsfeld said he could handle aspartame as a “legal, rather than scientific problem.” In 1980, shortly after Reagan came into power, Rumsfeld was Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-63131992001-10-13T12:08:00.000-07:002001-10-13T12:08:42.170-07:00Now Owned By Monsanto
"...Former President George Bush Sr. appointed Monsanto lawyer Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is a past chairman of G.D. Searle Co., now owned by Monsanto. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Venneman was on the board of directors of Calgene Pharmaceuticals, now owned by Monsanto."Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-63098732001-10-13T08:31:00.000-07:002001-10-13T08:31:26.780-07:00More lies from the corporate media
October 8, 2001 Interview with Bryant Gumbel on CBS "Early Show"
"And we know that the targets were all military targets and that the humanitarian aspect of it has been completed and the planes are returning to base now."
Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-63035362001-10-12T21:26:00.000-07:002003-10-14T17:33:15.430-07:00Rumsfeld In a Time Warp?
Pravda 2001-08-17
RUMSFELD WAS NEGOTIATING WITH “ENEMY” IN MOSCOW
"US Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld irritatingly mentioned in the interview to the TV channel PBS that he “was conducting negotiations with enemy” in Moscow. President Putin and Russian Foreign Minister are “enemies” for America. Rumsfeld added that there was no special need to continue negotiations Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62715522001-10-11T14:30:00.000-07:002001-10-12T20:29:48.000-07:00ENFORCEMENT ARM FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
"U.S. citizens are not aware of the broad military plans of the U.S. for space because of the PR spin of the new Star Wars pitch (it's about protecting against a "Space Pearl Harbor," as the Rumsfeld Commission puts it, "just" about "missile defense") and due to communications media that are lazy and worse.But other nations of the world do understand. Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62707322001-10-11T13:57:00.000-07:002001-10-11T13:57:34.000-07:00George Bush's America
"...the Rumsfeld review has concluded that the Pacific Ocean should now become the most important focus of US military deployments, with China now perceived as the principal threat to American global dominance.
The huge distances involved in the Pacific mean that the Pentagon must give additional priority to "long-range power projection", the report says."Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62698512001-10-11T13:17:00.000-07:002001-10-11T13:17:05.220-07:00"...In the past we had most to fear from charismatic tyrants. Today it is the technocrats, the "slight types" who efficiently run our government and dominate our age. It is the Dick Cheneys, who manage our withdrawal from the Kyoto treaty on global warming and cut spending on conservation; the Donald Rumsfelds, who lead the charge for missile defense and space war and disturb the world's nuclear Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62691062001-10-11T12:46:00.000-07:002001-10-11T13:04:47.000-07:00U.S. defense secretary discusses Turkey, Ukraine, Iraq, China
"Q: Then should we read your visit as a strong show of support for (Ukrainian) President (Leonid) Kuchma who has, you know, been implicated in the death of this journalist?
RUMSFELD: I would read it exactly as I have stated it. The Ukraine is an important country, and it's in a difficult transition as are most of the former Soviet Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62684382001-10-11T12:14:00.000-07:002001-10-12T20:33:41.000-07:00And then of course, there's Henry Kissinger, who was secretary of state during Rumsfeld's last stint in the DOD. Henry continues to make the headlines for his exploits "back in the day".
"Henry Kissinger and the United States were more deeply involved than was previously thought in a 1970 plot to prevent a left-wing politician from becoming the president of Chile, CBS television news reported Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62682802001-10-11T12:06:00.000-07:002001-10-11T12:06:38.390-07:00Yes to the World Criminal Court, But With America on Board
"With the successful prosecution and sentencing of Bosnian war criminals by the ad hoc international tribunal investigating atrocities in former Yugoslavia, now would seem a good time to push ahead with the current plan for a permanent court to catch and bring to justice some of the world's butchers and war criminals who still go free..Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62681132001-10-11T11:59:00.000-07:002001-10-11T12:00:25.000-07:00a loser from the start
"Bush named Donald Rumsfeld to be his secretary of defense... a job Rumsfeld held at the end of the Vietnam War. Give W. credit, it's shrewd and self-effacing to admit right at the start he needs people with experience dealing with hopeless, immoral calamities."Realo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171408.post-62667442001-10-11T10:57:00.000-07:002001-10-11T10:59:33.000-07:00The boys at the Pentagon were tripping over their shoelaces with glee the day Donald Rumsfeld was appointed Secretary of Defense by our resident in the Whore House. With each day this relic from the Vietnam War era holds sway, the military industrial complex will prosper while our freedom erodes at taxpayer expense. Get rid of him and the illegally installed Miltary Junta NOW!Realo!noreply@blogger.com