So… they want Iraq to make a list. But they already know what should be on that list. And so then Iraq makes the list. But they don’t like the list, and complain that Iraq didn’t make the list correctly. Why did they need Iraq to make a list in the first place?

If it is the United Nations resolution that demanded this list, why is it that the list went immediately to Washington? I think theres a crime there… those government officials obstructed United Nations peace keeping/weapons inspection operations… they must be arrested and taken before a world court!

Once again, as if there was any doubt, the Bush Administration spits on international law and the United Nations.

Victory! That’s what occurred for working people everywhere last night as the NYC Transit Workers Union’s negotiation with the MTA resulted in a new labor agreement. This following a week of demonizing of the union by every major media outlet and even mayor Bloomberg taking shots at the union with his posing as a cyclist and saying that a strike would be a “disaster”. Despite the threat of enormous fines and jail if they should go on strike. Despite all these union breaking tactics… the Union stayed strong and an agreement was reached. The agreement includes a 6 percent pay-raise over 3 years, an overhaul of the desciplinary system and 280 million from the MTA going towards the workers’ insurance plan.

“illegal strike” is how the NYTimes and virtually every NYC newspaper describes the potential strike that would have been carried out because management would not negotiate. Throughout the past weeks the MTA, with all of its money and influence has been able to completely frame the conflict with the Union depicted as “greedy” and “breaking the law”, making no mention of the horrendous disciplinary system that existed and the racism that underlined those policies. But their smear campaign was not strong enough to break the union and they achieved their goals, a new labor agreement that will improve the conditions of their work and therefore their lives. No, they didn’t have to strike. But one day in the future, they may have to, and that is their right as workers, regardless of what the media or the politicians say.

SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

11,000 pages! 11,000 pages…. basically telling the world about their entire weapons/chemical/bio programme! Thats what Iraq produced! Bush admin. is so quick to say “Well…. we’ll see” because basically they never intended these requirements to actually be met. They expected Iraq to just get annoyed… at some really excessive and intrusive requirements to avoid war. BUT THEY DID IT YESTERDAY! How many countries, acturate or not, would do such a thing? Certainly not the UK or the US…. all that info is “TOP SECRET”.

Also yesterday, Iraq apologized for the invasion of Kuwait back in ’91. Now its true, apologies don’t bring loved ones back. But its rather ironic…. or just wierd…. just last week the US military ran over a little girl with a tank in S-Korea….. Bush apologized. This was supposed to be the “good thing to do”… apologize. Strange how they can apologize, but no one else can.

Tomorrow, december 5th, A New York City Appeals court will exonerate the two boys convicted of rape in the central park jogger case which is now more than a decade old. It is another testament to mob rule and justice by the barrell of a gun. These boys, one hispanic and one black, were coerced into confessing that they commited the rape. It was captured on video and those were the years of people wanting to crack down on crime in NYC… and of course their most likely culprits, black and latino kids. Who would defend them? Who would believe some reckless kids? Who cares about them?

As it turns out…. a convicted rapist came forward and admitted he commited the rape and he acted alone. DNA tests confirmed that the semen on the joggers socks belonged to the man. No one ever found matching DNA with the kids, but that didn’t seem to matter. It never does when you have mob rule.

So no harm no foul right… honest mistake? Wrong… years have been stolen from these boys… who are now men. Who will give them their adolesence back? Instead of school and friends they only knew prison bars. And why? Because NYC’s elites needed a scapegoat… they needed to put a face to their fears. I wonder how much has changed since then?

I condolences to the rape victim, who has to relive this horror, and to two children…. men… who lost much of their lives…. good luck in the precious future.

Indonesia: Today, the man captured in connection to the Bali bombing, announced he was the only person who planned the attack. As American and Indonesian government officals try their best to get him to say “Al Qaeda” it is obvious to any non-war hungry humans, that there is no connection. Too bad for the British and Americans who love to connect every terrorist attack to Al Qaeda, because that way they have a clear enemy. Too bad, the world is not black and white the way they try to paint it, and you can’t just DECLARE WAR ON EVIL. Fact is, this crazy man bombed a nightclub, a terrible crime. He should be judged and proven guilty, along with all those who helped him. Beyond that is just the Indonesian government and the American government grasping at straws.. trying their best to get some more incentive to spend more money on their modern-day crusades.

There is much to speak about regarding S-Korea, N-Korea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Equador…. but let the focus first stay with Iraq. Beyond just speaking about Iraq, what really needs to be spoken about is the American mainstream media’s state-run pro-war campaign.

There is fundamentally no difference between the behavior of the press in China and the United States of America. The only difference is one is state sponsored censorship and the other is self-censorship…. either way the news you receive ignores facts that could change public perception of a conflict.

For every sentence about Iraq in the Washington Post there is a cynical editorialized sentence. A writer will say “Iraq has fully coorperated with UN inspectors” and then there’ll be a comma “, for now.” As if this reporter knows the future, they throw in their opinion that war is eminent. Heres that example… the writer is Rajiv Chandrasekaran who has a “military matters” column:

HEADLINE: Inspectors Get Red Carpet in Iraq — So Far

The headline alone says it all. This is a pro-war journalist… and shouldn’t be read as objective or even balanced in his reporting. Essentially he works for the American military, for free.

FACT: Bush wants war.

FACT: Iraq is coorperating in the inspections in an enthusiastic manner

FACT: EVERY AMERICAN MEDIA OUTLET is already talking about war as if it’s a reality.