I started posting this to my weblog, when Rantburg was down, but it's really more Rantburg's sort of material:
- Georgian President Promises to Shoot Russian Tourists:Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has released another harsh statement against separatists. This time he expressed his opinion about Abkhazia, not South Ossetia. Moreover, the problem was not about the mutual relations with the government of the unrecognized republic. The Georgian president talked about Russian tourists.
On the eve of the 'velvet' season Saakashvili advised Russian citizens not to plan any holidays in Abkhazia. "The territory soaked with Georgians' blood, on which they played football with Georgians' heads, is not a holiday place for so-called Russian tourists," Saakashvili stated at a press conference on Tuesday night.
The president added, he ordered to open fire and sink all vessels, which attempt to enter Abkhazian ports without Georgia's permission. "Georgian ships are not allowed to appear in the Russian waters without Russia's permission. Russian ships will not be allowed to appear near the Abkhazian coast either," Saakashvili was quoted as saying...
- George Bush's Mental Health Must be a Consideration in the November Elections
...When Bush was questioned about his relationship with Kenneth Lay, the scandal ridden ex-CEO of Enron, Bush stormed off the podium and screamed to his aides: "Keep those motherf***ers away from me," and then "If you can"t, I"ll find someone who can."
Other aides report "In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."
In interviews with several White House staff, they paint a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be "God's will" and then tells aides to "fuck over" anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.
When Bush was first running for president, he was very adamant about telling the public he was a born again Christian, but his behavior is quite the opposite. The first sign that something wasn"t quite right was when Bush said he enjoyed the Austin Powers movies series. The Austin Power movies are heavily laced with sexual connotations, innuendos and overt sexual humor. A born again Christian would find these movies abhorrent.
I guess this is just more of the Pravda Funhouse Mirror version of "Christian Extremism."
There is more reason to be concerned because Bush has a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, and he never sought treatment. Then there are the stories about his cocaine use when he was younger...
It goes on from there, with the usual stuff that floats around the lefftist conspiracy sites here. Then they link to the original sites themselves, notably Capitol Blue and Rense. It used to be that the useful tools would parrot what Pravda said, but now it's the other way around.
US Terror Threat Lies, Again:
Outdated Intelligence Yet Again Used by Bush Regime
The Bush regime has only one card left to create public insecurity and hope that the people of the USA vote for the devil they know rather than Kerry, who, although he is an expert on National Security, is painted as a soft option by the Republicans.
What could be worse than a clique of pathological liars? After Colin Powell lied through his teeth at the United Nations building, when he presented his magnificent intelligence about Iraq s WMD programme, complete with satellite photographs with labels and arrows, which in the event was based on an eleven-year-old paper lifted from the Internet, now Washington launches an alert based on evidence which could be as much as four years out of date.
Financial institutions were put on alert yesterday after it was claimed that Al Qaeda was planning an attack on Washington and possibly London, based on e-mails found on the computer of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, arrested in Pakistan last week, who is wanted in connection with the bombing of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
However, security officials were baffled as to why such a high state of alert was proclaimed since there was no specific or direct evidence whatsoever that an attack was imminent. The New York Times and Washington Post have quoted intelligence officers who stated that there was no concrete evidence of attacks and that much of the content of the latest scare could be from before September 11th....
There are a lot of misconceptions going around about the intelligence, such that all of it is years old (which isn't true, and may not matter anyway, given how long Al Qaeda planned for 9/11). Anyone who's really keeping up with the news has probably already heard that it's not just because of data from the captures of Ahmed Ghailani and Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, or at least I hope they have. I also hope that everyone isn't of the belief that all of our intelligence sources for the heightened alert have or must become public. I am pretty much startled, however, at how much convergence there still is between Pravda and the domestic moonbats here. Does anyone know whether the Russian government still exerts editorial control over Pravda?
A postscript: I'm also beginning to think the Urdu press is more reliable. Or at least more interesting.
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