The only country in the Middle East with weapons of mass destruction is Israel.

Now, just a few short words from me before I get to the topic of my posting. Everyone knows about the Mountaintop speech; we all know that he wasn't faithful to Coretta; and we all know that he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel.

But did you know that:

James Earl Ray was a patsy for the real murderers, simply because the shot was IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE?

The Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, was a hypocritical cross-dressing, self-hating queer who loathed MLK, Jr., possibly because King was granted the one accolade he would NEVER be able to obtain; the Nobel Peace Prize? Though, now that Albert "Global Warming? Oh...I just meant my newly-fattened pockets!" Gore has been awarded such for his fraudulent promotion of a phenomenon that HAS NO BASIS IN REALITY, the award's prestige has been cheapened in my eyes.

The Memphis police department, on that day, removed ALL BLACK OFFICERS from patrol, reassigning them to tours and duties that would take them far away from the scene of the crime?

Well, a lot of that information is included below.

Now, I'm sure that some of you who may come across this page might be scratching their craniums, "What the hey - I thought this was a 9/11 conspiracy page! Why do I have to read about Martin Luther King, Jr.? I'm not even Black, or even remotely related to anyone who would care? In fact, I'm the Grand Dragon of the KKK! I just wanna read about dumb space lasers melting the buildings, so I can laugh at you idiots! The Gubbermint has benn berry good to me!"

Well...here we go...the the lies of Pearl Harbor begat Operation Paperclip, which begat the Red Scare, which begat the Cuban Missile Crisis, which begat the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which begat the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., which begat the assassination of Robert Francis Kennedy, which begat the Gulf of Tonkin, which begat the Vietnam War, which begat the Six-Day War, which begat the OPEC crisis, which begat the Iranian hostage crisis, which begat the Iran-Contra/crack scandal, which begat the 1987 stock market crash, which begat the 1993 WTC bombing, which begat the Waco siege, which begat the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing, which begat the Ruby Ridge siege, which begat...the myriad and unexplained events of September 11th, 2001.

In other words...what you did not care about in the past has transmogrified to an unimaginable state of being at the present time.

One last bit: "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."

Beer: we're not the only one who wish we had beer right now

A woman in America plowed her car through the front window of a convenience store - and then, in an impressive display of savoir faire, tried to buy a six-pack of beer.

Lynne Rice, 74, drove her 1988 Cadillac into Joe's Food Mart and Video in Norwalk, California on Sunday evening, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Jenny Ha said.

The car plowed about halfway through the store but nobody was injured. Rice got out of the car, walked over to the cooler and pulled out a six-pack of Budweiser, said the store owner (who gave only his last name, Awada, to the Long Beach Press-Telegram).

'I don't know how she managed to walk,' Awada said, adding a cashier declined the sale and instead called police.

A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.

The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court late Friday asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time.

The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Key details of his claim have not been made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret.

Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine.

The study, released Monday, revealed that 16.2 percent of Americans had tried cocaine at least once, and 42.4 percent had used marijuana.

In second-place New Zealand, just 4.3 percent of study participants had used cocaine, and 41.9 percent marijuana.

The research was conducted at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, based on World Health Organization data from 54,068 people in 17 countries.

As historians ponder George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.

To understand this extraordinary development, historians might want to look back at the 1980s and examine the Iran-Contra scandal’s “lost chapter,” a narrative describing how Ronald Reagan’s administration brought CIA tactics to bear domestically to reshape the way Americans perceived the world.

That chapter – which we are publishing here for the first time – was “lost” because Republicans on the congressional Iran-Contra investigation waged a rear-guard fight that traded elimination of the chapter’s key findings for the votes of three moderate GOP senators, giving the final report a patina of bipartisanship.

Under that compromise, a few segments of the draft chapter were inserted in the final report’s Executive Summary and in another section on White House private fundraising, but the chapter’s conclusions and its detailed account of how the “perception management” operation worked ended up on the editing room floor.

THE DEAN OF A NEW ENGLAND law school announced that the departure of President Bush next January may not provide him and his cronies with a sanctuary from justice. The message from Lawrence Velvel, dean and co-founder of the Massachusetts School of Law, is:

Where impeachment ends, an independent tribunal begins. Punishment of the guilty is being openly discussed by conference planners—including capital punishment.

As announced on the website After Downing Street.org, and confirmed for AFP by Dean Velvel, his assistant, Jeff Demers, and longtime publicist Sherwood Ross, a conference [see conference agenda on page 5—Ed.] is being called for by Velvel “to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes.”

It will be held Sept. 13-14 at the school, a small, respected institution in Andover founded in 1988 that resisted the regulations and standards of the American Bar Association and instead sought accreditation through the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

In Memory of Rachel Corrie

On March 16th, 2003, 23 year old American, Rachel Corrie, who had travelled to the Gaza Strip to defend Palestinians against Israeli war crimes being carried out there, is killed whilst trying to prevent the demolition of the home of a Palestinian pharmacist, his wife, and three young children. When she stands in front of this house to protest in front of an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Caterpillar D9 bulldozer, she is deliberately driven over by the driver. The driver then reverses back over her for good measure. Rachel dies after saying to shocked Palestinians, who come to her aid,

“I think my back is broken.”

The United States does nothing to criticize Israel for this, accepting their excuse that it was an, “accident,” even though there are several eyewitnesses that categorically say the act was deliberate and there is even photographic evidence showing Rachel was wearing a bright orange fluorescent jacket at the time it happened and immediately afterwards, which was in broad daylight. The New York Jewish community has a lot to say about it however. When, in early 2006, a play entitled, “My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” is due to premiere in New York, following two successful runs in London, it is abruptly cancelled after pressure from the Jewish community.

We love ya, Rachel. Rest in Peace.