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Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 10:37pm.
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Friday 24 February 2006

The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday.

The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a vocal critic of the Bush administration’s prewar Iraq intelligence, sources close to the investigation said.

Sources close to the probe said the White House “discovered

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Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 6:48pm.
Jim Ramm has moved the link to list from a prominent place on his site to a somewhat less prominent position, it now in list of pages along left side of front page.

He also has added two more people along with their phone numbers.

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Submitted by stevenl on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 6:14pm.

Now here's something you don't see every day.

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Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 4:48pm.

Just as you feared it would be. OlyBlog is even in the blog roll of the political satire site Jesus' General.

General JC Christian recently did an actual serious post about the NSM hit list and one of the listees David Neiwert of Orcinus.

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Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 4:02pm.
February 24, 2006
By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
Oxford, England.
For those who haven't noticed, Israel opposes a two-state solution. It has been doing everything in its power to prevent a Palestinian state from emerging and will continue to do so as long as it can count on the complicity of its powerful friends and on abundant popular indifference. Under such circumstances, it is incumbent upon ourselves to ask why Hamas has therefore been ordered - by Israel and its same powerful friends --to accept "the two-state solution" especially when, unlike Israel, it has stated clearly and repeatedly that it would accept a Palestinian state on the lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 war, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Indeed, all of its key spokespeople have said this:Zahar, Haniye, Meshal, and Yassin and Rantisi before they were murdered.

Judea and Samaria which are, or were, the northern and southern West Bank, have been subdivided and parceled out over decades to hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers for their houses and orchards and gardens. They have been crisscrossed and circled with Jewish-only roads that bind the land, the houses and orchards and gardens, to Israel. They have been manned with guards and gunmen and tanks and blue and white Israeli flags that defend, protect and assure the settlers, their houses and orchards and gardens, that they are in fact Israelis belonging to a single Jewish state.
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Israel allots to itself first use of the natural resources, especially water, from the territory it has appropriated or surrounded. An army of thieves and wreckers has turned the remainder-- the pot-holed roads, the untended groves, the homes, the schools, the mosques and churches, the hospitals, universities, shops and remaining civil institutions -- into a series of impassable mazes, a legal no-man's-land, where travel restrictions, permits, coded IDs, passes, random searches, incursions and arbitrary accusations reduce the inhabitants into suspicious beings without names, faces, addresses or rights; a collective villain to be de-educated and de-nationalized and, one day perhaps, deported for the sake of the Israeli raison d'etre.

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Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 11:59am.

One of several possible reasons why the National Socialist Movement is focused on Olympia and N.W. region is because of the white supremacist David Lane. David Lane issued the call for a white homeland here in the N.W. That call is definitely on the minds of white supremacists today.

NF Publications, which has a P.O. box here in Olympia, is listed on Northwest Migration sites.

The Northwest Homeland: The 14 Deeds (Reader caution advised, this is an actual hate site)

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Submitted by Rick on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 8:24am.

From The Olympian:

Tumwater's city attorney will file a motion in Thurston County Superior Court this morning to join Olympia in its quest for water rights at the former Olympia brewery.

Tumwater City Council members decided to take the legal action at a special meeting Thursday night. The motion also will contest part of the condemnation Olympia filed last week, which lays claim to some of Tumwater's municipal water rights, about 400 acre-feet in the Tumwater Valley that the city bought from the brewery to irrigate its golf course.

The move is not meant to be combative toward Olympia, Tumwater Mayor Ralph Osgood said, adding that he had spoken with Olympia Mayor Mark Foutch about the plan.

An acre-foot is the amount of water it takes to cover one acre 1 foot deep (326,851 gallons). So, that's about 130,740,400 gallons per year.

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Submitted by theunabonger on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 1:01am.

Just a sort of unofficial announcment to mention the "going live" of the Olympia-related Clubside Breakfast Time Podcast blog, at which I am still entering the old Podcasts (In this case, I put the Podcast before the Blog.)

Come on over and check out our eclectic mix of Olympia Music, Talk, an Politics.

Cosmo G Spacely

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