NUGGETS

::"In order to be credible, the Security Council, of course, has to act," Rice told reporters at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting... /ABC News/

No, Madame Secretary, in order to be credible, the Security Council cannot act imprudently on false information.And if the Security Council does not respond with sanctions, watch the U. N. become - yet again - "irrelevant" prior to another military misadventure by the U. S. and/ or Israel.

:: United States of Israel? When two of America's most distinguished academics dared to suggest that US foreign
policy was being driven by a powerful 'Israel Lobby' whose influence was incompatible with their nation's own interests, they knew they would face allegations of anti-Semitism. But the episode has prompted America's Jewish liberals to confront their own complacency. Might the tide be turning?/Robert Fisk/

:: Town Meeting no place for impeachment article ~ On May 23, the Town Meeting will convene its annual meeting. Among the items on the agenda is a resolution calling for President Bush's impeachment. The resolution states that "President George W. Bush has repeatedly violated his oath of office by failing to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, in particular by directing and countenancing numerous violations of the Constitution and Laws of the United States, and by purposely /What Really Happened/

::Vatican In Possession Of Top Secret CIA Documents By Greg Szymanski – Arctic Beacon April 25, 2006 ~~ What really goes on in the underground catacombs of the Vatican has always been a deep, dark mystery. Over the years, disenchanted priests and unwilling eye witnesses have come forward with horrific tales of child sacrificing.

But now according to an explosive CIA document - never before made public - top Church officials have also been hiding under their black robes sensitive secret documents about high-powered rockets, atomic energy and nuclear weapons.

A top secret 1947 CIA document, never declassified, surfaced last week during a deposition in the case of Alperin v. Vatican Bank. The case filed on behalf of Emil Alperin and others against the Vatican Bank aka Institute of Religious Works (IOR) in the United States District Court for Northern California deals with an accounting of World War II assets allegedly looted by Church officials from Yugoslavia. /Jeff Rense/

“I can fully understand how the remaining passengers and crew, scrambling up on the stern of the sinking ‘Titanic’ just before the final plunge into freezing waters must have felt. That’s the general attitude here inside the White House.
Andy Card was pleasant enough and approachable but Bolton is a self-important prick who is now beginning to annoy Bush Himself. It’s like the CIA when the oafish Goss took over to clean out any anti-Bush people.
At this point, there are now very few staffers really loyal to Bush. He is seen as a gross failure, not well-wrapped and liable to start an atomic war at any minute. At best, Bush was a brittle, wise-cracking retired frat rat and at worst, a shouting and vicious man who used great quantities of foul language, regardless of who was listening, shocked women staffers included. /The Truthseeker/