Don't Believe a Word of It!

Supposedly, this morning in London a major terrorist plot was uncovered and thwarted that targeted planes leaving Heathrow Airport. Yah right! Everyone should be reminded of the last 'terrorist plot' British authorities uncovered (lol).

Here are some things that make this 'story' awfully suspicious:

First, Joe Lieberman is defeated in the Democratic primary in Connecticut, signaling a major shift of public opinion against the war in Iraq- implying a disasterous defeat for the warmongering repug party in November. This is followed by Tony Snow virtually threatening, in his next day White House news brief, that another 9/11 incident was imminent if the public were to turn against repug war 'policy'.

Next, in the wee hours of the morning, U.S. and British time, Israel makes a massive ground incursion into southern Lebanon just as the U.N. tries to hammer out a cease-fire agreement. It was talked about on BBC's overnight world service on the radio/internet for instance. It would have been the main news topic of American media this morning without a doubt.

Oh, it should be noted also that, 'coincidentally', Blair and Bush had a long conversation on the telephone yesterday, according to Snow. Hmm. . .? Then, as if a wish gift from the gods (be careful what you wish for) Blair, Bush and Israel are handed a terror plot 'story' that takes the arrogant Israeli invasion (which has already been shown by both administrations' cynical inaction and stonewalling on the Israeli-Lebanon war is exactly the type of action they both truly support) off the media radar just in time for the early British and American 'news shows' (these so-called 'news shows' on the networks and cable are usually incapable of handling more than one big story at a time, as everyone knows- especially the American and British administrations). America and Britain thus wake up to a frightening scenario of terrorist dastardliness. Fear has served both governments well before. As Karl Rove would tell us, when you have a winning hand why fold. . .

Then there is the 'story' of the missing Egyptian students in the U.S. that has the media in such an uproar. Need more be said?

The Israeli invasion story may be off the radar for now, but it surely will be long enough for Israel to pound Lebanon into further submission. How convenient!

I hope the American and British people are starting to wise up to the 'crying wolf' media tactics of Blair and Bush. Lieberman's defeat is hopefully a signal of it.

-as an addendum: Already in some print media today are stories totally contradicting the bbc world report stories of early this morning of columns of israeli tanks and troops crossing into lebanon. On the BBC world service webpage too this afternoon the only reference to overnight actions of Israel in Lebanon was a massive air bombing raid (@800 strikes they say). Hmm. . .?

-addendum 2: Isn't is interesting that little more than 24 hours after my original post stating that Israel had made a major ground incursion into Lebanon (per a radio/internet report on BBC world service) that it is being reported that Israel is doing just that now! Or, was it perhaps that Israel had already begun the major ground incursion earlier, but managed to restrict the news and/or have it retracted until they decided to release it? It is exactly the type of media manipulation that Israel has done before and is so good at!


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