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KUDOS TO RAWSTORY.COM FOR BRINGING YOUR CORRESPONDENT'S ATTENTION to the following item from the New York Sun as deserves some wholehearted popular support for once, the fact of this being an Election Year being irrelevant:

A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. While Mr. Falk's specialty is human rights and international law, since the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he calls the "9-11 official version."

On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don't think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."

Mr. Barrett, who is the co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, said in an interview yesterday of Mr. Falk, "I would put him on a list of scholars who are sympathetic to the 9/11 truth movement."

He added, "Unlike most public intellectuals today, he is both honest and very, very knowledgeable in that he understands the probable reality of 9/11. He understands that the evidence that it was a false flag operation is very strong."

The narrative that the attacks from 2001 were a "false flag" operation is a recurring theme in the literature challenging the consensus that 19 Al Qaeda hijackers flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. False flag refers to espionage or covert actions taken by one government made to seem like the work of another. The false flag thesis has it that the Bush administration is somehow responsible for the September 11 attacks as a pretext for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mr. Falk yesterday did not return e-mails and phone calls asking for a comment. But in 2004 he wrote the foreword to the book "The New Pearl Harbor," by David Ray Griffin. Mr. Griffin has posited that such an inside job is the likely explanation for the attacks.

In the preface, Mr. Falk writes, "There have been questions raised here and there and allegations of official complicity made almost from the day of the attacks, especially in Europe, but no one until Griffin has had the patience, the fortitude, the courage, and the intelligence to put the pieces together in a single coherent account."

It's about time to expose 9/11 for what it really was all along--a "false flag" operation of His Fraudulency's Great Within, and especially so the "inside of the inside," designed to find ways to suspend the Constitution and invoke Unitary Executive Privilege, to use His Fraudulency's preferred dysphemistic code for dictatorial power.

So where's the outrage now? 

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YOU MAY HAVE HEARD BY NOW THAT BAGGED UNSWEETENED PUFFED WHEAT AND PUFFED RICE CEREALS MADE BY MALT-O-MEAL and sold under not only the Malt-O-Meal name and stylee, but also under several private store-brand labels (details follow), have been contaminate with salmonella bacteria.

Which, under the right conditions, can only mean that your brekkie can be a rather unpleasant experience. As in making you sick.

In any case, the afflicted products are bagged unsweetened Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat cereals manufactured by The Malt-O-Meal Company with "best if used by" dates between 8 April 2008 and 18 March 2009, inclusive, sold in 6-oz. and 16-oz. bags under not only the Malt-O-Meal name and stylee, but also under these private label brands:

• Acme
• America's Choice
• Food Club
• Giant
• Hannaford
• Jewel
• Laura Lynn
• Pathmark
• Shaw's
• Shop-Rite
• Tops
• Weis Quality

(The compleat list of afflicted products, and the UPC codes involved, can be found @ www.malt-o-meal.com/recallinfo/ when you have time. If it turns out that you have any such, please return it to your store for full refund.

(And if you can't find any bags of the product in question, please understand that all such specimens have been removed from store shelves as a health and safety precaution.)

In the meantime ... how about some Carnation Instant Breakfast instead?

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NO DOUBT AS FAMILIAR AS THOSE BUMPER STICKERS FOR THE LIKES OF CERTAIN SHOOBIE TRAPS like Wall Drug Store, the Tommy Bartlett Show and Rock City--or are they?--are these ladies' bumper stickers you might find hilarious:

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ANOTHER UNLIKELY BYPRODUCT OF THE UR-RAHOWA IN IRAQ IS THE USE OF FOREIGN GUEST WORKERS from other Muslim countries (Indonesia in particular) tricked into working there under false or misleading pretenses by employment agencies promising employment in Dubai or Bahrain as, say, domestics or construction labourers--only to wind up in the Khurdistani region of Iraq.

Your Correspondent understands where an Indonesian woman who was thus deceived is suing the employment agency she used for fraud and deception, claiming, among other things, that:

• she was tricked into paying thousands for job placements as were not as promised;
• she was paid in Iraqi dinars (and in notes, @ that) when her work was finished; and
• she was asked to pay US$2,500 for the "privilege" to return to Indonesia when she started complaining about working conditions and the ruses she wound up falling for.

Which can likely be expected of such among the American Lower Classes tricked into "resettlement" in Occupied Iraq under the guise of "social betterment."

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AND WHICH BRINGS UP DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL WANNABE BARAK OBAMA'S REMARKS @ THE WEEKEND about working-class Americans somehow have lost touch with both major political parties for their not addressing the real issues facing the working classes, prompting same to consider distractionary issues like gun control, abortion, homosexuality and the ur-RAHOWA when it comes to how to cast their ballot.

Especially such resident in rural, small-town and otherwise low-income and socioeconomically-disadvantaged communities--which, it turns out, have perhaps some of the biggest and most loyal audience numbers for Fox Prolefeed and its perversion of the Fifth Estate on cable and satellite TV systems.

Something which Sen. Obama may want to ponder as a fact. 

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE BLOGOSPHERE OF LATE ABOUT JUST HOW DESPERATE THINGS HAVE BECOME FOR AMERICAN TROOPS DEPLOYED to the Greater ur-RAHOWA Against International Terrorism to the point where many such have suffered psychoemotional disorders, emotional trauma and depression in unprecedented numbers, forcing many, owing to prolonged waitlists for medical treatment @ Veterans' Administration medical facilities, to turn to drugs, alcohol, gaming, petty crime--even the Dutch act--just to cope.

Which the conservative propaganda masheen suggests is nothing more than psychosomatic that the veterans brought on themselves, and should deal with on their own, never mind the emotional toll in the end.

But then again, such a scenario with ur-RAHOWA veterans is likely to pale with that discussed in the following recent "WaiWai" piece in Japan's Mainichi Daily News (the credibility of which, as per usual, cannot be guaranteed):

Japan's bright lights and beautiful women prove to be great lures for many of the bumpkins forming the bulk of the U.S. military in Japan, leading to a greater rate of desertion than most expect, according to Nikkan Gendai (3/24).

"A common pattern is for a service member to go AWOL after not returning from the side of some woman they've met in a bar," a source well-versed on the U.S. military tells Nikkan Gendai. "Even if they are the U.S. military, there are a lot of naive country kids in the forces. The moment they come to Japan, they're surrounded by all these bars and clubs and women who make a fuss over them. They just get caught up in it all. It's particularly so in the navy, where they can't get either booze or women while they're at sea, so there is a desertion in Japan at a pace of about one every month or two. The most common time for servicemen to desert is just before their ship leaves port."

But Japan--an island nation, as the locals are frequently wont to let others know--is not necessarily the best option a deserter from the U.S. forces could plump for.

Although the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement says U.S. military members don't need to carry a passport in Japan, this same extra-territorial right means deserters here have to prepare well in advance if they want to simply buy an airline ticket out of the country, the lowbrow afternoon daily says.

And if the deserter can't speak Japanese, they can't find a job, meaning most of those who go AWOL are quickly captured.

"Really, the only option for most U.S. deserters in Japan is to eventually give themselves up back at their bases. But deserting in Japan is not regarded as an act of hostility toward the United States, so the punishments are light. Usually, offenders might get somewhere from 30 to 45 days in the base clink," military journalist Motoaki Kamiura tells Nikkan Gendai. "It's similar in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. Someone absent from their duty post is looking at a suspension of about a week. During that time, the offender is forced to stay in their room the whole time and write 'letters of reflection' about their act."