Two former associates of Jack Abramoff, the embattled lobbyist, left the country Monday night en route to a new life in Israel. The relocation comes as a Justice Department taskforce presses forward with an investigation into potential criminal wrongdoing stemming from Abramoff?s business dealings.

Hear presentation by Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie who was murdered by an Israeli driving a bulldozer while she was standing in front of a home facing demolition.

If the U.S. gives Sharon 2.5 billion dollars to help move 9,100 settlers, that's $241,758.24 each! For a family of four, that's $967,032.96 per family. How come we aren't giving almost one million US dollars per family to the poor displaced settlers in Rwanda? In Columbia? In Haiti? In Darfur? Or in Iraq?

With critics of British Prime Minister Tony Blair linking the attack to his decision to join the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the United States is hoping to help Blair counter such claims by pushing for a reassessment of the West's approach to terrorism. From President Bush down, the message is one of determination to fight on mixed with encouragement for democratic nations to "take off the gloves," as one American diplomat put it, in the fight against terrorism.

xymphora ---> You can practically hear the click at that moment in the life of every conspiracy when the police investigation turns into the Official Story. At that point, the investigation is intended to 'fix the facts' to the Official Story, and the cover-up begins. The story of the London bombs has made this transformation within the last twenty-four hours. The authorities thought it was small bombs with timers or triggered by cell phones and almost certainly not a suicide bomb attack; now they claim with certainty that the bombs were accompanied by handlers, some or all of whom may have died in the blasts, possibly by accident and probably intentionally (which means they were suicide bombers, as it is extremely unlikely that all four made a mistake). The original story was that it was an international al Qaeda operation; now it is British Muslims. In just a day or two, everything has changed.

Police had no need of DNA evidence to identify the suspected bombers as the men were all carrying personal documents.

Ten Step Method To Staging a Terrorist Attack --->

A British official denied on Wednesday a report by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy that some of the suspected suicide bombers who attacked London last week had been arrested in 2004.

Ex-WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for his role in orchestrating the biggest corporate fraud in the nation's history.

The U.S. intelligence community is investing in new technology meant to provide instant recognition of insurgency fugitives in such crowded facilities as airports and subways.

A Los Altos, Calif. company, Pixlogic, has been developing technology meant to search for fugitives and insurgency suspects in a crowd.

Pixlogic has employed new software based on visual pattern recognition and search technologies to match archived still or video images with those gathered from security cameras or other sources, Middle East Newsline reported.

Kamal Raza Butt, 48, from Pakistan, was visiting Britain to see friends and family. On Sunday afternoon he went to a shop in Nottingham to buy cigarettes and was first called "Taliban" by the youths and then set upon.
... he was beaten to death by a gang of youths who shouted anti-Islamic abuse at him.

Greg Palast ---> The cruel, evil jerks who blew up the London subway last week, despite appropriating al-Qaeda's name for their website and T-shirts, have about as much to do with al-Qaeda as a Beatles tribute band has to do with the Fab Four.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke says firms across Europe should be ordered to retain phone and e-mail records to help track down terrorists.

...a database of information from various news sites.

"I wouldn't want to suggest that I know about the attack today, but clearly that's been one of the stated and continuous purposes of Iran, to harm Israel," said Rumsfeld.
"We know that Iran has been on the terrorist list. We know that Iran has been assisting Hezbollah and other organizations and moving equipment and people down through Damascus into Beirut and down into positions where they can attack Israel for years and years and years and years," he said.

...the Masters of Propaganda

At least three people, all women, were killed and 90 more wounded when an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber blew himself up outside a crowded Netanya mall Tuesday evening.

The four young men who carried out the London terror attacks were British-born suicide bombers, police sources have told Sky News.
The four travelled by car from West Yorkshire to Luton and then by train to Kings Cross station shortly before the attacks were launched on Thursday morning, police said at a press conference.

Their images were captured by CCTV cameras - one police source said the men were chatting "as though they were going on a hiking holiday".

The man who planted the bomb at Edgware Road was named last night as Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, the married father of an eight-month-old baby, who is believed to have come from the Leeds area.

Two other terrorists were Hasib Hussain, 19, who bombed the bus in Tavistock Square, of Colenso Mount, Leeds, and Shehzad Tanweer, 22, the Aldgate bomber, who lived at Colwyn Road, Leeds.

Police are still trying to identify the fourth, whose remains are believed to be in the bombed Tube train carriage on the Piccadilly Line. It is thought that he comes from Luton.

Semi-regular USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux said Monday that President Bush is "a terrorist" and that America is "a terrorist nation."

In an interview that began with Malveaux accusing U.S. troops of "beating" terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the controversial author and economist told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity:

"Terrorism in the United States is as old as we are. You want me to give you a litany of terrorism? You want me to start with what's happened to the Indian population? You want to go on to what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921?"

"C'mon now, Sean," Malveaux told Hannity. "We are terrorists."

Asked point-blank if the U.S. was a "terrorist nation," Malveaux shot back: "Oh, Absolutely."

...she told Hannity. "George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control."

The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday.

Early reporting of the attacks on the BBC's website spoke of terrorists but the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as "bombers".

The BBC's guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments".

The Group of 8 Summit in Scotland concluded on Friday. G8 leaders lauded the meetings for making progress on African poverty and climate change, but there was widespread disappointment amongst anti-poverty campaigners and environmental groups.

EUROPE wants to begin to regulate the internet for the first time by introducing controversial rules to cover television online.

Brussels is considering regulating areas such as taste and decency, accuracy and impartiality for internet broadcasters.

American defense chiefs faced condemnation last night for banning U.S. airmen from entering London, the Uk's DAILY MAIL will report on Tueday.

All 12,000 members of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Britain have been told not to travel inside inner London because of the risk of further bomb attacks.

The news provoked fury from British MPs who pointed out that the UK had been America's staunchest ally in the wake of September 11.

They said it handed a symbolic victory to the terrorists.

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US security agents have come up with a new target for increased scrutiny in their battle against terrorism: birdwatchers. Birdwatchers in certain areas are being forced to provide photographic identification, submit themselves to background checks, and even pay for a police escort.

...a new mobile video service that will let cellular phone subscribers view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect using Kopin®-enabled video eyewear from U.S.-based MicroOptical Corp.

WorldNetDaily ---> Al-Qaida nukes already in U.S.

There is virtually no doubt among intelligence analysts al-Qaida has obtained fully assembled nuclear weapons, according to Williams. The only question is how many. Estimates range between a dozen and 70. The breathtaking news is that an undetermined number of these weapons, including suitcase bombs, mines and crude tactical nuclear weapons, have already been smuggled into the U.S. - at least some across the U.S.-Mexico border.

8 Anti-War Myths About The Conflict In Iraq

...don't die laughing

Nobody knows if al-Zarqawi actually did it - same as they don't know anything else about the mercurial terrorist - but it makes sense to blame him the same way he is blamed for poison attacks in Europe, releasing a chemical cloud in Amman, 700 plus murders in Iraq during the occupation, the Canal Hotel bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad (killing the UN Secretary-general's special Iraqi envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello), and various sundry murders, including Laurence Foley, a senior U.S. diplomat working for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Jordan, and the beheading of American-Israeli dual citizen Nicholas Berg. It should be noted there is absolutely no evidence al-Zarqawi had anything to do with any of the above incidents and he is associated with them due to the careless use of adjectives such as 'purportedly' and 'possibly' habitually employed by the corporate media based on nonsense uttered by 'anonymous' and 'unnamed' administration officials and other such dissimulators and con artists.

The parallels with 9/11 are striking. In both London and America, "Terror drills" occurred at the same time as the real attacks. In both incidences, the alleged identity of the bombers as arab militants was contradicted by substantial evidence. Both attacks involved explosions whose nature and scope indicated coordination beyond the reach of a handful of lone, deranged terrorists. And the leader of each victim country tried to stop any real investigation.

xymphora ---> For the first time in the recent string of terrorist attacks not everyone is taking the bait and falling into the trap of assuming that the West is completely innocent, and the terrorists are representative of all Muslims who are 'Islamofascists' trying to violently convert the whole world to Islam. The fact that Bush and Blair lied and forced their respective countries into an unprovoked and illegal war which has killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians just might have something to do with the change in attitude. It has become a little more difficult to play the role of victim when you're totally covered in the blood of the innocent.

Kurt Nimmo ---> ...it is impossible to know exactly what is going on. However, as a bit of unearthed (and generally ignored) history reveals, it is a well-established fact al-Qaeda was created by the CIA, Pakistan?s ISI, and British intelligence. For more on this, read Michel Chossudovsky?s Who Is Osama Bin Laden? and Franklin Freeman?s Al-Qaeda: A CIA protégé. As for the MI5 angle (and how the Brits provided sustenance to the engineered terrorist network), see Daniel McGrory and Richard Ford, Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent. As for the Israelis, they were caught red-handed creating a fake al-Qaeda cell in Gaza (see Mossad fakes Al-Qaeda Cell; note how this article was removed from the Reuters archive).

The Iranian media has been alleging that the London bombings were planned by the West to justify attacking Islam in the name of combating terrorism.

Federal law enforcement officials, fearful that terrorists will exploit emerging in-flight broadband services to remotely activate bombs or coordinate hijackings, are asking regulators for the power to begin eavesdropping on any passenger's internet use within 10 minutes of obtaining court authorization.

...an Arabic website, al-qal3ah.com, which is registered by Qalaah Qalaah in Abu Dhabi and hosted by a server in Houston, Texas.
The server in Houston has intriguing connections. Everyone's Internet was founded by brothers Robert and Roy Marsh in 1998 and by 2002 had an income of more than $30m.
Renowned for his charitable work, Roy Marsh counts among his friends President George Bush's former sister-in-law, Sharon Bush, and the president's navy secretary.
Everyone's Internet, which also hosts a number of pornographic sites, states: "We support the uncensored flow of information and ideas over the internet and do not actively monitor subscriber activity under normal circumstances."

Educate yourself about the Grove and it's inhabitants, and the true nature of the power structure in the world. Then educate your friends. Since most major newspapers and broadcast stations are owned by "insiders", be wary of everything you hear in the press. If you can, participate in protest activities during the July retreat.

As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesize toxic chemicals and then inject them directly into the food supply -- knowing full well that they are poisonous and are major contributors to the epidemic rates of chronic disease we are experiencing today.

A Chinese pharmaceutical company has developed a new drug to fight AIDS which aims to block the HIV virus from entering cells, state media said.

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the London bomb.

Reward for "Information leading to the Arrest and Conviction of George W Bush and Others"

Four mosques were vandalized in northern New Zealand overnight Sunday, leaving windows smashed and walls splashed with graffiti, police said.

Haaretz daily said the funds would be used to pay for the pullout, slated to begin next month, and to relocate some 9,000 evacuated Jewish settlers to underpopulated areas of Israel.

Top officials from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon?s office and the Finance Ministry will make the request this week to officials in Washington, which backs the plan for removing Jewish settlements from Gaza and some of the West Bank.

Melting ice and warming waters have raised average sea levels worldwide by more than an inch since 1995, new data from space satellites and robotic submarines have revealed.

That's twice as fast as the rate the oceans rose during the previous 50 years, ocean experts said yesterday. If the current rate continues or accelerates, as they say is likely, the world's seas will rise at least a foot by the end of this century, causing widespread flooding and erosion of islands and low-lying coastal areas.

This is a clip from the new documentary Loose Change, which features firefighters and other eyewitnesses discussing explosions at the World Trade Center and examines the physical evidence.

Although 14 eye witnesses verify WTC janitor's story about a massive basement explosion just seconds before the airline strike of the north tower, major media reps. refuse to discuss why the story never ran or claim the story provided nothing new, wasn't important or wasn't the focus of their attention.

Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay. Secret prisons abroad. "Renditions." Torture. Assassinations. CIA abductions, even on the friendly soil of Italy.

Fear still rules America. Even after waging a war on false pretences, Bush can find refuge from low approval ratings by continuing to link Iraq to 9/11, as he did the other day before ? where else? ? military cadets.

Our own governments are invading our privacy, suspending civil liberties, criminalizing entire communities and repeatedly exhorting us to be "vigilant," thereby risking vigilantism, the anti-thesis of the rule of law.

All this may be excusable if it were making us any safer.

Combine this with the other failed elements of the war on terror, and you can see why we don't feel reassured by even the Churchillian calls of Blair ("We shall prevail and they shall not") and Bush ("We'll find them, we'll bring them to justice.")

For the better part of two years, the word coming out of the Bush White House was that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a female CIA officer's identity and that whoever did would be fired.

...view from London

"The explosives appear to be of military origin, which is very worrying," said Christophe Chaboud, head of the French Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit and one of five top officials sent by Paris to London immediately after Thursday's attacks.
How did they get them?"
"Either by trafficking, for example, in the Balkans, or they had someone on the inside who enabled them to get them out of a military establishment."

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News ---> Israel police have revealed that the explosives used in the multi-pronged terrorist attack in London last week were materially identical to the explosives used by two British Muslim suicide bombers who struck in Tel Aviv more than a year ago.

There is not even a single shred of evidence available so far that could implicate Muslims.

...the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber.

One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity.

Tony Blair will on Monday reject Conservative demands for a government inquiry into last week's London bomb attacks, insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators.

As police and security services on Sunday continued searching for the bombers - thought to be Islamist terrorists - Downing Street said the prime minister believed an inquiry now into the outrage which killed at least 49 people would be a "ludicrous diversion."

Instead, in a statement to the Commons on Monday following last week's Group of Eight summit, Mr Blair is expected to focus on the direction the government must take to ensure future terrorism is defeated.

A Kurdish rebel group said it was behind a bombing in a Turkish resort on Sunday that wounded 20 people and warned it would carry out further attacks, a news agency close to the rebels said.

The commanding officer of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was relieved of his duties Saturday after he was accused of inappropriate management practices, a Navy spokesman said.

Capt. Leslie J. McCoy, who had commanded Guantanamo since March 2003, was the subject of an investigation into inappropriate personnel and administrative practices unrelated to the base's detention camp for suspected terrorists.

When the federal government in April stopped funding a database that lets police quickly see public records and commercially collected information on Americans, privacy advocates celebrated what they saw as a victory against overzealousness in the fight against terrorism.

But a few states are pressing forward with a similar system, continuing to look for ways to quickly search through a trove of data - from driver's license photos to phone numbers to information about people's cars. Their argument in seeking to keep the Matrix database alive in some form: it's too important for solving crimes to give up on.

For years, the U.S. military has explored a new kind of firepower that is instantaneous, precise and virtually inexhaustible: beams of electromagnetic energy. "Directed-energy" pulses can be throttled up or down depending on the situation, much like the phasers on "Star Trek" could be set to kill or merely stun.
Such weapons are now nearing fruition.

What are the odds of both human tragedies having coincidental "drills" going on at the exact same time real life was taking so many human lives in two terrorist attacks?

NORAD was conducting drills of flying hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon at 8:30 in the morning, September 11, 2001. A CIA planned exercise on September 11 was built around a plane crashing into a building.
...a consulting agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.

John Leonard ---> ...the "previously unknown" organization posting anonymously on a website. Of course, western intelligence, using Echelon and such tools, could track any web posting back to its source. If it wanted to.

"Real" terrorists are known groups that make concrete demands. They are an endangered species, if not extinct.

Fake terrorists?covert psy-war units of western intelligence?always invent a name of an "unknown" group. They have to do this, of course. If they claimed, say, that the PLO did it, the accused would energetically deny it, spoiling the show. So they use fictitious identities, which they can mold to suit the target of convenience.

Thursday's fiction was a "secret" group affiliated?oh how wonderfully convenient?with Al Qaeda and Al Zarqawi. Yet the state-owned BBC itself has established that Al Qaeda does not even exist, in its documentary film, "The Terror Myth." And just this week Dahr Jamail wrote of his trip to the town of Zarqa, on the trail of the fabled Zarqawi. The man's family believe he died years ago?no recent photos exist. Certain is only that the mythical Zarqawi's base of operations always pops up wherever the Americans want to attack?Fallujah, Samarra, where do you want to go tomorrow?

Some other dead giveaway signs: --->

John Pilger ---> Blair will almost certainly use last week's atrocity and tragedy to further deplete basic human rights in Britain, as Bush has done in America. The goal is not security, but greater control.

Israel's Cabinet on Sunday affirmed a plan to surround Jerusalem with a barrier, despite protests by Palestinians, who say the Israelis are unilaterally redrawing the disputed city's boundaries and shifting its demographic balance in favor of Jews.

Liberty Media Corp. has teamed with Google, Goldman Sachs and Hearst Corp., to help roll out new tech for delivering high-speed Internet over power lines.

BRITAIN'S terrorist alert has been raised to its highest-ever level because the London rush-hour bombers are alive and planning another attack, The Times has learnt.

Security services, military and police are on "severe specific" alert ? the second highest status and higher than after the September 11 atrocities ? after it emerged that the terrorists who killed as many as 70 people were not suicide bombers.

The explosions that ripped through central London's transport system on Thursday, "targeting peaceable people, are not condoned by Islam, and are indeed prohibited by our religion," Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said Friday.
"Attributing to Islam acts of individual or collective killings, bombings, destruction of properties and the terrorizing of peaceable people is unfair, because they are alien to the religion," said Sheikh.

Independent ---> Could a dirty bomb be the next weapon used by terrorists in London?
This scenario was adapted from the report 'Dirty Bombs and Primitive Nuclear Weapons' by Frank Barnaby, one of Britain's leading experts on nuclear terrorism. It was published last month by the Oxford Research Group and describes what might happen.

U.S. counterterrorism experts believe European-born militants recruited by Zarqawi for Iraq's insurgency could be behind the bombings.

"The Iranian regime supports terror, both ideologically and operationally," he said. "I think the regime will go as fast as it can to develop nuclear weapons, regardless of who leads it."

Britain's top Muslim scholars are to issue a "fatwa" which will condemn the terrorists behind Thursday's bombings, in an unprecedented move to repudiate the Islamist militants suspected of the atrocities.

The leak of the undercover agent?s name ? Valerie Plame ? though it may originate with the Bush administration?s need to justify the Iraq war and is classified information, is unlikely to become another Watergate with a Deep Throat that topples a president. But the implications of Miller?s imprisonment, part of a broader trend of legal pressures on US journalists, are huge.

Video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should be viewed by a mature audience.

It is not just the US that has changed irrevocably after the most horrendous attack on America on September 11, 2001. The whole world has changed since then, and yet many in the West have little idea about how much the change has been.

John Pilger ---> In the orgy of summit coverage something has been overlooked: the two men at the heart of it, telling us how the world should be run, are the men responsible for Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.

While Christiane Amanpour is discussing the London terror attacks a man passing by breaks in and speaks truth to the camera. The man screams "tell the truth about what happened" --->

IRAQ?S former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi has warned that his country is facing civil war and has predicted dire consequences for Europe and America as well as the Middle East if the crisis is not resolved.

A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.

The fact that the exercise mirrored the exact locations and times of the bombings is light years beyond a coincidence. Power said the drill focused around 'simultaneous bombings'. At first the bombings were thought to have been spread over an hour, but the BBC reports just today that the bombings were in fact simultaneous.

...a Pentagon document, Field Manual FM 30-31B --->
"...the most dangerous moment comes when leftist groups "renounce the use of force" and embrace the democratic process. It is then that "U.S. army intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince Host Country Governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger." Naturally, these peace-throttling "special operations must remain strictly secret," the document warns."

Ministers are expected to rush through measures to arrest and detain suspects accused of acts associated with terrorism as an immediate reaction to yesterday's bombings.

DailyKos.com, top liberal blog, purged comments and accounts belonging to those who posted "conspiracy theories" regarding the London bombings.

Fox News reporter catches himself dividing beleaguered Londoners into "Arab" and "regular" people.

Italian police have arrested 142 people in the course of a two-day security operation in and around Milan which was prompted by the London bombings.

"We need to finally bring Osama bin Laden to account for his crimes." And we need to get much more serious about protecting America from attack -- about securing our roads and rails, our borders and bridges, our seaports and airports, our nuclear and chemical plants."

"We will stay on the offense, fighting the terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them at home," Bush said.

Work hard and the world respects you. Work hard and you can have anything you want. Work really extra super hard and do nothing else but work and ignore your family and spend 14 hours a day at the office and make 300 grand a year that you never have time to spend, sublimate your soul to the corporate machine and enjoy a profound drinking problem and sporadic impotence and a nice 8BR mini-mansion you never spend any time in, and you and your shiny BMW 740i will get into heaven.

We are designed, weaned, trained from Day 1 to be productive members of society. And we are heavily guilted into believing that must involve some sort of droning repetitive pod-like dress-coded work for a larger corporate cause, a consumerist mechanism, a nice happy conglomerate.

But the truth is, God, the divine true spirit loves nothing more than to see you unhinge and take risk and invite regular, messy, dangerous upheaval. This is exactly the energy that thwarts the demons of stagnation and conservative rot and violent sanctimonious bloody Mel Gibson-y religion, one that would have all our work be aimed at continuously patching up our incessant potholes of ugly congenital guilt, as opposed to contributing to the ongoing orgiastic evolution of spirit.

PM Tony Blair's approval rating jumped from 32% to 49%

Should action be taken against suspected terrorists even if they have not committed an offense yet? Jumped from 75% to 81%

Restrict the civil liberties of terror suspects even though there is not enough evidence to charge and convict them? Jumped from 58% to 70%

As a result of the terror attacks will change the way you lead your life? 88% No.

And there are signs that people are starting to wake up to the danger of Islam itself. The number of people who think Islam, as opposed to Islamic fundamentalist, poses a threat to Western democracy jumped 14%.

Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone will direct superstar Nicholas Cage in the first major Hollywood movie about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, producers announced.

The as-yet untitled film, which will be made for Paramount Pictures, will tell the true stories of the last two men to be rescued alive from the ruins of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.

The film will be produced by Double Feature Films' Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher as well as Moritz Borman, while the screenplay has been penned by Andrea Berloff.

About 20,000 people have been evacuated from Birmingham city centre amid a security alert.

After Israel tried to link London blasts to the Palestinian resistance, senior negotiator Saeb Erekat warned it against using the attacks to "score points" diplomatically.

The freedom of press organization, Reporters without Borders (RWB), on Friday judged as "unacceptable" an Israeli decision not to allow a French journalist to enter the Palestinian West Bank territories last July 3rd.

The veteran journalist, Huda Ibrahim, was turned away at the crossing from Jordan into the West bank despite possessing and producing official documents from the French Foreign Ministry which mandated her to train Palestinian journalists for a week-long program in Bethlehem, Ramallah and Bir Zeit.

An Israeli security guard shot dead a Palestinian teenager Friday during a protest against Israel's West Bank separation barrier, police said.
Palestinian hospital staff named the dead boy as Mahyoub Assi, 16.

The New Zealand Herald ---> A New Zealander working for Reuters in London says two colleagues witnessed the unconfirmed shooting by police of two apparent suicide bombers outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf in London.

The New Zealander, who did not want to be named, said the killing of the two men wearing bombs happened at 10.30am on Thursday (London time).

When Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt was asked about the images of American soldiers killing innocent civilians on Arab television, Kimmitt said: ''My solution is quite simple: Change the channel.

Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

The Gaelic Starover ---> And I'm being kind.

You can't have a war against terrorism because, as many people have pointed out, terrorism is a tactic employed by people who have no real military power. It is not an entity. There is no worldwide terrorist organization.

...there appears to be many holes is the so-called official statement released by the "Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe". The previously unknown group circulated a claim of responsibility shortly after this morning attacks, a copy of which was received by JUS however this statement has some glaring errors in it that indicated to us that this material did not likely come from Al-Qaida. JUS translates Al-Qaida statements daily in order to bring readers the other side of the war of "terror" and there are many problems with this so-called official statement.

A former senior IDF intelligence officer said the attack was probably linked with al-Qaida and should serve as a catalyst for setting up a global counter-terrorism headquarters. The terror attacks were also likely greatly helped by sleeper cells inside Britain, one analyst said.

...al-qal3ah.com, which is registered by Qalaah Qalaah in Abu Dhabi and hosted by a server in Houston, Texas.

...two Israeli groups devoted to exposing the network of jihadist sites claim that it is connected to the London-based Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih.

Mr Faqih has always vigorously denied being involved with terrorism. Yesterday he was indignant about being linked to the website.

"It does not belong to me at all," he told the Guardian. "It is a Zionist smear."

"One way or another, teleportation is going to play a major role in all our futures. It will be a fundamental process at the heart of quantum computers, which will themselves radically change the world."

Secure optical data storage could soon literally be at your fingertips thanks to work being carried out in Japan. Yoshio Hayasaki and his colleagues have discovered that data can be written into a human fingernail by irradiating it with femtosecond laser pulses.

First, it ("Shock and Awe") was displayed in Baghdad, and in response it was seen in Madrid and Istanbul; now it has come to London but on a far smaller scale. It seems we live in a world where the Anglo-Saxon civilisation, assumes the right to unleash their military forces on anyone, but expects everyone to howl terrorism, give minutes of silence, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder, when they face retaliation.

Chris Floyd ---> Withholding treatment from tortured prisoners, breaking medical confidence to tell interrogators of prisoners' physical and psychological weak spots, and other heinous practices approved by the White House and codified in Pentagon directives for military medical staff.

The G8 must seize the opportunity to address the wider issues at the root of such atrocities

Most Londoners (as the rest of the country) were opposed to the Iraq war.

Robert Fisk ---> It is easy for Tony Blair to call yesterdays bombings "barbaric" - of course they were - but what were the civilian deaths of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the children torn apart by cluster bombs, the countless innocent Iraqis gunned down at American military checkpoints? When they die, it is "collateral damage"; when "we" die, it is "barbaric terrorism".

...on July 4th, Britain made the announcement that they would be pulling their troops out of Iraq over the next 18 months, but now, they have a reason to stay in Iraq, how convenient for Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Also this will help the Brittish and US Governments to Institute National ID card Programs, while tightening up "security" at all bus and train depot's, like they got with the airline industry after 9/11. More searching without probable cause, more detainments of "suspects". Then there is also the increased level of fear amongst the general populace this will generate as they pound it into the average american's head over and over again.

The Prime Minister's Office instructed Israeli officials not to give interviews to the foreign media Thursday on the London bombings.

In the international arena this time the message was the following: "It's not a story with anything to do with Israel. It's a story of international terrorism in Britain and therefore we should be quiet," according to a government source.

Justin Raimondo ---> What did Bibi know ?
and when did he know it?

That's right - his first thought after hearing about the awful terrorist attack in London today wasn't "how tragic," or "let's say a prayer for the dead," or "how can I help the victims" - his first thought was, there was a terrorist attack, how can I personally profit off it? In fact, his impulse to use the bloodshed to make himself money was so intense, he actually voiced it on national television.

Spinning Netanyahu's London Terror Tip-off

...when one looks at how the US 'Cointelpro' operated, placing operatives inside a number of left-wing organisations including the US Socialist Workers Party, the CPUSA and the Black Panther Party.

One American psy-ops operative recently leveled with the Australian newspaper The Age: "We were basically paying up to US$10,000 a time to opportunists and criminals who passed off fiction and supposition about Zarqawi as cast-iron fact, making him out as the linchpin of just about every attack in Iraq."

The media for its part is of course doing its bit to keep ramming home the 'al-Qu'eda' connection even though not a shred of evidence has ever been produced in or out of a court of law to show that it exists, let alone that's it's behind any of the bombings. The name is merely a mantra, like 'Red' or 'Commie', a convenient button to be pushed as and when needed.

Italy plans to begin withdrawing some of its troops from Iraq in September, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday.

The next few days would probably be a good time to stay away from the TV. On top of the televised gore and the stunned faces of the survivors, we'll have to endure the canned Churchillian rhetoric of Messrs. Blair and Bush. Blitzes will be remembered; blood, sweat and tears promised, ultimate victory predicted. The babbling heads of cable news will babble even louder. Conservative con artists will figure the angles and work out the attack lines to use against the liberals -- whatever it takes to drown out the fact that, nearly four years after 9/11, Bin Ladin still lives and Al Qaeda is back in business. Mission unaccomplished.

Wow, al Qaeda must be the stupidest terrorists, no wait, stupidest people period, on this entire planet. Their purported goal is to shake the will of the western powers that have invaded Iraq, and to drive them out, no? Then can someone please explain to me the logic of the London bombings? No seriously, it is time to apply logic to these events. Please do not hand me the nonsense about these people being "killers" who do not apply logic. You do not become the number one terrorist organization without having some logic, no? We are expected to swallow that these people were smart enough to circumvent our billion dollar intelligence and air defense systems with box cutters, but they cannot play coherent cause-effect scenarios out in their mind prior to carrying out terrorist activities?

Frank J. Gaffney Jr. on the London Attack on National Review Online

The death and destruction in the subway system known as the "Tube" below ground and on a bus above is a vivid reminder of a central reality of our time: While we have been spared such horrors here for nearly four years, anyone who thinks we can safely divert our attention from this threat is kidding himself, and putting the rest of us at grave risk.

At this writing, not much is known about the extent ? let alone the detailed nature or specific perpetrators ? of the bloodletting in London. What is clear, however, is that the attackers exhibited the sort of calculation and ruthlessness that has come to be associated with the ideology at the heart of the war on terror: Islamofascism.

Only one word sprang to mind when I heard about the bombings that claimed the lives of dozens of Londoners today - convenient.

Is there anything convenient in death, or in thousands of lives destroyed from catastrophe? No - and words cannot express the sorrow I feel for the men and women changed by today's events. But governments with skeletons in their closets have a great deal to gain from a national tragedy bolstered by "terrorism."

Think about it. The attack only benefits empires desperate to maintain a foothold in the Middle East without further eroding public opinion.

The bombing of the London Underground was a false-flag operation designed to keep the West mired in war. Don't believe otherwise.

Fears that Muslims may be become the victims of reprisals following today's London bombings have prompted a warning for them to stay indoors.

Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, appealed for calm and condemned the bombings.

He said: "The Islamic Human Rights Commission utterly condemns this attack, but now we appeal that there should be no further victims as a result of reprisals."

News released yesterday, Wednesday, 6 July, 2005

...quote from La Repubblica:
"The claim, in the name of Al Qaeda, regarding today's attack in London, published on the elqual3ah.com website, is not considered credible by Italian intelligence sources, who point out, among other inaccuracies, "errors in certain arabic words", specifying that even an islamic fundamentalist website has stated that credit should not be given to this claim."

Giuliani, who led the Big Apple through the devastating attacks, said he was only yards away from the first explosion this morning, while on a visit to London.

In what appears to be the first major break in the London terrorist attacks, U.S. authorities tell ABC News that British police have recovered two unexploded bombs in London.

Rules of conflict for a world war.

MSNBC TV translator Jacob Keryakes, who said that a copy of the message was later posted on a secular Web site, noted that the claim of responsibility contained an error in one of the Quranic verses it cited. That suggests that the claim may be phony, he said.

"This is not something al-Qaida would do," he said.

Israel knew and warned United Kingdom of possible terror plots to disrupt life in London. But British authorities failed to respond accordingly to deter the attacks.

The biggest question of the day is British Authorities knew and protected Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then why not common British citizens in London?

In recent months British support for Dubya and Blair's War on Terror was waning. The British Government had recently announced a plan to withdraw troops from Iraq. British public support for the war was waning to the point of being non-existant. And now this happens. Then I ask myself, just whose interest does this attack serve?

Israel first tried to explain away Netanyahu's advance warning of the bombings by saying Scotland Yard warned them. Now, Scotland Yard has reported that there was no such warning issued by them. So Israel is trying to change the story by saying that Netanyahu received his warning after the first blast. But the first blast was reported as a power surge blowing a transformer for almost an hour after it happened, so even a warning immediately after the blast happened is still suspicious.

...firmly blamed the series of London bombings on Islamic radicals.

Blair's assertion that Islamic extremists were to blame was backed by analysts:
Boaz Ganor, director general of Israel's International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
Mordechai Kedar, a counter-terrorism analyst for Israel's public television.

Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi signed a pact in Tehran agreeing to accept Iranian military training and other cooperation with the country Iraq fought for a decade under ousted leader Saddam Hussein.

Responding to the suggestion that the thaw in ties with Iran would anger Washington, Dulaimi said: "Nobody can dictate to Iraq its relations with other countries."

The whole of Europe was on alert Thursday following a series of bombings in London, Italian officials said, while security officials were assessing Italian security and Italy's airports raised their alert level to a maximum.

A previously unknown group claimed responsibility in the name of al Qaeda for a series of blasts in London that killed at least two people and wounded 185, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Thursday.

Tony Blair condemned on Thursday a "barbaric" series of attacks in London and said it was "reasonably clear" that terrorists were behind the wave of explosions.

Authorities around the country stepped up security on public transportation systems and urged extra vigilance Thursday following the rush hour bombings in London that rocked the subway system and a crowded bus.

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had planned to attend an economic conference in a hotel over the subway stop where one of the blasts occurred, and the warning prompted him to stay in his hotel room instead, government officials said.

President Bush, speaking at the G8 summit, told reporters that "the war on terror goes on."

"We will not yield to these terrorists, we will find them, we will bring them to justice," he said.

...during the height of morning rush hour, a series of four explosions struck London's transport system. Three Underground trains were hit in the first wave and a bus an hour later. At least 33 people are confirmed dead.

German airline Lufthansa said it hopes to introduce digital finger-printing as early as next year.

Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.

A federal judge today ordered Judith Miller of The New York Times to be jailed immediately after she again refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative.

As federal policymakers wrangle over a deadline to switch from analog to digital television, consumers have been left wondering what it all means. How will it work? Are analog TV sets about to go dark? And why all the fuss, anyway?

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For the third straight year, the Bush Administration has continued its deceptive practice of omitting the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the Budget.

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As Khinaisar approached, a gunshot was heard from the third humvee. The soldiers at the rear of the convoy thought they had seen a suicide bomber, Lt. Col. David Funk said, and they fired a warning shot, then kept firing.

Khinaisar, a 57-year-old high school Arabic teacher, was shot once in the head. She died five days later, on June 3.

As she tells it, security forces put her in solitary confinement for days on end, whipped her with electric cables and accused her of having sex with a stranger. Humiliated and fearful for her life, the 46-year-old Iraqi housewife went before a TV camera and "confessed" to helping insurgents.

It didn't matter that her confession was a lie, Khalida Zakiya said.

"If you don't say what we tell you," she claims one interrogator told her, "I will rip your clothes off and leave you naked in front of everyone." Another threatened to sodomize her with a bottle, she said in a phone interview Tuesday from her home in Mosul.

Noam Chomsky ---> Half-truths, misinformation and hidden agendas have characterised official pronouncements about US war motives in Iraq from the very beginning. The recent revelations about the rush to war in Iraq stand out all the more starkly amid the chaos that ravages the country and threatens the region and indeed the world.

"When, exactly, did this become a police state?" he said.

"When did the police get ... the power to call off demonstrations here in this free country of ours?"

...it's about Machiavellian White House operatives using the cloak of anonymity to take revenge against a whistle-blower's family, exposing an undercover CIA agent's identity to intimidate others from speaking out.

Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"--and Global Terrorism?

Mom, Who Lost Son In Iraq, Talks About 'Disgusting' White House Private Meeting With Bush; Claims He Was Arrogant, 'Totally Detached From Humanity' And Didn't Even Know Her Name

The Bush Administration is scrambling behind the scenes to stop a criminal indictment against Presidential advisor Karl Rove for disclosing classified information to reporters in an attempt to discredit a White House critic.

There are several lines of evidence indicating that the Bush Administration orchestrated 9-11 --->

You have probably never seen an army missile used in a church service or a pastor dressed in fatigues, but that is exactly what you'll find Sundays at New Born Fellowship Christian Center in Rochester, where church leaders have decided to conduct a new program called Spiritual Warfare.

Thousands of anti-poverty campaigners marched this afternoon to the edge of the hotel grounds where world leaders are gathering for the G8 summit.

The National Counterterrorism Center has launched TKB.org, the Terror Knowledge Database, today.
It?s an almanac of all things terrorism. You can search the database by any number of details; date, location, event type?

Last year there were five acts of terrorism on U.S. soil resulting in a total of one wounded.

In sworn statements to Army investigators, soldiers described a female interrogator at Bagram stepping on a prisoner's neck and kicking another in the genitals. One Bagram interrogator was nicknamed "the monster," and a group of Bagram soldiers were called "the Testosterone Gang."

Our flag waving over a sprawling prison network of some 42 camps holding 11,000 prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. The government admits to "detaining" at least 50,000 since US military operations began.

If we all had the guts to die for the idea we call America, the halls of Congress would be jammed, the White House encircled, by citizens demanding an end to the sinful violations of our ideals: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and "extraordinary rendition."

They would proclaim they'd rather die at a terrorist's hand than watch America move from "rule of law" to "arrogant outlaw."

Instead, near silence. Alibis. Self-absorbed complicity.

America must never torture. But we have.

America must never contract out its torturing to some of the world's most brutal regimes. But we have.

America must not imprison indefinitely without evidence or fair trial. But we have.

A beacon for the rule of law must never claim unilateral power to thrust prisoners into a Kafkaesque world where they are neither criminal suspect nor prisoner of war, lacking the legal protections of either. But America does.

Yet another reason to oppose John Bolton: If he gets to the UN, will he be a point man for our next war?

Bolton got information about Iran from intelligence and other sources and sat on it. Twelve different times.

...because he sees strong similarities between Bush's government and the events leading to the Watergate scandal which forced Nixon to resign.

"There is stone-walling, not telling the truth, getting people under wiretaps. The US public continues to be told things that are not true and what worries me is that we have these brave young American guys risking their lives everyday."

McKenna told the Toronto Star that he wants to arm Canadians with facts that will enable them to debate Americans and to lobby when Washington makes decisions that can hurt Canadians.

But most importantly, he says, Canadians in the U.S. should counteract Fox News, alleging that the network often spreads disinformation and creates a false picture of his homeland.

Iran is committed to building a nuclear bomb, which would help it spread the Islamic revolution across the Middle East, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Kupperwasser, head of the IDF Intelligence Corps research division, said on Tuesday.

He was addressing a meeting of the Knesset Forum on the Middle East.

The bomb "will allow them [the Iranians] to carry out the purpose of the creation of the regime ? exporting the revolution," Kupperwasser said. "They can't do it right now, but once they have the bomb, they will be able to do it."

"They hate the State of Israel," Kuperwasser told the forum. "The difference between them and the rest of the people in the Middle East [who hate Israel] is that they think something should be done about it. That's why they support Hamas. That's why they give money to Islamic Jihad."

The Pentagon's most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.

Anglo-French tensions heightened last night after Jacques Chirac delivered a series of insults to Britain as London and Paris fought to secure the 2012 Olympic Games and faced fresh disagreement at the G8 summit.

"You can't trust people who cook as badly as that," he said. "After Finland, it's the country with the worst food."

Officials were still measuring the quake which struck off the west coast of the island at 0852 local time (0152 GMT), said Budi Waluyu, from the government's geophysical and meteorological agency.

"It was strongly felt, across west Sumatra and outlying islands," he said.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Geological Survey issued a preliminary report placing saying the quake measured 6.8.

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Some 2,000 people began gathering in the area surrounding the Faslane Royal Navy nuclear submarine base in Scotland early Monday morning to "shut it down for the day" as part of the protests leading up to the Group of Eight summit this week.

But the Royal Navy beat them to the punch, closing up the base preventively in the early hours of the morning: the base, in effect, "blocked itself."

Police and anti-capitalist demonstrators were involved in a series of clashes today as protests were stepped up across Scotland ahead of the G8 summit.

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson said: "We`ve got planes, we`ve got trains and we thought it was important to bring people from America, from Africa and from London to Scotland."

A heavy police presence, drawn from forces across Britain, ensured protesters were contained away from the main financial district.

Police in full riot gear then set up lines, including a 40-strong wall of officers outside the National Galleries of Scotland.

10,000 officers from all over the country are policing the event, which will see world leaders including George Bush and Tony Blair meet at the hotel, protected by a five-mile ring of steel.

The demonstrations began peacefully as protesters, banging drums and shaking bells, marched and danced into waiting police containment cordons.

The demonstrations were part of an array of protests that began on Saturday with a 200,000-strong march through the city calling for an end to poverty in the developing world, especially Africa.

A police spokesman said late today that 21 people, including four policemen, were injured but none seriously. Most of the charges relating to the 90 arrests were for causing a disturbance.

...and the summit doesn't start till Wednesday

Thousands of protesters will converge on Edinburgh and the summit venue at Gleneagles following a spate of violent clashes with police today.

As the spy scandal unfolds it now appears to spread further than AIPAC, AEI, and the Pentagon. Michael Ledeen an ultra-Zionist Likudnik believed to be an Israeli agent is a key foreign Policy Advisor to Karl Rove.

"I'm opposed to Ahmadinejad's policies and thinking but he was not involved in the hostage drama nor in the assassination of an Iranian opposition Kurdish leader in Vienna,'' Hajjarian said.

Bush, speaking on America's birthday: U.S. forces will stay "until the fight is won."

...asked Americans to support U.S. troops by flying the flag, writing a letter to troops in the field and supporting a military family down the street.

Feminist author Gloria Steinem on Monday joined about 200 protesters to demand the closure of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, saying holding prisoners indefinitely without charging them violates the values upon which the United States was founded.

Ahead of a meeting with leaders of the world's most powerful nations, U.S. President George Bush has made it clear he's not about to budge on the issue of climate change.

Tawfiq Jamil hasn't worked since Saddam Hussein's government fell more than two years ago.

A former taxi driver, the 28-year-old was forced to sell his car after the war to try to provide for his wife and seven children, and hasn't been able to find a new job since.

Then recently, Jamil and some of the others came to the same conclusion -- things were so desperate they decided it was time to apply for probably the most dangerous job in the world.

It was time to join the Iraqi police force.

Before the U.S.-led invasion in April 2003, Baghdad used to export 800,000 barrels a day from the northern field around Kirkuk. Iraq has resumed sporadic pumping of crude from the Kirkuk fields to Ceyhan over the last six weeks.

With an eight-kilometre ring of steel, 10,000 police on standby, watchtowers and a no-fly zone, Gleneagles Hotel is locked down under a G8 security operation to protect the world's most powerful men.
"It is a potential terrorist target," Chief Constable Vine told The Associated Press. "All our planning has been based on it both being a terrorist target and of course a target for public protest, so there is a necessity for us to have an exclusion zone."

Officers hemmed in a group of anti-capitlaist demonstrators who were claiming to be medics in a central city street but there were no reports of any arrests.

Thousands of protesters have already descended on the Scottish capital.

A mile-long fence has been erected outside the Scottish Parliament amid fears that protesters could target the building during the summit.

Around 10,600 officers will be involved in the policing of Wednesday's G8 meeting 40 miles away in Gleneagles.

Yesterday the Second International Naval Show (IMDS-2005) finished its work in St. Petersburg. During its course there were negotiations about new shipments of naval military equipment to China and Mexico, and about the refurbishing Iranian submarines.

Thomas Paine ---> War without end. Rape of Mother Earth by faceless corporations. Exploitation of the poor. Subjugation of the masses. 9/11/01 marked the beginning of a new era of profound fear and suffering for the human race. Contrary to the Ministry of Truth of the United States government, the terrorists are not the source of this misery. A malevolent force has taken root in the United States.

Chris Floyd ---> President George W. Bush gave a big speech "explaining" the Iraq war to the American people. It was the usual load of lying blather and false piety -- deeply, even murderously cynical. But there's no point in wasting a single thought over these clown shows anymore. Bush is a nasty little moral cretin fronting a gang of elitist thugs whose only concerns are loot and power. Nothing he says has the slightest credibility. Only his actions -- crimes soaked with human blood -- have any meaning or truth.

With a five-mile ring of steel, 10,000 police on standby, watchtowers and a no-fly zone, Gleneagles Hotel is locked down under a sophisticated G-8 security operation to protect the world's most powerful men.

...it's full 3-D space, the combatants circling each other inches from my eyes so convincingly that my hand twinges to grab them - and I'm not wearing those clunky red-and-blue cardboard glasses, either. I'm seeing a 3-D image with the naked eye. My host, Deep Light's co-founder Dan Mapes, bounces on his heels, giggling with delight. "It's cool, isn't it?"

Officials in Washington, D.C., plan to use the July Fourth crowd watching fireworks on the National Mall to test the city's emergency evacuation system.

Sharon ensured that security issues dominated the summit, and gave short shrift to the Palestinians? requests, countering each demand with unacceptable, if not impossible, conditions regarding the suppression and policing of Islamic Jihad, Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Iran on Sunday vehemently rejected a recent allegation that its President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the 1979 US hostage taking, terming it as "sheer lies",the official IRNA news agency reported.

A collection of notes by the 17th century English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton - which scientists thought had been lost forever - have been found.

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The satellite-based system will monitor the speed limit and apply the brakes or cut out the accelerator if the driver tries to exceed it. A government-funded trial has concluded that the scheme promotes safer driving.

Drivers in London could be among the first to have the 'speed spy' devices fitted. They would be offered a discount on the congestion charge if they use the system.

A NASA space probe was bearing down on its comet target Sunday in a suicide mission scientists hoped would provide new insight into the origins of the solar system.

The 820-pound copper probe was on course to intercept Tempel 1, a pickle-shaped comet half the size of Manhattan, and smash a hole in it so scientists could get their first peek at the heart of one of the icy celestial bodies.

You don't have to be a scientist to grab a front row seat when the NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft bears down on a comet.

While the war waged on, we waited for anything from our son to assure us that he and his buddies were safe. We also waited for the for the Weapons of Mass Destruction to be found - after Jeff's death I prayed for them to be found; we waited for the network of terrorism to be found and destroyed and we waited for that link of Iraq to 9/11/01; we waited to find the imminent danger which we were facing.

Were these not the basic premises on which we rushed to war. Were these not the points that this administration went to the country and to the UN and stated that they had proof. Did they not say that they had to react immediately due to the imminent danger to our safety.

The Case For A Special Prosecutor That Could Lead To Impeachment

UNOFFICIAL NEO-FASCIST ITALIAN INTELLIGENCE GROUP HAS TIES TO NEO CON INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS IN BUSH ADMINISTRATION INVOLVED IN KIDNAPING MILAN IMAM. GENOA POLICE BUST PRIVATE INTELLIGENCE CELLS AROUND ITALY. POSSIBLE LINKS BETWEEN BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND TERRORIST GROUPS FIGURE IN PROBE.

Pigs are flying. Pink Floyd are back together and flying pigs are on the screens behind them. Even those who know nothing about them know this is a pretty special moment.

What's with the adverts in Philly? Can't the Americans live without them for a few hours? Not really in the spirit of the day, is it??

Are you ready to start a revolution? Are you ready to change history? I said, are you ready?

"By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense."

"Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold."

"This is our moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for what is right."

"...it is an obscenity that 50,000 die every day unnecessarily as a consequence of poverty."

"Mahatma Gandhi freed a continent, Martin Luther King freed a people, Nelson Mandela freed a country. It does work. They will listen."

Paul Harvey's Tribute to Slavery, Nukes, Genocide

Bush insisted that "all our troops and their families can know that the American people are behind them."

Neuharth added, in his weekly column Friday in the newspaper he founded: "The crucial difference between Vietnam and Iraq is that there is no Cronkite to call Bush's bluff. Without a strong, trusted, non-political voice, too many of us remain Bush-blinded. Bush tried keeping the wool over our eyes again Tuesday on national TV by repeatedly tying Iraq to 9/11. That charge is as phony as his discredited prewar claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."

According to an article published Friday by Editor & Publisher, Assistant to the President, Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor Karl Rove is the confidential source who outed Valerie Plame to reporters as a CIA operative.

The White House said on Friday it has unearthed no evidence so far to support assertions.

The Royal Society in the U.K. has issued a worrying report about rising acidity in the world's oceans. "If CO2 [carbon dioxide] from human activities continues to rise, the oceans will become so acidic by 2100 it could threaten marine life in ways we can't anticipate," said report author Ken Caldeira, of the Carnegie Institution.

A majority of Americans now realize that President Bush deliberately misled the nation to promote a war in Iraq. But Mr. Bush's speech on Tuesday contained a chilling message: America has been taken hostage by his martial dreams. According to Mr. Bush, the nation now has no choice except to keep fighting the war he wanted to fight.

Never mind that Iraq posed no threat before we invaded. Now it's a "central front in the war on terror," Mr. Bush says, quoting Osama bin Laden as an authority. And since a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would, Mr. Bush claims, be a victory for Al Qaeda, Americans have to support this war - and that means supporting him. After all, you wage war with the president you have, not the president you want.

But America doesn't have to let itself be taken hostage. The country missed the chance to say no before this war started, but it can still say no to Mr. Bush's open-ended commitment, and demand a timetable for getting out.

...if people were just better informed, they would rise up and overthrow all of this and bring about a new era of peace.

Justin Raimondo ---> The Americans are stalemated in Iraq, and they now face a choice: negotiations or endless conflict. The administration may wake up tomorrow to the fact that there will be no military solution to the problem of the insurgency, or it may take a year or so: in the end, however, the American people are going to rebel against the rising carnage and the lack of a clear objective, no matter how many times Bush (or his successor) conjures the specter of 9/11. The president's recent peroration was a rather ineffective attempt to hold back that tide, but the increasingly visible face of the Iraqi insurgents ? not that of Zarqawi, or Osama bin Laden, but the nationalist Samarie ? is undermining his contention that we're fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired.

An extraordinary statement by the US government has sent shockwaves around the internet world and thrown the future of the network into doubt.

In a worrying U-turn, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has made it clear it intends to retain control of the internet's root servers indefinitely.

"It's time to make Ahmadinejad and the Iranian regime pay for their despicable behavior," said Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House International Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia.

Iran, a rogue nation whose unsavory behavior and associations render it one of the United States' greatest national security threats," and said the link underscores the ruthlessness and the danger posed by the new regime.

Has the Bush administration drastically understated the U.S. military death count by redefining "death"? The following article suggests that it has, and it calls for a nationwide campaign.

This weekend we celebrate the Fourth of July. A holiday that commemorates our proud history, founded on freedom, paid for with the honorable blood of patriots throughout our time. From the Revolution through the Civil War Americans always stood up for what was right, through protecting the individual liberties of all. In the 20th century, Americans rose to the challenges of oppression facing the world on more than one occasion. Respect was earned and deserved. Every time we faced a crossroads, we answered the challenge and took the right path regardless of the difficulty.

The 21st century does not reflect so kindly upon this heritage. It has been spoiled by people who wrap themselves in the flag but only represent greed. That tragic fact that blood has to be spilled to feed this greed is not relevant to them. They claim the mantle of Christianity, but do not represent the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. They come under a banner that reads, ?Culture of Life? while embracing the politics of death. We walk around every day trying to be politically correct. You don?t say the president lied; you say his statements were not borne out to be factually accurate. You don?t say that the president lied to go to war; you say the intelligence was poor. Everyone dances around the truth, afraid to confront the fact that the enemy is thyself.

The informational preparation has already been launched.

As the scandal about the alleged terrorist past of the Iranian president-elect grows up, it's becoming obvious that the world is witnessing a smear campaign not unlike those aimed at Milosevic and Hussein on the eve of the US-led aggressions against Yugoslavia in 1999 and Iraq in 2003.
The current allegations that Iran's president-elect was one of the hostage-takers in 1979 is most likely intended to turn Ahmedinejad into a devil incarnate in the US public opinion.

America's founders knew all too well how war appeals to the vanity of rulers and their thirst for glory. That's why they took care to deny presidents the kingly privilege of making war at their own discretion.

But after 9/11 President Bush, with obvious relish, declared himself a "war president." And he kept the nation focused on martial matters by morphing the pursuit of Al Qaeda into a war against Saddam Hussein.

Downing Street memo, other documents may show war really started earlier than March 2003.