The Bush administration has undertaken efforts to arm and train the Presidential Guard of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in order to prepare it for a potential violent confrontation with Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip.

At large, the American people are still unaware of the issuance of the Real ID card forthcoming in May of 2008.

The "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex.

What we all call the "Iraq war" is not a war but the deliberate annihilation of an entire country. If this is not "genocide" maybe we should create a new word.

Decade after decade the Israelis have undisturbed continued its insain massacres on the Palestinians - the world of spectators does not seam to understand that "Israel " is in a moral, political, and psychiatric free fall.

...liars always slip up!

North Korea has agreed to return to talks on its nuclear programme, the United States said, in a diplomatic breakthrough just three weeks after stunning the world with its first atomic test.

US President George W. Bush said he was "very pleased" at the surprise announcement, which followed seven hours of secret negotiations in Beijing.

The talks -- involving China, the two Koreas, Russia, the United States and Japan -- could restart as soon as November.

After serving 31 days in prison, Free State Project member Lauren Canario of New London has just been ordered held indefinitely pending a future trial. At a hearing on Monday, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Kevin McMahon said she could be detained as long as a full year.

Canario was arrested on Sept. 22 for refusing to leave one of the properties seized in the controversial Kelo vs. New London decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that government can take homes and give the land to private corporations.

Since her arrest she has refused to speak or retain a lawyer.

SPIEGEL --> Interview with Terror Expert Ron Suskind.

Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen -- the final voting step.

Cheney last week agreed with a radio interviewer's assertion that "a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives." That sure sounded like an endorsement of waterboarding, a brutal interrogation technique widely viewed as torture.

...as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faces intensifying criticism over the Iraq war.

...no shame.

Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are now showing up in the nation's homeless shelters.

...may be just the beginning of an influx of new veterans in need. Currently, there are 150,000 troops in Iraq and 16,000 in Afghanistan. More than 130,000 have already served and returned home.

...the Bush administration refused his offers.

VIDEO --> ...assaulted former Marine and first year law student, Mike Stark, wrestling him to the ground and forcibly removing him from the premises.

ABC News has learned the raid was launched after U.S. intelligence received tips and examined Predator reconnaissance indicating that al Qaeda's No. 2 man may have been staying at the school, which is located in the Bajaur region near the village that is thought to be al Qaeda's winter headquarters.

Israeli troops carried out an incursion into the Gaza Strip late on Tuesday, entering several hundred metres into the south of the Palestinian territory near the Egyptian border, security sources said.

Iran's firebrand president warned on Monday that his country would respond with an "appropriate and firm response" to any U.N. sanction over its nuclear program.

The world has come to its senses and is moving away from the green slip of paper that is currently mired in $8.7 trillion of debt.

Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) sell security and military services at home and overseas. Over the last 10 years these companies have moved from the periphery of international politics into the corporate boardroom, becoming a ?normal? part of the military sector.

To the president, this dangerous pre-election problem meant that it was time for change?not in Iraq policy (at least not before the election), but a change in how to spin the war.

...this is not incompetence but a well crafted plan to rebuild a new city which will include outside developers and bustling casinos, but not its original inhabitants. Why is public housing that was barely effected by Katrina being boarded up? As Greg Palast explains, this is highly coveted real estate close to the heart of downtown New Orleans and has been targeted for years. Why is the mainstream media blacking out the real story? Why did authorities attempt to arrest Greg Palast to shut him up? Why is there a FEMA camp near an oil refinery where freedom of the press has been suspended?

Future Of America?

...bioethicist Jonathan Moreno describes the range of brain-related research U.S. military agencies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are paying for. From drugs that could improve soldiers? abilities and endurance (and others that could bewilder enemies) to devices controlled by or controlling people?s minds, these possible uses of cutting-edge neuroscience will change how wars are fought.

Dr. Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D, is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX. He served as chief economist for the United States Department of Labor during 2001--2002, George W. Bush's first term.

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

...face an operation similar to New York, Madrid, London.

"Freedom of expression online is a right, not a privilege - but it's a right that needs defending," said Steve Ballinger of Amnesty International. "We're asking bloggers worldwide to show their solidarity with web users in countries where they can face jail just for criticising the government."

Brad Will, 36, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia in New York, Bolivia and Brazil, died today of a gunshot to the chest when pro-government attackers opened fire on a barricade in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia del Camino, on the outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico. He died with his video camera in his hands.

Ministers from the six largest European Union countries have agreed to work together.
Home Secretary John Reid said they would seek to crack down on people using the web to share information on explosives or spread propaganda.

The problem lies in the unwillingness to recognise that your own terrorism is terrorism.

A "Tower of Babel" device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists.

The idea is that you can mouth words in English and they will come out in Chinese or another language.

The possible civilian deaths, which a UN statement said were in the village of Nangawat, happened during Eid, the festival marking the end of Ramadan.

James Petras'(Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York) powerful new book...

It's a work of epic writing and essential reading documenting the enormous influence of the Jewish Lobby on US policy in the Middle East. It focuses like a laser to assure that policy conforms with Israel's long-term goal for regional hegemony. The Lobby's influence is broad and deep enough to include officials at the highest levels of government, the business community, academia, the clergy (especially the dominant Christian fundamentalists/Christian Zionists) and the mass media. Petras shows how together they're able to assure the full and unconditional US support for all elements of Israel's agenda going back decades even when that agenda harms our interests such as the unwinnable war in Iraq, any future one against Iran if it's undertaken, and the appalling and brutal subjugation and colonization of the Palestinian people that serves no US interest whatever. In spite of it, the Lobby is able to get the US to go along with Israel unconditionally with no serious opposition to it tolerated.

After decades of battling to win foreign support for its two-fisted policies against Arab foes, Israel is trying a new approach with a campaign aimed at creating a less warlike and more welcoming national image.

"When the word 'Israel' is said outside its borders, we want it to invoke not fighting or soldiers, but a place that is desirable to visit and invest in, a place that preserves democratic ideals while struggling to exist," Livni said.

Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.

The creators of American reality, those propagators of charades and mirages who dwell inside the hallways of the Ministry of Truth ? otherwise known as the Corporate Media ? continue their dance of deception and whitewash, festering in their offices of propaganda, directing the narratives and the epics hundreds of millions of Americans consider truth.

Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. "It's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said at one point in an interview.

President George W. Bush signed into law a controversial bill authorizing construction of a fence along the US-Mexico border.

This must-see 16 minute excerpt from Barrie Zwicker's video "The Great Conspiracy" shows that George W. Bush was acting very strangely on the morning of 9/11. It also touches on the "guilty demeanor" of Bush and Cheney in connection with the 9/11 Commission cover-up.

Voters in three states will consider calls for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq when they go to the polls in less than two weeks.

Disgusted with the leadership of the Iraq war, two retired generals say the GOP must go.
More than 100 current military personnel join a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq -- now.

The president seems confused. After making a curious remark observing that the war in Iraq was placing a strain on the psyche of America, President Bush has become the primary focus of concerns about a strained psyche.

A look behind the scenes of how news programs are created. Excerpts from Brian Springer's movie "Spin."

The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal.

Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror.

North Korea warned South Korea on Wednesday against joining U.S.-led sanctions against Pyongyang and said it would take action after any such move by Seoul.

Photographs of German soldiers posing with a human skull in Afghanistan triggered outrage in Germany.

The Bild newspaper printed a close-up of an unidentified soldier smiling and holding up a skull. Under the headline "German soldiers desecrate the dead", other photos showed the skull balanced on a jeep and a soldier holding the skull next to his exposed penis.

How the Rich Get Richer...

Two Israeli warplanes were involved in an armed incident with a German ship patrolling Lebanon's waters as part of the UN force in the Arab country, the German military told AFP.

In Israel, Defence Minister Amir Peretz denied his country's planes had opened fire.

There is a massive concentration of US naval power in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Two US naval strike groups are deployed: USS Enterprise, and USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group. The naval strike groups have been assigned to fighting the "global war on terrorism."

...banned Britain's biggest commercial news broadcaster from frontline access to the nation?s forces, The Times has learnt.

...many in the mainstream media seem to have put a guilty verdict forward as a foregone conclusion, but almost none of them seem to have noticed the correlation between the verdict's date and the midterm elections.

The program is designed to serve as an easily accessible resource for users to find information about candidates, voter registration and campaign financing in advance of the November 7th elections.

A secret, two year investigation by the defense establishment shows that there has been rampant illegal construction in dozens of settlements and in many cases involving privately owned Palestinian properties.

The information in the study was presented to two defense ministers, Amir Peretz and his predecessor Shaul Mofaz, but was not released in public and a number of people participating in the investigations were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements.

According to security sources familiar with the study, the material is "political and diplomatic dynamite."

Fox News, Neil Cavuto: will Democrats "crush the economy"?
Jonathan Hoenig: they would, because Democrats' "overriding philosophy is socialism."

The ongoing Darfur conflict has driven more than 2.5 million people from their homes and into overcrowded camps in Sudan and neighboring Chad. As many as 300,000 people in Darfur have been killed.

A record 35% say the war is going badly for the US, with 58% saying the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. The poll shows that more than three out of four of those holding that view are supporting the Democrats for Congress.

The figures indicate that the Republican strategy of playing the security card has backfired.

On Sunday, the party rolled out a TV advertisement showing Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida figures making threats against the US.

The United States, France, Britain and Germany have completed a draft resolution pushing the United Nations Security Council to ban all missile and nuclear technology sales to Iran and to end most of the the International Atomic Energy Agency's technical aid programs, diplomats said Tuesday.

The UN diplomats said that the Western proposal would also commit UN member countries to deny entry to Iranian officials involved in developing the country's missile or nuclear programs.

Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday.

"I thought I was talking to an uneducated man, maybe from a tribal community," Ms Stein says. "I mean, that's how it seemed to me.

On October 11, 2006, a Tactical Nuclear Device appears to have exploded when fire broke out in an ammunition dump at Camp Falcon inside Iraq.
Video from live nightly newscast in Baghdad caught the detonation - miles away - with it's characteristic ENORMOUS blinding white flash, a rising core of fire then a small mushroom cloud!

Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor, has written in a new book that George W. Bush's frequent references to God in their meetings before the Iraq war had made him wary of Mr. Bush's political decisions. Mr. Schroeder also suggested that America's Christian conservatives are not much different than Islamists who impose their beliefs on entire nations.

This is the "Director's Final Cut" authorized version of Aaron Russo's documentary, America: Freedom To Fascism (AFTF). Aaron has listened to everyone's feedback - volunteers, students, lovers of freedom & liberty, young and old alike - and, true to his word, he is putting this up "for free" on Google Video knowing that the hour has come for Americans to either be awakened to restore the Republic or be swept aside by the dark global forces of fascism that seeks to enslave mankind.

...the cost of the war has jumped from $4.4 billion to $7.1 billion a month since the 2003 fiscal year, according to a paper co-authored in January by Columbia University professor and Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, an outspoken critic of the war. The paper estimates the total cost could top $1 trillion.

The Lancet study that estimated 655,000 Iraqis killed since the US invasion of 2003 was based on some of the most solid research methods possible, but that didn't stop the American press from trying to say it wasn't so.

HOST: I'm curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?

BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see - I've forgot the name of the program - but you get the satellite, and you can - like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.

ABC News --> Researchers, Candidates Have Little Confidence in Machines Designed to Make Elections Easier to Call.

AMERICAN officials held secret talks with leaders of the Iraqi insurgency last week after admitting that their two-month clampdown on violence in Baghdad had failed.

Few details of the discussions in the Jordanian capital Amman have emerged but an Iraqi source close to the negotiations said the participants had met for at least two days.

This astonishing revelation was buried in the middle of a Washington Post story published yesterday. Glenn Kessler reports from Moscow as he accompanies Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:

Before North Korea announced it had detonated a nuclear device, some senior officials even said they were quietly rooting for a test, believing that would finally clarify the debate within the administration.

Police fired rubber bullets, teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of demonstrators, some of whom hurled stones and waved nationalist flags, as they marched towards the parliament where dozens of dignitaries were commemorating the uprising.

Israel said Sunday that its combat planes would continue to fly over Lebanon despite a call by the French defense minister to halt the air incursions.

A gang of youths forced passengers off a bus in a Paris suburb yesterday before setting it alight and then stoning fire fighters.

The attack - which happened in broad daylight on Sunday - is the latest in a string of similar disturbances in housing estates surrounding the French capital.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday brought into his government a hard-liner who wants to rid Israel of Arabs - a move that would shore up his shaky coalition but could hinder efforts to renew peace talks with the Palestinians.

A weekend of violence in the Gaza Strip has underlined the dangers of political stagnation and raised fears of a descent into full-scale civil war.

Seven Palestinians were shot and killed on Monday by Israeli troops carrying out an operation in the northern Gaza Strip on the first day of the three-day Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, according to Palestinian hospital officials.

The attack left 14 others wounded, the officials said. The dead and wounded were taken to a hospital in the town of Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip.

A group of men burst into a Moscow art gallery, destroying work by an ethnic Georgian artist and beating up the owner, it was claimed yesterday. The attack follows the seizure by officials of political art the same gallery had displayed. Marat Guelman, who is well known for displaying politically inspired and irreverent art and for his public attacks on neofascists, said the attack was carried out by 10 skinheads. He said he sustained a broken nose and other injuries.

NEWSWEEK Poll --> ...a majority now approve of Democratic plans to impeach president George W. Bush. 28% think it should be a high priority, 23% think it should be a lower priority, while 44% disapprove.

This index value has been calculated every year since 1913.
This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households.

...the most recently-released photos -->

...you are unaware that you are unaware, and that you have given up the right rulership of yourself.
...you have become totally dependent upon the priests, politicians, medics and corporations telling you what to think and believe.
...you desire anything and everything that fulfills your senses while rejecting and avoiding that which would fulfill your soul.
...you know only your idea of reality and not reality itself.

And everyone around you is the same mess.

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Eighty-one percent of American Jews believe that the real goal of the Arabs is the destruction of Israel and not the return of occupied land.

56 percent said they believed the conflict could not be resolved.

57 percent said Israel would be justified in taking military action against Iran.

The government is is funding the roll out of fingerprint security at the doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities.

Similar to an elevator in a highrise building, a space elevator would convey people or cargo along a cable or ribbon anchored to the ground at one end and an orbiting space station at the other. The process would be much safer and cost-effective method of reaching space than launching a rocket, experts say.

"Global Conflicts: Palestine" is part of a trend of politically inspired video games that are part entertainment, part political science lesson.

At the start of the mission, the player can choose to be pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, or neutral.

A Japanese recording engineer has developed the world's first glass CD guaranteed not to warp, distort and of a beautiful design.
Music critics who have tried out the CD said that it's outstanding and virtually like listening to a live performance.

The announcement that the Israel Defense Forces had used phosphorus bombs in the war in Lebanon was made by Minister Jacob Edery.

Edery did not specify where and against what types of targets phosphorus munitions were used. During the war several foreign media outlets reported that Lebanese civilians carried injuries characteristic of attacks with phosphorus, a substance that burns when it comes to contact with air.

Prof. Jose Maria Sison --> ...a fascist law that flouts and violates the universally accepted principles and conventions on human rights and international humanitarian law.

The Act seeks to impose state terrorism and fascism on the people of the world through the brute military power of US imperialism and its collaborators. The people of the world must condemn and oppose this fascist law until it is repealed or nullified as a brazen comprehensive assault on human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The Simpsons' annual Halloween special, which airs Nov. 5, concludes with an Iraq war satire that may rank as the most pointed political statement the show has ever made. In the segment, aliens invade Springfield to prevent mankind from obtaining "weapons of mass disintegration," but their mission, called "Operation Enduring Occupation," turns into a quagmire. "You said we would be greeted as liberators!" accuses one alien.

"I think we're expressing a viewpoint 69 percent of the country agrees with."

The disclosure comes amid heightened concerns nationwide about the security of the November elections and the ability of the state to keep tight controls on the thousands of machines that will be used next month.

Disks containing what appears to be software code used in Maryland's touchscreen voting machines in 2004 were delivered anonymously to a former state legislator, raising fresh concerns about the reliability of the voting system.

Some US officials say "Venezuela is providing support -- including identity documents -- that could prove useful to radical Islamic groups," says the report a House of Representatives panel.

Frantic efforts are under way in Washington and London to find an exit strategy for Iraq as a renewed surge in violence led George Bush to admit yesterday that tactics there might need to change.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that international demands for Hamas to immediately renounce violence and recognize Israel were unrealistic at present, and that the Palestinian movement should be given more time to honor them.

Meanwhile, Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar of Hamas told demonstrators in Gaza on Friday that Israel is an abomination in the Middle East that will some day disappear.

This documentary concerns Harry M. Hoxsey, the former coal miner whose family's herbal recipe has brought about claims of a cancer cure.

Russia suspended the activities of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Republican Institute and more than 90 other foreign nongovernmental organizations, saying they failed to meet the registration requirements of a controversial new law designed to bring activists here under much closer government scrutiny.

Across the country, foreign grass-roots organizations that investigate human rights abuses, promote democracy and work with refugees folded their tents until further notice, informing staff that all operations must cease immediately.

The city said Friday that it will search parts of the World Trade Center site again for remains of the Sept. 11 dead after several bones were pulled out of an abandoned manhole ? a discovery that stirred up new fury and disbelief among victims' families.

"...it was established in the heart of Islamic territory for one purpose ? to pose a threat to the region through constant attacks and killings"

The United States took another step yesterday toward building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st century, announcing the start of a multiyear process to repair and replace facilities where they would be developed and assembled and where older warheads could be more rapidly dismantled.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said Pyongyang didn't plan to carry out any more nuclear tests and expressed regret about the country's first-ever atomic detonation last week, a South Korean news agency reported Friday.

Cheney's statement is a lie.

Keith Olbermann --> ...on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:

A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.

We have been here before?and we have been here before led here?by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.

New York Times --> Once President Bush signed the new law on military tribunals, administration officials and Republican leaders in Congress wasted no time giving Americans a taste of the new order created by this unconstitutional act.

The Independent --> Identity cards. Number-plate surveillance. CCTV. Control orders. The list of ways in which the Government has sought to manipulate and define the limits of our liberty grows ever longer.

...the true tyranny, where the state takes all liberty and bends each individual will to its own purpose.

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?s Fifth Estate and the Globe & Mail, the "Toronto terror cell" arrested in June for allegedly plotting massive acts of terrorism against Canadian targets included not just one, but two Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) moles. This second Muslim man in the pay of Canada's security forces is said to have been involved in the accused terrorists? alleged efforts to construct powerful explosives.

Following the early June arrest of 18 young Toronto-area men on terrorism charges, government and media sources repeated ad nauseam that only prompt action by the security and intelligence services prevented a major terrorist atrocity.

...the national-security establishment and the government manipulated the public.

Undersound is a new project to distribute music around the London Underground trains. Users can upload songs from their collections to centralized distribution points, and download tracks left by other users. The system keeps tack of which tracks came from what station --this is a public-transit version of the "Traffic Napster".

The State Department published a draft rule Tuesday confirming its decision to use ultra-high frequency vicinity chips, which can be read at distances of more than 30 feet, for its long-awaited new People Access Security Service, or PASS, cards.

The biometrically-enabled cards will be issued next year as a cheaper alternative to passports. Under the congressionally mandated Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Americans will be required, beginning in June 2009, to present secure proof of citizenship and identity when entering the country by land or sea.

The department says it plans to keep for 75 years the data it gathers via electronic readers at ports of entry.

Daily upon the rivers that birthed civilization can the flow of crimson colored blood be seen journeying over liquid roadways through the land of Mesopotamia, its accumulated and growing volume the result of scattered bodies, bullet hole riddled men and bloated humans, all silent witnesses to the devastation that has cursed the Iraqi people.

Growing Global Madness Fueled by Insane US Cabal...

A plan is in place to censure and impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Orchestrated and organized by the radical Left and Congressman John Conyers, Jr., this plan is ready to go should the Democratic Party take control of the House of Representatives in November.

Bush knows it...and that's why he will do something crazy...soon.

The Israeli military denied reports that the injuries came from a Dense Inert Metal Explosive (Dime), an experimental weapon.

In Gaza, Dr Saqa'a said the small pieces of shrapnel found in patients' bodies did not show up under X-ray. "We are used to seeing shrapnel penetrate the body making localised damage. Now we didn't see shrapnel, but we found the destruction," he said.

The South Korean stance, delivered to Rice as she toured East Asia to gather support for isolating North Korea, underscores continued frictions over how best to deal with the regime in Pyongyang.

Homeland Security May Be Reading Your E-Mail, and Passing it on to the Pentagon...

President George W. Bush insisted that US troops would not pull out of Iraq before "the terrorists are defeated," a day after acknowledging a possible parallel between violence there and a key Vietnam War offensive.

If President Bush continues to ask North Korea to "kneel," war "will be inevitable," and it would begin on the Korean Peninsula, North Korean Gen. Ri Chan Bok told "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer, in an exclusive interview inside North Korea.

attacks have actually jumped more than 20 percent over the first three weeks of the holy month of Ramadan, compared to the previous three weeks, said Gen. William Caldwell, the military?s chief spokesman in Iraq.

The survey, carried out by the organization's settlement monitoring team, found that the total area of the outposts is 16,196 dunams, out of which about 43 percent are on private Palestinian land (6,986 dunams); 7.6 percent are on lands pending recognition as state lands (1,226 dunams.

A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled Wednesday that, by the end of next week, the Secret Service must produce the records or at least identity them and justify why they are being withheld.

South Korean scientists have said they have developed a new genetically altered strain of virus which is highly efficient in targeting and killing cancer cells.

The Republican Party will begin airing a hard-hitting ad this weekend that warns of more cataclysmic terror attacks against the U.S. homeland.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with John Negroponte, the U.S. director of national intelligence, at what was supposed to be a secret meeting to discuss security issues.

Canadian and U.S. officials tried to keep the meeting under wraps, but Mr. Negroponte's cover was blown when reporters spotted him and U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins being escorted to Mr. Harper's Parliament Hill office.

A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory.

"We've opened the door into the secret garden"

Who to believe....? American politicians... or highly reputable scientists using a reliable scientific survey technique?

"He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country," said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Rumsfeld is "a man whose patriotism focus, energy, drive, is exceeded by no one else I know ... quite simply, he works harder than anybody else in our building," Pace said at a ceremony at the Southern Command (Southcom) in Miami.

Research with British and US offenders suggests nutritional deficiencies may play a key role in aggressive bevaviour.

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities.

The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels.

Personal websites would have to be licensed as a "television-like service".

Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3.
They further found that in all the Western states, the more time toddlers spent in front of the television, the more likely they were to exhibit symptoms of autism disorders.

Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday night that an agreement he brokered 12 years ago for North Korea to halt nuclear weapons development is ?in the wastebasket." Carter contends the Bush administration turned its back on the deal and labeled the isolated nation part of an "axis of evil."

The most alarming thing I learned about American politics in the past decade is that one powerful group of political leaders is dedicated to keeping American citizens from voting. This group is the leadership of the modern Republican Party. This fact is carefully hidden from the average republican voter who clearly does not support this approach to politics.

Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, said U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Christian/Family Values-Oriented Movie Review Database...an alphabetical list

Air strikes by NATO helicopters hunting Taliban fighters ripped through three dried-mud homes in southern Afghanistan as villagers slept early Wednesday.

Wall Street Journal --> A bogus study on Iraq casualties.

Barbara Honneger, Author of "The Pentagon Attack Papers", reveals a ton of information that proves the official timeline given by the U.S. government about what happened at the Pentagon on 9/11 is completely false.

President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests."

Seventy-four percent of respondents to a new Opinion Research poll say Congress is generally out of touch with average Americans. That's up from 69 percent who agreed with that view in a January poll this year.

There are a lot of questions -- about a lot of things -- that President Bush can't seem to answer.

On the October 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz declared: "Islam is a virus. It is a deadly virus that is spreading throughout Europe and the Western world," adding that "we're going to wait far too long to develop a vaccine to find a way to fight this."

Pete Matthews, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees described Republican Sen. Rick Santorum as "the anti-Christ" on issues affecting working people.

"There's a sense among many people now that things in Iraq are slipping fast and there isn't a lot of time to reverse them," said Larry Diamond, one of a panel of experts advising the Iraq Study Group, which is preparing a range of policy alternatives for President Bush.

"The civil war is already well along. We have no way of knowing if it's too late until we try a radically different course," said Diamond, an expert on building democracies who is at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and is a former adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

Humanity could evolve into two sub-species within 100,000 years as social divisions produce a genetic underclass, a scientist said yesterday.

The mating preferences of the rich, highly educated and well-nourished could ultimately drive their separation into a genetically distinct group that no longer interbreeds with less fortunate human beings, according to Oliver Curry.

The US midterm elections have morphed into a referendum on Bush and his outlandish policies: the war in Iraq; war with Iran; war with North Korea and his concerted attack on the US constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Israeli troops backed by tanks pushed deep into the northern and southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, clashing with militants as they stepped up a nearly four-month-old offensive, Palestinian residents said.

The warning, posted Oct. 12, was part of an ongoing Internet conversation titled "New Attack on America Be Afraid." It mentioned NFL stadiums in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland, where games are scheduled to be held this weekend.
The Homeland Security Department alerted authorities and stadium owners in those cities, as well as the NFL, of the Web message but said the threat was being viewed "with strong skepticism."

...resolution cannot be construed otherwise than a declaration of a war," the ministry said, calling the sanctions "a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward" North Korea.

...first legal action against user-generated internet sites in the wake of its distribution deal last week with YouTube, the most popular video-sharing website.

Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the "war on terror".

Three years after the Food and Drug Administration first hinted that it might permit the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals, prompting public reactions that ranged from curiosity to disgust, the agency is poised to endorse marketing of the mass-produced animals for public consumption.

Who are the real rogues here?

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly delivered a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, saying he is inspired by Satan.

"America's strength is found in the spirit and character of our people. During National Character Counts Week, we renew our commitment to instilling values in our young people and to encouraging all Americans to remember the importance of good character.

As the primary teachers and examples of character, parents help create a more compassionate and decent society. And as individuals, we all have an obligation to help our children become responsible citizens and realize their full potential. By demonstrating values such as integrity, courage, honesty, and patriotism, all Americans can help our children develop strength and character."

...hahahahahahahaha..."compassionate and decent society".

Monopolizing Seeds That Feed the World

Up to 30 more countries may develop atomic weapons if the proliferation of nuclear technology is not stopped, the UN's nuclear watchdog has warned.

Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who was charged as a terrorist for helping her client - Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman - to communicate from prison with his followers, was sentenced Monday to 28 months in federal prison, far less than the 30 years the government had sought.

The commander of the British forces returning from Helmand said that his forces were having to make up for the time lost by the decision of the US and UK to invade Iraq instead of concentrating on post-Taliban Afghanistan.

President Bush signed legislation Tuesday authorizing tough interrogation of terror suspects and smoothing the way for trials before military commissions, calling it a "vital tool" in the war against terrorism.

After steering clear of political controversy with 9/11 heroism tale "World Trade Center," Oliver Stone and Paramount Pictures are venturing into edgier territory with "Jawbreaker." Pic will focus on America's response to the terrorist attacks with the invasion of Afghanistan and hunt for 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden.

Israel said on Sunday its police force had acquired evidence suggesting President Moshe Katsav had raped and molested women who worked for him.

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On the way out Cheney and Scooter Libby, his chief of staff, pulled Kay aside. Libby had a small sheaf of intelligence reports, including some sensitive, raw National Security Agency (NSA) communications intercepts. As with many intercepts, they were maddeningly vague. They had interesting little tidbits, and sometimes even specific locations were mentioned, but it was as clear as smoke. Kay was astounded that the vice-president of the United States was using such raw intelligence. Cheney and Libby were acting like a couple of junior analysts, poring over fragments as if they were trying to decipher the Da Vinci Code.

Palestinian nationalist and Islamic leaders have strongly denounced efforts by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and affiliated foreign aide bodies to recruit Palestinian journalists, politicians and certain political groups to work against the Islamic group Hamas.

A top British commander speaks candidly about the grim outlook in Iraq. But will his more reticent American peers follow his lead?

Democratic Sen. John Kerry, a potential White House candidate in 2008, said on Friday the Iraq war had worsened terrorism and that the Bush administration had squandered the nation's moral authority.

The Christian right sees an apocalyptic nuclear war with Iran as a vision set forth in the Bible. Bush himself may be a believer, too.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 struck Hawaii early Sunday morning, causing a landslide that blocked a major highway on Hawaii Island, the Pacific Tsunami Center said.

The technology enables the company to monitor all its workers and ensure they do not send confidential information beyond the enterprise boundaries, whether via Internet or external memory storage devices.

Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bülow, have gone on the record saying that 9/11 was an inside job which was planned and carried out by the Bush Administration.

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Buried beneath the heaps of hot words on North Korea's nuclear test, the announcement in Moscow on Monday about the Shtokman natural-gas deposit off Russia's Arctic coast almost escaped attention, despite its comparable lethal fallout in world politics.

A suspected al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret U.S. jail for the past year, Spain's El Pais newspaper reported on Sunday.

A spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Spain declined to comment on the report.

A police force is considering using unmanned aerial surveillance drones to fly over troubled local council housing estates to help tackle anti-social behaviour in respective areas.

The newspaper reported that police forces in the United States have used similar drones, which cost about 16,000 pounds each, and circle areas at a height of 250 feet (76 metres), flying at about 30 miles (50 kilometres) per hour.

Sir Richard Dannatt's scepticism about the value of the British military presence in Iraq follows open challenges to President Bush's strategy from senior Republicans.

Banned 'Discovery Channel' Documentary

Angus Reid Global Monitor --> On the issue of the 9/11 terrorist attacks -->
53 per cent of respondents think the Bush administration is hiding something, and 28 per cent believe it is lying.
Only 16 per cent of respondents say the government headed by U.S. president George W. Bush is telling the truth.

A boy aged 10 has been banned from his school dining hall because his packed lunch broke the government's healthy eating guidelines.

Ryan's lunch consisted of a sandwich, fruit, fromage frais, cake, mini cheese biscuits and a bottle of water. The cake and the biscuits broke the snack limit. They were discovered when a teacher checked his lunch box.

MP3 players were infected with QQpass a very dangerous malware. So your PC is infected once you connect the DAP and it starts logging and transmitting username, passwords and other vital information.

...lawyers for Jose Padilla accused government interrogators of forcing their client to take drugs similar to LSD or PCP.

...in 2002, Justice Department lawyers carefully considered the issue and advised the White House that it was okay. In their view, it was acceptable to force detainees to ingest "mind-altering substances," as long as it was not intended to cause months-long bouts of serious mental illness.

How do we know that? Because in August 2002, the Justice Department gave then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales a 50-page document saying so. And a follow-up document in 2004 reaffirmed it.

A new study by the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University reveals the severe economic consequences of doing nothing.

In comments that were among the harshest he has made about the United States, Gorbachev compared U.S. foreign policy to one of the deadliest diseases on the planet -- AIDS.

President Bush keeps revising his explanation for why the U.S. is in Iraq, moving from narrow military objectives at first to history-of-civilization stakes now.

Initially, the rationale was specific: to stop Saddam Hussein from using what Bush claimed were the Iraqi leader's weapons of mass destruction or from selling them to al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.

But 3 1/2 years later, with no weapons found, still no end in sight and the war a liability for nearly all Republicans on the ballot Nov. 7, the justification has become far broader and now includes the expansive "struggle between good and evil."

Video footage of Tibetans who were crossing into Nepal being shot by Chinese border police on September 30 refutes official claims that the troops fired "in self-defence".

Body of Tibetan nun shot by Chinese border patrols at Nangpa Pass on September 30, 2006.

The religious right has weighed in on the allegations of former Deputy Director of Faith-Based Initiatives, David Kuo. Their response? Defend the White House.

Amazing what the religious right is willing to put up with to maintain their political clout.

Swiss banks broke their nation's laws by providing banking information to U.S. counterterrorism officials, Switzerland's top official for data protection said Friday.

Checo, a janitor, spent six months cleaning dust from office buildings around ground zero after the World Trade Center attack. Five years later, the lining of his lungs is pocked with scars and densities that do not belong there ? possibly a sign of a disease that can cause lung tissue to become so stiff that it can no longer carry oxygen, wrote a radiologist who examined a scan of his lungs last year.

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The precursors of fascism -- militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization -- are ascendant in America today.

An explosive new book provides a rare glimpse into the full extent of the agency's controversial terror renditions ? and the curious coalition of partners who helped the U.S. pull them off.

I'm overjoyed that someone in a senior position has finally had the moral fortitude to forget the spin, forget the politics and just stand up and speak the truth...

This might turn out to be one of those moments when the world turns and Governments fall; I certainly hope so!

Dicky Dannatt will have said this in full knowledge of the likely impact. We were lied to when it all started and we are still lied to today! The Dear Leader should resign now...

The Pentagon's Inspector General ordered an investigation into alleged abuse at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay that holds suspected Taliban and al Qaeda members.

We tend to think of exercising power through the application of force or by strong overt action. Another, perhaps more Eastern, way of seeing power is through withholding something or through denial. For effective patriotic behavior today we must deny the corrupt political and economic system of what it wants from us ? our participation.

Boeing has begun flight testing in New Mexico of the concept of an aircraft-mounted tactical combat laser that could eventually be used against ground targets.

...particularly in crowded urban settings or against moving targets where a high degree of precision is required.

The question is: whose side is time on? In 5-15 years, Iran might well acquire a nuclear weapon and thereby change the region and the world. But 5-15 years provides ample time to talk, negotiate, and make a deal with Iran to renounce nuclear weapons. On this track, time is on the side of a peaceful outcome.

A U.S. attack on Iran in the next month or next two years, however, would guarantee fundamental and highly detrimental change in the region and the world. In the case of war, time is on no one's side.

Dan Smith
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Senior Fellow on Military Affairs

The producer of the hip-hop song "Stop the Violence in the Street" was shot to death in suburban Washington as he chased after his car hooked by a tow truck.

Dem challenger Diane Farrell responded to the paper: "For Chris to say it was a sex ring is to minimize what happened. Chris knows it was certainly more than a sex ring."

...it appears David was offered for adoption without his father's knowledge when his picture was sent, along with those of 12 other "suitable", boy babies, by e-mail to Madonna.

Gwynne Dyer --> ...the amount of ethanol needed to fill a big four-wheel-drive SUV just once uses enough grain to feed one person for an entire year.

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The decision to charge alleged al-Qaeda propagandist Adam Gadahn with treason is something of a gamble by the U.S. government, which has not pursued such a case in more than 50 years and has a mixed track record for convictions over the course of American history, according to legal experts and historic accounts.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test, declaring that its action posed "a clear threat to international peace and security."

The vote came after the United States, Britain and France overcame last-minute differences with Russia and China.

A U.S. citizen who allegedly orchestrated the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists near Baghdad last year was sentenced to death in an Iraqi court Thursday.

The President continues to claim he would change his Iraq policy if only his generals would ask him to...

The America that was here before the 12-12-2000 coup d'etat is gone, gone, gone! Sixty three American traitors voted to over throw the Constitution of the United States with their vote for S. 3930 "Military Commissions Act Of 2006" or the "Enabling Act of 2006" as it's popularly known.

...there's really no reason to pretend Columbus discovered America. What Columbus did do was to start a slaughter that had every native man, woman and child in the Caribbean dead within 50 years. Not a single Carib Indian was alive by 1542 out of a population of approximately 10 million.

...two Secret Service agents pulled her out of class to ask about comments and images she posted on MySpace.

An unsolicited remark from Porter Goss, then chairman House Intelligence Committee, led a British journalist to unravel many of the details of the CIA's controversial "extraordinary rendition" program, according to a new book. The disclosure of this highly sensitive operation later prompted a major leak investigation that roiled the agency.

Landmark Documentary Will Feature Exclusive Footage of First Known Hack of Diebold Optical-Scan Voting System!

...the government is engaged in immoral and criminal conduct on a global scale. That it does not conform to the norms of civil society; that it is sociopathic, and flagrantly violates domestic and international law. The form of government that we have does not serve the citizenry?it preys upon them. It is not a government of the people, for the people. It is government of the corporations, for the corporations, by the corporations?a corporate Plutocracy.

...should teenagers and others in the Church "express themselves" to the world through blogs?

There is the United States of America, the democratically controlled Republic that answers to the people that it technically serves: and there is the United States, a bankrupt corporation that began its life in 1933, with the collapse of US currency.

Internal military documents released Thursday provided new details about the Defense Department?s collection of information on demonstrations nationwide last year by students, Quakers and others opposed to the Iraq war.

The General Assembly adopted a resolution by acclamation Friday appointing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi Annan as the next UN secretary general.

Humans are undoubtedly the most dominant species the Earth has ever known. In just a few thousand years we have swallowed up more than a third of the planet's land for our cities, farmland and pastures. By some estimates, we now commandeer 40 per cent of all its productivity. And we're leaving quite a mess behind: ploughed-up prairies, razed forests, drained aquifers, nuclear waste, chemical pollution, invasive species, mass extinctions and now the looming spectre of climate change. If they could, the other species we share Earth with would surely vote us off the planet.

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...the actions here are those of the US and UK governments and not the people of the US and UK. The people in many cases don't know what has been done in their names and very seldom know the true reasons for these actions.

A plot to stage a coup against Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf soon after his recent return from the US has been uncovered, resulting in the arrest of more than 40 people.

There can be no legitimate doubts about the credibility of the study. Lancet is one of the oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed medical publications in the world. The Johns Hopkins public health school is the largest in the world, and regularly ranks as the top public health school in the United States. The journal article was reviewed and approved for publication by four independent scientific experts in the area.

The US media is virtually silent...

Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush's "unlawful enemy combatants." Americans are certain to be among them.

Ron Kovic --> It all begins somewhere, the questioning, the doubting, the feeling that something?s not right; like that day the captain set fire to the Vietnamese woman?s hooch, or the night we shot those women and children by mistake. It?s all got to start somewhere. For them it might have been the innocent civilians killed that day at the checkpoint just north of Baghdad or the dead children lying in the road in Kirkuk, or that night in Nasiriyah when they kicked in the front door of that house, screaming and cursing at the children as they threw their father to the floor, tying his hands behind his back and putting a hood over his head, but you remain silent, you say nothing. You?ve been taught to follow orders, to obey and not question, to go along with the program and do exactly what you?re told.

The ruling was made by Andrew Walker, the Assistant Deputy Coroner for Oxfordshire, after an eight-day inquest that examined all available evidence of Mr Lloyd's death near the southern city of Basra soon after the invasion of Iraq.

The family of the ITN reporter Terry Lloyd demanded today that the "trigger-happy cowboys" responsible for his death be tried in a British court for murder.

Senior Palestinian security officials on Friday expressed concerns that the current Israeli army escalation, which began on Thursday, could be a test operation apparently aimed at reoccupying the Gaza Strip.

Israeli TV Channel 10 reported earlier that an Israeli military invasion of the Gaza Strip is approaching.

The attempts to rubbish the Lancet study on the massive Iraqi death toll are devious hack-work.

Michael Ignatieff, a human rights expert and a former Harvard don, said at the weekend that Israel committed a war crime when it bombarded the Lebanese village of Qana in July.

Just as an empire on the rise, like the United States on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, is often inclined to take rash and ill-considered actions, so an empire on the decline, like the British and French empires after World War II, will engage in senseless, self-destructive acts. And I fear the same can happen to the United States today, as we, too, slip into decline.

Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network that features the comedian Al Franken, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a network official told The AP.

Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, Bangladesh

The Israeli army escalated on Thursday and Friday its military air and ground actions against the Gaza Strip, leaving nine Palestinians dead, including two children.

The United States introduced a draft resolution Thursday for sanctions against North Korea in the wake of its announced nuclear test, pushing for a vote Friday, but Russia and China have balked at two key measures and say they want more time.

Olmert spoke during a meeting with top security officials to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat to Israel.

During the meeting, which was held behind closed doors, officials discussed the steps that need to be taken by the international community to prevent the spread of nuclear armament.

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The French Embassy on Monday cancelled a New York party for a book about Vichy France's collaboration with Nazi Germany because of the author's postscript that says Israel has oppressed Palestinians.

A world authority on terrorism yesterday tore into security at Britain's biggest airport arguing that the authorities had created new targets for extremists.

The State Department is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

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For many years, these episodes of mass psychosis have been gaining velocity. Empires are inherently bughouse crazy, because, by their very nature, they grow conservative to the point of becoming totalitarian. After a time, the singular raison d'être of this form of pathological conservatism is to fiercely cling to the things it has gained through expansionist practices and policies. In addition, it must find ways to rationalize the brutal and deceitful means required to sustain itself.

More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider?s tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally Democratic minorities.

"Tempting Faith" author David Kuo worked for Bush from 2001 to 2003.

Chicago --> "By the time 2016 [rolls around], we'll have more cameras than Washington, D.C. ... Our technology is more advanced than any other city in the world -- even compared to London -- dealing with our cameras and the sophistication of cameras and retro-fitting all the cameras downtown in new buildings, doing the CTA cameras."

The prototype technology is to be tested at an airport in Hungary, and could, if successful, become a reality "in two years".

"The basic idea is that airports could be fitted with a network of combined panoramic cameras and RFID (radio frequency ID) tag readers, which would monitor the movements of people around the various terminal buildings."

Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines, and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea's borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent U.S. neo-conservatives in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test.

The Foreign Office came under fire yesterday after omitting any criticism of Israel's attack on Lebanon in its annual human rights report.

An American Jewish leader on Thursday urged Pope Benedict to help protect Jews from Iran, saying it and its president were examples of a new "global malignancy" of anti-Semitism that could bring another Holocaust.

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The boy selected in this freakish slave auction is no AIDS orphan. He's got a biological father, plus a granny - but was placed in an orphanage after his mother died. His family loves him. They just can't afford him.

If Madonna possessed a speck of sanity or shame, she would write a generous check.

In exchange for her human package, she will pour $3 million into a center to help 1,000 Malawi orphans.

Children educated at Madonna's new orphan center and bin for rejected babies will be taught a curriculum based on her pet religion, kabbala.

The head of the British army has said UK troops in Iraq are acting as a catalyst to violence and should be withdrawn soon.

General Sir Richard Dannatt said British troops should get out "sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems".

Armed with MP3 players loaded with favourite tracks the "clubbers" arrived on the concourse just after 7pm last night. Students, business people and office workers danced in silence as they listened to their iPods among commuters.

An investigative report to be aired on Italian television Wednesday raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns.

The weapon is similar to one developed by the U.S. military, known as DIME, which causes a powerful and lethal blast, but only within a relatively small radius.

The Italian report is based on the eyewitness accounts of medical doctors in the Strip, as well as tests carried out in an Italian laboratory. The investigative team is the same one that exposed, several months ago, the use by U.S. forces in Iraq of phosphorous bombs, against Iraqi rebels in Faluja.

The American people are being strangulated; unbeknownst to the masses they are being transformed and conditioned, becoming the entity the elite have long sought, the culmination of decades of social engineering designed to make of hundreds of millions the slaves of times past and the automatons of the future.

Four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old child, were killed in an air strike supporting an Israeli army incursion into the Gaza Strip.

Currently there are 141,000 troops in Iraq, including 120,000 Army soldiers. Those soldiers are divided among 15 Army combat brigades plus other support units.

Disney co-chair Anne Sweeney has broken with studio convention and recognised piracy as a business model to compete with, as opposed to simply an illegal threat to be battled.

Almost no one bothered to report it. A search of the nation's largest newspapers turned up nothing in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, Tampa Tribune, etc.

There was nothing on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, NPR, Fox News. Nothing.

The LA Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Associated Press each had one sentence, at most, telling about her. All three left out the details, the LA Times had her age significantly off, and the Washington Post reported that she had been killed by an Israeli tank shell.

It hadn't been a tank shell that had killer her, according to witnesses. It had been bullets, multiple ones, fired up close.

Chinese diplomats in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu are tracking down and trying to silence hundreds of Western climbers and Sherpas who witnessed the killing of Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La mountain pass last week.

This ominous development comes as fears grow for the safety of a group of Tibetan children, aged between six and 10, who were marched away after at least two refugees including a nun, were shot dead.

...a solution of protein molecules that self-organise on the nanoscale into a biodegradable gel that stops bleeding.

...it could save thousands of lives and make surgery far easier in many cases, surgeons say.

2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change

The conversation is indeed global. However, as you will soon see, it's very local too.

The United States believes North Korea attempted to detonate a nuclear device but that "something went wrong," and the blast was relatively small, a U.S. government official said Tuesday.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor who has come under scrutiny for saying that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks compares President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay.

The essay, "Interpreting the Unspeakable: The Myth of 9/11," is part of a $20 book of essays from 15 authors called "9/11 and American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out."

"Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies," he wrote.

Legal analysts say the Sept. 19 award by a jury in Broward County, Fla. ? first reported Friday by the Daily Business Review ? represents the largest such judgment over postings on an Internet blog or message board. Lyrissa Lidsky, a University of Florida law professor who specializes in free-speech issues, calls the award "astonishing."

The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.

Scholars who study original documents say the demise of handwriting will diminish the power and accuracy of future historical research. And others simply lament the loss of handwritten communication for its beauty, individualism and intimacy.

Prosecutors said the men tried to hide a $250,000 (-200,000) investment in their Richardson computer company by the Hamas official, Mousa Abu Marzook, by making it look like his wife's money.

Edmund S. Phelps, the McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia, was Monday awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for economics.

I conclude that capitalism is justified--normally by the expectable benefits to the lowest-paid workers but, failing that, by the injustice of depriving entrepreneurial types (as well as other creative people) of opportunities for their self-expression.

Every few months the government and the IDF declare "easing a series of restrictions". These steps are meant to make the lives of Palestinians, at least according to the Israeli media, certainly bearable.

In reality, the facts and figures prove that not only are restrictions not eased but that Palestinians face a significant rise in security crossings, checkpoints, roadblocks and stricter permit procedures.

...the number of checkpoints rose by 40 percent over the past year. "It's not just the number, it's mostly the abusive treatment towards Palestinians" says Machsom Watch.

It is a milestone for sure but is this a cause for celebration or anxiety?

The official ban comes before the beginning of the Israeli academic year at the end of October. But in effect it dates from the Palestinian uprising that began in the fall of 2000.

About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the Iraq war, exceeding previous estimates, researchers said on Wednesday, but President George W. Bush called the findings not credible and a top U.S. commander put the toll at 50,000.

...and the rest of us are trained and conditioned to accept CRIMES and LIES of that kind on a daily basis. And we DO take it with the smile.
Evil rules the World.

Chris Hedges --> The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran.