Don't Believe a Word

October 12, 2004 by element115
Sharon wants to destroy UNRWA, the special United Nations Relief and Works Agency that moderates the misery of the four million Palestinian refugees. It is a big organization with some 25,000 employees, including teachers, social workers and physicians, almost all of them, of course, Palestinians. It provides the refugees with food, education, health services and, in case of need, a roof over their head. Without it, the refugees would long ago have descended into an abyss of hunger and despair. At present, while our army is destroying whole Gaza neighborhoods and their infrastructure, UNRWA is providing food, tents and medical care to needy Palestinians who are not refugees.

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How Wolfowitz Unleashed CIA on Blix

by element115
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was so eager to see the United States launch a preemptive strike against Iraq in early 2002, that he ordered the CIA to investigate the past work of Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, who in February 2002, was asked to lead a team of U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction, in an attempt to undermine the scientist.

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Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

by element115
According to Daniel Rossing, former adviser to the Religious Affairs Ministry on Christian affairs and director of a Jerusalem center for Christian-Jewish dialogue, there has been an increase in the number of such incidents recently, "as part of a general atmosphere of lack of tolerance in the country." Former adviser to the mayor on Christian affairs, Shmuel Evyatar, describes the situation as "a huge disgrace." He says most of the instigators are yeshiva students studying in the Old City who view the Christian religion with disdain.

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Chavez Threatens Venezuela's Central Bank

by element115
President Hugo Chavez threatened Venezuela's Central Bank that if it doesn't allow him to use part of its international reserves to fund his social programs for the poor, he will get a Supreme Court order to do so.

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Blair remark on Saddam is revealed

by element115
Malaysia's former leader claimed yesterday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had told him that ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power because the US-led coalition was unwilling to wait for him to die naturally.

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Spelling out Sharon's real plan

by element115
No road map, no Palestinian state.
Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is approaching its fifth decade. It is an occupation that has inflicted unspeakable cruelty on a civilian population of 3.5 million Palestinians, not to speak of the suffering inflicted on Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism.


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Sidelined Neo-Cons Stoke Future Fires

October 11, 2004 by element115
Sidelined by their failed predictions for Iraq and US President George W Bush's efforts to reassure voters he is not a warmonger, prominent neo-conservatives and their Christian Right allies are nonetheless trying hard to prepare the ground for future US adventures in the Middle East.

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New Prince Video Rocks Terrorism

by element115
Prince sings, "Cinnamon girl mixed heritage/ Never knew the meaning of color lines/ 9-11 turned that all around/ When she got accused of this crime."

Disillusioned and angered, Castle-Hughes' character detonates a bomb in an airport terminal, exploding herself and others. However, a reverse motion immediately following the explosion reveals that it is only a thought of hers.
"I kind of think about it as how far can her imagination go when the world comes down on her pretty heavy," says Harder. "None of it's literal, but you get the picture."


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New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh blast Bush over Iraqi war

by element115
Europe is set to become a collective violent block against the United States, if the war against Iraq continues, investigative reporter and New Yorker writer Seymour M. Hersh said at a talk Friday night at the University of California, Berkeley.

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A Question for America : What Would Be Too Much?

by element115
Here in the U.S. there is a "deeply-held belief that no matter what this nation's governing body does abroad, no matter how bad what it does may appear, no matter what horror may result, the American government means well;" That the government has good intentions and means well; And, generally speaking, the American public wonders why the rest of the world can't see how "kind" and "generous" and "self-sacrificing" America is and has been.

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Israelis occupy state of denial over Zionism's great moral crisis

by element115
from The Australian ---> The Gaza affair is another act - and possibly a culminating one - in a great moral crisis for Israelis, and for Israel's friends elsewhere. Most Israelis sense this.

Sharon and his colleagues are acting out something the radical and brilliant American Jewish journalist I.F. Stone wrote many years ago.
He said Zionism had from the start involved the physical displacement of the Palestinians from what became Israel, but achieving that would require a psychological act of denial of the existence of the Palestinians. "Jewish life", he said, "went on as if the Arabs weren't there". "In a profound sense, the yishuv, the Jewish community, had to pretend the Arabs weren't there, or confront ethical problems too painful to be faced."

Sharon's entire life has been devoted to Israel's expansion, and to the physical realisation of the forbidden and denied Zionist wish, that the Arabs are not there.


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Gaza Families Live In The Shadow Of Death

by element115
The last thing that young Suha Ayub Ibayd remembers before a barrage of tank fire ripped through her home is huddling together with her parents and eight brothers and sisters.
"They target every living thing. They have no mercy in their hearts"

"I've been working here a long time, and I've seen some pretty horrible things - but nothing like this, and not with this frequency," Dr Joudeh said.
"People have been arriving here with their bowels ripped inside out, with their limbs torn off, their bodies burned beyond recognition, and dozens of bullet fragments that exploded upon impact lodged mainly in the upper half of their bodies.


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The CIA 'old guard' goes to war with Bush

by element115
A powerful "old guard" faction in the Central Intelligence Agency has launched an unprecedented campaign to undermine the Bush administration with a battery of damaging leaks and briefings about Iraq.

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Paradise cleansed

by element115
John Pilger ---> There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history's trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia.
The story of Diego Garcia is shocking, almost incredible.


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Insane reality spins the head

by element115
The president is a dumb guy who gets people killed. He and his people forget he lost the last election and had it stolen for him. If you could see through his endless rapid blinking on Friday night, he seemed to show that he is not completely sane. He has a religious belief in his lies. In the Friday night debate, George Bush, who lied America into war, did say one truthful thing: "This is going to be a long, long war."

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Shoot me I want To Go Home

by element115
A visit with the U.S. troops ---> Video

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Bush's Crimes

by element115
Impeach the president? Yes. ---> In the February 7 directive, Bush wrote that Taliban soldiers don't qualify as prisoners of war. Instead, he declared them "unlawful combatants," a new and legally ambiguous designation that strips detainees of many of the Geneva protections. In short, that move introduced the opportunity for torture.
White House counsel Gonzales urged the president to exempt the Taliban from Geneva, telling Bush that parts of the conventions were "obsolete" and "quaint." Most interestingly, the justice lawyer informed the president that exempting the Taliban would provide U.S. officials protection from prosecution under the War Crimes Act. "It is difficult to predict the motives of prosecutors and independent counsels who may in the future decide to pursue unwarranted charges based on [the War Crimes Act]," he wrote. "Your determination would create a reasonable basis in law that [the act] does not apply, which would supply a solid defense to any future prosecution."


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If You Had Seen What I Have Seen

by element115
Those who embrace unilateral pre-emptive strikes in the name of democracy and freedom have produced results that pervert the concept of democracy while bringing about the horrific tyranny of fear and oppression at the hands of those who posture as liberators.

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Future generations will struggle to escape the legacy of the disaster in Iraq

by element115
Robert Fisk ----> Our betrayals and broken promises have created a kind of irreversible disease that cannot be forgiven

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Saddam's right-hand man dies

by element115
TARIQ AZIZ, the former Iraqi deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein, has died in custody, Al-Arabiya television said today, quoting sources in the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq.

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MK set to propose bill enabling communities for Jews only

by element115
The Knesset presidium voted on Monday to allow National Union MK Zvi Hendel to propose a bill enabling the establishment of communities for Jews only, sparking charges of racism.

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Heroism in the Holy Land: Chris Brown beaten for walking children to school

by element115
For Palestinians around Hebron, it is like living next to KKK members who can kill you with impunity. Murders of Palestinians are rarely prosecuted, and when they are, little results. For example, three years ago, when a settler was found guilty of killing an 14-year-old boy by breaking his neck, the punishment meted out was a fine and six months community service.
"It?s just like South Africa," Chris Brown says, "only worse." South Africa, many point out, didn't use F-16s against its Bantustans.


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Ex-DAFB commander says troops used as guinea pigs

by element115
A former Dover Air Force Base commander says military officials used his troops as guinea pigs in illegal medical experiments under the government's controversial anthrax vaccination program.

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Ex-DAFB commander says troops used as guinea pigs

by element115
A former Dover Air Force Base commander says military officials used his troops as guinea pigs in illegal medical experiments under the government's controversial anthrax vaccination program.

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CIA Chief: More of a Mess

by element115
Porter Goss was supposed to fix the CIA. In naming him director in August, President George W. Bush promised that Goss would be a "force for positive change." But critics say the former GOP congressman may only be adding to the agency's troubles.

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Israeli planes fly through Lebanese airspace...again

by element115
Israeli warplanes flew across Lebanon on Monday, breaking the sound barrier on what appeared to be a reconnaissance mission, a Lebanese security official said.
Lebanese army gunners did not fire at the jets, the Lebanese official said.
Israeli planes frequently violate Lebanese airspace. On occasion, shrapnel from anti-aircraft fire in Lebanon has landed on Israeli border communities, provoking Israeli retaliation.


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International Federation of Journalists

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Police Target Independent Media Network ----> The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today called for an investigation into the action by police in Britain in co-operation with other agencies that led to the temporary closure of 21 of the more than 140 Indymedia web sites worldwide.

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Massacre in Gaza

by element115
The latest Israeli invasion of the northern end of occupied Gaza shows once again that the Sharon government is unwilling to allow even the smallest steps toward a Palestinian state. It has directed its fire at any organization of the Palestinians.
Right now Israel claims to be firing at the Hamas organization, calling its members "terrorists," just as the Bush government calls anyone in the Iraqi resistance "terrorists." Israel's attacks kill many civilians, along with some Hamas fighters. In the not-too-distant past the Israelis fired on the Palestine Liberation Organization and even on the Palestinian Authority. Because the Israeli state occupies the territory, because the Israeli state acts as an outpost of imperialism in the Middle East, this is not simply a battle between two peoples who differ in language and religion. The Israeli state is a settler state and an oppressor. The Palestinians are fighting for their liberation. They are an oppressed people.


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Afghanistan: Fraudulent election imposed by US

by element115
...the practice of multiple registrations was rife. UN spokesperson Manoel de Almeida e Silva admitted: ?Probably there is a lot of multiple registering. This is not perfect.? Many people have openly declared the benefits of obtaining numerous registration cards, which could be sold to parties or candidates for up to US$150. In a country where most people live below the $2 a day poverty line, selling a voter registration card is a logical thing to do.

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BBC Expose On Zionist Christians

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Listen -----> in Real Audio

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Civilian toll in Gaza grows after Israeli invasion

by element115
Ghazi Filfil was planning a business trip to Germany this month. That was before an Israeli tank shell crashed into the top storey of his five-floor house one night last week, wounding him, his wife and all his nine children.
Raed al-Mabhuh, 13, has severe pelvic injuries and his face has erupted from toxaemia that set in after both his legs were amputated. Doctors have little hope for him.
A 13-year-old girl admitted three days ago is expected to be severely brain-damaged if she survives neurosurgery for a bullet wound to her head. Another girl, one year older, has developed a fever after her small intestine was ruptured and her spleen removed.

The Palestine Centre for Human Rights, in its weekly report to October 7, listed 74 Palestinians killed in the operation, including 37 civilians, of whom 23 were children. Some 300 people were wounded. The death toll has since risen to nearer 100. In the intensive care unit at Shifa, 10 of 12 beds are occupied by victims of bullet and shrapnel wounds.


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Push for holy war an issue left in silence

by element115
The force in question is the Christian fundamentalist movement most commonly known as premillennialism. It prophesies that Jesus will return and true believers will be whisked bodily to heaven, minus their clothes and jewelery, upon the fulfillment of certain conditions familiar to readers of the popular Left Behind books. These include the creation of the state of Israel, Israel's occupation of all of its "biblical lands," and the construction of a Third Temple on the Temple Mount, currently the site of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosques.
The first is fact. The second goes so far beyond the disputed West Bank and Gaza that not even Israel aspires to it. The third, which contemplates the desecration of one of Islam's holiest places, would set off a nuclear war (think Pakistan and Iran) with infinitely more certainty than anything predicted in the Book of Revelation. A simple visit by Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount four years ago was enough to bring on the current intifada that by one estimate has claimed nearly 4,000 lives and made Sharon prime minister.
When Bush asked Sharon to withdraw tanks from Jenin two years ago, more than 100,000 fundamentalist e-mails hit the White House and Bush said nothing more about it. The West Bank concession, reversing decades of sensible U.S. policy, was another manifestation.


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EU condemns Gaza raid

by element115
The European Union called on Monday for an immediate end to Israel's military operations in Gaza and said a unilateral withdrawal from Palestinian territory could not be a substitute for a two-state political solution.
Sharon, meanwhile, is withholding his approval to wrap up the military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, despite the Israel Defense Forces' recommendation to withdraw.


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Russia opposes referral of Iran to UN Security Council

by element115
Lavrov said that any unconstructive proposal is premature, and Russia expects the cooperation between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to continue.

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Mendacity Without End

by element115
When you realize that communication is the most basic survival skill of the human race, then you must also see that lying is the cardinal sin, since a lie is a deliberate attempt to sabotage communication. It is an immoral attempt by one person to manipulate another by denying that person the truth.

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US seizes webservers from independent media sites

by element115
American authorities have shut down 20 independent media centres by seizing their British-based webservers.

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House Approves U.S. Spy Agency Overhall

October 8, 2004 by element115
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a Republican-written U.S. spy agency overhaul, setting the stage for a battle with the Senate over controversial immigration measures and the new national intelligence director's power.

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Violence in Northern Gaza Kills 3

by element115
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 10-year-old Palestinian girl and killed two other Palestinians in a missile strike Friday during a massive offensive into the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses and hospital officials said.
The deaths brought the number of Palestinians killed to 88 since Israel began its offensive Sept. 29 to stop Palestinian militants from launching rockets into Israel. Almost half of those killed in the raid were civilians, and 18 were 16 years old and younger.


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Che Guevara's death

by element115
On this day Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was captured and subsequently killed in the Bolivian jungle. This is how the Guardian reported the events in 1967.

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The Dog That Did Not Bark

by element115
It is now well established that the road to war in Iraq was built on lies and deceptions. With the credibility of the United States Government in ruins (along with the mainstream media), the time has come to look back at other recent events and ask if they too were deceptions designed to trick this nation into a war.

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Kerry's four magic words tonight to win it all: "George Bush must resign"

by element115
It's not about whether the Iraqi invasion was "worth it." Or whether the world is safer without Saddam Hussein.
It's about the inevitable next crisis. About the fact that this administration has taken the world to war on false pretenses.
And that it will never be believed again: It lied to the American people. It lied to Congress. It lied to the global community.


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Feds Plan To Track Every Car In America

by element115
A little-known federal agency is planning a new monitoring program by which the government would track every car on the road by using onboard transceivers.
The agency, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office www.its.dot.gov, is part of the Department of Transportation. According to an extensive report in the Charlotte, N.C., Creative Loafing http://snipurl.com/9lplhttp://snipurl.com/9lpl , the agency doesn't respond to public inquiries about its activity.


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For What Did We Die, Mr. Bush?

by element115
American troops carry on killing and dying in Iraq until they achieve whatever Mr. Bush sent them there to do.

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Senate Passes National ID Measure !

by element115
U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records

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National ID card feared in license standards

by element115
Proposed federal standards for new driver's licenses contained in the intelligence-reform bill moving through Congress creates a national identification card, according to civil liberties groups on both sides of the aisle.
The Senate passed its intelligence-reform bill yesterday by a 96-2 vote, and the House is expected to vote on its version by the end of the week.


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FBI Agents Questioning Muslims In Mosques

by element115
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) across the United States have started a campaign to visit mosques and question Muslims who might have information related to a possible pre-election terrorist attack.The move has provoked sharp protests from American Civil Liberties Union and several Muslim organizations.

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Cat out of the Bag

by element115
One of Ariel Sharon's closest advisers, in fact, his former chief of staff, Dov Weisglass, has revealed to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz the ulterior motives behind Sharon's unilateral decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
It was not to further the peace process. Quite the contrary.
"The significance of our disengagement plan," Weisglass said, "is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with the Palestinians."
The goal, he said, was to "prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state" and remove it "indefinitely from our agenda."


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Palestinians not connected to Sinai attack

by element115
"There is no relationship between any Palestinian factions and the explosions in Egypt," said Jibril Rajoub, security adviser to Palestinian Authority Chairman, Yasser Arafat, Thursday night, following the deadly terror attacks in Sinai.

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Getting past screeners of the 'Live Call In' Media

by element115
....on that day, a caller rang in with a question about the 'AIPAC Spy' story. Despite the caller's ritually polite tone, he was cut off.

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U.S. Strike Kills 11 at Iraqi Wedding

by element115
A U.S. air strike on the rebel-held city of Falluja in western Iraq killed 11 people and wounded 17 at a wedding party, with women and children among the casualties, a hospital doctor said Friday.

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TV station reports that Bush has been elected President

by element115
WBAY TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin is running an AP article reporting that Bush has won the election, weeks before the election is to take place.
"At this hour, President Bush has won re-election as president by a 47 percent to 43 percent margin in the popular vote nationwide."


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Qureia tells Haaretz: U.S. may be guilty of collusion

by element115
Abu Ala, said yesterday that Weisglass' remarks oblige Israel to reconsider its policies in the territories, and the U.S. and international community to redefine their demands of Israel if they would like to see a genuine peace process in the Middle East. He refrained from accusing the U.S. of coordinating positions with Sharon but queried whether its policy on disengagement was "innocent."

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Unknown Islamist group claims Taba blast

by element115
The deadly blast at the Hilton hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba on the border with Israel late Thursday was claimed by the previously unknown "World Islamist Group", in a telephone call to AFP

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Unknown group claims Egypt blasts

by element115
...and another claim...this time from previously unheard of Islamist group Islamic Tawhid Brigades

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Al-Qaeda offshoot claims Sinai blasts

by element115
and another one ----> A group calling itself "Brigades of the Martyrs Abdullah al-Azzam"

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'Islamic Unity Brigades' claim Sinai attacks

by element115
and one more ---> A group calling itself "Islamic Unity Brigades" claimed responsibility Friday for a series of bombings in Egypt's Sinai peninsula targeting Israeli tourists

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Israel Says al-Qaida Behind Resort Attacks

by element115
Israel's intelligence chief told Cabinet ministers Friday that the bombings at Egyptian resorts were most likely carried out by al-Qaida.
The intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, made the assessment at an emergency Cabinet meeting convened a day after the deadly bombings.


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BUSH WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY

by element115
In a LA TIMES column, Jonathan Chait blasts: "To say that I consider Bush a 'bad' president would be a severe understatement. I think he's bad in a way that redefines my understanding of the word 'bad.'

"I used to think U.S. history had many bad presidents. Now, my 'bad' category consists entirely of George W. Bush, with every previous president redefined as 'good.'

"There's also the fact that, on a personal level, I despise him with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.

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10 injured in bomb blast in Paris

by element115
Ten people suffered minor injuries when a small bomb exploded outside the Indonesian Embassy in Paris on Friday.

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Video shows British hostage executed

by element115
A journalist for the Reuters news agency says he has seen a video that shows the beheading of British hostage Kenneth Bigley.

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After 18 months of war the verdict on Iraq is in

October 7, 2004 by element115
Sanctions worked. Weapons inspectors worked. The report shows that the international sanctions that Bush dismissed and demeaned before the war - and still does - were astonishingly effective.

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Explosion In Egypt

by element115
There's been a strong explosion at a popular tourist hotel in Egypt. The blast took place at a location that is just meters away from the Israeli border.
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FBI took the hard drives of IMC servers in the UK

by element115
The FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US (Indymedia's provider with offices in the US and London) to remove physically one of our servers.
The servers hosted numerous local IMCs. If you find a site is down: that might be the reason
The reason why the hard drives were taken are unknown.


Chavez Announces that Venezuelan State Will Switch to "Free Software"

by element115
President Chavez announced yesterday that "we are working on a decree to establish in Venezuela, in an official and obligatory manner, the support and adoption of free software in the public administration."

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The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney

by element115
CBC - the fifth estate

I've watched that documentary last night...really excellent job!

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U.S. Alerts Schools About Terror Threat

by element115
The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.

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Stealing a Nation

by element115
John Pilger's new documentary is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Behind the Scenes of the Iraq War

by element115
The plan for the Iraq war, which has erupted in the face of opposition from the entire world, was drawn up at least decades ago, by Israeli strategists.
In its attempt to realize its strategy of destabilizing or dividing the Middle Eastern Arab states, Israel has Egypt, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia on its list of subsequent targets.


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Behind the Iraq Dossier Hoax

by element115
The essential facts are as follows: Two days before Powell's UN appearance, 10 Downing Street issued a 16-page paper, "Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception, and Intimidation," purportedly based on high-level British intelligence data. In fact, at least 11 of the 16 pages were lifted, verbatim, from an Israeli journal, Middle East Review of International Affairs, whose sole proprieter is Dr. Barry Rubin, an American-born Israeli citizen. The 11 pages were drawn from two articles, by Ibrahim al-Marashi and Robert Rabil, that appeared in the September 2002 edition of that journal.

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Cheney: Weapons Report Justifies Iraq War

by element115
Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war.
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How Israel created another PR disaster

by element115
From Haaretz ---> Israel's humiliation in the affair of UNRWA's alleged "Qassam ambulance" came from two blunders - the improper use of intelligence material for public relations, and the desire of senior Foreign Ministry officials to "settle accounts" with UNRWA director Peter Hansen, whom they view as hostile.

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Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bremer - Deserting a Sinking Ship

by element115
How to understand the sudden outbreak of candor among Bush administration officials (or former officials) about Iraq in the past couple of days?
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Twelve UN Agencies Warn of Deep Crisis in Gaza

by element115
Twelve United Nations agencies working in Gaza today stated that the ongoing violence on top of the sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation this year is pushing the Palestinian population into a deep crisis.

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Boston Protests the Wars on Iraq and Palestine

by element115
SATURDAY OCTOBER 9, 12 NOON

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Israel Special Forces

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General Organization
Inner Team Organization
Deployment
Weapons
Training
Alert


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Israeli AIPAC Spy Scandal - Update

by element115
It was just a month ago that the latest Washington spy scandal involving the very heart of the Israeli-Jewish Lobby had everyone buzzing. Then it faded from view as the corporate media moved on, as CBS News which originally broke the story found itself under assault, and as the election campaign and debates took center stage. Interesting, not one question from the PBS moderators about Israeli spying, nor even about the U.S. veto of the Security Council resolution condemning Israel, nor the International Court of Justice decision doing the same. Here's an update...

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The Sad Truth About Our Future With Bush

by element115
History books and press releases are written by the winners. Only much later do historians dig into the dirt to find out what really happened and why.

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The Children of Iraq - The Effect of Sanctions

by element115
"There is one crime against humanity in this last decade of the millenium
that exceeds all others in its magnitude, cruelty and portent.
It is the US-forced sanctions against the twenty million people of Iraq...
If the UN participates in such genocidal sanctions backed by the threat of military violence --and if the people of the world fail to prevent such conduct --
the violence, terror and human misery of the new millennium
will exceed anything we have known."
[Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General ]


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No weapons, no programmes: nothing to justify the invasion

by element115
Mr Duelfer was introducing the ISG's 1,000-plus page report, based on visits to suspect sites, the examination of thousands of pages of documents and interviews with former Iraqi officials involved in weapons programmes. Moreover, it found no evidence that Saddam had secretly transferred weapons or components to Syria.

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Israel Holds Workers Without Charges

by element115
At least 25 Palestinian U.N. workers have been detained by Israel for about two years under charges the Jewish state won't reveal, two spokesmen for the United Nations charged Wednesday.

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Palestinians accuse Israel of "Nazi tactics" in Gaza

by element115
The official, PA Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah told PIC that the ongoing Israeli blitz in northern Gaza was "nothing but a Nazi-like rampage of murder and terror against a defenseless civilian population."

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MP questions Iraqi woman's speech

by element115
The weeping Iraqi woman who begged Labour conference delegates not to vote to withdraw British troops from the country has "strong connections" with the CIA, Britain's most senior back bench MP claimed.

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Gaza battle rages

by element115
The deaths brought to 91 the number of Palestinians killed since Israeli armour first poured into the Gaza Strip on September 28.

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When terror bell rings, George Bush smiles

October 6, 2004 by element115
An article published in the Current Research in Social Psychology journal has revealed that when the US government issues a terrorist warning, presidential approval ratings jump by leap and bounds.

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In one corner of Iraq, loyalty to a Shiite rebel burns fiercely

by element115
"Those who follow the Americans are dogs," he yelled. "We swear by Moqtada that we won't let our machine guns stop!"
"Everyone here is part of the resistance."


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'No entry' for Blair in top UK hotel

by element115
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was reportedly denied entry into one of London's best restaurants because of his support to the Iraq war.

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Sharon aide: No Palestinian state

by element115
A key adviser to the Israeli government has said Tel Aviv's unilateral disengagement plan is really about preventing a Palestinian state.

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White House insists clear 'ties' linked Iraq to Al-Qaeda

by element115
"There are clearly ties between Iraq and, between the regime, Saddam Hussein's regime and Al-Qaeda. And there are clearly some disturbing similarities that existed as well," White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters at a press briefing.

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Spain snubs U.S. troops in parade

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U.S. troops are no longer welcome in Spain's national holiday parade now that Washington and Madrid have fallen out over Iraq. Instead French soldiers have been invited to march in the Spanish capital on the big day.

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CNN yanks online poll favoring Edwards, deletes results, and replaces it today

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Time Warner?s Cable News Network abruptly yanked a poll from the front page of their website Tuesday which was favoring Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards by more than a three-to-one margin. They then replaced it in the 12 p.m EDT hour today, completely eliminating all previous results.

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Israeli commandos and pilots conducting special operations in Iraq

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With the increased crackdown on the Iraqi people, the presence of Zionist forces has become more evident, to the extent that Israelis have taken over some military operations in Tall Afar, Samarra, and Falluja, informed sources in Iraq, including two Iraqi National Guard officers, said.

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Reichstag Fire, 9/11

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The Problem Reaction Solution Paradigm (The Hegelian Dialectic)

1) The government creates or exploits a problem blaming it on others

2) The people react by asking the government for help willing to give up their rights

3) The government offers the solution that was planned long before the crisis


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In Kuwait, injured GI baffled by scenes of Iraq on television

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...the transiting soldier with new pins in his leg thought the American Forces Network footage was surreal. Children cheered and chased military vehicles. Locals waved and smiled.
"That doesn?t look like any patrols I?ve been on," the injured soldier said, shaking his head.


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Telltale Signs of Torture Lead Family to Demand Answers

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Wife, Daughters Tell of Iraqi Man Discharged from U.S. Custody in Coma

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The State Department's extreme makeover

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Secretary of State Colin Powell is not staying for a second Bush term. When he goes, the last bulwark against complete neoconservative control of U.S. foreign policy goes with him. The implications are enormous, yet the American electorate appears to be blinded by the Bush campaign's deliberate manipulations of 9/11.

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Pastor Bush

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Why do so many Americans dismiss the evidence that the occupation of Iraq has gone disastrously wrong? Because the US has a long tradition of putting faith before facts. Jonathan Raban on George Bush's debt to the Puritans

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Guantanamo, President Bush and the Invasion of Iraq

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video and transcript----> Former South African Archbishop, Desmond Tutu has become a vocal critic of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. We speak with the Nobel Peace Prize winner about the similarities between Guantanamo Bay and apartheid in South Africa, President Bush and the invasion and occupation Iraq.

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The trouble with bulldozers

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The Israeli government of Ariel Sharon continues their barbaric assault on the Palestinian people and the U.S. government hopes...whatever. Americans are clueless as to why the Muslim nations hate America. This isn?t rocket science people, this is murder. The U.S. will never gain one rung on the ladder of success or respect among the Muslim nations until the U.S. uses its very real sway over the Israeli government. The U.S. Congress has all of the authority it needs to reel Israel in and put on some controls. Cut off the money that the U.S. so graciously gives to Israel. It is simple and it is sufficient to put Israel into the company of civilized nations. One more little thing Colin baby, go and talk to the Hamas people. Have your people get in touch with their people and do lunch...it couldn?t hurt and it could possibly help. Don?t even run the rationale about, ?we don?t negotiate with terrorists?. You certainly have no qualms about dealing with Israel. One man?s terrorist is another man?s freedom fighter.

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Forget About Them

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Watch them torturing and raping prisoners, turn the TV channel, watch Oprah, she will teach you how to deal with daily stress and forget about them

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TigrisTales

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"We are working with Americans, the infidel occupiers. This is why they are allowed to kill us."

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