bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77 A list of names on a piece of paper is not evidence, but an autopsy by a pathologist, is. I undertook by FOIA request, to obtain that autopsy list and you are invited to view it below. Guess what? Still no Arabs on the list. http://www.sierratimes.com/03/07/02/article_tro.htm === A Master Morality Bush, Inc., is an enterprise operating of, by and for the privileged stockholders; as such, it is an embodiment of what Friedrich Nietzsche called a “master morality.” Ernest Partridge: The greatest threat to the Bush regime is a widespread appreciation amongst our fellow citizens that there is a superior alternative to the “Master Morality” of Bush, Inc. It is “Social Democratic Morality,” expressed in a political system best described by Abraham Lincoln as a “government of the people, by the people and for the people.” It is a government constrained by the rule of law to which all citizens, including the President and his Administration, must submit.. http://tinyurl.com/5zrsd === 'Bush continues to alienate world': People who once looked toward America with admiration and respect and as a beacon for liberty and civility now see a supremely arrogant rogue nation that holds international law and institutions in disdain. http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher205.html === GEORGE W. BUSH’S BLURRED VISION FOR AMERICA A TvNewsLIES Diagnosis The only thing more frightening than George W. Bush having a blurred vision for America, is that he might actually be seeing things clearly. The man has been badly maligned. For more than four years now, detractors and critics repeatedly have accused George W. Bush of sporting a smirk. They have mercilessly disparaged the President’s smug expression that seemed so inappropriate and so disdainful, for so long. It’s time to apologize. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1134183.htm === Brand USA is in trouble, so take a lesson from Big Mac: Instead of changing his foreign policy, President Bush is changing the story http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5147118-103677,00.html === I'm tired of Sept. 11, 2001 Heightening security was for naught Posted on Sun, Mar. 13, 2005 By Gerald Ensley, DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER I'm tired of Sept. 11, 2001. The attack by terrorists is ruining this nation. I'm tired of what Sept. 11 has done to free speech. Colorado University professor Ward Churchill is on the verge of being fired for talking frankly about Sept. 11. How can anyone not believe U.S. policies overseas have helped fuel terrorism? So what if he called Sept. 11 victims "little Eichmanns," in reference to the architect of the Jewish holocaust? It was just a metaphor. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1134196.htm === `Fortress America' sparks new fears TIM HARPER - WASHINGTON BUREAU Secure border would be shared Critics fear loss of resource control WASHINGTON—Canadians are being offered a new vision of a Fortress North America in which the continent is wrapped in a security perimeter from the Arctic all the way to the Guatemalan border. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1134150.htm === Stop news fraud “State-run media” is a phrase normally reserved for regimes such as North Korea that manipulate and censor all public information. Media in the United States were thought to be free of such autocratic control, but recent maneuvers by the Bush administration should make all of us stand up and take notice. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1134014.htm === DEMOCRACY OR OCCUPATION: What's Really on the Rise Across the Middle East? by Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies March 12, 2005 In a recent broadcast of "Democracy Now," the well-known Egyptian feminist, novelist and activist Nawal al-Sadawi put it exactly right. Responding to President Bush's bragging that his policies, specifically his invasion and occupation of Iraq, were somehow responsible for the new moves towards "democracy" across the Middle East, she said, "this is a new kind of imperialism. Now they don't only steal our land and our resources, but they steal our struggles as well." http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1134170.htm === Iraq Insurgency 'Still Very Strong' : Iraqi insurgents will not be defeated for many months, Britain admitted today http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4258786 === Peacemaker Team Returns From Iraq He reported seeing numerous examples of human rights abuses starting with the fact that men between the ages of 16 and 50 were not allowed to leave Fallujah when residents were told to evacuate. He told us about execution style killing of civilians by US soldiers, killing of women and children carrying white flags, and dead bodies with massive burns and unusual injuries indicating the use of white phosphorus (napalm) and other chemical weapons. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1916 === Americans talking to themselves in Fallujah: There is limited focus in the media about the continued U.S. military actions in Fallujah. http://electroniciraq.net/news/1770.shtml === After Two Years: Four hundred World Trade Centers: Everyone in Iraq knows somebody who has died. Most families have been touched. The war, meanwhile, has tormented everyone. From one city alone, the entire population of Fallujah, 400,000 -- minus the deaths -- are now homeless or refugees. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0314-27.htm === Digging In If the U.S. government doesn't plan to occupy Iraq for any longer than necessary, why is it spending billions of dollars to build "enduring" bases? http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/03/enduring_bases_iraq.html http://tinyurl.com/4aqqp === Iraq's strained coalition : Two of the largest contingents in the US-led coalition in Iraq, the Netherlands and Ukraine, are in the process of pulling their forces out. So where does this leave the coalition? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4350573.stm === AWOL in America: Why Over 5,500 U.S. Soldiers Discharged Themselves: The Pentagon has estimated that since the start of the current conflict in Iraq, more than 5,500 U.S. military personnel have deserted, and yet we know the stories of only a unique handful, all whom have publicly stated their opposition to the war in Iraq, and some of whom have fled to Canada. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/15/1453256 === Pentagon Data on Iraq Security Forces Unreliable -GAO: The Pentagon told Congress on Monday that there are 142,472 trained and equipped Iraqi security forces, but a Capitol Hill watchdog agency said data on the forces was unreliable and it was difficult to gauge whether billions of U.S. dollars were being used effectively. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7897863 http://tinyurl.com/59nvn === Bush administration clears US troops in slaying of Calipari and wounding of Sgrena Posted Mar 15, 2005 11:28 AM PST - Category: ASSASSINATION Earl Warren would be proud. http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031505Madsen/031505madsen.html === Tariq Ali on empire and those who fight it Every resistance movement against imperialism has been categorised as terrorist the Mau Mau in Kenya were demonised and brutally tortured by the British; the Algerian FLN by the French; the Vietnamese by the French and the Americans. http://tinyurl.com/642lq === Five Killed in Three Baghdad Car Bombs : Witnesses said some American troops also were wounded, although that was not confirmed by U.S. officials http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050315/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=2100 http://tinyurl.com/4vpt2 === Iraqi general shot dead by US troops at checkpoint west of Ramadi: police : The deputy commander of the Iraqi army in western Al-Anbar province was shot dead by US troops at a checkpoint Tuesday night, a police officer said. http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38797 === Two soldiers from multi-national forces killed, others injured in Iraq http://tinyurl.com/5kpqf === U.S. Marine Killed in Al Anbar Province http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050315-2233.html === Platoon leader admits Iraq assault charges: Saville, a 25-year-old West Point graduate, is accused of ordering troops to push two curfew violators into the river near Samarra. The government says Zaidoun Hassoun, 19, drowned. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/11140392.htm http://tinyurl.com/6d6zg === Iraqi forces crippled by poor discipline: Iraqi security forces, whose buildup is seen as the linchpin of the US exit strategy, remain crippled by poor discipline, questionable loyalties and a rate of absenteeism possibly reaching into tens of thousands, US congressional investigators said. http://tinyurl.com/5hn86 === Italian troops to leave Iraq : Italy will begin withdrawing its 3,000 troops from Iraq in September, the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, announced today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1438372,00.html === Pentagon Sees $108 Million in Overcharges by Halliburton: In one case, according to the auditing report, the company claimed that it had paid more than $27 million to transport liquified petroleum gas it had purchased in Kuwait for just $82,000, a charge the auditors dismissed as "illogical." http://tinyurl.com/6u9om === Army Ignored Broker on Arms Deal: U.S. general supervised an Iraq contract that a slain American said was tangled in kickbacks. The inspector general for Iraq's reconstruction recently criticized the failure of the former U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority to properly account for $8.8 billion in contracts issued using Iraqi funds. http://tinyurl.com/5n5qx === The Eyewitnesses Must Be Crazy This reminds me of the hundreds of eyewitnesses to a missile strike on TWA 800 who were dismissed as being a "bunch of drunks" by the official cover-up. http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=5194 === Former UK Guantanamo detainee accuses US of torture : A former British Guantanamo Bay detainee said Tuesday that inmates in the US detention camp in Cuba had been tortured by US military personnel who tried to make them "go crazy." http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/15/content_2701796.htm === 'The torturers among us': What times are these? In the past, torture was inimical to the image of America. - Systematic abuse was the dirty secret of the Soviet gulag and the Argentine generals' "Dirty War." (They called their reign of mayhem in the 1970s "The War Against Terrorism and Subversion.") In the months after Sept. 11, we now know, torture became our secret as well. http://tinyurl.com/6m2uv === Officials deny Guantanamo returnee killed : Pakistani officials dismissed local media reports yesterday that said a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers last year had been killed. http://tinyurl.com/47sxk === Anti-U.S. protesters tell envoy to quit Lebanon: Waving Lebanese flags, the crowd chanted: "Ambassador leave, keep our country free", in reference to Washington's envoy to Lebanon. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1598664.htm === Massive Anti-U.S. Protests Outside Embassy In Beirut How can they not love us????????? http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=293452077#Post293452077 === Syrian pledge relies on Lebanese action: The special U.N. envoy on Lebanon cautioned Sunday that a commitment by the Syrian president, Bashar Assad, to withdraw all soldiers and intelligence forces from Lebanon in the next few months was contingent on Lebanese leaders forming a new government in coming weeks. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/11131239.htm === Syrian Military Intelligence Vacate Office : A day after the country's biggest opposition demonstration, Syrian military intelligence on Tuesday was vacating an office in Beirut, moving furniture into trucks protected by Lebanese police. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4866222,00.html === Charley Reese: Lebanon and Syria: The Middle East is full of ruins left by past superpowers. As a Palestinian friend of mine likes to say, pointing to those ruins: "They are all gone. We are still here." http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese175.html === Gallup: Americans Don't Like Syria, Iran, N. Korea: About 4 in 10 Republicans would support "military action" against each of the countries. http://tinyurl.com/5b6s9 === Israeli Army blames dog for killing of innocent Palestinian By Amira Hass The Defense Ministry is blaming an army dog for the death of an innocent Palestinian, who was shot by Israel Defense Forces troops 10 months ago. According to Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim (Likud), the dog had mistaken the Palestinian's identity. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1134065.htm === Poll of U.S. and British views on Israel : Americans generally still side with Israel, considered a like-minded ally, and show hostility toward the Palestinians, according to the Israel Project, a group working to promote Israel’s image. http://tinyurl.com/6v6rl === American family sues Israel: The 24-year-old Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003 when she tried to block an Israeli army bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian house near the Philadelphi Route, the strip of land in the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt. http://tinyurl.com/42cfq === Humor: Israeli Basketball Rules: For security reasons Palestinians do not have the right to pass the ball between players, the ball could hit an Israeli player. http://tinyurl.com/65mag === Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 03/14/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video. http://tinyurl.com/4lwdl === Russia paid bounty on Chechen rebel leader: Russia said on Tuesday it had paid millions of dollars to reward the people who helped it find and kill Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, as an outcry grew over Moscow’s refusal to return his body for burial. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/93045be8-954f-11d9-bc72-00000e2511c8.html === Account stirs questions over how Chechen died : Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian columnist and expert on Chechnya, said the house was apparently blown up to destroy any evidence that could cast doubt on official accounts of Maskhadov's killing. http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/03/14/news/russia.html === N.Korea Says It May Build More Nuclear Weapons: North Korea said Tuesday it may increase its nuclear arsenal to maintain a balance of power in East Asia and help prevent a U.S. attack on the reclusive communist state. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7906656 === Rice Says U.S. Concerned at China Military Build-Up: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=582009 === Gwynne Dyer: Bogeyman China serves to justify a big U.S. defense budget : It will come as no surprise, therefore, that the major U.S. defense review planned for this year will concentrate on the rising "threat" from China http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_2607221 === Chalmers Johnson, Coming to Terms with China: It's rare for us to take time out of busy lives to consider how exactly the dots might be connected, how the world actually works. http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2259 === US jittery over Nepal: Fears that Nepal will become a failed state have led the US to pressure India to step up its efforts to help resolve last month's "royal coup", and questions concerning aid and military assistance linger. China, meanwhile, is accused of meddling where it doesn't belong. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GC16Df01.html === Jordan arrests reporter over Iraq news: The Jordanian Interior Ministry has announced the arrest of a journalist working for the al-Ghad newspaper after it published a story alleging a Jordanian carried out the attack in Hilla near Baghdad last month. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C59D73A6-6C3C-44AA-A48A-05929017F4C3.htm http://tinyurl.com/4yxbb === Scott Ritter, CIA ‘terminally ill’ intel operation http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=174 === Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims Feel Cheated by U.S. Court : This is the first time that Vietnamese citizens have ever sought legal compensation for the effects of Agent Orange, which contains the toxic chemical dioxin linked to cancer, diabetes and birth defects among Vietnamese soldiers and civilians and U.S. veterans. http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=27847 === American students shocked by Vietnam’s Agent Orange suffering : While US courts were handing down a dismissal of Vietnam’s Agent Orange victims’ lawsuit, seven students from New York witnessed first hand the deadly toxic affects on innocent people in Quang Nam province. http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=5574 === The Courts and the War on Terror: Of the 120 terrorism cases, the initial major charges leveled have resulted in only two actual terrorism convictions http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2005/03/courts_war_on_terror.html === Imprisoned Without Charge: Yvon Neptune and Haiti’s Political Prisoners http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/790/1/82/ === New U.S. Threats against Venezuela Unveiled in Miami: New U.S. threats to use force to choke the Bolivarian process and assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez triggered new protests in Venezuela. http://207.44.245.159/article8269.htm === OPEC not to blame for oil price leap, say ministers: The price of crude oil was "out of OPEC's control", Qatar's Oil Minister, Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, said yesterday. http://afr.com/articles/2005/03/15/1110649202509.html === OPEC has reached its production limit: “The end of abundant, affordable oil is in sight, and the implications are colossal." http://www.prudentbear.com/internationalperspective.asp === Robert Scheer: The Bankruptcy Bill: a Tutorial in Greed: Lesson No. 1 -- Campaign cash is worth more than family values. http://tinyurl.com/52lp6 === White House to agencies: Ignore ruling on 'illegal' TV news releases : The White House, intent on continuing to crank out "video news releases" that look like television news stories, has told government agency heads to ignore a Government Accountability Office memo criticizing the practice as illegal propaganda. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0315bush-news15.html === Rep. Ron Paul: Deficits Make You Poorer: Most Americans are vaguely aware that Congress has run up huge deficits in recent years, but the numbers involved are so large that it’s hard to grasp what our government’s indebtedness really means to us as individuals. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul238.html === Bush setting U.S. up for financial fall : The war is being fought on credit, with the loans coming from Chinese and Japanese central bankers, and the debt sent to our kids. http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse151.html === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.2 - Release Date: 11/03/2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? 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