bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
===News Update=== God told him: Reverend Pat Robertson, said that God told him: "I will remove judges from the Supreme Court quickly, and their successors will refuse to sanction the attacks on religious faith." Robertson also said that he "heard it from the Lord" that President Bush will have Social Security and tax reform passed and that Muslims will turn to Jesus Christ. http://mediamatters.org/items/200501040010 === Tsunamis and this Thing Called Humanity >From the Oceans, Indiscriminate Devastation Manuel Valenzuela Millions of humans die prematurely each year not by tsunamis or earthquakes, but by our exploitation of their lands and labor, by our indifference to their plight as industrialized nations commit yearly acts of economic genocide, as their nation's treasure is gobbled up by banks and lending institutions, as their lands and their resources are pillaged and raped, as their social programs are gutted to suit the needs of America and other northern nations, condemning billions to a life subsisting on two dollars a day, their talents ignored, opportunity made extinct and futures oppressed. http://207.44.245.159/article7628.htm === They Say They Can Lock You Up for Life Without a Trial: Charged with No Crime, Implicated in No Wrongdoing By ELAINE CASSEL On Sunday, Jan 2, Dana Priest, writing in the Washington Post, described the plans of the Pentagon and the Justice Department to imprison indefinitely, perhaps for life, persons it wants "removed" from society. Having committed no crime, but believed to be associated with "terrorism" however that is defined at any given moment in time "the people will live in prison camps modeled on American prisons. http://207.44.245.159/article7625.htm === Rethinking Middle East Security By Patrick Seale The new imperialists are paying a heavy price for their arrogant overreach. Iraq is proving the graveyard of the US army, and also the graveyard of US-Arab relations. Israel, in turn, has been brutalised by its occupation, turning it into a racist, quasi-fascist state, in the grip of religious fanatics. http://207.44.245.159/article7622.htm === American Soldier Tries To Unveil Iraqi Girl By Force Clashes erupted between US troops and Iraqi police at a US checkpoint in the center of Ramadi on Monday morning. Eyewitnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the battles broke out at about 10am when a US solider insisted on searching a veiled Iraq girl who was with her mother. The US soldier was determined to lift her veil, claiming that resistance fighters could disguise themselves in women's clothing. Witnesses reported that the Iraqi girl refused to lift the veil from her face, causing the American soldier to try to pull it off by force. At that point the Iraqi policemen intervened and clashed with the Americans, sparking a battle that lasted 15 minutes. http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=35351 === 22 killed in car bomb targeting a police academy. The car exploded on Wednesday during a graduation ceremony at the police academy. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AD602118-F200-450F-A471-72E651F93D32.htm http://snipurl.com/bsqr === At least six killed in another car bomb in Iraq : At least six people were killed and a number of others injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/05/content_2421004.htm http://snipurl.com/bsqt === Five Iraqi civilians killed in Ramadi clashes: Five Iraqi civilians were killed and two wounded when they got caught up in clashes that erupted between resistance fighters and US troops http://www.deepikaglobal.com/latestnews.asp?ncode=24157 http://snipurl.com/bsqu === American Soldier Killed in North Iraq Attack: The death brings to 1,054 the number of U.S. troops killed in action since the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7239287 http://snipurl.com/bsqv === Military Power Wins Battles for the U.S. And Israel, But Not the War "The hospitals are full of bodies, children are buried in the gardens and there are bodies filling the streets. These policies will increase the anger of the Iraqi people and if the government insists on resolving the crisis in this horrible American way...the Iraqi people will not cooperate." http://www.wrmea.com/archives/December_2004/0412008.html === Blistering attacks threaten Iraq election : While the world's attention has been on the disaster in Asia, the situation in Iraq has deteriorated so much that the resistance has developed into near-open warfare. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4145585.stm === Iraq "president" urges U.N. to review poll date: "On a logical basis, there are signs that it will be a tough call to hold the election," said Yawar, a Sunni who has formed his own election list. http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5447862 http://snipurl.com/bsqw === Baghdad Burning: Iraqi Girl Blog: New Year and Elections: People don't really sense that this is the first stepping stone to democracy as western media is implying. Many people sense that this is just the final act of a really bad play http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#110466627142368992 http://snipurl.com/bsqy === 35,000 US troops to be deployed in Baghdad on polling day: "I can tell you every single soldier assigned to Task Force Baghdad will be out or supporting the election in some way on election day. And that will be in excess of 35,000," said Major General Peter Chiarelli, who commands US forces in the Baghdad area. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12353 === U.S. Army Sergeant May Refuse Re-Deployment To Iraq: On my last deployment in Iraq elements of my unit were instructed by a Captain to fire on children throwing rocks at us." This is not what he signed up for, Benderman said. http://207.44.245.159/article7623.htm === Oppose the draft? It's already here: An executive order President Bush enacted after 9-11 that authorized the Pentagon to involuntarily extend military personnel on active duty "for not more than 24 consecutive months." http://207.44.245.159/article7621.htm === In a memo to Army brass, its leader says overseas demands, dysfunctional policies pose a 'grave danger' The Army Reserve, a force of some 200,000 part-time soldiers who provide key support in Iraq and Afghanistan with medics, engineers and truck drivers, "is rapidly degenerating into a 'broken' force," its top general has told senior Army leaders http://snipurl.com/bsrp === Former Military Leaders Challenge Gonzales Nomination : A dozen former military officers, including retired Army General John Shalikashvili, are challenging the nomination of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to be U.S. attorney general because he endorsed detaining suspected terrorists without protections accorded prisoners of war. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a7nN9G6jWI0M http://snipurl.com/bsr0 === Unfinished Business: Confirming Gonzales Is Confirming Torture : Mr. Gonzales' legal opinion ultimately lead to the US military's scandalous use of torture tactics on war prisoners and detainees -- including at least 40 who were tortured to death -- at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Now the entire world regards Alberto Gonzales as complicit in these war crimes. http://207.44.245.159/article7626.htm === Ten Questions for Alberto Gonzales: Has your position on the Geneva Conventions changed since evidence of widespread detainee abuse at U.S. prisons was uncovered? If not, which provisions of the Geneva Conventions do you still consider "quaint" or "obsolete"? http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=280963 http://snipurl.com/bsr3 === Retired US General on Alberto Gonzales: "He Has Endangered Our Soldiers" http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/152208 === Ask Not Who Bankrolled Falluja: War Tax Resisters Opt Out: So who made Falluja possible? American taxpayers did. The moral tracer on this funding leads to me and you, the co-investors who backed this pre-holiday discount on the lives of Fallujans, thousands of lives, forever lost and unlived. http://207.44.245.159/article7627.htm === Five Dead in Taliban Attack Government Office : Taliban militants attacked a government office in southern Afghanistan, sparking a gunbattle that left five people dead, including a rebel commander, an Afghan official said today. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3961480 === Opium Production Up in Afghanistan Posted Jan 5, 2005 08:47 AM PST Category: CURRENT EVENTS - Imagine my shock. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140822,00.html === Taliban Raises Funds From Persian Gulf: The Kuwaiti daily Al Rai Al Aam reported that Taliban leader Mullah Omar toured three Gulf Cooperation Council states in October 2004 to raise money for his movement. http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2005/january/01_05_3.html http://snipurl.com/bsr8 === How Iran and Syria offered to help (after 911), but got rolled: During the weeks after 911, as the US prepared to attack the Taliban, US-Iran relations blossomed. Iran provided the US with considerable information about conditions in Afghanistan, and other forms of support, all of which proved invaluable to US military operations. http://207.44.245.159/article7624.htm === Fourteen Russian troops killed: A TOTAL of 14 Russian soldiers, plus at least three local Chechen troops, were killed and 19 injured in a series of incidents over two days in the southern republic of Chechnya http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11865011^1702,00.html === Putin leads BRIC alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China) : Putin's recent visit to India, China and Brazil and Germany spells strategic planning on controlling accessible international oil assets http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-04f-05.asp === 9/11 Whispers: Washington Defense Shield Deactivated Due To Wargames? Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, and National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice were all key in ordering down this aquatic-based missle shield. Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Gen Meyers, then the head of NORAD, had moved most of the planes to West Coast. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/040105defenseshield.htm === Best and Worst evidence for 9/11 complicity Whatever details future archeologists of truth will unearth are unlikely to discredit the Reichstag Fire paradigm for understanding 9/11 - they merely will add to our understanding of the details of how the "Reichstag" was burned. The real issue is to explain why the attacks were perpetrated. http://www.oilempire.us/911intro.html === Washington prepares international network of permanent detention camps In gross violation of international law, detainees may soon be held in new US-constructed prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, without access to lawyers or family members. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/dete-j05.shtml === The Neverending Story: Imagine if every day there were headlines saying: "29,000 children died yesterday from preventable diseases and malnutrition." Would the aid money rush in? Does it? http://www.alternet.org/story/20890 === Back In The USSR You see, thanks to this "war on terror" we have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of our resounding Cold War victory: Now the Russians are free, and we have their propagandist police state, complete with 4,000 troops parading at the coming "inauguration." Second letter down http://www.weeklyplanet.com/letters.html === Americans are closing their eyes and letting a new form of fascism get rolling Posted Jan 5, 2005 08:47 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP http://www.citizen-times.com/cache/article/editorial/73296.shtml === Court says U.S. can revoke citizenship of man convicted of crime after being naturalized An appeals court ruled that the U.S. government can strip a Haitian-American restaurant owner of his citizenship even though he was indicted, arrested and convicted after naturalization. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-15haiti,0,382960.story?coll=sfla-news-miami http://snipurl.com/bsrr === ADL Calls for Hezbollah TV to be Designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by U.S. And if you cannot believe a bunch of Israeli spies, who can you believe? http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=41203 http://www.foodnotbombs.net/ADL_Spy%20_Probe.html === Journalists challenge Fox, get $1 million legal bill This story just gets worse and worse. Reporters Reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson wrote a story on the link between the use of synthetic bovine growth hormone in cattle and cancer in people who concumed both meat and dairy products from those cows. FOX News ordered them to change the story, for fear of losing ad revenues from the cattle and dairy industry. Fox fired them. The reporters sued and LOST on appeal when the court ruled that there is no law requiring the mainstream media to report the truth about anything at all (presumably including the outcome of national elections which are counted by a company owned by the TV networks). Therefore, mainstream media news has the legal right to fire any reporter who refuses to lie to the public. http://seetheforest.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_seetheforest_archive.html#110490286982093125 === Mbeki attacks 'racist' Churchill : President Thabo Mbeki has made a withering attack on Winston Churchill and other historic British figures, calling them racists who ravaged Africa and blighted its post-colonial development. http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,13262,1383331,00.html http://snipurl.com/bsrd === What Went Wrong in Ohio: Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml === Send a Fax to a Senator: The senators listed below have been selected as most likely to voice an objection to the 2004 presidential election. 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