bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Everybody's Talkin' About Christian Fascism Commentators right and left are talking about fascism in the U.S. of A. Libertarian conservative Lew Rockwell, in a recent article entitled "The Reality of Red-State Fascism," declares, "what we have alive in the US is an updated and Americanized fascism." Fellow libertarian Justin Raimondo, in a piece called "Today's Conservatives are Fascists," calls the neocons shaping U.S. foreign policy "fascists, pure and simple." United Methodist minister Rev. William E. Alberts accuses some of Bush's followers of upholding a "super religion displaying tendencies similar to Hitler's super race with its fascist ideology of superiority." http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1005599.htm === Betreff: Harvard Law School Approves Crimes against Humanity -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:14 AM To: 'AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ('AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list') Subject: Harvard Law School Approves Crimes against Humanity Goldsmith, who is considered a "war criminal" by some international lawyers for his authorization of war crimes in the "torture memo," recently accepted a teaching position at Harvard Law School (HLS). http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1006014.htm === Ted Rall: The Normalization of Horror : American Gulags Become Permanent A new documentary, "Hitler's Hit Parade," runs 76 minutes without narration. Comprised entirely of archival footage, the film prompts its reviewers to remark upon Hannah Arendt's famous observation about the banality of evil. German troops subjugated Europe and shoved millions of people into ovens; German civilians went to the movies, attended concerts, and gossiped about their neighbors. People lived mundane, normal lives while their government carried out unspeakable monstrosities. Sound familiar? http://207.44.245.159/article7675.htm === The real warlords of the modern, West-dominated world "Voices of dissent are now beginning to emerge even from the inner sancta of the establishment, not because they question the war's legality or morality but because of its escalating costs." http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1005428.htm === Is Israel a Democracy? An Interview with Yossi Schwartz in Jerusalem It is common among some groups on the left to portray Israel as not being a "democracy". Bourgeois politicians, like the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, say that Israel is the only "true democracy" in the Middle East. None of this serves to understand the real nature of Israel. The Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM radio (London) sent Yossi Schwartz in Israel a list of questions relating to this issue. Some parts of this were read out on the show. Here we provide the full interview. (January 2005) http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1005533.htm === Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq It was a systematic campaign to frighten the hell out of us about the threat of Saddam Hussein, and almost none of it was true. "The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons." -- George Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in a speech in Cincinnati http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat/english/0105/10-lies.htm === Manuel Valenzuela: Worker Bees and Soldier Ants: America's Army of Fascism: Brainwashed from birth to adore the red, white and blue, trained to never question the authority of government or the decisions of politicians, conditioned in the fine arts of nationalistic propaganda, manipulated into loyalty to the state and deceived to the altruistic fictions of American history, children are subjected to an education designed to eradicate free-thinking minds, transforming questioning entities into subservient soldiers devoid of rebellion or resistance to bad governance. http://207.44.245.159/article7676.htm === Bush refuses to apologise for invading Iraq White House halts quest for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, key reason for invading Iraq. WASHINGTON - The United States has stopped searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - one of its key reasons for invading the country - and a report saying there are no such weapons to find there will likely stand, the White House confirmed Wednesday. However, US President George W. Bush, who issued dire warnings about Iraq's WMD capability prior to the US-led invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, said the Iraq war had been "absolutely" worth fighting. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=12424 === Search for Illicit Weapons in Iraq Ends ASHINGTON, Jan. 12 - The top American weapons inspector in Iraq, Charles A. Duelfer, has wrapped up his work there, a step that ends the search for illicit weapons, an intelligence official said Tuesday night. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/politics/12arms.html?ex=1106583062&ei=1&en=d49b3af82b9a3ec4 === Iraq and WMD: Timeline The war on Iraq was based on an assortment of claims made by the United States and the UK, contesting that Iraq posed a threat to world security because of its illicit weapons programme. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E0727022-CAA6-462A-AB7B-00AB65E05CB6.htm === The ABC of WMD Weapons of mass destruction have become one of the great political topics of the day. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E3B847A2-B088-4F0C-8C61-81A5F7FA27B8.htm === How Casey's mom feels about the WMDs news Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in the war and who left a comment on the Comments board here recently, just sent me the following letter: Dear Friends, Everyday there are fresh lies and fresh confirmation of the lies coming out of DC...I can tell you it is so hurtful to us families that more people aren't standing up to bring our children home from the lie and quaqmire that is Iraq...I feel like I should have a daily column called: Who lied today? http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1005952.htm === IT'S OFFICIAL: IRAQ DID NOT HAVE THOSE WMDS BUSH CLAIMED THEY DID Posted Jan 13, 2005 12:40 PM PST Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2129-2005Jan11.html === Search for banned weapons in Iraq ends quietly : The White House has confirmed that the U.S. search in Iraq for banned weapons, which it earlier cited as justification for the war against Saddam Hussein, has been quietly ended after nearly two years, with no evidence of their existence. http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/01/13/news/arms.html http://snipurl.com/bzoz === WMD search ends: Your reaction We have been lied to on an unprecedented scale. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/4169287.stm === US: Iraq WMD search over The White House has confirmed that the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been given up by the United States. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/699D390E-FCC3-4EA6-BBE1-FF49939E0F7E.htm === US: Iraq was free of WMDs Bush has given varying justifications for the invasion Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost the lives of more than 15,000 Iraqis and over 1000 US soldiers, the US' top weapons inspector has declared that Iraq was free of WMDs before last year's invasion. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ECF3A8C1-789B-44DA-AA85-3C8D65DF34B7.htm === Blair: WMD call was wrong Blair has admitted the evidence over WMDs was wrong UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has offered his Labour party and the British electorate a partial apology for waging war on Iraq. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/44FF7986-94C1-43DD-AADC-D0DF54AB645A.htm === FLASHBACK: DID SADDAM GAS HIS OWN PEOPLE Almost every claim made about Saddam and Iraq has been proven a lie. It is time to look back at the claim of gas attacks on his own people. By the way, does the name "Waco" ring a bell? http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/siteinfo/newsround/iraq2.html === 1,000 Dead Since Interim Government Took Power: http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=DB831484-CB74-4BE5-8D07-659B8687933A http://snipurl.com/bzom === 16 House Dems urge Bush to start pullout from Iraq : Sixteen House Democrats led by Rep. Lynn Woolsey of Petaluma called on President Bush on Wednesday to begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, just as some administration supporters are starting to question the wisdom of staying the course in the war. http://207.44.245.159/article7678.htm === Robert Fisk : We won't go home and we won't vote, say refugees of Fallujah: They live beneath old fly-blown tents in the car-park of the Mustafa mosque and their canvas-roofed kitchen stands next to a pool of raw sewage, but the refugees from Fallujah will not return home. http://207.44.245.159/article7679.htm === Gunmen kill 6 Iraqis in attack on Baghdad hotel Gunmen shot dead six people and kidnapped a Turkish businessman in an attack on a hotel in central Baghdad on Thursday, witnesses and police said. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/13/content_2456026.htm === Gunmen kill Sistani aides in Iraq: Gunmen have killed two aides to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's highest Shi'ite authority and a key supporter of the January 30 elections, a senior official working with him says. http://207.44.245.159/article7678.htm === U.S. Lowers Expectations On Iraq Vote: The Bush administration played down voter turnout yesterday in determining the elections' legitimacy and urged Americans not to get bogged in a numbers game in judging the balloting http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6819452/ === This election could plunge Iraq further into the abyss: The elections are likely at best to be irrelevant, at worst to plunge Iraq deeper into the abyss. Both common sense and first principles dictate that no election in a country invaded and controlled by foreign troops can conceivably be regarded as free and fair. http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5102188-103390,00.html http://snipurl.com/bzop === Iraq aide quits over US conduct : The Iraqi politician managing interim leader Iyad Allawi's election campaign has resigned from the government in protest at the conduct of US troops. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4169965.stm === The taming of Sadr City: The Sadrists have developed an effective political-military strategy aimed at converting Sadr City into a "liberated area", in the classic guerrilla warfare model. http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GA12Ak02.html === More Dissent In Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War: For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq. http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26973 === Pentagon ban on filming coffins defied: A US National Guard unit has defied a Pentagon request that sought to stop television news crews filming six flag-draped soldiers' coffins arriving in Louisiana. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/00E1EA83-3FDD-4284-BE10-25648D94C086.htm http://snipurl.com/bzoq === Female MPs at Abu Ghraib were told to laugh at naked detainees: witness: Interrogators at Abu Ghraib routinely told female soldiers to ridicule naked detainees and asked MPs to rough up a prisoner, a witness said at a court martial examining abuses at the US-run Iraqi prison. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&ncid=720&e=10&u=/afp/20050113/ts_alt_afp/iraqusprisoner http://snipurl.com/bzos === Abu Ghraib Guard's Lover 'Mocked' Prisoners FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A former U.S. military policewoman testified on Thursday that an intelligence officer at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Abu Ghraib prison asked her to mock the genitals of naked detainees, supporting defense contentions that guards were following military intelligence orders. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050113/ts_nm/iraq_abuse_dc&cid=564&ncid=2100 === Human Rights Group Criticizes U.S. The torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of those held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dealt a blow to the United States' credibility as the world's leader on human rights and the fight against terrorism, a human rights group said Thursday. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=5&u=/ap/20050113/ap_on_re_us/human_rights_abu_ghraib === FLASHBACK: Cheney Is Adamant on Iraq 'Evidence' Vice President Dick Cheney revived two controversial assertions about the war in Iraq on Thursday, declaring there was "overwhelming evidence" that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war were proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs. Both assertions have since been proven lies. Saddam and Al Qaeda were ideological opposites, and the trailers were confirmed to be balloon inflator systems sold to Iraq by Great Britain. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0123-02.htm === AND THEY CALL IT DEMOCRACY We saw that in the valiant but doomed attempt in Congress to delay the certification of the Electoral College vote. More people seemed interested in preserving the illusion of a functioning democracy than investigating the many documented instances of crookedness in the 2004 election. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1006040.htm === White House Fought New Curbs on Interrogations, Officials Say: At the urging of the White House, Congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure last month that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, Congressional officials say. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/ZNYT03/501130481 http://snipurl.com/bzou === Human Rights Watch Calls On U.S. To Change Policy On Interrogations, Appoint Prosecutor : The report's lead essay raises alarm about the treatment of the 550 mostly Afghan and Iraqi detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as the disappearance of other detainees. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/1/3C3B0FC6-028E-4115-AEBC-1932D789A551.html http://snipurl.com/bzov === U.S. "Participated In Major Conspiracy" To Divert U.N. Oil For Food US ignored warning on Iraqi oil smuggling For months, the US Congress has been investigating activities that violated the United Nations oil-for-food programme and helped Saddam Hussein build secret funds to acquire arms and buy influence. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1005963.htm === Misdemeanors But No Felonies in UN Oil-for-Food Audit : A series of 58 internal audits of the multi-billion-dollar oil-for-food programme in Iraq has revealed overbilling and management lapses by its U.N. supervisors, but no large-scale fraud. http://ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=26978 === Academic Sector Organizations and Programs: For more than three decades, conservative strategists have mounted an extraordinary effort to reshape politics and public policy priorities at the national, state and local level. Although this effort has often been described as a "war of ideas," it has involved far more than scholarly debate within the halls of academe. http://www.mediatransparency.org/movement.htm === In case you missed it: Fascism Anyone?: Fascism's principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. http://207.44.245.159/article4113.htm === In case you missed it: Video: The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News: Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." They reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda." http://207.44.245.159/article6435.htm === Lies that are never questioned: Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. George W. Bush. State of the Union Address. January 28, 2003 http://207.44.245.159/article5115.htm === The Truth Shall Set You Back: Lying Is No Sin For Bush's Minions: It is not surprising that an administration that rose so directly from corporate America would operate the same way. Has anyone, for instance, lost his job for being wrong about weapons of mass destruction or for failing to put enough troops in place to secure Iraq before a deadly insurgency could take hold? http://207.44.245.159/article7677.htm === What's the right thing for the press to do?: People like George Bush have no incentive to stop lying if the press lets them get away with it. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_01/005443.php http://snipurl.com/bzp1 === Thom Hartmann : Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power : What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats? http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1207-26.htm === In case you missed it?: Video: Chalmers Johnson: Militarism and the American Empire : Distinguished social scientist and public intellectual Chalmers Johnson, joins host Harry Kreisler for a conversation on the nature of the American Empire and its costs and consequences for the future of American democracy and power in the world. Real Video http://207.44.245.159/article6379.htm === Chertoff Wrote Blueprint for Sept. 12 Crackdown The controversy surrounding Judge Chertoff stems largely from his role in developing and supervising policies by the Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the months immediately following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It was during this period that the DOJ and FBI rounded up over 1,000 immigrants and visitors to the U.S., mostly Arabs and other Muslims, and South Asians. At the same time the US Government CLASSIFIED evidence linking 9-11 to Israeli spies arrested at the time. http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=4379 === IDF shoot man driving pregnant wife to hospital..! Posted Jan 13, 2005 08:28 AM PST Category: ISRAEL http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1C8EEA6C-F995-4F37-A850-164A478D7F1D.htm === US Federal Judge Allows Prosecution for Alleging that Israeli Agents Perpetrated 9-11 Attacks to Continue! The IRS raided Swan's home in January of 2002, only days after Swan had issued a large number of news releases showing Israeli culpability. Swan believes that if his allegations were not correct, the IRS would not have raided his home when they did. http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=74203;title=APFN === Zionism's Useful Idiots : That's You and Me, The Taxpaying US Citizens !! We're useful idiots for the Zionists in Washington and Tel Aviv. Useful because our hard-earned paychecks can be harvested to pay for war and mass murder in the Middle East, idiots because we don't do anything about it. http://newscompass.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_newscompass_archive.html === Miriam Stern: Dialogue and Friendship Between Palestinians and Jews: Why do Israeli citizens not turn against the occupation politics of the Likud and the fanatical settlers which caused this misery? It seems that propaganda has had its desired effect in Israel http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/2004/06/20040604.php === Israeli army kills Palestinians in Gaza: Israeli occupation forces have killed two Palestinians, including a man who was driving his pregnant wife to hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian hospital and security sources said. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1C8EEA6C-F995-4F37-A850-164A478D7F1D.htm http://snipurl.com/bzp4 === US, Israeli pressure on Syria decried: The United States and Israel are perpetuating the military gap between Israel and Syria by controlling the balance of power, a Syrian analyst has said. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/456494C4-A7A2-48F6-8FE6-6D39FA0B9BB1.htm http://snipurl.com/bzp6 === Six Afghan Soldiers Kidnapped and Killed: Gunmen kidnapped six government soldiers in a former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan and dumped their bullet-ridden bodies in a canal, a local official said Thursday. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10636051.htm http://snipurl.com/bzp7 === Mark Thatcher Admits Role in Africa Mercenary Plot: The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded guilty on Thursday to a role in a foiled mercenary plot in west Africa under a plea bargain to avoid prison http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7316563 === Thatcher heads for the US after court drama : Sir Mark Thatcher is expected to leave South Africa for the United States within the next few days, sentenced to a R3-million fine for his involvement in the Equatorial Guinea coup plot. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20050113132533427C949088 http://snipurl.com/bzp9 === Ridge seeks fingerprints on passports: Americans' fingerprints should be added to their passports, outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday, hoping to include the United States in a growing global security standard but risking a privacy fight at home. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer/ap.asp?category=1152&slug=Ridge%20Fingerprints http://snipurl.com/byvx === Rep. Ron Pau: Government IDs and Identity Theft: This act protects the American people from government-mandated uniform identifiers that facilitate private crime as well as the abuse of liberty. The major provision of the Identity Theft Prevention Act halts the practice of using the Social Security number as an identifier by requiring the Social Security Administration to issue all Americans new Social Security numbers within five years after the enactment of the bill. http://207.44.245.159/article7674.htm === Ruling gives cops leeway with GPS : In a decision that could dramatically affect criminal investigations nationwide, a federal judge has ruled police didn't need a warrant when they attached a satellite tracking device to the underbelly of a car being driven by a suspected Hells Angels operative. http://snipurl.com/bzpb === FBI may give up on $500M computer overhaul: U.S. officials are preparing to scrap a $500 million project to update FBI computers so they can better share information about terrorists and other threats. http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050113-071509-8782r.htm === Augusto Pinochet and the Conservative Threat to America: While some people might believe that those on the Left wing of the political spectrum pose the bigger threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people, nothing could be further from the truth. http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501d.asp === FBI finds ricin in home, arrests Ocala man The investigation is ongoing but, according to the FBI, there is believed to be no link between Ekberg and any terrorist organizations. Just "Movers" and "Art Students" and they don't count. http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/NEWS/50113037/1025 === Government IDs and Identity Theft A mandated uniform ID for everyone makes life EASIER for criminals. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul228.html === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WwRTUD/SOnJAA/i1hLAA/TXWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of Hidayahnet unless sanctioned or approved otherwise. 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