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=== News Update === America: Land of the free?�Not if you're a Muslim January 14, 2005�A recent Cornell University survey found that almost half of all Americans believe that the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans. This bigoted, racist attitude is quite simply appalling. It essentially favors racial profiling; yet a recent report by Amnesty International presents strong evidence indicating that racial profiling does not work. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1007497.htm === FINAL WORD ON IRAQ'S WMD SOUNDS VERY FAMILIAR WASHINGTON -- So now it's official and we can all breathe a little easier. This week, we finally know about the weapons of mass destruction. They weren't there, certainly not when we rushed to implausible war nearly two long years ago. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1007843.htm === America: A mean and unholy ditch The sleep of reason amid wild dogs and gin January 14, 2005�The hardest thing for garden variety American liberals to grasp is what a truly politicized and hateful place much of America has become�-one long mean ditch ruled by feral dogs where the standards of civility no longer apply. The second hardest thing for liberals is to admit that they are comfortably insulated in the middle class and are not going to take any risks in the battle for America's soul . . . not as long as they are still living on a good street, sending their kids to Montessori and getting their slice of the American quiche. Call it the politics of the comfort zone. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1007534.htm === A global gulag to hide the war on terror's dirty secrets: Bush is now thinking of building jails abroad to hold suspects for life By Jonathan Steele Since its establishment after 9/11, the US camp for foreigners at Guant�namo Bay has become a beacon of unfreedom, a kind of grisly competitor to the Statue of Liberty in the shopfront of authentic American images. The trickle of releases of prisoners from its cages has brought direct testimony of the horrors which go on there. So it is no wonder that the Bush administration would like to find less visible places to hold prisoners, and keep them there for ever so that they cannot tell the world. http://207.44.245.159/article7684.htm === Meet The Real Domestic Terrorists Well, what�s fascism anyhow? Everybody�s hollering about it, and pointing accusatory fingers at everybody else, so what is it, exactly? Is fascism the tacit approval -- by some citizens --of local skinheads burning crosses and running hate-filled websites? Or is a fascist your neighbor down the street who uses racial epithets at all cultures other than his own and won�t let his kid play with your kid because you�re an immigrant? http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1007629.htm === From Afghanistan to Iraq: Transplanting CIA Engineered Terrorism Like a lab technician experimenting on rodents and then writing a report about the result of the experimentation, the CIA�s National Intelligence Council (NIC) has released a 119-page report about the terrorism it spent billions creating and unleashing on the world. Iraq provides terrorists with �a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills,� David B. Low, national intelligence officer for transnational threats, tells Dana Priest of the Washington Post. �Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of �professionalized� terrorists,� Priest summarizes. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1007537.htm === The Media follow-up to the LACK OF WMD's Now ladies and gentleman, I watched a lot of FOX and CNN the last two days to see how they would respond to their months and months of lies and bad coverage. Months of misconstrued reports that ultimately convinced the American public that Iraq had the weapons, and in some cases - used "scare" scenarios (what are the effects, will they attack the US, the mushroom cloud comments) to drag the US into the current mess of a war. About the closest thing I saw to reason, sadly, were the crazy kook's "from the left" on CNN's Crossfire. I find it even MORE hypocritical that O'Reilly has a running talking point entitled "The Dishonest Media" when now it appears every form of mass media was in fact PRESENTING FALSE information about Iraq, and it's WMD... or lack thereof. http://www.armageddononline.org/medialies.php === WMD? Oh Yeah, That: I know I�ve said this before, but Bush�s phony search for WMD is exactly like O.J. Simpson looking for his wife�s killer. Only O.J. only killed two people. Bush killed tens of thousands. Where are the WMD? Never mind that. Where is the outrage? http://www.tompaine.com/articles/wmd_oh_yeah_that.php === Look everybody, we've found WMDRPAs! According to Bush, they might not have had WMDs, but they had "weapons-of-mass-destruction-related program activities". That's right, we declered war on Iraq because they had WMDRPAs. http://www.faulkingtruth.com/blog/ === Fallujah Delegation Delivers Memorandum To UN On US Crimes A delegation of residents of the Iraqi city of Fallujah has submitted a memorandum to the General Secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, that consists of two reports. The first report details crimes committed by the US occupation forces in the city between 7 November 7th, 2004 and December 30, 2004. The second is concerned with the situation of refugees from the city, who were driven from their homes by the US aggression that began against the city in November 2004. http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=29327250 6 === Iraq: Seven killed and 13 others wounded : A car bomb exploded in front of a Shia mosque in the Khan Beni Saad region north of Baghdad, police said Thursday. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-1-2005_pg7_10 http://snipurl.com/c0r8 === US troops shoot dead seven Iraqis: United States troops have shot dead seven Iraqis who were allegedly found setting up a mortar post near a mosque in north Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official and the US military said. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1282300.htm === 3 Kurdish party officials killed in Mosul: Gunmen killed three officials of a leading Kurdish political party in an ambush in the volatile northern city of Mosul, another official of the party said Friday. http://www.newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/2017935p-10041906c.html http://snipurl.com/c0ra === Two Marines Killed In Fallujah: http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=200501 16.txt http://snipurl.com/c0rc === U.S. Soldier Killed: A 1st Infantry Division Soldier died January 13 while supporting Task Force Olympia operations near Mosul. http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=200501 17.txt http://snipurl.com/c0rd === Attackers Kidnap 15 Iraqi Guardsmen : Attackers fired on a bus carrying Iraqi National Guard members west of Baghdad on Friday, kidnapping 15 guardsmen and leaving the bus in flames, a guard official said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4733223,00.html http://snipurl.com/c0rf === CIA Report: Iraq a new terror breeding ground: War created a haven: It took a year to produce and includes the analysis of 1,000 U.S. and foreign experts. Within the 119-page report is an evaluation of Iraq's new role as a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6823913/ === Bulgarian Intelligence: Iraq Conflict Fuels Al Qaeda Menace: "The crucible of Iraq is really becoming a recruitment ground ... Not everyone who arrives is allowed to fight in Iraq, but some are trained for 45 days or three months, and then they are asked to return home and set up logistics or financial networks, or sleeper cells," http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=43571 === Give that man a medal: I'd like to nominate someone who really deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Scott Ritter. http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/editorial/10638920.htm http://snipurl.com/c0rh === Iraq War Cost $102 Billion Through September, Pentagon Says : Bush administration officials in February may seek as much as $70 billion in additional Iraq funding in a request separate from the fiscal 2006 defense budget. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=asC2oZAGbhZE&refer=top_w orld_news http://snipurl.com/c0ri === Evidence supports Sibel Edmonds FBI complaints: The department's inspector general, Glenn Fine, said the allegations by former translator Sibel Edmonds "raised substantial questions and were supported by various pieces of evidence." Fine said the FBI still has not adequately investigated the claims. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&; slug=Attacks%20FBI%20Translators http://snipurl.com/c0rk === Hold the elections, then get out : Most of our partners in Iraq are preparing to leave. We should too http://207.44.245.159/article7683.htm === Baker advises administration to consider a phased withdrawal of troops: Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, an architect of the U.S. war with Iraq in 1991, is advising the Bush administration to consider a phased withdrawal of some of the 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2005/01/13/national1623EST06 36.DTL http://snipurl.com/c0rq === Outrage: U.S. Soldier Sentenced to One Year for Iraq Murders: An American soldier was sentenced on Friday to one year in jail for the murder of a severely wounded Iraqi teenager in a Baghdad slum district last year, the U.S. military said. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7330952 http://snipurl.com/c0rs === Cheerleading for torture that shames us all: Forced a detainee to eat from a toilet, and watched while a soldier urinated on a detainee. http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050114/OPINION01/5 01140358/1035 http://snipurl.com/c0rt === Torture Pays: CACI and Titan were intimately involved in the prison's torture tactics. The Pentagon turned agony into ecstasy, awarding CACI over $500 million and Titan at least $1.5 billion in new or renewed contracts http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=2122 === 'No Women in Combat'? Tell It to the Kids: Although everyone knows women face what amount to combat situations every day in Iraq, President George Bush says his policy is "no women in combat." http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0502,mondo3,60039,6.html === US ignored warning on Iraqi oil smuggling: A joint investigation by the Financial Times and Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian business daily, shows that the single largest and boldest smuggling operation in the oil-for-food programme was conducted with the knowledge of the US government. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d9d4d8b0-64f6-11d9-9f8b-00000e2511c8.html http://snipurl.com/c0ru === Can The FBI Monitor Your Web Browsing Without A Warrant? Posted Jan 14, 2005 05:19 PM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_constitution&Number =293273466 === Phones down, borders sealed, troops on the streets: it's time for democracy: Such is the dire state of Iraqi security today that the authorities in Baghdad are considering a complete lockdown of the country ahead of polls in two weeks� time. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1439684,00.html === In case you missed it? The Blue Pill People: There are none so blind as those who will not look. If you are one of those who will look, take a look around. You are surrounded -- surrounded by millions who will not look. These are the blue pill people. Who are these blue pill people and why won't they look? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1543.htm === Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 01/13/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video. http://snipurl.com/c0rv === Video : Howard Zinn, Author & Historian, Discusses the war in Iraq, politics, and topics in the news. http://207.44.245.159/article7682.htm === Marine vs. Marine in Interstate 64 shooting: A Marine engaged in his own private little war with two other Marines on Interstate 64 early yesterday, allegedly shooting an assault rifle at them in a high-speed casec of road rage, authorities said. http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/10623593.htm?template=conten tModules/printstory.jsp http://snipurl.com/c0rx === Dems Seek Ridge's Lobbying Correspondence : Two Democratic congressmen on Thursday asked Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to provide Congress written communications between his department and a lobbying firm run by a longtime friend. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4731255,00.html === All The President's Newsmen On this particular "Crossfire," the featured guest was Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, talk-show host and newspaper columnist (for papers like The Washington Times and The Detroit Free Press, among many others, according to his Web site). Thanks to investigative reporting by USA Today, he had just been unmasked as the frontman for a scheme in which $240,000 of taxpayers' money was quietly siphoned to him through the Department of Education and a private p.r. firm so that he would "regularly comment" upon (translation: shill for) the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind policy in various media venues during an election year. http://www.rense.com/general61/aallt.htm === Y o u ' r e i n v i t e d ? Other instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand. Who but parasitic suck-up sycophants would even attend? http://www.news-herald.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1698&dept_id=21849&n ewsid=13721845 === Bush Regrets Language That Hurt U.S. Diplomacy President Bush said he regretted sending the wrong impression of the United States when he used phrases like "Bring 'em on" and "dead or alive" in his first term and pledged to be more diplomatic. Okay, now how about an apology for all the lies about weapons of mass destruction, followed by arrests of the people who started the lies. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20050114/pl_nm /bush_bluntness_dc === Ring of steel as Bush sworn in Bush isn't acting like a man who really thinks he won the popular vote, is he? http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1390087,00.html === Chertoff Involved In Vince Foster Death Coverup? More about the Foster murder and coverup HERE. http://www.rense.com/general61/chert.htm === Brave New Era for Privacy Fight: "The administration has made it clear that they do intend to continue their move to dramatically reduce privacy and constitutional protection for our citizens," said former Republican congressman Bob Barr http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,66242,00.html === Green Acres Tax-farming, the practice of turning over government revenue collection to private profiteers. By Chris Floyd Hiding behind the vast flab of the 3,000-page "omnibus" budget bill he signed last month, Bush quietly removed restrictions against farming out the collection of back taxes to private firms, The Washington Post reports. This means that any average citizen who falls afoul of the nation's great googily-moogily tax code will now be set upon by corporate predators who can keep up to 25 percent of their squeezings as pure profit. http://207.44.245.159/article7681.htm === Feds Find Millions Wasted On Border Camera System: A Team 7 Investigation into a defective camera surveillance system along the U.S.-Canadian border has sparked a massive federal probe. http://www.kirotv.com/news/4081213/detail.html === The Normalization of Horror: American Gulags Become Permanent http://207.44.245.159/article7675.htm === Nine die in Gaza crossing attack: At least six Israelis and three Palestinians have been killed in an explosion set off by Palestinian resistance fighters at a vital Gaza crossing, the Israeli military says. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B23CBA7-926A-4935-B870-61987A9694DD. htm http://snipurl.com/c0r4 === Who would have expected it?: Israel cuts Palestinian contacts : Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered a freeze on all contacts with the Palestinians until their newly elected leader acts against militants. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4176141.stm === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW ------------------------ Yahoo! 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