bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === A CIA report predicts that American global dominance could end in 15 years. Cost for the CIA to tell you this: $20,000,000. Cost for What Really Happened to tell you this: $5. Look on the face of the CIA analyst assigned to monitor this site: PRICELESS! http://slate.com/id/2112697/ === Is the world safer now?: As war ended, our correspondents examined key questions about Iraq's future. With the elections looming, the updated answers highlight the global impact of the conflict http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=605327 http://tinyurl.com/695qn === A fantasy of freedom : There is one tiny corner of Cuba that will for ever America be. It is a place where innocent people are held without charge for years, beyond international law, human decency and the mythical glow of Lady Liberty's torch. It is a place where torture is common, beating is ritual and humiliation is routine. They call it Guantanamo Bay. http://207.44.245.159/article7900.htm === A Big Mistake by Rep. Ron Paul, MD Video and Transcript: "Our ill-advised presence in the Middle East and our decade-long bombing of Iraq served only to incite the suicidal attacks of 9/11. " http://207.44.245.159/article7903.htm === Money, Media & the Mess in America By Robert Parry January 28, 2005 Sometime after 2009, when historians pick through the wreckage left behind by George W. Bush�s administration, they will have to come to grips with the role played by the professional conservative media infrastructure. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037058.htm === Bush's rhetoric remains high-flown, but his arguments for war have fallen apart http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=605326 http://tinyurl.com/5w4n5 === FLASHBACK: The 9/11 WTC Fires: Where's the Inferno? Photos of people standing in the hole where the passenger jet hit prove that there was no raging inferno sufficient to melt steel. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_fire.html === Arabs Say Iraq Vote Gives Democracy a Bad Name Jan 28, 2005 By Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - President Bush sees Sunday's election in Iraq as a beacon for freedom in the Middle East, but Arab reformers say the poll will set back their cause. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037437.htm === Surreal election January 28, 2005 The residents of occupied Iraq are supposed to go through the charade of voting on Sunday. But even the top contenders for positions in the soon-to-be-organized National Assembly appear to be having their doubts about whether it makes sense to go forward with an election when most voters do not know who the candidates are or what they stand for. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037353.htm === Why I am not taking part in these phoney elections: Women are the new victims of Islamic groups intent on restoring a medieval barbarity. In reality, these elections are, for Iraq's women, little more than a cruel joke. http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=605289 http://tinyurl.com/4u4wv === Do You Feel Guilty for the Sins of Bush and Blair? Should You? by Dr. Teresa Whitehurst The War of Terror has killed or maimed hundreds of thousands of human beings, including trusting young GI's, pretty women, little babies and grannies, but those who shouldn't feel guilty do, while those who should, do not. "No regrets" is the trademark slogan of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, gung-ho torturers, and many others who've exercised their power without worries about accountability�or guilt. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037355.htm === Six dead in day's opening salvos: Iraqi resistance detonated a car bomb and attacked voting stations and security forces in several Iraqi cities, killing at least six people as the Iraqi election campaign came to an end today. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12079047-26618,00.html http://tinyurl.com/47bon === 5 U.S. soldiers killed: Five American soldiers were killed Friday by roadside bombs and a shooting attack in Baghdad, the U.S. military said. http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/28/build/world/35-iraq-soldierskilled.inc http://tinyurl.com/53dsk === 4 Iraqi Nation Guards Killed As 2 Blasts Rock Baghdad: http://www.fox23news.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=1B97C35E-10D1-410C-9D95-7E80007436D6 http://tinyurl.com/5efnc === US COPTER CRASHES : The fate of the crew on board the OH-58 Kiowa copter was not immediately known, US military officials said. http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1169140,00.html http://tinyurl.com/6gxc3 === Threats nearly paralyze Baghdad: Baghdad kicked into panic mode three days before the election, with terrified Iraqis stockpiling food and evacuating homes near polling places on Thursday for fear that insurgents would make good on threats to disrupt Sunday's vote with violence. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/10756577.htm http://tinyurl.com/6r26s === From Armored Vehicles, U.S. Troops Tell Iraqis to Vote: Only U.S. forces, venturing out of their frequently-mortared bases, make an attempt to get the vote out, putting up posters with general information about the polls, passing out leaflets and broadcasting messages. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7468491&pageNumber=1 http://tinyurl.com/4rdoy === 'If I run will you shoot?' he asked. He ran. The guard shot him dead: Vietnam draft-dodgers, Guantanamo, Iraq why do armies abuse their prisoners? A former runaway soldier describes his ordeal in the stockade http://207.44.245.159/article7899.htm === Mother of Soldier Slain in Iraq Speaks Out : She held up family photos of her son Casey as a toddler, at his confirmation, as a 21-year-old in boot camp and then, the photo that appeared in The New York Times last April, of his coffin, his brother kissing it to say goodbye. http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=10361 http://tinyurl.com/3os77 === Tell Them, 'Because our Fathers Lied' : As in Vietnam, The Mexican War, the Spanish American War, the pretext for going to war was manufactured by misrepresenting facts and whipping up public fury, usually a simple task when that well known toxin - patriotism - is in the air. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0127-26.htm === The Dangerous Gold Star Families : Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld continues to astound us Gold Star Families with his heartlessness, callousness and disrespect in the faces of our children who are being killed in the mindless invasion and occupation of Iraq. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0124-20.htm === Study of Iraqi deaths Ignored In U.S.: Since the invasion, the No. 1 cause of death among households surveyed was violence. The risk of death due to violence had increased 58-fold since before the war. And more than half of the people who had died from violence and its aftermath since the invasion began were women and children. http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/free/2005/01/2005012701n.htm http://tinyurl.com/3htpr === Families across USA mourn Hawaii-based Marines: "I went in to change clothes and when I saw the Marines in the house, I prayed, 'Let him be wounded, let him be wounded,'" said his father, William Etterling. "My heart just fell." http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/casualties/2005-01-27-families-mourn_x.htm http://tinyurl.com/4sm3c === Expatriates Face 'Devil or Deep Blue Sea' Election Choice: The chance to vote in their own government has evoked mixed emotions among Iraqi expatriates living in the United Arab Emirates. This mood was reflected in the poor turnout at the registration centers in the country, with around 12,600 signing up as voters from among the estimated 100,000 Iraqis living here http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27192 === What Is Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy? Patrick Seale 2005/01/28 At the start of his second term, President George W. Bush's difficulty is that he is burdened with a legacy of fundamental foreign policy errors. Can he change course? His inauguration 'freedom speech' on January 20 suggests either that he cannot or that he has no intention of doing so. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037266.htm === Cheney's Auschwitz outfit raises eyebrows "The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower," Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer, wrote in the newspaper's Friday editions. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/28/auschwitz.cheney.reut/index.html === CIA's 'ghost prisoners' spark rights concerns The official wall of silence surrounding the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) so-called 'ghost prisoners' who are being held at secret locations has sparked legal concerns among human rights groups that denounce the practice as abusive. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037329.htm === Guant�namo: What the World Should Know By Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray We have by now all seen much of this material before, but reading it all in one piece, told by human voices in this book-length interview, is not easy to take. Guant�namo: What the World Should Know becomes a heart-stopper once you cross the line and realize that you could be any of these victims. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037210.htm === Ex-officer describes lewd tactics at Guantanamo : Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with sexual touching, by wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear, rubbing a prisoner's back with her breasts and in one case, smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account. http://207.44.245.159/article7898.htm === CIA's 'ghost prisoners' spark rights concerns: The official wall of silence surrounding the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) so-called 'ghost prisoners' who are being held at secret locations has sparked legal concerns among human rights groups that denounce the practice as abusive. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1291449.htm http://tinyurl.com/4qgl2 === Michael Ratner: Gonzales "Has His Hand Deep in the Blood of the Conspiracy Of Torture" http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/28/1521255 === Guantanamo Australian Freed: Egyptian-born Mr Habib flew home to Sydney on Friday and was immediately allowed to join his family. ustralian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he was unlikely to face any charges. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4214517.stm === What the rest of the world watched on Inauguration Day Dublin, on U.S. Inauguration Day, didn't seem to notice. Oh, they played a few clips that night of the American president saying, "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands." http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037444.htm === CIA Report: U.S. A Declining Power: A CIA report predicts that American global dominance could end in 15 years: Who will be the first politician brave enough to declare publicly that the United States is a declining power and that America's leaders must urgently discuss what to do about it? http://slate.com/id/2112697/ === Presidents manipulate and control media Image, Message and the Media Dr. James J. Zogby, [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 28, 2005 In a media saturated democratic society like the US, the relationship between the media and those who govern it is both intimate and complex. Presidents are elected because they know how to present their message in the media and how to manipulate and control media. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037164.htm === On this day in history... Another bit of history being short-changed by the obsession with WW2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/28/newsid_2506000/2506161.stm === The Day We Started Again: Our War for America by Jared McBride January 28, 2005 The Democratic Party is dead. Whether it scraps itself together or rebuilds for another election is irrelevant. We questioned its relevancy and ability to represent millions of Americans after the pathetic outcome of the last two elections (2000 and 2002), but with its utter annihilation delivered in the 2004 elections, we can question no more. Let me repeat, whether the Democratic Party picks itself up or not does not concern us. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1037122.htm === Russian officers 'helped in plot to seize Beslan school': Two men holding a rank "higher than a major and a colonel" were said to be involved in the plot and had apparently deliberately not fulfilled the functions for which they are paid, presumably in exchange for some kind of bribe. http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=605306 === Britain 'sliding into police state' : The home secretary, Charles Clarke, is transforming Britain into a police state, one of the country's former leading anti-terrorist police chiefs said yesterday. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,1400586,00.html http://tinyurl.com/5c2nr === The slow death of democracy in Britain?: How has the Prime Minister survived the political fallout from Iraq, Hutton and, in particular, the Butler report?" - Are we witnessing the slow death of accountability in the UK? http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=605290 http://tinyurl.com/4n6zz === UK: A blow for democracy : The new home secretary should not be looking at new laws to subvert the criminal justice system but should be looking at how to improve it so that there are more successful prosecutions of terrorist suspects. - If a person cannot be prosecuted for a terrorist charge, it means that either there is not enough evidence to convict that person or that the evidence cannot be relied upon. http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1400295,00.html http://tinyurl.com/6u4p4 === Falsification of the Holocaust by Prof. Israel Shahak As one who himself lived through the Holocaust, first in Warsaw then in Bergen-Belsen, I will give an immediate example of the total ignorance of daily life during the Holocaust. http://www.radioislam.org/revisionism/traitors.htm === Hamas wins overwhelming victory in Gaza vote : Hamas won control of seven of the ten municipal councils that held elections, including the three largest ones: Dir al-Balah, Bnei Siheileh, and Beit Hanun. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/533106.html === 'Palestinian corpse used for IDF anatomy lesson' : The soldier said that the Palestinian's body had been riddled with bullets and that some of his internal organs had spilled out. The doctor pronounced the man dead and then "took out a knife and began to cut off parts of the body," the soldier said. http://207.44.245.159/article7901.htm === Israeli envoy: U.S. will help finance pullout: The United States is likely to help Israel finance the military aspect of the disengagement from Gaza, Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon said yesterday. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=532453 http://tinyurl.com/64k7w === Israel's Culture of Martyrdom: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050110&s=kimmerling http://tinyurl.com/5pp2c === Iran next, then who? George Bush's apparent desire to create a state of perpetual war spells disaster Gore Vidal Symbolically, it's interesting that regions of the US are rejecting Darwin and evolution. I can see why. We have a substantial minority in the US that hasn't advanced much beyond the baboon. These ignorant folk are full of hatred, which is why they are currently rejecting evolution and going back to the stone age with torture, killing innocent people, attacking countries that have done us no harm. This is insupportable. http://207.44.245.159/article7897.htm === US prepares invasion of Venezuela: Venezuelan ambassador : The United States is preparing a future invasion of Venezuela to control the petroleum of the South American country as it did in Iraq, said Venezuela's acting ambassador to Paraguay, Elmer Nino. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/28/content_2518406.htm http://tinyurl.com/5zfbk === FBI in Talks to Extend Reach: The FBI is significantly expanding its intelligence-gathering activities in the U.S., including stepped-up efforts to collect and report intelligence on foreign figures and governments, a function that long has been principally the CIA's domain, intelligence and congressional sources said Thursday. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/fbi-reach.html === US to slap tourists with RFID : The controversial US-VISIT scheme for those visiting the US from abroad already fingerprints holidaymakers on their way into the country and is now adding RFID to the mix in order to improve border management, the department said. http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39127374,00.htm http://tinyurl.com/4bk6s === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW ------------------------ Yahoo! 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