bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Is America going broke?: The United States of America's public finances are a shambles. They're getting rapidly worse. And if something major isn't done soon to solve the country's intractable budget problems, the world will face an economic shakeup unlike anything ever seen before. http://snipurl.com/e1ib === The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: If anything, the stories of corruption and incompetence serve to mask this deeper scandal: the rise of a predatory form of disaster capitalism that uses the desperation and fear created by catastrophe to engage in radical social and economic engineering. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502&s=klein === THE CHRISTIAN HORROR PICTURE SHOW As we watch the bible-bangers try to turn this nation into a theocracy, it is worth looking back through history at just how "rule by God (honest, that's what he told us to tell you)" has been great for tyrants and priests, and not very good for the common people. UPDATE: Apparently, exposure here on WRH has resulted in a bandwidth overflow for this site, so please bookmark the URL and try again later on. It is well worth the effort. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5195/contents.html === "Once We were Ruled by a Dictator; Now We are Ruled by Clowns": The President, who maintains a supermodel's appetite for reading, has no recognition of history that most Arabs possess. http://www.counterpunch.org/landau04142005.html === Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner Didn't Know of 9/11 Nasser al-Mutairi accused the U.S. military of making up the record of his evidence before a military panel in Guantanamo. Oh come ON now, REAL Americans would NEVER do a thing like THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4938396,00.html === 911 Murder Triangle Get this non-coincidence: an expert in imploding old hotels and such upon themselves, knocking down buildings on the cheap with expertly timed internal explosives, Controlled Demolition, Inc., got the contracts to remove the debris after the 9-11 disaster. And a side note, Controlled Demolition, Inc. also got the clean up of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and arranged the charges to bring down the building in two sections, to create a double pulse seismic wave matching the one from the original bombing. http://www.rense.com/general64/over72.htm === Dr. Gal Luft: Bin Laden�s Out to Destroy U.S. Economy Oh yeah, Osama MADE the Congress spend far more money than they had and stick generations of future Americans with the unpayable interest. Osama MADE the Pentagon misplace three trillion dollars. Osama MADE the US Government spend $5 billion a month in Iraq in exchange for $150 million worth of oil. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=79998 === Exclusive - Iraqi Resistance Video, Transcript and Documents How The CIA Looted $40 Billion Of Military Equipment From Iraq The following video and information is purported to be from the Iraqi Resistance Click here to view Windows Media. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8546.htm http://snipurl.com/e1gx === Exclusive - Iraqi Resistance Video, Transcript and Documents Further Evidence Regarding the Killing of ( CIA Director - Iraq )Dale Stoffel The following video and information is purported to be from the Iraqi Resistance. Click here to view. Windows Media. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8545.htm http://snipurl.com/e1gw === Scare stories about terrorist threat blown away Evidence prosecution lawyers tried to link to Afghanistan and al-Qaeda in trials of terrorist suspects has been shown to be false. Colin Powell does not need more humiliation over the manifold errors in his February 2003 presentation to the United Nations. But on Wednesday a London jury brought down another section of the case he made for war - that Iraq and Osama bin Laden were supporting and directing terrorist poison cells throughout Europe, including a London ricin ring. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8551.htm http://snipurl.com/e1gz === What I Didn't See in Iraq: "Trust me when I tell you things are so much better in Iraq," said one US military official to me on my recent visit to that war-ravaged country. I didn't know whether to scream or pull the remaining two strands of hair out of my head. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8549.htm http://snipurl.com/e1h3 === Iraq: Then And Now Posted Apr 15, 2005 08:55 AM PST - Category: IRAQ http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2005/150405thenandnow.htm === Soldier boy : In an effort to increase its ranks for coming wars, the U.S. military is recruiting - and paying - children as young as 14 years old for future combat duty. http://www.pointblank-dm.com/archive/2005/mar/033105/cover.shtml http://snipurl.com/e1h5 === Iraqi refugees in mortal fear at home can't get entry into United States: Alyaa hoped to find a haven in the United States but discovered the State Department isn't resettling refugees from Iraq. She's lost her faith in the country she once loved. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11385699.htm http://snipurl.com/e1h7 === Terrorists don't want WMDs: Terrorist groups cannot and don't want to make weapons of mass destruction, former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/printpage/0,5481,12866422,00.html http://snipurl.com/e1iw === In case you missed it: Secrets And Lies: Former Australian Intelligence Officer Goes Public http://abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20050218/default_2.htm === Iraq mission �stupid� In response to ��Because we gave our word�� (letter, April 6), about people who are dodging military service and refuse to serve overseas: Yes, I did give the oath, I did swear to uphold the Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies. I swore to preserve freedom, but what they left out was to preserve freedom of other countries. Iraq had nothing to do with Sept. 11. I understand fighting for freedom when it�s necessary, and Afghanistan was necessary, but not Iraq. http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=28400 === Bombs kill six in northern Iraq: Roadside bombs kill three Iraqi soldiers in Balad, two policemen near Tuz, foreign truck driver in Al-Dujail. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13242 === Roadside bombs kill one, injure eight in Iraqi capital : Militants exploded three bombs Friday in the Iraqi capital, killing at least one civilian and wounding eight others http://www.boston.com/dailynews/105/world/Roadside_bombs_kill_one_injure:.shtml http://snipurl.com/e1h1 === Marine killed by enemy mortar fire http://www.mnf-iraq.com/media-information/April/050415e.htm http://snipurl.com/e1h2 === Military Recruiting Slips Among Foreigners : The number of foreign nationals enlisting in the U.S. military is dropping, even though service now provides a fast track to American citizenship http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0405/220873.html === US and UK blamed for oil scandal : The US and Britain are partly to blame for the scandal enveloping the UN oil-for-food programme, Secretary General Kofi Annan has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4447165.stm === Italy, U.S. Disagree Over Agent Shooting : The U.S. State Department said the investigation was ongoing and denied an NBC report that the U.S.-Italian commission had completed a preliminary report clearing the Americans of any wrongdoing in the killing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4938939,00.html === Video: Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1202906.htm === Fake News Flack Ducks Behind First Amendment You know that the PR industry is getting desperate the moment they cite George Orwell in their own defense. Such is the sad state of affairs at D S Simon Productions, the flacks who�ve built a business out of dressing up video news releases (VNRs) to look, sound and feel like real news. http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/04/fake-news-flack-ducks-behind-first.html === THE "SERIAL ABUSER". Adding to the increasingly lengthy catalog of U.N. Ambassador nominee-John Bolton's disturbing behavior toward his colleagues is this letter, sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and now posted on DailyKos by a friend of the writer's. http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/04/index.html#006150 === Negroponte gets committee's nod : Under the intelligence restructuring law, Negroponte will have control over the national intelligence budget, which is roughly 70 percent of the $40 billion the United States spends on intelligence http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/15/MNGFIC91RC1.DTL http://snipurl.com/e1hd === Bolton nomination sends wrong message to already frightened world: Will Durst Will Durst - WorkingForChange.com 04.15.05 - President George Bush's nomination for US Ambassador to the United Nations is John Bolton, a well known critic of that very organization. And to say he's a critic of the UN might be an understatement... on the order of saying the Swift Boat Veterans were not John Kerry's biggest fans. Bolton has gone so far as to declare that as far he's concerned, the UN doesn't exist. Call me wacky, but shouldn't the guy who's going to represent us at least accept the institution's existence? How's the man going to get to work? Is he destined to wander aimlessly around the East Side of Manhattan querying strangers as to the location of his own personal Brigadoon? http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18902 === Covert diplomacy : Dark past of Bush�s new national intelligence director recalled in Central America http://www.lapress.org/article.asp?IssCode=&lanCode=1&artCode=4184 http://snipurl.com/e1iz === John Bolton vs. Democracy: "Im with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count." Those were the words John Bolton yelled as he burst into a Tallahassee library on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, where local election workers were recounting ballots cast in Florida's disputed presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore. http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2320 === Members of Congress Adress MEK Convention: The MEK has been listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department since 1997 http://agonist.org/story/2005/4/14/173853/410 === Controversial Terror Database Closing Down HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A three-year-old crime and terrorism database that collected billions of pieces of data on Americans and came under fire from privacy advocates is closing down Friday because a federal grant ran out. http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re_ap.aspx?re=T/TERROR_DATABASE === Detained Without Charge: Several weeks ago, two 16 year-old Muslim girls, one from Bangladesh and the other from Guinea, were arrested in New York City on the specious grounds that they were potential suicide bombers. Neither of the girls has been formally charged with any crime, but both have been detained indefinitely in facilities far away from their homes and families. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=2322 === Who knew what about Abu Ghraib? "It's hard to believe that I didn't know what was going on." So said Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski as she addressed members of the audience during a recent talk here in San Francisco. Karpinski, recall, was the officer in charge of Abu Ghraib while members of her unit, the 800th MP Brigade, took part in detainee abuse. During the lecture, Karpinski depicted a situation in which higher-ups�particularly Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez and Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller�purposely kept Karpinski in the dark about what was going on. http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2005/04/who_knew_what_a.html === Canada cited for deporting to torture states: Governments that deport suspected terrorists to countries known to torture detainees are either breathtakingly naive or complicit in the abuse if they rely on promises of humane treatment, a new report concludes. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/04/15/998304-sun.html http://snipurl.com/e1hl === West Nations Try to Deport Terror Suspects: The United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Canada rely on "flimsy" diplomacy in attempts to send foreign terror suspects back to countries that routinely use torture against their prisoners, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday. http://snipurl.com/e1ir === UK: Democracy in danger : Almost without question, there will be frauds committed and again, almost without question, the overwhelming majority of these frauds will favour the Labour party. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8548.htm http://snipurl.com/e1hv === Italian Government in Danger of Collapse : Italy's longest post-war government risks collapse. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in trouble after two small parties withdrew their support from the governing center-right coalition http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-04-15-voa30.cfm === Bush silent as top terrorist seeks US asylum: �If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist,� But the Bush administration is itself harboring a notorious terrorist, wanted for the mid-flight bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner as well as other deadly attacks on civilian targets and attempted assassinations. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/posa-14a_prn.shtml http://snipurl.com/e1i1 === Has George Bush fallen into the same Israeli blackmail snare that caught his father? Bush and Sharon had a meeting in Crawford, and Bush pretended to insist on the 'Road Map', including the prohibition on the expansion of Israeli settlements. This was very encouraging, but misleading. As soon as Sharon left Texas he was confirming that he had no intention of following the 'Road Map', and that Israel would do just what it wanted with respect to illegal settlement expansion. Sharon left not the slightest doubt who was calling the shots. Despite the AIPAC Grand Jury and the Plame investigation, the Israelis and their neocon stooges in Washington are obviously certain that they have total control of the American government. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1201934.htm === Who has the time to hear of hunger in the Gaza Strip?: The eve of Passover is nigh, and there's shopping to be done for the holiday feast; who has the time for unemployment and idleness among the Arabs, or talk of hunger that is driving the Strip youth to acts of despair? http://snipurl.com/e1hp === Hanan Ashrawi: The Changing Palestinian Political Landscape: "Palestinians expect the American president to develop a political backbone [so as] to tell Israel it has gone too far," http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/images/fortherecord.php?ID=231 http://snipurl.com/e1hs === U.S. Suspends Israel from Warplane Project - Paper: The United States has suspended Israel from joint efforts to produce a new warplane, in protest at the Jewish state's defense dealings with China http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8182881 http://snipurl.com/e1ht === UN group condemns Israeli settlements : The UN Human Rights Commission has passed a resolution condemning Israel's settlement of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, saying Israel should reverse the policy. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A3BB1562-B452-41D3-B308-C2B4192361F4.htm http://snipurl.com/e1hn === Sharon: Won't attack Iran's nuke program: Sharon told CNN he did not see "unilateral action" as an option. He said Israel does not need to take a leading role in attempts to deny nuclear weapons to Iran and called again for an international coalition to deal with the issue. http://snipurl.com/e1h9 === Kurds prepare for guerrilla war in Iran : Kurdish fighters dedicated to overthrowing the Iranian Government are hiding out in the mountains of northern Iraq, waiting for a chance to strike at Tehran. http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=160707 === Rice Hews to Diplomatic Approach on Iran: Taking the issue to the U.N. Security Council could mean imposing economic penalties on Iran, but the United States could be blocked by a veto. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/14/national/w131851D20.DTL http://snipurl.com/e1ha === Greetings from Mexistan: As democracy goes south of the border, the Bush administration is notably silent. http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9506 http://snipurl.com/e1hz === A stick to beat Cuba : US bullying of the UN human rights group must stop http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1460236,00.html === Washington Focuses on Southern 'Axis of Evil': To some critics, the campaign against Chavez and other radicals could well prove counter-productive. http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28016 === The 2004 election was stolen � will someone please tell the media? The media already knows. They own the company that counts the votes. http://commonwonders.com/index.htm === U.S. Representatives Vote For Debt-Slavery Bankruptcy Bill : If Democrats really want their party's behavior to advance the interests of the American people instead of the elite corporate bribeocrats, we must hold our Representatives and Senators personally accountable for every vote cast in favor of this terrible bankruptcy bill. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8550.htm http://snipurl.com/e1i6 === Bankruptcy Bill Opponents - Hold Accountable Those Who Voted For This Bill http://elandslide.org/elandslide/index.cfm?campaign=debt === Screw you, Paul Volker : "I don't know whether change will come with a bang or a whimper, whether sooner or later. But as things stand, it is more likely than not that it will be financial crises rather than policy foresight that will force the change" Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volker http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8552.htm http://snipurl.com/e1i9 === -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: 266.9.13 - Release Date: 16/04/2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. 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