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=== News Update === Indonesians Hold Anti-Israel Protests : More than 100,000 people held anti-Israel protests Sunday in the Indonesian capital and several other cities, calling for protection of Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site - the disputed Al Aqsa Mosque compound. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4943377,00.html http://snipurl.com/e2k4 === U.S. cleric is being tried in nation's terror court: The defendant maintains his innocence, and his supporters argue the charges are clear evidence of an anti-Muslim bias by the government. http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_325049.html http://snipurl.com/e2kg === Slave Island - New York's Hidden History Slavery in America has traditionally been viewed as a peculiarly Southern phenomenon, brought to an end by the victorious Northern states after the Civil War. In 1991, in downtown Manhattan, an 18th century burial ground containing the remains of hundreds of African slaves was uncovered during excavations for a new office block. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/protest_reform/slave_island_01.shtml === Is The U.S. Vulnerable In The Persian Gulf: The myth of US invincibility http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8558.htm http://snipurl.com/e2k1 === In case you missed it: Tony Benn: Time for change: It is beginning to become apparent that the greatest threat to world peace may not really be individual terrorists but the United States Administration itself http://www.tonybenn.com/time.html === Robert Fisk: Our presidents and prime ministers are poseurs. Where are the Great Men of today? Bush may think he is Churchill, but he cannot really compare himself to his dad, let alone to our Winston http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8570.htm http://snipurl.com/e2jw === Orwell Rolls In His Grave "Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..." Director Robert Kane Pappas� "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn�t like to talk about: itself. This is a must see documentary. Click here to watch it now! Real Video. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8560.htm http://snipurl.com/e2jj === The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Last summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration's doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate "post-conflict" plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict. According to Pascual, it will also be able to coordinate three full-scale reconstruction operations in different countries "at the same time," each lasting "five to seven years." http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0415-30.htm === Bush�s Vision Of Arab Democracy Vs Two Reports: Two new reports on economics (�Arab World Competitiveness Report 2005�) and politics (�Towards Freedom in the Arab World,� launched in Amman, Jordan on April 5, 2005) in the Arab states dramatized what all astute observers already knew: the Arab region is a mess and US policies have exacerbated the situation. http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7649§ionID=22 http://snipurl.com/e2k3 === Does the Resistance Target Civilians? According to US Intel, Not Really The ceaseless demonization of Iraqis committed to ending foreign control of their country is a key ideological crutch for maintaining the American occupation. http://www.lefthook.org/Politics/Alam041605.html === Iraq: The unthinkable as normalcy-I Edward S. Herman�s landmark essay, �The Banality of Evil,� has never seemed more apposite. �Doing terrible things in an organised and systematic way rests on �normalisation�,� wrote Herman. �There is usually a division of labour in doing and rationalising the unthinkable, with the direct brutalising and killing done by one set of individuals . . . others working on improving technology (a better crematory gas, a longer burning and more adhesive napalm, bomb fragments that penetrate flesh in hard-to-trace patterns). It is the function of the experts, and the mainstream media, to normalise the unthinkable for the general public.� http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?ItemID=3225&cat=11 === Tarmiya: The Silent Agony. The Empire tries to deny the abuse and killings of innocent civilians. http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11154&s2=17 === Mystery Shrouds Hostage Crisis in Iraqi Town: US-backed Iraqi troops launched on Sunday, April 17, an operation to rescue Shiites reportedly held hostage by militants in Al-Madaen town, with some locals charging the whole thing was a fabricated prelude for a Fallujah-like onslaught. http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-04/17/article02.shtml http://snipurl.com/e2jp === Don't mention the war : New Labour is churning out misinformation about Iraq as the election nears http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1461888,00.html http://snipurl.com/e2ju === With poison in their souls : The demonisation of the ricin suspects by politicians and the media smacks of Salem http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1461663,00.html http://snipurl.com/e2jv === Intelligence reports undercut US claims of Iraq-Qaeda link: top US senator: A top Democratic senator released formerly classified documents that he said undercut top US officials' pre-Iraq war claims of a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the Al-Qaeda terror network. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8568.htm http://snipurl.com/e2jq === Iraq rebels �unite� to fight coalition THE terrorist group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America�s most wanted man in Iraq, has joined forces with other Iraqi insurgents to carry out �spectacular� attacks, a rebel commander claimed last week. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1572669,00.html === Controversial Commando Wins Iraq Contract Occupation authorities in Iraq have awarded a $293 million contract effectively creating the world's largest private army to a company headed by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, a former officer with the Scots Guard, an elite regiment of the British military, who has been investigated for illegally smuggling arms and planning military offensives to support mining, oil, and gas operations around the world. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11350 === Lesser-Evilism Grips Britain: The Chancellor of the Exchequer and pretender to the throne, has, according to his biographer Richard Peston, told Blair that, "There is nothing you could say to me now that I could ever believe." http://www.counterpunch.com/waraich04162005.html http://snipurl.com/e2js === 11 prisoners escape from US detention centre Eleven detainees escaped early today from Iraq�s Camp Bucca prison, but 10 were believed to have been caught hours later, the US military and Iraqi police said. http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/04/16/story198370.html === At least 16 killed in Iraq attacks, including two US soldiers BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 16 people were killed, including two US soldiers and a Turkish trucker, in attacks around Iraq, while two Filipinos were wounded as they headed to work at Baghdad airport, police said. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050416/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest_050416150050 === Roadside bomb kills three Iraqis north of Baghdad : "The bomb blasted at 8:00 a.m. (0400 GMT) in the town of Duluiyah as a civilian car passed by, killing two police officers and a civilian," http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/17/content_2841585.htm http://snipurl.com/e2jk === Three people including U.S. Aid worker killed in Baghdad: AN American humanitarian worker was among three people killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a convoy travelling on Baghdad's airport road, the US embassy said. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15004326-23109,00.html http://snipurl.com/e2jl === Three U.S. Troops Killed in Iraqi City of Ramadi: Seven servicemen were also wounded in the attack, three of them seriously, the military said in a statement. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8202396 http://snipurl.com/e2jm === Iraqi troops call halt to Maidan assault: Iraqi troops battling in a town near Baghdad to rescue Shia hostages held by Sunni fighters, have halted their offensive after meeting fierce resistance, government officials said. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C2627EEB-4186-4872-BDE9-0948C2EC830B.htm http://snipurl.com/e2jn === Anonymity is the road to nothingness : Victims in the Iraq war are daily "dampened down" and categorised as collateral damage. Give them personality, shape, name and a reference point in society and in conscience you couldn't bomb them. Killing somebody's daughter, mother, girlfriend or baby cuts too near the bone. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8566.htm http://snipurl.com/e2kc === Taliban bomb trucks carrying oil for U.S. military: - A bomb planted by Taliban rebels destroyed five trucks carrying oil for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and wounded three drivers, a senior Afghan army official said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL16355.htm === Papal hopeful is a former Hitler Youth THE wartime past of a leading German contender to succeed John Paul II may return to haunt him as cardinals begin voting in the Sistine Chapel tomorrow to choose a new leader for 1 billion Catholics. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1572667,00.html === John Bolton's Deception Under Oath In Congressional Hearing: It's Turning Out that the "Big Lie Strategy" Is Not Working Any Senator -- any and all -- who votes to confirm John Bolton on Tuesday this week (though there may be a further delay) not only has to sign off on the issue of Bolton's pattern of abusive behavior, they must also sign off on the connection of such abuse to the mismanagement of intelligence and his habitual role as a "loose cannon" undermining delicate and high-stakes national security efforts of other diplomats. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000471.html === The Case Against Alan Dershowitz : Alan Dershowitz is particularly outspoken and taken quite seriously within certain segments of the North American mainstream. Whether he deserves to be taken seriously is another issue altogether. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8559.htm http://snipurl.com/e2kb === The CIA's Kidnapping Ring: U.S. ally Uzbekistan teaches interrogators how to boil suspected terrorists to death http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0516,hentoff,63104,6.html http://snipurl.com/e2kd === The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing It looks like the propagandists are going to exploit the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing as well as the public doubts about the official story to attempt to link the bombing to "Al Qaeda" as yet another device to kick off a new war. Here is a good overview of the actual facts that point to a US Government cover-up. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.html === In case you missed it: Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive: - WARNING - Pictures should only be viewed by a mature audience http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3943.htm http://snipurl.com/e2ke === Draft Them All Now: "The only way to change the minds of flag-waving American patriots would be the maiming or death of their own children in Bush�s insane foreign adventures." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8569.htm http://snipurl.com/e2jy === The BBC: apologising to torturers Can you imagine the BBC and other major broadcasters apologising to a rogue regime which practises racism and ethnic cleansing; which has �effectively legalised the use of torture� (according to Amnesty International); which holds international law in contempt, having defied hundreds of UN resolutions and built an apartheid wall in defiance of the International Court of Justice; which has demolished thousands of people's homes and given its soldiers the right to assassinate; and whose leader was judged �personally responsible� for the massacre of more than 2000 people? http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/623/623p19.htm === The New York Times Supports Thought Control: The Massad Case The New York Times has never been a very courageous newspaper in times of political hysteria and threats to civil liberties. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1206228.htm === Lesser-Evilism Grips Britain - Tony Blair's Accountability Moment Something is happening to him, he talks to himself Britain is set on the cusp of a key general election. In the past, an absence of alternatives and derisory turnouts have flushed Tony Blair and New Labor into government with hefty majorities. That is all set to change. The fury occasioned by the Iraq war has led voters to desert Labor in droves and, by all accounts, the war party is poised to shed several parliamentary seats as a result. http://www.counterpunch.com/waraich04162005.html === Reports Rock Support for U.N. Nominee: Confirmation for John R. Bolton seems less sure after new charges arise that he tried to have an analyst fired. Democrats are probing more cases. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8562.htm http://snipurl.com/e2jz === Australia softens illegal immigration laws : The government's tough stand against illegal immigration and people smuggling has helped Howard win four straight elections and has become a model policy for Britain's opposition Conservative Party. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/manawatustandard/0,2106,3225517a6408,00.html http://snipurl.com/e2kl === Morally bankrupt?: AMERICA leads the world in many fields, but perhaps most commandingly in bankruptcy. Last year, in Britain, which enjoys Europe�s most debtor-friendly bankruptcy laws, 35,898 people filed for bankruptcy protection. In the United States that figure was 1.6m�around nine times higher per capita http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8567.htm http://snipurl.com/e2km === 2004 Top Ten Career Recipients of Pro-Israel PAC Funds Posted Apr 17, 2005 09:33 AM PST - Category: ISRAELI SPYING http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407027.html === Israel plans more lands seizure in Hebron - Also breaking, the sun will rise tomorrow, rain will fall, bears will crap in the woods. http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7848 === A wall's a wall : The US president knew very well that he had to go through the exercise of publicly admonishing Sharon while being fully aware that Israel does only what it wants and would brush aside American pressure � if there indeed such a thing � and go about its way. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8563.htm http://snipurl.com/e2k5 === Apartheid Wall and Settlements - On The Ground Realaties: Israeli peace activist and documentary producer Jeff Halper, addresses the current situation. Using charts and maps he delves into what it is that Sharon has actually been up to, why, and how this determines the solutions to the conflict that are now possible. You are going to be surprised by what he says. This is a must watch. Real Video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8565.htm http://snipurl.com/e2k6 === Egyptian MPs Sue Sharon: Members of the Egyptian Parliament filed on Wednesday a lawsuit against Israel and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon demanding compensation for the killings and torture of thousands of Egyptian prisoners of war during the 1956 and 1967 wars. http://snipurl.com/e2k8 === Did Israel Frame Qaddafi In 1986? Ostrovsky claims that on the night of February 17, 1986, Israeli commandos from the Mossad surreptitiously entered Tripoli, Libya, from the Mediterranean in mini-submarines they called "pigs", and planted in an apartment rented by a confederate there a device called a "Trojan". http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/apr/article234.html === Tehran says Israel in no position to threaten action against Iran : Iran on Sunday rejected calls by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for an international coalition against Iran, saying Israel was not in a position to threaten Iran. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/565969.html http://snipurl.com/e2ka === Fuck the Washington Post Cody�s piece of lazy, news analysis trash has a few paragraphs devoted to Beijing�s nuclear deterrent. Each and every one of the four sentences containing a factual statement is inaccurate in some way. That�s an amazing 100 percent �suck� factor: http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/index.php?id=547 === Battlespace America The new Pentagon can peruse intelligence on U.S.citizens and send Marines down Main Street. http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/05/battlespace_america.html === William Pfaff : Empty threats over China: Taiwan would be more likely to face an Israeli than a European menace, since Israel has for some years been China's most important supplier of advanced military technology. http://iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/15/news/edpfaff.html http://snipurl.com/e2kh === Koreans expose US plan of action: SOUTH Korea's National Security Council has disclosed it recently vetoed a US plan to mobilise a joint military operation in the event of North Korea's internal collapse. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12871186^2703,00.html http://snipurl.com/e2ki === Chavez Frias warns that CIA plans to stop him winning in 2006: US Joint Chief of Staff, General Myers' visit last week to Colombia is part of the plan, Chavez Frias quips, and his declaration that the USA had no plans to invade Venezuela is more dangerous that if he had said the opposite http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=30482 http://snipurl.com/e2kj === Castro urges US to deny asylum to Cuban militant : Cuban leader Fidel Castro urged on Thursday the US government not to give asylum to a Cuban militant involved in a Cuban plane bombing that killed 73 people in 1976, local reports said Friday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/16/content_2836897.htm http://snipurl.com/e2kk === A Bankrupt Way To Do Business: They put huge deficits on plastic for our grandkids to pay. They sell us out to predatory lenders. They're the Credit Card Congress. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7528519/site/newsweek/ === Florida Privatizes Child Welfare Programs : The deal Friday with Our Kids Inc. gives the group the right to handle all foster care, adoption and child welfare licensing operations in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, where about 5,000 children are now under state care. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4942659,00.html http://snipurl.com/e2ko === Decoded at last: The 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the history of the world: Scientists begin to unlock the secrets of papyrus scraps bearing long-lost words by the literary giants of Greece and Rome http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165 http://snipurl.com/e2hh === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. 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