In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
N.C. church stands by sign saying Quran "should be flushed":
The pastor of a small Baptist church has refused calls to take down a sign posted in front of his church reading "The Koran needs to be flushed," saying Tuesday he has nothing to apologize for.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8944.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5c3
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FBI Confirms that the Koran was flushed at US Guantanamo Cuba base!!
Too bad, NEWSEEK. Now the whole world knows you caved into White House pressure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501395.html?sub=AR
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FBI Files: Koran Flushed Down Toilet
(IsraelNN.com) The Washington Post newspaper, confirming a previous report that later was retracted, reported that FBI files include claims that American soldiers flushed a copy of the Koran down the toilet. Newsweek magazine publicized the claim two weeks ago and then retracted it, saying it was unfounded. At least 14 people died in Moslem riots after the initial report.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=82661
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Gitmo Guards Accused of Mistreating Koran: Newly Released FBI Documents Detail Allegations + Docs
Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba told FBI interrogators that guards had mistreated copies of the Koran, including one who said in 2002 that guards "flushed a Koran in the toilet," according to new FBI documents released today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501395.html
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Dozens Have Alleged Koran's Mishandling
Complaints by inmates in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba emerged early. In 2003, the Pentagon set a sensitivity policy after trouble at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON — Senior Bush administration officials reacted with outrage to a Newsweek report that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility, and the magazine retracted the story last week. But allegations of disrespectful treatment of Islam's holy book are far from rare.
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/0522-02.htm
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Blowing up an assumption:
The presumed connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism is misleading, and it may spur American policies that are likely to worsen the situation.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/05/18/opinion/edpape.php
http://snipurl.com/f5av
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:’WAR ON TERRORISM,’ AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS
“The war on terrorism seems to have been more effective in eroding principles of international humanitarian rights rather than contrasting international terrorism,” said Amnesty International in its 2005 annual report, which was presented in London, Rome and other world cities. “In 2004 human rights of simple men, women, children in every corner of the planet suffering because of economic interests, social discrimination and conflict all over the world”.
http://www.misna.org/news.asp?lng=1&id=134837
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Amnesty: U.S. leads global human rights violations:
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused the United States of violating human rights, ignoring international law and sending a "permissive signal to abusive governments".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8950.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5aj
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Amnesty accuses US over 'torture' :
In Iraq some of the violence could be blamed on armed groups but the report also blamed US-led coalition forces for "unlawful killings, torture and other violations". "Torture and ill-treatment by US-led forces were widely reported," it added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4578627.stm
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Amnesty Takes Aim at 'Gulag' in Guantanamo:
Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it "the gulag of our time" as it released a report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050525/ap_on_re_eu/britain_amnesty_report
http://snipurl.com/f5b2
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Amnesty A-Z summary of key countries:
Amnesty International Report 2005 - Introduction:
Pdf format
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/25_05_05_amnestyintro.pdf
http://snipurl.com/f5b4
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Amnesty Accuses Israel of War Crimes:
Amnesty International report on human rights violations, accuses Israel Defense Forces soldiers of war crimes, including unlawful killings, torture, destruction of property, obstruction of medical assistance and targeting of medical personnel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/580293.html
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Amnesty Accuses Israel of WAR CRIMES, killing 150 children, 700 people in 2004
Posted May 25, 2005 10:14 AM PST - Category: ISRAEL
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/580293.html
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MOSSAD and Independent Investigation of 9-11
Why does the US, which is trillions of dollars in debt, give away billons of taxpayer dollars to a foreign government whose military violates international laws and whose Mossad is capable of murdering US troops in order to frame Arabs? Have we lost our minds?
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293648085
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If 9/11 was Pearl Harbor, then the war should have ended last Friday
Whether you're hawk, dove, neo-, paleo- or just looking to compare how little you've achieved in the last three+ years with how much your forefathers managed to pull off in the same amount of time, it's something to think about. And I think When does the national emergency end? is now officially a fair question to ask.
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/05/vt_day.shtml
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Female staff at Guantanamao sexually abused Pakistani prisoners:
the female personnel, used harsh methods to extract information from them and even chopped off the testicles of one of them
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=83448&n_date=20050524&cat=Asia
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Abu Ghraib as Normalcy
The message Bush is sending to his shock troops in the gulag is clear: If by some freak chance your torture duties are uncovered, you will be gently removed from the scene with only nominal punishment as long as you don't rat out your superiors, of course.
The young soldier thought she'd been sent to fight for democracy and freedom, but it was a lie. Instead she found herself in Hell, committing crimes, violating her own nature, her sense of duty perverted by leaders who twisted it into a weapon to serve aggressive war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8947.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5ak
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ALLAH, ALLAH, ALLAH, ALLAH
AND THE AMERICAN NATION CONTINUES TO WALLOW IN THEIR DEAFENING SILENCE. WHAT WOULD IT TAKE, OH WHAT WOULD IT TAKE?
http://malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/05/allah-allah-allah-allah.html
CLICK ON THE THE CRIES OF TORMENT OF AN INNOCENT MAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/international/asia/20abuse.html
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CIA man saw detainee abuse:
A CIA official testified he witnessed the "pummelling" of a detainee at a Navy Seal base in Baghdad in 2003, but a former Seal who beat the prisoner said he was acting on instructions from the CIA.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8946.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5b0
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VIDEO: Lord Bush Speaks to USA from the DEATH STAR, on "Mission Accomplished"
With all this Star Wars stuff about about Bush = Vader, he're's someones contribution from early 2004. Nice professionally done satire of Bush's "aircraft carrier" speech, merged with Star Wars Death Star Evil Empire theme footage.... 5:00 min long; if you ever wondered what Bush's real plan is, here is a summary.
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1298885.htm
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May on target to become one of deadliest months for U.S. troops
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hostile fire has killed more U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq in May than during each of the three previous months.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11727485.htm
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An Iraqi's Last Words: "USA Good":
An unarmed Iraqi cooperated with American troops searching his house and said "USA good" minutes before he was shot to death, a former U.S. soldier testified Wednesday at his one-time squad leader's murder trial.
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/APA/505250942&cachetime=5
http://snipurl.com/f5aw
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Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories: How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq
Images of thousands of dead U.S. soldiers helped to turn the tide of public opinion against the Vietnam War, but now photo-journalists are even banned from military funerals at Arlington national cemetery. A report this weekend in the Los Angeles Times documented the extremely rare publication of photos of American casualties in six major newspapers during a sixth month period. Readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Washington Post never saw a single picture of a dead serviceman or servicewoman in their morning papers. [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/1341241
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 24 May 2005 :
- Savage Resistance bombardment sets US al-Habbaniyah base ablaze Monday night.
- Resistance bomb targets US column in ar-Ramadi Tuesday morning.
- Resistance bombards US forces in Saddam International Airport.
- Resistance bomb targets US patrol in east Baghdad Tuesday afternoon.
- Resistance bomb targets US column in ad-Durah Tuesday afternoon.
- Al-Yusufiyah : Resistance bomb targets US patrol, killing four Americans.
- Resistance attacks US convoy north of Bayji at noon.
- Resistance bombards US base in Samarra’ early Tuesday afternoon.
- At-Tarimiyah : Resistance shoots down Apache helicopter Tuesday evening.
- Resistance martyrdom attacker blasts US checkpoint in Kirkuk Tuesday morning.
- Deadly Resistance car bomb blasts US convoy in Mosul Tuesday afternoon.
http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/0505/iraqiresistancereport_240505.htm
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Nine American troops killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgent attacks during the past 24 hours have killed nine U.S. troops in Iraq, the military said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/24/iraq.main/index.html
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Eight U.S. Soldiers Killed Over Two Days in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 24 - Eight American soldiers were killed in attacks by insurgents over the past the two days, the military said today, as a renewed wave of violence continued.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/international/middleeast/24cnd-iraq.html?ex=1117598400&en=166e8c13a783fef5&ei=5070
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Four killed in Iraq attacks:
Four Iraqis, mainly members of the security forces, were killed in attacks around the country on Wednesday, officials said, adding to a daily drumbeat of violence that has killed more than 600 people this month.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=42675
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4 Task Force Baghdad Soldiers killed :
Three Soldiers were killed when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device exploded near their convoy at 1:30 p.m. About 30 minutes later, another Soldier at an observation post was shot in a drive-by shooting.
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Releases/May/050524i.htm
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Police chief of northern Iraqi town killed :
The police chief of the northern Iraqi town of Sharqat was killed by gunmen who ambushed his car on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said.
http://snipurl.com/f5an
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House panel backs $45 bln for Iraq :
A House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday approved another $45 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which would bring the costs of the U.S. military operations there to more than $300 billion.
http://snipurl.com/f4t4
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"Everybody heard him cry out and thought it was funny."
In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8918.htm
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Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment, Says U.S. Amnesty Chief
WASHINGTON, May 25 (IPS) - If the administration of President George W. Bush fails to conduct a truly independent investigation of U.S. abuses against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, foreign governments should investigate and prosecute those senior officials who bear responsibility for them, the head of the U.S. chapter of Amnesty International said here Wednesday.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28823
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Terror suspect 'had nails pulled out':
An Australian facing the death penalty after being charged with being a member of a terror group has told a Kuwaiti court his fingernails were pulled out by state security officers.
http://seven.com.au/news/nationalnews/83195
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Israelis weigh Iranian "nuclear threat":
A senior Israeli defense official said Tuesday that Israel could not allow a situation in which Iran would have a nuclear bomb.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050524-043712-5381r.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5b6
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AIPAC's Big, Bigger, Biggest Moment:
Perle provoked cheers from the crowd when he favored a military raid on Iran, saying that "if Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon, I think we will have no choice but to take decisive action."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8943.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5b7
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AIPAC Wants You to Die in Iran :
So here’s what Richard Perle and AIPAC are not telling you: if Iran is invaded (or simply bombed) it will respond in kind and this will necessitate a more robust military response by the United States, i.e., more bullet-stoppers will need to be thrown into the mix.
http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=676
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Pentagon Analyst Seized in Israeli - AIPAC Spy Case :
A Pentagon analyst previously accused of leaking top-secret information to a pro-Israel group was charged Tuesday with illegally taking classified government documents out of the Washington area to his West Virginia residence.
http://snipurl.com/f5b9
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Israel and the Occupied Territories:
The Israeli army killed more than 700 Palestinians, including some 150 children. Most were killed unlawfully — in reckless shooting, shelling and air strikes in civilian residential areas; in extrajudicial executions
http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/isr-summary-eng
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US call to end Israel boycott :
An American scientists' group has urged Britain's biggest university teachers' union to repeal its boycott of two Israeli universities.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491713,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://snipurl.com/f5bb
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Both Palestinians and Israelis will benefit from a boycott :
In the occupied territories, Israel maintains a strict racial and colonial segregation between Israeli Jewish settlers and the native Palestinians (Muslims and Christians). The former group enjoys economic benefits, special roads, heavily subsidised and more heavily protected housing, and full political rights. Even under apartheid there were never whites-only roads.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8942.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5bd
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Israeli attempt to discredit Abbas?:
The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel of fabricating stories about Palestinian boys carrying explosive belts on their way to carry out attacks against Israeli targets.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/92B516BA-7579-4F52-A669-51367BDC93F7.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5be
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The pipeline that will change the world:
It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way - and it finally opens today
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=641172
http://snipurl.com/f5bq
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In case you missed it?:
Video: Peak Oil - A Turning Point for mankind -
C.J. Campell C.J. Campell explains it in detail. Good documentary.
http://novakeo.com/?p=154
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Foreign Policy Threatens Our Freedom:
There are four important pending U.S. terrorism legal cases, which separately and together present ominous and dangerous threats to the freedom of the American people.
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0505f.asp
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The Great Power Grab and All for the “Good” of the American People:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” James Madison, Federalist Paper 47
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8945.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5c0
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U.S., NATO nuclear policies 'immoral' - McNamara:
U.S. and NATO nuclear policies are immoral, dangerous and destructive for the global nuclear non-proliferation regime, a former Defense Secretary from the Vietnam War era, Robert McNamara, said on Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/f5bg
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Promoting Freedom Or Fueling Conflict:
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers Since September 11 : Perhaps no single policy is more at odds with President Bush’s pledge to "end tyranny in our world" than the United States’ role as the world’s leading arms exporting nation.
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/wawjune2005.html
http://snipurl.com/f5bt
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Shame on the Army:
Mary Tillman said, ''Pat had high ideals about the country. That's why he did what he did. The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting."
http://snipurl.com/f5bj
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Put U.S. soldiers on trial in Colombia, some urge:
After drug-trafficking and gunrunning scandals hit the U.S. military in Colombia, some Colombians are seeking to change an agreement on immunity of U.S. soldiers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8949.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5br
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EU doubles aid for world's poor :
The unexpected success in Brussels will intensify pressure on other rich countries, notably the United States, to increase their own efforts to "make poverty history".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hearafrica05/story/0,15756,1491632,00.html
http://snipurl.com/f5bv
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HOW THE HELL CAN BUSH SLEEP AT 9PM?
http://pulpnonfiction.blogspot.com/
Watch video of First Lady Laura Bush's comedy routine at the 2005 White House Correspondents' Dinner, in which she roasts her husband and admits to being a "desperate housewife."
http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/XJ&sdn=politicalhumor&zu=http%3A%2F%2Ftreyjackson.typepad.com%2Fjunction%2F2005%2F04%2Fvideo_president_1.html
She also admits that he GOES TO SLEEP at 9pm. FULL TRANSCRIPT
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/laurabush/a/laurabushcomedy.htm?terms=laura+bush
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Voinovich continues campaign against Bolton nomination:
The Republican senator who snubbed the White House by opposing John Bolton's nomination for US ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday took the unusual move of asking his colleagues to vote against Mr Bolton.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=20050524&ID=4841897
http://snipurl.com/f5bh
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Pentagon report to portray China as emerging rival:
The Pentagon is preparing to release a report on the Chinese military that warns the US that it should take more seriously the possibility that China might emerge as a strategic rival to the US, according to a senior government official.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e1d67dda-cc83-11d9-bb87-00000e2511c8.html
http://snipurl.com/f5bk
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Adding Insult to Injury : Halliburton Contractors Denied Insurance Benefits:
Mark Baltazar was between jobs operating heavy construction equipment when he heard he could make $84,000 doing the same work in Iraq. When he took the job, his plan was to save up the tax-free money and then buy a new home for his family back in Texas. A suicide bomber near Mosul changed all that last December
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12286
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US dependence on foreign oil growing - experts:
U.S. dependence on foreign crude will keep growing despite efforts to spur domestic production, as demand in the world's largest energy consumer outpaces output, industry and government experts said Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050525/us_nm/energy_oil_imports_dc
http://snipurl.com/f5bl
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In Moscow, U.S. Strives for Greater Share of Oil Exports:
Samuel W. Bodman, United States energy secretary, met with Kremlin officials Tuesday to relay the concerns of American energy companies about Russia's investment climate, and added that Russian oil exports to the United States should be "10 times" what they are currently.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8948.htm
http://snipurl.com/f5bp
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Egypt votes on election changes :
Observers say it is too early to judge whether voters have heeded opposition calls for a boycott on the grounds that the changes are meaningless.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4577817.stm
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Cartoon of The Week:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html
http://snipurl.com/31j5
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Youths Take On Homeland Security:
Can the government detain an American citizen for six hours without an explanation? 20-year-old Asmaa Elshinawy and other plaintiffs are suing the Department of Homeland Security to find out.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/22077/
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Bad Deal on Judges :
As the showdown on the so-called "nuclear option" approached, polls showed that the American people opposed scheming on the part of Senate GOP leaders to eliminate judicial filibusters by an overwhelming 2-to-1 margin.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=2757
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Brain Dead Democrats:
Anytime you have someone like Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), a cheerleader for the War on Iraq, a stalwart backer of the worst Zionist excesses of the Israeli state, lining up with Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a guy who headed up the House impeachment campaign against President Bill Clinton, a staunch conservative in moderate clothing, progressives need to worry.
http://www.counterpunch.com/lindorff05252005.html
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Religious right vows payback for brokers of filibuster pact:
Representatives from conservative Christian groups who made the filibuster their signature issue suggest a severe price might be paid by the 14 Democrats and Republicans who brokered the last-minute deal.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_2755930?rss
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