bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
British National party leader 'claimed Qur'an allows rape of non-Muslims'
Secretly filmed tirades against Muslims and Asians by the leader of the British National party, Nick Griffin, were described to a jury yesterday, including claims that rape and paedophilia against non-believers were countenanced by the Qur'an.
At private party meetings, the Cambridge graduate who has immersed himself in far-right politics for nearly 30 years described parts of Britain as "multiracial hellholes" targeted by a supposed Asian Muslim plan for global conquest.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,11375,1688920,00.html
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U.S. nuclear forces, 2006
As of January 2006, the U.S. stockpile contains almost 10,000 nuclear warheads. This includes 5,735 active or operational warheads: 5,235 strategic and 500 nonstrategic warheads. Approximately 4,225 additional warheads are held in the reserve or inactive stockpiles
http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=jf06norris
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Another Undeclared War?
Is the United States about to launch a second preemptive war, against a nation that has not attacked us, to deprive it of weapons of mass destruction that it does not have?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11602.htm
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INSIDER INFO: 6 Million Wiretapped Conversations Per Month
One of the most noteworthy comments was that the Government had specified 60 Terabytes of monthly storage for digital versions of conversations. MONTHLY!
At about 11k per call, that is about 6 million conversations per month. (correct my math if you are better at computers!).
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_constitution&Number=294340124
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Spying on Ordinary Americans
In times of extreme fear, American leaders have sometimes scrapped civil liberties in the name of civil protection. It's only later that the country can see that the choice was a false one and that citizens' rights were sacrificed to carry out extreme measures that were at best useless and at worst counterproductive. There are enough examples of this in American history - the Alien and Sedition Acts and the World War II internment camps both come to mind - that the lesson should be woven into the nation's fabric. But it's hard to think of a more graphic example than President Bush's secret program of spying on Americans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/opinion/18wed1.html?hp
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US openly tortures suspects, says report
America, millions in jail and the rest suspects.
President George W Bush's administration has a deliberate strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogation, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in an annual report on abuses in more than 70 countries.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=10202&sid=6290019&con_type=1
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US Franchised Torture Refuses To Go Away
It is not the divine right of Christian West to subjugate and rule the Middle East, Africa or Asia through the power of its guns. The Iraqi resistance to U.S.-led occupation from the very beginning has made it clear that the era of colonization is over.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11601.htm
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Belgium PM: Gitmo Abuses Hurt European Opinion of Us
WASHINGTON -- Belgium's prime minister told President Bush on Tuesday that while the United States has improved its relationship with Europe in the last year, "there is certainly a lot of work still to do."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/17/AR2006011700499_pf.html
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2006: U.S. Policy of Abuse Undermines Rights Worldwide
U.S. Policy of Abuse Undermines Rights Worldwide
(Washington, D.C, January 18, 2006) New evidence demonstrated in 2005 that torture and mistreatment have been a deliberate part of the Bush administrations counterterrorism strategy, undermining the global defense of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2006 World Report 2006: Audio Commentaries .
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/13/global12428.htm
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Ignoring Israeli crimes
Media double standard in covering Sharons stroke
MORE THAN a year ago, many in the U.S. media focused on how the passing of an ailing Yasser Arafat would be the key to unlock the deadlocked peace process (we now know this to be untrue or was vastly exaggerated).
There was hardly any U.S. coverage of the nature of his mysterious illness (to date, there has been no diagnosis). There was hardly any coverage of the good wishes he received from leaders around the world. Nor was there balanced discussion of his history or even of his Israeli supporters or his Palestinian critics (only Israeli critics were highlighted).
http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/572/572_04_IsraeliCrimes.shtml
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The silencing of college presidents
And since 9/11, dissent of almost any kind has been labeled as unpatriotic, and even reasoned debate on hot button social issues is viewed as dangerously controversial. Thus, while many of my colleagues will state positions on issues clearly affecting their campuses, like financial aid, they are loath to venture an opinion outside of academe. Who can blame them? The system demands more but wants to hear from us less. But I wonder what it would take for more of us to speak out?
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/01/13/the_silencing_of_college_presidents/?p1=email_to_a_friend
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2002 Memo Doubted Uranium Sale Claim
A high-level intelligence assessment by the Bush administration concluded in early 2002 that the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq was "unlikely" because of a host of economic, diplomatic and logistical obstacles, according to a secret memo that was recently declassified by the State Department.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11603.htm
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Veteran reporter says 3,000-4,000 Iraqis killed every month
Between 3,000 and 4,000 Iraqis are killed every month, rendering "ridiculous" US President George W. Bush's estimate of about 30,000 civilian casualties since the start of the war, veteran British journalist Robert Fisk said Wednesday
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=5971
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Stealing from the Iraqi Constitution ....
http://www.livejournal.com/~mparent7777/5695326.html
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The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq
Thirty-eight years ago, on Jan. 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a day that was to change my life forever. Each year as the anniversary of my wounding in the war approached I would become extremely restless, experiencing terrible bouts of insomnia, depression, anxiety attacks and horrifying nightmares. I dreaded that day and what it represented, always fearing that the terrible trauma of my wounding might repeat itself all over again. It was a difficult day for me for decades and it remained that way until the anxieties and nightmares finally began to subside.
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/forgotten_wounded_20060117/
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Female detainees set free in Iraq
The group holding US journalist Jill Carroll has said she will die unless all Iraqi women prisoners are freed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4624716.stm
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Surface-to-Air Missile Downed U.S. Chopper in Iraq
It's a troubling new development because there are hundreds and by some estimates thousands of SA-7 missiles that are unaccounted for in Iraq.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/International/story?id=1515168
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US helicopters in Iraq face menace of 'aerial bombs'
The new home-made weapons, known to the Americans as "aerial improvised explosive devices" have been used on numerous occasions.
http://tinyurl.com/d5odk
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Official US agency paints dire picture of 'out-of-control' Iraq
Account belies picture painted by White House
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1688730,00.html
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Baghdad Burning: Iraqi Girl Blog: A Tribute to Iraqi Ingenuity
http://tinyurl.com/8wtdp
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 17 January 2006
- Resistance sharpshooter kills US soldier in al-Fallujah Tuesday evening.
- After death of 15 US troops at hands of al-Fallujah Sniper, US forces offer reward of US$100,000 to any Iraqi who informs on him.
- Resistance bomb in al-Khalidiyah reportedly kills US soldier.
- US forces seal off section of ar-Ramadi midday Tuesday. American helicopter fires rocket into neighborhood.
- Two US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing of US patrol in al-Mushahadah.
- Two US troops reported killed in bombing south of al-Latifiyah.
- US soldier reported killed when Resistance bomb destroys American minesweeper in Mosul.
- High-explosive bomb blasts US troops north of Karbala Tuesday afternoon.
- Iran helping to steal Iraqi oil, puppet governor of al-Basrah charges following clash in Arabian Gulf that left one Iraqi dead, nine taken prisoner by Iran.
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The west has picked a fight with Iran that it cannot win
Iran is a serious country, not another two-bit post-imperial rogue waiting to be slapped about the head by a white man. It is the fourth largest oil producer in the world. Its population is heading towards 80 million by 2010. Its capital, Tehran, is a mighty metropolis half as big again as London.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11604.htm
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Noam Chomsky : Iran would be crazy not to develop nuclear weapons
U.S., Israel pushing Iran on nukes
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=955
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Another Witness Testifies with Perjury into Assassination of Hariri
The witness Ibrahim Michel Jarjoura said he was forced to offer a false and fabricated testimony against Syria at the international investigation committee into the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafik al-Hariri because he was under threats and pressures to do so.
http://www.sana.org/index743c205defee8ce4e232662550926c76.html
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Hamas support grows after Israelis shoot militant leader
"People will show solidarity with the martyrs and the organisation they belong to."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article339307.ece
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Snatch squad quells protest over Jewish evictions
After days of skirmishes in Hebron, which saw teenage settlers vandalising Palestinian property in the town and hurling rocks at the Israeli police, the local media had talked of an "Israeli intifada".
http://tinyurl.com/85fc3
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Taliban say 'hundreds' of suicide attackers ready
A Taliban commander said on Tuesday hundreds of his guerrillas were ready to launch suicide attacks across Afghanistan to drive out foreign forces.
http://tinyurl.com/8rbhc
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U.S. envoy: Be ready for Taliban violence
The British-led military force that will move soon into southern Afghanistan must be ready to fight militant Taliban insurgents, the U.S. envoy to NATO warned.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060118-110954-4574r.htm
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Rome prosecutors to charge U.S. soldier with murdering Italian agent in Iraq
Italian prosecutors investigating the killing of an Italian secret service agent at a checkpoint in Iraq plan to charge a U.S. soldier with murder and attempted murder, Italian media reported Tuesday.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/01/18/military/17_47_591_17_06.txt
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US refuses to hand over 4 marines charged with rape
Philippine judge last week issued arrest warrants for the marines, held in custody by the U.S. embassy, in a bid to pressure Washington to hand them over.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/18/content_4065533.htm
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Australia: PM knew of wheat deal: Labor
SENIOR Howard government ministers must offer themselves as witnesses at the AWB inquiry as evidence mounts that they ignored its illicit payments to Saddam Hussein's regime, Labor says.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17861870^1702,00.html
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Paying Students To Spy On Professors...
An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing University of California, Los Angeles professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/18/state/n025132S91.DTL
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White House Silent on Abramoff Meetings
Abramoff had "a few staff-level meetings" at the Bush White House, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday. But he would not say with whom Abramoff met, which interests he was representing or how he got access to the White House
http://tinyurl.com/djszt
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Abramoff Met With Bush In May 2001
The Texas Observer reports that Abramoff met with Bush on May 9, 2001, with his clients, the Coushatta tribe. (The chairman of the Coushatta tribe initially denied the meeting occured, but subsequently admitted that it did.) Abramoff charged his client 25,000 to arrange the meeting.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/07/abramoff-bush-2001/
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Lawmakers pressured Interior while getting large donations from Abramoff tribes
Nearly three dozen members of Congress, including leaders from both parties, pressed the government to reject a Louisiana Indian casino while they collected large donations from rival tribes and their lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20051117-0028-tribes-letters&dollars-abridged.html
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Corruption Digest
Here is your briefing on how America's political system is being sold to the highest bidders.
http://tinyurl.com/a7kjj
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Corruption?
Congressman made personal loan to bank president shortly before bank extended him $250,000-plus loan
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Utah_congressman_made_personal_loan_to_0118.html
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Democrats and Other False Friends
"George Bush would be in severe political trouble if there were an opposition political party in the country.
http://www.counterpunch.org/damato01182006.html
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Gore responds to White House 'hypocrisy' comments
"There are two problems with the Attorney General's effort to focus attention on the past instead of the present Administration's behavior."
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=59370
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Senate candidate unapologetic for saying GOP hijacked by fanatics
Ohio's Republican leader wants Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Paul Hackett to apologize for calling some conservative Republicans religious fanatics and comparing them to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/13646787.htm
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Top New York City police detective (retired) exposes child sex ring, and how politicians have been compromised by participating in sexual activity with children.
This might seem a little over the top, although as the article that follows shows, it is hardly without precedent.
http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviewsRothstein.html
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