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never see the terror in the eyes of the children, whose nightmares
will now feature screaming missiles from unseen terrorists, will
be known only as Americans. : Martin Kelly
= Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible
government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility
to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the
unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is
the first task of the statesmanship of today. : President Theodore
Roosevelt - 1906
= A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit.
Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and
all our activities are in the hands of a few men.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated Governments in the world no longer a
government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction
and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress
of small groups of dominant men. : Woodrow Wilson - From his Campaign
Speeches, 1912
= If a baseball player slides into home plate and, right before the
umpire rules if he is safe or out, the player says to the umpire
Here is $1,000. What would we call that? We would call that a bribe.
If a lawyer was arguing a case before a judge and said, Your honor
before you decide on the guilt or innocence of my client, here is
$1,000. What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. But
if an industry lobbyist walks into the office of a key legislator
and hands her or him a check for $1,000, we call that a campaign
contribution. We should call it a bribe. : Janice Fine - Dollars
and Sense magazine
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=== Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq
- At Least 655,000 + + http://tinyurl.com/usq4x
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged)
In America'sWar On Iraq 3,067 http://icasualties.org/oif/
The U.S. War On Iraq Costs $361,380,405,163
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
=== What Can Be Done in Iraq?
Strategic Errors of Monumental Proportions
By Lt. General WILLIAM E. ODOM (US Army Ret.)
The war has served primarily the interests of Iran and al Qaeda,
not American interests.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/126/2/
=== Battle For Haifa Street
3 Minute Video
Why does CBS refuses to show U.S. television audiences this report
exposing the slaughter and destruction of Baghdad?
Warning
This video should only be viewed by a mature audience. Click here
to view http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/118/2/
=== Stop the Iran War Before It Starts
By Scott Ritter
Democrats should seek immediate legislative injunctions to nullify
the War Powers' authority granted to the President in September
2001 and October 2002 when it comes to Iran.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/128/2/
=== Iran Attack
Secret War Plans Against Iran Revealed
Video
Scarborough Repeats Lies Regarding Iran's President and Pimps A War
With Iran.
Click to view http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16255.htm
=== Truth Game
A documentary film by John Pilger
This is a must watch
John Pilger's penetrating documentary which looks at world-wide
propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race.
Click to view http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/127/2/
=== The hidden cost of free congressional trips to Israel
By Jim Abourezk
Branded as 'educational,' these trips offer Israeli propagandists
an opportunity to expose members of Congress to only their side of
the story.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/124/2/
=== The Living Dead
By Michael S. Rozeff
A hundred or more years ago, when philosophers declared God dead;
when science shook faith; when socialism postulated new ideals;
when the U.S. pursued national power; Americans turned away from
the beliefs, ethics, and practices that had brought them bounty.
And now, after many years, we can see clearly, if we would or could,
that we made a wrong turn.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/129/2/
=== Fake Left, Rule Right
Mexico Under Calderon
By John Ross
It was as startling an about-face as veteran Latin American political
observers could recall. Here was Felipe Calderon, the iconic
right-winger and George Bush's latest Latino poodle dog who was
awarded the Mexican presidency in fraud-marred elections last July,
pumping the flesh with Latin American boogeymen Hugo Chavez and Evo
Morales.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/123/2/
=== "Top Ten" Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2006
By Doctors Without Borders
The ninth annual list also highlights the lack of media attention
paid to the plight of people affected by the consequences of conflict
in Haiti, Somalia, Colombia, Chechnya, and central India.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/130/2/
=== Iraq: At least 50 killed in another bloody day of U.S. occupation:
Police found 27 bodies, most tortured and shot dead, in different
parts of Baghdad, a police source said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26799889.htm
=== Blast kills another 40 in occupied Iraqi capital :
Forty people have been killed and 80 injured in a car bomb in the
Karrada shopping district of central Baghdad, local officials say
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6297549.stm
=== Video: Bomb kills another 13 in Baghdad market:
The explosion went off about an hour before a weekly vehicle curfew
in the Iraqi capital, which is aimed at protecting mosques during
Friday noon prayers.
=== U.S. lied about deaths of 4 soldiers in occupied Iraq:
Contrary to public statements by the U.S. military, four U.S.
soldiers did not die repelling a sneak attack at the governor's
office in the Shiite holy city of Karbala last week. New information
obtained by The Associated Press shows they were abducted and found
dead or dying as far as 25 miles away.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-26-iraq-contradiction_x.htm
=== New pressure on Mahdi Army :
What's behind the arrest of 600 members of the Mehdi Army Shia
militia? :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6296097.stm
=== Feingold Pushes Plan to Cut Off War Funds :
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday
in his Judiciary Committee subcommittee to explore whether Congress
has the authority to cut off funding for the U.S. military campaign
in Iraq.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0107/2478.html
=== Bush: `I'm the decision-maker' on Iraq
President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq,
said Friday "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to
the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn
his plan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_3
=== Rockefeller: Cheney Applied "Constant" Pressure to Stall
Investigation on Flawed Iraq Intelligence:
In an interview with McClatchy Newspapers, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of
West Virginia also accused President Bush of running an illegal
program by ordering eavesdropping on Americans' international e-mails
and telephone communications without court-issued warrants.
=== Cheney: Senate Resolution "Won't Stop Us":
Vice President Says It's "Hogwash" To Say Bush's Credibility Is At
Stake In Iraq
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/25/politics/main2397224.shtml
=== Saturday anti-war protest expected to draw thousands:
Similar events are planned in dozens of cities around the United
States, with some of the largest expected in Los Angeles and San
Francisco. Organizers said they aim to put pressure on both the
White House and Congress to end the war.
=== U.S. military cleared to kill Iranian "operatives" in occupied
Iraq:
The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill
or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq, as part of an aggressive
new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East
and compel Iran to give up its nuclear program, according to
government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of
the effort.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/16549647.htm
=== Chris Floyd: Bush's New Assassination Order :
George W. Bush has already authorized his agents to kill American
citizens -- without arrest, charge, trial, or even any warning --
if the victim has been designated -- arbitrarily, at the whim of
the "Leader," outside any judicial process or oversight -- as an
"enemy combatant."
=== Mysterious death of Irans top scientist: :
One of Irans top nuclear scientists, Ardeshir Hassanpour, a professor
at the University of Shiraz, has died under mysterious circumstances.
=== 20 "Taliban fighters" killed in occupied Afghanistan:
Afghan officials claimed they had killed about 20 Taliban fighters
in two provinces of the country during the previous 24 hours. The
men, the officials said to be militants, were killed in the southern
province of Helmand and the southeastern province of Paktika,
bordering the neighbouring Pakistan.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=946156
=== Afghan parliamentary member killed in occupied Kabul :
An Afghan parliamentary member named Mohammad Islam Mohammadi was
killed by an unknown gunman in Kabul on Friday afternoon, Interior
Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari told Xinhua.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/26/eng20070126_345167.html
=== US bows to pressure with $10bn for Afghanistan:
The Bush administration has responded to pressure at home and abroad
by promising to provide more than $10bn for Afghanistan, although
a big gap remains between Washingtons commitment of troops and money
and that of its allies, diplomats said on Friday.
=== 2 Killed In Suicide Blast in Pakistan: :
Pakis-tans security stood exposed on Friday as a suicide bomber
stormed into the heart of the capital at a five-star hotel, metres
away from the presidency, the Prime Ministers House, the Natio-nal
Assembly and other high-profile buildings, killing two people and
injuring seven others.
=== Six Palestinians killed, Scores Wounded during Infighting in
Gaza:
The situation is so miserable as ambulances and medical crews are
unable to reach the shooting area, where large number of the executive
force are besieging the house of Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades leader,
Masoud http://www.imemc.org/article/46721
=== Family of a ten-year-old child killed by the Israeli army demand
justice to be served:
Family of Abeer Al Arameen, a ten-year old Palestinian girl killed
by the Israeli army in Anata town, north east of Jerusalem, demanded
the Israeli army to conduct a probe into her death and to prosecute
the soldiers responsible.
http://www.imemc.org/article/46711
=== Former Israeli cabinet minister supports Pres. Carter re
"Apartheid.":
Carter is based on him daring to tell the truth which is known to
all: Through its army, the government of Israel practices a brutal
form of apartheid in the territory it occupies.
=== Leaked Israeli document gives frightening glimpse of apartheid:
The document provides detail of the regime of severe movement
restrictions, bureaucratic ethnic cleansing and political manipulation
and fostering of collaborators that Israel operates in the the
occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6442.shtml
=== Gilad Atzmon - Brave New World War :
The new American initiative at the UN, which is aiming at transforming
the world into a Holocaust Denial Free Zone has very little to do
with genuine truth-seeking or an authentic interest in historical
research.
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2007/01/gilad-atzmon-brave-new-world-war.html
=== Robert Fisk: Money can't close the sectarian divide in Lebanon
:
If only money could buy peace - or was the #4bn handed out to
Lebanon's Prime Minister in Paris yesterday supposed to help him
defeat America's Hizbollah enemies in Beirut's increasingly savage
street battles?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16257.htm
=== Fanning Fears of a Space War:
The revelation last week that China had slammed a medium-range
ballistic missile into one of its aging satellites on January 11
and littered space with junk fragments has created its own form of
political debris in Washington, D.C.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/space/1,72563-0.html
=== 'Four dead' in Haiti UN operation :
The UN mission in Haiti says four people were killed when its
peacekeepers expanded their presence in the Cite Soleil slum of
Port-au-Prince.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6300885.stm
=== Ecuador's defense minister killed in air collision:
The accident in the Andean nation further rattles the leftist
government of President Rafael Correa, who has clashed with Congress
over his executive powers and prompted street protests since taking
office along with his ministers on Jan 15.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25437312.htm
=== Rumsfeld's transition raises questions:
Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon,
but not the Defense Department. On Jan. 4, Mr. Rumsfeld opened a
government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven
Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official said.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070125-121654-5838r.htm
=== Paul Krugman: On Being Partisan :
The nastiness of modern American politics isnt the result of a
random outbreak of bad manners. Its a symptom of deeper factors
mainly the growing polarization of our economy. And history says
that well see a return to bipartisanship only if and when that
economic polarization is reversed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16258.htm
=== GOP tries to kill minimum wage:
According to Allard, employees in all states should expect that the
good-hearted nature of business would compensate them in a way
that's fair and just http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/47225/
=== Who Voted To Eliminate The Federal Minimum Wage? :
Here's the Republican Senators who voted for the measure killed in
the Senate yesterday that would have eliminated the Federal Minimum
Wage entirely:
=== Killing America: Up To Half U.S. Credit Card Bankruptcies
Medical-Driven:
A disturbing new report shows that with health care costs continuing
their sharp rise, low- and middle-income patients are reaching for
their credit cards with alarming frequency to cover treatment that
they otherwise would be unable to afford.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/oped/ci_5066695
=== Maine revolts against digital U.S. ID card By Jason Szep :
Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to demand
repeal of a federal law tightening identification requirements for
drivers' licenses, a post-September 11 security measure that states
say will cost them billions of dollars to administer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_idcard_dc
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