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[Shaka Abubakar]

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--- On Mon, 1/5/09, James Granger <tren...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: James Granger <tren...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: FW: While Rome burns...
> To: eduadv...@earthlink.net
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> Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 5:37 AM
> Madoff is under house arrest for stealing $50 billion.
> The Scott sisters were given life for allegedly stealing
> $11.  The message is STEAL BIG!!!!
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> --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Judy Burnette
> <eduadv...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> From: Judy Burnette <eduadv...@earthlink.net>
> Subject: FW: While Rome burns...
> To: "Judy Burnette"
> <eduadv...@earthlink.net>
> Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 5:37 AM
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> By Nancy R. Lockhart
> The Poor Are Enslaved In America's Prisons
> Jamie and Gladys Scott have been wrongfully convicted for
> armed robbery and received double life sentences each. No
> one was murdered or taken to the hospital during this
> robbery, no one was even injured. The transcripts state that
> 9, 10 or 11 dollars was stolen. They have been in prison now
> for 14 years.
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> Obama Plan Includes $300 Billion in Tax Cuts
> By PETER BAKER and CARL HULSE
> The breaks for workers and businesses are nods to critics
> who are worried that the economic recovery program has been
> too focused on government spending.
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> Robert Fisk: Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony
> How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians,
> to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a
> grotesque irony about Gaza which - in any other conflict -
> journalists would be writing about in their first reports:
> that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which
> Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.
> http://tinyurl.com/9rvatm
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> Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells
> The Geneva Treaty of 1980 stipulates that white phosphorus
> should not be used as a weapon of war in civilian areas, but
> there is no blanket ban under international law on its use
> as a smokescreen or for illumination. However, Charles
> Heyman, a military expert and former major in the British
> Army, said: "If white phosphorus was deliberately fired
> at a crowd of people someone would end up in The Hague.
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5447590.ece
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> Living on Borrowed Time in a Stolen Land
> By Gilad Atzmon
> Communicating with Israelis may leave one bewildered. Even
> now when the Israeli Air Force is practicing murder in broad
> daylight of hundreds of civilians, elderly persons, women
> and children, the Israeli people manage to convince
> themselves that they are the real victims in this violent
> saga.
> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21635.htm
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> NEWS ANALYSIS
> For Israel, Chance to Strike Before an Ally Departs
> " ... Many Middle East experts say Israel timed its
> move against Hamas, which began with airstrikes on Dec. 27,
> 24 days before Mr. Bush leaves office, with the expectation
> of such backing in Washington. Israeli officials could not
> be certain that President-elect Barack Obama, despite past
> statements of sympathy for Israel's right of self-defense,
> would match the Bush administration's unconditional
> endorsement. ..."
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> By Paul Craig Roberts
> What Became Of Western Morality?
> It fools Americans, but it doesn't fool Israelis. The
> Israelis have always known that "self-defense" is
> a cloak for a Zionist policy of territorial expansion. The
> policy is controversial within Israel. Many Israelis object,
> just as many Americans object to President Bush's
> illegal wars and violations of US civil liberties. Many
> Israelis give voice to their moral conscience, but they are
> overwhelmed by vested interests.
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> Demonstration In Tel Aviv Against Gaza Assault
> Amid cries of "Jews and Arabs refuse to be
> enemies!" and banners reading, "Enough!"
> thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on
> Saturday night to protest against the country's war on
> Gaza. Protesters called for an immediate end to the Israeli
> attacks, in which more than 450 Palestinians have been
> killed and around 2,100 injured since air assaults on Gaza
> began last Saturday.
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> Zionism Vs. Judiasm
> This site appeared as a link on Alternet comments. It
> reflects a serious rift between Zionism and Judiasm. I find
> it highly educational, and also hopeful in presenting
> thoughts for humans everywhere to ponder.
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> Israel's Looming Catastrophe
> For three decades, Israeli leaders have relied on a
> political-military strategy that is fast collapsing,
> requiring some new thinking to avert catastrophe, writes
> Robert Parry. For the full story, go to
> http://www.consortiumnews.com .
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> Can The Jewish People Survive Without An Enemy?
> Avrum Burg is the scion of one of Israel's founding
> families - he argues that an obsession with an exaggerated
> sense of threats to Jewish survival cultivated by Israel and
> its most fervent backers actually impedes the realization of
> Judaism's higher goals.
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> Richardson Won't Pursue Cabinet Post
> By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
> Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico withdrew as the commerce
> nominee amid a grand jury inquiry.
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> Angry White Man (The New Republic)
> James Kirchick: "What [pre-1999 newsletters] reveal
> are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy
> for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry
> against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that
> Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his
> supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in
> good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions
> in American politics."
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> Moyers and Winship | Making "Duck Soup" Out of
> 2009
> http://www.truthout.org/010309J
> Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout:  "As 2008
> ends and this New Year begins, with all its fledgling
> promise despite turmoil and crisis, it's also that time
> when the media offers its lists of ten best or worst this
> and that of the previous year, an exercise that
> simultaneously entertains and infuriates. Forced at
> knifepoint to make such lists, at least ours would be a
> little different. One would be favorite headlines of the
> year from The Onion, the hilarious weekly that doesn't
> bill itself as 'America's finest news source'
> for nothing. If you can read it without laughing, you
> probably have been paying too much attention to your
> 401(k)."
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> Will Obama "Deimperialize" the Presidency?
> http://www.truthout.org/010309L
> Gail Russell Chaddock, The Christian Science Monitor:
> "As a US senator and presidential candidate, Barack
> Obama routinely criticized the accretion of presidential
> power during the Bush years. But in the run-up to assuming
> the presidency himself, the President-elect has gone silent
> on whether he would roll back powers claimed during the Bush
> years - or support congressional efforts to do so."
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> By W. Christopher Epler (Bill)
> The Daddy Bush Connection With JFK's Assassination?
> Please Check Out These Links.
> Like father like son? Here's a small sample of sites
> which connect George Bush Sr. with the assassination of JFK.
> How infinitely interesting that Bush Sr. and Jr. have their
> hands all over the two consecutive and most treasonous
> events in American history, i.e., the assassination of JFK
> and infamy of 9/11. Like father like son? Now is the time
> get to the bottom of BOTH of these monstrous events.