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04/30/08

03:46:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 87 words  

'Children Killed In Gaza' video taken down by Youtube

Here's the 3Mb .flv file of the murderers (Updated: See related stories in comments). Related: What's a Jewish holiday without a massacre? Preparing for the Final Solution: YouTube is owned by Google. A Google co-founder is Jewish and will be attending Israel's 60th celebration of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Also the original story link(see below 2nd video) cannot be linked to Technorati, another Google property. Desert Peace: REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST ~~ HOW COULD WE FORGET WHAT HAPPENED JUST THREE DAYS AGO ~~ YOUTUBE WANTS YOU TO.

03:45:55 am, Categories: Net-News, 92 words  

Barbican's tribute to 1948 accused of demonising Israel

[T]he Barbican Arts Centre's show Homeland Lost, consisting of 16 black and white images taken by the photojournalist Alan Gignoux soon after Israel gained independence, is the unlikely frontier of new hostilities between Britain's Israeli and Arab communities. Jonathan Hoffman, of the Jewish umbrella group the Zionist Federation, has complained to the London arts venue's director Nicholas Kenyon about captions accompanying the photos, which state that the 800,000 Palestinians who left their homes were "uprooted" and "dispossessed". He accused the Barbican of "falsifying" history. PALESTINE REMEMBERED + Al-Awda: The Palestinian Right of Return Coalition.

03:45:48 am, Categories: Net-News, 91 words  

151 Congressmen Profit From War

Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq. According to the latest reports, 151 members of Congress invested close to a quarter-billion in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006. These companies got more than $275.6 billion from the government in 2006, or $755 million per day, according to FedSpending.org, a website of the watchdog group OMBWatch.

03:40:06 am, Categories: Net-News, 145 words  

INDEX ON AFGHANISTAN APRIL 2008: FAMINE

There was a terrible winter disaster in Afghanistan. NATO paid little heed. The lives of Afghan people are untenable. Afghanistan is one of the 11 hunger-prone countries heading towards a "food emergency." The world food crisis has been caused by the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, The Pentagon, PNACers and corporate sharks. Free Trade” is a misnomer and ‘globalisation’ does not work. Wheat and rice are becoming as precious and sought-after as oil. (cont. below) The famine in Afghanistan is mirrored by the famine within the US-NATO mindset. The White House and US-NATO suffer from a poverty of imagination. The recent NATO conference was a disaster for Afghanistan’s needs. Did any NATO members read the 17 reports on Afghanistan? NATO faffed around with money-making missile shield discussions and memberships. They passed a “three fold” “Strategic Vision.” The Guardian: US marines launch mini surge in Afghanistan.

03:22:03 am, Categories: Net-News, 104 words  

Having Laid Waste to Their Country, U.S. Indifferent to Iraqi Refugees

On a rainy March morning, in a drab office complex off one of Metro Detroit's many expressways, I met Mona and Fadi Rabban. In broken English, they greeted me graciously, keeping their heads slightly bowed. The diminutive Fadi was dressed in black jeans and a beat-up leather jacket. His beautiful middle-aged wife donned a thin, black cardigan and black slacks, which seemed less suitable for the Midwest winter. Just six months earlier, the Rabbans had been in Jordan awaiting resettlement to the United States. Their arrival in America capped a journey that began in early 2006, when insurgents forced them to flee their Baghdad home.

03:20:07 am, Categories: Net-News, 80 words  

Activist group says China stepping up persecution, detention of Buddhist monks

China has stepped up persecution of Buddhist monks with mass detentions, Tibet activists said Wednesday, a day after six monks were given lengthy prison sentences in the first trial of rioters since deadly violence in Tibet's capital last month. The International Campaign for Tibet said groups of Buddhist monks have been detained from several Lhasa monasteries, which have been sealed off by armed troops. PHAYUL: Mass detentions of monks, suicides and despair as enforced condemnation of Dalai Lama provokes dissent.

03:19:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 218 words  

Top Syrian emissary: We won't sever ties with Iran for peace with Israel

Syria will not sever ties with Iran and Hezbollah even as part of a possible peace agreement with Israel, a senior Syrian analyst who is handling the government's contacts as it relates to the peace process said on Tuesday. "It would be naive to think Syria will neglect or abandon its strategic alliances that do not stem from the Arab-Israeli conflict," the analyst, Dr. Samir Taqi, said in an interview with Al-Manar television. Of course it would be naive! Israel doesn't want peace. It wants land. Lots of it -including parts of Syria as well! When asked why Syria elected to trumpet messages from Israel and relayed by Turkey of Jerusalem's willingness to cede the Golan Heights in exchange for peace, Taqi replied that the intent behind the media campaign was "to solidify the right" of Syria to the strategic plateau it lost as a result of the Six-Day War. As such, Taqi sought to emphasize that he is personally not involved in the recent developments, but is rather providing commentary on the matter. InfoWars: Did CIA ‘Photoshop’ Syrian military pics? The Independent: Intelligence or propaganda? Le'Orient Le Jour: "It is definitely normal and legitimate for Syria to seek negotiation, and to accept that these talks are impossible without American sponsorship." Rock-The-Truth: Rice Says NO PEACE With Syria.

03:18:40 am, Categories: Net-News, 167 words  

Desperate to meet its daily quotas, IDF starts arresting horses, next it will arrest donkeys

It seems the Israel and its army is so desperate in Jennin, it started to arrest horses. You got me right. MAAN news agency showed pictures of members of the Israeli Defense Forces arresting 3 horses in Jennin for unknown reasons. That is not unusual for Israel and its army. Israel has gone beyond any sense of imaginations on doing what it does best. Murder and terrorism on national scales not seen since Nazi Germany and murderous Serbia in the Bosnia. In over 41 years of military and armed Jewish occupation, Israel have arrested and jailed more than 700,000 Palestinians at one time or another, almost one third of all of Arab resident were guests of the Israeli jail system. Of course the majority never brought to trial. Israel simply arrest them, try to enlist them as traitors and informers, at times arrest them and jail them because some Jewish Settlers want their homes or land, other times simply to humiliate and simply punish just for the hell of it.

03:18:30 am, Categories: Net-News, 78 words  

Hillary Clinton, Please Explain Husband Bill's Association With Rev. Wright

The recent coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright has often cast him as a marginal, almost fringe figure, but Trinity Church is a major Chicago institution, and Wright has long been a prominent pastor on the American scene. And an anonymous blog set up to defend his church offers some compelling photographic evidence of this: A photograph of Wright and President Clinton, which it says was taken on September 11, 1998 -- the date of a White House gathering for religious leaders.

03:03:08 am, Categories: Net-News, 96 words  

Carter Concerned About Staged War Provocation, Says Calls for a New Investigation of 9/11 ‘Sound Good’

President Carter Was Concerned About Staged War Provocation, Says Calls for a New Investigation of 9/11 ‘Sound Good’. Added: April 28, 2008 Today at a Barnes & Noble bookstore located in Manhattan. After Rudkowski referenced Operation Ajax and the CIA orchestrated overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran in 1953 via staged terror attacks, he asked Carter if he feared a staged-provocation for war with Iran. Carter responded, “No, I don’t think lately that war is as likely as it was six months ago,” adding, “I hope not.” Facts not Fairies: Calls for a New Investigation of 9/11 ‘Sound Good’: Carter.

02:20:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 48 words  

How to advocate for a free Palestine

Establishing relationships with your elected officials is the most effective way to communicate the depth of support for a free Palestine among their own constituents. As developments in the region pose new challenges, Members of Congress should hear how these developments are viewed by their own pro-Palestine constituents.

02:18:06 am, Categories: Net-News, 126 words  

Orwell Meets Nazi Israel: Robots Built to Kill

If there was ever any doubt in your mind concerning the inhumanity of the Israeli "defense" forces, rest assured, your dilemma has been solved by none other than the Israeli military itself. They are now planning to play video games with real life robots built to kill Palestinians. F---ING SICK MINDED NAZI COWARDS! Orwell meet Nazi Israel, kill without the SLIM chance of your soldiers on the ground hesitating, remove ANY trace of possible reluctance, remove all chance of harm to yourselves. Just have a machine do it as you direct it from the comfort of your guard tower with a joystick. Just shoot Palestinians with a ROBOT! Quite honestly, this is one of the sickest things I have ever learned of in my life.

02:16:30 am, Categories: Net-News, 71 words  

The RAND Corporation: America's University of Imperialism

The RAND Corporation of Santa Monica, California, was set up immediately after World War II by the U.S. Army Air Corps (soon to become the U.S. Air Force). The Air Force generals who had the idea were trying to perpetuate the wartime relationship that had developed between the scientific and intellectual communities and the American military, as exemplified by the Manhattan Project to develop and build the atomic bomb.

02:16:20 am, Categories: Net-News, 91 words  

Halliburton bribe case haunts Cheney

Dick Cheney’s tenure at Halliburton ended eight years ago, but a federal investigation of alleged bribes from a company subsidiary to Nigerian officials lingers from the Cheney era, raising questions about what the vice president knew or should have known. In its quarterly filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, Halliburton said the Justice Department was widening its probe to determine whether Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) paid $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials to win a $5 billion construction contract for the Bonny Island natural gas liquefaction plant.

01:15:05 am, Categories: Net-News, 70 words  

Iran Ends Oil Transactions In U.S. Dollars, OPEC's Second-Largest Producer Now Pegs Petroleum To Euros And Yen

Although OPEC has traditionally tied its price of oil to U.S. dollars, Iran has announced it has shifted sales of its oil to euros and yen. Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has completely stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran's nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.

04/29/08

09:40:26 am, Categories: Net-News, 68 words  

McCain accused of accepting improper donations from Rothschilds

A US campaign watchdog has accused presumptive Republican president nominee John McCain of violating election laws by accepting campaign contributions from two prominent Londoners. At issue is a fundraising luncheon held in March at London's Spencer House, during McCain's swing through the United Kingdom. An invitation to the event lists Lord Rothschild and Nathaniel Rothschild as hosts, and indicates the event was made possible with their "kind permission".

09:35:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 76 words  

Surge in Iraq violence kills more US troops

Four US soldiers have been killed along with scores of militants following two days of fighting in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City and rocket fire elsewhere in the capital. The latest casualties, announced yesterday, make April the deadliest month in Iraq for the US military since last September, with at least 44 soldiers dying, according to a toll by the Associated Press. WUFYS: The bizarre case of Zapata Engineering, murdered U.S. Marines and Iraqi IED's.

09:34:17 am, Categories: Net-News, 102 words  

Obama vows to back Bush’s war commander

Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Barack Obama said on Sunday he would endorse Bush’s nominee to direct US military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout a region extending from North Africa to Central Asia. The pledge, made on the “Fox News Sunday” program, while predictable, serves nonetheless to thoroughly expose the antiwar pretenses of Obama and the Democratic Party as a whole. Obama was asked by Fox’s Chris Wallace: “Senator, this week President Bush named David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Iraq, to be the head of Central Command.... Will you vote to confirm his nomination?” Obama responded, “Yes.

09:31:47 am, Categories: Net-News, 137 words  

Anti-Karzai attack in Kabul shakes US puppet government

Sunday’s armed attack on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the center of Kabul was a stark demonstration of the isolation of the US-backed government and the growing striking power of anti-occupation forces throughout the country. Karzai narrowly escaped with his life. Cabinet ministers, members of parliament, Afghan and NATO military officials and foreign diplomats, including US Ambassador William Wood, ducked and ran or were whisked to safety when anti-government forces opened fire on a military parade being held to celebrate the 16th anniversary of the overthrow of the Soviet-backed government in 1992. HuffPo: Marines launch operation in Afghanistan's Taliban territory. Clinton, the war hawk, is dropping all pretence about wanting peaceful solutions. 'Peace' doesn't cut it; war, that's the thing. -Wars for Israel: Clinton: Afghanistan needs more US attention. (WireDispatch) Free Man Forever: Say NO to Hillary!

09:25:33 am, Categories: Net-News, 103 words  

Yinon's prophecy: Is the US waging Israel's wars?

Many throughout the Muslim world and beyond are asking this question: What are the real reasons behind the US invasion of Iraq and its wish to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran? For all their grandiose posturing, in truth, Iraq, Syria and Iran have never posed a direct threat to the US mainland. Put simply, they're too far away from the neighbourhood. So why would the US be willing to expend so many human lives and so much treasury on changing the regimes of countries it doesn't like? Global Research: Consider the Consequences of Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Power Plants, and Pray.

09:22:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 181 words  

The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War

It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel. The targeted victims are not Poland and France, but Iran, Syria, the remains of the Palestinian West Bank and southern Lebanon. The American mass media is overjoyed. War coverage attracts viewers and sells advertising. The neoconservatives are ecstatic. Hegemony uber alles is back on track. The US Air Force can't wait "to show what it can do." Defense contractors see no end of the profits. Under cover of the mayhem and propaganda, Israel can grab the remains of the West Bank and have another go at grabbing the water resources of southern Lebanon. Unlike the US and Israel, Iran is neither occupying any other country's territory nor threatening to invade another country. Nevertheless, propaganda against Iran is spouting from US and Israeli mouths at an increasing rate. Lie after lie rolls off the tongues of leaders of the "two great democracies."

09:21:09 am, Categories: Net-News, 90 words  

Carter: Hamas won the 2006 elections fair and square

Former US president Jimmy Carter stated Monday that Hamas won the 2006 elections "fair and square" because the elections, which he monitored then, were free, fair, just, and transparent, deploring the American administration and Israel for their unjust policies toward Hamas as a result of its democratic victory. In an interview with the NBC TV channel, Carter highlighted at the beginning of his talk that, "there's no way to have peace in the Middle East without bringing the Palestinians back together. And Hamas represents at least half of the Palestinian people."

09:19:49 am, Categories: Net-News, 119 words  

IOF shelling knock out Beit Hanun electricity transformer

A Hamas statement on Tuesday charged the Israeli occupation forces with deliberately targeting the transformer station in line with the policy of tightening the siege on Gaza. It said that around 200,000 citizens in northern Gaza spent Monday night in complete darkness and are still suffering from electricity outage and lack of water for 24 hours, which also affected work in hospitals and clinics. IPS News: Israel Could Make Orphans Homeless Again: The Israel Defence Forces issued orders Feb. 25 for the closure and confiscation by Apr. 7 of orphanages, schools and other facilities owned by the Islamic Charitable Society (ICS), claiming the foundation "masquerades as a charity organisation in order to cover its activities of increasing support of the Hamas terror network."

09:15:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 102 words  

House chairman threatens subpoenas on torture policy

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday threatened to serve subpoenas on former Attorney General John Ashcroft and two others associated with the Bush administration's interrogation policies if they don't agree to testify. If the three — including John C. Yoo, the former assistant deputy attorney general, and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff — do not reply by Friday, "I will have no choice but to consider the use of compulsory process," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., wrote in letters to them. Kenny's Sideshow: Brilliant Disguise: Bush Torture, Obama and The Boss. ADS: Scalia: Torture Is Not Unconstitutional [Video].

09:11:47 am, Categories: Net-News, 39 words  

In pictures: Austria abuse scandal

A 73-year-old Austrian man, Josef Fritzl, from the town of Amstetten, has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said. TimesOnline: DNA tests confirm Josef Fritzl fathered imprisoned children.

09:11:06 am, Categories: Net-News, 66 words  

3 tornadoes rip through Va., hundreds of people hurt

Three tornadoes ripped through Virginia on Monday, with one hop-scotching across the southeastern part of the state and leaving behind a 25-mile trail of smashed homes, tossed cars and more than 200 injured residents. The twister in this city outside Norfolk cut a fickle, zig-zagging path through neighborhoods, obliterating some homes and spraying splintered wood across lawns while leaving those standing just a few feet away untouched.

09:10:06 am, Categories: Net-News, 58 words  

Chicagoans Set to See Special One-Night Screening of "Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections" Tomorrow, Tuesday, 7 PM

David Earnhardt travels to Chicago tomorrow night to present, along with the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project and Progressive Democrats of America, a special one night only screening of UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections. Sponsored by WCPT 820AM - Chicago's Progressive Talk Radio also feature a post-film Q&A with David and Tribune Media columnist, Bob Koehler.

09:09:02 am, Categories: Net-News, 105 words  

Global famine? Blame the Fed

The stakes couldn't be higher for Ben Bernanke. If the Fed chief decides to lower rates at the end of April, he could be condemning millions of people to a death by starvation. The situation is that serious. Food riots have broken out across the globe destabilizing large parts of the developing world. China is experiencing double-digit inflation. Indonesia, Vietnam and India have imposed controls over rice exports. Wheat, corn and soya are at record highs and threatening to go higher still. Commodities are up across the board. The World Food Program is warning of widespread famine if the West doesn't provide emergency humanitarian relief.

09:08:10 am, Categories: Net-News, 57 words  

The Kidnapped Kids of Texas

No one has been charged since the raid, which was prompted by a series of calls to a domestic abuse hotline, purportedly from a 16-year-old forced into a marriage recognized only by the sect with a man three times her age. That girl has not been found and authorities are investigating whether the call was a hoax."

09:07:07 am, Categories: Net-News, 25 words  

'Speed to blame' for China crash

High speed was the cause of a train collision in eastern China that left 70 people dead and more than 400 others injured, state media has reported.

09:00:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 117 words  

Falling man survives after hitting windscreen

Australian emergency services persuade a suicidal man not to throw himself off a bridge. Yet, as he clings to the steel railings awaiting rescue, he slips and - to the screams of those standing down below - plunges to the ground. However, as incredible video footage shows, 'Bruce', as he is called by emergency crews, survives when his fall is broken by the windscreen of a fire truck driving below the bridge. The drama unfolded after police and fire crews were called to a railway overpass in the town of Dubbo, in New South Wales, after Bruce was reported to have hauled himself up on the railings of a 10-metre high bridge and seemed to be preparing to jump.

04/28/08

03:35:53 pm, Categories: Net-News, 188 words  

Molten STEEL Flowed Under Ground Zero for Months After 9/11

In response to the numerous reports of molten metal under ground zero, defenders of the official version of 9/11 have tried to argue that it was not steel, but some other kind of metal with a lower melting point. Well, here are what top experts who eyewitnessed the molten metal say: The structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, described fires still burning and molten steel still running 21 days after the attacks (page 3) A retired professor of physics and atmospheric science said "in mid-October when they would pull out a steel beam, the lower part would be glowing dull red, which indicates a temperature on the order of 500 to 600 °C. And we know that people were turning over pieces of concrete in December that would flash into fire--which requires about 300 °C. So the surface of the pile cooled rather rapidly, but the bulk of the pile stayed hot all the way to December". [...] The fact that there was molten steel under ground zero for months after 9/11 is very odd, especially since firefighters sprayed millions of gallons of water on the fires and applied high-tech fire retardants.

03:00:57 pm, Categories: Net-News, 65 words  

Psychopaths always blame their victims

I’m sure you haven’t heard on TV news that the IDF killed a Palestinian family of four small children and their mother, among others, as they were getting ready to eat breakfast. I mean, if an Israeli family was killed we’d be hearing about it non-stop; but this was just a Palestinian mother and her four little children. Just some collateral damage…

02:56:09 pm, Categories: Net-News, 89 words  

Israeli troops kill 7 Palestinians including a mother and her children

IOF troops on Monday killed seven Palestinians including a mother and her one-year-old baby while ten others were wounded when an IOF tank shell blasted their home in northern Gaza. Witnesses told PIC reporter that the IOF artillery shelled the house of Abu Muaitek family in Beit Hanun town completely destroying it and killing the mother and her four children Musab, 1, Hana, 3, Saleh, 4, and Rudaina, 6. AP: Israeli strike kills 4 Palestinian kids. PCHR: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. WUFYS: Israeli Terror Attack [Video].

10:22:01 am, Categories: Net-News, 56 words  

The Bush team's Geneva hypocrisy

Newly released U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Conventions' protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq war when Iraqi TV interviewed several captured American soldiers. Empire Burlesque: The Torture Election.

10:20:49 am, Categories: Net-News, 57 words  

US intelligence on Syrian reactor: justifying last year’s crime to prepare for new ones

More than seven months after Israeli warplanes destroyed a building in Syria’s eastern desert, the Bush administration has released intelligence purporting to prove that Damascus was building a nuclear reactor at the site, with the assistance of North Korea, as part of plans to build an atomic bomb. Global Research: The "Syrian Reactor Show" - a Fake?

10:20:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 73 words  

Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements

A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

10:19:02 am, Categories: Net-News, 73 words  

Riding the warhorse: Introducing President McCain

First, allow your brain to conceive of John Sidney McCain as president of the United States. Then, form in your mouth the proper noun, President John McCain, and let it roll off your tongue into the room and ears of those nearby. Practice it because it is what you will be saying when George Bush leaves office although you will know that George and John are one and the same. President John McCain.

10:18:10 am, Categories: Net-News, 83 words  

Is War With Iran Imminent?

The shooting has already started in the Persian Gulf – and chances are we'll be at war with Iran before President Bush's term is up. An American ship under contract with the U.S. Navy – the Western Venture – claims it was in international waters when Iranian speedboats approached and failed to answer radio calls. Shots were fired on the American side. Iran denies the whole thing. Fars/TruthSeeker: Iran: Iraq Situation Makes US Attack Unlikely. Consortium News: Redefining Iran as the Enemy in Iraq.

09:50:43 am, Categories: Net-News, 24 words  

Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz Faces Trial for Executing 42

One of the most famous faces of Saddam Hussein's regime, Aziz is accused of ordering the execution of 42 merchants for increasing food prices in 1992.

09:48:02 am, Categories: Net-News, 87 words  

Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke

The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room" -- the title of Alex Gibney's prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination. AlterNet: The Myths and Harsh Effects of Bush's Economic Class War.

09:35:46 am, Categories: Net-News, 126 words  

Karzai survives Taliban assassination attempt during military parade

President Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt yesterday when Taliban militants fired gunshots and rockets at a military parade in central Kabul. Three people, including an MP, were killed. Cabinet ministers, generals and foreign diplomats ducked for cover after shots rang out at the heavily guarded ceremony near the presidential palace. Bodyguards bundled Karzai into one of a convoy of vehicles that sped away. Live coverage on state television showed two turbaned MPs slumped in their seats, one about 30 metres from Karzai. One died later, as did a minority leader and a 10-year-old girl. The message to America's Afghan bootlicker is: you're not safe anywhere! WireDispatch: Clinton: Afghanistan needs more US attention. Dispatch: Bullets fly past president in Afghan attack. BBC: In pictures: Afghan parade attack.

09:28:48 am, Categories: Net-News, 103 words  

Scores of people killed in worst China train crash in a decade

A high-speed passenger train en route to a Chinese coastal resort has jumped the tracks and slammed into another, killing at least 66 people and injuring hundreds in the worst rail accident in the country in a decade. The accident happened at around 4.40am as the express train from Beijing to the 19th century Germany concession port of Qingdao derailed and hit another passenger train on a parallel track. About 10 of the express train carriages came to rest perpendicular to the track. The express would have been crowded with holidaymakers en route to the popular seaside resort for the May 1 Labour Day holiday weekend.

09:27:23 am, Categories: Net-News, 108 words  

'House of Horrors' father confesses

A 73-year-old man has confessed to holding his daughter captive in his home cellar for nearly 24 years and fathering seven children by her, Austrian police say. Austrian police spokesman Franz Polzer told CNN, the man, known as Mr. F., admitted holding his daughter hostage in a windowless cell in the basement of his home for more than two decades. Mr. F. told police that one of the children he fathered with his daughter Elisabeth F. was a twin who died. Mr. F. also admitted he burned the body of the dead child in an oven inside the house, according to Polzer. BBC: Austria stunned by sex abuse case.

09:25:33 am, Categories: Net-News, 97 words  

Hundreds flee wildfire burning in foothills near Los Angeles

Firefighters gained ground Sunday against an early season wildfire that slowly chewed its way through dense brush near Los Angeles, forcing more than 1,000 people from homes in the foothills. About 500 firefighters attacked the 400-acre fire, aided by two helicopters and water-dropping air tankers, said Elisa Weaver, spokeswoman for the city of Sierra Madre. Residents evacuated at least 550 homes Saturday night and Sunday, but none had burned. "This is pretty serious," Weaver said. "Some of these areas have not burned in over 40 years." Crews had the fire 30 percent contained by Sunday evening, Sierra Madre spokesman James Carlson said.

09:21:18 am, Categories: Net-News, 100 words  

Olympic torch relay begins North Korea leg free of protest

Assured of a trip free of anti-Chinese protests, the Olympic torch made its first-ever relay run Monday in authoritarian North Korea. An attentive and peaceful crowd of thousands watched the start of the relay in Pyongyang, some waving Chinese flags, footage from broadcaster APTN showed. The event was presided over by the head of the country's rubber-stamp parliament, Kim Yong Nam, who often acts as a ceremonial state leader. This is one of the things the NWO élitists really like about dictatorships like North Korea and China: no protests. -A submissive and obsequious population, too scared to raise its head.

09:05:00 am, Categories: Net-News, 55 words  

The Eight Days of May

Another in a series of warnings in lieu of another 9/11-type operation, folks! This is another reason this blog was established: to prevent another one of those horrid, inside job attacks! WUFYS: Next 9/11 scheduled for the week of May 1-8, with martial law as a bonus. Facts not Fairies: MAYDAY ALERT -- Terror Drills Could Go Live.

09:01:57 am, Categories: Net-News, 65 words  

Britain: Bank bail-outs to be kept secret

Ferocious and unprecedented secrecy means taxpayers will never know the names of the banks that have been supported through the special liquidity scheme, which was unveiled by Bank Governor Mervyn King last week. Requests under the Freedom of Information Act are to be denied. Details will be kept secret even after 30 years - the period after which all but the most sensitive state documents are released.

04/27/08

04:46:10 pm, Categories: Net-News, 78 words  

More Americans Decry Decision to Invade Iraq

Many adults in the United States are dissatisfied with their government’s decision to launch the coalition effort, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 63 per cent of respondents think the U.S. made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq, up six points since December. The coalition effort against Saddam Hussein’s regime was launched in March 2003. At least 4,051 American soldiers have died during the military operation, and 29,800 troops have been wounded in action.

04:23:35 pm, Categories: Net-News, 31 words  

CIA Stonewall: Agency Won't Release 7,000 Documents Related to Torture Program

After identifying some 7,000 pages of classified memos, e-mails and other records relating to its forced disappearance, secret detention and torture program, the Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release the documents.

09:48:19 am, Categories: Net-News, 68 words  

Fuel crisis threatens Gaza food aid

More than a million people in the Gaza Strip dependent on food aid have begun a fourth day with no deliveries of food by the United Nations. Other humanitarian agencies, including Oxfam, said that they too were suspending operations because of the fuel shortages that have brought the Gaza Strip to a standstill. Supplies of fuel to power generating stations were said to be 'on their last drop'.

09:43:04 am, Categories: Net-News, 25 words  

Obama pastor: I had death threats

Racial divisions loomed over the Democratic race last night as Senator Barack Obama's controversial pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright admitted his church has received bomb threats.

09:36:11 am, Categories: