(The following text is floating around on the Internet and is a real nasty piece of work. --Hideous thoughts and words! There probably is not much truth in them. However, the evil agenda expressed in this short text gives us some pause for thought, because it would appear that powerful people in the world today are acting in accordance with it to some extent. We are not sure what to make of it and have no definite opinion for or against. This text may be scary to some. Be warned! -Eds.)

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Three months ago, on Thursday, March 30, 2006, the Israeli High Court struck down Israel's slavery law that had been on the books since 1952. According to the Israeli Human Rights organization Kav LaOved, "The view of migrant workers in Israel as the employers' property is reflected above all (in) the "binding arrangement" which makes the worker the employer's slave."

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Civilised (adjective): cultured, educated, refined, enlightened, polite, elegant, sophisticated, urbane
Civilise (verb): to enlighten, educate, cultivate, improve, advance, develop, refine

Poor old Dante Alighieri, were he around today, I am sure he would find it difficult to find the words to describe the evils visited by so-called civilised nations on the defenceless of the planet, assuming that is, he was fully informed of what is going on.

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Yesterday the New York Times had an editorial attacking the growing tyranny of the Bush administration called " Rushing Off a Cliff."

"Here's what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans' fear of losing their majority to push through ghastly ideas about antiterrorism that will make American troops less safe and do lasting damage to our 217-year-old nation of laws - while actually doing nothing to protect the nation from terrorists. Democrats betray their principles to avoid last-minute attack ads. Our democracy is the big loser."

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Karen © Spector

A number of writers have recently written critical articles or reviews about the power of the pro-Israel or Jewish Lobby and its influence on US policy in the Middle East. Most of these writings emphasize the power of the lobby over Congress, the two major parties (especially the Democrats) and the Executive branch. Some even describe the pro-Israel lobbies and the allied Jewish federations, the numerous propaganda institutes described as "think tanks," publications as well as their influence or control over the mass media, from Hollywood, the print media, television to corporate "public" radio. However these critics and analysts paint themselves into a corner, attributing to the Jewish lobby so much power as to virtually incapacitate any effort to counter its influence and change the direction onus policy. The image of a near-omniscient and omnipotent Jewish lobby overlooks its vulnerability and significant issues around which an opposition or counter-hegemonic movement can be organized in the United States.

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"Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be preferred to life,

And the good man will be punished as a criminal"

I am including this excerpt from the "Hermetic Dialogue between Hermes and Aesklepios", written in the fourth century, as a way to illustrate for our Muslim friends and readers some of the conditions which prevail in my land, as well as mentioning a few of the arguments being used by those who are behind the assaults undertaken against the Muslim lands and peoples. I am inclined to believe that the author of the above excerpt had a prophetic vision of the times we are now experiencing.

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"I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals." --George W. Bush

My friend Bernie says a lot of folks have George Bush figured all wrong. "Sure he lies," Bernie said, "every time he opens his mouth. But -- think about it. Even when Bush is lying he ends up telling us what he's gonna do. He can't help himself -- he just blurts it out. But by the time we understand what he's saying -- he's already made a stinkin' mess and moved on to the next one."

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fear.gram.pl © 2006

Something bad is about to happen. Only you can stop it, and the clock is ticking.

We hate to sound apocalyptic. We loathe the politics of fear (even if it works!). So we're not looking to scare you. But you need to know that the end is near for "archaic" ideas like . . .

* the right to security in your home and papers
* the right to be free from unreasonable searches 
* the safety net of judicial warrant requirements 
* the right to a trial by a jury of your peers in a system of due process
* reasonable bail and recourse for false arrest
* protection from cruel and unusual punishment

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The wide gap between U.S. President George W. Bush’s words and deeds vis-à-vis Islam and Muslims doomed to failure his speech at the United nations on September 19, which could neither appease Muslims nor pacify the ever growing Islamophobia.

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The war in Iraq is fueling Islamic radicalism and terrorism around the world, and this week we learned that all sixteen agencies in the U.S. intelligence community agree on this critical point.

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Sami Abu Salem © WAFA

Today is the anniversary of the start of The Second Intifada. -We hope that there will be an ever greater awareness of the tremendous suffering of the Palestinians and of their extraordinary courage and strength. The 2nd Intifada was inevitable. There will be a 3rd and a 4th if the Zionists do not come to their senses. There will be no peace without justice and dignity. (Eds.)

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Relentless indoctrination by a vast corporate media complex has convinced many that the United States of America is an exceptional nation. Charged with the sacred duty of preserving Pax Americana, the United States is purported to be the embodiment of the ideals of truth, justice and liberty for all.

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"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that False Self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality ... and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." -R. D. Laing

The pathology of American culture is as ubiquitous as its strip-mall ugliness. It is abundantly evident, in almost every aspect of contemporary life. From the predatory (to the point of psychopathic) practices of its morally scurvy pirates at the helm of the corporate/governmental ship of state, down to the pandemic enervation and proliferate anomie of its galley slaves languishing in their soulless cubicles -- from the genitalia-devoid mascots at Disney World to the genitalia-obsessed torturers of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo -- the soul-sickness spreads before us like George W. Bush's taunting, executioner's smirk.

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Afghanistan: The Other Lost War - by Stephen Lendman In his important new book Freedom Next Time, dealing with "empire, its facades and the enduring struggle of people for their freedom," John Pilger has a chapter on Afghanistan. In it he says that "Through all the humanitarian crises in living memory, no country has been abused and suffered more, and none has been helped less than Afghanistan."

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Branch Warfare and the Evolution of Aggression --The pages of history, those monuments to humankind’s brief rule over the planet, are replete with violence, death and destruction. Indeed, it can be argued successfully that war, genocide, ethnic cleansing and human violence against each other have defined humanity’s tumultuous existence on Earth. We are inseparable from death and destruction, suffering and violence.

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From Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine

While human and living conditions in the concentration camp the Gaza Strip has become due to criminal Israeli cruelty has not reached the genocidal benchmark, there are serious indications that Gazans are literally starving by the hundreds of thousands.

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AFP © ScanPix

In this exclusive interview, Iran's foreign minister, Monouchehr Mottaki, speaks frankly about Iran's foreign policy priorities, strategic partners, and regional security concerns. He reaffirms Iran's role in working for the security of the entire Persian Gulf, and dismisses the possibility of a U.S. attack on Iran.

Kaveh Afrasiabi: What are the main foreign policy priorities of Iran today?

Foreign Minister M. Mottaki: Our priority is to protect our rights and interests. We are also concerned with the lack of justice and spirituality in the current international system. Sixty years after the establishment of the United Nations, we are still confronted with a great deal of injustice, with some powers playing big brother. This is the reason for unilateralism today, which is no longer acceptable by most of the world community supporting multilateralism. The absence of spirituality has translated into power without responsibility, that is, every party trying to acquire power without a sense of responsibility to the human beings and members of the international community. This lack of justice and spiritual standards has translated into various crises around the world. If you look at the recent war in Lebanon, you will find a glaring example of this unjust approach, with some parties preventing an immediate cease fire and supporting the aggression of the Zionist regime.

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Just in time for the 5th anniversary of al Qaeda’s September 11th attack, Hollywood’s master conspiracy theory director Oliver Stone produced the movie, “World Trade Center,” which conspiracy theorists hoped would be equal to his provocative movie about the Kennedy assassination, “JFK.”

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In order to maintain the cohesion of Israeli Jewish society against the spectre of a "warm peace" with its neighbours, the Zionist state must maintain distrust among Jews towards the Arab nation, emphasize the "European" identity of their state (as distinct from the surrounding "barbarian" states) and engage in provocations whenever the "threat" emerges that a peace may ensue. For this reason, the Zionist state is, by its very nature, a permanent threat to its environment.

It is often assumed that a massive return of Palestinian refugees to locations within the State of Israel - in accordance with international law and human rights - would be contrary to the interests of Israeli Jews and may endanger their physical existence. It cannot be denied that a massive return would significantly change the demographic composition of the population. There is, however, no particular reason to believe that such a return would physically endanger Israeli Jews, if the consequent population movement is properly organized in order to ensure the availability of housing and work opportunities.

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OCTOBER 5-- No Work, No School In Over 80 Cities and Towns -- MARCH AGAINST BUSH

On Thursday, October 5, people will walk out of school, take off work, gather in town squares, and MARCH in cities across the country, declaring their intention bring the Bush program to a halt.

In the last week, momentum is growing as the number of cities planning protests jumped from 50 to over 80. Meanwhile, the Bush administration is racing to bolt into place an unprecedented new law which would legalize torture and severely restrict habeas corpus, the basic right to legal redress first established in England in 1215.

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“The times are ominous!” - The late Phil Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, in his final public appearance, March 19, 2002. (1)

Washington, D.C. - A rally against the Iraqi War at the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday, September 26, 2006, led to the arrests of 71 protesters by the police, according to a spokesperson for one of the organizers.

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"Resistance to state tyranny is obedience to God."--St. Augustine"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson

Recently, an Associated Press report reaffirmed to me that the leadership of the two major political parties in America are totally in favor of continuing war in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Mary © Helmreich (Watercolor)

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, 25 September, met with Muslim diplomats in Rome in an effort to mend relations with the Muslim world following his recent speech which depicted Islam as a violent religion.

The Pope reportedly assured envoys from 22 predominantly Muslim countries that he had “total esteem and profound respect” for Islam and Muslims. He also pointed out that both Muslims and Christians must reject all forms of violence.

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Hand-in-hand with his threat warnings, Bush keeps telling us how his War on Terror has made us so much safer, bragging that there hasn't been a terrorist attack in the United States in the five years since the one of September 11, 2001. Marvelous. There wasn't a terrorist attack in the United States in the five years before that day either. But thanks to the War on Terror -- particularly the bombing, invasion, occupation, and torture of Afghanistan and Iraq -- numerous new anti-American terrorists have been created since that historic day. The latest confirmation of this, if any more were needed, is the recently leaked National Intelligence Estimate conclusion that "the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and ... the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks."[1]

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IS IT TRUE that in 1941 and again in 1942, the German Gestapo offered all European Jews transit to Spain, if they would relinquish all their property in Germany and Occupied France; on condition that:
a) none of the deportees travel from Spain to Palestine; and
b) all the deportees be transported from Spain to the USA or British colonies, and there to remain; with entry visas to be arranged by the Jews living there; and
c) $1000.00 ransom for each family to be furnished by the Agency, payable upon the arrival of the family at the Spanish border at the rate of 1000 families daily.

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Shawqi Ahmad Omar with his children, now grown.

Five years later, George W. Bush’s “war on terror” has morphed into (as he calls it) a “War on Terra”—an assault on the life and values of the United States and the planet—including our judicial system. Take for example, the sweeping scope of the “terror cases” that have surfaced so far. As the Washington Post noted recently, nine out of 10 of the terror cases brought by the Justice Department since 9/11 did “not result in prosecutions." In these cases, “most charges [were] not related to terrorism and … only about a third of those prosecuted end up in prison.

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Illustration © Noora Altannak/Gulf News

As each day passes, I'm convinced I've stepped through a mirror and slipped into a confusing parallel reality where nothing is what it seems. Either that or western societies are in need of urgent saving.

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The media has done a lot to demonize Islam and create hatred between Christians and Muslims. When you consider that the purpose of religion should be to bring peace, when war and hatred replace love in the name of religion, it should really make the thinking mind wonder. The American Muslim leader, Imam Warith Deen Mohammed said, "When we read the Quran and Bible with proper understanding, we can clearly see that these great religious leaders were not divided one against the other.

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It takes great courage to venture onto the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal - especially on Fridays when Mary Anastasia O'Grady's Americas column appears. This is a woman who surely will have a serious back problem one day resulting from her permanent position of genuflection to the most extreme far-right she pledges allegiance to.

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I always felt that my hometown was a microcosm of the world. With that said, I would like to address this talk of separation of God and State.

I worry that the sins of the father are handed down to the sons and daughters; I worry that words don’t mean what they used to: words like principle, belief and right and wrong.

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The above reflects my final edited draft but I provide below the more long winded version that may contain arguments and material of benefit to you and on that chance I include them. Moreover, in doing house cleaning on the site I will be moving material onto this page that I deem relevant and moreover again the lead page in the days ahead will have a library of links, first small but then larger to clean up the site in putting the public service geopolitical analyses to bed.

Please keep in mind the recent points not to trust men from their words, only by their deeds. Kerry, Clinton, Bush they are all one and the same. Remember the deep true purpose of controlling electronic voting and the numbers soon to be put before you by the NWO propaganda tube: numbers that already show the national consumption tax a close second to only the flat tax in universal domestic popularity.

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Part I: The consequence of the November elections was psychologically hurtful to many Americans. These Americans realized that the type of problems we have been heralding since Recapturing America are true and valid. We are an occupied country. Those controlling us are bad people. Who else can so malign and eviscerate this once great nation with people having a strong nexus to the Judeo-Christian ethic and heritage? Who else could have their hands in 9-11, setting up our own troops for WMD attack on the border of North Kuwait, permit the abuse, torture and murders at Abu Ghraib and wantonly, knowingly and willingly be involved with reckless malfeasance in the deaths and injuries to countless innocents and children? Who else would separate us from G-d, who would give us the Patriot Act to predicate a police state, build empty prisons, train police and troops to confront our own people, open borders, export jobs, dilute education, victimize our children, except those who take glee in seeing millions of Americans wait on line to cast a meaningless vote.

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Nayef © Hashlamoun

What interest do Muslims, especially in Palestine, have in firebombing churches in the West Bank ? And what message of civility, good –will and national unity do the perpetrators of these hideous acts want to communicate to the Palestinian people and the outside world by attacking and threatening to fire-bomb peaceful churches in Gaza, Nablus, Jenin and Tubas?

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Things are not looking good for Senator Allen in Virginia, Lt. Governor Steele in Maryland, Mayor Corker in Tennessee and a dozen other Republican Senatorial candidates around the nation because of Bush’s failed Iraq War and terrorism policies. A highly classified report issued by all 16 US intelligence agencies has concluded that the Iraq War has increased the threat of international terrorism facing the American nation.

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VHeadline.com broke the news early Saturday evening that Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro was prevented by airport officials from departing the US from JFK airport on a commercial flight on Saturday following the UN General Assembly meeting. He said officials demanded he surrender his ticket and boarding pass claiming his name was on a so-called "red list." He was then illegally detained, taken to a small room and strip-searched despite his strong protests after having clearly identified who he was. He explained once he did, his treatment only got worse.

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"We are at war with Eurasia.
We have ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia."
--- George Orwell ("1984")

"I sense a Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States
that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists,
a confrontation between good and evil." --- George W. Bush

"Sitting on my own brain, waiting for the end of days
Corporation profits, Bloody oil money
I'm above the law and I'll decide what's right or wrong
I'm The Decider."--- Paul Hipp

I was wondering when they'd bring out the religion card again. I knew with the November selection coming up it was only a matter of time before they played the card. Did you know that there are American Taliban cults that worship the picture of George already as a profit er, prophet and since America was based upon the Roman Empire isn't it about time that Caesar became god? Well isn't it?

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The man who gave the world the Pentagon Papers delivers an impassioned plea to a new generation of activists to heed the lessons of Nixon and even Hitler when taking stock of the Bush administration’s nuclear ambitions.

What follows is a slightly edited version of a speech Ellsberg gave on Sept. 7 at a “World Can’t Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime” rally in San Francisco—one of 50 meetings held that night to plan national protests in cities and towns across the country on Oct.5.

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Palestine © Remembered

What right does this fascist woman [Livni] have to say that refugees evicted from their homes and towns and villages at gunpoint have no right to return to their homes? The Right of return is the centerpice, the core, and essence, of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Without repatriation and indemnification of the refugees, there can be no peace, not after 500 years. --Khalid Amayreh, Palestinian Journalist

The Director of the Center for the Right of Return for Refugees reiterated Friday that UN Resolution 194 is nonnegotiable.

Two-thirds of Palestinians are refugees and are not about to relinquish their right. It is not a bargaining chip for President Abbas or Prime Minister Haniya. As a collective and individual right, is cannot be dismissed for any reason. Any official in whatever the office may be cannot make any decision that prejudices that right.

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Perle, Strauss, and Wolfiwitz

Assaulting humanity and the Earth with shocking impunity, the White House’s Machiavellian acolytes of Strauss shamelessly lead the charge for soulless corporations, obscenely wealthy individuals, perverse hypocrites of the Religious Right, a diminishing number of allies, authoritarian regimes that bow to their will, and their state terrorist proxy in Tel Aviv.

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I often visit the CounterPunch.org site because I enjoy reading the many interesting articles I find there. However, on my last visit, I was somewhat surprised to see Alexander Cockburn’s article on “The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts,” which is a brutal assault on those who believe in the complicity of the Bush administration in the 9/11 attacks.

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Hugo Chavez chooses his authors, political and social thinkers well, and there's no one better than Noam Chomsky. In his dramatic and courageous speech yesterday to the 61st UN General Assembly, Chavez held up a copy of Chomsky's 2003 book Hegemony or Survival (which I've read and quoted from before). In the book, Chomsky cites the work of Ernst Mayr whom he describes as "one of the great figures of contemporary biology."

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Israeli Police Terror

From "Crescent & Cross"

My name is Joe Cortina. I am a retired Florida businessman who has done substantial world traveling - some purely as a 'tourist' and some in areas -shall I say- 'nothing to do with vacationing'. I am a former special operations officer and have done intelligence investigator work for over 15years - some of it overseas - mostly in Central America - but also in the Mid-East. My political posture is ‘conservative’ and my religious values are Christian.

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“No one is more effectively enslaved than those who think they are free.” - Charles Sullivan

Meet Charles Sullivan, social activist, writer, and photographer from the hinterland of West Virginia, whose ongoing battle against capitalism and its inherent evils is a shining inspiration to all of us who are fighting for the very existence of humankind and the betterment of our world.

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The terrorists want to kill us. Our government wants to tap our phones. The CIA wants to haul us away to secret prisons. Corporations want to poison our water, our air, and our food. You've got hurricanes, moody loners, e. coli, undocumented immigrants, drug dealers, shoe bombers, Mad Cow Disease, child molesters, welfare cheats, reality show contestants; if we were to believe the hype, there is much to fear in our daily lives.

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On Monday August 6, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally notified the President of the United States that information developed by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz [German domestic secret service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst, German foreign secret service] indicated clearly that an attack by a radical Arab group partially based in Germany was to occur on September 10-11, 2001. The President was at that time in residence at his farm in Texas. Our [German] Ambassador was acting in direct response to instructions from Foreign Minister Fischer.

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According to a study presented at the recent national meeting of the American Chemical Society, "remnants of Prozac are flushed from the body and travel in wastewater that reaches streams and rivers ... (and) cause female mussels to release their larvae before they're able to survive on their own." Tell this to the person sitting in the next cubicle and the typical response will likely be either indifference or bemusement. After all who gives a damn about a mussel?

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"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts' desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun, 1920

As Americans waddled into the new century, overweight, overworked, and as self aware as a cloister of sea slugs -- so too arrived, affecting his bandy-legged, fake cowboy swagger, George W. Bush, to usher in this era of unquenchable, consumer craving and perpetual, martial emergency.

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After agreeing to supply discounted oil to the richest city in Europe - London - to help its low income residents use the city's buses at a reduced cost after earlier providing discounted heating oil for the poor in several northeastern US cities including its richest one - New York, Hugo Chavez is at it again. This time he offered to aid the US oil and cash-rich state of Alaska by providing an even greater benefit - free or subsidized heating oil. In the richest, most powerful country in the world, federal, state and local governments continue to provide fewer essential services to their citizens most in need like helping them stay warm in winter when they can't afford to do it on their own. The result is many of them don't and some die as a result.

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No mistake, the Successor of Saint Peter, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, the Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI has erred and the damage is done: His anti-Islam remarks are out and cannot be retracted, like bullets that cannot be retrieved once shot, adding a Catholic stamp to the Evangelist “Islam versus the West” justification for the U.S. neoconservative–led “WWIII on Islam.” (1)

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke these words before the United Nations:

“Today, humanity passionately craves commitment to the Truth, devotion to God, quest for Justice and respect for the dignity of human beings. Rejection of domination and aggression, defense of the oppressed, and longing for peace, constitute the legitimate demand of the peoples of the world; particularly the new generations and the spirited youth, who aspire a world free from decadence, aggression and injustice, and replete with love and compassion. The youth have a right to seek justice and the Truth; and they have a right to build their own future on the foundations of love, compassion and tranquility. And I praise the Almighty for this immense blessing.”

Those are truly Catholic sentiments. You’d think the Pope had spoken them, but you’d be wrong. A man who is not under the control of the Jews spoke these beautiful words.

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One wonders why Seoul did not experience a seismic event last week. A million jaws should have clunked to the floor when one of the most meretricious arguments on the security of Northeast Asia was uttered in Singapore.

According to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, China cannot afford to let the North Korean regime collapse because the communist state functions as a buffer from U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.

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Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, "Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States." [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.] “It’s an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what’s happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet.

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Benni © Efrat

Like Taking Candy from a Baby

As natural as the end of summer giving way to cooler temperatures and the changing colors of the trees, the vast machinations of the military-energy industrial complex has yet again begun to spin in preparation for the upcoming midterm elections, using the myriad number of tools at its disposal to manipulate the electorate into once more voting against its own interests, into voting for the interests of the elite few. Knowing the absolute ignorance, gullibility and lack of critical thinking of the American masses, those in power are able, once more, in what has become all too familiar throughout the annals of history, to skew the decision, mentality and vote of large segments of the population by simply reaching to the primitive instincts of human nature and manipulating emotions, psychology and the instinct of survival prevalent in every living organism.

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Did you know that I was the first Senator to have a website?

The site keeps me in constant touch with the people of Massachusetts and others across the country. It's been particularly true in recent years, as the TedKennedy.com community has grown to hundreds of thousands of committed Democrats.

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Let the faithful of Islam hear my warning words, before it is too late for us to prevent a terrible consequence for all humanity!

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From "Crescent & Cross"

TO AMERICAN WAR CRIMINALS AN OTHERS WHO SCREAM FOR THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT PEOPLE IN FOREIGN LANDS – AND – AT HOME

I am finally convinced that a huge percentage of the American people are the worst hypocrites imaginable – considering the fact that some 80% of us claim to be “Christians”. The AVAILABLE facts that our barbarian young sons have murdered many thousands of COMPLETELY innocent women and children in Iraq and ten times that many in Afghanistan tell me a great deal about our present day character. The number of innocents dying or dead from disease, starvation, suicide, and deformed mutated newborn ( thanks to our “safe” DU weapons) are now over SIX figures.

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Cincinnati © Children's

If you want anymore evidence that our popular culture is slipping away, just pick up a copy of your local Sunday paper. Put aside the editorial page and the sports page for a moment. Also, put aside the business page. This is not the biggest problem. Perhaps the latest problem with the "big" paper on Sundays can now be found with the - coupons.

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proteus © it

So, what could be wrong with putting an experienced and acclaimed information technology data management expert in charge of upgrading and centralizing all our records nationally, in order to fight crime and protect us against terrorism?... Even if she is a foreign born and raised globalist-sympathizing UN patsy, married to a French intellectual and living in France, with ties to Latin America?... I mean, what's wrong with that?!...

Hang on, dear readers, you're about to be amazed - and I hope angered and motivated enough to take action.

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“What if they gave a war and no one came?” was a popular slogan during the Viet Nam war. It remains a timeless and powerful motto, and is as relevant as ever. It is still a mantra that evokes thought provoking responses and suggests some intriguing possibilities.

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Part I of this article explained that the US was always a warrior, imperial nation, building it in steps and addicted to its madness. First we took it from its original inhabitants; then we expanded it beyond our borders by seizing the half of Mexico we wanted; later we established colonies abroad; and now, our method of choice is to rule the world through compliant leaders in client states everywhere serving our interests. We began doing it gradually following WW II when we emerged as the only dominant nation left standing, unchallengeable as the world's only economic, political and military superpower. Even before the war ended, we planned to take full advantage of that indomitable status once it did. We pursued it throughout the "cold war" and in the 1990s when it was over. Then came 9/11, the gloves came off in the Bush administration, and top officials in it ended any pretense of what our real aims are. The rest, as they say, is history, and the nations we target in our quest for world dominance and our own people at home pay a dreadful price. Below is a case study of our imperial madness in Iraq documenting how painful that price is.

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“Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” - James Madison (1)

Baltimore, MD - On September 18, 2006, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) held a very informative program to honor the 219th anniversary of the birth of the U.S. Constitution. One of the featured speakers at the splendid event, entitled “Constitution Day at MICA,” was Professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington U.’s School of Law, in the District of Columbia. He’s a nationally recognized expert on Constitutional law, national security and terrorism-related legal issues.

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Global © FireTV

From: Crescent & Cross

I am sure many of our Muslim friends often wonder why Americans are so easily misled by those who are devoted to fomenting war and conflict between our two peoples. This is an attempt to answer this question. Please keep in mind that there are many factors involved and I am mentioning only what I feel to be the most pertinent.

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© Palestinian Return Centre

From: UM KHALIL

"The equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom and justice and peace in the world." - George W. Bush (Address to the United Nations, 19 September 2006)

In his address (yesterday) to the United Nations George W. Bush began with the quotation above which he noted "can be found in the very first sentence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

If President Bush desires peace in the Middle East he would have continued quoting from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; specifically, Article 13, Section 2, which states: "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."

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Lyndon LaRouche has called on all patriotic Americans to join him in pressing for the immediate impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. LaRouche issued the call in the immediate aftermath of three developments in recent days:

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"Mrs. O'Kelly, do you believe in fairies?" "No, I don't -- but they're there." -- Irish aphorism

There is something missing in The Oakdale Estates subdivision. Oak Trees. Years ago, they were cut down to clear the property for development. Is it possible the gated walls of Oakdale Estates are fitted with impenetrable irony shields? There is something missing, as well, here in The United States of America -- Land of The Free. Freedom.

Where are our much-vaunted freedoms in the present day United States? Are they, perhaps, hidden among thephantom oaks of Oakdale Estates? Sadly, it appears, for a depressingly large percent of our citizenry, the loss of our rights and liberties are missed and remembered to the same extent as the felled trees of Oakdale Estates.

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If you reverse engineer 9/11 and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) (Ref, 1) documented goal of the new vision of the Middle East, the next October Surprise in 2006 will happen in Israel. Everything the world has been sold by the Bush Administration after September 11, 2001 was a plan that the Bush Administration really believed they could get away with.

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It was a year ago that hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region of the USA, and left a path of death and destruction in her wake. Well over a thousand human beings lost their lives in the floods that followed the tempest. Who can say how many people lost hope in the aftermath of that terrific storm?

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uruknet © info

Never in his wildest imagination did the writer ever think that America would become the leading source of evil worldwide. He was indoctrinated. He thought that evil only came from other countries headed by tyrants and those that had little or no concern for the human species.

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uthscsa © edu

Dark, black clouds are covering all our lands. These clouds are formedby lies, dishonesty and fraud, so much that no bright sun can send its rays of truth to penetrate and reach the view of man.

The clouds come from Psychiatry, the new born faith that's based onwhim, on false created ills and deadly drugs given "to help" but whichinstead cause suicides and death.

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It should be obvious to everyone now, that we Catholics who have figured out that the Vatican is under Zionist control, have been right all along. They labeled us “extremists,” “sedevacantists,” “ultra right-wingers,” “fascists,” “Nazis,” etc. But when the Jews and their useful idiots have to resort to hurling those epithets at you, it usually means you’ve hit upon the truth. Well, we Catholic “extremists” have the Zionists’ number and we have been calling them on it for a long time. Now, maybe the rest of the brainwashed Christians will wake up.

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“It is hard to believe, but only 60 years after the Holocaust the Jewish people is once again in danger of being destroyed - at least in its own state, where 40 percent of the world's Jews are concentrated. Evidence of the severity of the danger can be found not only in the explicit threats by Iran's president, which are backed up by an arms program that would provide the means to carry them out. It can also be found in recent articles in the European press that discuss the possibility of Israel's 'disappearance' as a reasonable 'working assumption.' Additional evidence regarding the threat level exists in the fact that not only is Israel the only country in the world that is threatened with destruction, it is also the only state whose right to exist is the focus of international polls, with many respondents answering negatively. That is an honor that even Iran, North Korea and apartheid-era South Africa were never granted.” (Yair Sheleg. Haaretz)

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inminds © co.uk

"Innovative Minds"
(This article has been edited slightly for better readability. Eds.)

Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation camp during the years of the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli defeat in May 2000, thousands of Lebanese were held in Khiam without trial. Most of them were brutally tortured - some of them died.

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John Graham © Defense Committee

Well, here it is another year, another birthday. This one makes me 62 years old. Also, this makes it my thirty plus years in prison. I believe it was right after I was illegally convicted in Fargo, North Dakota when I wrote a statement telling everyone that my freedom would only come after the masses had demanded it. But first we would have to unite and organize, to reach them.

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Palestinians suspect Israeli agents of being behind the fire-bombing of Churches. Palestinian nationalist and Islamic leaders on Sunday strongly condemned fire-bombing attacks against a few churches in the West Bank, calling the incidents “suspicious” and “incompatible with Palestinian and Islamic culture.” Three churches in Nablus, Tulkarm and Tubas in the northern West Bank have been attacked with fire-bombs by unknown perpetrators resulting in minor damage.

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“Bombing Iraq (after 9/11) would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.” - Richard Clarke, former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush

Washington, D.C. - “The U.S. has put in place policies in the Middle East for many decades that give people of the region many good reasons to hate us,” said Kevin Zeese, an Independent candidate for the U.S. Senator for the state of Maryland. He was speaking at the Palestine Center, on September 13, 2006, before a near-capacity audience. His timely topic was: “Reformulating Policy in the Middle East.” Zeese continued, “The overthrow of the elected leader of Iran in 1953, and the installing of the brutal Shah [Mohammad Reza Pahlavi] led to years of oppressive government. (1) The one-side support of the U.S. for Israel. All of these policies provide generations of Arabs and Muslim with real reasons for hating the U.S. And, because we fail to recognize these historical facts, we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. We continue to create more anger-more hatred of the U.S.”

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When George Bush spoke at a maritime training center in Piney Point, MD on Labor Day, 2006, ostensibly he was a respected leader paying tribute to the hard-working men and women forming the backbone of the nation’s economy.

In reality, Bush is a pimp for the moneyed interests and corporations who wield most of the wealth and power in the United States. Bush, his administration and Congress represent the interests of this tiny slice of the United States population with unwavering dedication. Money, profits, and property are the paramount elements in their perverse system of values. And by their reckoning, people are commodities.

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"Why do you hate America?" This is a remarkably easy question to provoke. One might, for instance, expose elements of this nation's brutal foreign policy. Ask a single probing question about, say, U.S. complicity in the overthrow of governments in Guatemala, Iran, or Chile and thin-skinned patriots will come out of the woodwork to defend their country's honor by accusing you of being "anti-American."

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At present, Forty-six percent of the American people hold the delusion that Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001.

This statistic comes to light as ABC/Disney airs a drama based on 9/11 containing the corresponding degree of historical accuracy regarding the circum-stances leading up to the tragic events of that day as an average episode of The Flintstones in depicting daily life during the Stone Age.

What are the cultural circumstances that allow such mass deceptions to be perpetrated with seeming impunity? Will these Rovian prevarications, so rife within the corporate media bubble, continue to define our life and times? Will our destinies, both individual and collective, continue to be determined by these pervasive deceits --- these pernicious narratives, concocted by cadres of elitist fabulists, perpetuated with the intention of frightening and distracting that portion of our population comprised of gullible, anxious, over-sized, over-aged, dim children?

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s latest visit to Tehran was just another occasion to highlight that Iran is compromising its Arab credentials in Iraq, and to raise more questions about whether Tehran and Washington are in collusion or in collision in Baghdad than giving answers to Arabs who do care to have Islam as a unifying force between the Arab and Persian neighbouring nationalities against foreign interference in the region.

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The US-led aggression in the Middle East and the three failed attempts to oust Venezuela's Hugo Chavez since 2002 (with a fourth now planned and likely to be implemented soon) are just the latest examples of this country's imperial agenda and the "new world order" it has in mind. The way this country now engages throughout the world isn't much different than what it's done close to home and worldwide since inception. Only the venues chosen, the scope of our aims, and the extent of our power have changed.

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Al © Jazeera

From "Um Khalil"

When the Qatar-based pan-Arab Al-Jazeera Satellite Television announced two years ago plans to launch Al-Jazeera International (AJI ), many people around the world hoped the new satellite channel would provide a genuine alternative to the notoriously biased western media, which often operate under a certain Zionist influence.

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Estigarribia airbase in Paraguay Copyright: Clarin

From "Upside Down World"

Controversy is raging in Paraguay, where the U.S. military is conducting secretive operations. 500 U.S. troops arrived in the country on July 1st with planes, weapons and ammunition. Eyewitness reports prove that an airbase exists in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, which is 200 kilometers from the border with Bolivia and may be utilized by the U.S. military. Officials in Paraguay claim the military operations are routine humanitarian efforts and deny that any plans are underway for a U.S. base. Yet human rights groups in the area are deeply worried.

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pathtofreedom © com

"We had to recognize that one of the big problems of the world, the Media, was right in front of us and barely acknowledged as a problem. Its legendary "gate-keepers" were there to dumb down the content, commercialize all messaging and keep our kind of progressive content off the air."

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Americans are not stupid. Ignorant, yes, but not stupid. Our brains have been washed, but most of us aren't brainless. The trouble with people in power? They believe we're stupid. If we were, we'd never learn; but we do, and when we do there's usually hell to pay for those who thought us stupid.

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Ok it’s clear now.
For so long it didn’t make sense why the boards of America’s biggest corporations would risk legal sanction and public humiliation just to give their executives an even bigger payday. More than 100 companies are under investigation by the SEC for sneaky options dealings despite the fact that managements had giant compensation packages even before the alleged finagling. You’d think CEOs would have been content to get rich slowly as their company’s stock rose over time, and let the compensation committee stick to routine matters like the number of ski trips allowed on the corporate jet, how many Super Bowl tickets to purchase, which side of home plate for World Series seats, etc.

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From "Upside Down World"

The U.S. military is conducting secretive operations in Paraguay and reportedly building a new base there. Human rights groups and military analysts in the region believe trouble is brewing. However, the U.S. embassy in Paraguay denies the base exists and describes the military activity as routine.

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Nobody talks about it out loud, but a few million Americans are seriously doubting their sanity these days. Or having their sanity doubted. Or both. They seldom speak their minds because what is going on in there is a vision of society that conjures grave doubt, if not outright horror. It is the kind of stuff that will get your ass kicked off the island in a heartbeat. Nobody wants to hear it

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“The government is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people...it emanates from them...its powers are granted by them...”Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. (1)

Washington, D.C. - At “Camp Democracy,” on the National Mall, on September 13, 2006, a year-long investigation by a citizens’ “Commission of Inquiry” was concluded. It had focused on this key question arising out of the “mock” indictments of the Bush-Cheney Gang earlier this year: Has the current administration committed war crimes and crimes against humanity? Today, the Commission returned its preliminary “mock” verdicts against the defendants. The answer was a resounding - “Guilty!”

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Palestine © Remembered

■ Palestinian refugees represent the longest suffering and largest refugee population in the world today.

■ In 2005, there were approximately 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, equivalent to 74% of the entire Palestinian population which is estimated at 9.7 million worldwide.

■ The breakdown of the refugee population is as follows:

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This series of pictures taken by an amateur photographer with a hidden camera provide real, clear evidence of the kind of terror inflicted by the state authorities in Israel. The pictures are disturbing.

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From "Upside Down World"

Preparations are underway for renewed US militarization and intervention in Latin America. To protect its own hegemony and economic interests, the US government is using the threat of terrorism as an excuse for military operations aimed at destabilizing leftist movements and governments and securing natural resources such as oil and gas.

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WHEN HISTORY REPEATS...DO WE NOTICE?

Axiom One: November Fears

With government and corporate media propaganda echoing the traumatic memories of five years ago, from sea to shining sea, enveloping the airwaves and print media of the nation with a clenched fist of wall to wall coverage, Americans have again been bombarded with the exploitation of the mass murder of 3,000 human beings, their death once more serving the political interests of the Bush cabal as well as the financial concerns of the corporate Leviathan.

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getty © images

British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in occupied Palestine Saturday, 9 September, in what seemed another futile (and insincere) effort to push the virtually non-existent “peace process” forward.

Blair has met with Israeli leaders and officials who have just carried out a genocidal campaign against Lebanon , resulting in the death and maiming of thousands of Lebanese civilians. The bulk of the Lebanese civilian infrastructure was also pulverized in the 33-day Wehrmacht-like campaign of murder and terror.

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"Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

A year after triumphantly declaring that work in the Gulf Coast region would be "one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen," after promising that "Americans will look back at the response to Hurricane Katrina and say that our country grew not only in prosperity, but also in character and justice," George Bush had the audacity to return to New Orleans. Unbelievable.

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MOSSAD LOGO. HEBREW INSCRIPTION READS:
“BY WAY OF DECEPTION SHALT THOU DO WAR”.

Another year has passed by since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. What has been gradually happening is that more and more the initial mainstream media version of what happened on that gruesome day is proving to be less true. Increasing credible and respected people such as scientists, ex-governmental officials, religious leaders, journalists and others are PUBLICLY coming out with information that refutes the mainstream media version of events. What is more interesting is that besides being called “kooks” and the information presented being called “conspiracy theories”, the substance of the new information debunking mainstream media is going unchallenged! The new information about 911 and the ones presenting it are being called all kinds of names but the information being presented is not being challenged or proven in anyway to be false.

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United States Constitution
United States Bill of Rights

Remember the archaic notion that freedom of speech and peaceable assembly are guaranteed by a document the Bush Regime is rendering as “quaint” as the Geneva Conventions?

Here is a reminder:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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Israel ’s ongoing crimes against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples have apparently replenished the huge reservoir of anti-Americanism throughout the Muslim world.

Arab and Muslim masses from Morocco to Indonesia are feeling, quite justifiably, that America is the enabler of Israeli criminality which has claimed additional hundreds of fresh victims, including numerous children annihilated with their families by American-supplied bombs and missiles.

The US government not only gave Israel the military tools to commit genocidal crimes in Gaza and Lebanon but also provided the political-diplomatic cover which allowed Israel to perpetrate these crimes with impunity.

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If any of our readers feel that this proud sheeple in some way represents him- or herself, then all we have to say to them is this: skip the links below and go back to sleep. You may be beyond redemption and democracy certainly is wasted on you. The evil NWO elite has chosen fascism for you. You are happy with that.

Our other readers however might want to take a serious look at the links below and continue their difficult and tiring path towards greater understanding of what we all are up against. Good luck!

How the Key Components of the 9/11 Myth was Inserted into the Public Consciousness
The Bush Administration's 9/11 Story is a Conspiracy Theory
9/11 Mysteries (Full Length, High Quality)
Senior Military, Intelligence, and Government Officials Question 9/11 Commission Report
The Underlying Politics of 9/11 (Part I)
The Underlying Politics of 9/11 (Part II)
THERMITE AND A CONTROLLED DEMOLITION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
Prof. Steven Jones: Thermate at WTC
The Evidence Is In (VIDEOS)
WHAT CAUSED NOT TWO BUT THREE WORLD TRADE CENTER SKYSCRAPERS TO COMPLETELY COLLAPSE ON 9/11?
Witness to explosions/basement collapse.
Evidence of Demolition Charges In WTC 2
9/11: PRESS FOR TRUTH
Were Explosives Used To Bring Down The Towers? (VIDEO)
Firefighters NYFD say Explosives brought down Towers (AUDIO)
Everyone's First Reaction Was "Controlled Demolition" (VIDEOS)
9/11 Controlled Demolitions of September 11, 2001 (VIDEO)
New WTC Complex Photos Highlight Bizarre Building 7 Collapse (PHOTOS)
9/11 - ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!
Citizens For Legitimate Government (LINKS)
Index of What Really Happened (LINKS)
Fox News - 911 The Israeli Connection (VIDEO)
Prior knowledge of 9/11 attacks overheard in Hebrew
ISRAELI VOICE ON HIJACKED PLANE: MOSSAD AGENT DANIEL LEWIN?
Israelis Inadvertently Admit Complicity in 9/11 Attacks: "Our purpose was to document the event"
STRANGER THAN FICTION
Following Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11.
Odigo Workers Received Warning of 9/11 Attacks.
FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP
False Flag Operations: Declassified Military Documents Show How US Government Planned Terrorist Attacks Against its Own Citizens
COMPLETE 911 TIMELINE

And one more thing: in case some of our American readers get too self-centered and sentimental on a day like this (9/11), please take a close look at the two items for today in "Past News & Analysis" (below). -Do 'Hiroshima' and 'Nagasaki' ring a bell? (Ed.)

In the five years since three World Trade Center buildings collapsed into their own footprints in virtually free fall time, the convincing power of the official explanation of that day’s events has evaporated. Polls show that 36% of Americans do not believe the official account.

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B'Tselem © Reuters

Consider a prison:

If you look at a blueprint of a prison, it looks like the prisoners own the place. They have 95 percent of the territory. The prisoners have the living areas. They have the cafeteria, the visiting area, the exercise yard. All the prison authorities have is 5 percent: the surrounding walls, the cell bars, a few points of control, the keys to the door. The prison authorities do not need 20 or 30 percent of the territory to control the inmates. They only need to control the strategic points.

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Trust me, George Bush says, perched on the remains of Geneva Conventions, the Constitution and habeas corpus.

From this moral high ground, the United States is assuring the world that a new facility for researching a horror shop of weaponized infectious diseases will be used purely for defensive purposes.

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I would be dishonest if I said I didn't hate the American government. I
do hate it, so really, so deeply and, yes, so rightly.

America is the tormentor of my people. It is to me, as a Palestinian,
what Nazi Germany was to the Jews. America is the powerful devil
that spreads oppression and death in my neighborhood. How can I not hate
this "great Satan," the evil empire? Does anyone expect people to love
their tormentors and child-killers? America has been, and continues to be, the sponsor, enabler, protector, and justifier of my people's misery for the last sixty years.

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Hessenmob © Skateboards

Adoption of bioethical standards is a meaningless exercise in a nation whose government has gone mad, a nation where secrecy provides cover for atrocities. In the United States of America, arbitrary power has supplanted due process. Those who really rule here have nothing but contempt for Law, Constitution, and the common concepts of human rights and human dignity.

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“Bibi (Benjamin Netanyahu) wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.” - Ehud Olmert, Israel’s P.M. (1)

Philadelphia, PA - On the early evening of September 6, 2006, Benjamin Netanyahu, ex-Israeli Prime Minister (1996-99), and presently the Likud Party boss and a member of the Knesset, showed up in the “City of Brotherly Love.” He was there to beat the drum for a U.S. war with Iran. How lethally ironic!

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Israel is like the elephants of the Kruger National Park, observed Ariel Sharon’s former spokesman, on a recent visit to South Africa. Ra’anan Gissin was speaking as guest of the country’s Zionist Federation: “We just want to be left alone,” he pleaded, “We seem docile but if you wound us we can go crazy because we are an endangered species”.

As the world has seen, Lebanon - half Israel’s size - has just experienced the wrath of the behemoth: its people, capital, towns, villages, highways, bridges, power and water utilities ground into the dust.

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A patriot is a person who loves his or her country. Who among you loves your country so much that you have come here today to raise your voice out of deep concern for our nation — and our world? And who among you loves your country so much that you insist that our nation's leaders tell us the truth? So let's hear it: "Give us the truth! Give us the truth! Give us the truth! Give us the truth! Give us the truth!" Because if we had had the truth, we wouldn't be here today.

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The Palestinians have been too grateful and too helpless for too long to be critical of the political agenda of their donors who have practically nailed them down as political hostages to the donors’ money, which was promised initially to help build an independent Palestinian state, but ended as a political instrument effectively used by the Israeli occupying power.

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Hitler left, and Prescott S. Bush

Lyndon LaRouche responded forcefully and directly on Sept. 3 to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's recent insane accusations that Democrats who opposed the Bush Administration were "appeasers," like those who capitulated to Hitler in the 1930s. Rumsfeld delivered two speeches and penned a Los Angeles Times op-ed during the week of Aug. 28-Sept. 3, repeating the "appeasement" charges, and then sent a letter to Congressional Democrats, ostensibly retracting his remarks, but, in fact, reiterating the same charges.

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Dear Friends,

For the past forty years we have been largely alone on this desert fighting a predator that not only has robbed us of all but a small piece of our historic homeland, but threatens the traditions and holy sites of Christianity. We are tired, weary, sick, and wounded. We need your help.

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Thank you Nancy @ Um Khalil!

In numerous interviews with western news networks recently, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to incite western societies against Islam and Muslims. Netanyahu, a master of sound bites but an utterly poor politician, claimed that Israel was at the forefront of a conflict of civilizations between “fanatical Islam” and the “ democratic and civilized West.”

The vindictiveness and venomousness of his tone, not to mention the utter mendacity of his message, may well be compared to Hitler’s instigation against Jews and other non-Aryan communities in Europe prior to and during the Second World War.

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Inside the belly of the beast can the harbinger of what is to come be seen, for the internal machinations of the Pax Americana have become rusted and decrepit, its lifeblood infected and diseased by the spoils of its conquests and the narcissism of its hubris.

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Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation "Enterprise Zone," your kids will ask you, "What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?" The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they're under attack. That's how, little by little, the owners of the planet take away what little we have.

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Almost beyond speech. I, am an attorney, an activist, a former Air Force Officer who served in Desert Storm, a veteran who waited more than 10 years for her VA claim, a champion of the underdog and tireless fighter, am almost without words, and I am afraid....

I do not fear for myself, though perhaps well I ought to...but I have real and palpable fear for this country, for what is left of Democracy, for the future of my children and, for the rest of the world.

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On Sept. 6, 2006, in this moment of the greatest strategic crisis since 1989, the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) will be featuring former U.S. Presidential candidate and noted economist Lyndon H. LaRouche leading a three-hour international webcast, during which he will summarize, and discuss, a fifty-year, positive strategic perspective for dealing immediately with the currently combined, and rapidly worsening threats of economic-financial breakdown-crisis and of generalized asymmetric warfare, now gripping the world system.

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Everywhere you go in America you see the slogan, “Support our troops.” You see it on bumper stickers, storefronts, flags and banners, yellow ribbons and even in the windows of private homes. But what does it mean to support our troops? Is it to send them into harm’s way; to invade and occupy sovereign nations in illegal wars for empire? Is it to ask them to commit heinous crimes, to maim and kill innocent civilians; to torture, insult, and to humiliate people who have done us no harm? Is it to steal the natural wealth that belongs to other nations and turn it over to American corporations?

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11th-hour © info

When many years ago, some of us said that the decline of United States
hegemony in the world-system was inevitable, unstoppable, and already
occurring, we were told by most people that we ignored the obvious
overwhelming military and economic strength of the United States. And
there were some critics who said that our analyses were harmful because they
served as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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United States Constitution
United States Bill of Rights

U. S. Military personnel are legally obligated to disobey any Unconstitutional orders, even if they are issued by the President himself. If they follow an Unconstitutional order, they violate their oath of office, and Department Of Defense officials face impeachment and removal from office.

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A new ABC-Ipsos poll released today shows that a third of Americans fear another terrorist attack will occur in the United States. This fear is understandable, considering the constant reminder from the Bush Administration that the United States must … “fight terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan so we don’t have to fight them here.” But what the president fails to mention is that terrorism is already doing a great deal of damage throughout the country and the terrorists are not who we think.

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"I have seen the future baby, it is murder." The Future --- Leonard Cohen

We're going to war, on the backs of the poor." 3rd World War --- DJ Monkey

I realized the other day that in the time it's taken Bush to lose the "war on terror" we defeated the real axis, some real loony toons with lots of real WMD's! Of course our mission then was to kick ass, take names and come home. Our mission today is to hold those permanent military bases we've been building with those trillions of dollars! What, you thought we were spending that money to rebuild Iraq? If that's the case you'd better check your medication my friends!

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"His Master's Voice"

President George W. Bush’s reply to a reporter’s question about whether Iraq had anything to do with 9/11: "Nothing!"

On two consecutive days this week, the Israel Lobby, aka “The Lobby,” took direct hits from opponents. On Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, two distinguished scholars, authors of the “Harvard Study,” Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, showed up at the National Press Club, near the White House. The Professors, who are both Jewish, ably demonstrated how the Lobby used its enormous influence, with the U.S. Congress and the Bush-Cheney Gang, to help give the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) a “green light” to bomb Lebanon back to the Stone Age during the recent, horrific 33-day war.

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Please help save VHeadline.com

I've chosen not to personalize my writing for VHeadline.com, but I'll make an exception this time, as I did on the other article I wrote for today, as involuntarily these may be my last commentaries for this extraordinary web site resource that now stands on the brink of going dark for lack of the financial support to go on.

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Persistently ticking off the precious seconds in humanity’s “Countdown to Extinction”, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists has advanced to seven minutes of midnight. Yet despite nuclear terror unleashed on Japan, an arms race of monumental proportions, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and widespread nuclear proliferation, somehow humanity has managed avoid nuclear apocalypse for 60 years. Perhaps the virtual certainty of “mutually assured destruction” will freeze the hands of the Doomsday Clock and continue humankind’s stay of execution.

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In a pattern that reminds of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement (1), France seems converging to a role that belongs to its previous colonial era in Lebanon and Syria, in harmony with, but under the regional hegemony of the United States’ involvement in other countries of the Arab Levant, in a stark departure from Charles de Gaulle’s post-Algeria legacy.

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Into the blazing stillness of grief...echoes of mournful dread.
-Like pained midnight roars that bring forth anguish in every living creature
in that once tranquil Lebanon. The stricken nation, perplexed,
reeling from the shock, sinks into helplessness, hunger and disease.
The world heard a heartrending, ill-omened scream piercing the delicate web of existence.
It now listens to the stunned silence that came afterwards.

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“Terrorists lie” said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a gathering of about 200 naval aviators in Nevada. He is troubled by the success of terrorist groups “manipulating the media” to influence Westerners. But what Rumsfeld and past American leaders neglect to mention is how often the media has been complicit in forwarding US interests in contentious regions.

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