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Date: 29 January 2006 |
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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 === RSS FEED www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=001864 === Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America’s War 100,000 + Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2242 The War in Iraq Costs === Blair in Secret Plot with Bush to Dupe U.N. By Simon Walters A White House leak revealing astonishing details of how Tony Blair and George Bush lied about the Iraq war is set to cause a worldwide political storm. A new book exposes how the two men connived to dupe the United Nations and blows the lid off Mr. Blair’s claim that he was a restraining influence on Mr. Bush. === By Ingmar Lee Only the uninformed believed Bush when he said it was WMD’s that made him attack, invade, occupy and massacre Iraq. Most of us thought it was to steal Iraq’s oil, but we were only partly right. What totally terrorized the tyrranical Texan tycoon was when Saddam played the oil bourse card in November, 2000. When Saddam started selling Iraqi oil in euro’s, he jeopardized the U.S. dollar’s hegemony as the world’s supreme foreign exchange transaction currency. – The oil grab is a sideshow. The main feature is the oil bourse. === Their power derives from us Yet we are subjugated by the authority we have given them. By Troubled Neighbor Unaccountable, our public servants have acquired the license of angels and conduct themselves like gods to be obeyed. They have supplanted justice and liberty with standards of their own making. === By Paul Craig Roberts: Americans need desperately to comprehend that if Bush attacks Iran and Syria, as he intends, terrorism will explode, and American civil liberties will disappear into a thirty year war that will bankrupt the United States. === Five coordinated car bombings targeted the Vatican mission and at least two churches in Baghdad and two churches in the northern city of Kirkuk within about 20 minutes. === The bomb, which had been planted just outside the shop, also wounded five people, the police said. === The talks are taking place at U.S. military bases in Anbar province, as well as in Jordan and Syria. === Iraq’s demoralised oil minister is set to leave his job for a second time, industry sources said on Sunday, and he will not attend Tuesday’s OPEC meeting. === DOCTORS in Baghdad have appealed for international help in saving at least one of the Siamese twins born to an Iraqi mother last week. She “begged the world‰ to save her children. === The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called “stop-loss,” but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen flat. === An American soldier has been found guilty of mistreating Afghan detainees and a court-martial demoted him and sentenced him to four months in detention without pay, the United States military said on Saturday. === Former Iraqi Leader Ejected After Shouting ‘Down With Traitors’ === nternational activists and lawyers involved in the defence of Saddam Hussein say they will hold a mock trial of George Bush, the US president, and the British and Israeli prime ministers for alleged war crimes committed in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. === President Bush was only going through the motions – and, the paper adds: “Mr Blair not only knew it, but went along with it.” === Congress has granted unusual authority for the Pentagon to spend as much as $200 million of its own budget to aid foreign militaries, a break with the traditional practice of channeling foreign military assistance through the State Department. === Expands Use of Drones in “Terror War” === Targeted assassinations by Predators break international law, says Amnesty International === Using the anti-terrorist cause as a cover the United States has occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and will soon move to impose their “democratic order‰ on the Greater Middle East, Shebarshin said. === Iran’s plan to launch an energy trading exchange supports its desire to establish a geopolitical bloc with a Eurasian epicentre, anchored by Iran, China, Russia, and Europe, preferably including India (which is why America is bribing India with nuclear technology). === Professor Abbas Edalat is a founding member of the newly formed Campaign against Sanctions and Intervention in Iran (CASMII). He recently travelled to the US and spoke at MIT and San Francisco regarding the coming hostilities against Iran. === In the past weeks media reports have speculated that Washington is Œthinking the unthinkable,‚ namely, an aggressive, pre-emptive nuclear bombardment of Iran, by either the United States or Israel, to destroy or render useless the deep underground Iranian nuclear facilities. === A day after US Ambassador to India David C Mulford’s controversial remarks, India today said it has called for respecting Iran’s right to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy for its development consistent with its international obligations and urged all concerned parties to avoid confrontation. === Taking strong umbrage at American envoy David Mulford’s statement that India must vote against Iran on the nuclear issue, the Samajwadi Party today demanded his immediate recall by the Bush administration, saying the remarks were ‘’a slight on India’s sovereignty and unacceptable to the people’’. === So much of written history has been fictionalized to make martyrs of the worst kind of human beings. What is happening in America today has parallels to events that unfolded in other nations in modern history; and always with catastrophic results for humankind. === Teheran is getting ready to counter a “preemptive strike‰ by USA and Israel. The Air Force Command of the Revolutionary Guard has ordered its Shahap-3 Missile Units to keep their mobile missile ramps in motion in preparation for such an attack. === President George Bush claims Iran‚s limited but growing nuclear program poses “a grave threat to the security of the world.‰ What he really means is that Iran could one day challenge Israel‚s Mideast nuclear monopoly === Former Shin Bet chief and political newcomer Avi Dichter said on Sunday that Israel should hunt down wanted Hamas leaders even if they become ministers in a newly elected Palestinian government. === Only the arrival of the Anti-Christ would have received more “shock and awe‰ publicity throughout the world media, but especially in the United States, than the free democratic election of Hamas, a legitimate Palestinian resistance movement to free their people from the bloody boot of Israel. === In an interview with DER SPIEGEL he talks about the moral aspects of dealing with terrorism and responds to critics who claim he’s betrayed the Jewish people. === What the Turks did to Armenians in the first world war showed Hitler what could be done. Turkey is still largely in denial. Nations cover up their histories. Now in the global war on terror no holds are barred. The murderer and the torturer are back on the official payroll – both theirs and ours. === Another Bomb In Jerusalem: 91 DEAD: === Syrian official: Assad, Bush deal in works: : Senior source in Damascus tells Ynet Syrian leader Assad interested in deal that would allow him to stay in power; the price: Incriminating senior officials behind Hariri killing, cutting aid to anti-U.S. fighters in Iraq. Assad still refusing to dismantle Hizbullah === It said the election caused a “worldwide earthquake,” noting what it saw as the paradox of the West, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush in particular, being “unable to accept the results of democracy or to respect the peoples’ choice.” === Angry at Syria for not complying with its demands before the Iraq War, Washington has sought to ‘lay siege to, isolate and impose sanctions’ on it ever since. === Russian security services have arrested two spies working for British intelligence, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing the former head of Russia’s state security service. === Britain cannot kick the Afghanistan habit. Those snow-capped passes, exotic valleys and turbulent tribes have always posed a challenge to London‚s can-do crusaders. === As his plane lifted off the runway here in August 2003, Brian Dean Curran rewound his last, bleak days as the U.S. ambassador in this tormented land. === Blasts from tanks and machine guns go on for hours almost every day around Cité Soleil, a steamy slum of concrete hovels and canals of raw sewage at the capital’s northern edge. No one knows for sure how many civilians have been killed inside, because the bodies of the slum-dwellers and local gangsters rarely make it to morgues. === Establishing a relationship between Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and internal subversion in Cuba is not only an act of aggression against the Cuban revolution but also a dirty manipulation of the most democratic traditions of the American people. === There is the creed of the French Republic. And then there is the reality: riots that convulsed the nation for 3 weeks last fall. The roots of the crisis go back to the labor shortage of the sixties. === Cindy Sheehan on Running for Senate Interview by Chris Hume and Sari Gelzer === They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president’s power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. A NEWSWEEK investigation. === An honest and logical study of the executive branch will show even the most casual observer that it has always been a source of the People’s oppression; from its support of slavery, to its extra-judicial impositions in the war on drugs and the poorly-named war on terror. It is the principal evil we face today, and in the future. === Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the center of a widening influence-peddling investigation, used a contact in the federal government to give an early warning to Tyco International, one of his clients, that its subsidiaries were about to be suspended from doing business with the government, according to a court filing. === A lobbyist and former high-ranking aide to Republican Governors George Voinovich and Bob Taft, took $1,960 from Tom Noe and illegally funneled the money to three GOP Supreme Court candidates in 2004, state investigators alleged yesterday in a complaint filed with the Ohio Elections Commission. === Lobbyists with Hill ties key to record funding: A review of Senate records shows that the secretive earmark process has also become a boon for lobbyists, who sell clients on their ability to persuade members to insert pet projects into the budget. === Google’s sellout to Beijing is a threat to every person who ever used Google anywhere in the world. That means all of us. === Waves and tides could generate 20 per cent of electricity and replace nuclear fuel, report says === Most Congressmen are lawyers, and many others are businessmen. They know what “fiduciary responsibility‰ is. For Members of Congress, fiduciary responsibility means reading each word of every bill before they vote. === I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here === |
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