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David J McKnight
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Fri Jan 14 10:45:17 GMT 2005
An English Plea For Peace With The American Colonies
My Lords, this ruinous and ignominious situation, where we cannot act with success, nor suffer with honour, calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth, to rescue the ear of Majesty from the delusions which surround it. You cannot, I venture to say, you CANNOT conquer America.
What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense, and strain every effort, still more extravagantly; accumulate every assistance you can beg or borrow; traffic and barter with every pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country: your efforts are forever vain and impotent-doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms! -Never! Never! Never!: William Pitt - - November 18th 1777
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Ted Rall: The Normalization of Horror : American Gulags Become Permanent
A new documentary, "Hitler's Hit Parade," runs 76 minutes without narration. Comprised entirely of archival footage, the film prompts its reviewers to remark upon Hannah Arendt's famous observation about the banality of evil. German troops subjugated Europe and shoved millions of people into ovens; German civilians went to the movies, attended concerts, and gossiped about their neighbors. People lived mundane, normal lives while their government carried out unspeakable monstrosities. Sound familiar?
http://207.44.245.159/article7675.htm
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Manuel Valenzuela: Worker Bees and Soldier Ants: America’s Army of Fascism: Brainwashed from birth to adore the red, white and blue, trained to never question the authority of government or the decisions of politicians, conditioned in the fine arts of nationalistic propaganda, manipulated into loyalty to the state and deceived to the altruistic fictions of American history, children are subjected to an education designed to eradicate free-thinking minds, transforming questioning entities into subservient soldiers devoid of rebellion or resistance to bad governance.
http://207.44.245.159/article7676.htm
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Gunmen kill 6 Iraqis in attack on Baghdad hotel
Gunmen shot dead six people and kidnapped a Turkish businessman in an attack on a hotel in central Baghdad on Thursday, witnesses and police said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/13/content_2456026.htm
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Gunmen kill Sistani aides in Iraq:
Gunmen have killed two aides to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's highest Shi'ite authority and a key supporter of the January 30 elections, a senior official working with him says.
http://207.44.245.159/article7678.htm
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1,000 Dead Since Interim Government Took Power:
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=DB831484-CB74-4BE5-8D07-659B8687933A
http://snipurl.com/bzom
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16 House Dems urge Bush to start pullout from Iraq :
Sixteen House Democrats led by Rep. Lynn Woolsey of Petaluma called on President Bush on Wednesday to begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, just as some administration supporters are starting to question the wisdom of staying the course in the war.
http://207.44.245.159/article7678.htm
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Robert Fisk : We won't go home and we won't vote, say refugees of Fallujah:
They live beneath old fly-blown tents in the car-park of the Mustafa mosque and their canvas-roofed kitchen stands next to a pool of raw sewage, but the refugees from Fallujah will not return home.
http://207.44.245.159/article7679.htm
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U.S. Lowers Expectations On Iraq Vote:
The Bush administration played down voter turnout yesterday in determining the elections' legitimacy and urged Americans not to get bogged in a numbers game in judging the balloting
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6819452/
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This election could plunge Iraq further into the abyss:
The elections are likely at best to be irrelevant, at worst to plunge Iraq deeper into the abyss. Both common sense and first principles dictate that no election in a country invaded and controlled by foreign troops can conceivably be regarded as free and fair.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5102188-103390,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bzop
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Iraq aide quits over US conduct :
The Iraqi politician managing interim leader Iyad Allawi's election campaign has resigned from the government in protest at the conduct of US troops.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4169965.stm
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The taming of Sadr City:
The Sadrists have developed an effective political-military strategy aimed at converting Sadr City into a "liberated area", in the classic guerrilla warfare model.
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GA12Ak02.html
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More Dissent In Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War:
For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq.
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26973
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Pentagon ban on filming coffins defied:
A US National Guard unit has defied a Pentagon request that sought to stop television news crews filming six flag-draped soldiers' coffins arriving in Louisiana.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/00E1EA83-3FDD-4284-BE10-25648D94C086.htm
http://snipurl.com/bzoq
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Female MPs at Abu Ghraib were told to laugh at naked detainees: witness:
Interrogators at Abu Ghraib routinely told female soldiers to ridicule naked detainees and asked MPs to rough up a prisoner, a witness said at a court martial examining abuses at the US-run Iraqi prison.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&ncid=720&e=10&u=/afp/20050113/ts_alt_afp/iraqusprisoner
http://snipurl.com/bzos
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White House Fought New Curbs on Interrogations, Officials Say:
At the urging of the White House, Congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure last month that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, Congressional officials say.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/ZNYT03/501130481
http://snipurl.com/bzou
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Human Rights Watch Calls On U.S. To Change Policy On Interrogations, Appoint Prosecutor :
The report's lead essay raises alarm about the treatment of the 550 mostly Afghan and Iraqi detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as the disappearance of other detainees.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/1/3C3B0FC6-028E-4115-AEBC-1932D789A551.html
http://snipurl.com/bzov
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Misdemeanors But No Felonies in UN Oil-for-Food Audit :
A series of 58 internal audits of the multi-billion-dollar oil-for-food programme in Iraq has revealed overbilling and management lapses by its U.N. supervisors, but no large-scale fraud.
http://ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=26978
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Augusto Pinochet and the Conservative Threat to America:
While some people might believe that those on the Left wing of the political spectrum pose the bigger threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people, nothing could be further from the truth.
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501d.asp
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Academic Sector Organizations and Programs:
For more than three decades, conservative strategists have mounted an extraordinary effort to reshape politics and public policy priorities at the national, state and local level. Although this effort has often been described as a "war of ideas," it has involved far more than scholarly debate within the halls of academe.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/movement.htm
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In case you missed it: Fascism Anyone?:
Fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for.
http://207.44.245.159/article4113.htm
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In case you missed it:
Video: The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News:
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." They reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."
http://207.44.245.159/article6435.htm
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Search for banned weapons in Iraq ends quietly :
The White House has confirmed that the U.S. search in Iraq for banned weapons, which it earlier cited as justification for the war against Saddam Hussein, has been quietly ended after nearly two years, with no evidence of their existence.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/01/13/news/arms.html
http://snipurl.com/bzoz
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Lies that are never questioned:
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. George W. Bush. State of the Union Address. January 28, 2003
http://207.44.245.159/article5115.htm
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The Truth Shall Set You Back: Lying Is No Sin For Bush's Minions:
It is not surprising that an administration that rose so directly from corporate America would operate the same way. Has anyone, for instance, lost his job for being wrong about weapons of mass destruction or for failing to put enough troops in place to secure Iraq before a deadly insurgency could take hold?
http://207.44.245.159/article7677.htm
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What's the right thing for the press to do?:
People like George Bush have no incentive to stop lying if the press lets them get away with it.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_01/005443.php
http://snipurl.com/bzp1
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Thom Hartmann : Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power :
What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1207-26.htm
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In case you missed it?:
Video: Chalmers Johnson: Militarism and the American Empire :
Distinguished social scientist and public intellectual Chalmers Johnson, joins host Harry Kreisler for a conversation on the nature of the American Empire and its costs and consequences for the future of American democracy and power in the world. Real Video
http://207.44.245.159/article6379.htm
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Israeli army kills Palestinians in Gaza:
Israeli occupation forces have killed two Palestinians, including a man who was driving his pregnant wife to hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian hospital and security sources said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1C8EEA6C-F995-4F37-A850-164A478D7F1D.htm
http://snipurl.com/bzp4
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US, Israeli pressure on Syria decried:
The United States and Israel are perpetuating the military gap between Israel and Syria by controlling the balance of power, a Syrian analyst has said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/456494C4-A7A2-48F6-8FE6-6D39FA0B9BB1.htm
http://snipurl.com/bzp6
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Miriam Stern: Dialogue and Friendship Between Palestinians and Jews: Why do Israeli citizens not turn against the occupation politics of the Likud and the fanatical settlers which caused this misery? It seems that propaganda has had its desired effect in Israel
http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/2004/06/20040604.php
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Six Afghan Soldiers Kidnapped and Killed:
Gunmen kidnapped six government soldiers in a former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan and dumped their bullet-ridden bodies in a canal, a local official said Thursday.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10636051.htm
http://snipurl.com/bzp7
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Mark Thatcher Admits Role in Africa Mercenary Plot:
The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded guilty on Thursday to a role in a foiled mercenary plot in west Africa under a plea bargain to avoid prison
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7316563
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Thatcher heads for the US after court drama :
Sir Mark Thatcher is expected to leave South Africa for the United States within the next few days, sentenced to a R3-million fine for his involvement in the Equatorial Guinea coup plot.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20050113132533427C949088
http://snipurl.com/bzp9
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Ridge seeks fingerprints on passports:
Americans' fingerprints should be added to their passports, outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday, hoping to include the United States in a growing global security standard but risking a privacy fight at home.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer/ap.asp?category=1152&slug=Ridge%20Fingerprints
http://snipurl.com/byvx
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Rep. Ron Pau: Government IDs and Identity Theft:
This act protects the American people from government-mandated uniform identifiers that facilitate private crime as well as the abuse of liberty. The major provision of the Identity Theft Prevention Act halts the practice of using the Social Security number as an identifier by requiring the Social Security Administration to issue all Americans new Social Security numbers within five years after the enactment of the bill.
http://207.44.245.159/article7674.htm
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Woman loses insurance coverage for her politics :
Helen Johnston is an 80-year-old retired pediatrician who hardly considers herself much of a risk for being sued. That's not how her insurance company sees it, however.
http://207.44.245.159/article7680.htm
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Ruling gives cops leeway with GPS :
In a decision that could dramatically affect criminal investigations nationwide, a federal judge has ruled police didn't need a warrant when they attached a satellite tracking device to the underbelly of a car being driven by a suspected Hells Angels operative.
http://snipurl.com/bzpb
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FBI may give up on $500M computer overhaul:
U.S. officials are preparing to scrap a $500 million project to update FBI computers so they can better share information about terrorists and other threats.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050113-071509-8782r.htm
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Sharp rise in November’s US deficit hits dollar:
The US trade deficit widened sharply in November to a record $60.3bn, renewing pressure on the ailing dollar and causing economists to scale back their forecasts for economic growth.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e455cdfc-64a2-11d9-9f8b-00000e2511c8.html
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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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