[Media-watch] Four months on Planet bin Laden
David McKnight
david at milwr.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Jan 25 12:46:03 GMT 2005
"There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.": George Jacob Holyoake - (1817-1906) English secularist
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"Better than a thousand useless words is one word that gives peace.": Buddha
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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more: Bible -Source: Isaiah (ch. II, v. 4)
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace! : Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) -Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
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O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade; Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. William Cowper - Source: Task (bk. II, l. 1)
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Divided We Fall
A man named Scott Ritter once said, "I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic."
By Dom Stasi
The $40 million inauguration extravaganza - the most expensive ever - symbolically urinates upon the graves of the over 1300 young Americans who've died for Bush's lies, mistakes, and corporate greed. That money would buy one helluva lot of body armor for our troops. But that $40 mil will instead buy martinis, hookers, influence, and contracts here in America.
http://207.44.245.159/article7808.htm
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Purple Hearts
A story that President Bush would probably prefer not to see propagated.
Video Documentary
A photo series that the New York-based Nina Berman made of wounded Iraq veterans led to the making of this documentary. In detail, they recount what happened on the day they got injured; how they arrived back home, blind or legless; how they have to try to forget the war now, in small towns around Alabama and Pittsburgh, or in Washington and L.A. Officially recognised as "heroes," a Purple Heart on the uniform in the closet, most of these soldiers long to go back to an army that has no use for them anymore.
Watch It Online Now! - Real Video
http://207.44.245.159/article7799.htm
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Four Months on Planet bin Laden:
French journalist George Malbrunot spent 124 days as a hostage of Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq. The experience nearly broke him, but it also offered him stunning insights into the way jihadist groups operate. He returned convinced of one thing: America's policy is doomed.
http://207.44.245.159/article7805.htm
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Ten Iraqis killed in violence north of Baghdad:
Ten Iraqis, including a mother and her child, were killed Sunday in attacks north of Baghdad, while insurgents dynamited a voting centre, a government building and a police station around the country.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1287507.htm
http://snipurl.com/c9bo
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Baghdad Suicide Bombing Injures Three Iraq Policemen:
A group led by al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it carried out the attack near the offices of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=awQ5QvIxZwsU&refer=top_world_news
http://snipurl.com/c9bq
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Arab candidates pull out of Iraq vote in multi-ethnic Kirkuk :
Arab candidates running in Kirkuk`s provincial election have pulled out of the race in protest at the government`s decision to grant displaced Kurds the right to vote, the head of the Arab electoral list told AFP Monday
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=36375
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Iraq says 2 Zarqawi aides captured :
The Iraqi interim government on Monday announced the capture of two aides of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose group has claimed a series of deadly attacks in the war-torn country.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/24/content_2502564.htm
http://snipurl.com/c9br
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'Robot soldiers' bound for Iraq :
The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against anti occupation forces in Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4199935.stm
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Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain:
The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA's historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad
http://snipurl.com/c9bu
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Source confirms clandestine intelligence unit :
The official said Congress had been notified about the formation of "this kind of activity," but might have been told of the program several months ago when it had a different name.
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/22086.asp
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CIA in decline, Pentagon on the rise:
The recent revelation that the Department of Defense has been operating its own espionage arm for the last two years confirms Rumsfeld's success in sidelining the CIA.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/secwatch/details.cfm?id=10626
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Democracy doctrine faces doubt abroad:
With his eye on history, Bush wants to change the world. The rest of the world is not necessarily so eager to be changed.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/10714886.htm
http://snipurl.com/c9bw
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Bush Pulls 'Neocons' Out of the Shadows:
In the unending struggle over American foreign policy that consumes much of official Washington, one side claimed a victory this week: the neoconservatives, that determined band of hawkish idealists who promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq and now seek to bring democracy to the rest of the Middle East.
http://207.44.245.159/article7812.htm
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Freedom's Jihad:
So it's clear from the speech: The next four years will be four more years of Christian jihad.
http://www.tompaine.com/print/freedoms_jihad.php
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Noam Chomsky: 'Controlling the oil in Iraq puts America in a strong position to exert influence on the world'
http://207.44.245.159/article7806.htm
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Ghali Hassan : Imperial Misadventures:
It is only a matter of time before the peoples of the world will watch the last US helicopter hastily evacuating the last US officials from Baghdad, and end the last act of US imperial misadventure.
http://207.44.245.159/article7809.htm
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A fantasy of freedom :
If Bush wanted to tackle tyranny, he could start with regimes under US control. But liberty clearly has limits
http://207.44.245.159/article7810.htm
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UN on Holocaust: Evil Wins When the Good Are Quiet:
Those who incite hatred and mass murder are not always extremists but men of culture, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told world leaders in opening the first-ever General Assembly commemoration of the World War II Holocaust.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7411262
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Mary Shaw: Torture is a Problem, Not a Solution :
How can we possibly justify the risk of torturing innocent suspects, as we've seen happen at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere?
http://207.44.245.159/article7813.htm
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Walking Wounded:
A colostomy bag is a sorry companion on a wedding night.
http://amconmag.com/2005_01_31/article1.html
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Soldier seeks federal insurance law for fellow combat amputees :
After losing a limb, mobility or eyesight to bullets or bombs in Iraq, some of the most gravely wounded U.S. soldiers face financial devastation.
http://jewishworldreview.com/0105/amputees.asp
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Jack Dalton: To War or Not to War, That is the Question:
If there is one thing I understand it is simply this, once one "sees" war up close and personal and you look into the abyss, that "Heart of Darkness" of war; you are forever changed--period.
http://207.44.245.159/article7811.htm
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Bending it:
Kevin Benderman is a mechanic who is trained to fix Bradley armored vehicles. On December 20, 2004, he applied for conscientious objector status. Yesterday he made time to talk with us about his decision.
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives//000180.php
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War Pimp Alert:
Egypt, Syria have nuclear programs, as well as Iran :
The head of the Mossad intelligence service, Meir Dagan, warned Monday that there are signs that several Middle East states other than Iran - including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria - are at varying stages of development of nuclear programs.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/531273.html
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Putin pledges to drop Syria arms deal:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he will not sign a contract to sell SA-18 surface-to-air missiles to Syria, according to an Israeli daily.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/989716E7-F1BC-497F-9D2D-6E8431FB5622.htm
http://snipurl.com/c9c0
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Palestinian militants tell Abbas they will halt attacks :
Militant groups have agreed to suspend attacks as they near a formal truce deal with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and await Israel's response, a senior Palestinian official said Monday.
http://snipurl.com/c9c2
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Netanyahu: Israel need not give Abbas anything for truce :
Speaking to Army Radio from Florida, where he has been raising funds for Israel Bonds, Netanyahu turned aside statements from senior IDF officers praising Abbas as having taken steps in the right direction and acting with consistency and candor.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/530942.html
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US Media's Desperate Wishful Thinking on Palestine/Israel:
Ariel Sharon's tactic of throwing fine sand in the air as he plows forward with his time-tested, time-honored strategy of establishing facts-on-the-ground, is working to perfection -- at least on the US mainstream media.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Bouzid0124.htm
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All Jews Are Not Zionists:
Although there are those who refuse to accept the teachings of our Rabbis and will continue to support the Zionist state, there are also many who are totally unaware of the history of Zionism and its contradiction to the beliefs of Torah-True Jews.
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
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Central banks shift reserves away from US;
Central banks are shifting reserves away from the US and towards the eurozone in a move that looks set to deepen the Bush administration's difficulties in financing its ballooning current account deficit.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9ef63678-6d7d-11d9-9b69-00000e2511c8.html
http://snipurl.com/c9c6
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Central banks 'shunning dollar' :
The US is running a budget deficit of close to $500bn a year, funded largely by China and Japan buying large amounts of US government bonds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4200811.stm
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Forbes: Doom For The Dollar:
The dollar's fall is more a symptom than a cause. The real problem is that the U.S. is producing too little--and spending too much--and the result is likely to be far worse than the happy-talkers on Wall Street will ever let on.
http://www.forbes.com/economy/2005/01/10/cx_da_0110doomdollar.html
http://snipurl.com/c9c9
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Dollar at mercy of central banks:
During the past few years the US has become dependent, not so much on millions of investors around the globe but on a few individuals in a few of the world's central banks.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bd52ee06-6dad-11d9-ae0d-00000e2511c8.html
http://snipurl.com/c9cb
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Failing Upwards: The Rise of Michael Chertoff:
Only in the gravity-defying world of G.W. Bush, where reality is routinely run through a public relations shredder, would a bungler like Chertoff reach the top-spot at Homeland Security. Even so, his appointment should come as no surprise to the wary American public. It's just one more horse-nugget added to an already ample mound of political manure.
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney01222005.html
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Countdown to global catastrophe:
Climate change: report warns point of no return may be reached in 10 years, leading to droughts, agricultural failure and water shortages
http://207.44.245.159/article7807.htm
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FBI Grills Jack Kemp About Iraqi Contact:
The former vice presidential candidate has been connected to the Iraqi-American businessman who was indicted this week in the Oil-for-Food scandal. Kemp denies any wrongdoing.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6845383/site/newsweek/
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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
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