Israel commits more troops - "An Israeli cabinet minister today claimed "permission from the world" to press on with its Lebanon campaign as both sides launched attacks on enemy territory."
Iranian Volunteers Set Off for Lebanon - "Surrounded by yellow Hezbollah flags, more than 60 Iranian volunteers set off Wednesday to join what they called a holy war against Israeli forces in Lebanon. The group - ranging from teenagers to grandfathers - plans to join about 200 other volunteers on the way to the Turkish border, which they hope to cross Thursday. They plan to reach Lebanon via Syria over the weekend."
Al-Qaida deputy calls for worldwide war on Israel - "Osama bin Laden's deputy issued a worldwide call today for Muslims to rise up in holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza, until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq"."
Israel's "new Middle East" - "Beirut is burning, hundreds of Lebanese die, hundreds of thousands lose all they ever owned and become refugees, and all the world is doing is rescuing the "foreign passport" residents of what was just two weeks ago "the Paris of the Middle East". Lebanon must die now, because "Israel has the right to defend itself", so goes the U.S. mantra, used to block any international attempt to impose a cease fire."
America: From Freedom to Fascism -- Check out the trailers for the new documentary film.
The Murder of America - "The evidence is overwhelming. There is absolutely a wicked and devastating plot and conspiracy to overthrow America. The traitors are now confident they will soon wash over 225 years of American tradition and history down a sinkhole. If their foul plan suceeds, the vision we as patriots once had of a strong, prosperous nation of liberty, freedom and prosperity will soon vanish beneath a cavernous cesspool of forgotten dreams." -- Interesting.
NAFTA Superhighway RFID Card For US Citizens - "US citizens will be forced to adopt a de-facto national identification card and have their freedom of mobility defined by behavioural fielty to the government under proposals set to derive from NAFTA superhighway toll road systems and the implementation of the American Union."
They plundered Iraq for fun and profit - "Mike Battles — former Republican candidate for Congress in Rhode Island and Fox News war-on-terror analyst — figured he could make a quick fortune off the rebuilding of Iraq. So he and pal Scott Custer set up a contracting firm with the catchy name of Custer Battles. The company proceeded to steal a cool $50 million from American taxpayers, according to two of its former employees. In March, Custer Battles became the first U.S. contractor to be found liable for fraud in Iraq. Ex-employees now accuse two former Pentagon officials of plotting with Custer Battles to set up shell companies that, among other things, sold arms on the Iraqi black market — weapons that could have been used against American troops. ... The first whistleblower suit stemmed from Custer Battles' work in helping to introduce a new Iraqi currency. A jury found that the company had defrauded the U.S. government of $3 million. ... With $21 billion now budgeted for Iraq reconstruction, you'd think the leaders in Washington would tighten up the oversight. Think again. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, has proposed creating a special committee to review government contracts in Iraq. Last month, it went down in flames with only one Senate Republican voting for it, Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee. It all sort of leaves you speechless."
'Free Market' Ideology Has Killed Thousands in Iraq - "Iraqis have been brutalized not only by bombs and bullets; they've also been the victims of economic violence in the form of the free market "shock therapy" cooked up by a firm in Virginia on a $250 million no-bid contract before the U.S. invasion. Tranforming Iraq's economy overnight was a matter of ideology trumping commonsense, and it's killed thousands of innocent Iraqis and shattered a way of life for hundreds of thousands more."
FOX News Deliberately Hides Fact That "Middle East Analyst" Is Apocalyptic Christian Preacher - "Evans is a rapture Christian who believes that, once Israel is at peace, the end of the world will come, at which time a very few chosen Christians (including himself and George Bush) will be wisked into heaven by Jesus while the rest of non-believing humanity will be cast into the fiery pit for all eternity. While Mr. Evans is entitled to his quaint religious notions, FOX News was playing it fast and loose with the truth when it labeled him a "Middle East Analyst". "Right Wing Christian Lunatic" might have been a better choice."
Dead Dem Walking - "It's not just Joe Lieberman's support for the war on Iraq, or his steady backing of the Bush agenda. There are many reasons why Joe must go -- and now."
Unpicking the philosophy of faith schools - "Christian schools are perfectly acceptable but other faith schools, especially Muslim ones, are a big mistake and should be scrapped if the Government wants to encourage a unifying British identity, according to the man reckoned by many to be the world's leading moral philosopher."
At Thursday's Braves game, bring a glove - and a Bible? - "After the final at-bat of Thursday's game between the Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins, the stadium seats will turn into pews. That's because it's "Faith Day" at Atlanta's Turner Field. No, the hot-dog vendors won't preach John 3:16. But churchgoing fans - with, promoters hope, their non-Christian friends in tow - will assemble after the game to hear Braves star pitcher John Smoltz share how his life changed by believing in Christ."
'Strine' slang Bible a hit in secular Australia - ""Out of the blue God knocked up the whole bang lot.... God said 'let's have some light' and bingo – light appeared.""
Norway 'Nazi cartoon' irks Israel - "Israel's ambassador to Norway has complained to press regulators about a cartoon showing Israeli PM Ehud Olmert as a Nazi concentration camp commander."
Court refuses to define marriage - "The Washington Supreme Court yesterday narrowly upheld a state law banning same-sex "marriage," saying both the Legislature and the people have the authority to withhold from or grant marital rights to homosexual couples."
Canadian Professor Fined for Stating Opposition to Homosexuality - "A Canadian professor has been fined two weeks pay by a Nova Scotia university for telling a student that homosexuality is an unnatural lifestyle. But despite the disciplinary measures imposed against the educator, he says he refuses to succumb to the administration's "intimidation.""
Cell Phone Picture Called Obstruction Of Justice - "Cruz said that when he heard a commotion, he walked out of his back door with his cell phone to see what was happening. He said that when he saw the street lined with police cars, he decided to take a picture of the scene. "I opened (the phone) and took a shot," Cruz said. Moments later, Cruz said he got the shock of his life when an officer came to his back yard gate. "He opened the gate and took me by my right hand," Cruz said. Cruz said the officer threw him onto a police car, cuffed him and took him to jail. A neighbor said she witnessed the incident and could not believe what she saw."
House votes to block police from seizing legal guns in disasters - "The House voted Tuesday to prevent law enforcement officers from confiscating legally owned guns during a national disaster or emergency."
Exxon Mobil 2Q profit jumps 36 percent - "Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday it earned $10.36 billion in the second quarter, the second largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company."
US Gasoline at $3 Drives People Onto Buses, Trains - "Gasoline prices at near-record highs are fueling a big increase in the number of riders on buses and trains, prompting cities around the country to improve their public transport systems, transportation agencies said on Tuesday."
Bird-flu vaccine may be ready by next year - "A British company reported Wednesday it had achieved the best results ever seen on an experimental human vaccine for bird flu and said mass production might be possible by 2007."
Sun kills 60,000 a year, WHO says - "As many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun, mostly from malignant skin cancer, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday."
Sorry, but my children bore me to death! - "Here, she argues provocatively that modern women must not be enslaved by their children. ... Research tells us that mothers drink the most when they have young children. Is that because talking to anyone under the age of ten requires some sort of lobotomy? ... All us bored mothers can take comfort from the fact that our children may yet turn out to be more balanced than those who are love-bombed from the day they are born. Research increasingly shows that child-centred parenting is creating a generation of narcissistic children who cannot function independently."
Quote of the Day
"Governments lie."
~ I.F. Stone
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