ICH: A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance
 
Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:08:06 -0500 (CDT)


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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the
people.  - John Adams

= "...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign
or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their
constitutional liberties, in the foolish hope that a bigger government
will provide greater security." -- Larry P. Arnn (1952- ) President
of Hillsdale College, MI

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"19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million
North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties
that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The
terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with
one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a
society." -- Rocco Galati lawyer for the Canadian Islamic Congress
October, 2001

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Fear is the foundation of most governments. - John Adams

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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.: Lucius Annaeus
Seneca : 4 BC-65. Roman philosopher and playwright

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=== Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,004,219
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged)
In America'sWar On Iraq 3690 http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs $451,702,462,122

See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance:

The U.S. Normalization of Mass Murder.

By Phil Rockstroh

To survive as a republic, a great many American idols will have to
topple, and not only those inane, fame-obsessed clowns and crooners
sharp-elbowing each other on the Fox Network's televised exercises
in Pop Stardom for Dummies. As far as idolatry goes, by far the
most pervasive, ruinous, and in need of toppling is theposition of
unquestioning worship the US military holds in American life.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18180.htm

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Obstructing the War on Iran

By Dr. Elias Akleh

The real reason of the conflict is the competition for exclusive
monopoly of the perceived future energy resources (nuclear fuel)
to rake in money, and to indirectly control other countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18175.htm

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An Occupation of Iraq is Not Ours to Choose

By Ward Reilly

The only chance we have of saving our nation is to ensure that Bush
and Cheney are not allowed to retire into the sunset. If they are
allowed to do that, the concept of our nation is lost forever, and
we will all be branded as war criminals in the eyes of the world,
because "We The People" allowed all of this to happen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18179.htm

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The Language of Dominion

By Kenneth Couesbouc

The nation is a fairly recent concept. It is a hybrid of the medieval
feudal kingdom and the city state of Antiquity. So, vassalage and
citizenship are in continuous contradiction. And equality is reduced
to the formality of the ballot.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18174.htm

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US Terror Interrogation Went Too Far, Experts Say

By Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Jose Padilla had no history of mental illness when President Bush
ordered him detained in 2002 as a suspected Al Qaeda operative. But
he does now.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18181.htm

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The Middle East Peace Process Scam

By Henry Siegman

Since the Palestinians made much the most far-reaching compromise
of all when the PLO formally accepted the legitimacy of Israel
within the 1949 armistice border. With that concession, Palestinians
ceded their claim to more than half the territory that the UN's
partition resolution had assigned to its Arab inhabitants. They
have never received any credit for this wrenching concession.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18176.htm

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Oslo Revisited

By: Uri Avnery

On both sides there are voices asserting that not only the Oslo
agreement, but the whole concept of the "two-state solution" has
died. Hamas predicts that the Palestinian Authority is about to
turn into an agency of collaborators, some sort of subcontractor
for safeguarding the security of Israel and fighting the Palestinian
resistance organizations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18177.htm

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Saying NO To The Hunters of Goliath

By Gilad Atzmon

The Jewish state has already been defeated in battle and this may
happen again sooner than we think.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18178.htm

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At least 14 killed as U.S. occupation grinds on: -

U.S. forces killed an estimated three to five men suspected of
bringing weapons from Iran and arrested 13 others in a pre-dawn
raid in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1325955.htm

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Iraqi Sunni cleric urges U.S. to abandon Maliki:

Iraq's top Sunni cleric called on the United States on Monday to
cut ties with Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki,saying his
"puppet" government had failed and a U.S. backed political process
was at a dead end.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13229150.htm

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Iraqi political leaders hold talks to end crisis:

Top Iraqi political leaders held talks on Monday to prepare for a
summit designed to end a crisis in which Sunni Arabs are demanding
a greater say in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led
government.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR356183.htm

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Bush to bolster Iraq troop surge as antiwar lobby gives ground:

The White House released a document on Friday called Changing
Attitudes on Iraqand cited positive reports from several unexpected
sources, and recent polls showing a slight increase in support among
Americans for the surge and Mr Bush.

http://tinyurl.com/2nlo97

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Helen Thomas: Yet again, the Democrats roll over:

President Bush has the Democrats' number on Capitol Hill. All he
has to do is play the fear card and invoke the war on terror and
they will cave.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/327034_thomas10.html

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Flush with Profits : Military Contractors See a World of Business
Opportunities:

With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness,
the Bush administration has more than doubled the size of the U.S.
occupation through the use of private war companies.

http://www.alternet.org/audits/59571/

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While Military families live in dread:

The rest of America is busy shopping
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2147643,00.html

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Afghanistan clash kills 9 Taliban, 5 police: :

A suicide bomber targeted a U.S.-led occupation convoy in eastern
Afghanistan on Monday, while Afghan security forces clashed with
the Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, leaving nine militants
dead, officials said Monday http://tinyurl.com/2q8eoc

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Two Korean aid workers freed by Taliban:

AFGHANISTAN'S Taliban freed two South Korean female hostages overnight
in what the militants called a "gesture of goodwill" towards talks
to free the remaining 19 captured nearly a month ago.

http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,22241944-923,00.html

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Sniper kills soldier at Lebanon camp:

A sniper shot dead a Lebanese soldier on Monday during fighting
between army units and al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian
refugee camp, security sources said http://tinyurl.com/33ouus

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LEBANON: 'Army Torturing Palestinian Refugees' :

Palestinians displaced by the fighting at the northern Lebanese
refugee camp Nahr al-Bared have accused the Lebanese Army of torturing
and abusing civilians.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38871

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Gaza bank freezes Hamas accounts :

The Palestine Islamic Bank on Monday froze the accounts of at least
3,400 members of Hamas' Executive Force. The Gaza branch of the
Palestine Islamic Bank says it acted at the request of the Palestinian
Authority.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6944741.stm

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Palestinian state breakthrough unlikely: Tom Lantos:

"While I understand that some people in the (U.S.) administration
would like to see great achievements in the next few months, [they]
will not be forthcoming," said Tom Lantos, a Democrat and chairman
of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives,
who is visiting Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/892597.html

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Britain urged to engage moderate elements in Hamas:

The British government should talk to "moderate elements within
Hamas" and push for the restoration of a Palestinian national unity
government, a parliamentary report will recommend today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2147601,00.html

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Israeli ambassador slams British MPs' call to end Hamas boycott :

"The timing of the report is particularly unhelpful, coming just
as the peace process is showing signs of renewed life. At this
critical point in time, the international community has a moral
obligation to continue its support for...

[Palestinian Authority Chairman] Mahmoud Abbas, and those who wish
to bring peace to the region."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/892820.html

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Norway: Envoys may talk with Hamas:

Norway intends to maintain contact with Hamas at the envoy level,
but its ministers do not plan to meet with the Gaza government's
representatives, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store has told The
Jerusalem Post http://tinyurl.com/2sjy9r

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Ethiopia accused of using white phosphorus bombs in US-backed
occupation of Somalia:

A new report by United Nations arms monitors accuses Ethiopia's
army of using illegal white phosphorus bombs during the US-backed
occupation of Somalia.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/ethi-a13.shtml

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Britain's 'invisible army' of African slaves :

Brought into the country under false identities and tricked into
leaving their families with the promise of an education and a better
future, hundreds of African children are being trafficked into the
UK for a life of servitude, according to human rights campaigners
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2859092.ece

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Australian High Court radically expands scope of military power:

In effect, by a 5 to 2 majority, the court has legitimated the
police-state measures, includingdetention without trial, that the
Howard government and its state Labor counterparts have introduced
since 2002 on the pretext of protecting ordinary people from
terrorism.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/thom-a13.shtml

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Chavez deepens Petrocaribe oil pledges:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged on Saturday to meet Caribbean
nations' oil needs for years to come, and urged the region to unite
and seek greater independence from the United States.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8QV4RUG1.htm

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US hopes to stop Noriega from being freed:

Manuel Noriega, "the drug-running former dictator" captured after
the American invasion of Panama in 1989, is days away from release
from a Miami jail. But if the United States has its way, the veteran
Latin American strongman will not taste freedom for a long time yet
http://tinyurl.com/2oxjer

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Karl Rove to leave the White House:

Rove is ominously known as "Bush's brain" -- a genius at winning
elections for the US president and a master of Washington's dark
political arts needed to maintain a grip on power.

http://tinyurl.com/3yh2la

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DJ US Stocks Open Much Higher; Fed Is Adding More Liquidity :

Overseas central banks continued to add liquidity into the market,
with the European Central Bank on Monday saying it had provided
around 47.5 billion euros ($65 billion) in loans, while the Bank
of Japan added more than $5 billion.

http://biznes.onet.pl/5,1588369,wiadomosci.html

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SEC quiet on auditing subprime lenders :

The Securities and Exchange Commission declined to comment Friday
on reports that it is checking top Wall Street investment banks'
books for hidden subprime losses.

http://tinyurl.com/2uafvu

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Religion, culture behind Texas execution tally :

Texas will almost certainly hit the grim total of 400 executions
this month, far ahead of any other state, testament to the influence
of the state's conservative evangelical Christians and its cultural
mix of Old South and Wild West.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070812/lf_nm/texas_executions_dc

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US Slipping in Life Expectancy Rankings:

Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people
in 41 other countries.

http://tinyurl.com/2uuhmy

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In case you missed it:

A plea to free America from ignorance :

Barely half of Americans believe the president is required to abide
by Supreme Court decisions withwhich he disagrees, according to a
survey last year by the University of Pennsylvania. So much for the
separation of powers.

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Let Us Work Towards Peace & Joy Tom Feeley