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Today's News From Around The World Saturday 10 March 2007
With Smiles On Their Faces and With Songs On Their Lips…
…‘By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War…’
It is no wonder that
their history has been what it has been. Driven from their ‘promised’
land of milk and honey. Banished. Kicked out of every respectable
country in the world. Their ghettos burned down. Their property taken
away and re-distributed to those from whom it was stolen in the first
place.
The patience of decent people can only go so far. You can only kick a
dog so many times before he eventually bites you back in self-defense.
Therefore, when you are dealing with a group of people who will lie to
you, over and over again, with smiles on their faces and songs on
their lips and do so UNREPENTANTLY it can only go on so long before
the magic spell eventually wears off and the dog begins to bite back.
Video: Interview with child taken as human shield in Nablus On 28 February 2007, during the Israeli invasion of Nablus, the IOF kidnapped 11-year-old Jihan Tahdush from her home in the Old City of Nablus. She was used as a human shield while Israeli forces conducted door-to-door searches in the Old City. Jihan says of the incident: "They gave me biscuits to persuade me to talk to them, but I didn't tell them anything. When I brought them to the house they told me not to be afraid because they were with me. When I asked to go back to my mom, they said, 'We have to keep you a bit longer.'"
Israeli Backlash to Olmert Comments The Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's admission that last summer's onslaught against Lebanon was pre-planned has provoked anger among Israeli officials. Al-Manar TV reported: Olmert's admission confirms Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's earlier claims. Senior Israeli officers expressed anger before the Winograd Commission, which is investigating the war. Labor Party ministers have also lashed out at Olmert's testimony before the commission. They demanded to know why, "if the prime minister had considered war a possibility, he never bothered to inform them of this until the day the war began."
Israeli PM says Lebanon war was pre-planned
Twenty Palestinians Wounded
in Ramallah The Zionist troopers attacked the
Palestinian demonstrators, west of Ramallah, wounding 20 Palestinians.
According to news sources, after holding Friday Prayers in the village
of Balain, west of Ramallah, Palestinians staged a demonstration in
protest to the construction of the Zionists wall. Meanwhile, the
Zionist troopers attacked the Palestinians protestors with tear gas
and plastic bullets, injuring at least 20 people.
The "Invisible" Canadian Muslim? Muslims have now replaced Blacks as the group most likely to suffer from discrimination, racial profiling, or stereotyping.
New Zealand prides itself on human rights, social compassion and political “neutrality”. Moreover, New Zealanders pride themselves on being “peace loving” people. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. These images are a distortion of reality. New Zealand is a fully-fledged member of America’s war on Muslims.
India, US at the business endof their nuclear deal Representatives of 38 major American companies of a US-India business lobby are in New Delhi to "keep the ball rolling" on the civilian nuclear pact between the countries. With an estimated US$100 billion of foreign investment at stake, the incentives are high.
Private property under forcible occupation of army in Doda district In occupied Kashmir while demilitarisation is being hotly discussed by politicians and common citizens alike the Indian army continues to occupy vast swathes of private land and other property beside government buildings and educational institution.
Protest against custodial disappearances A protest demonstration was held against custodial disappearances in Srinagar, today. The demonstration was organized by Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons at Pratap Park, Srinagar.
Scripted Libby Trial Ends on Cue- What Can Happen Next? The Prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, crafted the “Scooter” Libby case to protect the Bush-Cheney Gang. Even the members of Libby’s jury knew something was missing. Now, it’s time for the House’s Judiciary Committee to pick up the baton. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NEV) said Libby manipulated “intelligence” to get us into the war and that the case revealed “deeper truths” about VP Dick Cheney. I say: “Bring Cheney to the Bar of Justice!”
The Israeli "art student" mystery In January 2001, the security branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency began to receive a number of peculiar reports from DEA field offices across the country. According to the reports, young Israelis claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies. Strangest of all, the "students" had visited the homes of numerous DEA officers and other senior federal officials. As a pattern slowly emerged, the DEA appeared to have been targeted in what it called an "organized intelligence gathering activity." But to what end, and for whom, no one knew. Reports of the mysterious Israelis with an inexplicable interest in peddling art to G-men came in from more than 40 U.S. cities and continued throughout the first six months of 2001.
Chavez Leads Rally against
Bush Visit Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched
another verbal assault on US President George W. Bush Friday as he led
some 20,000 supporters in an anti-American rally, calling the U.S.
leader a "political dead body" and blasting his policies as
"imperialist." Alluding to Bush's waning years in office, Chavez said:
"The U.S. president today is a true political cadaver," adding, "What
the little gentleman from the north now exudes is the smell of
political death and in a very short time he will be converted into
cosmic dust and disappear from the stage." In Uruguay, a group of
anti-American demonstrators scuffled with bystanders and shattered
windows at an American fast-food restaurant in an incident
underscoring tensions there as Bush arrived Friday night from Brazil
and was driven to his hotel. In Buenos Aires, Chavez said Bush's
five-nation swing would fail to improve America's image and dismissed
his pledges of U.S. aid as a cynical attempt to confuse Latin
Americans. Anti-American and anti-Bush sentiments run high in the
countries on Bush's tour, particularly over the war in Iraq and U.S.
trade negotiations.
One million Iraqi deaths The latest 2006
Johns Hopkins data ( indicating 13.3 deaths annually per 1,000 people
and an annual Iraqi pre-invasion death rate of 5.5 deaths per 1,000)
yields an annual excess death rate of 7.8 per 1,000 i.e. 7,800 per
million. Assuming an average population of 27 million this yields
post-invasion excess deaths = 7,800 x 27 x 4 = 842,000 i.e. 0.8
million.
However taking the 2006 Johns Hopkins data but using a Jordan/Syria
comparative baseline of 4 deaths per 1,000 per year (as opposed to a
baseline of 5.5 deaths per 1,000 per year for pre-invasion Iraq after
12 years of crippling Sanctions) gives an annual excess death rate of
9.3 per 1,000 i.e. 9,300 per million and post-invasion excess deaths
totalling 9,300 x 27 x 4 = 1,004,400 i.e. 1.0 million as of March
2007.
The UN estimates that there are 3.8 million Iraqi refugees and WHO
estimates that the “total annual per capita medical expenditure” in
Occupied Iraq is merely $64 - as compared to $23 for Occupied
Afghanistan, $2,389 (UK), $2,874 (Australia) and $5,711 (US) (2003
figures).
The 1 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths constitutes an Iraqi
Holocaust largely due to Coalition violation of the Geneva Conventions
that demand that Occupiers keep their conquered subjects ALIVE.
Wall Street drools over prospect of capturing
Iraq oil wealth
The most important aspect of the bill is that it revives a
semi-colonial form of oil contract called a “production-sharing
agreement,” which would give foreign companies first claim on any oil
they help Iraq’s nationalized industry extract from the country’s
enormous reserves, estimated at 115 billion barrels.
Production-sharing agreements were devised by the multinational
(mainly US, British, French and Dutch) oil companies in response to
the efforts of the bourgeoisie in the OPEC nations—Iran, the Gulf
sheikdoms, Libya and Venezuela—to establish national oil companies and
negotiate more favorable terms.
The Cost of War: $2.5 TRILLION – Accrual Cost of Bush War on Women & Children A major long-term cost is due to the death and injury of US soldiers. Thus the article states that “for every soldier dying in Iraq or Afghanistan today, 16 are being wounded”; that “611,729 veterans from the first Gulf war are now receiving disability benefits; a large proportion are suffering from psychiatric illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder and depression”; and that “Bilmes and Stiglitz estimate the additional cost to the economy of the death of a young soldier - typically 25 years old - to be $6.5m”. A horrifying aspect of the New Statesman story was Veteran’s Administration (VA) reactions after Professor Bilmes went public: thus “the number of wounded listed on the VA website dropped from 50,508 to 21,649”. The Bush Administration has also evidently made VA economics expert Professor Bilmes persona non grata ( details ).
Guantánamo Is Not a Prison
"The A/C had been turned off, making the temperature in the
unventilated room probably well over 100 degrees. The detainee was
almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He
had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the
night."
Or this:
''I saw another detainee sitting on the floor of the interview room
with an Israeli flag draped around him, loud music being played, and a
strobe light flashing."
Or this:
"On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a
detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with
no chair, food or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on
themselves, and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more."
Just Look What "Your Country" Did To You Have I mentioned the spirits of 30 million slain Native Americans reaching through the TV sets to choke Boobus Americanus on his livingroom sofa? Or the ghosts of 100 million-plus African slaves tearing down the buildings they were forced to erect.
Development Through Industrialization- Or Environmental Colonialism Leading To Catastrophe? In times of corporate totalitarianism such as ours, when the media – with visibly noble exceptions – is merely the obedient tail of the capitalist canine, the impression that is sought to be created is that in “the world’s largest democracy” there is an unchallenged consensus that India needs economic development, that rapid economic growth is the most reliable way to achieve it (through the infamous “trickle-down” effect), that this in turn is best achieved through break-neck industrialization and that anyone who stands in the way of such “development” needs to have her patriotic credentials (read: “head”) examined. This may include, for instance, those who (following the latest warnings of the IPCC) are pointing to dangerously threatened, rapidly melting Himalayan glaciers.
Pentagon Struggles to Find Fresh Troops US Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find. Faced with a military buildup in Iraq that could drag into next year, Pentagon officials are trying to identify enough units to keep up to 20 brigade combat teams in Iraq. A brigade usually has about 3,500 troops. The likely result will be extending the deployments of brigades scheduled to come home at the end of the summer, and sending others earlier than scheduled. Final decisions — which have not yet been made — would come as Congress is considering ways to force President Bush to wind down the war, despite his vow that he would veto such legislation. Meanwhile, combat troops are coming to realize that the Pentagon can't fulfill its commitment to give soldiers two years at home for every year they spend deployed.
Refugees pour into east Sri
Lanka camps Schools became makeshift refugee camps in
eastern Sri Lanka on Saturday to handle an influx of more than 30,000
civilians fleeing fighting between the army and Tamil Tigers,
officials and aid workers said. The military, which is fighting
sporadic artillery and mortar battles with Tiger rebels in the eastern
district of Batticaloa, estimated around 32,000 civilians had poured
into army-held territory from rebel areas. The Tigers say closer to
40,000 civilians have fled -- but because of army shelling.
The exodus piled further strain on a district already housing nearly
90,000 people displaced by fierce fighting. "Now they are opening some
schools again for the IDPs (displaced people), public buildings," said
Marcal Luethi, a protection officer with the International Committee
of the Red Cross in Batticaloa. "If in the next few days several other
thousands are coming, then of course we have a problem," Luethi said.
Water supplies were a major issue. Refugees flooded out of Tiger-held
territory in the east this week as the military drove the rebels out
and overran camps in a repeat of an offensive and exodus further north
in December.
N Korea warns counter steps
if U.S. fails to drop sanctions North Korea expects
the United States to lift financial sanctions as part of a nuclear
disarmament deal and will retaliate if the U.S. fails to do so, a
senior North Korean official said Saturday. Kim Kye Gwan, the North's
envoy to the disarmament talks, said Pyongyang is carefully watching
to see if the United States fulfills its pledge to end the
restrictions. “The U.S. has promised the North it would scrap
financial sanctions,'' Kim told South Korean and Japanese reporters at
Beijing's Capital Airport before taking a plane to Pyongyang. If
Washington fails to do so, Kim said, North Korea ``will be forced to
take corresponding steps.'' Kim did not elaborate on Pyongyang's
options. But North Korea could delay implementation of the disarmament
deal should it feel that the U.S. or other parties _ China, Japan,
Russia and South Korea _ were not meeting their commitments. The
agreement, reached last month after three years of tortuous
negotiations, sets out a schedule for North Korea's phased disarmament
in return for inducements along the way. One of the first commitments
was the U.S. pledge to resolve the fate of the frozen North Korean
funds within 30 days of the agreement. That deadline falls next
Thursday.
Richest donors neglect global
emergency fund: Oxfam A global emergency fund set up
to get aid to disaster zones more quickly has received "exceptionally
poor support" from some of the richest donors, hurting relief efforts
around the world, aid agency Oxfam said. The UN Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF) entered its second year with international
pledges of $342 million. The United Nations wants $450 million from
donors, on top of $50 million it already has in the fund's coffers, to
reach an overall target of $500 million. The fund was set up to allow
cash to flow after a disaster without aid agencies having to wait for
donations to roll in. A third of the money is spent on "forgotten
emergencies" that struggle to attract international attention. The
United States, Canada, Japan, Italy, Austria and Greece have yet to
commit any cash at all for 2007.
China to build 37
airports in remote west: report China plans to invest
52 billion yuan (6.7 billion dollars) in building 37 new airports and
expanding 31 others in the west of the country over the next four
years, the People's Daily said Saturday.
Bangladesh launches massive demolition drive Bangladesh authorities have launched a massive demolition drive in Dhaka to ease the capital's chronic traffic congestion, an official said Saturday. Thousands of illegally constructed buildings in upmarket areas of the city are being reduced to rubble by bulldozers and hundreds of workers with pickaxes. The drive began late last month but demolition crews had now moved into high gear, officials said. “Already we have demolished thousands of illegal structures. We will clear all the roads in the city in a bid to ease traffic congestion,” said the chief of the capital's development authority, K.A.M. Harun.“Any building which is constructed contravening our guidelines will also be demolished. We will not spare it, even if it is a 15- or 20-storey building,” he said.
Martin Luther founder of Protestant Church "the Jews and their lies"
Heraclius invitation to Islam
Abu Sufyan bin Harb informed me that Heraclius had sent a messenger to
him while he had been accompanying a caravan from Quraish. They were
merchants doing business in Sham (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and
Jordan), at the time when Allah's Apostle had truce with Abu Sufyan
and Quraish infidels. So Abu Sufyan and his companions went to
Heraclius at Ilya (Jerusalem). Heraclius called them in the court and
he had all the senior Roman dignitaries around him. He called for his
translator who, translating Heraclius's question said to them, "Who
amongst you is closely related to that man who claims to be a
Prophet?" Abu Sufyan replied, "I am the nearest relative to him
(amongst the group)."
Heraclius said, "Bring him (Abu Sufyan)
close to me and make his companions stand behind him." Abu Sufyan
added, Heraclius told his translator to tell my companions that he
wanted to put some questions to me regarding that man (The Prophet)
and that if I told a lie they (my companions) should contradict me."
Abu Sufyan added, "By Allah! Had I not been afraid of my companions
labeling me a liar, I would not have spoken the truth about the
Prophet. The first question he asked me about him was:
March 9 2007
Jewish controlled mainstream media
distortion & propaganda Exposed
Hezb-i-Islami Mujahideen leader Gulbaddin Hekmatyar denies parting
ways with Taliban and offering unconditional talks to
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
puppet Karzai
A statement attributed to former Afghan Mujahideen
leader Gulbaddin Hekmatyar in which he reportedly made an
unconditional offer for peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai
has been denied. His spokesman, Haroon Zarghoon, told The News that
the Western television news service that used the interview only
carried selected portions to give the impression as if Hekmatyar had
changed his political stance. “This was done deliberately to malign
the leader of Hezb-i-Islami. We strongly refute the statement and
condemn such distortions,” he stressed. The interview was widely
carried by the print and electronic media on Thursday and was seen as
politically significant. Analysts described it as a victory for
President Karzai and a setback for all the Afghan groups fighting his
government and the US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan.
But Haroon Zarghoon was quick to deny that Hekmatyar had changed his
views about the prevailing situation in Afghanistan and was ready to
shake hands with Karzai and close all channels of communication with
the Taliban. Speaking from an unknown local, he said Hekmatyar’s full
statement contained the proviso that talks could be held with Karzai,
once he demands and ensures the withdrawal of all foreign occupying
forces from Afghanistan. “The said television news service carried
only one part of Hekmatyar’s reply to the question. It reported that
Hekmatyar was ready for talks with Karzai and deleted the portion in
which he made it clear that this could happen once the foreign troops
occupying our homeland start leaving in accordance with an agreed
timetable,” he argued. Haroon Zarghoon pointed out that Hekmatyar has
repeatedly said that the Karzai regime was no real government as it
was standing on the crutches of Western forces. “That has been the
stand of Hekmatyar and Hezb-i-Islami and there has been no change in
that,” he maintained.
The Hezb-i-Islami spokesman also explained the remarks attributed to
Hekmatyar about his stance with regard to the Taliban. “Hekmatyar
reminded that he had sought cooperation with the Taliban time and
again for a joint struggle against the US-led occupying forces. He
said he sent a number of delegations to Taliban leaders to fight our
common enemy. Hekmatyar complained that he received no positive reply
and was, therefore, stopping more contacts with the Taliban,” he said.
But Haroon Zarghoon added that Hekmatyar had made it clear in the same
interview that contacts with the Taliban ‘Jihad’ against the Western
armies in Afghanistan.
Truth Trickles Out- The Gujarat Pogrom Five Years Later I was uncertain if the ghazal concert by Jagjit Singh would still be held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on that fateful day, February 27, 2002. I had reason to believe otherwise: just a few hours earlier, I received a call while working in a Hindu slum in Ahmedabad that communal violence had erupted. Apparently a train of Hindu pilgrims was attacked somewhere, I was told, and that I should immediately return home. An American Hindu colleague of mine and I both waited for the bus to take us across town to the Hindu host family with whom I was staying. But as my Hindu friend in the slum community received text messages about what was really ensuing, he ran out and said, "No Zahir, you specifically have to leave." I was eager to know why but he never budged. "Its for your safety," he kept imploring. It was only on the rikshaw ride home that the picture emerged: our Hindu driver carefully skirted all the Muslim majority locales in Ahmedabad as off in the distance, we could see fires flaring up in only Muslim populated areas. As we drove through a mixed Hindu-Muslim neighborhood, we found ourselves stuck in a massive traffic jam, only later to learn that just a few hundred yards ahead of us a Hindu mob had stopped a car full of Muslims, removed them from their vehicle, and burned them alive. Atrocities Committed By Hindu Terrorists In Gujurat
Interview with Dokka Umarov
First, using the case, I would want to send best wishes to the
Ukrainian people, which today survives the complex period of they
history, and which, (although not at this degree as in Chechnya)
pressure from the side of Kremlin regime is experienced. As for the
situation at home, also, in the North Caucasus as a whole is
concerned, in spite of the assertions of Putin and his marionettes in
Chechnya, war continues. Information blockade can create temporary
illusion in those, who want to believe in the lie of Moscow about the
fact that the war ended, but it can't change the real state of the
matters. Again I declare, that the war continues.
Putin's back to the future It is becoming increasingly dangerous to be a critic of Vladimir Putin, the elected dictator of Russia. That is, as KGB thugs like Putin used to say during the Soviet era, "no accident, comrade." The most recent authority on the subject of Putin's increasingly ominous behavior at home and abroad to have met an unpleasant fate is Paul Joyal. He is an internationally renowned expert on the former Soviet Union who had the temerity last week to accuse the Russian government on the NBC TV program "Dateline" of murdering Alexander Litvinenko.
The Condition of the Dollar First on our list is China. They have now announced that they are refusing to accept American Corporations purchasing into their stock market any longer as they did in the past. China also said that they are no longer going to be purchasing our securities as they have in the past, including bonds and T-bills. China's decisions and subsequent announcements at the beginning of the week has sent a panic across the World's markets.
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American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers
killed
Iraqi Mujahideen attacks against the enemies of Islam for
Thursday Mujahideen
car bomber blasts into
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
checkpoint in al-Qa’im, reportedly killing or wounding nine
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
Thursday night.
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military,
puppet forces arrest more than 50 men and boys in raids in Thursday
afternoon raids in ar-Ramadi. Four
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
Marines reported killed in Mujahideen bomb attack in Abu Ghurayb
Thursday afternoon. Mujahideen ambushes
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
column in ad-Dulu‘iyah, sparking fierce battle Thursday afternoon.
The war at home The Deserter's Tale succeeds stunningly on the first count – his claims make Abu Ghraib look like a garden party. His main job as a soldier in Iraq, he says, was to raid and rob apparently innocent Iraqis in their homes, arresting the men and sending them off to prison while beating or otherwise terrorizing the women. He claims to have been ordered to stand guard outside a home while – he believes – four higher-ranked American soldiers raped a houseful of Iraqi civilian women. He claims an Iraqi civilian protesting the US troops by giving them the equivalent of the finger was shot summarily. He claims to have witnessed four unarmed Iraqi civilians decapitated by machine gun fire; their heads then used by American soldiers to play soccer. He claims to have seen a seven-year-old girl who made a habit of begging the soldiers for food killed for sport. Before reading his book, most thinking people agree that the war in Iraq is unjust – fought incompetently on false pretenses at a huge and unnecessary human cost. If even one quarter of what Key says is true, the war is a far worse crime than even its fiercest critics have suspected – the US military on the ground have entered the heart of darkness.
Bush would veto withdrawal plan: White House US President George W. Bush would veto legislation, crafted by Democrats, calling for a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by late 2008, the White House said. "Obviously, the administration would vehemently oppose and ultimately veto any legislation that looks like what was described today," senior Bush adviser Dan Bartlett told reporters as the president traveled to Brazil. Earlier, Democrats directly challenged Bush on the strategy for the war, outlining a plan to pull US troops out by late 2008 or much sooner if progress is not made in the violence-wracked country. The bill requires Bush to certify Iraq has made meaningful and substantial progress in meeting benchmarks by July 1, and October 1, this year.
Ex-CIA Agent Plame to Testify to Congress on Leak Valerie Plame, the former covert CIA agent whose cover was blown after her husband charged the White House with manipulating prewar intelligence, will testify before a congressional committee next week. Chairman Henry Waxman said in a statement on Thursday: Plame will testify about the disclosure and how the White House handled it in an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty on Tuesday of lying and obstructing the investigation into who blew Plame's cover. The statement said: Waxman's panel is looking into whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding Plame's identity. Plame's identity was divulged publicly in 2003 after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, charged the Bush administration in a New York Times column of manipulating intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to build its case for war.
FBI Underreported Use of USA Patriot Act According to a US Justice Department audit, the FBI underreported its use of the USA Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in suspected terrorism cases. One government official familiar with the report said shoddy bookkeeping and records management led to the problems. The official said: The FBI agents appeared to be overwhelmed by the volume of demands for information over a two-year period. The FBI in 2005 reported to Congress that its agents had delivered a total of 9,254 national security letters seeking e-mail, telephone or financial information on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents over the previous two years. According to the officials, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine's report says that number was underreported by 20 percent. Fine conducted the audit as required by Congress and over the objections of the Bush administration.
Chavez Charges Bush with hypocrisy Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday George W. Bush should be given "the gold medal for hypocrisy" as the U.S. president embarked on a tour of Latin America. Chavez is on a one-day visit to Buenos Aires, where he will lead thousands of leftists on Friday in a soccer stadium rally that will coincide with Bush's arrival in neighboring Uruguay. Chavez told reporters soon after landing in Buenos Aires, "You've got to give the U.S. president the gold medal for hypocrisy, because he said now he's worried about poverty in Latin America." Chavez said: "Now he's discovering ... after so many years that there's poverty in Latin America, precisely when the U.S. empire is the principal culprit."
UNSC warns Iran over
ban violations United Nations Security Council has
warned that if didn’t refrain from piling up nukes, it should be ready
to face consequences. Russia and China have raised objections to
nearly every Western proposal for new U.N sanctions against Iran over
its nuclear ambitions except a banon arms exports, according to a
working paper. The document shows some Russian and Chinese
reservations about other proposals for a U.N. Security Council
resolution. These include a mandatory travel ban, financial and trade
restrictions and an expanded list of Iranian officials and firms whose
assets would be frozen, such as those controlled by Iran's
Revolutionary Guards and Iran's state-owned Bank already under U.S.
sanctions.
In an effort to break the logjam, senior foreign policy officials from
the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China held
another telephone conference, followed by a meeting of U.N.
ambassadors late in the day. The new resolution is a follow-up to one
adopted by theSecurity Council on Dec. 23 that imposed trade sanctions
on sensitive nuclear materials and technology and froze assets of key
Iranians individuals, groups and businesses. Iran was required to
suspend nuclear enrichment work, which can be used for peaceful
purposes or to make a bomb, but Tehran has refused to do so.
The similarity between the ethnic cleansing of The Indigenous Americans and Palestinian Arabs They, both the colonizers of Palestine and the Americans, like those of the rest of colonized world, grant themselves cart blanche to exterminate and/or transfer the respective indigenous populations of the targeted lands, because the colonizers consider them “barbarians” thus they are not worthy of own their lands. Zionist racist historian, Benny Morris, like the colonizers of the Americas, considers Arabs to be Barbarians. He replied to Ari Shavit’s question during an interview for the Zionist daily, Haaretz, entitled Survival of the Fittest? January 16, 2004: Are you a neo-conservative? Do you read the current historical reality in the terms of Samuel Huntington? Morris replied: “I think there is a clash between civilizations here [as Huntington argues]. I think the West today resembles the Roman Empire of the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries: The barbarians are attacking it and they may also destroy it." (Noting that those who attacked the Roman Empire are the Nordics who came from northern Europe to attack the Roman Empire, that is exactly like the European Zionists who came to Palestine to colonize it, both had no roots in the invaded lands.)
German Bishops See Racist Israel First Hand Cardinal Joachim Meisner, who served as bishop of Berlin when it was divided by the Communist-built Berlin Wall, commented when crossing a checkpoint into eastern Jerusalem, “This is something that is done to animals, not people.” He later explained to reporters, “I never thought I would see something like this again in my life.”
US refuses to join UN rights council, citing bias
against Israel
72 units of para-military force to be deployed in IHK India has decided to hand over six more areas in occupied Kashmir valley to Paramilitary force and to raise the total number of the force to 72 units.
Billionaire club membership jumps Almost 1,000 people can now lay claim to being members of the world's billionaire club, says Forbes magazine.
Climate Change Disrupting Life Cycles With Fatal Results The behaviour of Britain's wildlife is raising alarm about the seriousness of climate change as animals' breeding patterns are thrown into confusion. The second mildest winter on record has resulted in mammals, reptiles, birds and insects emerging from shelter far too early.They are getting caught out by cold snaps or wet weather and the young of many species are dying. Baby hedgehogs, baby squirrels, even baby grass snakes are being found in distress in many places.
Introduction: Christian Zionism Defined The term Zionism refers to a political Jewish movement for the establishment of a national homeland in Palestine for the Jews that have been dispersed. On the other hand, a Christian Zionist is a person who is more interested in helping God fulfil His prophetic plan through the physical and political Israel, rather than helping Him fulfil His evangelistic plan through the Body of Christ.
Darwinism Refuted This latest and greatest challenge to the propaganda theory of evolution. Anyone who seeks an answer to the question of how living things, including himself, came into existence, will encounter two distinct explanations. The first is "creation," the idea that all living things came into existence as a consequence of an intelligent design. The second explanation is the theory of "evolution," which asserts that living things are not the products of an intelligent design, but of coincidental causes and natural processes.
March 7 2007
Correction Theunjustmedia reported yesterday Mujahideen operation ....... American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers killed and a tank destroyed On Tuesday Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers plus Afghan National Army soldiers clashed as the kafirs and munafiqs launched "Operation Achilles" on Tuesday in the southern province of Helmand, a Taliban's strong hold. Some 4,500 NATO terrorists troops backed by nearly 1,000 Afghan munafiq security will be taking part in this operation against the Mujahideen. The first battle of this operation, took place this afternoon, when Mujahideen and the enemies of Islam clashed, Mujahideen killed 8 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers and wounded 10, also destroyed a tank, 3 Mujahideen were wounded in the clash. The number of kafir killed which we reported were 8 and 10 were wounded, this is incorrect the number of kafirs killed or wounded in this operation was not known.
In two explosions 3 tanks of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military were destroyed in Kandahar Wednesday morning Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up 2 tanks of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military with a remote controlled landmines in Germawak area of Maywand district of Kandahar province. Also yesterday in the evening in another explosion in same area one tank of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers was destroyed too. In this attack a large number of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed or wounded.
In explosions 2 vehicles of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military and one vehicle of US puppet Afghan National Army were destroyed in Khost Wednesday at 11:30 am Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up 2 vehicles of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military and one vehicle of US puppet Afghan National Army with remote controlled landmines in Noray area of Back district of Khost province. In result 2 British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers and 10 US puppet Afghan National Army soldiers were killed.
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American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army
soldiers were killed in Zabul Wednesday
morning
Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate
of Afghanistan
attacked with heavy and light weapons
on a Check post of
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers in
Spina Khola area near the capital of Zabul province. In a result 7
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers were
killed and few were wounded and their weapons were Mujahideen booty.
A tank of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military was exploded in Kajaki district of Helmand Tuesday afternoon Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up a tank of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military with remote controlled roadside landmine in Kajaki district of Helmand province. The result a number of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed and wounded but there were no correct numbers of casualties to the enemies.
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American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National
Army soldiers
were killed in Helmand
Tuesday at 12:00 am
Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate
of Afghanistan ambushed on a vehicle of
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers
in Marja district of Helmand province. In result the vehicle was
destroyed and 4
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers
were killed and their weapons were Mujahideen booty.
In explosions 2 tanks of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers were destroyed in Kandahar Tuesday at 2:00 pm Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up 2 tanks of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers with a remote controlled landmines in Germawak area of Maywand district of Kandahar province. In result the tanks were destroyed and the all American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers were killed or wounded. Also three days back in in the same area a large number American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National Army soldiers were killed or wounded. Also on Tuesday the American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers came to this area which is controlled by Mujahideen and attacked Mujahideen.
British Christian kafir
terrorists occupation military
Suffers over 8,000 Casualties In Iraq, 7,700 Non-combat
According to
figures released by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), the UK has
suffered from a disproportionately high number of non-combat
casualties among its troops deployed in Iraq. Centrally available
records list that there were 1,326 British military and civilian
personnel admitted to UK field hospitals suffering for disease or
non-battle injuries between January 1, 2006, and February 15 this
year. The number is equivalent to nearly one-in-five of the current
total deployment of 7,100 troops deployed in the Basra region of Iraq.
Figures also show that between the invasion in March 2003 and the end
of 2005, up to 4,000 British military and civilian personally were
evacuated from Iraq on medical grounds, pushing the total for the
four-year old war so far towards 5,000. British MoD also listed a
further 6,383 personnel being admitted to hospital for disease and
non-combat injuries before the end of 2005, making the total so far
during the war 7,709. Including wounded in action, the total is over
8,000.
The Anti-Fascist Wolf in Sheep's Clothing In what has become the normalcy of our modern schizophrenic approach to democracy, we believe we can force other nations to embrace the “democratic process,” but when they actually exercise those princliples and elect rulers our government doesn’t like, our government then believes the results should be null and void – in other words democracy is only good if the people democratically elect representatives our government approves of. If that isn’t a schizophrenic view, I don’t know what is.
US Normalizing relations with the Axis of Evil The ongoing negotiations between North Korea and the US, South Korea, and Japan will lead to normalization, only if the US is confident that it can continue using North Korea to destabilize China.
The Zionist Plan for the Middle East The vision of man's limitless aspirations and abilities shrinks in the face of the sad facts of life, when we witness the break-up of world order around us. The view which promises liberty and freedom to mankind seems absurd in light of the sad fact that three fourths of the human race lives under totalitarian regimes. The views concerning equality and social justice have been transformed by socialism and especially by Communism into a laughing stock. There is no argument as to the truth of these two ideas, but it is clear that they have not been put into practice properly and the majority of mankind has lost the liberty, the freedom and the opportunity for equality and justice. In this nuclear world in which we are (still) living in relative peace for thirty years, the concept of peace and coexistence among nations has no meaning when a superpower like the USSR holds a military and political doctrine of the sort it has: that not only is a nuclear war possible and necessary in order to achieve the ends of Marxism, but that it is possible to survive after it, not to speak of the fact that one can be victorious in it. The essential concepts of human society, especially those of the West, are undergoing a change due to political, military and economic transformations.
Most Common Questions by Non-Muslims about Islam
March 6 2007
What would Prophet Muhammad say to
Prophet Jesus?
Dear Brother Jesus:
May God’s peace and blessings be upon you.
While you walked on Planet Earth you communicated - as I did - God’s
message, to "worship sincerely your Lord God Almighty, Who created you
and those who came before you, so that you may become righteous." But
today, your followers worship you as God’s "only begotten Son." Did
you ask people to believe that you, the Holy Spirit and your mother
Mary are all gods? I know you did not. You told people - as the One
God commanded us -- "to worship God, Who is my Lord and your Lord."
Dear Brother Jesus:
Your followers believe that God abandoned you and allowed your enemies
to kill you on the cross. But we know that God saved you and took you
to heaven. I pray that your followers will read the Qur’an, which is
also their book. For we know that all of God’s books are in reality
but One Book, the Book of all God’s Messengers and Prophets. My
followers love you as dearly as they love me. And they love your
mother Mary, for she was the only woman ever chosen by God to be a
virgin mother.
Dear Brother Jesus:
My followers believe in the miracles you performed, as reported in the
Qur’an; miracles that were witnessed from the time you were a baby and
all through your mission. You and I both know that your miracles were
performed entirely through the infinite power of our Almighty Creator.
My followers believe that you were a perfect being, but fully human
nevertheless. I spent many years warning people not to worship me and
telling them that God alone is worthy of worship, for He is the One
God, Perfect, Absolute and Infinite.
Dear Brother Jesus:
Here on Planet Earth people still kill innocent men, women and
children in your name, modeling themselves after the medieval
Crusaders. There are also those who, in the cause of Christian
Zionism, spread hate, oppression and injustice in your name. I
fervently hope they would read and follow your message -- sooner
rather than later -- and find true peace in their hearts.
Dear Brother Jesus:
Some of your followers smear my message, slander my name and propagate
hate against my Muslim brothers and sisters. I pray that they will
find enlightenment and spiritual guidance. You and I were used to
these kinds of people, but we never stopped praying for them.
Dear Brother Jesus:
We know that only a very few of your teachings survived in your mother
tongue down through the ages. But over time some people of the early
Church claimed to have had special communication, in which you told
them you are the Son of God. But I wish they had heard the Truth
instead and that their present-day successors will discover it.
Dear Brother Jesus:
On Planet Earth, there are people (the Jews) still waiting for you, a
Messiah, to come as a guide and Saviour. There others who believe you
never existed at all. And there are yet others who would sooner follow
the dictates of a hierarchical religious establishment called The
Church, rather than accept your teachings. Both of us must pray for
them all.
Dear Brother Jesus:
My true followers and your true followers must first love God more
than anyone or anything else; only then they will know how to love us
and love one another. My true followers and your true followers must
come to know that we preached the same message, from the same Source,
and that we had but one divine Book. The message was that of the
Almighty God; we were only His human messengers.
Dear Brother Jesus:
My true followers and your true followers must work together for peace
and justice. They must know that the One God will guide them to the
Truth and will welcome them to His Paradise. They must support the
poor, the oppressed, the elderly, the young, all who are weak or
defenseless. They must understand that although life on Planet Earth
can be abundant and good, it is also too short to waste through greed,
enmity and apathy. They must be fully engaged in living as workers for
God. My true followers and your true followers are many, but they have
also become a vast silent majority. They must learn to speak out for
the truth; only then will God’s peace prevail.
Dear Brother Jesus:
Let us pray for all fellow humans and let us ask God Almighty to guide
and bless them. Amen. By Mohamed Elmasry
12 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers killed by Mujahideen bombs blasts in Iraq 9 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed and few were wounded on Monday in an explosion north of Baghdad, sources said. The American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers, assigned to Task Force Lightning, were conducting combat operations with Mujahideen in Salahuddin province when a Mujahideen planted remote control road bomb struck their vehicles, sources said. Sources also added that in another attack on the same day by Mujahideen, killed 3 more American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed 1 soldier was wounded by Mujahideen planted remote control roadside bomb in Diyala Province.
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers killed and a tank destroyed On Tuesday Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers plus Afghan National Army soldiers clashed as the kafirs and munafiqs launched "Operation Achilles" on Tuesday in the southern province of Helmand, a Taliban's strong hold. Some 4,500 NATO terrorists troops backed by nearly 1,000 Afghan munafiq security will be taking part in this operation against the Mujahideen. The first battle of this operation, took place this afternoon, when Mujahideen and the enemies of Islam clashed, Mujahideen killed 8 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers and wounded 10, also destroyed a tank, 3 Mujahideen were wounded in the clash.
Taliban captured Italian Christian kafir spy Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on Tuesday captured an Italian Christian kafir journalist who had been spying for British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers in southern Afghanistan, along with two Afghan colleagues. Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said the reporter worked for La Repubblica, which in Rome said it had lost contact with reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo in Kandahar province since Sunday. Qari Mohammad Yousuf also added that the Italian Christian kafir journalist had confessed to spying after being picked up in neighbouring Helmand province on Monday. "He was pretending to be a journalist, but when we investigated we found he's working for the British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers," Yousuf said.
Mujahideen and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military back Ethiopian terrorists troops clash in Mogadishu Heavy fighting erupted between Mujahideen and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military back Ethiopian terrorists troops near a military base in the Somali capital Tuesday. The clashes started after Mujahideen attacked former defense ministry headquarters that have been occupied by American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military back Ethiopian terrorists forces. The number of enemies of Islam killed or wounded could not be confirm.
Afghans Protest over American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military martyring of Civilians Thousands of Afghans protested in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday over the killing of several civilians by American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers. About 10,000 people blocked the main road between Jalalabad, near Pakistan, and Kabul chanting "Death to the Americans!" The Afghan government has launched an inquiry, but similar investigations by the government, American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military and NATO terrorists forces have done nothing more than confirm initial witness accounts.
Protest against Worshippers of idols Indian army terrorists soldiers fake encounter killing: Anti- regime protests in Srinagar, Uri, and Ganderbal In occupied Kashmir, thousands of people took to streets, today, at Hajan and Sumbal areas of Baramulla to protest against the killing of a Kashmir youth by Worshippers of idols Indian army terrorists soldiers in a fake encounter. The protestors carrying the dead body of the youth were raising high pitched anti-India and pro-liberation slogans. Worshippers of idols Indian army terrorists soldiers martyred the youth at Sumbal, yesterday, whose dead body was handed over to the people, today. Several persons were injured when Worshippers of idols Indian terrorists Police resorted to the use of brute force through heavy lathicharge and tear-gassing on two separate protest demonstrations against the anti-people policies of the puppet regime at Maulana Azad Road in Srinagar and Uri in Baramulla. Similar protest demonstration was held at Ganderbal. On the other hand, dead body of a civilian, who went missing from Baghna in Uri since February 28, was recovered from River Jehlum in Srinagar. Meanwhile, the Worshippers of idols Indian army terrorists soldiers arrested eleven persons during crackdown operations from different areas of Sopore, Handwara, Sumbal and Rajouri. Source Kashmir Media Service
UK Police Behavior toward Muslims Criticized The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in the UK has criticized the violent behavior of the British police toward Muslims, which occur under the pretext of the so-called "War against Terror". According to Fars news agency the IHRC on Monday night in its newsletter, labeled the recent reports by the UK Interior Ministry regarding anti-terrorism activities in the country, as an element of worry for the British community. The newsletter adds that according to the British anti-terrorism law, from 11th of September 2001 onwards, a total of 1126 people, most of them Muslims, were arrested, and only 211 of these were convicted and of this figure, only 40 were charged with terrorist activities. The IHRC newsletter states that everyone should understand that people who are arrested under false pretenses and then let go, are not laboratory rats used for statistical evaluations, but are human beings whose lives are destroyed due to the irrational activities of the police. In conclusion the IHRC called for the amendment of Britain's anti-terrorism law.
Bush, Blair Responsible for Global Instability Leader of the British Liberal Democratic Party, Menzies Campbell, while blasting the foreign policies of London and Washington in his speech in London, said US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were the main reasons for the instability and conflict that has plagued areas from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. Campbell saying the Foreign policy of London is not independent and to the benefit of the British people added: the Foreign policy of Britain should not be controlled and decided in Washington.
Dokka Umarov has issued the message to the Muslims of Caucasus and
Russia This brief
message is a reminder to Muslims about position of their battling
brothers on Caucasus, an explanation for oppressed Muslims of Russia
and the order for those who subordinates the soul to Shariah of Allah.
Successively Muslims of Ichkeria and Caucasus spend the eighth year in
Jihad. Sincere believers get stronger in belief, hypocrites and
traitors become stronger in disbelief, fear and hatred to Islam.
Situation is extremely clear and obvious. All masks for a long time
are dumped, all persons are known. Traitors openly say about the
treachery and are proud of it, spreading among people nasty thing and
debauch. Sincere Muslims go out for Jihad and search for the Mercy of
Allah, openly battling with invaders and traitors.
Five Russian Soldiers Killed
In Shali, Missiles Fired At Russian Base On Monday
Five soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an ambush that
was executed by the Unit of Commander Hussein in the town of Shali
against a civilian bus that was used by Russians in their movements
because of their fear of the Mujahideen, but thanks to God and thanks
to the intelligence of Mujahideen who were monitoring this bus until
it fall in the ambush. God is Great. Commander Yaser's unit executed a
successful attack on the Russian base in Elistanji area, and the unit
utilized in the attack guided Missiles, which led to a fire at the
site and helicopters were seen carrying the killed and wounded
Russians. It had not been possible to determine the size of the losses
until now, but it was a successful blow. Praise be to God.
Sources
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America on its Knees Before Tyranny Today’s America is no democracy — it’s a degenerating tyranny, disfigured by its military-industrial-governmental cancer. Our people are increasingly ashamed and terrified of their government, and rightly so, because we have no control over it, and it’s become a deceitful monstrous danger to us and to the health of the planet.
If We Just Don't Call It Colonial Exploitation...
[G]asp in shock-and-awed wonder that
the leading newspaper in the United States could file a story like
this and only note –in the next-to-last paragraph – that Iraq's oil
will controlled by the iron fist of a "central body called the Federal
Oil and Gas Council" which will have "a panel of oil experts from
inside and outside Iraq" as part of the operation… without telling us
that these "oil experts" will in fact be executives and
representatives of American and other Western oil companies.
In other words, the Bush-backing oil barons will now have an official
stranglehold on the oil of the Iraqi people. No wonder the
Administration has been so adamant that "a new oil law is crucial to
the country’s political and economic development," as the warm and
fuzzy Times tells us.
Bush spy rules OK'D A White House privacy board has determined that two of the Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs -- electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking -- do not violate citizens' civil liberties. Democrats criticized the findings, which they said were questionable given some of the board members' close ties with the Bush administration.
U.S. Court Allows CIA Kidnapping and Torture
Imagine the following. You are on vacation in a foreign country,
walking along the street and admiring the sights, when a gang of
unidentified men grab you, throw you in the back of a truck, blindfold
you, cut your clothes away, put you in a jumpsuit, handcuff you, and
finally administer a drug which causes you to lose consciousness. You
wake up in a small prison cell, where you are denied access to your
government, your lawyer, and your family. You wait for weeks without
being charged. Eventually, you are blindfolded (again), taken to an
airfield and flown to an unknown location in an undisclosed country.
Here you are kept for months, still cut-off from all contact with the
outside world, as you are systematically interrogated, beaten, and
drugged.
IRAQ: 4.5 million children undernourished
According to the United
Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF), about one in 10 children under
five in Iraq are underweight and one in five are short for their age.
This means that some 4.5 million children in the country are
under-nourished. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, according to
Claire Hajaj, Communication Officer at UNICEF Iraq Support Centre in
Amman (ISCA). "Many Iraqi children may also be suffering from 'hidden
hunger’ - deficiencies in critical vitamins and minerals that are the
building blocks for children’s physical and intellectual development,"
Hajaj said. "These deficiencies are hard to measure, but they make
children much more vulnerable to illness and less likely to thrive at
school."
Decadence, Waste, Corruption in the New American Empire: America's
"dance of the billions"
The real New American Empire is
the U.S. Department of Defense. Its annual budget represents more than
50 percent of the military expenditures of all the 191 other countries
in the world bundled together. It is an empire that spreads its
tentacles in 135 countries, with troops in every single one of them,
and which has deployed the unbelievable number of 737 military bases
in these foreign lands. This is really an empire out of control that
has become an increasing threat to the world.
Obtaining defense contracts is a sure way to quick riches. For
example, a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction has concluded that the highest proportion of overhead
was incurred in oil-facility contracts won by KBR Inc., the
Halliburton subsidiary and Vice president Dick Cheney's former firm.
As to links between defense contracts and political power, you may
want to ask yourself why Bush nominated the president of a major arms
supplier to the post of under secretary of the Navy.
The BBC poll - Israel as
Satan's bastard child The poll, a survey of more than
28,000 people in 27 countries, asked respondents to rate 12 countries
- Britain, Canada, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North
Korea, Russia, the USA, Venezuela, and the European Union - as having
a positive or negative influence. Who, in other words, is a bad
influence? Who's the kid down the block you want your kids to play
with, and who's the one - for whatever reason, behavior, stigma,
cooties - you want your precious one to avoid. According to the BBC,
the survey "gave respondents a list of 12 countries and asked whether
they had a 'mostly positive or mostly negative influence in the world.
"The country with the highest number of mostly negative responses
overall is Israel (56% negative, 17% positive), followed by Iran (54%
negative 18% positive), the United States (51% negative, 30%
positive), and North Korea (48% negative, 19% positive)."
Palestinians in Gaza are Deprived of a Vital Food
Source
Since the abduction by
Palestinian resistance groups of an Israeli soldier Gila’d Shalit in
June25, 2006, the Israeli gun ships have prevented Palestinians from
fishing off the coast. This has severely affected both fishermen and
food security for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Gaza fishing is a
source of living for thirty thousand people, but since last June, the
Israeli naval forces have harassed Palestinian fishing boats that dare
leave the dock. In the main fishing site of Gaza city, called Almina,
there are dozens of fishermen, trying to feed their children under
harsh economic conditions.
US not responding to questions on missile shield: Russia Washington has not responded to Russia's questions about US plans for a new missile defence shield in Europe and the Caucasus region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. "We have had talks, briefings, very useful ones. But for the most part our questions have not been answered," Lavrov said, adding that Russia's concerns were "justified." "We have already stated several times the need for complete transparency, for confidence and clarification," Lavrov told journalists. Moscow has strongly criticised the US plans to place elements of a new missile defence shield in states friendly to Washington, including the Czech Republic, Poland and perhaps one of the Caucasus nations, which comprise Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Groundbreaking talks between US, North Korea start in New York
The United States
and North Korea began landmark talks in New York Monday aimed at
normalizing diplomatic relations and cementing Pyongyang's commitment
to scrapping its nuclear arms program, according to an a French news
agency. US diplomat Christopher Hill and his North Korean counterpart
Kim Kye-gwan met for talks at a suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel,
where they were schedueld to have dinner later.
EU delegation in North Korea for talks on nuclear deal A high-level EU delegation arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for talks aimed at ensuring that North Korea honours a landmark deal to scrap its nuclear arms programme, the German presidency of the bloc said. "The aim of this trip by the EU troika is to promote the rapid implementation of an agreement reached on February 13 in Beijing," the government said in a statement. The Stalinist regime agreed to shut down its main nuclear facility and take steps towards giving up its atomic weapons programme in exchange for aid and moves towards full diplomatic ties with Washington. The deal was reached in six-way talks with China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States four months after Pyongyang carried out its first nuclear test explosion.
US Deserting Soldier Faces
Court A US army medic will be court-martialed in
Germany on Tuesday for refusing a second tour of duty in Iraq. Agustin
Aguayo faces up to seven years in jail for desertion and missing
movement with his unit when he appears before the US military tribunal
in Wuerzburg in southern Germany. Aguayo has been detained at the US
military base in Mannheim, southwestern Germany, since October after
refusing to return to Iraq, where he served in Tikrit in 2004. He
jumped out of a window at his unit's base in Schweinfurt, also in the
south, to avoid being shipped back to Iraq and then flew to the United
States to hand himself over. The Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW),
a group that tries to help dissenting soldiers, said on Monday that
Aguayo was representative of the growing number of troops who object
to the US military operation in Iraq.
"It Is Just Not Walter Reed": Soldiers share troubling stories of military health care across US Several forces converged to create this intense reaction. A new Democratic majority in Congress is willing to criticize the administration. Senior retired officers pounded the Pentagon with sharp questions about what was going on. Up to 40 percent of the troops fighting in Iraq are National Guard members and reservists - "our neighbors," said Ron Glasser, a physician and author of a book about the wounded. "It all adds up and reaches a kind of tipping point," he said. On top of all that, America had believed the government's assurances that the wounded were being taken care of. "The country is embarrassed" to know otherwise, Glasser said.
The Native Youth Movement is calling for a
Boycott and Cancellation of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
The Games are
scheduled to take place on un-surrendered Native Land from February
12-27, 2010. The Olympic Games represent a continued history of
colonization and Genocide.
FACTBOX-What UK banks have said about bad debts
Bad debts incurred by the biggest five UK banks hit almost 13 billion
pounds ($25 billion) in 2006, but the growth in domestic impairments
has slowed or may reverse, according to comments from executives.
EU economy 20 years behind US, study says The EU is 22 years behind the US on economic growth according to a new study, with several other economic indicators showing further gaps despite Europe's ambitious reform agenda to be praised by leaders at this week's summit. A report by Eurochambers, the Brussels-based business lobby, published on Monday (5 March) argues that the US reached the current EU rate of GDP per capita in 1985 and its levels in employment and research investment almost 30 years ago. Economic growth, jobs and innovation feature as top priorities of the so-called Lisbon Agenda - agreed by EU leaders in 2000 - with the original aim for Europe to become the most competitive economy by 2010 and with the US seen as its key competitor.
No split, China warns Taiwan China slammed Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's intensified talk of independence yesterday, saying anyone who sought a split from China would be a "criminal in history". Chen said on Sunday the self-ruled island should pursue independence and change its official title, the "Republic of China" _ moves that are also certain to worry its key ally, the United States, which seeks to maintain the status quo between the two sides. "Don't listen to local leaders," Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing told Taiwan reporters in Beijing, a reference to China's view that Taiwan is a province rather than a country. "Whoever wants to split away will become a criminal in