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by Norman Dombey
President Bush’s principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart work at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pentagon official Larry Franklin pleads guilty to passing on classified information to Israel. Just a normal week in politics. But there is a thread linking these events and (…)

By Irit Rosenblum
Along the northeastern edge of Lake Kinneret, the landscape is quiet, the wind blows gently and the Korazim River meanders tranquilly, much as it did in the time of Jesus, but this undisturbed vista may not last much longer. Plans are underway to develop an evangelical Christian center in the area - a mini-Israel of sorts and perhaps a biblical theme park.
As part of the project, Israel will initially lease 125 acres (500 dunams) in the area between Capernaum, Tabgha (…)

President Paul Kagame
This letter was delivered on October 10, 2005
World Day Against the Death Penalty
Dear...,
We are pleased and honoured to address you and the Rwandan people. We want to assure you that we are in solidarity with the efforts of all Rwandan citizens who aim to restore justice and human rights after a long period of terrible tribulations in your Country. It is in a spirit of deep friendship and humility that we request that you do your best to achieve, as soon as (…)

The top 6 studios in Hollywood have received a green light from the US Govt. to engage in mob style tactics.
Engaging in the outright theft of scripts and pitched movies by up and coming artists.
Then making movies from those ideas without compensating the original artists.
Then sending the federal agencies after anyone who they deem guilty of lifting $4.00 worth of video/music off the internet of these already pirated works.
Then determining their own booty to be collected.
As (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
On the evening of Saturday, October 1, while a football game was in progress at the nearby stadium, a University of Oklahoma engineering student, packed with explosives, was seated on a bench near a sidewalk in front of the microbiology building. He knew that within a few minutes the sidewalk would be full of people during the halftime break. The bench was only a two-minute walk from the west stadium gate. Three minutes before (…)

Condoleezza Rice’s Blueprint for a Repressive State Preamble to Bush’s Speech at the National Endowment for Democracy On 10/6/05: by teresa simon-noble
“In a world where evil is still very real,democratic principles must also be backed with power in al its forms:Political and economic, cultural and moral, and yes, sometimes military.” Condoleezza Rice, PrincetonUniversity NJ 9/30/05
What an amazing quote!
I read it and I said, “that is exactly what Fidel Castro did in Cuba after (…)

by David Edwards
The D.C. Rumor mill is thrumming with whispers that 22 indictments are about to be handed down on the outed-CIA agent Valerie Plame case. The last time the wires buzzed this loud - that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House - the scuttlebutters got it right.
Can it be a coincidence that the White House appears to be distancing President Bush from embattled aide Karl Rove? “He’s been missing in action at more than one major (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com
This document is posted at the George Washington University website:
It states:
"Ten minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controllers in New York saw United Airlines Flight 175 heading "right towards the city," [p.13] but thought it was aiming for an emergency landing at a New York airport, according to FAA (…)

RIAA sued by victim
By Nick Farrell: Monday 03 October 2005, 06:21
A WOMAN who was sued by the Recording Industry of America for file-sharing has countersued the outfit for hacking. Tanya Andersen, a 41-year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation. She is claiming hurt feelings and (…)

I just became aware of these incidences and felt an obligation to let others see it in case they too had missed them. Just as "they" treated Cindy Sheehan with all the disrepect and disruption and plain nastiness available to the "powers that be", now it is all coming to rest on college campuses. Free speech will soon be a thing of the past!!!
We Will Not Be Intimidated by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field October 03, 2005 The antiwar movement is back. The quarter-million marching past the (…)