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White House Says Judge Threatens National Security
September 1, 2006
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Friday asked a federal judge to delay enforcing her order for a halt to the government’s warrantless communications surveillance program.
The Justice Department argued that ending the intelligence-gathering program threatens "the gravest of harms to the government and to the American public" and leaves the country "more vulnerable to terrorist attack."
"We respectfully submit (…)

Sarah Brady, stated to former Senator Howard Metzenbaum in the 1994 National Educator, “Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.”

Israel plans for war with Iran and Syria
Uzi Mahnaimi and Sarah Baxter - Timesonline September 3, 2006
Threatened by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources.
The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink in Israel. A key conclusion is that too much attention has been paid to Palestinian militants in Gaza and the West Bank instead of the two biggest state (…)

Israelis see Nasrallah as a more credible source for truth
9/4/2006 1:30:00 PM GMT
"We reached a really crazy situation," Dr. Udi Lebel, a Ben Gurion University professor told Voice of Israel government radio yesterday.
In a recent poll entitled "the management of Israeli PR during the second Lebanon war," by professor Lebel, six groups of people were asked to watch video recordings of Israeli PR and that of abroad, and then answer questions.
The survey found that there was problem (…)

Obesity identified as global epidemic
Sunday 03 September 2006, 7:31 Makka Time, 4:31 GMT
Exploding numbers of overweight children could make today’s generation the first to die before its parents, say health experts.
The warning comes as more than 2,500 experts and health officials gathered in Sydney on Sunday for the International Congress on Obesity to discuss what organisers said was one of the most important global health issues.
Professor Paul Zimmet, a diabetes expert who is (…)

Oaxaca’s Social Movement Develops Radical Vision for a National Government of the People
Despite Fatigue, Marchers Once Again Fill the Streets of the State Capital, as Social Leaders from Other States Visit to Learn from Oaxaca’s Example
By Nancy Davies Commentary from Oaxaca
September 3, 2006
The fifth Oaxaca Mega-March called by the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials) for Friday, September 1, passed a fixed point for an hour and a half, with a (…)

The Crocodile Man
By Peter Fredson
September 4, 2006
It is a sad day for Australia. Steve Irwin, “The Crocodile Man” is dead. He was killed accidentally when swimming over a sting-ray and its barb went into Steve. He died shortly thereafter. We were astonished that, after all the daring-do escapades with dangerous wild animals, Steve was not invincible.
He handled the most poisonous snakes on this planet with amazing aplomb. He was at his press-relations best with crocodiles, (…)

By RICHARD NEVILLE
The first death known to me, that was precipitated by a Rupert Murdoch headline, occurred in Sydney in March,1964, when a schoolboy committed suicide. More of that later. These days, the casualties resulting from military invasions championed by Murdoch are numbered in the thousands, though he is not the sole agent of destruction. One of his former TV producers in the Middle East, Serene Sabbagh, resigned from Fox recently because of its "bias and racism".
What tipped (…)

Leadership over people who share in a given group feeling cannot be vested in those not of the same descent.
"The Muqaddimah" ibn Khaldun
The Administration’s use of the term, Islamo (Islamic) Fascism is unfortunate not only because it’s a blatant misrepresentation of both radical Islam and true Fascism but because it further confuses an extraordinarily complex situation. Rather than deal with the complexities, the Neocon tacticians have opted for schoolyard name calling in order to (…)

A literal mountain of evidence has been developed, with new revelations coming out almost every day, that 9/11 wasn’t pulled off by Arabs at all, but rather was an inside job, involving both Israel and elements of America’s own government and private sectors. For example, just last week, I learned for the first time that New York’s mayor Giuliani had been told that the World Trade Center Towers needed to be dismantled no later than 2007 because of corrosion and that controlled demolitions (…)